Protecting Gibbs

chapter 14

The following day, Tony sat at his desk, typing something on his computer. Ziva sat at her desk, staring at him. He looked up at her. "What?"

"I was just trying to figure out what was going through your head when you slept with Charity." Ziva answered.

Tony rolled his eyes. "I'm a man she's a woman, a very attractive woman, we were trapped alone together in a cabin."

"Yeah, but she's Gibbs's daughter." McGee added.

"I know, but it happened. I can't change it and, I wouldn't change it. So let's just get over it and ove on." Tony blurted out.

Before Ziva or McHee could respond, Gibbs walked in the room. "Grab your gear. Dead petty officer found in a dumpster."

The team jumped on their orders and followed Gibbs out of the building. Soon they arrived at the crime scene. Duckie and Jimmy were right behind them. They began taking pictures of the body.

Duckie looked at the body. "A gun shot wound to the head and one to the chest."

Palmer picked up one of the man's hands. "Looks like defensive wounds."

Duckie looked a little closer at the man and noticed something. "It looks like the gun shot wounds were postmortem."

"So what did kill him, Duck?" Gibbs asked.

"It appears possible strangulation. He has marks around the neck and petiquical hemorrgaing. I'll know more when I get him on the table."

The body was then extracted from the dumpster and transportaed back to the navy yard. "Somebody is going to have to collect evidence from the dumpster." Gibbs said.

"Well, as senior field agent..." Tony began.

"You will be happy to go through the dumpster." Gibbs finished for him.

"Yeah boss." Tony complied, less than enthused.

Ziva and McGee both laughed at Tony's expense. Then they finished up their portion of collecting evidence and headed back to the navy yard, leaving poor Tony to go through the dumpster.

Tony took in a deep breath of fresh air before climbing in the dumpster. "He has to be punishing me for getting Charity pregnant." Tony muttered to himself. "I won't fight him on it, but this is seriously nuts. I have to get back on his good side."

Tony soon finished collecting evidence from the dumpster and headed back to the navy yard. When he walked into Abby's lab with the evidence, she looked up at him and then wrinkled her nose. "Tony, I don't mean to hurt your feelings or anything, but you stink."

"I know. Gibbs had me go through the dumpster."

"Awe, I'm sorry Tony." Abby said. "I'm sure he'll get over it soon."

"I hope so." Tony said. "Well, I'm going to go toake a shower and change. I'm not sure this smell will leave me any time soon, but I'm going to try."

"Use lemons." Abby suggested.

Once Tony had finished his shower and changed, he headed to his desk. Gibbs gave Tony his orders, which were all of the crappy jobs. Ziva and McGee both enjoyed watching Tony do all of the "probie" jobs.