NCIS
McGee held tightly onto the door handle as Rhiana swung a curve before slowing to enter the parking building. Heatedly, she scanned her ID card and the gate lifted, permitting her into the garage. Taking her Camaro to the highest floor that still had shade, she parked quickly and sighed as she shut the engine off. Looking over at McGee, she couldn't help but giggle at his expression. "You look scared, Tim," she said and he glanced over at her.
"You drive pretty fast, Rhia," he breathed and got out of the vehicle. Rhiana smiled at the nickname and followed the actions.
"Not afraid of my driving, are you?" she asked and looped her arm through Tim's.
"Not really, but I know you're upset about last night. I'm alive," Tim cringed as he got a headache, "and mostly intact. The doctor said I might have headaches for about a month, but I'll be fine." Tim kissed Rhiana's forehead before they entered the elevator and continued down to the ground floor.
"But you aren't okay now, Tim. I should have left you at home. You know that Gibbs won't allow us to be on this investigation!" Rhiana argued and let her arm fall from McGee's. "We'll just sit by and not be able to do anything!" she sighed as they walked through the front doors. Keeping silent as they entered another elevator, Tim pressed a button and they waited patiently for the doors to open again.
"You know Abby's going to hug us to death once that door opens, right?" Tim asked and arched a playful eyebrow. Rhiana stopped her thinking and looked up as the elevator dinged.
"Oh, crap," Rhiana said quietly and they were greeted by an anxious Goth, who was to the point of exploding if they hadn't been the next people she had seen exit the elevator. Dragging them both out, Abby hugged McGee tightly first and then Rhiana.
"Gibbs told me what happened! I was so worried! Why didn't you guys call me? I could have helped too!" Abby said and Rhiana patted her lightly on the back.
"Well, even you need sleep, Abby. Besides, I knew that Gibbs would take care of everything," Rhiana said and Abby stepped back to look them both over. Deciding that their current state was acceptable, Abby jingled away, leaving Tim and Rhiana in stunned silence as Gibbs appeared behind them.
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"McGee, what are you doing here?" Tony asked as Tim sat down at his desk; Rhiana had gone to the basement for her work day.
"Rhiana brought me here, and I had a clean report from the doctor, so it's fine that I'm here," Tim said and Gibbs looked at him as McGee had another pain from a headache.
"But you aren't going into the field, McGee," Gibbs said and raised a hand before Tim could protest. "Just bring up what's supposed to be on that TV," Jethro suggested and McGee sighed in defeat. He brought up the information as needed; the first to appear was the man who hit him.
"The man that attacked you, his name is Isaac Boggs. He's been arrested for malicious attacks, theft, grand theft auto, and armed robbery. The last time he was in jail was two months ago, where he got off for making bail. He's been quiet ever since, until, of course, last night. During his interview, he mentioned that he doesn't know who makes his bail, but he doesn't ask and doesn't care," Ziva said and McGee soon brought up the pay details of Boggs' bail reports.
"It never says who pays it, but it's paid in cash by a man who never identifies himself. How Pulp Ficion-ish," Tony said and Ziva gave him a look; she still hadn't understood that movie. McGee raised an eyebrow at the comment, but left it alone as he saw Rhiana rush from the elevators and over to his station. She placed her laptop in front of him and politely explained her sudden appearance.
"Someone got a hold of my laptop and destroyed its contents," she growled and Tim quickly opened the notebook carefully.
"Did you… never mind, I know you back up your files," Tim said and viewed the distorted screen with a confused look upon his face. "Why did your laptop do this?" he asked and Rhiana smirked.
"When I got my FBI friend to update it last, I also had her upload a destructive firewall that fries my computer whenever someone tries to access certain files without my permission. It did what it was supposed to, thankfully," Rhiana said and McGee looked at her with surprise.
"What about your laptop?" he asked, looking at the smoking ruins.
"I have a 1 terabyte external hard drive that has every file that was on my laptop up to yesterday morning. And once that firewall destroys that notebook, it sends an alert to my company, and they send me another one," Rhiana explained and Jethro interrupted the two computer geeks.
"Do you mind translating?" he asked and Rhiana smiled as McGee sighed.
"It means someone tried to break into Rhiana's laptop without her permission. Once that happened, the computer self-destructed, sent a report to her company, and she's going to have a new laptop by this evening," Tim said and Gibbs nodded.
"And would you have any idea who would try to do that?" he asked and took a sip of coffee; Rhiana eyed the foam cup and gathered herself before speaking.
"Not really, everything on the hard drive is completely destroyed. The firewall is so destructive; it melts the wiring because of the overload. We'd have to wait for when the new laptop and report comes in this evening," Rhiana said and sighed; this was going to be a long case, she could feel it.