As the agents arrived at the bullpen Sam was already sitting at Gibbs' desk pecking away at the keyboard. As the elevator dinged, Sam looked up at them with the relief she was feeling evident in her eyes.
"There you are. I was so worried." The woman said as she jumped out of the chair. "Don't do that again, unless you call me first understand?" Sam said as she tried her best to look stern.
"You could have just called us you know." Ziva told the leader as she set her bag down on her desk.
"I tried your home phones, two hours ago, when none of you answered I assumed that you guys we're heading in."
"Never assume." Tony informed her. "It's a rule of…" He was cut off by Sam's phone ringing. She answered it.
"We will be right there, give us an hour." Then she hanged up the phone and turned back to the junior agents. "We have a case murder of a petty officer, the file is being faxed over now."
The fax machine spit out two papers, as Sam said "I think we should all join hands to gather our thoughts and center ourselves before we leave." The other three agents started to laugh; there were actually tears in McGee's eyes. But Sam, even after their laughter was standing still with her hands out waiting for the others to grab them. That was when Tony decided to take charge; he grabbed the paper from the machine and quickly scanned it over.
"Probie get the car Ziva grab your gear, let's go."
"Wait but what about…" Sam protested as the others were already in the elevator doors closing.
"Come on." Tony said as he stuck his hand into the doors causing them to freeze momentarily and then slide back. Sam ran in the elevator as the doors were closing for a second time.
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Tony was in the passenger seat, head against the headrest half asleep, Ziva was looking out the window and McGee was Iming Abby on his palmpilot. Sam was in the front seat driving to the scene, far under the limit, which after working with Gibbs was kind of like crawling everywhere instead of running. The had actually been pulled over, twice, for holding up traffic on the highway, what could have been a forty-five minute drive had turned into an hour and ten minute crawl.
When they got to the house the petty officer had been killed at Jimmy was already there, done with all he could do here and was waiting for them to take pictures of the body so he could 'get him home'. The team soon learned that while Sam was a decent investigator she took twice as long as everyone else to do half as much.
Of course Sam wouldn't let them help her so by the time the had popped her head out the window to yell 'All done', Jimmy had finished the autopsy and called back to confirm that the man had been drugged and then shot. Abby texted McGee telling them what the drug was and saying that it was a trial medication. McGee looked up all the hospital with the drug trial then Tony called them all. Ziva found two navy clerks in the trial, called their commanders, and both men were waiting in interrogation.
With the killer caught and the paperwork done, or given to McGee Tony was on the way up to the directors office, were he gave a charming smile to the secretary and was inside Ben Halway's office within seconds. Unfortunately the man was on the phone so Tony took a seat opposite the large man. When Ben hung up Tony jumped into his prepared speech.
"Sir, can I talk to you about Agent Smith?"