Special Agent Gibbs sits up in his bed. He had had another dream about them. Guilt washes over him. "Will things ever seem better?" he thinks. He gets up to get some coffee, hoping that keeping busy will distract him from his dream. When he sips his coffee, the phone rings and walks over to answer it.
"Special Agent Gibbs." he answers, trying to speak in his normal tone.
"Gibbs, we found a missing girl," says DiNozzo over the phone, "she was here when we got to work today."
"Okay I'm on my way." says Gibbs, hanging up the phone and goes to get dressed, putting his finished cup of coffee in the sink.
When Gibbs walks out of the elevator he sees a young woman talking to McGee about something. She looked like she was in her early twenties.
"DiNozzo!" Gibbs says loudly.
"Yes boss?" says DiNozzo walking up to Gibbs, knowing he made him mad somehow.
"Is this who you were talking about?" he asks DiNozzo, pointing to the young woman.
"Yes Boss."
"When you said 'girl', I thought you meant child."
"Well, she is. Kinda. She's almost 18."
"DiNozzo."
"Okay, the point is that her house burnt down when she was 13, and that killed her family. Everyone thought she died too. Her name is Maebh Emerson. She has very little memory of the fire or life before it happened."
"Where has she been for the past 5 years?"
"She says she's been in Mexico. She lived with family there until she decided to come here to see if we can figure out the case that caused the fire. One parent was in the Marines, the other was in the Navy. No one ever knew the cause of the fire, but she thinks that someone caused the fire."
"Hmm..." says Gibbs, walking over to Maebh. "Why do you think someone caused the fire?" he asks her, interrupting her conversation with McGee. She ignores Gibbs to finish what she was saying to McGee. When she finishes, she turns and looks Gibbs in the eyes saying, "Because, someone tried to kidnap me. That's why I'm here. Someone wants me dead and I want to know why."
Gibbs takes a really good look at this young woman while she says this. She was dressed in a Metallica t-shirt, dark jeans, and home made fingerless gloves-which was odd since it wasn't cold. Her hair went to her waist and it was a very dark brown and wavy. She was also fair skinned, so she doesn't look like she's been in Mexico. "She looks awfully familiar." he thinks.