"I am happy, but I'm normally happy." Kya agreed.
"The weekend went well?"
"Yah, it was nice to have a weekend off. The wedding went was great..." Kya sighed as she pulled her instrument out of the case. She turned back to Conner and smiled again. "I also met someone this weekend too. He seems pretty nice." Kya whispered and Conner nodded.
"I new it, I can always tell when you think you're in love." Conner teased and Kya blushed slightly.
"Love, I just me the guy!" Kya responded quickly.
"I know that, but you looked happy today. It has to be a good sign." Conner then turned his attention to the other side of the room. "You looked that way when you and Ryan first started dating..."
Kya bristled quickly at the name. "You bring that up a lot you know, Ryan and I are not dating now, and its still a little weird." Kya shared as she too looked at the French Horn section. Ryan was absent, which was odd because he was obsessed with being on time and he had never missed a rehearsal.
"I see you've also noted that Ryan is missing, any idea on what's going on?" Conner asked and Kya shrugged her shoulders, she had noticed that Ryan had called a couple of times on the weekend, but she hadn't returned his phone calls, maybe he was trying to call and tell her what was up, guilt suddenly creeped in, but Kya pushed it away, if it was important he would have left a message.
"Nope, as I said, I was busy this weekend and Ryan didn't leave any messages." Kya admitted and proceeded to pull out her music and rest it on the stand. The Director came into the room and everyone stood to salute him before they sat back down. With an eye on the brass section he looked to Ryan's seat and rose his eyebrows.
"Has anyone seen Gunnery Sargent Peters this morning?" Everyone looked around and didn't say anything. "Gunnery Sargent hasn't reported for duty this morning, I received no notification to state why he is missing... Petty Officer Rights please go and make a phone call to see why he hasn't arrived?" The Director asked his administration assistant, the young man bowed out of the rehearsal room and did as he was told.
Ziva and Tony approached the ravine carefully, the rain on Sunday had made the edge muddy and slippery. The car, which apparently had left the road and crashed through the protective barriers along the side of the road and then proceeded to continue through the under brush and come to a stop about twenty feet below had cut a path that the two followed.
"Car accident?" Tony asked as he came down the edge of the ditch.
"No signs of breaking." Ziva mentioned as she followed carefully taking pictures as she did. "The road is dry, the conditions are perfect, nothing to prove that an accident could occur."
"Malfunction in the car maybe?" Tim asked as he joined them on the scene. He had been talking with the witness who had found the car and the occupant. "No one heard anything except the crash and thump of a car hitting the tree at the base of the ditch."
"There isn't much a curve in the road, the car would have had to have been severely our of control." Ziva continued to look at the car as they came closer.
"Maybe an animal?" Tony suggested. "A dear."
"Too populated an area, there's a new subdivision about another five hundred feet beyond the tree line." Tim observed as he pointed to the fencing.
"Well the man is dead." Ducky admitted as he stood up from the front seat. "Not too dead though, his internal temperature reads maybe an hour, and hour and half tops." The man had not been removed as he was already past the need for medical attention by the time the local law enforcement had arrived. Ducky stretched some and handed Tony the wallet.
"Gunnery Sargent Ryan Peters... Active duty... He is currently stationed at Marine Barracks Washington." Tony noted as he pulled his cards out of his wallet. Just as he finished reading a cell phone rang from within the car. Ziva leaned over the dead officer and pulled the phone out and answered it.
"Hello?" Ziva answered.
"I'm looking for Gunnery Sargent Peters.." The voice on the other end announced.
"Who is this?" Ziva asked.
"Petty Officer Rights mame, I'm calling to find out why Gunnery Sargent Peters has not reported for duty this morning. Currently he is late by approximately 45 minutes, any longer without just cause will call for discipline." The Petty Officer continued. "Who am I speaking with?"
"Special agent Ziva David NCIS, I believe I need to speak with your commanding officer." Ziva suggested and quickly got the phone number and hung up.