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When Gibbs got back down to the bullpen the room was strangely quiet. McGee was pulling up the victim's phone records and bank statements, DiNozzo was calling her workplace, and Ziva was calling the relatives of the victim. Gibbs was relieved that Ziva was doing the last item on the list. He had always hated having to give out the news of another life that had been taken.

It was time for Gibbs to get started on the case himself. With coffee cup in hand, he dived into the world of the team's most recent case.

The victim had been a 22 year old navy lieutenant. She had been found next to an old brownstone in Georgetown. She had been dressed in uniform when she had been found. Her ship had, apparently, just gotten in.

Her T.O.D. was 2 a.m. She had multiple stab wounds from a Navy issued knife. There were no signs of a struggle. Her blood alcohol content was at 0.8%. There was also a strange orange powder that had been found by her body.

The owner of the bar the lieutenant had visited said that she had come in with a group of Marines, both female and male. They had all had a few beers, laughed, said that they would see each other in a month, when they were due back on ship, and left. She had left the bar at about 1:30 a.m.

Her name was Jamie Mioto.

Later……..

Gibbs was on his way down to Abby's lab, after just having picked up a Caf-Pow! When he got to her lab the usual music was blaring.

"Gibbs!" Abby shouted over the music, "I thought you'd never come." Abby said as she ran over to Gibbs and gave him a huge hug.

"Well I'm here now Abs." Gibbs replied with a smile.

"Okay, so, Major Maspec found that the orange powder by the body was dried up orange ink." Abby told him. "Super hinky, I mean who uses orange ink? Although orange ink sounds totally cool. Of course whoever it came from was the probably the murder…" Abby started rambling.

"Thanks Abs." Gibbs said as he started to walk out of her lab.

"Hey Gibbs!" Abby shouted after him.

"Yeah Abs?" He turned around and asked.

"I'm really glad you're back." She said with one of her almost omnipresent smiles.

"I am too, Abs, I am too." Gibbs replied in barely a whisper. He was headed back to the elevator to see what the rest of the team had to show him.

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