The next morning, her cell rang, looking at the number it was one she didn't recognise, but answered anyway.

"Loretta….." as she now listened, "Sure, can be there in 15 minutes, and would love to travel back to New Orleans. Is Pride with you?"

Loretta replied yes, and LaSalle was down at the ship.

The Marines had arranged a Sikorsky helicopter, it would make it to Austin, refuel and return with the body, and so all in all, between the time of finding the body, the local LEO's and Austin NCIS, the New Orleans team were there by 08:00 and by the time evidence had been taken and pictures taken, they would be back in New Orleans by early afternoon.

-oOo-

Back in NO LaSalle and Brody were interviewing the crew of the ship, and members of Frankie Gonalez's unit, turned out he too was on leave and had decided to take in the sights and sounds of SXSW, before the Navy exercise.

"Any Idea, where he was staying?" LaSalle had asked members of the Unit, "And why was he still in uniform."

Nope and no idea, came the reply.

Brody was having more luck.

"Frankie, oh yes real ladies' man. Loved them, had a girl all over the country."

"Girl in Camp Lejeune?" Brody asked.

"Oh yea and Italy, loved the Italians, I mean we just came back from 6th Fleet operations on the Bataan. Some of the Air Combat Element of MEU executed strike missions against ISIL in Iraq,"

"And NTISR flights over Iraq and Syria," his friend added.

"But Frankie, he was what?"

"A sniper," came the reply.

-oOo-

Abby said bye to Amy saying she would be back for the weekend and the final gigs, but hurried to the crime scene, where she saw Loretta and Pride deep in conversation. Pride saw Abby approaching, smiled and waved.

"Abby, Loretta told me you were in town, and I believe you found the body?"

"Sure did, we, that would be Amy and me, were walking back from…."

"I have all the details from Travers, but Loretta says you want to come back with us, why? You are on vacation."

"Just maybe nice to see NO again and work with you guys for a day or two," she replied, "And maybe Sebastian could do with a hand, I got him a CD too," as she now pulled Dillinger's latest recording from her backpack.

"Ok with me," Pride replied.

It was difficult to talk on the way to NO but Abby just sat back and envisaged how Gibbs would have felt on this sort of transport.

-oOo-

They arrive early afternoon, Loretta had said she would contact Sebastian and see if he needed any help. He did. Cool.

Pride and Abby arrived back at the NCIS office while Loretta took the body to autopsy.

"Place looks bigger when you see it in reality," Abby oozed looking around.

"What you get from his unit," Pride asked his co-workers.

"Bit of a romeo, and he was a sniper," Brody answered.

"They have no idea why he was still in uniform or where he was staying. But then again, if he was actually on his way to digs?" LaSalle added.

The screen flashed up and the group could see Loretta.

"What you got for us?" Pride asked.

"He was killed by a single knife wound to the chest, not enough to kill right out but he did bleed to death. Can tell you he had tempeh chili, and frito pie washed down with some beer, sometime in the afternoon," Loretta said over the screen.

"Hey we, that would be Amy and I, dined in Spider House just north of the Campus, they serve that, and he was found just down from the Campus, you think there is a connection. I mean could he have been staying there, like I am," Abby now suggested.

"Could be," Pride answered, "But looks like we should turn back over to the Austin branch, but then again," as Pride looked at Abby and then his two co-workers, "Who fancies another trip, back to Austin?"