Trooper Station, Thursday (August 27)

[gunandcoffee.livejournal.com]

Another day at the station and still no calls and no cases. This keeps up and she might take-up whittling. She even had Crews' knife all she needs is wood to start for now there were papers to file and there was coffee to finish.

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[headkickpoet.livejournal.com]

"Hey, Reese!"

This was Ray. This was Ray ducking his head through the doorway and waving some paperwork at her.

[gunandcoffee.livejournal.com]

"Yeah?" She called back, not taking her eyes off her computer.

[headkickpoet.livejournal.com]

"You doin' something or just ogling bikini pictures?"

[gunandcoffee.livejournal.com]

Reese pushed away from the computer and swiveled her chair to face Kowalski.

"Ogling bikini pictures," she answered, completely poker faced. "What do you need?"

[headkickpoet.livejournal.com]

"I got a whole stack of new and bogus paperwork in," he shot back. "I'm trying to figure out whether I'm going to send you out on patrol so I can dump it on noseboy, or we're going to shred it."

[gunandcoffee.livejournal.com]

"We can do both," Reese said. "Going out on patrol is better than sitting here and staring at paper. Bonus points for dumping some paperwork to the Probie."

[headkickpoet.livejournal.com]

"Quick thinking. Maybe I'll come w--"

Ralph came by, shaking his head at him. Ray glared after the guy.

"Nah. You hit up patrol, I'll figure out the paperwork. Just put away those bikini pictures, yeah?"

[gunandcoffee.livejournal.com]

Reese smirked. "Tough being the boss, huh?"

"Sure, I'll put it away," saving the not a bikini picture documents. "You guys have poker nights in this station? Back in LA we used to have poker nights."

[headkickpoet.livejournal.com]

Ray snorted. "Yeah, like Day and Cooper were into poker," he said, "Uh, good idea, but we'd have to--" Pause. "Think we can fleece the probie? Legally, I mean."

Bad Ray. Baaad Ray.

[gunandcoffee.livejournal.com]

"Day's not into poker?" Cooper she could understand. Cooper reminded her of a shinier version of her partner but Day? Huh.

Reese smirked. "I think we can manage."

[headkickpoet.livejournal.com]

Ray shrugged. "Day's real by the book," he said.

Because he'd never really met her off-duty before. Sigh, Ray. "Cop poker night next week," he announced. "...Probably with, uh, skittles for loot or something."

[gunandcoffee.livejournal.com]

"If you say so," Reese was skeptical. She was by the book (relatively speaking) but she wasn't off duty. Maybe Day was different.

"Sure, where we going to hold it?"

[headkickpoet.livejournal.com]

"Right here at the station," Ray said, wandering through the bullpen mostly so he could dump the extra paperwork on DiNozzo's desk. "After hours sounds good."

[gunandcoffee.livejournal.com]

"I was gonna offer my place but alright." She thought of the study and her crime board. "Food delivery?"

[headkickpoet.livejournal.com]

"We'll, uh, bring in some pizza," Ray decided. "Friday night. Listen, you got a patrol to get to."

[gunandcoffee.livejournal.com]

"Anyone mention you're a good boss?" Reese nodded to the computer, "I'll just finish with the computer and I'm outta here."

[famous-gut.livejournal.com]

"Reese," Gibbs said in greeting as he breezed through the office and headed toward his desk.

[gunandcoffee.livejournal.com]

"Gibbs," Reese returned. "Up for more paperwork?"

[famous-gut.livejournal.com]

"Beats working," Gibbs replied as he sat down and methodically began sorting all the paperwork into it's appropriate stacks. "You?"

[gunandcoffee.livejournal.com]

"Miss working," she answered. "You don't?"

[famous-gut.livejournal.com]

"You mean you'd rather have a case," Gibbs replied as he started going through the paperwork. "Which means someone would have to get stolen from, hurt or perhaps killed. You really want to wish that on someone?"

[gunandcoffee.livejournal.com]

"No," she gave Gibbs a look that read: 'You know what I mean'. And in a small self-aware part of herself she also meant 'yes'. Investigators are in it for the justice but they were also in it for the intellectual rush. She dared any detective to deny it. "But it beats doin' nothing."

[famous-gut.livejournal.com]

Gibbs knew exactly what she meant. And knew about the whole intellectual rush thing.

He just felt it was important to remind people the costs of the job.

"Good," he snarked. "We'll let you do the notification of the next of kin when something happens."

[gunandcoffee.livejournal.com]

"I'll even add in the flowers," Reese deadpanned. Smart ass and callous. Yeah, she's a cop.

"There's gonna be poker night next week, you in?"

[famous-gut.livejournal.com]

"Yeah, count me in," he replied. "Who's hosting?"

[gunandcoffee.livejournal.com]

"The sheriff," Reese told him, shutting down the computer getting ready for patrol. "Here in the station, Friday, after hours. Pizza all around."

[famous-gut.livejournal.com]

"Works for me," Gibbs said already finished with one stack of paperwork and mvoing on to the next. "We playing for cash or chips?"

[gunandcoffee.livejournal.com]

"Apparently, we're playing for skittles."

[famous-gut.livejournal.com]

Gibbs's head didn't move but his eyes focused on Dani with a perplexed look on his face.

"Skittles?"

Gibbs really needs to get out of the basement more often.

[gunandcoffee.livejournal.com]

"Candy, like M&Ms." Reese paused. "You know what those are, right?"

[famous-gut.livejournal.com]

"M&M's? Sure," Gibbs replied. "Are they chocolate?"

[gunandcoffee.livejournal.com]

Reese raised an eyebrow. "Now you're pullin' my leg."

[famous-gut.livejournal.com]

"Do I look like a guy who eats candy?" Gibbs countered sounding a little gruff.

[gunandcoffee.livejournal.com]

The second eyebrow followed the first then said when the eyebrows went down, "You're not that old, Gibbs."

Jack Reese was probably as old or older than Gibbs and he ate chocolate.

[famous-gut.livejournal.com]

"Age has nothing to do with it," Gibbs replied.

Being completely unobservant of pop culture had everything to with it.

[gunandcoffee.livejournal.com]

"I know what I'm getting you for Christmas," Reese said. She can go with that unobservant to pop culture thing. Her partner was in prison for 12 years and annoyed her with his obliviousness or curiosity about pop culture.

[famous-gut.livejournal.com]

"Oh?" Gibbs said sounding a little amused as he stacked up another finished bit of paperwork. "What would that be?"

[gunandcoffee.livejournal.com]

"Chocolate, 'cause if you don't know any you're not doing something right."

She'd do it too.

[famous-gut.livejournal.com]

"I know what chocolate is, Reese," Gibbs said shaking his head."I just don't need it. Skittles on the other hand I have no idea."

[gunandcoffee.livejournal.com]

"Then you'll get a basket of skittles and some other chocolate invented after 1980," Reese returned. The computer powered down and she picked up her jacket. "Sheriff's sending me out on patrol."

[famous-gut.livejournal.com]

"Watch out for gremlins," Gibbs smirked.