Title: Eyes

Summary: A movie reveals a clue to Tony's recurring dream.

Disclaimer: NCIS is not mine.

Spoilers: None that I'm aware of.

A/N: This was originally going to be part of a longer story that I've been working on for some time now. I decided on a different direction for that story, but thought this would still make a decent one-shot. Let me know if you agree.

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He'd had the dream again. The eyes. For some reason all the other images in this particular recurring dream were out of focus and vague except for the eyes. He'd never noticed before tonight, but it finally occurred to him that the eyes were not both the same color. Finally, after however many times that he'd had this particular dream over the years, he noticed that one eye was brown and one was blue.

Before tonight he would always awaken just as the mysterious person of his dream's eyes snapped into focus. But tonight, for the first time, the dream had lingered just long enough for him to finally notice this one significant detail. Some investigator he was.

Then, it came to him. The reason why he'd finally realized or remembered this particular detail. It was because of a movie.

Wasn't it always?

He'd gone to the video store on his way home from work with the sole purpose of renting a couple of movies that would help him decompress after his team had finally solved their latest case. He'd been browsing the aisles for some time, not knowing what he wanted to watch, when he'd spotted the title.

The movie had come out in 1980 and starred a post-Superman Christopher Reeve and a post-Live and Let Die Jane Seymour. Somewhere in Time directed by Jeannot Szwarc was considered a classic chick flick. His nanny at the time had dragged him to the film which of course he thought was boring until she had appeared on screen. He had been entranced by her beauty though at the time he had used other, less appropriate words to describe her in his young, pre-teen mind. He remembered the movie only because Jane Seymour was his first crush.

He hadn't ever seen the movie again and had all but forgotten his crush when other, more suitably aged girls had come along. And, in memory of that long ago crush; he had decided to rent the film.

It was in watching it that he discovered something about Jane Seymour that he'd never noticed before – she had two differently colored eyes. One of her eyes was green and the other brown which was different from the dream person's eyes but the concept was the same regardless.

Perhaps that is why he'd had the dream again so soon. Noticing Jane's eyes had more than likely triggered his subconscious memory of the eyes in his dream. Either way it felt like a break through despite the fact that he still couldn't remember anything else from the dream.

To whom did the eyes belong? Did they belong to someone he knew? A witness in a past case?

Not knowing why he continued to have this dream was annoying enough, but now that he finally had another detail, it was bugging the hell out him. And, he suddenly realized, his gut was bothering him in the bad feeling sort of way and not the too much pizza and beer sort of way.

He looked over at his alarm clock: 0337 hours. He had to be up for work in less than two and a half hours.

He sighed trying to decide whether or not it was worth trying to go back to sleep or to just get up and go for a run.

Running won but the eyes stayed with him and the feeling in his gut stayed with him too. He gave up after three or four miles and decided to head into work early hoping his boss wouldn't choke on his coffee at seeing him at his desk not only on time but early.

He could practically feel the head slap for even having that thought.

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A/N 2: Yes, Jane Seymour really does have two different colored eyes. Live and Let Die came out in 1973 and starred Roger Moore as James Bond. Superman came out in 1978.

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