Months later
"Here you go Abby. One fresh bag of evidence for the lady." Tony smiled when he walked into the lab.
"Aww Tony you know just how to make a woman happy." Abby snatched the bag and held the evidence over the light. "O is this what I think it is?"
"Yep it's your favorite mystery goop" Tony sat down and watched Abby start running tests on there new evidence. The case had been a long one. It started out as a kidnapping but as of today it turned into a full blown murder investigation. Two victims both shot execution style found in an ally by an Irish bar. They had a couple of leads but they mostly led the team into its own ally with a dead end as well. The only constant clue was this goop found at both the kidnapping and the murder scene. Gibbs had started to get agitated and was starting to shout more often.
"So how are your little forensic solders?" Tony asked smiling. Abby had taken it upon herself to take on as many pen pals as possible. She wrote to over 15 kids in Jessica's class. Jessica had told him that Abby's pen pals had started teaching them all about forensic evidence and they had started to teach themselves on their own and were also using Abby's classic threat of killing someone and then leave no forensic evidence. So they were nicknamed Abby's Forensic Knights. Of course Abby loved this and started to command them as her army. They would start creating murder scenes for fun and take turns trying to solve them. Apparently they did one in a classroom and a teacher walked in and almost had a hart attack.
"They are noble to the cause." Abby smiled as she pointed to the painting of the AFK coat of arms.
She is really getting into this. Tony thought "Good to hear Abbs." He said out loud.
"How is Jessica?" Abby asked.
"She is doing well. Had some trouble with a midterm but she thinks she did ok." Tony sighed as he thought about social studies. Not on of his strongest studies.
"That's good." Abby tuned to her machines and started typing. Tony walked out of the lab and got into the elevator and hit the floor to the bullpen. As the doors reopened Tony walked out and sat down at his desk. He turned and looked over at McGee. McGee was typing up a program to help with the case. Tony remembered McGee talking about his pen pals. He was writing to about seven or eight. As soon as they found out he was an author he started getting a lot fan mail from some of the teachers. He of course wrote back to all of them. Some asked if he could do a guest lecture. He declined of course but he had a pretty good face base at Nathan Hale High School.
As Tony turned to his computer he saw Ziva walk in with lunch. Today was Mexican so Tony new that meant the taco truck from down the street off base.
"Tony" Ziva handed Tony his lunch. "And McGee" She handed McGee his food.
"So Ziva how are your little ninja spies?" Tony laughed at his joke. Tony thought the best people for Ziva to write to the foreign exchange students. At first Ziva was a little reluctant to do the pen pal letters. It wasn't until one Shabtai Shavit wrote to NCIS. He was an exchange student Jessica had made friends with. I don't know what Shabtai wrote in her letter but what ever it was it caused Ziva to write to ever foreign exchange student in the school. In there own language. At least that's what it looked like come mail day.
"They are doing well Tony and how is Jessica?" Ziva asked. She had walked back to her desk and was sitting down as she opened up her food.
Tony had noticed Ziva's growing interest in Jessica. He wasn't sure what caused this but it was something he tried talking to Jessica about. All he got in response was Tony for all the bragging you do about your knowledge of woman you are blind to your own teachings. Tony wasn't sure what she meant but she refused to elaborate. So Tony dropped it thinking it was a teenage girl's idea of some joke. "She is doing well. Happy that midterms are over." He said as he watched Gibbs walk into the bullpen with a new cup of coffee.
Gibbs was also writing to some students he was writing to the second least amount. Tony was the lowest with one. He was happy with Jessica so he decided not to take on anymore. Gibbs wrote to about 5 kids. They were all pretty decent from the way he describe them. Granted all he said was they are good kids.
The team had now been writing to their pen pals for over 5 months. They had all been enjoying there new friends. They would sometimes share letters all except Tony and Ziva. People knew why Tony didn't like to share but they would wonder why Ziva was hiding. That's where the joke of her training sleeper agents for Mossad came in.
"Tony did you…" Gibbs started
"Get the goop down to Abby for analysis. Yea Boss." Tony finished Gibbs question and then took a bite of his taco.
"How's Jessica?" Gibbs asked Tony.
"Why does everyone keep asking that?" Tony was just feeling weird now. Gibbs almost never talked about the pen pal stuff. "Why are you all asking me about Jessica? Do you know something I don't?"
"Maybe, have you checked your email today?" McGee asked.
"No I don't do check personal until I get home. You all know that." Tony looked around and saw everyone looking at him smiling.
"Maybe you should look now. DiNozzo" Gibbs said.
Tony got on his computer and brought up his email. There was a new letter from Jessica it had a subject that read IMPORTANT. He clicked on it and read it.
Tony I have great news. You know the school end trip I was talking about. The classes voted and guess what? We are going to DC and we are going to be going to the NCIS Headquarters for a tour. We will be leaving on the 15th of next month and will be staying for five days and six nights. The director of NCIS even said your team could be our personal guides for the whole trip!
Love Jessica!
Tony looked up and looked at Gibbs, Ziva, and McGee. All of them were smiling but none had on a bigger smile then Tony.
OK the team now has something to look forward too. Next chapter we get to meet the young and beautiful Jessica and her classmates. I know you want me to write it all now but you have to understand. I need something to give as a present on the 25th. So please R&R because it makes me feel good. And to everyone who has followed my work from Fight Club thank you. And to those that have discovered this as my first work. Please read my first story. Fight Club.
And now for the first letters Jessica and Tony wrote.
"Dear Mister Police man,
My name is Jessica Hale and I am in 5th grade. I am 10 years old and I don't like boys. I am able to do addition and subtractions. I am also learning multiplication and division. I like my friend Buttons he is my rabbit. W? My teacher told me I should also talk about other stuff but I don't know what stuff.
Jessica
Dear Jessica
My name is Tony DiNozzo. Yes I am a police officer like in Lethal Weapon 1-4 or Die Hard 1-4. I am 26 years old. I am surprised by your math abilities that's very smart of you to be able to do those things. Buttons sounds like a nice pet. A police man has the job of keeping people safe. They catch bad guys and put them in a place where they won't do anything bad again. I'm sort of like a superhero I guess.
Tony