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When Gibbs got to Abby's lab her music was blaring, as usual and he had to yell for her to turn it down. Once he could hear himself think her handed her a caf pow,
"What do you got for me Abs?"
"The dead Marine in Autopsy is Lieutenant Cameron Morgan, but the weird thing is that when I ran his name through the computer," Gibbs interrupted,
"A missing persons report popped up." Abby looked at him in amazement,
"Yeah. How did you know?"
"His daughter is upstairs in the conference room," he told her.
"But when his results popped up three more missing person's reports popped up too, for his three daughters. So how is one of them upstairs?"
"Tony and Ziva found her at the crime scene. She ran from them but they caught up and she wouldn't answer any questions. So they brought her back her and she's still refusing to talk. Did Ducky say if he knew how the Lieutenant died yet?"
"I don't think so."
"Great, thanks Abs," he said as he walked out. He stopped by Ducky quickly only to find that the doctor had made no progress so he made his way back to the squad room.
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Being left in the conference room with Agent David who had tackled her to the ground was incredibly boring for Addyson. She knew that she needed to leave or her sisters would be incredibly worried and not know what to do. She also knew that she couldn't tell the agents anything because then she would be in trouble. A couple times she almost complained to the agent standing across from her that she was bored, but held back. Honestly she was a little afraid of Agent David, though she wasn't exactly sure why, she just didn't seem like the type of person you would want to mess with. Agent Gibbs who had been in here earlier hadn't seemed too friendly either, while he hadn't been downright mean or anything Addyson could still tell you wouldn't want to mess with him either. And still she had refused to answer his questions. The two continued to sit there in silence, waiting for someone to come in and tell them what happened next.
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Gibbs walked back into the squad room,
"What'd you find McGee?"
"Lieutenant Morgan seems to have a clean record as far as the navy is concerned and I couldn't dig up anything that shows otherwise. Reported missing by his oldest daughter three weeks ago, as you know. His children were then moved to foster care until Lieutenant Morgan was found or another solution could be established. The three girls went missing a week later, vanished from their rooms in the foster home one night and no one has seen or heard from them for two weeks and the police have had no luck finding them."
"Tell me about the kids." Tony spoke up this time,
"Addyson Jeanne Morgan, sixteen, sophomore at DC High. Born to Cameron Morgan and Jamie Goode. Adrienne Savannah Morgan, nine, 3rd grade. Same dad different mom. Ashlynn Elizabeth Morgan is five, kindergarten, same mom and dad as Adrienne. Their mom died from cancer right after Ashlynn was born. They stayed with their grandmother when their dad was away but she's currently unable to care for the children after being diagnosed with Alzheimer's and placed in a nursing home."
"So what happened that caused this man to die and his children to go missing? We need to figure out if they ran away on their own or if someone took them and Addyson just managed to escape," Tony said, thinking out loud.
"Wouldn't she have said something by now if someone had taken them?" Tim asked? Gibbs listened to his agents talk for a moment then made his way to the conference room. He needed to know what was going on, and the teenager sitting in the conference room was going to tell him. Opening the door he found Ziva leaning against the wall again and Addyson with her head down on the table. Upon hearing the door open though she sat up straight and looked at Gibbs, choosing to talk for the first time since running from the two agents,
"When can I leave?" she asked Gibbs.
"When you start answering my questions," he told her, causing her to frown. She was sure by now that he had figured out who she was and that she had run away, along with her sisters, so she wasn't sure why he still had to ask her questions. Upon voicing this thought he told her that he wanted to hear it for himself and would like a little more details filled in. Addyson sighed,
"What exactly do you want to know?" she asked, knowing this was the only way she was going to be able to leave this conference room.
"Did you run away? Or did someone force you to leave?" The teenager stayed quiet for a moment, choosing her words carefully,
"It was in our best interest to get out," she said vaguely.
"Ok, would you like to expand on that?" Gibbs asked.
"Not really," she replied, shrugging her shoulders.
"Why don't we try that answer again," Gibbs suggested, "get out of where?" Addyson rolled her eyes,
"Why should I tell you?"
"Because I can help you," he said simply.
"Well I don't want your help. I just want to leave," she told him.
"That's too bad, because we can't let you leave now. You're a minor who is currently a ward of the state, you're not leaving by yourself," he said.
"This is ridiculous! I have to go back."
"Because of your sisters?" She was a little shocked at his bluntness and didn't say anything for a moment,
"Yes, because of my sisters," she said reluctantly. She knew they would be scared without her, especially since it was getting dark.
"Where are they? We can go get them and bring them here," he told her.
"I don't want you to go get them, or bring them here. I want to go back to them and for you to leave us alone. We don't want your help."
"I've already told you that's not happening. You don't have a choice here, either you tell us where they are and we go get them or they are going to spend the night without you. My guess is that they are probably scared without you there, being so young." Addyson looked at him and he knew he had her,
"We've been staying in an abandoned house a little ways out of the city; it's kind of in the woods though, so I don't know the exact address," she admitted.
"Can you show us where it is?" Ziva asked, speaking up for the first time. Addyson nodded and Ziva and Gibbs moved towards the door, eager to go collect the small children,
"Well come on," he said to Addyson as he walked out the door. She jumped up from the table for the first time since being brought in and followed the two agents. She wasn't thrilled about not being allowed to leave but deep down she knew that they could help. Ever since their father had not come home three weeks ago she knew that something was wrong, he always came home when he was stateside, wanting to spend as much time with his daughters as he could. Having not heard any news from him or about the investigation into his disappearance was worrying her greatly, but she knew that the police were not going to tell a sixteen year old the details of their investigation.
Ziva and Gibbs got into the front of the car while Addyson climbed into the back and as soon as Gibbs was sure she had her seatbelt on he took off out of the navy yard. The drive to the woods where the house was took about thirty minutes, and they could only imagine how long it would have taken the teenager to walk all the way to the crime scene from where they were. Though Gibbs had to admit, local police would definitely not be looking for them out here. Parking on the side of the road Gibbs and Ziva followed Addyson as she led the way back to the house. After a few minutes of walking they came upon an old house, which had obviously been abandoned a long time ago. Half the roof was missing and Gibbs could tell there was no electricity. When the house came into their sights Addyson picked up her pace a little,
"Adrienne! Ashlynn!" she called loudly, not wanting her sisters to be scared by people walking into the house. Suddenly two young girls burst out the front door and ran for Addyson. Gibbs recognized them from the pictures he had seen back at NCIS as Addyson's sisters. Addyson had picked up the youngest one who had her arms and legs wrapped around her tightly.
"Where were you? You said you would be back hours ago," the other one said accusingly before seeing Gibbs and Ziva, "Addy, who are they?" she asked nervously. Addyson sighed,
"They're NCIS agents, we have to go with them," she told her sisters.
"Are they gonna hurt us too?" the little girl Addyson was holding asked her sister.
"Shh, Ashlynn, don't talk about that," Adrienne scolded quietly. Pretending they hadn't heard the exchange Gibbs and Ziva stepped in,
"Girls, I'm Agent Gibbs and this is Agent David," Gibbs said, introducing himself to the younger girls, but directing the comment towards the youngest, knowing that she would be the most trusting. Sure enough the little girl piped up,
"I'm Ashlynn!" she told him happily.
"Nice to meet you Ashlynn," he told her, smiling nicely before turning to Adrienne, "And what's your name?" The nine year old looked at him wearily,
"Adrienne," she said quietly.
"It's nice to meet you too. Do you guys have any stuff inside that you need to bring?" Gibbs asked. They nodded and the small group walked inside. Once inside Gibbs couldn't figure out how these kids had survived two weeks, though when he looked closer at them he could see that they were quite dirty and obviously hadn't eaten much. They only had a few things, a bag of clothes and a few pictures, which were collected quickly. Ashlynn very willingly was showing Ziva around, loving the fact that she was talking to someone other than her sisters for the first time in two weeks,
"This is where me and Adrienne sleep," she told the Israeli, pointing to a beat up pull out bed with a few thin blankets and pillows, "And Addy sleeps here," she pointed to a small pile of blankets and a pillow close to the couch. Ziva felt her heart break a little, she had stayed in similar conditions before, but she had been a trained Mossad agent at that point, not an innocent child like these ones who should be sleeping in the comfort of their own bed each night rather than a rundown place like this one.
When everything was collected a few minutes later the five of them piled back into the car and Gibbs drove back towards the city.
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