Unresolved Love (part I)
It was three AM Monday when Abby arose from her couch in which she had fallen asleep on while watching TV. She reached for her cell phone to check for any messages or missed calls, but she couldn't find it. "It probably just fell out in the car again," she said to herself. She grabbed her keys and left her apartment to head for the parking lot. As she approached her car, a strange feeling came over her. "I'm just tired," she thought, "once I get some sleep I'll feel fine at work tomorrow." She began to get her keys out of her pocket when someone struck her over the head, causing her to crumble to the ground unconscious.
In the squad room Monday morning around seven o clock, Tony, Ziva, and McGee all sat chatting about the weekend, Tony talking about a girl of course. Gibbs came around the corner. "We got a dead marine," said Gibbs, "grab your gear." About an hour and a half later, the team arrived back at NCIS with enough evidence to make Abby have a field day. Gibbs sent McGee down to Abby's lab with the field day causing evidence. However, when he reached her lab, Abby was nowhere to be found. McGee searched high and low but could not find her anywhere. It was then when he decided to tell Gibbs.
"Uh, boss, we have a problem." Said McGee.
"What is it now McGee?" asked Gibbs.
"Well, I went down to Abby's lab to give her the evidence, but she wasn't there."
"Did you check autopsy?"
"Umm…no I did not."
"Then go look!"
"Yes boss." McGee hurried down to autopsy to find Ducky and Jimmy carrying on with their normal routine.
"Hey Ducky, have you seen Abby?" asked McGee.
"No, I don't believe I have. What about you Mr. Palmer?"
"Nope. Why? Can't find her or something?" asked Jimmy.
"No I've been looking for her everywhere but I just can't find her. And if she was sick she would have called in." said McGee.
"Well I'm sure what ever reason Abigail has is a good one." Replied Ducky. McGee left autopsy to go look around NCIS for any signs of Abby. He then realized that he hadn't even bothered to try and call her. So he tried…eight times, but no answer. He was becoming more and more concerned with every second that she wasn't at work. McGee decided once more to report the information on the missing forensics expert to Gibbs. If anyone could help him, Gibbs could.
"Boss I still can't find her." McGee depressingly informed Gibbs.
"She wasn't in autopsy?' asked Gibbs.
"No and I looked everywhere else in the building in case she decided to pay the director a visit or something."
"And you tried calling her?"
"Eight times, no answer to any of them." Now Even Gibbs looked concerned. To Gibbs, Abby missing is like his daughter missing. The father-daughter relationship between Abby and Gibbs was similar to the one that he and Kelly had. So losing Abby would almost be like when he lost Kelly.
"Tony, Ziva, drop what you're doing and grab your gear, we're all going to Abby's apartment. McGee, call Ducky and tell him where we're going and what all is going on." Ordered Gibbs.
"On it boss!" They all said, almost in unison.
They arrived at Abby's apartment not too long after they left. Gibbs and Ziva were driving. Everyone searched for Abby's car, and found it. So that meant she was till there right? Tony and Ziva were sent into Abby's apartment to look and see if she was there or not. Gibbs and McGee looked around and about the car and found nothing but a pair of car keys and a small puddle of what looked to be blood. Tony and Ziva came back to what now could be a crime scene and reported that Abby was not in her apartment. McGee took a swab of the unknown substance on the ground, discovered it was blood, and put it away so that they could test it when they returned to NCIS.
"So what do we have boss?" asked Tony.
"A missing scientist." Replied Gibbs.
"Let me rephrase his question, what did we find?" asked Ziva.
"Well, we found the keys to Abby's car next to a puddle of blood on the pavement." answered McGee.
"Now we have to run the tests on the blood and find out who it belongs to." Said Gibbs. The team went back to NCIS, not letting Ziva drive this time. Gibbs called Ducky up to the squad room and told him to go down and run the blood tests with McGee in Abby's lab. After the normal waiting time, they got the test results. The blood belonged to Abby.