I do not own NCIS
"Wow Tony has a lot of movies on here?" McGee said a loud.
"What did you expect Tim its Tony."
"Well I was sort of expecting more adult topics on this." McGee said in a slightly uncomfortable tone.
"McGee Tony doesn't need that he has real life." Abby said laughing.
"What is that?" Ziva pointed to an Icon on Tony's laptop.
"That is a saved email file." Abby said as she clicked on the icon to open it. The window popped up and displayed several word documents pictures and email addresses. Ziva, McGee, and Abby leaned in and looked at the file titles. "Who is Jessica Hale? You ever heard Tony talk about this Jessica."
"Nope doesn't ring a bell. You heard that name Ziva?" McGee asked turning over and looking at Ziva.
"No I haven't." Ziva's tone was cold and somewhat monotone.
"Well whoever she is she must have known Tony for a long time. Some of the dates on these emails are a couple years old. You think an old partner from the force or something?" Abby said as she finally looked way from the laptops screen and over to her partners in crime.
"I don't know that could be it. I think we might want to just run the email through the tracking program. That way we can find out where the emails are being sent from." McGee said in his matter a fact way.
"McGee you're a genius!" Abby clapped her hands and looked back to her computer and started typing as fast as she can. "It will take me about twenty minutes to get an address."
"I can wait." Ziva said as she crossed her arms as if to say try and make me leave.
"Well Tony should be back as soon and I think we should try to divert his attention away from the laptop until the trace is complete." McGee said as he looked at Ziva.
"Very well I will run interference with McGee and Abby will finish the search." Ziva said. She then did an about face and walked out of Abby's lab.
"That girl needs to just get it off her chest." Abby sighs as she watched Ziva leave.
"Abby please not this again. There is nothing going on between Ziva and Tony." McGee said as he walked over and started to fiddle with the laptop.
"Are you blind McGee you saw Ziva right? The way she talked about wanting to find out who this Jessica is. Remember how she cooked him dinner that one time? And did you forget how they are always flirting with each other?" Abby put her hands on her hips like a superhero.
"Abby that's not flirting it's them battling for dominance. A classic case of a male being threatened by a strong confident woman, which would also be how you could describe Tony's kryptonite. And she only cooked him dinner because she didn't invite him to the dinner we all went to. And the only reason we all want to find out who this Jessica person is because Tony has been so secretive about it." McGee sighed as he looked up at Abby after his quick rebuttal.
"Tim you don't have a romantic bone in your body!" Abby said this and then she turned her monitor off. She marched into her office closing the door behind her.
McGee looked and the floor shaking his head. Taking one more look at Abby he turned and started walking to the elevator. He would have to wait to prove to Abby that he had plenty of romance in him. Right now Ziva probably needed him as back up. And Abby didn't look like she wanted to talk at the moment.
When McGee arrived at the bullpen he saw Tony had already started eating. He saw his food on his desk but what was missing was Ziva. Gibbs was most likely taking a call or visiting Ducky. He walked over to his desk and grabbed his meatball sandwich. It looked and smelled amazing. Michelle you are the goddess of food he thought as he took his first bite.
"So McGeek," Tony looks around to see if anyone is within ear shot until continuing. "How's my problem my laptop?"
"Its fine I have it being debugged down in Abby's lab." McGee took another bite out of his lunch and then turned back around to face Tony.
"Wait you gave the laptop to Abby! No NO NO" Tony ran to the elevator as he shouted the word no over and over. He saw the elevator doors were closed and changed direction and ran to the stairs. His mind started to race. This is bad this is bad. Abby will look I mean it is Abby. If she reads those emails there is no way she won't be able to keep the knowledge to herself. As he raced down the stairs he almost collided with a person walking up the stairs. He finally made it to the labs floor and burst into Abby's lab. "Abby!" Tony shouted as soon as he was in. Tony couldn't see Abby so he walked into the back of the lab to her office. He saw her eating lunch and listening to a loud music. He knocked on her door until she saw him. Abby turned her music down and then opened her office.
"Hey Tony what's up? You need something?" Abby asked trying not to make eye contact with Tony. Tony noticed this and sighed.
"Abby is my laptop fixed?" Tony asked as looked back in her office trying to find it. He didn't see it so he turned and started looking around the lab.
"No it's not the virus scan needs about 5 or minutes to fix the problem." Abby said walking and positioning herself between Tony and his laptop. She looked nervously over at her monitor only to see a blank screen. Good she thought as she remembered turning it off. She looked back at Tony only then did she see her mistake. Tony saw her look at her computer screen. She watched as Tony walked over to Abby's work space. He looked at her with a raised eyebrow.
"Now what are you hiding?" Smiling he flipped the monitors power switch to on. The screen took a moment to warm up but when it switched on the bar showing the progress of the tracer. Tony smiled and looked back at Abby who had now put on her best I'm really super sorry face on. Tony's smile got bigger when he looked at Abby. "I'm not mad Abby just annoyed. I knew McGee couldn't be trusted with this. I guess punishment will have to be swift and painful." Tony said as he took his laptop and started to walk out.
Abby watched Tony start to leave and she couldn't hold it in anymore she had to know. "So who is Jessica Hale?" Abby couldn't help but smile as Tony slowly turned and looked back at Abby. His smile this time was just about the size as Abby's.
"How much did you read?" Tony asked as he set the laptop down and sat down.
"Nothing we didn't go that far Tony, what do you think we are?" Abby said. She saw Tony look at her like he was about to saw something, but Abby interrupted. "Ok don't answer that but all we really know is that you have been in touch with this mystery woman from before you worked here at NCIS. So who is she Tony?"
"Yes who is she Tony?"
Tony jumped out of his seat and turned to see Ziva. Arms crossed and very upset.
"I told you not to do that. And what is with you guys she is just a friend." Tony said shifting his suit back into place. "And why does my personal life suddenly cause you all this much interest?"
"Don't change the subject DiNozzo. Who is she?" Abby rolled her chair so it glided putting her next to Ziva. She also folded her arms copying Ziva.
Tony looked from one to the other. The fire in Ziva eyes combined with the yearning in Abby's was just too much. Tony knew that the best way for all of this to go away was to come clean. "Ok, where should I begin?" He said sitting back down.
"How about from the beginning?"
Everyone tuned to see McGee at the doorway on Abby's lab.
"Well now that everyone is here I guess I can begin." Tony opened his laptop and clicked on the icon opening the folder with the emails. Jessica is currently a sophomore in Nathan Hale High School. I met her when I first started here. She was new to her middle school and I was new here. One of the men back in Baltimore his wife was a teacher. She set up this pen pal thing with her kids and men in the police force. A couple weeks later and one teacher's convention later mix in a public relations campaign and I got myself a pen pal from Seattle. It started out with simple stuff. What do you do for a living or what classes do you like? I could write a letter in ten minutes and be done. Then one day I got this letter. She dropped a bomb on me. She talked about her parents and how they were going through a divorce. A really nasty one from what she had told me. Sometimes I could see tear drops on the paper. That's when I knew I had to take this seriously. I know what it can be like in tough family situations." Tony started to shift nervously in his seat. "So we continued to keep writing to each other. After a year I realized how long the letters were. They weren't filled with just stupid stuff but words with meanings. After awhile we switched to email and we sometimes chat on aim. And we have stayed in touch even now." Tony sighed and looked at the group. They stayed silent for a second and then Abby spoke.
"Tony, that is so cool. Why were you so secretive about this?" Abby ran over and hugged Tony.
"Not really sure. Jessica said its cause I might have developed an older brother complex. But that's silly." Tony replied smiling at the idea.
"Well I want do have one to! What do I have to do?" Abby asked looking Tony in the eyes with puppy eyes.
"Yea that sounds like fun. Could I sign up for one?" McGee asked looking over at Tony.
"What about you Ziva? O a bet Gibbs would like one too. Wait is there a limit? Because I could take more then one I could take three or four. Tony pretty please." Abby clasped her hands together and pleaded with Tony.
Tony looked at Abby, then to McGee, and finally to Ziva who had a look of relief on her face. This made Tony wonder what she had been thinking about. He looked back at Abby who looked like she was about to go down on her knees. Smiling Tony said "Alright. I will call Jessica's school and talk to her homeroom teacher. I'll also ask her to talk to her teacher in person that should help speed up the process."
Abby's face lit up as Tony said this. She jumped up and down clapping and saying thank you over and over again ending her celebration by giving Tony a big classic Abby hug.
Ok here it is the 2nd chapter in my 2nd story. I know I didn't have a food for thought for my first chapter but that is because I had an idea. I was thinking of after the chapter was done I would write one of the letters Tony and Jessica sent each other. And as the story progress you would see the change of depth in the letters. This could also allow me to have some fun while still keeping the story going. I wasn't sure if I should do it so I am leaving up to you the reader. Let me know by reviewing or mailing me your answer. And if you don't care please still read and review because they just make me feel warm inside. Well I eagerly await your responses! Meanwhile I am going out side because it's SNOWING!!!!