Never Look Back

NCIS & NCIS: LA Crossover

Tony runs into Deeks one day in DC and the two become friends over the insanity of their bosses and females on their teams. The DC team share adventures with Deeks as he does his FLETC training.

Part 8 of my Deeks Back Story Series. I just think these two are so alike and I really do love them both.

Disclaimer: I do not own either NCIS or NCIS: LA or its amazing characters.

Never Look Back

Chapter One: The Meeting

Tony DiNozzo huffed as he made a sharp right around the corner of a brick building in the back streets of DC. It was his day off and yet here he was chasing down some thug who shot at him, seriously he could not catch a break. He made a few more rights before a left, never letting the man leave his sight line. The off duty NCIS agent turned a corner in time to see the man go flying into a brick wall and Tony skidded to a halt.

"Stay down! Keep your hands where I can see them!" A voice called out as a man a few years younger than Tony with shaggy blonde hair came out of a connecting alleyway. The man had a standard police issue gun pointed at the prep who was smartly holding his hands in the air in front of him. "On your feet, against the wall." The man ordered and did the familiar pat down of a police officer and cuffed the prep, putting his gun back in his hoister; the man was not dressed like one however. He had on a pair of faded blue jeans with a brown belt, a navy blue V-neck shirt on with a dark green zippered jacket on top.

"Who are you man?" The thug grunted and Tony hanging back still was wondering the same thing.

"LAPD, but I was sent down here to help out the DCPD to take you down." The man retorted and Tony relaxed slightly and decided to make his presence known.

"I liked your take down, very effective." Tony piped up as he walked closer reaching for his shield (he may be off duty but if working with Gibbs all these years didn't teach him to be prepared then he was in for one mother of a head slap on Monday). The two men's heads snapped towards and the cop's hand went to his side again but Tony showed his NCIS badge, ready to tell him whom he was.

"NCIS, I'll be damned." The blond cop relaxed as he recognized the badge and moved his hand away from his side arm.

"Agent Tony DiNozzo NCIS, which you already seem to know about." Tony joined the duo, keeping an eye on the gun toting man in cuffs.

"Detective Marty Deeks, LAPD liaison to NCIS." The blond offered a hand and the two shook.

"You're a liaison with the LA office?" Tony asked trying to mask his surprise.

"Going on 2 years now." Deeks smiled. "Never a dull moment with those guys."

"Which team are you with?" Tony was curious as the two teams crossed over once a few years ago.

"As much as I love hearing about your work, if your going to arrest me can we just get it over with?" The prep whined and Deeks tightened his grip on the man's cuffed hands.

"Let me just drop this guy off with the DCPD and we can discuss this more if you want to?" Deeks offered.

"Sounds like a plan, I'll come with you as he shot at me hence why I was chasing him." Tony agreed and Deeks started to shove the man along towards the street and sure enough a few DC squad cars where they're waiting and they quickly took the man away from Deeks and read him his rights as they pushed him into a car.

Quickly they gave their statements and since Tony seemed to know half the officers there it went pretty quickly and the duo found them selves seated at a dinner, sipping coffee.

"So Agent DiNozzo…" Deeks started but Tony held up a hand.

"Tony."

"Marty."

"Nice to meet you, so what team are you with out there in LA?"

"You know that is a good question, I'm going to go with Team Hetty because knowing her I wouldn't be surprised if she is hearing every word I'm saying out here…" Deeks shuddered and eyed the security cameras warily.

"THE Henrietta Lange?" Tony felt his jaw drop; he had heard rumors about her.

"That would be the one, if that's in fact her real name and yeah everything you hear about her is probably true. One time we had to work with the FBI and they thought she was an urban legend, she got him on the phone for a few moments and he was scared straight and helped us out." Deeks' lips quirked up into a smile.

"She's that good huh?"

"She's that good Tony."

"We had a case that crossed over with you guys a few years back, I don't remember you…"

"Before my time I guess."

"Hanna, Callen, Byle…" Tony racked his brain.

"Ding, ding, ding. Yeah I'm Kensi Byle's partner and dude to be honest she will kill me if I tell you anything else about her." Deeks said straight-faced.

"So you're going to right?" Tony leaned forward.

"Of course I am, right after you tell me who's team your part of up here in DC." Marty shot back crossing his arms.

"Well played my blond foe. Well I am a Senior Field Agent to one Leroy Jethro Gibbs we are part of MCRT which stand for…" Tony started brushing his jeans off.

"Major Crime Response Team." Deeks supplied causing Tony to just stare at him.

"What? After I finish up with the DCPD I'm starting FLETC training here so I'm familiarizing myself with all the terms and you work with Gibbs? Callen has talked about him, rather fondly actually..." Deeks shrugged.

"I guess they have background. So you're a cop that is turning Agent, just like me but I bet you weren't tricked into it after being whacked in the head. Congrats Marty."

"Thanks and actually, Hetty kind of slipped the form into a huge pile of paperwork I was plowing through and I uh…" Marty rubbed his neck.

"You didn't read it all the way through and signed off on it yeah?" Tony suggested. "I know what that's like, once Gibbs wanted me to baby sit Abby our forensic specialist after a surgery and slipped in a form in my pile which I signed saying I would take care of her on her leave… It was an interesting weekend, I had wash my clothes a million times to get the smell of drugs and CAF POW out."

"That sounds like one hell of a weekend." Marty laughed as he drank more of his coffee.

"Any weekend with Abby is, you should meet her she would really like you and would most likely send you back to LA with either a new Goth look, a piercing or a tattoo." Tony laughed at Marty who was starting to pale. "Now back to the things you can't tell me about Kensi."

"Ah Kensi Badass Byle as I call her, well for starters she is horrible driver, I don't think she could stay in the speed limit and in one lane to save her life."

"Ah I feel you there Marty, the woman on my team Ziva she drives just like that and my boss well he stays in one lane but is way out of the speed limit." Tony shuddered.

"Oh god you have two speed demons on your team. I'm very sorry Tony." Deeks smirked and Tony put a hand on his heart.

"I will never survive another road trip with either of them." Tony groaned dramatically making Marty snicker.

"Does your Ziva have a sugar addiction? Kensi has Twinkies and M&M's stored in all different places in her car and her over cluttered desk."

"Ah Ziva doesn't, well not that I can see. She just has a habit of mixing up the English language a lot being foreign and all and she does seem to keep pointing out the fact she could kill me with a paperclip so maybe she has a paperclip collection?" Tony wiggled his eyebrows.

"Why exactly does she threaten to kill you with a paperclip?" Marty asked raising an eyebrow.

"Well I kind of run my mouth, making jokes and movie references… Trying to help easy the pressures of the cases we do, but I don't think her and McGee my other team member see it like that…" Tony trailed off.

"I understand you there Tony, I do the same thing back in LA with my team but I just get Sam the SEAL riding my ass." Marty grumbled.

"What did you do in the LAPD before you 'signed' the papers to become an agent?" Tony made air quotes when he said signed and Marty smiled.

"Undercover, what about you?" Marty asked and rolled his eyes at Tony's expression. "I can tell when someone is or was a cop, where were you?"

"I was undercover in the Baltimore PD, my partner went dirty on me and I kind of arrested Gibbs who is now my boss and somehow after the case was done I ended up at NCIS." Tony admitted slowly.

"Yeah I know something about that…" Marty trailed off and Tony gave a shocked look. "Well my partner wasn't dirty but she was… caught in a car bomb and one of the officers who was higher up in the LAPD tried to kill me after admitted he killed her and he was a dirt cop… So yeah I get you Tony." Marty said quietly.

"And somehow we both ended up at NCIS, the world is a wonderful thing." Tony chuckled and Deeks snorted into his coffee cup.

"I guess you could say that."

"So you're sticking around in DC for FLETC training?" Tony changed the subject trying not to let the mood get more depressing.

"Yup, once I finish up at the DCPD tonight I'm off to start training tomorrow. Any advice?" Marty went with the flow, as he hated depressing topic's as well.

"Well after I went though the training, Gibbs said they had to rewrite the handbook so I can't really say." Tony grinned cheekily.

"Oh really now? I feel like that is a challenge." Deeks smirked.

"Maybe it is, maybe it isn't." Tony then held out his hand and Deeks looked at him unimpressed.

"You are a good looking guy Tony, but I'm not going to hold your hand." Deeks snorted and Tony rolled his eyes and made a 'gimme' gesture with his extended hand.

"Hand me your phone genius."

Deeks did so slowly and it was snatched from his grip as Tony inputted his numbers before tossing it back to the blond.

"What was that?"

"Call me after you finish your training tomorrow and if I can we can meet up and I'll show you around or make you do a Gibbs coffee run for me and you can meet my team." Tony said cheerily.

"That's actually really nice of you Tony, thank you!" Deeks grinned and sent a text to both the numbers so Tony would have his number as well.

"No problem, cops gotta help each other out yeah? Where are you staying anyways?" Tony asked as he drank more of his hazelnut-flavored coffee.

"Hetty is putting me up in a Holiday Inn for my time down here." Marty answered.

"Well if you ever get tried of paper view movies my door is open for a movie marathon whenever we have time."

"That would be great, thanks Tony!" Deeks meant it, it has been a while since he had ever met anyone like Tony DiNozzo and he was glad he had.