Joint Investigations
Chapter 7: Day 1
"Here we go." Tim remarked as he and Tasha stepped into the elevator, having a feeling of déjà vu from the day before.
"Everything will be just fine." She assured him, her hand finding its way into his.
He couldn't help but smirk at the irony; the woman was in danger of being killed by a mad man and she was reassuring him.
"You can laugh now but you'll see." She said before giving him a quick peck on the cheek as the doors slid open.
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"Have a nice night Probie?" Tony asked suggestively while Gibbs held Tasha's attention. He was sure that the Air Force officer wasn't nearly as dangerous as Ziva but he wasn't about to test his luck.
"Actually I did." Tim answered with a smirk. Even though he knew Tony was hinting at another type of nice night, Tim decided to play along while thinking back to the pervious they left the base they went back to his apartment for dinner and a movie. He had spent most of the movie watching her. She just amazed him; she was smart, beautiful, fearless, funny, and she actually wanted to be with him. At one point she had met his gaze and asked what was so interesting and he surprised both of them by answering her with a kiss. It wasn't too bad to wake up with an angel like that in his arms either.
Tony, for perhaps the first time, didn't have witty comeback. He just sat there scanning for signs that the junior field agent was lying, he was disappointed.
He was spared from the shame of Tim pointing this out by Gibbs calling their little meeting to order.
"Alright this is the basic outline of today's schedule" Gibbs said handing a piece of paper to Ziva. "Minor detours are fine but let's try to stick to it as much as possible."
"A book store? The mall?" Tony asked, reading over Ziva's shoulder. "You're kidding me right?"
"We're trying to stick to Tasha's usual habits as much as possible." Tim explained.
"You're watching for suspicious persons, especially ones you see in more than one place." Gibbs told them. "Tony and Ziva, if you see any one fitting that category I want you to make sure you get a good picture of him, but what ever you do don't blow your cover! That goes for the other two as well; I don't want you to even mention the case understood?"
They all nodded.
"Good, now get to work."
"Ugh this is making me sick." Tony groaned, he had spent the last three hours following those two all over Georgetown and their lovey dovey-ness was making him nauseous.
"I think they look cute." Ziva said from her seat next to him. They had stopped for lunch and the couple they were tailing had spent most of the meal giving each other meaningful glances and sweet little smiles.
"You would." Tony mumbled under his breath.
Unfortunately for him he hadn't thought of who he was talking too. "Because I'm a woman?" she asked, cocking an eyebrow.
"No because..uh..Subjects on the move!" he announced, saved from answering when Tim and Tasha stood up to leave.
"Wait Tony at 1 O'clock, haven't we seen that guy before?"
"Yeah he was in the book store, I remember him because I glanced in his direction and he suddenly became very interested in a My Little Pony book."
"I saw him outside a few of the stores at the mall."
"I think we just might have found our man Ziva." Tony grinned.
"Yes, but does it not seem a little too easy?"
Tony shrugged "Maybe he's just really bad at following people."
She just quickly snapped a picture of their suspect with her phone and sent it to Gibbs.
A few hours later the team met up at NCIS to review the day's events.
"Lt. Kelly do you know this man" Gibbs asked pointing to the picture Ziva took at the restaurant.
"No I can't say that I ever see him before." She answered.
"Then I think we have a suspect." Gibbs replied "He followed you all day."
"So what do we do now?" Tasha questioned.
"We can't arrest him simply because he was following you; we have to what for him to make a move." Tony answered
As a trained investigator she didn't have to ask what that meant. He would have to do something that showed he meant her harm before they could do anything to him.
To be perfectly honest this scared her but she wasn't about to let Tim know that.
"Tomorrow you two are meeting up with your brother right?"
She nodded.
"Then I'm sure you know that you can't reveal any information to him, we have no reason to believe that he will be targeted but if you don't feel comfortable placing him in this situation I suggest you cancel now." Gibbs explained.
"No that might tip him off." Tasha said. "If he's been following me like we think he has I'm sure he's heard me mention that I was having lunch with Mark. I don't want to risk losing a chance to catch this guy."
"It's your call." Gibbs said while placing his SIG into the top drawer of his desk. "Unless anyone has anything too add, be in position tomorrow no later than 011:30."
Wow, sorry its been so long since I lasted updated. Between school, getting grounded from the computer for two weeks, and my Facebook addiction I've been a bit slow in the updating thing but I promise it should only get better from here on out. I pretty much have the rest of the series planned out and have been brained storming on a sequel. Please review and let me know what you think!!!
~Semper
