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Chapter 1 – A Lot of Questions, No Answers

The team was all sat in the overly orange bullpen minus Ziva and Gibbs.

Tony was sitting at his desk in a loose, blue shirt and dark jeans, staring at the clock while ducky regaled one of his many stories about his mishaps during his youth.

McGee who wore a light grey suit was sat at his desk discussing how to improve his computer's efficiency with a caf-pow hyper black clad Abby who was seated on the edge of his desk bobbing up and down on a caffeine rush excitedly grinning at whatever McGee was doing on the computer.

"Where's the bossman and Ziva this morning? It's past 09h00 and I haven't seen them, well I mean I have seen them, I've worked with them both for years so I have seen them just not today..." Abby rambled on with herself until McGee interrupted her,

"Gibbs is up in Director Vance's office, has been for an hour now and Ziva's... well actually I don't know where Ziva is I haven't seen her all morning and I've been here since 07h00. Tony do you know where she is?"

"Nope not heard from her since we left here last night" Tony replied with a mixture of emotion tinting his words: Amusement, Curiosity, Fear and Worry. He did his best to disguise the last two he did not want to cause a panic, especially when they had no reason to believe that anything was wrong with the Mossad Assassin.

They all got back to their conversations when they heard the familiar gruff voice that was Leroy Jethro Gibbs calling the words they heard nearly everyday

"Gear up" Gibbs shouted as he descended the stairs swiftly, his face was hard and his jaw clenched tight showing clearly that he was extremely pissed off at something.

His eyes although hard with anger were also soft with concern.

Ducky and Abby returned to their labs after hearing Gibbs bark his order to his agents, while Tony and McGee gathered their things.

"Come on Probie you heard the Boss there's a case, you know dead marine, investigation to be done. Hurry up" Tony teased McGee, who was now stumbling around getting his things.

"Who said anything about a marine DiNozzo? Dead or alive?"

"Boss if there isn't a marine involved then why are we going? It's not in our jurisdiction unless it's navy personnel or their families."

"Well yeah McGee I'm aware of that"

"Then why are we going?" McGee was now even more confused as to why NCIS was responding to a case not related to the Navy in anyway.

"You'll see"

Bethesda Naval Hospital

Gibbs pulled up outside the entrance to the hospital, barely stopping the car before springing out off the door and bolting to the front desk, leaving a perplexed McGee and DiNozzo trailing behind attempting to catch up to their leader whilst making sure that the charger was okay and locked up.

Gibbs had reached the front desk and had received the information he needed to get to the room he was trying to find by the time a breathless Tony and McGee had caught him up.

"Boss what are we doing here?" A gasping Tony inquired

"Finding our case"

"Good to know Boss"

The three agents power walked down the seemingly endless white corridor in desperate search of the right room.

McGee and Tony shared an occasional concerned glance as they still had not been given any information that would clear up their perturbation.

Tony was becoming increasingly troubled as to why they were at the Hospital, the lack of information was definitely not helping sate his thirst for answers.

Eventually his curiosity got the better of him and so he carefully inquired

"Boss what or who are we looking for?"

"Our victim DiNozzo" Gibbs growled at the Senior Field Agent

"What happened that requires NCIS boss?"

"DiNozzo you will find out when we find the right God damn room, so until then shut up and look!"

"But boss we don't even know.." Tony tried to rope more information out his boss

"You know as much as I do in regards to what happened all I know is that we need to find room 319"

After roughly 15 more minutes of combing through corridors and numerous rooms the team finally found the room they had been scouring endlessly for only to find...