"'Ballastics'? I guess you're a pure-bred Aussie, ar'n't you? Heh heh," Ian responded when a young woman, who seemed too naïve to know anything about forensics but wore their badge nonetheless, came up to Jin, Leslie and him and asked them who the team leader was.
"Welcome to the ... team ..." He assumed she was new.
"But young Miss Jones is in the other van. We're just the analysts, an' we have work to do."
Ian knew what she expected when she held out her hand, but instead slepped it with his palm in a "high-five" as he walked past her and through the front property. When he was far enough away, he looked over hs shoulder and smiled a big, silly grin until he rounded the corner of the building, almost stepping through the elaborate garden that hugged the perimeter.
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