April Fool´s Day again
Disclaimer: I don´t own any characters or anything.
Summary: It´s the end of March again and Tony starts to plan a new attack on his boss for April Fool´s day. (As I have not watched Twilight, I will assume that this is happening pre-twilightish)
Authors Note: Forgive me for putting both Morrow AND Shepard in, but I really needed two superiors here for the fun of it. I guess that makes the story AU then. Don´t beat me for that, please!
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2- Finding Allies
After work, everyone took off towards the parking level, like they did every day and drove out onto the main road.Once they were out of sight from the building, they went straight for Dinozzo´s apartment. Kate was last to arrive andgrinned when she saw the assembled cars in the street. She had taken a detour to get some ice cream for all of them on special request from Abby. When the door opened and she saw a whole lot of people squeezing into Tony´s livingroom. "Hey, Kate!" Abbysquealed and took the ice cream from her with a smile.
"Wow...you seem to have quite something planned here." Kate said as she looked around. Abby, McGee and Palmer sat on the couch. Ducky had taken one of the armchairs, the second one was occupied by a woman Kate would have never expected here. "Director Shepard." She said and her eyes widened.
"It´s just Mrs. Shepard -or Jenny, we´re not at the office here." Shepard replied and helped herself to a piece of tuna pizza. "tom Morrowwas going to come as well, but it´s his granddaughter´s birthday. I´ll brief him tomorrow over lunch though." She said and had a rather evil grin on her face. Kate shuddered a bit when she remembered that Gibbs and Shepard used to be...oh well, she didn´t really want to think about it and dropped that thought as Tony came in from the kitchen.
Carrying two six-packs of beer, Dinozzo walked to the table and dropped the beverages there right onto a half eaten veggie pizza, buying himself a glance from Abby, who pulled the cans off and set them somewhere else. "Help yourselves. There´s another meat lovers in the kitchen, in case you still wants some. I got some more beer in the fridge as well." He said and threw a can of beer over to Kate, who caught it with her free hand. "Right then, I guess you know what we´re here for, so before I tell you what I got planned, any ideas from you guys?" Everyone looked at him and shook heads. "Right then...after what happened last year, Gibbs will be more than just a watchdog over his boat and his house, so there´s no point to try something around there. I doubt that he´ll expect something at work though, that´s why I have invited Mrs. Shepard to join us, as well as Morrow. I was going to ask Fornell for help, too, but I doubt that he would know what fun is..."
"No way, Tony. Anyone but Fornell!" Kate called at him and remembered when the FBI guy had last shown up at the bullpen, making their day lots worse than it had been anyway.
Tony just went on about his plan and everyone just stared at him. Ducky found his speech first. "Anthony, let me see if I have understood correctly. You want me to put something into Jethro´s coffee that sedates him, right?"
"Right on, Duck. We´re going to move stuff around and get the faked files up on the database. As we´re going to pull that on Monday, we got Sunday to prepare the office for it. We need to update the database with faked files to make sure he doesn´t catch us in case he checks there. We need to re-do the desk signs as well." He said and looked at Abby and McGee.
"I´m on the database -it´s not easy to get into it, but I got some additional passwords from Mrs. Shepard this morning, so it shouldn´t be a problem to pull a copy of everyone´s file and put those fake ones up for a day." Abby said and smiled widely. "Hey, they won´t catch me. Even the guys from the CIA...oh, never mind."
"I´ll get the desk signs from Greg on Saturday. He´ll be doing them the same way our actual ones are, so we get to keep them as souvenirs afterwards." That was Tim, who seemed to enjoy this quite some bit.
"Very well now, but what are you going to do if you have to go out to a site?" Ducky said and everyone looked at Tony for an answer.
"Well, keep the act up. That´s why I´ll be in the place of Senior Agent and Kate as my second in command. Oh, McGee, you okay being our new NCIS director for that day? Mrs. Shepard will take over Abby´s lab -we´ve worked out a wonderful flower decoration for that."Tony continued and rubbed his hands.
Kate felt her eyes widening. "Hang on...flower decoration? McGee as director? I think I missed the first part of that. Could you please go overit again? I´m not sure I got all of that at once." She said and took a large sip from her beer. This seemed to be thoroughly planned, even more than last year and she tried to get all the details he had been rattling down.
"McGee will be our NCIS director. I will be Senior Agent, you, Kate, second in command, means that you will take my spot on the team. Mrs. Shepard takes Abby´s role as lab tech while Abby is going to be head of the morgue. Palmer is on the team as well, taking Kate´s spot there. Director Morrow will be in the morgue instead of Palmer. Ducky will be taking Morrow´s job up in the organization office." Dinozzo explained and Kate tried to follow him.
"That would leave Gibbs for...no way, you´re kidding, right? That would leave Gibbs...No way, are you serious?" She exclaimed and everyone broke into laughter. "Oh my word...he´ll kill us, Tony."
"If he finds out. See, we´re going to spike his coffee again in the afternoon, maybe after getting back from a site or whatever happens that day. We return everything to the original state and tell him he fell asleep. No big deal. McGee will catch it all on video for us, we´ll put some additional webcams up and hide some microphones. Really no bit deal at all." He explained and got a sceptical look from Abby.
She pulled her sleeve back and two fine white lines on her wrist were visible. "I just hope it´s a smaller deal than last year. I don´t need another set of pins in my body." She said, but still smiled. They continued to go over the plan again until they went back home around 11 pm. They had three more days to get everything ready and Kate somehow got the feeling that they might beeither in for a lot of fun or someserious trouble.