Today's prompt: 'I told you we shouldn't have gone to the beach'
Team at a crime scene, inspired by some TV show about mysterious deaths.
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He shook his leg in a vain attempt to rid his shoe of sand. Realizing he would have to endure the unwanted foot scrub until they finished processing the crime scene, he grumbled, "I hate how sand gets everywhere."
"Ha!" Ziva gave him a look that told him he didn't know what he was talking about.
In the span of ten seconds, his mind wandered to half a dozen scenarios that all ended with Ziva brushing tiny granules from her sweaty skin.
"We all have sand in our shoes, Tony," McGee said flatly.
He shifted his gaze from Ziva to his other partner. "I told you we shouldn't have gone to the beach, not dressed like this."
McGee crossed his arms and smirked. "Was that before you started doing sit-ups, or after you were done filming yourself removing your sunglasses ten different ways?"
"I didn't do any sit-ups," Tony bit back, making a mental note to delete the video in question.
"You were thinking about it," Ziva chimed in with a knowing smile. She playfully patted his stomach, then walked to the other side of the corpse, and resumed taking pictures.
"Nothing wrong with wanting to work on your beach body," Tony said, self-consciously sucking in his stomach.
Gibbs glared at him. "How about working on the body on the beach.
"Uh, the truck is his," McGee said pointing his notepad at the dead body. "Witnesses say they found the body underneath the truck."
"Someone dumped his body and decided to hide it underneath the car?" Ziva asked, then snapped a picture of Tony just as he rolled his eyes.
"Yes, because there's nothing suspicious about a big truck in the middle of an abandoned beach." He narrowed his eyes at her. "I'm beginning to think Mossad is not all it's cracked up to be."
She glared and stuck out her tongue. From the corner of his eye he saw Gibbs clench his jaw.
Ducky saved them when he sent Palmer to get the gurney, and turned to Gibbs. "I can't tell for certain until after the autopsy, of course, but it would appear the poor man drowned several feet away from the high tide."
"So the seaman met a watery grave on dry land," Tony said gravely, then removed his sunglasses with flair.
Ziva tilted her head, then pointed the camera at him. "If you remove your glasses like the sixth time you filmed yourself earlier, you might get a job at CSI Miami."
"None of you will have a job at NCIS if you don't get to work," Gibbs said flatly.