Ethan.
For that, he’d vow his allegiance to her for the rest of his life.
“If there’s anything I can do to help you out, just let me know,” he said. “Are we still going back to DC this weekend?” he asked.
Oh, she appreciated that, and nodded.
“Unfortunately, I have that award thing at the Conference Center. Gabe won’t let me out of it, since he’s stacking it with meetings the following day. We’re killing a bunch of birds with a handful of gravel.”
Ivan just laughed as he sat there with his eyes closed as he recouped.
“You’re criminally insane,” he admitted.
Add that to the list of Elizabethisms.
There were quite a few.
Oh, she was well aware. Only, Ivan knew what was going on, and that she was planning a party and wedding.
For.
Gene.
Well, Gene and Ethan, to be exact.
“Yeah, but I do it so well,” she admitted. “No one can make it look this easy, but being insane takes time and practice. I’ve had years to perfect it.”
And she had.
As they sat there, enjoying the moment, she sipped her coffee, and was curious.
“Where’s everyone?” she asked.
Gene clued her in.
“Ethan is in the tipi with Wyler, and they are about to embark on a journey,” he said. “Chris was sleeping in, and you know that because you left us notes not to wake his ass no matter what.”
Yeah, she had.
It was rare she got bossy, but when it came to Chris’ health and well-being, she was the freaking bossiest boss that ever did boss.
He’d been working a lot, making sure that he was keeping Autopsy One going in DC and here. He’d worked yesterday, and she wanted him rested.
Well.
Rested.
First, because they could be called out at any time for a case, and secondly, because he needed to take it easier than he often did.
Chris and Gene were the oldest of all five of them, but Chris had HIV, and that made it more difficult for him to rest and feel good.
She wasn’t letting him run himself into the ground.
PERIOD.
“So Callen is showering, and he was truly devastated that he missed your run. You should make him do it tomorrow,” he said, as Ivan snickered. “I think he’d love it.”
Oh, it was clear who wanted to torment the Native man in the most sadistic way possible.
