Chapter 3.
At the office they ran into DiNozzo and McGee who apparently had nothing to do at the park since all the evidence was taken care of in the early hours of the morning. Gibbs introduced them to Gaia and instructed DiNozzo to get Gaia's statement. At that moment Gaia's "boss" rushed into the office and threatened to stop the investigation. Of course Gibbs put him in his place and "nicely" asked for his name.
"That's on a need to know basis and you don't need to do, agent Gibbs." The answered.
"No, I think I need to know. This is my case and if you come barging in here and stop my investigation I want to know why." Gibbs snapped.
"Peter Stine, Jethro" Gaia chipped in. Stine looked angrily at her but she didn't stir.
"Agent Moon, you are on dangerous ground," Stine said. But she only looked at him more challengingly and he backed down.
"You need to do a LDT on Agent Moon ASAP." Stine told Gibbs.
"A Lie Detector Test won't work" Gibbs answered.
"No matter, it's proper procedure." He answered.
"Not again, Stine" Gaia came back into the conversation.
"Yes! Again. It's …
"…Procedure! I know" she cracked.
"Then you must go to BACA (A/N: Basic ability comparison abode)" Stine stated.
"No." Gaia said.
"Yes. Moon." And with that he left.
Everything was arranged for the LDT and one of Stine's workers came to watch the test.
Gaia sat with a frown as she waited in the questioning room. DiNozzo went in and began the questioning.
"Are you comfortable?" he asked just for curiosity's sake.
"No!" Gaia answered.
"Sorry for asking. Okay, let's begin. State whether the following is true or false:
You are Gaia Moon?"
"True"
"Your national security number is 8302190094012?"
"True" she lied but the needle didn't spring.
"You were married to Sam Moon?"
"True"
"You still are married to Sam Moon?"
"True"
And so it went on. Gaia eventually gave her statement and then she had to answer a couple of questions as yes the whole time. The needle never sprung. Strange…
After the questionnaire, Gaia was left in the room while McGee went to give the results to Abby to process and DiNozzo went to get some coffee. Gibbs sat in the room where he could watch Gaia through the two-way mirror.
Abby was running around her lab trying to get the DNA results as quick as possible. McGee walked in and handed her the results.
"No way!" she yelled as she saw the straight lines on the paper.
"That's what I said." McGee agreed.
"I have seriously never seen an LTD this straight." Abby added.
"The strangest part is at the end. That's where she had to say yes to every question, including: 'are you three years old?" McGee said.
"This is amazing, I'd like to meet this…" she searched for the name on the edge of the paper. "Super-Agent Gaia Moon." She looked up in amazement.
"Here's your chance, Abby!" Gibbs said as he entered the room with Gaia behind him.
"Hi Gibbs" Abby said innocently.
"This is Gaia Moon, Gaia this is Abby Sciuto." They shook hands.
"It's an honor, really." Abby said.
"You're going to watch over her, Abby. While we go to another crime scene."
"Watch over me?" Gaia inquired.
"You are in naval custody, Gaia. I can't take you to the crime scene and I can't keep you in that room, you'll jump through the roof if you have to. Just stay here till I come back. Then we'll get you a place to stay for the night." Gibbs answered.
"I'm not staying," Gaia stated.
"Yes you are!" he scolded.
"Fine! But I can't stay in one room for a long time, I'll go insane."
"Gaia, you Are insane – in a good way. But you are staying here with Abby. She can show you around. And you can do… stuff."
"Okay with me, Gibbs." Abby chirped.
"Good. Is there anything you want before I go?" he asked Gaia.
"I'm just thirsty"
And as if on cue, DiNozzo showed up with Gibbs' coffee.
"Here you go boss." He said as he handed him the coffee.
"Nice timing, DiNozzo." Gibbs said, took the cup and handed it to Gaia. "Will this help?"
"Actually…" she tried but he nodded and turned to leave.
"Good, have fun" he said and left, dragging DiNozzo with him.
A/N: another one.