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Tiana xXx

'What do we have here?' Gibbs barked at the nearest looking cop.

'Scene was found by the caretaker at 11am this morning and was called in almost immediately.' He replied urgently.

'Why is it NCIS jurisdiction?' Gibbs snapped.

'Uh… I think you should see the scene first, sir.' Gibbs scowled at the cop, causing him to hurry up in front of him and take them into the apartment on the second floor.

The cop opened the door slowly and carefully. Gently, he stepped into the room trying to avert his eyes to anywhere that was white and pure. But it was hard in the room that he was standing in.

'Oh my…' Kate's voice trailed off as she viewed the room from the doorway. Gibbs was standing a step next to her and she could tell that he was doing the same.

'What the hell?' Tony's voice came from behind her. He stood there too, also glancing around the room. It was a sight that was taking a too long a time to take in.

'You might wanna move before that leg falls on you!' Gibbs' command snapped everyone back to life. The other two Agents turned to look at the cop to see the leg that had been hanging from the ceiling fan was just about to drop onto him. The cop, however, star wide-eyed unable to move until a sudden burst of adrenalin made him ran out of the apartment, causing Kate and Tony to step out of it too.

'Boss! What do you want us to do?' Tony asked as they entered once again.

'Photos and sketches first! Then bag and tag! We've got to get this whole place searched.' Gibbs ordered them. Tony nodded while Kate looked at her boss. She knew that he was thinking the same as she was, but he left the room without another word, so Kate turned to her partner, hopefully backing her up on her theory.

'Yeah, I know…' Tony told her when he caught her eye. She sighed and walked over to him.

'That bastard!' she whispered. Tony placed a hand on her lower back and planted a kiss on her forehead. 'I wonder how many people he's killed this time.'

'Let's find out.' Tony replied, grabbing a camera and handing Kate a sketchbook just as McGee came from the van with all the equipment that Gibbs had ordered him to get.

'Holy…' he, too, trailed off on sight of the body pieces lying around the room, all clothed in a Petty Officer's uniform piece.

'Yeah, we got that too. Start sketching Probie!' Tony instructed him. Just because they were on a crime scene didn't mean that he was going to lay off McGee. Not by a long shot.

--

An hour and a half later and the team were still there. They had just gotten started on the bagging and tagging when Gibbs called for McGee. He dropped what he was doing and ran to the other room at the back of the semi-luxurious apartment, still afraid of him after what had happened that morning.

'Yes Boss?' he asked, out of breath when he finally reached there. Gibbs led him into the room wordlessly, shutting the door behind them so all that was left was a tiny crack to let them know if someone was approaching.

'What I tell and show you now is not to be shared outside of this room except to me, do you understand?' Gibbs asked slowly and carefully. McGee's eyes widened and he nodded slowly too. 'That includes Tony, Kate and Abby.' He added. McGee looked at him wearily before nodding once again.

'Yes, Boss.' He answered him. Gibbs nodded tightly before opening one of the wardrobe doors. Slowly, the light from the room lit it. Reaching out a hand, Gibbs moved the two pieces of cloth that hung from the railing to reveal the back of it. Back there was what caused McGee to freeze up for the second time.

'Do you understand now why you cannot tell anyone, McGee?' Gibbs asked. McGee stared at the photographs, some coloured, some black and white, but all of them were mainly of Gibbs or Kate, which naturally included the rest of them, especially Tony, in some of them too.

'Yes, Boss, I do.' He whispered.

'And if I find that you have told any one of them, directly or indirectly, in any way or form, you will be fired so badly, you won't know what you learnt at MIT!' he threatened. Although McGee didn't understand it completely, he assumed it meant that Gibbs would cause him pain, and he didn't like it.

'Yes Boss. I understand.' He answered back.

'Good! Get snapping and then bag and tag them. I'll be back in a minute. If anyone tries to come in here… hide in the wardrobe!' Gibbs smirked as he turned around and walked back to the main living room where the body parts were.

Ducky and Palmer had arrived with their equipment a little while before, and were currently helping Tony and Kate with the collection of the body pieces. At the moment, all that Ducky could do was to roughly guess how many bodies there were and carefully place the estimated 4 bodies gently into the truck.

'It's a shame that he had to go to such drastic measures to claim our attention.' Ducky spoke as they all headed out of the apartment, minus McGee of course.

'Well, Ari doesn't do things lightly.'

'Do we know it's him, Boss?' Tony asked as Kate looked on.

'It looks like it, doesn't it, DiNozzo?' he snapped. Tony was taken aback by the abrupt answer. Gibbs sighed and gave them instructions. 'Go back to NCIS and get going on his alibi, if there is one. Keep me updated with the bodies and any findings.' He said before walking back into the apartment.

'What about McGee?' Tony yelled after him.

'He's staying here!' Gibbs yelled back. Tony chortled, thinking about how badly Gibbs hated McGee right then.

--

'What do you want, DiNozzo?' Kate snapped after an hour at the office. They had begun their search straight away and were so far getting nowhere.

'Well… there are too many answers for that question, Katie.' He replied in his usually tone that made her roll her eyes.

'Then do you mind not staring at me?' she asked in a threatening yet sweet voice.

'Of course I do. Which is why I'm not gonna stop.' He announced. Kate sighed and carried on for a few moments before she got tired of it.

'Ok, what will it take this time to make you get back to work?' she queried. Tony looked at her with an eyebrow raised and walked over to her desk.

'What makes you think that I want something?' he whispered in her ear. Kate smiled ever so slightly, but was able to straighten her face when Tony looked at her.

'Because it's you, Tony. Unless you really don't want something, in which case, you can leave. Now.' She stated.

'Ouch, that's harsh, Katie-pie. Anyone would think that you didn't like me.' Kate sent him a glare that made Tony carry on. 'I'll go on one condition-'

'Just one?' Kate teased him. Tony gave her a fake laugh.

'Funny. Just one.' He looked at her and she looked and him, urging him to carry on. 'Talk to me.'

'Uh… I think that I am, Tony.' Kate smiled at him.

'You and I both know that's not what I meant.' He said sternly. Kate sighed.

'There's nothing to talk about. It was just a bit of a shock and now it's just another case.' She declared.

'Kate…'

'Just another case. One that we need to get a move on before Gibbs gets back and kills us because we haven't found anything.' Her tone was final and Tony nodded tightly, getting the message, before going back to his own desk.

It was only 15 minutes later that the elevator brought their residential Mistress of Darkness to them.

'Kate! Why didn't you tell me? Are you ok?' she screamed almost as soon as she could see her best friend. Kate shot a look at Tony accusingly. He held both of his hands up in defence.

'It wasn't me!'

'No, it wasn't! But it should've been!' She gave Tony a death glare that would've made Gibbs proud. Tony just smiled back at her. 'Gibbs told me. He's heading back and told me to pull up Ari's past data for immediate comparison.'

'What has Gibbs found?' Kate tried to change the subject, but at no avail.

'You can't change the subject, Kate! This is serious! Like really serious! After what happened last time-' Kate put a hand up to stop her.

'I don't need reminding Abby. I was there, remember!' she informed her, infuriated.

'Sorry, but I'm just worried!' Abby admitted. Kate got up and hugged her.

'It's ok. I'm not going to do anything stupid. I'm not Tony.' She told her.

'Hey!' he yelled. He had been sitting there watching them carefully over the case that he was 'reading'.

'So you're ok?' Abby asked her.

'I'm fine! I just wish you would stop asking me that.' She assured her.

'Ok. Good. Now I just havta wait until Gibbs-' Abby was cut off by the ding of the elevator and the yelling of her name.

'Abby! Why aren't you in your lab?' Gibbs' voice boomed across the bullpen.

'Cos I came to see Kate.' She replied in a little voice.

'Well, I've just dropped off some stuff down there, and I need it done now!'

'Yes, sir, Boss, sir!' Abby saluted mockingly and walked off. Kate and Tony exchanged looks on the fact that he hadn't correct Abby on calling him "sir".

--

McGee was still in the apartment, taking photos of all the rooms before he had to bag and tag everything, including the pictures. Gibbs had left him there to do this secretly, with only a couple of guards outside. It wasn't supposed to take long, so McGee took pride in the fact that his boss had let him do it himself.

However, about 5 minutes after Gibbs had left, there was some scuffling around outside. It was the guards and the local cops. McGee had packed up his stuff and was about to start to bag the photos from the wardrobe when a guard came in, gun drawn.

'Sir, I think that you should get out. We think we have situation.' He commanded.

'What kind of situation?' McGee asked as he picked up his bag, closing the wardrobe doors carefully so not to draw the guard's attention to it.

'We think that the suspect's near.'

'Ari?' McGee asked as he was ushered out of the room and into the front one where the bodies had been. But before he could get a response, there were multiple shots coming through the glass window almost opposite McGee.

As soon as they had passed through, he and the guard ran out of the apartment, but not before another string of bullets entered the apartment. But this time, they didn't seem like it was a random shooting. No. Instead, the whole apartment blew up as it was struck.

What happens to McGee?

And what about Ari and his obsession with Gibbs and Kate?

R&R and you'll find out!

Tiana xXx