Title: Easter Eggs
Authors: Foedhrass & Victoria Mallard
Rating: K
Disclaimer: We do not own anything. No copyright infringement intended.
Summary: Nate reflects on the team's egg hunting techniques. A collection of drabbles - have fun and enjoy.
Easter Eggs
Kensi? Definitely fast and headfirst against the wall. According to the monthly invoices I'd say she has a predilection for destruction. Cars, flower vases or windows – she stops at almost nothing. But our boss is the only one our youngster shows some respect for. On the other hand, Hetty sometimes parks her car in abandoned side streets. A car window can easily and unnoticed get broken there. If Hetty leaves the eggs unattended in her car even for a second, I'm sure Kensi'll get her present in time before Hetty can conceal it. Shall I warn her? I wanna live!
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Eric would probably start things in a more technical way. His opportunities for surveillance are almost unlimited, and I bet he'll manage to hide one or another camera without Hetty noticing. After that, he could easily watch her concealing the eggs from a safe distance. His search would be a walk in the park then.
Then again, the consequences of this ruse don't bear contemplating. If our small leader should detect one of those cameras, Eric would get into severe trouble, and I seriously doubt that his beloved eggshell- breaking- and- perforating- device would still be of much use afterwards.
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The question arises how our team leaders would go egg-hunting. They both prefer handwork, so they'll search in a classical way. Like hunting dogs, those two are a well-practiced team and can divide a room without many words.
A much more interesting thought would be what will happen afterwards. With Sam and G. you never know. Especially not, if they'll share their prey and eat the eggs side by side, or if they'll start arguing over the right amount of salt and end up throwing the eggs at each other – before finally eating the leftovers. Side by side, of course...
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And what about our youngest agent? What would Dom do, if he would be here? Would he have dared to trick on Hetty and get a head start with his search? Probably not, he had a healthy respect for the small lady. Like us all, by the way.
Dom would have prepared himself as good as possible. Would have read every accessible document about Easter traditions and start looking for hideouts in the bullpen weeks beforehand. He'd have done everything to prevent a disgrace. Dom's a good agent, and he'll stay that way – wherever he might be now. He's missing.
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I prefer to keep Hettys profile in my head only. With instinctive certainty, she'll manage to conceal the eggs in places which none of us will be expecting. Hetty knows our techniques. Without a doubt she'll get a technician to deal with Erics cameras, encourage a cop to walk by her car in the very moment Kensi breaks in. She'd have slipped a button camera onto Dom and scare him to death if he'd dared to come even near his egg. And Callen and Sam? Well, none of our fearless leaders would touch her precious Chinese tea set – would they?
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And me? What will I do this year? And why do I spend this much time studying the techniques of my coworkers instead of coming up with a plan of my own? Must be an occupational disease, I guess. Even though this won't help me with my search. I just hope it doesn't end in a complete disaster like it did last year, when I was the only one who didn't find his egg – up to the moment I put back on my shoes. The taunting of my colleagues haunted me for weeks.
Maybe I should ask Kensi for advice...
