Rachel walked to MTAC in confusion. They closed that case, and everyone had moved on. When she got there, she saw Pride on the screen. He said they think that they had another suspect that they missed. He asked her if there was anything else, she could remember or if she had any ideas to help them. Rachel said she would think on it and she would get back to him as soon as she could. She needed to reach out to some people that she knew down there. Rachel stayed in MTAC and looped Gibbs in. He cleared her to make her calls and said to make sure she went home after that. Big day starting tomorrow, they were cleared to work cases as team 1 again. It was official, she was on team 1 for NCIS investigative branch, and she was in awe.
She got all the information she could find and decided to call the NOLA office back. She got Chris, which wasn't expected. He was just as surprised as her when he answered the call and he stuttered through the greeting.
"Rach…Monteleone, you got something" (stares from tammy and Sonja)
"Chr…Lasalle, hey, yes. I'm going to send everything over but wanted to loop in Pride it could be the sister." (snickering from tammy and Sonja)
"I will loop him in. Just send the email to me and we can start chasing what you found."
"Will do, have a good night you guys," Rachel said
The girls huddled around Chris as he hadn't moved from the plasma. They have those damn grins on their faces he thought. He just needed to move and sit at his desk, they followed him there and hovered.
"Yes ladies?" Chris asked with inflection
"Well we are just wondering why that was so awkward?" asked Gregorio
"I don't know what you two are talking about. It was just a conversation between two colleagues." Chris said as his phone went off.
Sonja unfortunately grabbed it before he could and read the text out loud. "Sorry that was so awkward I just didn't expect to see you, and my brain kind of froze."
"Hmm, very interesting Christopher. What are you going to reply?" Sonja asked
"None of your business Sonja," Chris said snatching the phone back. "Can we just work the case please?"
"Of course, but this isn't over Chris." Sonja replied with a smirk.