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Chapter 56 - Ears-Dropping
Tony sat at his desk, leaning over his drawer and throwing some things from it into the bin. He then pulled out a pair of vibrant red fluffy handcuffs, making Kate, who was walking into the bullpen with a cup of coffee, stop in her tracks and blush as red as the offending item.
Tony looked up at her and waggled his eyebrows before putting the cuffs back in the drawer.
"Must you do that now, Tony?" Snapped Ziva,
Tony let go of a rubber glove he'd just blown up and it flew to McGee.
"It's spring. I'm spring-cleaning, so... Yes."
"Spring-cleaning?" Asked Ziva,
"You don't have spring-cleaning in Israel?" Asked McGee,"We do not have spring. Israel is a desert.""I've been looking for this!" in Tony's hand was a back scratcher. He extended it and started to scratch his back, "Oh, oh yea. Katie, you remember this?"
Kate blushed even more and managed a weak, "Yes… I remember."
"I remember those days," Said Abby as she stood in front of Tony.
Every one stared at her, confused, no one had known about Tony and Kate until that drinking game they'd played."When I was carefree and full of joy." Abby continued, "I envy you, Tony."
"Why are you dressed for a funeral, Abby?" Asked Tony,"Everything okay?" Asked Kate.
"No. Frank is sick."
"Who is Frank?" Asked Ziva, concerned,
"Her mandibular second molar. It's been killing her for a week." Explained McGee, "I finally convinced her to go to the dentist."
"You name your teeth?" Tony asked Abby,"You don't?"
"No."
"See, that's the problem!" Explained Abby, "They're just teeth to you. But evolutionarily speaking, your survival is directly proportionate to their health. A cavity was a death sentence on the Savannah.""Abby, everyone gets cavities." Kate said, her voice and composure back.
"No." Said Abby strongly, "No Sciuto has had a cavity since 1922."
"Good genes." Said Ziva,
"Genes? I brush, and I floss, and I tongue-scrape more than most people would consider sane. I have earned my perfect record. No cavities, no surrender. I don't deserve this." She walked out of the bullpen, passing Gibbs on the way, "I'll be back before lunch."
"Good luck." Gibbs told her before turning to the team, "Don't get too comfortable. Dead body. Come on; you all know the drill."
* * *
Tony and Ziva (who had somehow managed to convince Gibbs and Tony into letting her go to the scene) were talking to the new parents who heard their dead Marine Private's cry for help over a baby monitor.
"We had just finished singing the baby to sleep." Said the father, "We came out here, and heard the baby stir, then this strained voice."
"What did the voice say?" Asked Tony,
"Help me."
"What did you do?"
"We ran to the nursery, no one else was there. No one was out the window, or anything. So we called the police."
Ziva nodded, "Thank you, that's all we need."
Tony stood and waited as Ziva tried to get up, sighing Ziva turned to him, "Tony can you help?"
"I tried to tell you no field work. You are seven months pregnant."
"Shut up."
* * *
Abby walked out of the dentist with a huge smile, she threw her arms up into the air,
"Thank you! What a way to start the day." She let her arms down and started to search for her car keys while walking.
"Abby Sciuto?" A short important looking woman asked,
"Maybe?"
"FBI. You need to come with us, Ms. Sciuto. Now."
"Where?"
"I'm not at liberty to say."
"Well, then, I'm not at liberty to go.""You misunderstand. It's not a request."
* * *
Gibbs had his cell to his ear, Abby had been 'requested' and he wanted to know why, and where to.
"Hey, Gibbs. Don't worry. No cavities. I was going to call." Abby answered,
"Fornell already did. You okay?"
"Yep."
"Where are you?"
"In the back of a van." Abby replied simply,
"Abby…"
"I'm fine. It's exciting. Group of FBI agents swoops in and steals away an unsuspecting citizen to places unknown."
"Yeah, it's the unknown part I don't care for."
"I got Palmer's text about the vampire bite. I can't believe I'm not going to be there for that. Who are you getting to fill in?"
"Probably Kate."
"Well, if she needs anything I keep a step-by-step 'Abby's Lab for Dummies' in my desk. It covers the basics. A monkey could follow the instructions… Not that Kate's a monkey."
* * *
Tony and McGee were in Abby's lab about to test the evidence and run the DNA, they needed it ASAP and Kate was out, she had to renew her Driver's Licence.
"Are you gonna help me, or are you gonna keep screwing around back there?" McGee asked Tony.
"Every single drawer in this lab is unlocked except this one. You're not wondering what's inside?" Tony called back,
"I'm wondering where Palmer is with the rest of that DNA." muttered McGee,"Oh, Right here." Palmer walked in and handed McGee a clip board to sign for chain of evidence. "Here you go. Thought I might be able to help you guys. I do have lab experience." Palmer smoothed down his lab coat."And I have a biomedical engineering degree from Johns Hopkins." retaliated McGee,
"He sure does love saying that." Called Tony,
"Hey, will you put the screwdriver down, come in here, and hand me the ethidium bromide, please?" McGee snapped,"Oh, I got it." Said Palmer and he walked over to grab it."I don't- I don't think that's right." Tony said as he walked in, "I don't think you're supposed to do that."All right." McGee said as he unscrewed the lids of to bottles and read from 'Abby's Lab for Dummies', "Next step is to... mix the gel with the ethidium bromide."
"I don't think you're supposed to do that. You're supposed to microwave the gel first."
"Tony, Tony."
"All right, Mr. Johns Hopkins, Mr. Biomedical Degree. You go ahead."
McGee poured the two substances into the same beaker and the three of them watched as it bubbled over."That's not good."
"Nope."
"Lucky for you Abby's not here, Hopkins.""Why is McGee lucky that I'm not there and who is Hopkins?" Asked Abby's voice. They turned around and saw a video feed on her computer.
Kate walked into the room, "Oh my God, Abby is going to kill the three of you."
"I'm already planning it." Abby said, "Why weren't you there to stop them?"
Kate walked closer to the computer, "I was renewing my driver's licence, which wouldn't had mattered but you were 'requested'. Where are you?"
"I'm at a public hospital just outside the city. That's all I can say. They took even my cell phone away when I got here, but I was able to open a video port into my lab... Or what's left of my lab.""He'll clean it up.""We'll clean it up."
"They'll clean it up."
"You'll all clean it up."
"I think McGee should," Said Kate, "Tony tried to stop him."
Abby thought, "Ok, Tony's out but Palmer and Timmy, you will clean it up. But I need you to run a background for me first."
* * *
McGee and palmer had left the lab leaving Kate to do all the forensics and Tony to help.
"Did I ever tell you." Tony said as he walked up behind Kate, "How sexy you look in a lab coat?"
Kate blushed, "I don't think so."
Tony grinned, "I made you blush."
"You did not."
"I did so! Look. You even have that glint in your eyes."
"What glint?"
Tony smirked, "The glint you got when ever we had sex."
Kate spun around, "What?"
Tony smiled and put his hands on her hips, walking her backwards into the bench.
"You heard me."
Kate stayed silent so Tony pulled into a hug and kissed the top of her head. "I miss your company Katie."
Kate nodded into Tony's chest.
Ziva walked into the room and raised her eyebrows at the scene before her but didn't do anything else. "Gibbs would like to know why you are still down here, Tony."
Kate jumped from Tony's arm like he burst into flames.
"Ziva!"
Ziva smiled, "Tony?"
Tony nodded and walked over to her, "You should be sitting down, in fact you should have been sitting down all day." he kissed her cheek and walked away, smiling as she glared at his back.
"Ziva I-"
Ziva held up a hand, "Kate do not worry. Tony is still your friend, I am you're friend. And Tony is devoted, he wouldn't put either of us through that kind or torment. I trust him, and I trust you. And I was wondering if maybe you could be my birth partner, in case Tony has to work."
"I'd be honoured, but Gibbs would let him go to the birth of his child."
"I know." Said Ziva, "But with this job he could end up in Arizona again."
Kate laughed, "That would be Tony's luck."
Ziva smiled and nodded, "I have to get back, are you almost done?"
Kate nodded, "I just have to put a few things away, you go."
Ziva left the lab and made her way to the elevator, in which she found Tony. She raised her eyebrows at him.
"What?"
She just looked at him.
"Can't a guy hold an elevator for his wife?"
Ziva didn't reply.
"Can't a guy make sure his wife isn't killing his ex-girlfriend?"
At that Ziva laughed, "You were Ears-Dropping."
"Eavesdropping."
"Ears would make more sense."
Tony laughed and pressed Ziva to a wall and claimed her mouth with his. Ziva smiled and pulled him closer.
The doors opened and Kate's eyes widened,
"Right. I'll just… take the stairs."
* * *
Tony walked into the study and pulled a letter from his jacket pocket, he turned it over and ran a thumb over the red seal made from a sealing candle. E.D. Eli David.
He opened the envelope and pulled out two pieces of paper, a letter and a check.
"Eli David, you're a good man." He smiled, looking at the check. He read the letter quickly and grinned,
"Oh Aba, ani ohev otcha!"
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