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Part 382 of Dictionary.Com Word of the Day Drabbles , Part 8 of One shots - Ducky centric
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Alacrity

Summary:

Ducky ponders why his profile was wrong when it came to her.

Notes:

Another dictionary.com word of the day drabble. This time from 05/18/2000 for the word alacrity.

alacrity
A cheerful or eager readiness or willingness,often manifested by brisk, lively action or promptness in response.

This is for the ncis-drabble community on LJ's challenge: #097 Profile.

For some reason, I'm inordinately proud of having this one be exactly 100 words.

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Alacrity

Ducky greatly enjoyed Mary's alacrity, especially with conversation. He'd never met anyone with a more lively mind, who was so eager to talk about anything and everything that came to Ducky's mind. In fact, he'd noticed that most people tuned out his stories.

Maybe that's why he never considered someone like her in his profile of the killer. Or maybe it was human nature to assume that if someone seemed to be happy that they weren't out there killing people. Ducky only knew that finding out Mary was the serial killer he'd been chasing hurt on more than one level.

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