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)
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3- Everything changed
The lab seemed out of a different universe, that much was for sure. Gibbs stood in the still open doors of the elevator while his jaw had dropped clear through the floor. There were flowers just about everywhere in the lab -real ones on the desk, pictures of them on the walls and even plastic ones glued to the edge of the computer screen. In the middle of this was Jenny Shepard in a lab coat, taking notes on something she read from the screen in front of her. She turned around when she heard the elevator open. "Hey, Jethro. Are you here for the DNA?" She asked and watched him stare at her. "I think Dinozzo is waiting for it. Here´s the results on that. Anything else you need?"
Gibbs just shook his head, took the paper from herand stumbled backwards into the elevator, hitting the emergency break after the doors had closed. "This has to be a nightmare. I´m dreaming...There is no freaking way..." He told himself again and put his head against the cool wall. He closed his eyes and prayed that he would wake up soon.
Up in the bullpen, everyone was roaring with laughter in the meantime. "Did you see his face? Oh my word...Hey, McGee, do you get all of that on video?" Kate called up to the balcony where McGee and Ducky were standing.
"Sure am, every second of it. Oh, I just got a call from the police -they´re done so far and we can process the scene now. Stabbed sailor found in the wastewater treatment plant-a nice job for our probie...there might just be some trace evidence left in thatpre-treatment basin, don´t you think, Tony?" McGee said with a wink and disappeared into an office with Ducky at his heels.
The elevator doors opened again and all were back in their new roles. Tony took his phone and acted like he just got a call. "Right, on the way. Kate, gas the truck. Jimmy, get Abbs from autopsy. Gibbs, get the gear." He ordered and rushed out into the parking lot.
Kate ran after him, pulling her jacket on, as did Palmer a moment later. Gibbs just stood there like he was frozen to the spot. It didn´t get much better when he got the jacket from his chair and read the label on the back. "Probie?" He muttered to himself and was now completely lost. He grabbed the backpack from behind his desk and walked into the parking lot. Kate was driving. Tony and Palmer sat in the front seat with her and looked at him.
"You´re acting as if it´s your first day. Get in the back, Gibbs. We don´t have all day." Tony said and watched in the backmirror, how he climbed into the back of the truck.
"Hey, Tony, you did wonderful." Kate whispered to him and he grinned.
"I always wanted to do that, you know?" He replied in a low voice and rubbed his hands. "I mean, he´s been like that forever towards us, so it´s really time for a payback, don´t you think?
At the scene, Kate started with measurements while Palmer take pictures. Tony talked to the police and then sent to look for more evidence. Abby parked the forensics truck beside the MCRT truckand walked over. "Tony? What do we have here?" She asked and heard something that sounded like head against stone. Gibbs had jumped up at the sound of her voice and hit his head on a protruding part of the basin wall.Abby looked completely different. Shehad exchanged her goth-attire for a grey blazer with matching pants and a green turtleneck shirt. Her pigtails had changed into a strict looking braid that hung down from the back of her head. Gibbs noted that she looked totally awesome.
She started going over the body and waved at someone else. "Mr. Morrow, I need the thermometer over here. And bring along a bag, would you?" She called and Gibbs felt his jaw drop yet again when the man he knew as head of the organization office, handed her the tools in question.
"Found anything yet, Gibbs?" Tony´s voice asked from very short distance andhe started searching the brown water that smelled like something he didn´t even want to imagine again, muttering some curses. "Well, in case you find something, let me know."
After nearly an hour, Tony called them together and they walked back to the truck. "Abbs, I need a full autopsy before tonight, make sure you check the tox-levels. Tell Jen to run a search if there are any levels jumping out. Kate, did you get all interviews? Oh, okay, I´ll leave you the truck until you´re done. Take Gibbs along. He might learn something from you there. Jimmy needs a little longer as well on those pictures. See that you´re back before 4 pm, we really need to get going on this." Tony said and got into the forensics truck with Morrow and Abby.
Kate continued with her interviews, always keeping an eye on Gibbs, who was still looking confused and rather pale. Afterwards, they drove back to headquarters. She almost felt sorry for himsitting in the back again, but his clothes were smelling badly, inspite of the all-over-suit.
At headquarters, Tony sent him to the shower immediately and watched him walk off still muttering under his breath. While he gone to get cleaned, the rest was having the time of their lives in the bullpen. "Here´s that special coffee again. I must say, this was an highly unusual day." Ducky said and chuckled before he walked back to the balcony.
Gibbs came out of the elevator a few minutes later, freshly showered, but still confused. "Ah, there you are. Good call on that knife you found. Blood matches our victim. Coffee?" Tony offered him and he gratefully accepted, still confused and completely clueless to what else was going to happen.