Who: Tony and Kate What: Talking Where: NCIS offices When: Today? (maybe yesterday?) Warnings: None
Kate finally felt ready to return to work. As ready as one could be under the circumstances. As she'd told someone, she'd prepared herself for years with knowing death could come at any time. But to be told that she actually had died, at least to everyone she'd ever known, was something else entirely. Nothing could prepare you for that. So she looked at it all like different timelines all converging on the same spot. It was Twilight Zone-ish enough.
That's what led to her driving to the NCIS offices and making her way up to the floor with the bullpen. Practically no one would be here today, except maybe Gibbs, and she wanted some time alone to think things through in a familiar environment. She was relieved to see that nothing had drastically changed on their floor: a desk here, a cubicle wall there, but overall, it was the same office she remembered just two weeks ago before she'd arrived.
Due to her being engrossed with studying the office and seeing if it was any different, she didn't realize Tony was at his desk until she was practically entering the area for Gibbs's team. "Oh."
And after a moment, she slowly turned on her heel and began walking right back out.