Chapter 10
By the time Saturday came around, Tony's head was spinning. He was regretting being in charge of the betting pool for both today's game and the final tomorrow. It was no running secret that Germany would be the winner of the game. What really got Tony though was when he heard about the octopus. By the end of the work week, he had found himself the laughing stock of NCIS for not knowing about the octopus who was predicting the winner of the matches especially the matches involving Germany. To him it seemed like ages before he could clear out the IM's and emails from everyone who had been poking fun at the agent at his expense. Even Ziva was heard still laughing as she left at the end of the day.
Saturday morning found agents and other employees all over the world gathered around tv's and jumbotrons big and small whether at home or bars or in the streets to watch the game. Members of team Gibbs were at a bar watching the game. Everyone cheered when Germany scored the first point. But that didn't last when ten minutes later, Uruguay added their own goal to tie the game.
As the game went on, everyone sat around talking and watching the game intently. Ziva was still having a big laugh at Tony's expense and she was enjoying it to the hilt, especially for tomorrow's final. Even Gibbs found the whole thing amusing and that was a rarity. The first half ended with a tie and it gave everyone a chance to refill drinks and do some catching up on the week's events at work.
As the second half got underway, all discussions stopped as everyone returned their attention to the game. Tony had to make the mistake of asking when the tie would be broken. The replie he got was "Shut up DiNozzo," from everyone gathered there.
"What, I was just wondering when the tie would be broken," Tony was saying to no one in particular.
"Well we don't want to hear it," replied Tim. Whose attention was on the game.
"Besides it will rot the fun," said Ziva.
"Spoil the fun," corrected Tony.
"That's what I meant," said Ziva.
"Besides, we don't need your commentary anyway Tony," chimed in Abby.
"But…" Tony was interrupted by a hard head slap.
"Enough, DiNozzo," said Gibbs. Who promptly returned to watching the game.
"This isn't fun you know," Tony said.
"Yeah but it's a lot better when you can just sit down and watch the game play out," spoke up Jimmy.
Tony finally gave up when nobody was paying attention to him and just watched the game. Everyone was saying that Germany would win the game anyway but Tony was secretly hoping otherwise.
With eight minutes left in the game, Germany scored again and the place erupted in cheers. Uruguay tried its best to score again but it wasn't enough and so Germany ended up winning the tame taking the third place spot.
As everyone got up to leave, they all began discussing the final game tomorrow.
"I'm sure that Spain and the Netherlands will put on quite a show tomorrow," said Ducky as they all walked out of the bar.
"Well it promises to be a good one," replied Ziva. Who had put money on Spain since they had never won a World Cup before.
"Yeah me too," said Abby. "It would be a great way to end this tournament."
"Even though it was an interesting one at that," said Zivz.
"I'll agree with you there," spoke up Gibbs. "Already suspecting that Tony was going to lose big on this one.
"Ducky, Sarah and I will be at your place at one," said Tim who was heading to his car.
"Me too," said Abby. "And I'll bring the fruit salad."
"Thank you my dear," replied Ducky. "The one you made a couple of weeks back was wonderful."
"Your welcome," she replied with a nod. "See you tomorrow."
"Yeah, Duck, see you tomorrow," said Gibbs as he left.
"See you Dr. Mallard," said Jimmy.
As everyone bade their farewells, they all went on their way to do whatever it was they did on Saturday and would all be gathering at Ducky's for the final game tomorrow.
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Ahh, one more chapter left to go.