"Agent Gibbs?" A woman walked towards the team. "Thank god you came. I am Danni's dorm leader, Alicia Almudena. Danni has disappeared and now I just heard the news about her brother. Do you know where to find her?" She spoke with a Spanish accent.
"We were actually hoping that you could help us. Do you know any place where she liked to go in particular?"
"She liked the woods, but we have already looked there. They are very small and there aren't many places to hide."
"So I guess it's safe to say that she isn't on the grounds any more. How well did you know Danni?"
"She has been here ever since she was only four years old, but no one ever really knew her."
"Was there anything abnormal about her behaviour lately?"
"Well, she walked around looking as if she had just seen the angel of death since about three months ago. But it didn't affect her school work."
"McGee, find out what happened three months ago. Mrs Almudena, what about room mates?"
"Please, call me Alicia. Danni had two room mates that she has been with since she first got here. But they left before this year started and now she lives in a single room."
"Uh, boss, three months ago, Daniel found out that he was going to Iraq." McGee said, looking up from his iPod. "But why would someone want to kill someone going to Iraq?"
"I don't know, McGee. Maybe you should find out. Thanks for your time, Alicia. We'll get back to you as soon as we know something about Danni's whereabouts."
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"DiNozzo!"
"Yeah, boss?"
"You said that someone young but strong pulled you out of the gym? Is it possible that that person was about twelve or thirteen years old? And female?"
"Yes, yes, yes. Why?"
"I've gotta go check with Abby."
--
"What'cha got, Abs?"
"Gibbs, your timing is perfect, as always. I matched the finger prints on Daniel Aaron and the walls around the window to a Danni Aaron. Any chance they're somehow related?"
"She's his sister, Abs. Good work. Got anything else?"
"I was beginning to think you'd never ask." Abby smiled. "There were prints on those weights. I am still running them through AFIS, and hopefully we will soon get a match. So tell me about Danni."
"I haven't met her, Abs. She's missing."
Just then came a beeping noise from Abby's computer.
"Positive match to Lance Corporal James Fuentas."
"Good job, Abs." Gibbs set the Caf- Pow! that he had been carrying on her desk and headed towards autopsy.
"You know, mare people die yearly from vending machines than from lightning," Ducky was speaking to Daniel Aaron's corpse. "Vending machines that give people those kind of caffeinated drinks that are running in your veins, my poor boy."
"Got anything for me, Duck?"
"Yes, Jethro, I do. This young man has a lot of caffeine and sugar in his body. But that is irrelevant right now. My suspicions were confirmed that Mr. Aaron here died of blunt force trauma. But I also found some peculiar wounds on his back that occurred post mortem."
"What kind of wounds?"
"Scratches by fingernails on his shoulders and pieces of glass that have cut into him. He was lying beneath a broken window when we found him, but something tells me that that's not where he died. A desperate little girl, after saving a random man's life, goes back in to rescue her brother, finds out she can't hoist him through the window, and breaks it and leaves. That takes a lot of courage, Jethro."
"Thanks, Duck."
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Tony DiNozzo walked into the deserted bullpen with a bandage on his left upper arm.
"DiNozzo, you're late. Grab your gear."
"Yeah, boss, I was just- coming."
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Gibbs, DiNozzo and Ziva looked at the alley that the broken window of the gym led to.
"Well, someone definitely broke this window. Sort of reminds me of this movie with-"
"We don't want to hear it, Tony. It is also clear that someone ran down this way, bleeding. They were presumably poisoned by the smoke." Ziva remarked.
"That means that where ever Danni is, we've got to find her. And fast."
