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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5- Just a dream?
10 minutes later, Gibbs was out cold again and they put everything back to the original state. "Damn...I was just getting used to that role." McGee said as he put his phone back onto his desk.
"Well, bambino, you don´t always get what you want." Tony chimed in and grinned. He held up a DVD that McGee had given him a few moments ago. "And here´s our movie for tonight. Chinese take-out and beer -I´m paying. 8 pm at my place." He told everyone and put the disc into his backpack.
When everything was ready again, they continued their work as if nothing had happened. Gibbs came back around about 20 minutes later. He rubbed his eyes and bolted out of his seat the same moment. Kate looked at him, a puzzled look on her face. "Gibbs? Are you okay?" She asked with concern in her voice.
He spun around to look at her, then stared at McGee and Tony, who looked at him as well. "What...where..." He began, but didn´t seem to find the right words.
"Hey, boss, did you have a nightmare or something? You don´t look so good." Dinozzo said and crossed his arms over his chest. "Oh, here´s the paychecks you´ve been asking for. Seems like he was never outside US territory though. Not our man." He added and put a file onto Gibbs´ desk.
"And here´s the results on that partial license plate -only four possible matches, so we can run those down quickly." Kate now said and put another file onto his desk, watching him closely. "Gibbs? You look like you´ve seen a ghost."
Gibbs just sat there and tried to make any sense of his memories. He noticed that everyone was staring at him and got up. "I...I´ll be down in autopsy for a few minutes." He just said and made a beeline for the elevator.
As soon as the doors closed, Kate broke down laughing. "This is SO good, Tony. Sorry I didn´t believe you at first." She managed and wiped a tear out of her face.
Dinozzo was grinning from ear to ear. "Do you reckon we should invite him over for tonight? I mean...you think he´ll kill us?"
She tilted her head a bit. "Hm...don´t know. Let´s wait and ask Ducky how he took it. Can still decide then." She picked up her phone and dialed Abby´s number. "Hey, Abbs. Everything okay down there?"
Abby laughed briefly. "Yep, what a show. He´s in autopsy with Ducky, seemed rather confused, if you ask me. I heard it´s tonight at 8 at Tony´s place, right?" She asked and grinned to herself. "I think we should have him over as well. I think, he´ll have a good laugh about it and slap some heads, but that should be it.
Dr. Donald Mallard had to hide the smile on his face when Gibbs walked into autopsy this afternoon. Although he had not really approved of the little prank in the beginning, but he had to admit, that Dinozzo had done a great job on this one. He had loved the prank about the boat a year ago, but this year had been even better. Of course, without the help from Shepard and the other agents, it wouldn´t have worked so well, but somehow they had really done it.
Gibbs dropped onto a chair in the far corner of the morgue and put his head into his hands. "Duck, I think I should stop drinking coffee." He stated dryly and stared onto the floor.
"Why would that be, Jethro? You seem a bit confused, my friend." Ducky said and pulled up another chair.
"I think I´m losing my mind here. I fell asleep, at least I think I did, welland I had this strange dream. It felt so real. I still have that scent ofthatwaterin my nose...well, I dreamed that I had to search a wastewater plant for trace evidence. And Tony was Senior Agent, and Palmer was an agent too. Abby was head of the morgue and the lab had all kinds of flowers in it. Jen Shepard was our lab technician..." He told the older man and looked at him for a hint of help.
Ducky listened to him, still hiding the smile. "That sure seems unusual. Maybe you should try to get your head off from work a bit. You are in here far too much, Jethro. How about you accompany me to a little get-together tonight. We planned on watching a homevideo and have some Chinese food." Ducky offered, having gotten the invitation from Dinozzo just a few minutes ago.
"Duck, I´m not in the mood for stuff like that." Gibbs replied and tried to forget that awful dream, but miserably failed.
"Jethro, you will accompany me tonight. This is not a question anymore and you know that I am very well capable of issuing orders to you. I don´t like doing so, but in this case I´m afraid I have to. I shall pick you up at 7:30 pm tonight. If you would excuse me now, there is another autopsy waiting for me." Ducky excused himself and turned towards the table with a black bag on top. He grinned widely for a second and started to work.