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Chapter 6: WHAT THE—!
Ding! To anyone else, the little bell might have sounded cheery and bright, but to Kate and Gibbs it was like it was the song played at the procession at their soon-to-be funeral.
"Guess we don't need to call anyone in to fix the elevator after all." McGee said.
"Guess not," agreed Abby.
"Are you guys sure? I mean, we could really have a serious problem here..."
"Tony," Abby cut in, "we all know you have the hots for that blonde that works at the repair company. The elevator's working so you can just–Oh My God!" There they were, Gibbs and Kate, alone together. In the elevator that had been not working for nearly two hours. Eating face. Each other's face.
"What's the matter Abby! What's wrong?" McGee asked frantically.
But Abby couldn't answer. She was in a state of smug shock. It had worked. Abby's plan had workd; she had gotten them together. She thought that it had been a genius plan, but then she had started to doubt herself once she saw how Gibbs blew up at Kate, and that made her feel guilty. She hadn't wanted to get Kate in trouble with "The Man." But none of that mattered now. The Plan had worked. THE PLAN HAD WORKED! Abby let out a victory whoop, which consequently made two things happen: It made McGee and Tony finally realize what was going on (McGee had been so concerned with Abby that he hadn't noticed, and Tony had been too busy daydreaming about the blonde elevator technician) and it also brought Kate and Gibbs back from whatever planet they had currently been on and back to good ol' Earth.
Gibbs and Kate stood frozen; staring at Abby, Tony, and McGee. Abby, Tony, and McGee stood frozen; staring at Gibbs and Kate. All four NCIS agents, plus one lab tech, stared dumbstruck at each other. In one, unified voice, all five proclaimed the same statement of disbelief.
"WHAT THE–!"
Then, total chaos and pandemonium broke out. Accusations were flying, and a few words of congratulationtoo. No one was exactly what was said, but we can assume that it sounded a little like this:
"What the hell is going on here?"
"Quick Gibbs, shut the elevator door!"
"Way to go Boos! What a way to get 'em tiger!"
"Yes! Am I a genius or am I a genius? This all happened because of me! I should host Love Connection! Way to go guys!"
Just like that, everything stopped–you could have heard a pin drop, literally. Gibbs broke the silence by saying, "What did you just say Abby?"
Just then Abby finally realized what it was that she had just confessed to doing. A sheepish grin came over her face.
"I, uh, said that I, uh, have to...to go check to see if the results from the prints that I was running through AFIS earlier are in yet. So I better, um, go...um, do that.
And with that, Abby sped out of the bullpen, opting to take the stairs instead of the elevator because: one, she definitely wasn't going to go past Gibbs and Kate to get to it and two, she didn't know what had gone on in there and she wasn't quite sure that she wanted to ride n the elevator where her best friend and her boss/closest thing she had to a father had just been...occupied.
As she was running up the stairs, she nearly knocked over Jimmy and Ducky, who were walking down the stairs.
"Honestly, Mr. Palmer, elevators these days just aren't made like they used to," Ducky was saying.
"I didn't know that they had elevators in your day Doctor Mallard."
"I suppose you're right. But I assure you that if they did have elevators back in the day, they would be well crafted and do their job properly."
That's when Abby zoomed by at speed approximately equivalent to that of a line drive hit by Sammy Sousa. It was like in the cartoons, where someone shoots by, leaving people spinning in circles behind them. That is precisely what happened to Ducky and Palmer when Abby sped by them. They spun around in a 360, awestruck.
"Good Lord," said Ducky. "I hope Abigail is all right. Let's go see Jethro and find out."
Together the Medical Examiner and his assistant proceeded down the flight of stairs. Their destination was the bullpen. Little did they know that the bullpen was now a battlefield, and they were about to be placed in the middle of a war.
TBC
