OK, SO HERE'S THE NEXT CHAPTER. LUCKY FOR YOU, AND UNLUCKY FOR ME I GOT SICK, SO I STAYED IN BED ALL DAY WRITING IT. OTHERWISE IT PROBABLY WOULDN'T BE UP YET. JUST SO YOU KNOW I HAVE TAKEN ALL YOUR WONDERFUL COMMENTS FOR CONSIDERATION. THIS CHAPTER WAS INSPIRED BY A SOCIALLY UNACCEPTABLE PROJECT I HAVE TO DO FOR MY PSYCHOLOGY CLASS. YOU CAN JUST GUESS WHAT DIRECTION THE STORY TURNED. TEEHEE. WELL, HERE WE GO, R&R!
DISCLAIMER: LAST NIGHT I OWNED NCIS!!! IT WAS SO AMAZING! THEN I WOKE UP. AH WELL... MAYBE NEXT TIME.
Chapter 6
They all just stood their for what seemed like hours, just staring, wondering how much damage had been done.
Finally Jenny got the nerve to go ask. She cautiously approached one of the men holding a giant hose and asked, " Umm, excuse me, but what exactly happened here?"
The rest of the team approached waiting to hear the worst. The fire man smiled and jumped into a jumbled explanation before anyone had a heart attack. "Oh don't worry. There is no terrible damage. Someone left a curling iron on in the bathroom right next to some hair spray, and there was a small explosion. The fire spread to the rest of the room before we got over here, but we managed to get your luggage out before any of it caught on fire. Three of the five beds burned down... the other two have no sheets, so I'm not sure what you are going to sleep on, but besides that nothing was permanently except for the stuff in the girls bathroom, which is all but incinarated... Oh, and it will probably smell like smoke for days."
Everyone's head turned slowly to Ziva and her currently curly hair. Ziva looked at them her eyes wide open, her mouth opening and closing as she searched for an explanation. They started moving in on her.
"The curling iron..."
"Look, it is not completely my..."
"Caught everything on fire..."
"I did no mean.."
"No beds..."
"I am really..."
"Smoke aroma...."
"How was I supposed to..."
"For DAYS!"
"LOOK!" She nearly shouted, "I am sorry if this causes anyone any problems, but I did not know a curling iron could be so hot. I did not think to check if it was off, Abby was rushing to get me out of here this morning and...."
"Whoa whoa whoa. Don't try putting this on me!" Abby said glaring at her.
Ziva took a deep breath and let it out slowly to calm herself down. "I am sorry Abby, I did not mean to blame you. I understand that this is my fault. Just you please try to understand that I did not know anything about the danger of curling irons, and that I did not mean for any of this to happen. I am sorry, everybody."
The team started to calm down. Jenny smiled reassuringly at her. "It is completely okay Ziva, don't worry, we'll figure something out."
Gibbs took charge and went over to where some of the camp leaders, Anita, Mike and Willie, were standing, huddled together, discussing. "Hey! Camp people! What the hell are we going to do? Where are we going to sleep? and what are we going to do about our stuff?" There was a pause for a few seconds, terrified. "Come on people I need answers!" He practically shouted.
Mike drew up some courage, "I'm sorry Agent Gibbs, we are trying to figure something out. The other bed hadn't been installed yet, so you will have three beds tonight. You can leave for a few hours either tonight or tomorrow morning to drive to the store and replace your things. Is that ok?"
Gibbs glared at them, but replied "That will be fine." He walked back over to the rest of the team, "Girls! Did you all hear that? When would you rather go replace your things?
"Wait!! What about us?" complained Tony, we can go out too, right?"
"Why do you need to leave, DiNozzo, none of your stuf burned down."
"Well yeah, but... but." He stuttered, looking for an excuse. "But umm... Ziva! Ziva needs help carrying her things... and come on boss, she hates shopping, the least I can do is help her."
Ziva turned to face him and was about to object until she saw the pleading look in his eye, so she didn't say anything. 'I am going to regret this.' she thought to herself.
Gibbs just rolled his eyes, "Fine, whatever, you can go just so I don't have to put up with you for the next hour. You wanna go, too, Elf Lord?"
"Umm, no thanks boss I'm good. Actually that therapy session gave me a good idea for my next book..." Everyone groaned.
"Come on Probie, can't you find anyone else to write about?"
"Nope," McGee said smiling, "I'm good." And Jenny, Abby, Ziva and Tony walked out the door to the cars.
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Once they had exited the perimeter of the camp, the four of them cheered and laughed, happy they were free for a few hours. "Okay," Jenny said smiling, "Is there anywhere anywhere in particular you all want to go..."
"How about a bar?" suggested Tony grinning.
"Anywhere you want to go to replace the things that got burned down." she finished, laughing at the disappointed look that crossed Tony's face. "Tony we did not get to leave to goof off."
"Yes, Tony, you came to carry my things for me, remember." Ziva teased, looking over at him, then turning to Jenny. "And the closest store I remember seeing was a Walmart, about two and a half miles that way. I think we should just go there and get this over with."
Tony stared disbelieving at her. "Walmart?! We got a few hours to get out of that hell hole to shop and you want to go the Walmart?!"
"I thinks Ziva's right." Agreed Jenny, "The best thing to do would be to get this over with."
"Come on guys... er... girls, live a little, the closest city is only like, twenty minutes away, we could make it there, shop and get back in an hour and a half."
"Let me guess, Tony, you saw a club." said Ziva smirking over at him.
"...maybe... but that's not the point. Pleeeeeease!!"
"No, we are going to Walmart." Jenny said, finishing the conversation.
The rest of the ride there Tony spent grumbling about wanting to go somewhere, anywhere else, but when they got there and entered the store, his whole demeanor changed. A smile lit up his face and he joked, "You know when I was a kid, I used to ditch my mom in the store and mess with the other customers."
Ziva's eyebrows knit together, "What do you mean?"
"You know, get into their heads, scare them out of the store, that sort of thing."
"Tony why would anyone do that?"
"So you never played one practical joke when you were little."
"Tony, in Mossad we had to..."
"Grow up fast. Oh yeah." He frowned slightly as he stood there watching her for a few minutes before he smiled and grabbed her hand, "Come here Ziva, we are going to use your ninja skills combined with creative skills to mess with the minds of ordinary citizens like none other has ever done before."
Ziva looked up at him, an amused expression on her face, "You want us, two adults, to go around and prank the other customers?"
"Yup." He said grinning his grin, causing Ziva to be willing to do just about anything with him.
"Okay." She said in a dazed voice staring at him unashamedly.
"Umm... Ziva... Ziva are you okay?" He asked, his face falling slightly.
She snapped out of it, "What... oh, yes, I am fine. I just... dazed out a little."
"Zoned out, Zee-vah, but if you were dazed... or dazzled, left speechless, those work too." He replied, grinning again.
Ziva was about to walk away when she realized he was still holding her hand. She blushed slightly and pulled her hand away, causing Tony to grin even bigger.
"Wow! Did I just get the crazy assassin to blush."
Ziva ignored him. "Sheket bevakasha."
"Whatever that means... what should we do first..." They made their way down an isle.
"Tony, we shouldn't do this... I still have to replace what I lost in the fire..."
"Ziva, you're such a kill joy. Fine here." He went up to a lady's basket when her back was turned, "Here is a toothbrush and..." They walked to the next isle. "Here is a hairbrush and some rubber hair thingys. Happy?"
"Tony! You just stole out of that lady's basket! Is that even legal?"
"She hadn't paid for it yet, Zee-vah, it's fine. Consider it our first prank."
"Tony this is so childish."
"That's why your having fun." he said teasingly, taking her hand again. "Now come on, we have work to do."
They snuck throughout the store looking for victims. At first Ziva felt like an idiot, but after they got away with their first few 'pranks' she started really enjoying herself. They started off simple. They would throw items over the top of one row into another, or putting all the wet floor signs on carpeted areas, or switching the signs of the men's and women's restrooms.
Then they started getting creative. They would wait until some victim's backs were turned, then walk away with their shopping carts, or they would put boxes of condoms in the shopping carts of practically everyone in the store. One of the better pranks was performed when Tony went up to a complete stranger who looked like he could be maybe 25, and started talking to him, "Hey dude! I haven't seen you in like YEARS! What's up!!" The look on the poor man's face was priceless. Obviously he didn't know Tony, but he didn't want to seem rude by not remembering him. He was saved from replying when Tony saw Abby and Jenny walk around a corner, and Tony had to leave before they were caught. "Oh, sorry, I have to go. I don't want Mommy to catch me." And he ran off leaving behind a very scared and confused man.
Half an hour later Tony and Ziva finished their rampage and went to meet up with Jenny and Abby, who were just finishing up their shopping. Jenny glared at the two of them. "Where have you two been?"
They glanced at each other and burst out laughing. "Hahaha. Umm... I mean, around the store. You know... Shopping."
"It took you 45 minutes to find a hair brush and a tooth brush."
Ziva looked at what she was holding. "Mishugena! I forgot toothpaste. Just a second." She was about to go get some when Tony grabbed her are.
"I'll get it sweetcheeks." He said grinning. "I'll meet you all in the car."
Jenny tried to stop him, not trusting him alone in the store. "Wait, Tony..." but he was gone.
They waited in line to pay and chatted amongst themselves as the cashier was scanning their items. Finally they were finished and walked out to the car to find Tony already there waiting for them. "Tony how did you do that?" Abby asked shocked.
"Express lane." He said shortly grinning. "Let's go."
Although Jenny and Abby bought it, Ziva knew he was hiding something. The ride back was filled with mindless banter and joking. They arrived back to camp in high spirits ready for the night.
They entered the cabin at about 2030 to the sound of Gibbs shouting. "Where the hell have you all been?! It's been like, two hours..... what the hell are those."
Jenny had just dumped out their purchases on the bed. Along with all the necessities, there was a bag of condoms. Everyone looked over at Tony.
He immediately went on the defensive, "What I didn't! I never even.... Oh my gosh." He and Ziva simultaneously looked at each other and burst out laughing.
"Oh my gosh! hahaha!"
"When we.... haha"
"Jenny and Abby's basket. hahaha!!"
Gibbs stared at them hoping he was reading the signs wrong, "What is going on." Tony and Ziva stopped laughing.
"Absolutely nothing, boss."
"Nothing is going on."
Gibbs glared at them, "You know what, I've decided I don't want to know. Now about how long you were gone..."
"That's how long we were supposed to be gone..." Tony started.
"Yeah, but all of you still need to do that write up on us so you should have been faster. You don't have time tomorrow morning since we are scheduled for a group activity or what ever it is. By the way, I'm interested to know what you all think of me." Although Gibbs said this in a conversational tone, everyone could hear the threat in his voice.
"After you finish those I want you all in bed.... Tony you and Ziva share. McGee and Abby. Jenny, you with me."
Abby giggled, "Ewww! Mommy and Daddy are sleeping together." Tony and Ziva laughed, Jenny blushed and Gibbs glared.
About an hour later, everyone was in bed asleep, except for Abby, who was having a little bit too much fun on her homework assignment.
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