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HALLOWEEN: THE SERIES
MICHAEL AND THE MARINE
HADDONFIELD, ILLINOIS
"What happened?" Tommy Doyle asked the officer.
"Two kids found two bodies hanging from those trees. We pulled Navy ID from one of them and Marine Corps ID from the other." Michael was talking to another officer.
"Rule number 1, never let people waiting to be interviewed stay together." Tommy joined him.
"In your long list of federal contacts, you wouldn't happen to have one at NCIS?" Michael pulled out his phone and made a call.
WASHINGTON D.C.
Special Agent Anthony DiNozzo looked at the ringing cellphone and went to pick it up.
"If I wanted someone to answer my phone calls for me, I would've stayed in New York with my brother." Andros Khayman walked into the room and picked up the phone glaring at DiNozzo as he did.
"What's up?" Andros walked off towards the Director's office as his partner Tim McGee walked into the room.
"Where's Khayman going?"
"Director's office.
He's been real grumpy lately. Reminds me of..."
"Reminds
you of what DiNozzo?"
"Hi, Boss." Their boss Special Agent Leroy Jethro Gibbs appeared from behind them.
"Khayman's with the Director." McGee told him as Gibbs marched up the stairs and into the Director's office.
"Agent Gibbs, I'm sending your team to Illinois. Haddonfield Police found a dead Marine and a dead Petty Officer and have requested our assistance." Director Leon Vance told him.
"Do they have proper facilities there?"
"They do, and I'm sending Abby and Ducky with your team. I don't need her running around here going crazy." Gibbs and Khayman left.
"Grab your gear and prepare for a trip. We're going to Haddonfield on orders from the Director."
"I'm so glad it's not Halloween season. McGee would be dead within minutes of setting foot in that town." Andros stood behind Tony and then slapped him on the head.
"That call was from Michael Myers. And my brother would have hit you twice as hard for making comments like that." Mossad Officer Ziva David looked at him.
"Open mouth, remove foot, then close mouth." She said.
"I'm sure Myers would regret deciding to chase Ziva if he ever did. Tony told McGee unaware that Ziva could still hear him.
"I will kill you 18 different ways with this paperclip and I don't need my father's permission to do so." She snapped back at him holding a paperclip in her hand. He turned to McGee.
"Why didn't you say something?"
HADDONFIELD
"They died from broken necks due to hanging. But, we'll know more once they're on the table " Ben Loomis said as he examined the bodies.
"Ben, put both of them in the cooler until NCIS arrives." Michael said. "They're bringing their own M.E. with them."
"Michael, Jankins told me you called someone in from Washington." Pete Hill walked up behind them.
"I called NCIS, one's a Marine, the other one's in the USN. Spoke directly to Bryan Khayman's brother."
"I was with NCIS before I took the job in Springwood. Learned quite a bit from my boss there." He noticed Jankins about to touch a piece of rope with his bare hands. "Like rule number 2. Always wear gloves at a crime scene." Kelsey came up beside him.
"This is just weird. First Wynn's little stunt has every Jedi in the country here, then Nicole Wallace brings the NYPD here, and now NCIS is coming here. Hey, those entire ropes are evidence." She screamed that last part at Jankins who was untying the ropes used for the hangings. Michael walked over with her and took his Lightsaber out. he then swung it at the branch, slicing the end of the branch off and then pulled the ropes off of the branch. Hill walked up on them.
"Rule number 9. Always carry a knife."
"Or a Lightsaber." Michael said as he bagged the ropes up.
Back at the station, Kelsey began processing the ropes.
"This guy wore gloves. But that means nothing since we managed to catch Nicole Wallace. I'm also running both names through everything, maybe they shared a gym or something." Michael stood behind her and put a large drink cup next to her.
"Let me know when you find something." He walked into his office and spotted Martinson sitting in his chair.
"Alex, why are you in my chair?" He asked the detective who had recently resigned from the State Police after finding out his partner was an accessory to multiple murders and his captain was taking hush money from The Outfit.
"Nobody told you." He said as Michael walked or rather marched into Hill's office.
"Martinson's here already?"
"He's sitting in my chair."
"That extra desk in
your office is his."
"That desk was put in the Special
Conference Room after Detective Eames said something about needing a
place to read files in there."
"What happened to the table that was in the file room?"
"It went to the lab and then wound up in the evidence room when the mismatched furniture in the lab was replaced with matching furniture. Some patrolman who weighs more then Jankins sat on the old table in the evidence room and broke it."
"Why do I feel like putting numbers on the furniture in this place? I think Kelsey's old desk is in the basement. Get Tommy to help you bring it up, clean it off, and give it to Martinson." Jankins walked in.
"Some kids found a body at Tower Farm."
"Go. Take Martinson and Loomis with you." He told Michael.
"This is Marine Lance Corporal David Vickers." The officer told the three detectives and produced the victim's military ID card.
"Cause of death?"
"This one was stabbed in the back with a pitchfork." Ben said. Michael had a flashback to when he had killed Spitz under Wynn's control.
"We found another one upon checking the area. Lance Corporal James Phillips, throat slit, stabbed with we believe the same pitchfork." Michael left the barn and called Andros.
"We have two more at that farm everyone in town stays away from now." Tommy joined him.
"I just updated NCIS
on the case."
"I saw that other part. You were thinking
of the guy that thing killed with a pitchfork 20 years ago."
Tommy started to chase after him but Ben stopped him.
"Let him be. Whoever did this has just made the worse mistake of their life. They made him angry."
The next day, Michael was still in a bad mood and it showed in how he talked to certain people.
"Is he always like that?" Alex asked Tommy after Michael told off a man locked up for shoving someone in a bar.
"Just with Jankins and the drunk rednecks. The rednecks don't settle down until he gives them the blank stare and Jankins sits at a desk eating donuts all day. Today would be Jelly Day." Tommy told him as Jankins walked in carrying his usual box of donuts and put them on his desk. Michael stood behind him.
"Are you working at the front desk again?"
"Today's Court for everyone in the holding cell. I have to take them over to the courthouse."
"So you're at court in the morning and here answering the phone between jelly donuts in the afternoon?"
"Why?"
"I'm expecting NCIS today and I don't think it will be a good impression of our department if you're eating donuts in front of them."
"The donuts are coming with me." Michael turned towards Tommy and Alex.
"Kelsey said there were no connections between any of our victims outside of the service. The three Marines were in Iraq at the same time."
"Where does the Naval officer fit into this then?"
"Find out." Michael said as he helped Jankins secure the prisoners for transport to court.
"He wasn't even on the same ship as the three Marines."
"I guess we wait for the autopsies to be done when NCIS arrives."
Three vehicles entered town. Two of them had the letters N.C.I.S. written on them. They stopped at a hardware store on Main Street after Andros spotted a Hummer sitting in front of it. Everyone except for Ducky and Abby got out.
"Kids, who are going to help replace this door when caught." Michael said.
"NCIS, Agents Gibbs, DiNozzo, and McGee. You already know Agent Khayman and this is Officer David from Mossad." Gibbs told him.
"Detectives Myers and Doyle. Probationary Detective Martinson." Tony nudged McGee.
"Probie, meet Probie."
"I never thought of that one." Tommy said and nudged Alex.
"Am I going to be called that forever?" Alex asked.
"It's a sign of affection where we're from. Gibbs' senior field agent still calls him Probie." Tony said. "I'm sure whoever you two started under here called you guys Probie also." Michael responded by hitting the back of Tony's head. He then whacked Tommy in the back of the head also.
"What was that for?" Tommy asked.
"Preventive measure. You were thinking about hitting Martinson." Alex and McGee snickered. Hill arrived to see his three detectives talking with NCIS.
"Gibbs. I figured you were coming since Michael called Andros here about this case. What happened here?"
"Someone broke in, stole a knife and some rope. The only thing missing is the Halloween mask since selling that mask in this state is an automatic trip to Gitmo." Tommy said. Michael and Andros both shot him glares and Hill slapped him on the back of the head.
"Freaky town. The police even have their own versions of the Gibbs Glare and Gibbs Slap. Probably have their own version of the Gibbs Rules also." Tony said to himself making sure that Michael, Andros, Hill, and especially Gibbs weren't around.
Gibbs and his crew walked into the station behind Hill and the detectives. Kelsey was screaming at a girl who was arrested after smashing her boyfriend's car window out with a crowbar.
"Scream at me again. I'll knock your teeth out."
"She threatened me. You people heard that." Ziva walked over to the girl.
"If you don't shut up, I will silence you in 50 different ways before you hit the floor." The girl sat down silently. Tony stared at the girl.
"What's her story?"
"Psycho ex-Girlfriend to the guy who called us on her." Kelsey said. "She smashed out his car window after he told her it was over. He called us, we took her in for disorderly and vandalism." Abby jumped Kelsey from behind.
"Kelsey!"
"Abby Sciuto. What are you doing here?"
"Working the case. Where's the lab?"
"Follow me. It'll get me away from this spoiled brat princess."
"Probably describes you better, bitch." The girl said. Kelsey stared at her.
"You were told to shut up. Now do it. If I hear your voice again, I'm going to ask this lady here to shut you up." She pointed at Ziva who was playing with her knife. Abby stared at her in shock.
"I lost my mother about 7-8 years ago, has to be closer to 8 since Josh is 6." Michael followed them after Gibbs had filled Hill in on the details of Abby's stalker ex-boyfriend.
"You have a kid?"
"Josh was born about a year and a half after I met Michael. Halloween 2002 to be exact. You can only imagine the look on Michael's face when I told him Josh was due on Halloween." Kelsey stopped at a door and opened it.
"This is really neat."
"You'd be amazed at what this department got thanks to one of Michael's old doctors. The family car is basically a tank and armed like you wouldn't believe." She turned and bumped into Michael.
"Hi, Michael. Abby, Michael. Michael, Abby."
"I came in here because I was about to smack DiNozzo and Doyle again."
"Your dad Gibbs-slaps people?"
"Also quotes Gibbs' Rules and stares people down. Which is now rubbing off on Michael."
"Meanwhile, patrol still doesn't get Rule Number 2. I'm getting some coffee." He left.
"That's what's holding Jankins back from promotion, along with 50 pounds and 10 waist sizes. He has a dozen a day donut habit." She looked at her computer and dialed Michael's number..
"He hates when I do that." Michael walked back in followed by Gibbs.
"I hate when you do that."
"I thought you left the building already."
"I was at the NCIS truck when you called."
"What do you got Abs?" Gibbs said out of habit.
"I ran the lugs on that cellphone and a local number popped up." She gave a paper to Michael.
"Take Khayman." Gibbs said. "McGee's with Martinson working on the Navy officer, Ziva's doing something that I don't want to know about, and DiNozzo's drinking from that pot of coffee with the butcher knife drawn on it while Doyle's grinning like an idiot about to get head-slapped."
"Which is a violation of Rule Number 23. Never drink from Michael's coffee pot if you expect to leave town alive."
