Author's Note: This is my first attempt at writing fanfiction so bear with me. Any constructive criticism is welcome! I've had this idea of a NCIS and Major Crimes crossover for a while. So let's see where it'll go.

NCIS, Major Crimes, and its characters don't belong to me.

Ding!

The elevator doors greeted Leroy Jethro Gibbs as he slowly opened his eyes. His eyes adjusted to the annoying skylight in the middle of the squad room and saw his team still at their desks.

"Sorry Boss, we're staying," said Senior Field Agent Anthony DiNozzo last night when Gibbs ordered them home. He couldn't help but smile, knowing they always say that when the case gets tough. This time was no different.

The team has been chasing a serial killer for the past three weeks. The murderer has been targeting sailors until yesterday, killing a civilian, who has yet to be identified. Gibbs and his team were called when local law enforcement realized the M.O. matched the other murders. The civilian was a special case, seeing as how the killer was consistent: he would slit the victims' throat and tie them with rope. The newest victim, not in the military database, was killed by strangulation but she received multiple stab wounds with the same knife in the other murders. The only consistency, however, was the removal of the fingernail from the left ring finger.

Gibbs looked at his computer screen, which was still trying to identify the victim. He sighed and went to get his straight black coffee from the break room. He couldn't see what caused the killer to change his M.O. and wouldn't know until the victim was identified.

"Morning Gibbs," greeted Agent Ziva David, "anything new?"

"Nope," he replied before taking a sip and sitting down at his desk.

Agent Timothy McGee began stirring at the sound of their voices and shot up when he realized he was still at work.

"Go home," Gibbs ordered again, knowing they needed to freshen up, "and wake up DiNozzo." Ziva and McGee nodded and plotted secretly to scare DiNozzo. Gibbs hid his face behind the computer screen as he heard Tony yell and curse like a sailor. He smiled and shook his head as his team headed for the elevator.

Beep beep beep! The computer blared as it identified the victim. A hand stopped the closing elevator doors as the team exited the cable car and went back to their desks.

"Looks like our victim is a missing person from Los Angeles. I wonder why it took so long to identify her. I bet she was killed by her kidnapper," reported DiNozzo.

"You can't assume she was kidnapped, Tony," replied McGee.

"You're right, McGoo, but I'll bet she was," Tony said as he extended his hand. McGee walked toward Tony, with an intention to take the bet before he was interrupted by Gibbs' slap to the back of Tony's head.

"Don't bother McGee, our victim was in the news a few years ago. I knew she looked familiar," said Gibbs, as he realized it was Tamara Adams, daughter of the prominent lawyer, William Adams. Her picture was plastered on the news for weeks. He knew if his own daughter had been kidnapped, he would want to hear it from the person who found her, dead or alive.

"I'm going."