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Chapter 3

And I Feel Fine

Gibbs, Ziva and Tony were silent the whole drive to McGee's apartment, it is starting to get dark outside.

"If you want to go home tonight, we have to get this done." Gibbs said as they got out of the truck, grabbed the gear and made their way to the front door. Gibbs pushed on it softly and it creaked open. Tony and Ziva followed not far behind, carrying various bags and boxes of crime scene equipment. They all put on some gloves and Tony pulled out a camera, he put the strap around his neck. He smirked and took a picture of Ziva's butt when she bent down to get a swab. Gibbs hand hit the back of his head and he turned to see Ziva now bent down next to a puddle of McGee's blood. Tony took some more pictures, of the blood, the knife on the bench, the tea towel Abby used to tend to McGee and the couch were Abby had left traces of blood when she sat down. While Ziva was collecting trace evidence, blood and hair samples, the tea towel, bits of broken glass and a note she found, that read: 'He deserved it.'

"Do we have any witnesses?" Tony asked Gibbs.

"Why don't you and Ziva go ask around?" Gibbs answered, carefully putting the knife inside an evidence bag.

"Okay." Tony said. "Let's go Ziva." They started asking people in neighbouring apartments where they were at the time and if they heard anything. The people in the first place weren't home, while the people in the second weren't home at the time. However the person in the third apartment was only about 15.

"Hi there. I'm Special Agent DiNozzo and this is Officer David, NCIS, it stands for Navel Crim…" Tony said flashing his badge.

The girl cut him off. "Criminal Investigative Service, my friend's mother used to work there."

"Who? We might know…" Tony started, Ziva hit him, "Right, so what's your name?" Tony smiled.

"CJ Stevens." She told them.

"Okay, CJ, we'd like to ask you a few questions concerning your whereabouts at around 10am this morning." Ziva said.

"I was here." She answered.

"Is there anyone who can verify that?" Tony asked.

"Like your parents?" Ziva added.

"My mum is out of town, on business, and I haven't heard from my dad since my parents got divorced. But yes, my best friend was here since four o'clock yesterday, she stayed the night and left about…" She turned and looked at the clock on the wall. "…half an hour ago"

"Did your mum know she stayed?"

"Yeah, she's here a lot. She's more like my sister than my best friend. We've known each other since we were about two…"

"Name?" Tony asked.

"Aimee-Lee, she works at her parent's café." CJ told them the address of the café.

"Did you hear anything unusual this morning?" Ziva questioned.

"Yeah actually, Aimee said she did, she said it sounded like a struggle, smashing glasses, banging against walls, you know, but we didn't think anything of it. Aimee is a bit paranoid." There was a short silence "Is there anything else?"

"What does 'CJ' stand for?" Tony asked.

CJ laughed. "Cristina June"

"Thanks." Tony said, turning to the next apartment.

"Cya." She replied, moving back inside and closing the door. Tony and Ziva questioned more people, some of which had heard the noises, and some that weren't home at the time. When they went back to McGee's Gibbs was packing away the gear

"Get anything DiNozzo?" Gibbs asked.

"Yeah, a teenage girl said her best friend heard it. She didn't believe the friend though, thought she was paranoid."

"Find her."

"Got an address, it's a café, just outside town. We are heading out in the morning, Boss."

"Good work, get the gear back in the truck and let's get back." Tony, Gibbs and Ziva all grabbed a bag or two and headed away from their friends home.

In the morning Tony was late to work, as usual, he walked through the bullpen and saw Ziva standing next to Gibbs desk, involved in conversation. She turned to look at him and he kissed her on the cheek.

"What was that?" She asked him.

"Uhh… A kiss?" He said stupidly

"I meant, why did you kiss me?"

"Why not?" Tony shot back. Ziva sighed.

"Because of rule 12 DiNozzo." Gibbs added. "You and Ziva go pick up the best friend." Gibbs said standing up and walking towards MTAC.

"On it Boss." Tony replied grabbing the car keys and pulling on Ziva's hand, "Let's go."

When they arrived they walked inside and up to the counter, it looked like the kind of café that always had its regular customers. There was a young girl standing behind the register. She had dark brown hair that was pulled into loose pigtails, she was wearing jeans and a grey three quarter length top with black skulls and butterflies printed on it. Hung gently around her neck was a silver necklace with a Star of David pendent.

"Hi, how can I help you?" She smiled.

"Officer David and Special Agent DiNozzo, NCIS, we are looking for Aimee-Lee." Ziva said flashing her badge.

"I'm Aimee, but why is the navy looking for me? I haven't done anything." She answered.

"We are investigating the assault of an NCIS Special Agent." Tony replied. "We would just like to ask you a few questions."

"I have customers to serve…"

"It will not take very long" Ziva told her.

"What is it about?"

"It's about yesterday, when you were at your best friends place." Tony answered.

"I was at CJ's" She said.

"Yeah." Tony replied.

"Could you get some body to cover for you, just for five minutes?"

"You know what I've noticed, you don't use contractions." Aimee said looking at Ziva.

"No she doesn't" Tony answered, also looking at Ziva.

"Neither does my Ab-" She cut her self off. Her parents had told her not to speak Hebrew in front of NCIS. "Dad." She finished and smiled.

"You know what I have noticed?" Ziva asked. "We both have the Star of David, are you Jewish?"

"I'm half Jewish half Catholic. Be back in a sec, I'll see if someone can cover for me." They watched her walk into a back room and heard her speaking to a male.

"Can you do the register for 5 minutes, please dad?" She said before lowering her voice so Tony and Ziva couldn't hear her. "Aba, NCIS Agents DiNozzo and David are here."

"I told you not to joke about that." He said looking into her eyes, they matched his.

"Seriously, NCIS is here!" The man poked his head around the corner and saw Ziva and Tony. He caught Ziva's gaze before quickly moving out of sight.

"Was that…?" Ziva started.

"Was what, who?" Tony asked looking around, clueless.

"It is not possible."

"What's not possible?" He looked back at Ziva.

"It is nothing, do not worry about it." Ziva said staring into the place where she thought she had seen him.

"Hey isn't 'David' your dad's last name?" Aimee asked. He changed the subject.

"Tell them you can not talk now, and that you will contact them at a later stage." He said quickly, also lowering his voice.

"Why?"

"Just do it." She walked out.

Tony and Ziva heard footsteps. "No-one can cover for me right now." Aimee lied.

"Okay well give us a call when you're done working." Tony handed her a card, she read it and smiled.

"I will."

After Aimee had finished her shift her father told her to contact Tony, she picked up the phone and dialled the number on the card. When Tony answered Aimee put the phone on loudspeaker so that her dad could hear what was being said.

"DiNozzo." Tony answered

"Hi it's Aimee-Lee, You wanted to ask me some questions, I was hoping we could do it over the phone, I really busy."

"Yeah, sure. What did you hear yesterday morning around 10am?"

"Some glasses smashing, people being thrown against walls, and at one point I heard a scream, after that a door slamming and then nothing."

"Okay. Thankyou for your time."

"Kay, bye!" She hung up the phone and put it in her pocket and her father smiled, he only ever smiled at his daughter and his wife. "Can I go watch Grey's Anatomy now?" She asked, her father smirked.

"Sure."

A/N: Hope you enjoyed, this chapter is important to the story line so yeah. Can you guess who her father is? Or even her mother?

In The Next Chapter: Why did Ziva react so badly to Abby's pregnancy?

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