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A/N: I was blocked on this chapter. I have no problem working on 2 other stories of course but in this one the muses seem to allude to me. Until of course when they don't and I write a whole chapter in one sitting. BAM

NCIS

9:00 AM

Elevator

Sara, Grissom and Gibbs stood next to each other wordlessly. They all carried large coffees and Gibbs as always had a large Caf-Pow! for Abby.

"Late night, Jethro?" Sara smirked and thought back to her conversation with Grissom.

"Caffeine just hasn't kicked in yet." Gibbs answered, cracking his neck. Grissom and Sara exchanged a look. Gibbs barely suppressed a grin. They walked into the lab to find Abby typing frantically as she finished her first Caf-Pow! of the day.

"Morning Abby." Grissom said, noting how tired she looked, which was odd considering that he had never actually seen her look tired before.

"You are far too chipper for someone who just switched over from the night shift." Abby said, brightening at the sight of Gibbs holding a Caf-Pow! She kissed him happily on the cheek. Grissom wondered, not for the first time, why no one at the office questioned the constant public displays of affection. They hardly seemed to notice it anymore. Which explained why they missed the subtle changes. Grissom suddenly realized why the team never figured out that he was with Sara. They had been obviously in love for so long that no one realized it by the time they actually decided to do something about it.

"Earth to Grissom." Abby said in a sing song voice.

"Sorry."

"Don't apologize."

"It's a sign of weakness, I know." Sara rolled her eyes,

"Are you sure you didn't just come up with that so you would never have to apologize to anyone?" asked Grissom.

"Abby, what have you got for us today." Tony swaggered in followed by Ziva and McGee. McGee eyed Abby and Gibbs suspiciously. He couldn't help but wonder if Tony was right. Was there something going on between the two of them?

"I found him." Abby grinned at the group, uncharacteristically getting to the point. "Tom Dias checked into the MGM under the name Tom Westen.

"Not very creative." Said McGee.

"It's more creative that LJ Tibbs." said Tony.

"Oh really Tony DiNardo." McGee shot back. Gibbs set down his coffee and smacked both of them on the back of the head.

"I'm really beginning to understand why you smack them." Grissom said, lightly. "So you said that you found Tom Dias."

"Yes. Detective Brass and Detective Curtis picked him up about 20 minutes ago." Abby said proudly. "With four hookers."

"Nice." Tony said with a sly smiled, "Not nice but... so who gets to go to Vegas?"

"No one." Gibbs answered

"No one?" Said Ziva and Tony simultaneously crestfallen.

"A team from Vegas PD is escorting the suspect and the evidence to Washington DC. Everything should arrive in four hours." Gibbs smiled at Abby,

"It's like 9 in the morning." McGee turned to Abby, "You went home last night how did you find him so fast?"

"She's smarter than you McGee." Gibbs smirked at McGee. And signed to Abby, that's my girl. Abby blushed furiously and smiled at him. The truth was that Abby's program had spit out results at two in the morning while Gibbs and Abby were basking in the afterglow of all of their newfound discoveries. They had gone into the office together around three and had Brass pick up Tom Dias around four.

Abby's thoughts were interrupted by the sound of a her video phone ringing. She answered it happily when she realized that it was Ducky.

"Duck-man. What can I do for you today. I'm totally on a role."

"I heard. Congratulations on that by the way. Exceptional work as always."

"Awe, thank you Ducky."

"Is that why you called Ducky?" Asked Gibbs, knowing how long Ducky and Abby could go on like this.

"Actually no. The body is here. I have preliminary results if you like to see."

"Yeah, see you soon." Gibbs said into the phone.

NCIS

Autopsy

Five minutes Later

"Another pile of goo." Tony said looking at the autopsy table, "Just what I was hoping for."

"Congratulation's Tony." Said Gibbs smacking him on the back of the head, "You just earned yourself a trip to the aircraft carrier where this body was found. The team stood around one of Ducky's autopsy tables staring at what remained of a dead body.

"I thought Cassie was handling it on board." said Tony, miffed.

"That remains to be seen." Gibbs said.

"We know how he died." Interrupted Palmer, timidly, "If anyone is interested."

"Very good Mr. Palmer." Ducky praised his assistant, "Sometimes it's wise to take control of the conversation."

"You're getting faster and faster Duck man." Abby looked at Ducky, grinning wildly.

"Thank you my dear. But in this case, I can't take the credit." Ducky smiled at Abby, "A bullet hole in the skull is difficult to miss."

"We're still looking for the bullet." Jimmy grinned excitedly, "We haven't found it yet."

"It could still be on board the ship." Said Ziva looking closely at the table and putting on a pair of latex gloves, "May I?"

"Of course." Ducky said joining her as they went through the body parts, looking for the bullet

"McGee and DiNozzo grab your gear. Your flight leaves in an hour." Gibbs said.

"What about Ziva."

"Ziva was man enough to put on a pair of gloves and dive in to what you called a big pile of goo." Gibbs said, "Go."

"Bullets can travel to the oddest places." Said Abby, joining them in the hunt, "Inside the body and out." Said Ducky, "Did I ever tell you about the time I found pellets from a bb gun in a mans leg even those the closest entry wound was the hip?"

Gibbs's Office/ The bullpen

NCIS

Four Hours Later

"Jim!" Ziva said happily as she noticed the older man walking in with there suspect, followed by Nick Stokes and Catherine Willows, who had managed to get themselves on the team escorting the suspect and the evidence to Washington DC. She surprised herself by almost hugging him. He reminded her of her father, or rather what her father would have been like if he hadn't also been a complete ass.

"Ziva." Brass folded her into a warm hug, "I think we have something of yours." Brass motioned to Tom Dias, who stood, handcuffed, between Catherine and Nick.

"We have an interrogation Room ready." Ziva nodded curtly at Gibbs who had just walked in, "Care to join me?" She tilted her head and smiled at Brass.

"Love to." Answered Brass. Nick grinned and shook Gibbs's hand.

"Abby around?" Nick asked, motioning the several large boxes, "We have evidence for her."

"Put him in interrogation one, Ziva." Gibbs said walking in, "And Ziva."

"I know, I know." Said Ziva, leading the prisoner away, "Don't hurt him."

"Stokes, Willows." Barked Gibbs as he walked to the elevator, "Waiting for an engraved invitation?"

Abby's Lab

NCIS

"Soylent Green." Sara said, staring at the plasma screen showing the autopsy photos.

"Seriously." Abby answered. They both tilted their heads and drank from there large cups of Caf-Pow! The sight of them together made Gibbs's stomach do a flip flop. He didn't know a lot about women but he did know that they liked to talk.

"Surprise." Catherine said smiling. Sara ran over to hug Nick and Catherine, with Abby soon to follow. She couldn't give up the chance to be in on a hug fest.

"All this and a big pile of fake money and DNA." Abby fanned herself, "I don't know if I can take it."

"Try too, Abbs." Gibbs said dryly, "We've got Tom Dias in custody. I need DNA results on our victim so we can run it through the military data base."

"I need at least six more hours." said Abby, "And we don't know for sure that he's a sailor, the evidence isn't all in yet."

"You've got three hours." Gibbs said, smirking, "And you've been spending too much time with Grissom."

"I can maybe do Five." Abby said, typing quickly. "And we don't all have a gut that never fails.

"Four hours and I'll get you a Caf-Pow!" He countered, "And I like your gut."

"Four and a half hours, and Sara and I each get a Caf-Pow!" Abby walked towards him and crossed her arms. They stared at each other, smiled, pulling on the corners of their mouths.

"Deal." said Gibbs, sticking out his hand to shake hers.

"Deal." She took his hand and they grinned at each other. "And now if you will allow me to make use of our good fortune at having two world class CSI's in my lab. I could use your help on another case."

"The soylent Green, I presume." Said Catherine, pointing to the screen.

"You presume right." Abby flipped though the photos.

"The body was found twenty-four hours ago. It had been welded into the hull of a ship. Grissom is in the morgue with Ducky, trying to determine a time of death." Sara went to Abby's computer and pulled up another file. It took some searching but Ziva found the bullet."

"Lodged in a piece of the spinal column." Abby said,

"It's a 22 caliber with clean clear striations." Sara said,

"If Tony and McGee find the weapon we should be able to match it." Abby said as she stared impatiently at the machine currently processing the DNA.

"You've got a lot on your plate." Catherine said.

"Just help us log in the evidence, Please." Abby smiled at Nick and Cathrine sweetly, "You have to be here for most of that anyway. And if you feel like it you can help us go through the goo to find more evidence.

"You wouldn't believe what we found so far." Said Sara, desperately wanting them to stay around for a while. She hadn't realized how much she missed them until the moment they walked into the lab.

"You can catch up with Sara, it'll be funsies." Abby took them each by the arm and took them to her office where she kept spare lap coats.

"Fun what?" Asked Nick.

"Funsies." Answered Abby as it it were the most obvious thing in the world as one of her machine's dinged.

Gibb's House

Washington DC

5:30 AM the next morning

Abby groaned loudly when she heard her cell phone ringing. She and Gibbs lay, wrapped in each others arms beneath a large down comforter. After hours spent enjoying each other they had finally fallen asleep around four in the morning. She started to climb out of bed, in search of her cell phone. He wrapped an arm around her waist and pulled her back into bed.

"Ignore it."

"I can't Gibbs." She kissed him and he was struck by her utter lack of morning breath. She still tasted sweet. "It could be results from the lab. I have to at least check."

"I'm your boss and I say you don't have too." He pulled her closer to him and snuggled into her neck, nuzzling her gently.

"But what if it's the military DNA database results?" She asked

"Good point." Gibbs said, "Maybe you should look at it."

"Your going to have to let go of me first." Abby lay on the pillow lazily, smiling.

"I'm thinking about it." He kissed her neck.

"You're thinking about something, just not about the case." Abby smiled softly as Gibbs pulled her into an embrace. He was just starting to stroke her thighs when they were rudely interrupted by aloud knocking on Gibbs's front door. They burrowed deeper under the covers and looked at each other, giggling like teenagers.

"Boss?" McGee called timidly from the front door, "Tony sent me to get you. Um, we brought the suspect back. Found a 22 caliber pistole on him. Same as killed our mystery body. The gun is on it's way to Abby right now."

"And you couldn't have called me with this information." Shouted Gibbs, looking at Abby, still smiling.

"In retrospect that probably would have been a good idea." Said McGee, pissed at Tony for making him come here, "I brought you coffee." He added hopefully.

"Leave it on the kitchen counter on your way out." Gibbs shouted, pulling Abby back under the covers as he heard the front door close.

"Gibbs." Said Abby breathlessly.

"Abbs?" He looked at her and she smiled.

"You want that coffee don't you."

"I really do." He admitted, slightly ashamed.

"I get half." She jumped out of bed and put on the T-shirt he wore the night before. Gibbs pulled on his boxers and followed her to the kitchen, enjoying the view of Abby's long legs peaking out of the bottom of his T-shirt. Abby poured half the large coffee into a mug for Gibbs and kept the paper cup for herself. She handed him the cup with a smile and than walked over to his coffee maker to start brewing a fresh pot.

Gibbs drank his coffee and watched Abby tiptoe around his kitchen and sighed happily. There was something immensely satisfying about Abby, barefoot in his kitchen making coffee. If that made him a sexist dinosaur he didn't care.

TBC

As always thanks for reading.