Camp Chaos
- Day 2: Sweet talking Crooner -
Jenny barged through the door of the cabin and grabbed her wash bag and clean clothes, she noticed Gibbs staring at her and pouted folding her arms and tossing her hair around, 'what?' she snapped, still fuming from the blindfold incident and now dreading the karaoke looming like a deadly fog around a doomed ship headed towards a rocky cove, the crew bracing themselves for the horror ahead.
Gibbs nodded towards her hair, 'you missed a bit of your fringe with your new hair dye,' Jenny threw a hairbrush at him before storming out of the cabin. Gibbs smiled to himself as he picked up the brush and laid it on her bed, he turned at the silence and glared at the four pairs of raised eyebrows. All four jumped and made themselves busy, 'I'm gonna put some music on,' Abby started bouncing around as she switched on her i-pod, within seconds death metal was blaring from her portable speakers.
Gibbs face froze in place at the sounds reaching his ears, Tony grabbed a towel and shower gel and headed to the door, 'I'm gonna go play in the showers with Jenny,' he joked; Gibbs didn't see the funny side and Tony ran out quickly. Ziva busied herself tidying her already pristine bunk, and Abby and McGee started watching the footage from the cameras outside.
'This is the most boring reality show ever,' Abby groaned, 'Blondie smoking, weedy, eww playing with himself, and ooh Diane and Andy arguing,' Gibbs head jerked up at this, he turned to the screen and squinted behind Abby. 'What they arguing about?' Abby giggled, 'apparently Andrew has been looking at Jenny a bit too appreciatively,' Gibbs smiled, that would make Jen happy.
Tony crept into the showers and slipped into the cubicle to the left of the locked door, he could hear a soft voice singing and wanted to hear as much as possible before alerting her of his presence. He held back a snort as he realised what she was singing, not something an uptight director would sing if others could hear her.
He looked down at the water passing in the drain, brown; he pulled a face imaging how much mud she was washing out of her hair. The tune next door changed and Tony began to strip as he bounced along to the singing, he turned on the shower and the singing stopped abruptly. Within minutes the shower next door stopped and footsteps told him Jenny had slipped out of the building.
Thirty minutes later and everyone had changed into fresh clothes for dinner, Ziva was waiting patiently on the end of her bunk whilst McGee and Tony were arguing over a bottle of expensive aftershave, Gibbs was watching Jenny as she sat staring into space while Abby did her hair. Abby had insisted on styling Jenny for the night and would not take no for an answer, Jenny tugged uncomfortably and the t-shirt she had been forced to wear as her hair was pulled into pigtails. Low, then high, then in the middle, then plaited, then French plaited, 'Abby are you finished yet,' Jenny sighed as Abby completed her 7th restyle, 'yes I am,' the younger woman grinned as she headed towards her eyeliner and black lipstick.
Jenny's eyes widened as she realised what Abby was about to do, 'no Abs please,' Abby pouted sliding the cover off the eyeliner pencil. 'aww, you'll look great,' she smiled her most innocent smile and Jenny sighed as the Abby carefully applied her makeup.
Gibbs put his plate down before pulling a chair out for Jenny, she smoothed her skirt as she sat down, 'I look ridiculous,' she hissed, 'be grateful she had no black hair dye,' Tony hissed as he sat down opposite Jenny, 'Kate had black hair for a week.' Gibbs smiled remembering Abby's misery when Kate had finally washed all the black dye out.
Abby, Ziva and McGee all sat down in the remaining seats and began to eat, after everyone had finished the woman who had greeted them at the gate stood up on a small stage at one end of the room. 'We'll begin the Karaoke in half and hour, to make it fun you are going to pick a song for the person four seats to your right to sing, Jenny?,' Jenny nodded, 'should pick a song for McGee to sing, and Tony should pick for Jethro etc, everyone happy, great, we'll past out the song lists.'
Tony flicked down the song list and spotted a track, he grinned and caught Abby's attention, he pointed out the song and grinned widely, 'do it,' they both nodded giggling, Jenny's eyes narrowed at them, they were planning something. Abby hurried off to the organiser and spoke to her for a few seconds, the woman nodded smiling and gave Jenny a thumbs up, Jenny smiled back at her not sure what was happening.
The woman in charge stood behind the microphone, 'now we have everyone's songs we'll start, I'm going to pick the first person at random, and that person is Abby,' Abby's eyes widened as she stood up and skipped to the microphone, 'I'm sorry everyone, singing is not my specialty.' The music started behind her and lyrics came up on screen, 'aww Timmy, you know I love this song,' she bounced along with the music and began to sing with the words, she kept giggling through the verse but belted it out at the chorus, 'What a feeling, bein's believin', I can't have it all, now I'm dancin' for my life, Take your passion, and make it happen, Pictures come alive, you can dance right through your life.'
When she had finished and taken a bow she jumped off stage, the woman called the next person up, a man sat with Diane, he sang badly and just spoke half the words, everyone clapped politely when he had finished. 'And next we'll have Tim,' McGee swallowed nervously, 'I don't sing,' 'you do tonight Tim,' Jenny nodded at him smiling, 'we've all got to suffer,' 'go on probie, you'll be great,' Tony nudged the younger agent. McGee smiled and nodded as he stood up.
It turned out Jenny had picked out Feeling the Moment by Feeder, he knew the song so it couldn't be that bad. It turned out he could sing quite well, he had quite a vast range allowing him to hit the higher notes, 'How do you feel when there's no sun, And how will you be when rain clouds come and pull you down again, How will you feel when there's no one, Am I just like you.' He finished to applause and grinned all the way back to his seat, 'next we are going to have Jethro,' Jenny grinned at the horror on Gibbs face, 'just do it,' she muttered as he slowly got to his feet, when he saw the lyrics he turned and glared at Tony who quickly became very interested in his drink.
'Baby I didn't treat you quite as good as I should have, baby I didn't love you quite as good as I could have, little things I should have said and done, I never took the time, you were always on my mind, you were always on my mind.' He stared resolutely at the screen and vowed to slap Tony silly when they were back in the cabin.
Abby sat open mouthed at Gibbs singing, 'aww he sounds so pretty,' 'even singing along to the Pet Shop Boys,' Jenny cut in, 'I thought it was the Elvis version,' Tony stated touchily. 'Pet Shop Boys?' 'yeah you know, Go West, life is peaceful there, go west, no, you need to get out more Ziva.' They all whooped as Gibbs finished singing and shot back to his seat. Jenny laughed at the look on his face and took a swig of her drink and consequently nearly choked at the sound of her name.
She bit her lip and slid awkwardly over to the mic, her cheeks flushed as she positioned herself ready to sing, she saw the first line of the lyrics and relaxed immediately. She was singing this earlier, it would be fine, oh god the chorus. 'You change your mind, Like a girl changes clothes, Yeah, you PMS like a bitch, I would know, And you always think, Always speak cryptically I should know, That you're no good for me,' she glared at Tony as he stared to laugh.
'Cause you're hot then you're cold, You're yes then you're no, You're in and you're out, You're up and you're down, You're wrong when it's right, It's black and it's white, We fight, we break up, We kiss, we make up,' it sounds like I'm singing about crap sex she thought as she ploughed through the song, its different singing it on your own in the shower to singing it in public.
Tony laughed and high-fived Abby, 'told you she could sing,' he grinned remembering how much power she gave the chorus in the shower. After Jenny had sat down Diane sang, 'Girlfriend' by Avril Lavigne and directed the song at Gibbs. Jenny rolled her eyes and ignored her, then Ziva sang 'you're the voice,' Jenny nudged Gibbs, 'you couldn't have picked something less depressing?'
Ziva took her seat, 'you know what Ziva you really kicked ass out there, you whooped Mr tone deaf,' Ziva did something to Tony's back making him whimper, 'you were great,' he squeaked. The group relaxed and continued to drink as the others sang, when everyone had sang Jenny stood up to leave, 'oh and we've got one more special performance, Jenny and Jethro want to sing a duet,' Jenny glared at Abby, and sighed as Gibbs led her by the arm to the stage, 'lets just get it over with,' he hissed.
'Oh man,' he groaned at the sight and sound of the song, 'DiNozzo is a dead man,' Jenny glared at the small screen, 'he's not the only one, watch your back Abs, watch your back.' They both took deep breaths and began to sing, luckily it was one they both knew and liked from Paris, they had even sung to it before.
'I know I stand in line
Until you think you have the time
To spend an evening with me
And if we go someplace to dance
I know that there's a chance
You won't be leaving with me
Then afterwards we drop into a quiet little place
And have a drink or two
And then I go and spoil it all
By saying something stupid
Like I love you'
At the last line they caught each others eye nervously, they continued with the song ignoring the memories it stirred up. The others all watched in amazement as Jenny harmonised with Gibbs perfectly, 'wow they are good together.'
'I can see it in your eyes
That you despise the same old lines
You heard the night before
And though it's just a line to you
For me it's true
And never seemed so right before
I practice every day to find some clever
lines to say
To make the meaning come through
But then I think I'll wait until the evening
gets late
And I'm alone with you
The time is right
Your perfume fills my head
The stars get red
And oh the night's so blue,'
They were both smiling by the end of the song and looked at each other as they sang the last few lines. It was something a couple would do, they both thought it would look strange if they stared away from each other.
'And then I go and spoil it all
By saying something stupid
Like I love you
I love you...'