I do not own NCIS or
any of its characters.
I got the idea of this story from the movie
double jeopardy.
1999
Petty officer Jane Luke 25 woke up in the morning to find blood stains on her singlet and boxers, "What the…. Kevin…. Kevin" she called out to her husband who wasn't lying beside her. Jane felt her body for a wound but found nothing. Jane got out of bed and frantically started screaming for her husband "Kevin, Kevin where are you". Her husband was no where in sight. Jane made her way to her 4 year old sons' room. Jane screamed when she saw her son lying in blood with a knife wound to his throat. Jane rushed over to her sons' side and with shaking fingers tried to find a pulse "No No Sean, please don't be dead" she sobbed. At that moment there was a yell from outside "NCIS, we are coming in"
Leroy Jethro Gibbs stormed the house with his boss agent Mike franks to find Jane holding her son in her arms and sobbing uncontrollably. Gibbs and Mike Franks pointed their guns at the petty officer and said "Put your hands in the air or we will shoot" Jane put her hands in the air "Someone killed my son, where is my husband". Gibbs strode over to Jane and roughly pulled her arms behind her back cuffing her. "You are under arrest for killing your son and your husband, you have the right to remain silent, and anything you say or do will be used against you in court".
Jane struggled against her cuffs and Gibbs had to restrain her.
"I didn't kill them I woke up and found him like this, you've got the wrong person, please don't do this".
Franks eyed Jane and said "What did you do with your husbands' body, where did you kill him". Jane gave in struggling and allowed herself to be taken to the NCIS van. Jane was then transported to NCIS headquarters where she was put into an interrogation room.
Jane was in shock she
had lost her boy her little boy, her husband was missing and she had
been accused of their murders. Gibbs entered the interrogation room
and sat down opposite Jane trying to intimidate her. Jane held his
stare and didn't give into it. She knew he was trying to get her to
confess to a murder she didn't commit.
Gibbs stood up after 20
minutes and walked around to her side and stood with one hand on the
table in front of her and one on the chair she was sitting on, his
face was millimeters from her own.
Jane didn't fidget she continued to look to the front not flinching when he slapped the table. "Where is your husband, what did you do with the body, why did you kill you son"
Jane blinked and sighed "How many times do I have to tell you I didn't kill them, how could I kill my little boy, I didn't do it. I DIDN'T DO IT"
Jane stood up and Gibbs pushed her roughly back down "Ill tell you how you did it, You stabbed your son and to stop your husband from telling anyone you murdered him as well, then you hid the body and tried to make it look like an accident, unfortunately for you we have a 911 call from your husband". Jane's head shot up when she heard the last part.
"Wh.
What" Jane questioned
Gibbs walked over to the tape player and
pushed the play button
"Emergency" the 911 voice
asked
"Help me Help me please" Kevin's voice came over the
speaker
"My wife is trying to kill me, she killed our son, she
stabbed him"
Tears formed in Jane eyes
"Need help……"
The line went dead
Gibbs
stopped the recording and turned around to face Jane who sat their
shell shocked.
"You're going to jail for life, you may as
well tell us where your husbands body is".
Jane shook her
head and started sobbing.
She had been setup by her husband and he
was missing presumed dead and she was going to jail for their
murderers.
Gibbs left the interrogation room and closed the door behind him. Painful memories had been stirred up with this case. His daughter his beautiful wife. Kelly and Shannon his family. Dead. This case was affecting him, never before had he interrogated a murderer and they hadn't gave in to his intimidation. The look in her eyes as she heard the 911 call.
Jane was taken to a women's prison until her trial was
held. Jane was sentenced to life in prison for murdering her son and
husband and hiding the body.
Jane was sent to EMU plains
correctional prison to serve her life sentence.
2009
Jane
was serving her life sentence at EMU plains correctional prison and
she had served 10 years of it so far for a crime she hadn't
committed. She wasn't even allowed to attend her sons' funeral.
Her family had disowned her and she was on her own. No one listened
to her pleas of help. Everyone thought she was a murderer.
Jane had made a couple of friends at the prison that believed her and had told her about Double Jeopardy. She couldn't be trialed again for her husbands' murder; she could walk up to him in the street and shoot him and get away with it.
This thought kept Jane sane as she tried to trace a lead to her husbands' whereabouts. Jane's bank account had been emptied the day before the murders. Jane had an escape plan and her friends were willing to help her, they were also serving life sentences so it didn't matter if they got caught.
There plan was that during talk time which was the period when relatives came to visit their loved ones Jane would slip on an ordinary outfit with a bandana that they had smuggled in. The guards would let her walk out of the prison because of the clothes she was wearing; no prisoner had access to these clothes, so they wouldn't think she was a prisoner. The plan was not foolproof but it was their only option. Jane's friends would cover for her that night to give her a chance of getting further away.
The next morning Jane tucked the clothes under her shirt and went to talk time, one of her friends had called in her brother John to act as a relative for Jane and to drive her away, John spoke to the guards while Jane slipped on the shirt and bandana and swapped seats with one of her friends. Talk time was ended and Jane stood up among the relatives and walked in the middle of them to give her a better chance of escape. She slipped out of the doors without notice and made her way to the entrance. She wasn't stopped; John was waiting for her at his car and they got in and drove away at a normal speed to not look suspicious.
She was free… She had actually escaped. She could now track her husband and get revenge…
XXX
Gibbs and his team Dinozzo, McGee and Ziva were in the bullpen when they received the news that Petty officer Jane Luke had escaped from the EMU plains correctional prison. She had been discovered missing the following morning when she hadn't turned up for roll call. They had been fooled when one of the prisoners had covered for her the night before.
Gibbs was already headed to MTAC before the news reporter had finished her sentence. Gibbs strode into MTAC looking for Director Sheppard. Jenny looked up to see Gibbs walking over to her "You're here about Petty officer Jane Luke I gather".
Gibbs nodded
Jenny
sighed and said "I've already assigned your team to finding
her".
Gibbs walked out of MTAC without another word.
Tony was pulling faces at Ziva whilst trying to look over her desk at what she was doing. Ziva exclaimed "Don't let Gibbs catch you doing that Tony".
"Catch me doing what David" Gibbs exclaimed walking into the bullpen.
Tony quickly stopped pulling faces
at Ziva and said "Nothing boss"
Gibbs head slapped Dinozzo
and made his way to his desk
"Thank you boss" Tony
said.
"McGee pull up the case file of petty officer Jane Luke" Gibbs asked McGee. "We are going to find where she is heading and put her back in prison".
TBC
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