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Walking as fast as her three inch platform boots would carry her, Abby Scuito worked her way through NCIS headquarters. She had spent all morning trying to uncover the source of those suspicious "night markers," and her head was swimming from the countless Navy Department reports she had been wading through since finding the database at three AM. She needed to clear her head, and check on everyone else's progress, but mostly, she was in desperate need of her beloved Caff-Pow.
As she finally reached the front desk and was about to swipe her access card, she looked up to find Gibbs and his lopsided smile waiting for her. "Going somewhere, Abbs?"
"Gibbs! Hey, yeah I needed to wipe off the red tape goggles. And since you sent McGee somewhere my Caff-Pow source dried up." She swiped her card and started walking again, with Gibbs in tow. "You need some air, Bossman?"
Gibbs smirked a little at Abby's question, "Yeah, something like that, Abbs."
The two started their little walk to the Navy Yard convenience store for her beloved beverage. They walked in silence for what seemed like an eternity to Abby . When it had finally become too much for her, she started talking, "So, Gibbs, are you gonna just make me crazy, or can you start the interrogation now?" When Gibbs looked at the young woman he could see the impish glint in her eyes and this time he laughed out loud.
"All right, Abby… I was hoping to get your opinions on the Major." Gibbs just smirked at Abby's comment and continued their walk.
"I had a feeling that's where this was leading, and besides, Gibbs, when have you ever not been suspicious of someone else coming in to NCIS… And I think you're rubbing off on me too, because now I do that too, and well, that's just wrong, Gibbs. Ya know, that's just not like me." Gibbs stepped in front of her to open the door to the Navy Yard convenience store and she walked past him, still talking.
"And besides, when you get a chance to work with someone like her, you should just sit back and learn, because that's what you have to do with people like that. I mean really, she has all the toys and access I would kill for, plus, MY GOD, she is like soooo off the charts, ya know." Abby started to fill her cup, but never once did she stop talking.
"Sometimes I feel like my mouth is hanging open when she's talking, because she's got this thought process and it's like totally mind blowing. Oh yeah, and she's got this way she talks to you where you swear she's telling you like everything you want to know, but when you think about it later, you realize that she never answered the question at all. AND she's like totally cool even though she is probably the straightest person I have ever met. Even more than you, Gibbs, and boy is that saying something. But seriously she has this brain that is just like so off the charts that I don't even know what she's talking about sometimes, and she even had McGee falling over himself about some tech head stuff that he had only dreamed about, and she was like 'Oh yeah, that was okay, but the seven thousand whatchamacallit was much better.'"
She and Gibbs walked up to the counter, and he handed the clerk money for his coffee and her soft drink and she stopped only long enough to take a pull off her Caff-Pow before starting right where she had left off, "Did you know she's been married for EIGHTEEN years? I mean wow, that has to be a record or something. And her husband's a Navy doc, and is like totally hot, and they live in Bethesda, but neither of 'em is from here: big surprise, since like no one is FROM this place anymore. But right, her brain is like so scary, ya know. You remember my NASA boy, Ashton, well she makes him look like a freaking kindergartner, Gibbs, she is like scary genius, like the kind that could become a super villain or something, ya know, but she's like totally Gung Ho Marine and dedicated and everything so she'd like never do anything wrong like that, ya know?"
It was at this point that they reached the front door to NCIS offices again and Abby had her final epiphany, "OH! And she has this totally amazing collection of music. Man, oh man, she has some stuff I would totally kill for!" Abby takes a long draw on the straw of her Caff-Pow and gives Gibbs that infamous mischievous look of hers.
Gibbs just shook his head and walked them both back through the doors of headquarters and smirked, "Thanks for the talk, Abbs… What I could get from it, anyway."