"Morning probie" Tony greets his colleague as he enters the squad room and sits at his desk.
"Morning Tony."
"Hey did you see Abby before she left last night?"
"No. Why?" He looks over at DiNozzo puzzled at the question.
"The autopsy gremlin was just trying to describe her outfit to me but he seemed fixated on her shoes. He did say she looked even better than in her Halloween costume though. Did our Goth goddess have a hot date last night?"
"Oh, yeah. I forgot. Marty was taking her to some work thing. Apparently it was quite a big deal. I'm sorry I missed it."
"Me too probie. Palmer said she was definitely dressed to kill."
"Who?"
"Zee-vah! How many times do I have to tell you not to sneak up one me?" He glares at her as she walks around into the bullpen. "And anyway who what?"
"Who was dressed to kill?"
"Abby."
"Abby was dressed to kill?" This did not make any kind of sense. While she was a trained assassin and always went about prepared to kill carrying at least one weapon Abby was a forensic scientist and should not need to. Surely if there was some type of threat Abby should have let the team handle it. Then again she was fiercely independent and Ziva could easily imagine her causing serious injury or even death with some of the accessories she habitually wore.
"Yes."
"Who?" The guys exchange a confused glance.
"Who what?" Tim asks patiently.
"Who was Abby going to kill?"
"No-one Ziva." DiNozzo grins at her enjoying her confusion.
"But you just said..."
"It's just an expression" Tim interrupts sensing the conversation was beginning to get out of control. "It means she was dressed up...looking really hot...good enough to kill someone just by her appearance."
"Oh. So what was she wearing?" Although she knew many ways to kill it was always good to discover new methods.
"Well it was black of course and Palmer said it had this plunging neck..."
"It's you that'll be doing some plunging if you don't get back to work DiNozzo!"
"On it Boss."
As the agents return to work Ziva makes a mental note to find out exactly what Abby had been wearing and find out how the date went too.