Title: baby steps
Disclaimer: not my characters
Warnings: AU, somewhat dark
Pairings: none
Rating: PG
Wordcount: 120
Point of view: third
Prompt: DiNozzo, Tony messes with a crime scene or hides evidence
Sometimes he leaves little hints behind, something that makes no sense unless whoever's looking knows exactly what to look for. Not even Abby can pick out that it doesn't belong.
Ziva and McGee are totally clueless, and while Gibbs has never said a thing, sometimes Ducky just looks at him.
And then one day, Tony finds a scrap of paper at a crime-scene, when he had left the room totally clean. Ziva is talking to the local LEOs while McGee shoots the perimeter, and Tony glances at Gibbs before pocketing what shouldn't be there.
Later, after they've caught the scumbag Tony framed, he examines the scrap.
You're good, DiNozzo, it says, in handwriting as familiar as his own.
I'm better.