NCIS' Got Talent!
Chapter 4- Ziva
Rating: K+
Disclaimer: Same as in the last three chapters.
Warning: Contains spoilers for Season 7.
Abby's lab, Tuesday afternoon
Oh, it's Ziva, Abby noticed when she turned around at the sound of the door opening. Guess that's gonna be an easy one... though she can be almost as stubborn as Gibbs when she doesn't want to do something. "Hey Ziva."
"Hello Abby. I have got some fingerprints from our suspect." Ziva held up a plastic bag with a paper coffee mug in it.
"Oh, great. Put it on the table, I'm still working on our dead Marine's laptop but... Actually, I was talking about the other table."
"Well Abby, you have to admit that there are many tables in your lab," Ziva remarked, placing the wrapped coffee mug on the table right behind Abby.
"Yeah, sorry. I should've said, 'the table that doesn't have a big black box on it' ".
"What is that black box, anyway?"
"My cousin's karaoke machine."
"Oh, the one I am able to kill people with," Ziva stated. Noticing the shocked expression on Abby's face, she explained: "Tony's words, not mine. He told me, 'Abby's got some crazy black box in her lab, she says it's a karaoke machine but I'm not so sure 'bout that, it looks more like something you could kill people with'."
That doesn't mean much, Ziva David can kill people with almost everything, Abby thought. In fact, my next words could be my last ones... "You wanna try it? Singing, of course, not killing someone with it," she added quickly.
Ziva smiled. "I am not going to kill you, Abby," she assured the Goth scientist, making Abby smile as well: "Thank you very much, Ziva. What about the other thing? You wanna sing?"
"...Okay. But could you lock the door? I am sure Gibbs would not approve of walking in and finding me singing a song."
"No, I don't think he would." Abby went to lock the lab door. When she turned back to Ziva, the not-yet-NCIS-agent-but-not-anymore-Mossad-liaison-officer had already switched the karaoke machine on and was looking through the list of songs offered.
"What is 'Animaniacs'?" she asked.
"An animated cartoon from the '90s."
"And why is it on a karaoke machine?"
"Oh, the're lots of songs from movies or TV series on it."
Ziva smiled: "And Tony picked one of them, yes?"
"Well, he didn't pick a song from a movie, but a song a series of movies is based on."
"Which one?"
"Yo ho, yo ho, a pirate's life for me," Abby sang in response.
"I am sorry?"
"Pirates of the Caribbean... Savvy? Uh, never mind. Have you picked a song?"
"Yes, one by those Animaniacs. It is about the US state capitals, that might be useful for my citizenship test."
Baton Rouge, Lousiana, Indianapolis, Indiana,
and Columbus is the capital of Ohio,
There's Montgomery, Alabama, south of Helena, Montana,
then there's Denver, Colorado, under Boise, Idaho.
Texas has Austin, then we go north
to Massachusetts' Boston and Albany, New York
Tallahassee, Florida, and Washington, D.C.
Santa Fe, New Mexiko, and Nashville, Tennessee.
Trenton's in New Jersey north of Jefferson, Missouri,
you've got Richmond in Virginia, South Dakota has Pierre,
Harrisburg's in Pennsylvania and Augusta's up in Maine
and here is Providence, Rhode Island, next to Dover, Delaware.
Concord, New Hampshire, just a quick jaunt
to Montpelier, which is up in Vermont,
Hartford's in Connecticut, so pretty in the fall,
and Kansas has Topeka, Minnesota has St Paul.
Juneau's in Alaska, an there's Lincoln in Nebraska,
and it's Raleigh out in North Carolina and then
there's Madison, Wisconsin, and Olympia in Washington,
Phoenix, Arizona, and Lansing, Michigan.
Here's Honolulu, Hawaii's a joy,
Jackson, Mississippi, and Springfield, Illinois,
South Carolina with Columbia down the way,
and Annapolis in Maryland on Chesapeake Bay.
Cheyenne is in Wyoming, and perhaps you make your home
in Salt Lake City out in Utah, were the buffalo roam,
Atlanta's down in Georgia, and there's Bismarck, North Dakota,
and you can live in Frankfort in your old Kentucky home.
Salem in Oregon, from there we join
Little Rock in Arkansas, Iowa's got Des Moines,
Sacramento, California, Oklahoma, and its City,
Charleston, West Virginia, and Nevada, Carson City.
That's all the capitals there are!
"Maybe you should learn that song by heart and just sing it when they ask you about US geography in your test," Abby suggested when the song was over.
"Yes, maybe... By the way, why do you make all your coworkers sing songs?"
Abby made the same mysterious face that Tony had gotten in response to the same question a few hours before. "You'll see on Friday." And I mean Friday. Don't you dare use your Mossad interrogation techniques on me and make me tell you now!
Right then (fortunately for Abby), Ziva's phone beeped. "Gibbs. We have another victim." And with that, she quickly left, leaving a rather happy Abby behind. Four done, Ducky and Gibbs to go. Ducky should be an easy one, just need to find a Scottish folk song or something for him to sing. Gibbs'll be way harder to convince, but my project won't work without him. So what am I gonna do?
A/N: Yes, that's the question... Maybe it's enough if Gibbs doesn't sing, but just talks or provides the beat to the others' songs by slapping the back of Tony's head? Just kidding (Dear Tony DiNozzo fangirls, please don't hate me for that! ;-)