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An NCIS fic collection
by mew-tsubaki
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imagine: miscellany 29—carpooling (this post on the sideblog: 742715315882999808/ parknight-imagines-miscellany-29-carpooling)
tags: minor spoilers, s21e1
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Parker's on his way to the bullpen from the break room, having snatched a tasty-looking donut someone brought in a quickly disappearing pack of dozen, when his phone buzzes. He balances coffee and pastry in one hand and fishes his phone out with the other to answer. "G'morning, Jess."
"Not a good morning," Knight hisses back. Odd. She's not one to dampen her temper when she feels it, but she sounds as though she's whispering right about now.
He quirks an eyebrow. "You just pull in? It's the last Monday of the month, so I thought—"
She laughs, darkly, her voice thin and unlike her. Parker can imagine her shooting a certain someone (thankfully, not him) a glare. "Yeah, but I think I'm just about done carpooling with McGee. If it means being roped into helping the Tech Trolls out of the blue…"
Now he furrows his brow, because that doesn't add up. McGee down in Cyber, amongst his kin? A perfect picture. But Knight? She speaks other languages, but computer isn't one of them. "Lemme see if I can swing by and steal you back. Gimme a few minutes."
"Thank you, thank you, thank you, Alden…!" Knight exhales, and her usual cheeriness returns.
He might say "You're welcome" or "No problem" in normal circumstances, but—seeing as how he suspected Cyber's previous head was ready to clock out of the department and NCIS for good—Parker decides no comment is best here. Instead, he asks, "I take it this means, to lower the incidence of surprise, Carpool Mondays with McGee are off now?"
"For this and a handful of other reasons," she grumbles. But, a beat later, Knight adds, "Maybe…I should switch it up. Know anyone looking for some company in the morning ride to work?"
Parker can hear the smile in her voice, just as sure as she can hear the smirk in his. "What time tomorrow? Unless…you want to stick with Mondays."
"N-No. Tomorrow's good. Uh. Seven?"
"I'll pick you up then." And Knight disconnects first, but Parker rounds the corner to the bullpen, his coffee and donut in hand and—well, the donut turns out to be the second-best surprise of this morning.
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Hi, okay, I srsly needed some fluff after that season opener. D8 There were a lot of great Parker, Knight, and Parknight scenes! So I felt the need to turn that opening bit in Cyber into this, *lol*. I have more ideas for this ep, but yeah. Btw, that was also an implication that if he's driving her to work on Mondays…it's bc they were together over the wkd. B3c
-mew! ;3