Title : Hear No Evil, Speak No Evil
Author : Jaggie 107
Disclaimer : JAG characters belong to DPB, CBS and Paramount. Update on 'Sue Thomas, F.B.Eye' – the program is aired on PAX TV – and I still hope all parties will allow me to have fun for a little while, and replace them all when I'm done. Thank you.
Rating : G to PG-13
Author's Notes 1 & 2 : See Default Chapter
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Thanks go to Ninjaturtle, Starryeyes10, Another Tracy, Jtbwriter, Alicia5, CapriceAnn, Melissa, DD2 and Cbw for their reviews so far. I hope you'll all stay with me for the rest of the story. For reviewers I miss out between postings, my apologies, and I'll be sure to add you to my 'thanks' list for the next chapters! (PS – I don't really know much about NCIS' HQ location in the US, so I take writers' licence to place them in DC, for convenience.)
There have been quite a few 'requests' in the reviews received recently, so I just had to answer them!
Alicia5 - Regret, I don't have it in me to kill off Webb, but I can make him disappear!
Jtbwriter – I don't know much about the relationship between Gibbs/Kate to write anything just yet - give me time?
Cbw – I'm not done with NCIS yet, sorry, but they're not in for much longer.
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NCIS Headquarters – Washington DC – 1230 Hours local
Harm pulled his fleet car into the underground garage of the NCIS building and parked in a space adjacent to the bank of elevators. He got out of the car and went around to the passenger side to open the doors for Mac and Sue. As they walked towards the elevators, Jack called out, having just approached the elevators from the opposite side of the garage. Bobby walked along beside him, raising his hand in greeting. (When Harm and Mac had called Jack to meet them at Sue's apartment he and Bobby had been out at an appointment, and so it was decided that they would all meet up at the NCIS building.)
Sue smiled at Jack and Bobby as they approached, and Jack managed a smile in return, although she could see some anger in his expression too. Her eyebrow raised in question, and he shook his head at her.
"You shouldn't be doing this. Gibbs knows you're just out of hospital."
"Jack, please, I'm okay. Really! I promise I'll call it a day when I've had enough of the NCIS hospitality, pardon the pun."
"You'd better." Jack grinned then, knowing that his concern had been a little more proprietary than necessary. Mac and Harm shared a look over the heads of their friends, and Bobby shrugged his shoulders, heading off towards the elevators, talking over his shoulder.
"Don't know about you guys, but this is my first trip to NCIS, and I'm curious."
"Personally, I can only tell you about the interview rooms," Harm retorted, and Mac playfully hit him.
"Can it, Harm. We're here for Sue today, remember? Besides, maybe we already know what Gibbs has to say."
"How's that, Mac?" Jack asked, looking between the two women. Sue turned to face him.
"Mac thinks Sadiq may have gone off at a tangent, wanting revenge for what happened in Paraguay."
"Do you think that's possible? He seems pretty determined to continue his terrorist plans against the US."
"I'm sure he is, Jack, but a lot happened in Paraguay that I'm not going to get into, but I can tell you that he's obsessed with a woman's place in Islamic society, and women like Sue and myself – who are career women able to think for and look after ourselves – don't fit his idea of a good woman in his world." Mac glanced at Harm and found him nodding his approval at her edited appraisal of Sadiq.
"Let's get going and see what Gibbs has. If we can add anything useful, we will." Harm held the elevator door open as the others preceded him inside, and then pressed the number for the floor they required. DiNozzo had been advised that his 'party' had arrived and were on their way up. Expecting only two people to step off on the NCIS floor, he winced and then grinned at the five that appeared, and the dog that came with them.
"Oh boy, Gibbs is going to love this…" he muttered under his breath, forgetting Sue's talent for a moment. Sue, however, hadn't missed his words.
"It's love me, love my gang, Mr Di… Nozzo?"
"Ah, yeah… Tony, please. It's great to meet you at last, Miss Thomas. Commander, Colonel, a pleasure again, and…?"
"Jack Hudson and Bobby Manning, FBI. We work with Miss Thomas." Jack and Bobby both extended their hands to greet DiNozzo, and then followed him through a set of bullet-proof glass doors into the nerve center of the NCIS.
Gibbs looked up as the entourage entered the large room, and his initial dismay turned to wry amusement as he caught Sue's eyes with his and nodded his head at her appearance. Signing his thanks, he indicated to a conference room nearby. Sue grinned in response, speaking up as they walked towards the room.
"I wasn't told that you signed, Mr Gibbs."
"I don't get to use it often, but I keep up. It comes in useful on occasion."
"Yes, it does," Sue acknowledged, taking a seat at the table in the room. Jack took a seat next to Sue, with Mac and Harm opposite. DiNozzo sat opposite Bobby, and Gibbs remained standing at the head of the table.
"We heard about the incident with the hit and run, Miss Thomas…"
"Sue, please," Sue invited, and Gibbs nodded, carrying on.
"We got cctv coverage around the time you were hit, and thought you might be interested to know who it was that hit you."
"Sadiq." Mac spoke the name softly, but Gibbs head swung round to her so fast she thought his neck would crack.
"Colonel Mackenzie, how would you know that?"
"It was just a guess, something I remembered from visiting a client. I only mentioned it to Commander Rabb yesterday; it really was only a guess."
"Well, your guess is correct. Given the information JAG has shared recently we took the two photofits and used our latest facility to prove a theory. DiNozzo?"
DiNozzo stood up and walked to the head of the table as Gibbs moved to one side, still not taking a seat.
"We usually use actual photographs for this procedure, but the photofits were pretty accurate, dead-on in fact, when it came to using the system." Pressing a button on the overhead projector, a white light showed first on a simultaneously lowering screen, and then a duplicate of the large screen outside in the main office area. As DiNozzo pressed another switch a face appeared on one side of the screen, and Mac flinched beside Harm. He felt the slight movement, and rested his hand over hers out of sight of the others. Without looking at him, she squeezed once and then released his hand. It was enough for both of them to know the gesture was acknowledged. Sadiq's face looked out at her. One of the two photofit faces was placed on the opposite side of the screen, and then the method of pinpointing facial structure that could not be hidden by makeup and/or surgery went into action, and within a few minutes a match was made. The second photofit went as smoothly as the first, and the whole group were left in no doubt that they were looking at the same man, despite the two very different disguises.
"That's impressive, Gibbs. I look forward to further collaboration when needed." Harm glanced at Jack as he spoke, and nodded briefly before turning his attention back to the NCIS man.
"All requests will be considered, given the prompt appearance of Miss Thomas today. I appreciate the gesture of goodwill."
"And I've enjoyed my visit, Mr Gibbs," Sue responded.
Gibbs smiled and then looked pensive for a second before talking again. "I hope your injuries heal quickly, Sue."
"I'm getting better by the day, believe me."
Harm grinned at Sue's response, and then turned the conversation back to the confirmation of Mac's supposition about Sadiq. Looking straight at Gibbs he spoke up. "We have to get back to JAG and let the Admiral know you have confirmed our suspicions. We need to get together after that and determine where we go from here."
Gibbs nodded. "Very well. Let DiNozzo know a time and place, and we'll be there."
"Thank you." Mac stood up and shook hands with Gibbs and DiNozzo.
As handshakes were given and taken around the table, the group left the floor and returned to the garage in the basement below. As Gibbs and DiNozzo watched them go the younger man spoke.
"Pretty impressive, Gibbs. Didn't know you knew signing."
"There's a lot you don't know, DiNozzo."
"Yeah… hey, wait a minute!" DiNozzo had just realised that Gibbs had taken a pot shot at him. As the older man walked back to his desk, DiNozzo paused, and then realised it was Gibbs' way of getting him to think things out and work harder. "Yeah!" murmured DiNozzo, nodding his head at his own deduction about his supervisor. Gibbs rarely praised his staff, but his backhand comments were designed to push them further in doing their jobs.
Down at the garage level Jack and Bobby said their farewells to Mac and Harm, agreeing to meet up when the Admiral had been appraised of the recent meeting. Sue turned to Mac and Harm too.
"I'll get a ride back with Jack and Bobby. Thanks for bringing me here, and I'll call you later, Sarah." About to give Mac a hug, Sue was brought up short by Jack's arm on hers.
"No way! You're not going in to work."
"Jack, I'm out already, what's another hour or so going to hurt?"
"I know you, Sue. You're going to get involved in doing something, and then next thing you know, you'll be wanting to go out on assignment."
"Yes, please!" Sue's enthusiasm was infectious, and Bobby raised his hands in defeat as Jack turned to him for support.
"Don't look at me, mate. I'm not getting in the middle of this one. Besides, you know you're going to lose. You can't resist those big eyes of hers."
At that statement both Sue and Jack looked at Bobby and then at each other. Mac and Harm laughed out loud at their surprised expressions. Mac moved in to hug Sue and then stepped back and moved away.
"Jack, she's all yours. See you later."
As Mac and Harm moved across to their vehicle, and Bobby turned and walked back to Jack's car, Sue turned back to face Jack, tipped her head to one side, and grinned at him.
"Am I?" she asked, softly.
"Are you what?" Jack hedged, knowing there was more to her question than he should be answering right now.
"Am I going back to the office with you?" Sue knew what she was really asking – 'Am I all yours?' – but she settled for the more ambiguous response.
Jack looked at her for a long few seconds, and then nodded, even as he pointed a finger at her.
"You stay at your desk, you don't lift a finger, and you don't take calls. Nothing, nada, zilch. Levi, you're on guard." Jack grinned then, and glanced down at the golden retriever who barked in response.
Sue bit down on a squeal of delight, but the lifting of her shoulders and the smile on her face told of her pleasure at her success. They turned to walk towards the car where Bobby waited, and as Jack was a little behind Sue she didn't see the expression on his face. Bobby, however, did.
'Lucy's going to owe me big time for this bit of info,' he thought to himself, smiling benignly at his two colleagues as they approached.
"Lunchtime, folks. I'm starving. How about kangaroo steaks?"
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To be continued
Author : Jaggie 107
Disclaimer : JAG characters belong to DPB, CBS and Paramount. Update on 'Sue Thomas, F.B.Eye' – the program is aired on PAX TV – and I still hope all parties will allow me to have fun for a little while, and replace them all when I'm done. Thank you.
Rating : G to PG-13
Author's Notes 1 & 2 : See Default Chapter
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Thanks go to Ninjaturtle, Starryeyes10, Another Tracy, Jtbwriter, Alicia5, CapriceAnn, Melissa, DD2 and Cbw for their reviews so far. I hope you'll all stay with me for the rest of the story. For reviewers I miss out between postings, my apologies, and I'll be sure to add you to my 'thanks' list for the next chapters! (PS – I don't really know much about NCIS' HQ location in the US, so I take writers' licence to place them in DC, for convenience.)
There have been quite a few 'requests' in the reviews received recently, so I just had to answer them!
Alicia5 - Regret, I don't have it in me to kill off Webb, but I can make him disappear!
Jtbwriter – I don't know much about the relationship between Gibbs/Kate to write anything just yet - give me time?
Cbw – I'm not done with NCIS yet, sorry, but they're not in for much longer.
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NCIS Headquarters – Washington DC – 1230 Hours local
Harm pulled his fleet car into the underground garage of the NCIS building and parked in a space adjacent to the bank of elevators. He got out of the car and went around to the passenger side to open the doors for Mac and Sue. As they walked towards the elevators, Jack called out, having just approached the elevators from the opposite side of the garage. Bobby walked along beside him, raising his hand in greeting. (When Harm and Mac had called Jack to meet them at Sue's apartment he and Bobby had been out at an appointment, and so it was decided that they would all meet up at the NCIS building.)
Sue smiled at Jack and Bobby as they approached, and Jack managed a smile in return, although she could see some anger in his expression too. Her eyebrow raised in question, and he shook his head at her.
"You shouldn't be doing this. Gibbs knows you're just out of hospital."
"Jack, please, I'm okay. Really! I promise I'll call it a day when I've had enough of the NCIS hospitality, pardon the pun."
"You'd better." Jack grinned then, knowing that his concern had been a little more proprietary than necessary. Mac and Harm shared a look over the heads of their friends, and Bobby shrugged his shoulders, heading off towards the elevators, talking over his shoulder.
"Don't know about you guys, but this is my first trip to NCIS, and I'm curious."
"Personally, I can only tell you about the interview rooms," Harm retorted, and Mac playfully hit him.
"Can it, Harm. We're here for Sue today, remember? Besides, maybe we already know what Gibbs has to say."
"How's that, Mac?" Jack asked, looking between the two women. Sue turned to face him.
"Mac thinks Sadiq may have gone off at a tangent, wanting revenge for what happened in Paraguay."
"Do you think that's possible? He seems pretty determined to continue his terrorist plans against the US."
"I'm sure he is, Jack, but a lot happened in Paraguay that I'm not going to get into, but I can tell you that he's obsessed with a woman's place in Islamic society, and women like Sue and myself – who are career women able to think for and look after ourselves – don't fit his idea of a good woman in his world." Mac glanced at Harm and found him nodding his approval at her edited appraisal of Sadiq.
"Let's get going and see what Gibbs has. If we can add anything useful, we will." Harm held the elevator door open as the others preceded him inside, and then pressed the number for the floor they required. DiNozzo had been advised that his 'party' had arrived and were on their way up. Expecting only two people to step off on the NCIS floor, he winced and then grinned at the five that appeared, and the dog that came with them.
"Oh boy, Gibbs is going to love this…" he muttered under his breath, forgetting Sue's talent for a moment. Sue, however, hadn't missed his words.
"It's love me, love my gang, Mr Di… Nozzo?"
"Ah, yeah… Tony, please. It's great to meet you at last, Miss Thomas. Commander, Colonel, a pleasure again, and…?"
"Jack Hudson and Bobby Manning, FBI. We work with Miss Thomas." Jack and Bobby both extended their hands to greet DiNozzo, and then followed him through a set of bullet-proof glass doors into the nerve center of the NCIS.
Gibbs looked up as the entourage entered the large room, and his initial dismay turned to wry amusement as he caught Sue's eyes with his and nodded his head at her appearance. Signing his thanks, he indicated to a conference room nearby. Sue grinned in response, speaking up as they walked towards the room.
"I wasn't told that you signed, Mr Gibbs."
"I don't get to use it often, but I keep up. It comes in useful on occasion."
"Yes, it does," Sue acknowledged, taking a seat at the table in the room. Jack took a seat next to Sue, with Mac and Harm opposite. DiNozzo sat opposite Bobby, and Gibbs remained standing at the head of the table.
"We heard about the incident with the hit and run, Miss Thomas…"
"Sue, please," Sue invited, and Gibbs nodded, carrying on.
"We got cctv coverage around the time you were hit, and thought you might be interested to know who it was that hit you."
"Sadiq." Mac spoke the name softly, but Gibbs head swung round to her so fast she thought his neck would crack.
"Colonel Mackenzie, how would you know that?"
"It was just a guess, something I remembered from visiting a client. I only mentioned it to Commander Rabb yesterday; it really was only a guess."
"Well, your guess is correct. Given the information JAG has shared recently we took the two photofits and used our latest facility to prove a theory. DiNozzo?"
DiNozzo stood up and walked to the head of the table as Gibbs moved to one side, still not taking a seat.
"We usually use actual photographs for this procedure, but the photofits were pretty accurate, dead-on in fact, when it came to using the system." Pressing a button on the overhead projector, a white light showed first on a simultaneously lowering screen, and then a duplicate of the large screen outside in the main office area. As DiNozzo pressed another switch a face appeared on one side of the screen, and Mac flinched beside Harm. He felt the slight movement, and rested his hand over hers out of sight of the others. Without looking at him, she squeezed once and then released his hand. It was enough for both of them to know the gesture was acknowledged. Sadiq's face looked out at her. One of the two photofit faces was placed on the opposite side of the screen, and then the method of pinpointing facial structure that could not be hidden by makeup and/or surgery went into action, and within a few minutes a match was made. The second photofit went as smoothly as the first, and the whole group were left in no doubt that they were looking at the same man, despite the two very different disguises.
"That's impressive, Gibbs. I look forward to further collaboration when needed." Harm glanced at Jack as he spoke, and nodded briefly before turning his attention back to the NCIS man.
"All requests will be considered, given the prompt appearance of Miss Thomas today. I appreciate the gesture of goodwill."
"And I've enjoyed my visit, Mr Gibbs," Sue responded.
Gibbs smiled and then looked pensive for a second before talking again. "I hope your injuries heal quickly, Sue."
"I'm getting better by the day, believe me."
Harm grinned at Sue's response, and then turned the conversation back to the confirmation of Mac's supposition about Sadiq. Looking straight at Gibbs he spoke up. "We have to get back to JAG and let the Admiral know you have confirmed our suspicions. We need to get together after that and determine where we go from here."
Gibbs nodded. "Very well. Let DiNozzo know a time and place, and we'll be there."
"Thank you." Mac stood up and shook hands with Gibbs and DiNozzo.
As handshakes were given and taken around the table, the group left the floor and returned to the garage in the basement below. As Gibbs and DiNozzo watched them go the younger man spoke.
"Pretty impressive, Gibbs. Didn't know you knew signing."
"There's a lot you don't know, DiNozzo."
"Yeah… hey, wait a minute!" DiNozzo had just realised that Gibbs had taken a pot shot at him. As the older man walked back to his desk, DiNozzo paused, and then realised it was Gibbs' way of getting him to think things out and work harder. "Yeah!" murmured DiNozzo, nodding his head at his own deduction about his supervisor. Gibbs rarely praised his staff, but his backhand comments were designed to push them further in doing their jobs.
Down at the garage level Jack and Bobby said their farewells to Mac and Harm, agreeing to meet up when the Admiral had been appraised of the recent meeting. Sue turned to Mac and Harm too.
"I'll get a ride back with Jack and Bobby. Thanks for bringing me here, and I'll call you later, Sarah." About to give Mac a hug, Sue was brought up short by Jack's arm on hers.
"No way! You're not going in to work."
"Jack, I'm out already, what's another hour or so going to hurt?"
"I know you, Sue. You're going to get involved in doing something, and then next thing you know, you'll be wanting to go out on assignment."
"Yes, please!" Sue's enthusiasm was infectious, and Bobby raised his hands in defeat as Jack turned to him for support.
"Don't look at me, mate. I'm not getting in the middle of this one. Besides, you know you're going to lose. You can't resist those big eyes of hers."
At that statement both Sue and Jack looked at Bobby and then at each other. Mac and Harm laughed out loud at their surprised expressions. Mac moved in to hug Sue and then stepped back and moved away.
"Jack, she's all yours. See you later."
As Mac and Harm moved across to their vehicle, and Bobby turned and walked back to Jack's car, Sue turned back to face Jack, tipped her head to one side, and grinned at him.
"Am I?" she asked, softly.
"Are you what?" Jack hedged, knowing there was more to her question than he should be answering right now.
"Am I going back to the office with you?" Sue knew what she was really asking – 'Am I all yours?' – but she settled for the more ambiguous response.
Jack looked at her for a long few seconds, and then nodded, even as he pointed a finger at her.
"You stay at your desk, you don't lift a finger, and you don't take calls. Nothing, nada, zilch. Levi, you're on guard." Jack grinned then, and glanced down at the golden retriever who barked in response.
Sue bit down on a squeal of delight, but the lifting of her shoulders and the smile on her face told of her pleasure at her success. They turned to walk towards the car where Bobby waited, and as Jack was a little behind Sue she didn't see the expression on his face. Bobby, however, did.
'Lucy's going to owe me big time for this bit of info,' he thought to himself, smiling benignly at his two colleagues as they approached.
"Lunchtime, folks. I'm starving. How about kangaroo steaks?"
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To be continued
