Apr 25
Boredom is a sign of satisfied ignorance, blunted apprehension, crass sympathies, dull understanding, feeble powers of attention, and irreclaimable weakness of character.
James Bridie
Tony DiNozzo focused all his attention on making the perfect paper airplane.
There was nothing to do. For once, he had no paperwork. A complete lack of cases for a whole week had lead him to finish all his missing reports, with a little encouragement from Ziva, who was up to date on her work and had sat on his desk and prodded him into producing reports. With no new cases, he had nothing to do. And after Jenny had forced Gibbs into taking vacation time (by threatening to withdraw the time and not pay him for working for a week to make up for it), Team Gibbs did not even have to look at cold cases.
Boredom had set in. McGee was now openly writing his latest novel in Abby's lab, complete with typewriter and funny pipe. Ziva was practicing her many martial arts in the gym, and had banned Tony after she had caught him staring at her butt once too often. He couldn't even bother Abby after she had warned the entire Navy Yard she had a tricky procedure to do this afternoon and needed to be left in peace.
Which left him alone in the squad room with nothing to do. He stared at his phone, having tired of the games on it and the games on his computer too. He couldn't prank anyone. He couldn't throw things at McGee. What to do?
A smile grew on his face. Ducky would love his company for a few hours. He just had to stay awake down there.