Summery: With a psychotic killer on the loose its up to NCIS to catch him. With the killer targeting Ziva as his next victem, she must rely on her teamates to catch the mad man and on McGee to protect her. The summery sux but the story should be good.
Rating: M
disclaimer: i do not own NCIS or any of its characters and in no way am i making money off this.
A/N: hey readers, here is my new story. Took me a long time to come up with the idea and I'm still coming up new things for it. These first two chapters are a bit iffy but I hope you like them anyways. The first chapter is uneventful but short so just read anyways. Like always please READ, REVIEW and ENJOY.
Playing With Fire
Chapter 1
It seemed like any other case. What other people would find weird or disturbing, Gibbs and his team find just another day at work. The team was called to a house where before the fire department was called to a fire. The house suffered only little damage due to the fast work of the fire department, but upon a further investigation, the bodies of two men where found and with the discovery of one of the bodies being a Marine Sergeant, NCIS was immediately called.
The team plus Ducky and Palmer were now examining a body that was found in the partly damaged living room. What made it special was the fact that it was found on fire. Fire fighters actually had to put out the body when they found it so now all that was left was a blackened and burnt remains of what was once a human being.
Gibbs, Ducky and Palmer were kneeling by the burned remains while Ziva, McGee and Tony remained standing. McGee was trying his best not to look at the body and not feel sick but every so often he would take a glance only to catch what was left of the burnt and blackened skeletal face of the victim staring back. But one thing he was unable to get rid of was the smell of fire and burnt flesh invading his nose.
"So what can you tell from the body Ducky," Gibbs asked looking at the ashy remains.
"Well not much from what is left," Ducky stated as he stood up, "except that this poor gentleman had an unfortunate demise and that it is apparent that he was murdered before he was set ablaze but I won't be able to tell how he was murdered till we get him back to autopsy."
"How can you tell that it was murder," Ziva asked.
"Well if you take a moment to take a whiff, you will smell traces of gasoline," Ducky explained, "and upon further inspection of living room you see nothing that would have held gasoline or anything that would have accidentally started a fire."
"How were the fire marshals able to figure out he was Marine Sergeant right away," Tony asked curiously, "even if they were able to find ID on him, he doesn't really look recognizable anymore."
"That is a good question," Ducky responded, "this is actually the roommate and not our Marine Sergeant."
"Where is the Sergeant then," asked Ziva.
"Our Sergeant was found in the back yard," Ducky told her as he motioned to the team to follow him to the back door, "though he did not have the same end as his friend here, he did still suffer an untimely death."
The team stepped out into the back yard to find the a second body lying spread eagle on its back in a pool of blood with its face looking away from the team. At first they couldn't see the man's face but when they walked around to get a good look at it, their own face turned to that of wide-eyed shock. McGee, who was more than happy to get away from the burnt body of the first victim and relieved to breath in fresh air instead of ash, turned away at the sight of the second victim as he felt his breakfast rising up his throat.
Even though the body was not set on fire as the first victim, he had instead a small axe sticking out from between his eyes and deep into his skull. Blood covered the silver of the axe and dripped down to the floor As Ducky and Palmer returned to inside the house, Gibbs knelt down by the body and slowly lifted the axe by the handle lifting the Sergeant's head with it.
"The killer has to be pretty strong to have it stuck in this deep," Gibbs stated, "thrown or not."
Gibbs looked up and saw McGee was talking with a local L.E.O. that had just appeared from the side of the house. When they finished, Gibbs looked at McGee waiting to hear what info he had just acquired.
"Boss, I think we have our first witness or suspect," McGee informed him, "Local L.E.O's say that witnesses saw a man in a white van leaving the house a little before the fire was reported then abandon the van at another house a couple blocks away."
"Alright, you and Ziva go over to the house, check out that van, and give us call if you find anything" Gibbs ordered, "Tony and I are gonna stay here and see what we can find."
After a quick nod, both Ziva and McGee headed out to the house. When they were gone, Gibbs turned back to the body of the Marine Sergeant and stared at his face as if he was studying it closely. Sensing that something was not right, Tony knelt down beside his boss.
"So what's your famous gut telling you boss," he asked him.
"That's what I'm trying to figure out DiNozzo," Gibbs told him.
"This could mean trouble. Either we're in danger or you're losing your touch."
This time Gibbs responded by smacking Tony in the back of the head then sighing softly.
To be continued in the next chapter….
