Interrogation

"I saw her!" Kate announced, her quick strides bringing her across the forensic lab in little time.

"Saw who, Kate?" Abby asked, her attention never straying from the audio analysis she was running.

"The red head." Getting no response from Abby, Kate clarified. "Gibbs' red head."

That stopped the tech cold, her fingers freezing in mid-motion.

"Please tell me you mean 'picnic red head' and not 'convertible red head'."

"Oh yeah."

"Tell me more!" said Abby, spinning to face Kate, her face intent.

"I just saw her in the hall, talking to McGee."

"Our little McGeek's been holding out on me. Show me." announced Abby, pulling Kate along by the hand.

However, before reaching the door to the lab, they were blocked by the arrival of McGee.

"Going somewhere?" he asked, confused.

Redirecting her focus, Abby grabbed McGee by the tie and pulled him into the room.

"Talk." she ordered, crossing her arms over her chest and giving him her best 'Gibbs' look.

"What?"

"The girl you were just talking to, McGee." supplied Kate, and Abby could tell she was just as eager for answers.

"Who, Willow?"

Abby met Kate's eyes as she mouthed the word 'Willow' to the other woman.

"Who is she?"

"Why do you want to know?" Abby would be offended by the wary tone of his voice if she hadn't already trained him up to be scared of her.

"Tell me!"

"She's just an intern, Abby." he said, still sounding as confused as before. The again, he didn't know what she and Kate knew. "Would you calm down, already? What's she done to you?"

"Nothing. Who is she?" she pressed, certain that he knew more than he was telling her.

"Abbbbyyyy." he said in a warning tone, and she knew she was losing ground. When Tim really put his mind to it, he could wiggle out of her grasp.

"McGee. We were just wondering who she is." said Kate, stepping in with a big smile on her face. Abby reminded herself to buy Kate something nice, because the other woman knew how to get information out of McGee. "What's her name? Where's she from? What's she like? That sort of thing."

"Oh, no!" said McGee, moving away from the two of them. "I'm not getting in the middle of whatever you have planned. She's a nice girl and I'm not going to let you terrorize her."

Now Abby was offended for multiple reasons.

"We're not planning anything, McGee." said Kate, moving towards him. "We just have some questions about the new girl. That's all."

Abby really needed to learn that whole 'how to interrogate with a great big smile' thing Kate had going. It was awesome. And it was working.

"She's just a summer intern, working in IT." he said, relenting under Kate's unwavering grin.

"So she goes to school around here?"

"No, she's from the west coast. I think she's just visiting for the summer, and ended up working here." McGee told them, his body and tone relaxing as he gave them what answers he could.

"Visiting? Visiting who?" Kate asked, pouncing on that tidbit of information before Abby could.

"I don't know. Her uncle, I think."

"Oh?" prompted Kate.

"Well, she said her uncle works for NCIS, so I assume that's who she's visiting." he said.

Abby felt herself freeze as everything slotted itself together. Kate turned and looked at her, their eyes meeting as they both came to the same conclusion.

"NO. WAY!"

END

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