"Grab your gear." Gibbs told his team as he strode into the bullpen, not wanting to remember the day, for it had been exactly 7 years on this date that there beloved Kate had been taken from him.
"Boss, what've we got today?" asked Tony, whom Gibbs seemed to notice had a change in demeanor also.
"Dead marine, no witnesses, and a coffee machine that's out of order." said Gibbs as he walked to his desk and picked up a file the Director had handed him the day before. The file contained the information on a new Agent for the team, since the area coverage for the team had grown so much. He hadn't reviewed it last night because of how late it had been.
"Boss, you know that they invented Starbucks for a reason, right?" asked Tony as they walked to the elevator.
"Dinozzo, how many times do I have to tell you, that's NOT real coffee." said Gibbs as they waited for the doors to slide shut.
Later, at the crime scene...
"McGee, Ziva, bag and tag, Tony, get the crime scene photos and interview possible witnesses, and Ducky, do what you do best." said Gibbs as they first walked into the building. Upon doing so, McGee, Gibbs, and Tony all stepped dead in there tracks. It was the building Kate had been killed on.
Ducky, who had figured out what had brought the sudden stop in his co-workers, turned and came toward them and asked, "Is this the place Jethro?" in a low whisper, just to make sure his suspicions were right.
"Yeah, Duck, this is it, only then, it was a terroristic hotspot, now it's been converted into apartments." said Gibbs in an equally low whisper.
"Is this place what" asked Ziva inquisitively, for she had not been there when Kate died and because of that, did not know where it had exactly happened.
McGee came forward to her and explained that today was the day Kate had died, and that this building was where Kate had been shot. When he was finished, Ziva understood and did not bother to further ask questions about the conversation between the two senior members on the team.
"You have a murder weapon yet for me Tony?" asked Gibbs as he walked into the room where the body lay. Again, he stopped dead in his tracks, as he laid eyes on the body. It was not at all mutilated or bloodied except for one clean bullet hole, straight thru the forehead, just as Kate had died. He had a strong sense of Déjà vu because of the day, and this made it even worse.
"Boss, not only do I have a weapon, I have the murderer also. She's already admitted to killing her husband because he had a mistress." Said Tony, almost as if he hoped he would be given a treat for having closed the case as quickly as it had opened.
"Tony, even though she admitted, she could be covering for someone, you know." said a slightly irritated looking Ziva. "We'll need to wait for proper I.D. from Abby on the finger prints we got off the gun before making a proper accusation."
As they rode back to headquarters, Gibbs, who was sitting in the passenger seat, decided he would look over the new Agent's file. Again, his feeling of Déjà vu kicked in as he read the job qualifications list, and it stated that the new Agent had Secret Service experience. As he flipped to the next page, his breath caught in his throat as he looked at the picture of the new Agent, and uttered "Oh my God"
Tony, who was driving, looked at him as he slammed the folder shut, and asked "Boss, is there something the matter?"
He looked at his Senior Field Agent with a grave look and said, "Hurry up and get back because we all need to talk, and by all of us I mean Ducky, you, McGee, Abby, Jimmy, Ziva and myself."
"Ok Boss, no problem." said a confused looking Tony.
Gibbs couldn't believe what he had just seen. He opened the folder again, just enough where Tony couldn't see, and he looked at the new Agent's picture again, and he saw Katelyn Todd's face staring back at him.