This is another one of those Alternate Universe stories that I love to write. Tony is an FBI agent. Kate is an NCIS agent. Everything else you will discover in the story. You'll figure out how they first met. Everything. I hope you like it.
Tony groaned the second he heard his cell phone start to ring. He was dead tired. He had been at headquarters finishing paperwork till nearly one in the morning. He sighed. He knew his mother wasn't crazy enough to call this early in the morning. His sister was in Italy on her honeymoon. Roxanne dumped him two weeks ago while he was in Colombia. She had been kind enough to leave it on his answering machine. That meant that it was work on the line wanting to know why the hell he wasn't sitting at his desk. Sometimes he hated being an FBI agent. "DiNozzo."
"Agent DiNozzo this is Director Helms wondering why the hell you are still at home sleeping when you should be sitting at your desk waiting for your new assignment."
Tony sat up and ran his hand through his hair. He was too tired for words. "I'm on my way Director."
Director Helms took a long pull of his cigar before speaking. "Good to hear DiNozzo. Get your ass here in the next twenty minutes or I'll give your new assignment to Agent Tinley." He knew that would get DiNozzo's ass down here faster than a cheetah could eat a gazelle. Nobody wanted to lose their assignment to Tinsley.
"I'm on it." Tony replied and then he snapped his phone shut. He was in and out of the shower in five minutes. He put on one of his many black suits as quickly as he could muster and then he was out the door. It only took him eighteen minutes to get to his desk.
Camille laughed as she watched Tony power walk to his desk. She looked at her watch and then called after him "Slow down Tony you have two minutes before you have to actually be sitting at your desk."
Tony looked back at the woman and winked. He slowed down a little and then sat down at his desk. He turned on the computer and pretended to be working. He didn't bother to look up when he heard the door to Director Helm's office open.
"DiNozzo…"
Tony got up from his desk and made his way into the office. He sat down in the plush seat across from the director's desk. He tried to hide the fact that he was running on empty. He waited for the director to explain the details of his new assignment.
"Well DiNozzo while you were in Colombia handling the Tony Renaldo case, which I want to commend you on, Admiral Manning's wife, was murdered. She had recently just returned from a trip to Colombia where she was visiting the Admiral. This is the fourth time in four months that an officer's wife has returned from Colombia and been murdered soon after. We think it has a drug connection. We haven't been able to quite put the pieces together yet. The rest of the details are in that packet."
Tony flipped through the sheets of paper that Helms had handed him. His head shot up though when he read the first line of the third paragraph on the second sheet in the packet. "What is this about me being married to an NCIS agent, who also will be undercover with me?"
"Well we couldn't blow NCIS off. They have a connection. They are in charge of figuring out who killed these women. The FBI already has enough people breathing down their neck and accusing them of stealing cases. We are going to work alongside the NCIS on this one. I don't know who the agent is." Helms explained.
Tony nodded. He grabbed the file and stood up. "I assume all of the provisions have been made for housing, allowance, furniture, and so on."
"You assume correctly." Helms assured his young agent. "I hope you two get along. She has your back story so you'll get that when you pick her up tomorrow."
"Gibbs, do we even know who the hell the FBI is sending to be my husband?" Kate demanded. She was mad as hell about this assignment. Most people would kill for an undercover job but she wasn't looking forward to it. She was not a fan of FBI agents. They had a tendency to be egotistical and irritating.
Gibbs simply shook his head in response to whether or not he knew who this agent was.
She sighed as she sat in Gibb's office with her bags by her feet. She looked at her watch. "Well whoever this mystery man is he's late."
Tony sighed as he pulled his car into a parking space. He was tired. He had only gotten a few hours asleep last night after he spent the entire day making arrangements. He didn't think it was fair that he only got a days notice. He had only been back in the states for five days after spending a month and a half in Colombia working to try and stop drug lord Tony Renaldo. If it weren't for the fact that Tinsley would have gotten the assignment if Tony had turned it down, he would have well turned it down. Tinsley was the epitome of an FBI agent. He made his way into the building. He stopped at the desk of a man busily typing on a computer. "Excuse me, can you tell me where I can find Supervisory Agent Gibb's office?"
Agent McGee looked up in shock the moment he heard the familiar voice. "Midshipman DiNozzo?"
Tony smiled. It had been forever since someone had called him Midshipman DiNozzo. Nearly four years. "Plebe McGee, I see you survived the Academy. You graduated last year right?"
"Yes sir." McGee had always been nervous around Tony. During his plebe year Tony had made it his business to ask him the hardest ranks he could think of. While most plebes were asked when the Army Navy game was in days he was asked in hours while in specific countries like Thailand which meant that he had to subtract twelve hours. "Before you ask the next Army/Navy game is in exactly three hundred and ninety eight hours."
"If I were still a midshipman I would have required a hundred pushups because you forgot to start the sentence with sir and end the sentence with sir. I'll let it slide though." Tony half joked. "Still before I start grilling you I figure I should go ahead and report to an Agent Gibbs."
"Well sir his office is located right over there sir." Agent McGee pointed out the plain oak door.
Tony smiled. "Thanks Plebe McGee." He looked at his watch and groaned. Helms is going to kill me when he gets wind of the fact that I was eight minutes late to this little rendezvous. He walked to the door and knocked softly on it.
"Enter." Gibbs replied in his always stern never soft voice.
Tony turned the knob and walked in. "Sorry I'm late sir. D.C. traffic is hell."
Kate Todd whipped around in her chair as soon as she heard Tony's voice. She sat there with her mouth wide open for a moment. She struggled to create a coherent sound. Of all the FBI agents in Quantico she had gotten stuck with Tony DiNozzo. The two had first met at the Academy. During the course of their plebe year they got very close, but Kate had a boyfriend back home and wasn't willing to throw away her relationship for Tony. That summer she had broken up with the boy whose name she could no longer remember and was set to confess her feelings to Tony but by the time she joined everyone else for summer cruise Tony had gotten back together with his on again off again Italian girlfriend. The timing was never right for the two of them throughout the course of the next three years. He would break up with Roxanne but she would be with someone else. She would break up with her guy and he would be back with Roxanne. It seemed that they were destined to not be together. On their graduation day from the Academy their shared a bittersweet farewell kiss. The only kiss they would ever share. After graduating she joined the Secret Service and he went off and joined the FBI. While she was a Secret Service agent their paths sometimes crossed but never for more than a few minutes.
Tony looked down at the woman in the chair and smiled. "Well if it isn't Midshipman Todd. I knew you left the Secret Service but for NCIS huh?"
"You two know each other?" Gibbs asked
Kate nodded. "Tony and I went to Annapolis together. He was McGee's main torturer." Kate joked. "It's been a long time Tony."
"Let's see the last time I saw you were in downtown Washington D.C. I was eating at a deli and you came in with Senator Kennedy." He didn't add the part that he thought mattered most which was the fact that she was still as beautiful. She had made a simple black suit look so good.
"Well you two should make a convincing married couple then. You two are now on duty. You have your assignments. You have your background story. You have everything. Someone will be in touch with you in the next couple of days after you move into your housing." Gibbs explained and then dismissed them. He had a feeling that this was going to be an interesting undercover operation. For some reason he got the vibe that things were never easy with the two of them.
"You know you don't have to carry my bags right?" Kate asked him as they walked out to his vehicle. She assumed it would be a black SUV. FBI agents always rolled in black vehicles.
Tony laughed. "Kate if the Academy taught me anything it was manners. I think the only reason they picked me to be on this operation is I know Colombia and I know how to act like an Officer. I even grabbed my class ring before I left this morning." Tony stopped at his black Range Rover. He set her bags down and opened the trunk.
Kate wasn't at all surprised that this was his car. It screamed FBI. She sat down in one the leather seats. "So our background story is pretty simple. You are Commander Michael Wagner. You are a pilot. We are moving to Norfolk from San Diego where you were assigned to the U.S.S. Nimitz. You will be with me in Norfolk for like three weeks and then you'll be heading down to Colombia join a new fleet. I am a paralegal for a law firm called Anderson Hayes and Cooper. We've been married since you graduated from the academy. We don't have any kids. We don't have any pets. We're simple and baggage from basically. We live in military housing. They are delivering our furniture next week after we pick it out and let our supervisors now what we want. So yeah that's our back story."
"Except you left out the part about what your name is." Tony pointed out. He liked this life. It sounded simple. He had wanted to fly. Luckily he was given a career he knew something about. He had been obsessed with flying during college.
"Oh my name is Marissa. Oh and just in case it matters and I'm almost positive it does you fly a Harrier jet. So that's us. That is our life together." Kate couldn't lie it sounded nice. It sounded cozy.
"Michael and Marissa, it sounds like a soap opera couple. One last question and then I'll let you sit there and let this all sink in because I know that is what I have to do. Where are we from?"
She looked through the packet to find their birth certificates. "Wilmington, North Carolina, I wonder how we are going to explain our lack of accents."
Okay so this is just the first chapter. Not much Tate I know. Still in the next chapter they will move into the house and there will be moments where they have to be lovey dovey. I hope you liked this first chapter. I am going to try and update soon because I can't lie I want to get to the cute part too. I don't know much about the Navy, my dad is in the Army. So I will probably make mistakes. I hope you all can just accept all that. So REVIEW…Please…
