Never Look Back – NCIS & NCIS: LA-
Chapter Ten: Let It Snow
FallenQueen2: I just have to say thanks to everyone who reviewed and didn't freak out about the slash and if you guys are alright with it, I may bring it into play again later on ~winks~ not putting them into a real relationship because of Densi and maybe Tiva but just for some fun at their expense.
"Jimmy?" Marty Deeks asked in surprise as he passed by a sitting area in the FLETC building, he had finally been released from Bruno's grasp and Michelle's questioning about his club night (he refused to tell her about how he and Tony made out, no one outside of the people there will ever find out).
"Oh hey Marty! How are you?" Jimmy Palmer looked up from a binder that lay across his lap.
"I'm good, just finished class for today, but what are you doing here Jimmy?" Marty sat down in a chair across from the couch Jimmy had his school items spread out on.
"Oh I have an exam for a class I'm taking today so I'm cramming some last minute studying in." Jimmy explained and Marty nodded in understanding.
"Do you need anyone to help quiz you?" Marty offered and Jimmy pushed up his glasses in surprise.
"No thank you Marty, but it is nice of you to offer." Jimmy said smiling kindly at the blonde. "But I heard from Abby that you and Tony had quite the night at Spiral on Friday."
"Oh noooo, what has she been spreading around the office?" Deeks groaned and leaned back in his chair.
"Just something about you two getting hot and heavy." Jimmy laughed and Deeks slammed his hand against his face.
"Nothing happened, well something happened but ahhhhh." Marty moaned in pain.
"Don't worry she only told me, you're secret is safe with me Marty, too bad you deleted those photos." Jimmy winked before laughing more as Deeks made different facial expressions. "Tony had the exactly same reaction when I asked him about it, you guys are seriously like brothers."
"Yeah and that's it! I do have a bad feeling about this though, Abbs is not going to let this go is she?" Marty asked.
"No I don't think so." Jimmy snickered.
"Ah crap, well I should get going as I have to scrape snow off my car, I would never had to do that in LA." Marty stood up grumbling. "Good luck on your exam, don't stress over it too much I know you'll do fine. Text me when you finish yeah?"
"I will, thanks for the advice Marty." Jimmy waved as the blonde walked down the hall, pulling his winter jacket on muttering about snow and cold as he went.
Marty was swearing under his breath as he pushed more snow off his windshield of his rental car, he was really missing LA now and he wasn't afraid to let the world know if it snowed anymore.
He had just about finished when something cold and wet nailed him in the back of the head. His eyebrow twitched and he turned around slowly to see Tony standing a few feet behind him, tossing a snowball up and down in the air. Flanking him were Ziva and McGee all three of them in their winter jackets, hats, scarfs and gloves just like Marty. Tony grinned and threw the snowball at Deeks who stood there and it hit him in the face. He glared fiercely at Tony, eyebrow still twitching as it melted down his face.
"Did you just throw a snowball at me DiNozzo?" Marty asked.
"I think I did Deeks, whatcha gonna do about it?" Tony mocked.
"You do realize this means war?" Marty quoted Bugs Bunny as he formed his own snowball and slid across the hood of his car and ducked down on the other side as Tony and Ziva launched more snowballs at the blonde. "McGee you're on my team!" Deeks cried and the man scurried over to join Deeks on the other side of the car.
"So what's the plan?" McGee looked at Marty who was forming a stockpile of snowballs.
"We hit them fast and hard, you ready for snowball warfare Tim?" Deeks held up a snowball.
"Born ready Marty, on three?" He smiled taking some ammo.
"One… Two… Three!" They counted down and on three they bounced up and bombarded Tony and Ziva with their pile of snowballs.
Soon the parking lot was a full out snowball warzone. Marty had railed some of his students from his course to join his and Tim's ranks while Tony grabbed some instructors. It went on for a few hours as neither side wanted to go down, but finally it all ended when Deeks a LA born surfer nailed Tony in the chest with a snowball and the taller man went down dramatically while Tim and the trainees ganged up on Ziva and she went down next to Tony.
"VICTORY!" Marty howled and his side cheered loudly and laughter rang out of the parking lot. Each side helped the taken out on either side back to their feet with smiles on their red faces.
"For a surfer you're pretty good at snowball wars." Tony said impressed as Marty hauled him and Ziva to their feet as they wiped off remaining snow.
"Why thank you, but if it wasn't for Tim's strategy and all my trainees we couldn't have won." Marty dished out the credit where it was needed. With those words Marty was engulfed by his classmates, hoisting him onto their shoulders and chanted his first name. Deeks raised his arms in victory and laughed along side of his classmates.
"He will make one hell of an agent." Tim commented to Ziva and Tony as he rejoined them with a smile on his face.
"Already is, but glad to know you approve McGee." Tony clapped the younger man's shoulder.
"I like him." Ziva stated looking at the laughing blonde.
"Aw I knew you had some feelings in your little heart Zee-Va." Tony smirked and she whacked his arm.
"Even Gibbs likes him and he is one hard nut to crack." McGee said in slight amazement.
"Yeah even that surprised me. I asked the Boss how Marty won him over and I quote he didn't complain about my driving." Tony rolled his eyes.
"Perhaps I should take him for a little drive to see if he likes my driving as well yes?" Ziva's eyes twinkled.
"Remember we promised to return him back to his team in LA in one piece." McGee reminded the Mossad trained agent.
"Do we have to return him?" Tony frowned.
"Afraid so Tony." McGee sighed and they quickly ended the conversation as Marty came bounding over to the trio smile on his lips.
"Hey guys, so I'm going to head out and shower before I catch another cold. Thanks for showing me the joys of snow." He chuckled.
"Yeah your welcome Marty." Tony smiled and the trio waved at the blond who got into his car and pulled out of the parking lot.
"Too bad I would like to keep him on our team." Tony shoved his hands into his pockets.
"He would be an asset, perhaps McGee you could base a character on him in your next book yes?" Ziva asked the techie as the trio headed to the charger and Tony quickly grabbed the driver's seat before Ziva could.
"Sounds like a good idea Ziva, I just might." McGee smiled as ideas ran through his mind about how he could add in the blond before his phone rang. "Hey Boss…. Yeah… Alright we will meet you there. Guys we have a case, dead sailor at the Hilton, Gibbs is going to meet us there with Ducky." McGee reported and Tony corrected their course.
"Isn't the Hilton near where Marty is staying?" Ziva asked.
"Yeah it is, hope he doesn't get caught up in anything." Tony gritted his teeth together as he made a sharp left.
Marty had just unlocked the door to his hotel room when his phone buzzed. It was a text from Jimmy informing Deeks he had passed his exam with high marks. Marty grinned for his friend and sent a quick I knew you could do it message to him before he tossed his phone onto his bed.
He stripped down out of his wet clothes and stepped under the warm spray of water. He stood under the showerhead for a while before he shut it off and wrapping a towel around his waist headed back into the room itself to get some sweatpants and a shirt. He froze when he spotted a manila envelope sitting on his bed on top of his wet clothes that hadn't been there before. He swallowed, quickly threw on his warm clothes and stared at the envelope. He rustled through his shoulder bag and pulled out a spare pair of black rubber gloves that he and his team use when collecting evidence because he was getting a bad feeling about this and need to preserve it just in case.
Inside the envelope sounded like pieces of paper as he shook it gently just in case there was something like a bomb inside of it, he wasn't going to risk it. He took a deep breath and pulled out a pile of glossy just printed photos and slumped down onto the edge of the bed as he flipped through the photos. He needed to get to the NCIS Navy Yard right now.