April Fool´s Day 3: Outside the window
Disclaimer: I don´t own any characters or anything!
Summary: Tony comes up with a very special prank for Gibbs and everyone seems to be in, but will they live long enough to have a good laugh?
Additional note: I came up with this around 2 am last night and it just wouldn´t go away, so I thought I´d just go ahead and share it with you.
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Their time came the following day. Ducky had taken Gibbs to a friend of his, who was running a lab on the other side of town the evening before. Gibbs had finally given in to have the analysis done and take the therapist to his house the evening after to prove that he wasn´t going mental. Like before, they managed to open the wall without any problems and put the boat back where it belonged. Abby and Kate put the basement back into the state it had been before their prank.
Ducky would give Tony a call when they left the lab, which gave them 40 minutes to get ready. The call came in at 11 pm and by 11:20 pm all of them were there. Cars were parked a block away and they were hiding behind the large oak trees. "That´s Ducky´s car." McGee whispered when a silver chevrolet pulled into the driveway, followed by a green truck, which obviously belonged to Ducky´s friend. The kept their heads down until the three men had disappeared into the building. It was dark already, which was not unusual, even on a spring day like this one, so they slowly crept up to the basement window.
"Ouch, that´s my arm." Abby complained when Tony leaned over her.
"Sshhh. They´re coming, the light on the stairs just went on." Kate said and put her hand over her mouth. All of them held their breath. Abby had put a bug on Ducky and they had a small radio with them so that they could listen to them talking.
"Jethro, I must say you really have me worried. A boat doesn´t just disappear from a basement like yours. There are five locks on this door and I don´t see any of those broken." Ducky said and Tony rolled across the lawn laughing. He almost choked and McGee patted him on the back until he could breath again.
The basement door creaked open and the light was switched on. "See, I told you that..." Gibbs started, but then, his face fell. "But...but it was gone. I swear it was. C´mon, Duck, you know me."
Kate pulled away from the window and dropped to her knees a few feet away. She was laughing so hard that tears were stinging in her eyes. She still had her hand over her mouth to muffle the laughter though.
"Jethro, I believe that you´re working much too hard, my friend. Maybe it would be good if you take a short leave. Get your head off a bit, consider different options..." Ducky now said and Abby came crawling over to Kate´s side, doubling over with laughter as well.
"Hell, Duck. I´m not mental. The boat was not here when I came here yesterday. I´m not going to take a leave and I´m not going to consider any options orwhatever you call it." Oh yes, Gibbs was pissed off very royally.
All four agents outside the window retreated a bit, still stiffling their laughter. When they reached the trees, Kate felt like she had just run a marathon twice in a row. Her sides were aching and she could hardly breath. "Oh my word, this is so good." She managed between short breaths.
They calmed down again and waited for Ducky to come out again. The radio was still on, so they could hear what was going on inside the house. "Thank you, Jonathan. I shall call you tomorrow." Ducky told his friend, who then left the house and drove off. "Jethro, I´m really worried about you here. Don´t you think you are putting too much weight on the job of yours?" Ducky now said and all of them knew where this was headed.
"Duck..." Gibbs growled at him, but didn´t go on.
"I believe you ought to think about it some time. You´re acting like the job is all there is in the world. Jethro, you have a team full of wonderful young people. They´re looking up to you as a leader and all you do is barking orders, yelling or telling them what they are doing wrong. There ought to be a nice word to say to them once in a while, don´t you think?" Kate noticed the tone in Mallards voice and knew that Gibbs was close to find out what really happened.
There was a long silence. "Duck, I´m just going to ask you this one single time: Do you know anything about this whole thing?" Gibbs asked and the four of them started to make their way to the main street.
"If he gets out there before we make it to that corner, we´re dead." Tony said while he ran beside Abby, who was still holding the radio.
"DINOZZO!" Gibbs´ voice boomed out of theradio so loud that Abby dropped it. They nowran for their bare lives. Abby lost her balance on the curb and slammed onto the pavement. She winced, but got up again with McGee´s help. Kate turned her head around once and saw a shadow bursting out of the front door of the house. They reached their cars and jumped in. They had left the keys in the ignition, which was a stake, but probably saving them right now.