Summary: Buffy gets to take on her first case and what she can do amazes her teammates.

Rating: PG-13

Disclaimer: I don't own Buffy or NCIS.

------------------CHAPTER 3-------------------First Crime Scene

"So, where are you from Buffy?" Ziva asked trying to break the awkward silence that had started when Buffy had seemed to almost break Tony's hand.

"Southern California. I lived in Sunnydale for around 8 years and then LA after that," Buffy answered resting her chin on her closed fist with her elbow on her desk as she looked across the team area towards Ziva's desk.

"Wasn't Sunnydale that town that became a sunkhole about a year ago?" Ziva asked.

Buffy smiled at Ziva's version of sinkhole and nodded, "Yeah, there was some weird natural occurrence which caused the whole town to just sink. We barely had any warning, but mostly everyone was ok."

Something clicked in Tony's brain as he listened and he interrupted, "You lived in LA? Did you see movie stars all the time?" he finished excitedly.

"Uh, not really. A friend of mine was asked by Mathew McConaughey for change for a parking meter though," Buffy answered. She had gotten a lot of the LA movie star stuff before.

"Wait, is he the Texan actor?" McGee asked as he looked up. "And, wait, they use parking meters?"

"They are real people McGee," Gibbs said as he walked up behind Buffy. Surprisingly to everyone, Buffy didn't jump or seem surprised that Gibbs was there. "And suit up, we have another homicide in Norfolk." Gibbs then grabbed his gun and walked towards the elevator. Buffy watched the others and Ziva told her specifically what to grab. She fumbled trying to get her gun into the holster as she followed the team into the elevator.

Tony slapped her on the shoulder and said, "First homicide, excited?"

"What did I say about touching me," Buffy responded and Tony quickly pulled his hand off of her shoulder. Gibbs raised an eyebrow at the exchange but pushed it into the back of his mind as the elevator opened and they stepped out.

A little while later they showed up outside a club, Jillian's, and they walked around to the back through an alley following Gibbs.

"So, what do we got boss?" Tony asked.

"Clean up crew went to throw away some stuff in the trash and spotted a marine dead behind a dumpster," Gibbs answered.

Ziva found herself looking out of the corner of her eye at Buffy. Even though she could intimidate Tony, she still looked like a girl who couldn't stand the sight of blood. "This will be interesting," she thought.

As they walked around the building they got their first look at the crime scene. A dumpster had been pulled out to reveal a body covered in blood. As they got closer they were able to see that his throat had been cut and his eyes seemed to have been stabbed. They were all surprised when Buffy didn't even flinch.

"Well, we seem to be working with a lot of club homicides lately," a British voice said behind Buffy. Buffy turned around and was greeted by a British man with Giles-ish glasses and graying brown hair. "Ah, and this must be the new team member. I'm Dr. Donald Mallard, but everyone calls me Ducky." He held out his hand and Buffy shook it with a smile.

"Buffy Summers, nice to meet you."

"Pleasure is all mine Buffy," Ducky responded then walked past putting on his gloves and walked over to the body.

Buffy started looking around from where she stood, looking for anything that could be seen as out of the ordinary and put on her own gloves.

"Well, time of death seems to have been a few hours ago, probably around midnight," she heard Ducky say behind her. However, she didn't turn around because something had caught her eye at the end of the alley.

"Summers," Gibbs said. She didn't answer and he started looking around for her. "Summers," he said again as he spotted her walking towards the mouth of the alley. "Buffy," he said, this time anger seemed to seep through. "Ziva, please reclaim our new, lost and wandering agent," Gibbs finished nodding to Buffy. Ziva sighed, nodded, handed the camera to McGee and followed Buffy.

"Hey, Buffy," she said as Buffy squatted beside a black trash bag that was stuffed beside a dumpster.

"What do you think Ziva," Buffy said as she pointed to something beside the bag, "the murder weapon?" A blood stained knife lay there with a trail of blood splatters leading up to it.

"Uh, yeah," Ziva said, sounding confused a little awed. "How did you spot that from all the way over there?" she asked, "only the hilt could have been showing from behind that bag."

"I've got good eyesight?" Buffy said with a shrug.

"Hey boss," Ziva yelled back to the team. The team had been watching them by the trash bin, a little confused. They all thought that Buffy had thrown up. "You gotta come see what Buffy found," Ziva finished as she got Gibbs's attention.

The team walked over towards Buffy and Ziva as Ducky and his assistant Palmer finished up with the body. As they walked up, Buffy pointed to the knife and said, "It was sticking out a little and the sun glinting off the hilt caught my eye," Buffy said. They all just stood there and stared at her. "So, you guys gonna take some pictures of the scene?" McGee was startled out of his stupor and started doing just that. "Those weird blood splatters on the ground look like the knife might have fallen out of the murderer's pocket here," she said as she stood where the splatters started, "and spun over there," Buffy finished. "What?" she asked as she looked around at the team. "Is my hair all staticy and sticking up all over the place, because that is how you are looking at me," she asked.

"Good job, Buffy," Gibbs said. He then also looked around at the team, "We still haven't finished with the crime scene yet."

"What can I do boss," Buffy asked as she looked expectantly at Gibbs as the team minus McGee walked back over to the body.

Tony was whispering in the background to Ziva, "It's her first day and he said good job, her first day. Its not fair," he pouted.

"Well you can go and talk to some of the clean up crew and see if they saw anything out of the ordinary last night," Gibbs said as he walked over to the club's owner.

McGee walked over towards the dumpster where Buffy had found the knife and took some pictures pretending like nothing just happened. Tony turned around and went back to taking pictures around the body and the dumpster behind which the body was found. His promise to Buffy that Gibbs would warm up to her happened a little faster than he imagined.

Ziva looked Buffy over, not quite sure what to make of her yet. She followed Buffy over to the clean up people as her picture-taking job was taken over by McGee. Buffy took one of the guys off to the side and started asking questions that she had learned from training and also some from slaying.

"So, were you here last night," she asked and the guy shook his head.

"We just come in in the morning to clean up. We didn't notice anything out of the ordinary until we saw the body here," he said nodding to the body.

Buffy nodded, taking note of that. "And you didn't see any blood or anything in the club?"

The man shook his head again. "No, they could have been in one of the back rooms though. I could show you them if you want." Buffy nodded and followed the guy past Ziva.

"Hey Ziva, there are some back rooms where the murder could have been committed," she said and Ziva nodded and excused herself from the man she was talking to and followed Buffy.

"So, where did you learn to be so calm around crime scenes?" Ziva asked as she walked beside her.

"Sunnydale wasn't exactly the most peaceful town. Had one of the highest death rates in California," Buffy answered as they walked up the steps into the club. "A lot of dead people laying around, killed in the most gruesome ways," she finished.

Ziva nodded, "I know what you mean."

"What about you?" Buffy asked. "You been doing this for long or what?"

"I'm from Israel. I've seen a lot of suicide bombings, a lot of death," Ziva said. Buffy too nodded.

"Here you go," the man said as he showed them a row of doors. Buffy and Ziva scanned the floor for traces of blood and saw some by a door at the end. They opened the door and were greeted by the smell of blood.

"Well, I guess we found our crime scene," Ziva said as they looked at the blood splattered on the walls. Buffy agreed.

"Just like Sunnydale," she said under her breath.

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