I own nothing except a few characters and the plot.
I haven't worked on this story in a while, but decided to dust it off. This was set during NCIS Season 6 (hence Ziva being Mossad), but will contain references to events in NCIS Episode 8.22 "Baltimore". The Law & Order Criminal Intent references are correct for between Seasons 7 and 8 of that show.
HALLOWEEN: THE SERIES
MICHAEL AND THE MARINE
Michael and Gibbs' team had gathered evidence at the Russellville Police Station when a group of State Police cars arrived.
"Sheriff Hill, Captain Matherson. State Police. We're taking charge of this investigation." Gibbs walked over.
"Gibbs, NCIS. The National Guard and Empire are enroute."
"Where's Myers?"
"He found this carnage and one of Agent Gibbs' men was with him." Hill told the Captain.
"This is a State Police investigation. Not a local matter. Myers is to be interrogated..." Gibbs cut him off.
"I have three dead Marines from this town in the Haddonfield Morgue. It's my case until I determine that this has nothing to do with that. I might take a few days to do that."
"So if I go and get an order from the Governor to transfer this matter to the State Police, you'll ignore it and I'll end up having to arrest you and your people?"
"You can make your case to the FBI when they get here which should be sometime in the next few minutes." Gibbs said.
"What would happen if I called your boss?"
"Your boss would be talking to his boss and I'm sure that SECNAV wouldn't be happy if he got pulled away from a meeting because of you." A car pulled up.
"Joining the party Tobias?" Gibbs asked the car's occupants. Tony observed the scene from the truck.
"Fornell's here along with my old friend Agent Slacks."
"Something before my time?" Andros asked.
"Agent Sacks thinks DiNosey murdered a woman a few years ago even though we found out Abby's assistant framed him as revenge for something else." McGee said.
"Whoever did this, they knew what to do. The computers were slashed and thrashed." Ziva said. Michael followed her with a pair of computers.
"She means smashed and trashed." Tony said.
"Get Abby and Kelsey to work on these. Did someone check the basement for the old paper files?" He said loading the computers into the truck as Gibbs, Hill, Matherson, Fornell, and Sacks walked up to them.
"Fornell, Slacks." Tony said.
"DiNotso." Fornell replied.
"It's Sacks. Agent Sacks." Sacks corrected Tony.
"That's what I said." Tony told him.
"Where's the M.E.?" Fornell asked.
"On his way down from Haddonfield." Hill said.
"Want to look inside? It's not pretty." Andros said.
"Of course Khayman. DiNozzo, bring a lock pick in case we need it." Gibbs said. They walked into the station.
"I assume your people are doing their usual detailed job in marking evidence before removing it?" Formell asked.
"Of course we are. Michael." Hill called. Michael walked up to them.
"Was the basement checked for paper files?" He asked.
"I asked DiNozzo the same thing. Tommy and Alex are on their way down with Ben and Ducky." Michael told them. Andros found the basement door.
"It's been forced open." He told them.
"I think I know which file we might find missing." Michael said getting a look from Sacks.
"Which one?" Fornell asked.
"Charlie Bowles. Andros and I were going to check out his old place as soon as we're done here."
"As soon as Doyle and Martinson get here, you guys take off for that place with Ziva and Doyle." Gibbs said.
"I can have Troopers go out there right now." Matherson said.
"And we'll have more bodies tied to this case. Your troopers don't have the training that our people have. Two Jedi, a Mossad officer, and Doyle." Hill said. Alex and Tommy arrived.
"Where's Loomis?" Gibbs asked.
"Right behind us." Tommy said as the other NCIS vehicle arrived.
"Doctor Loomis wanted to tie up some loose ends before we left." Ducky said as he and Ben walked in.
"Who could have done this?" Ben asked.
"I'm innocent in case someone doesn't get the message that's already been sent." Michael said glaring at Matherson. They entered the basement and found another body along with a forced open file cabinet. Gibbs looked at the drawer.
"Something was taken out of here." He said as Michael looked over the drawer.
"Bowles file is gone." He punched the wall leaving a fist-sized hole in it.
"Go out there and check the property." Hill said.
"On our way." Tommy said as he followed Michael along with Ziva and Andros. The four arrived at the Bowles House about twenty minutes later.
"Doyle with me. Andros, Ziva go around back." Michael said.
"What are we looking for?" Andros asked.
"Anything that looks fishy. Satan symbols, animal remains, candles, stuff like that." Tommy said. They split up and checked the property before going into the house. A shape lurked in the shadows of the house watching the four. Tommy shined a light at the back of the house and got another light shined at him in return by Ziva. Michael pointed at the shadows and Tommy shined his light towards it. Andros and Ziva joined them.
"Come out now or we'll shoot first." Tommy called.
"You got two Jedi and a Mossad officer here, you better do what he said." Michael called. Ziva readied her gun. The shape jumped out of the shadows revealing a man who tackled Tommy to the ground. Michael grabbed the man who swung a fist a Michael connecting with his cheek causing Michael to lose his grip as Tommy grabbed for the man's legs. The man kicked Tommy off and ran out the front door getting to the end of the porch before Ziva shot him in the leg. Andros ran over and pointed a Lightsaber at the man.
"Roll over." He said as Michael and Ziva ran over. Tommy caught up to them.
"You are lucky I did not shoot you dead like I wanted to." Ziva said as Michael cuffed the man. Andros was on the phone to Gibbs while Tommy went to radio in the arrest and the shooting. Matherson and his men wer the first on the scene.
"She shot me." The man said as Hill and Gibbs arrived.
"Consider yourself lucky, Officer David could have killed you." Gibbs said.
"Agent Gibbs, you're not helping." Matherson said.
"Good." Gibbs told the Captain.
"Just wait until your boss hears about your total lack of cooperation and Officer David shooting an unarmed man."
"Her boss is Eli David, Director of Mossad. If you're lucky, he won't authorize a kill order on you." Hill, Michael, and Tommy snickered as the Captain began screaming and yelling that he was going to have Gibbs fired.
"Get this prisoner to the hospital and then to my barracks for questioning." Matherson told a pair of troopers as Fornell arrived.
"What's going on?" He asked.
"Gibbs had his Israeli Butcher shoot my suspect."Matherson complained to Fornell.
"I don't think Officer David would have shot someone unless she had a good reason to shoot someone. Right, Officer David?"
"He attacked Detective Doyle and resisted when he and Detective Myers attempted to arrest him." Ziva said to Fornell. Fornell turned to Andros.
"Khayman, this true?"
"I was right behind Ziva when it all went down." Fornell turned to Matherson.
"Sorry, Captain. He belongs to NCIS until they decide otherwise." Matherson stormed off.
Back in Haddonfield, Kelsey and Abby had taken over every inch of space they could take over with pictures from the crime scenes in both Haddonfield and Russellville. McGee brought the salvaged conputers from Russellville into the lab while Gibbs and Fornell looked over the pictures.
"How's our suspect?" Tony asked Tommy.
"He'll live to stand trial and suffer in prison." Tommy said.
"This whole thing just reeks of becoming McTell All's next best-seller." Tony said.
"Deep Six is a work of fiction. How many times do I have to tell you that?" McGee walked into the squadroom giving his standard disclaimer.
"Fiction based upon your co-workers and yourself." Andros said.
"How do you plan to include our Space Sorceror in the next book?" Tony tried to bait the Jedi, but only got himself a smack on the head from Gibbs for his efforts.
"DiNozzo, are you doing anything right now?" Gibbs asked.
"Where should I began?"
"Russellville, now and take Doyle with you." Gibbs said becoming annoyed and headed for Michael's coffee maker.
"I thought your Probie was still there." Tony said to Tommy.
"Matherson kept giving Martinson a hard time and he took a page from Michael's book and left the State Police to deal with Fornell." Tommy explained.
"Fornell is basically the FBI's answer to Gibbs. Where is Myers?"
"Something about the Bowles House that he wanted to check out. He said wanted to handle it alone, but I think Ben's down there with him. I think even Michael was creeped out by that place enough that it drew him into exploring it further." Hill walked up to them.
"Me and Gibbs are sending you two back to Russellville to relieve Martinson. Myers and Loomis are still there checking out the Bowles House. Stay out of Michael's way. Tell Fornell and Sacks that our suspect is out of surgery. I think Ducky is still fighting with the Lawerce County Coroner over the bodies from Russellville PD. I hope they know that Fornell's gonna give us the bodies." He went to check on the computer recovery as Tommy and Tony left.
"How's the computer recovery coming?"
"It would be coming faster if MIT got his behind back in here." Kelsey said.
"MCGEE!" Hill called attracting Gibbs instead.
"What do you need McGee for?"
"I need to use MIT's brain on these computers since my own tech nerd is still in Russellville with his shrink. I hope he's not writing notes down for another book if what I'm hearing from DiNozzo and Doyle is true."
"Ziva will kill him if he does." Gibbs said.
"And I will help her get away with it after he described my bedroom in detail." Abby said.
"Do we have anything or are we going to keep talking about that damn book?" Hill asked.
"Michael needs to check the Bowles House for a computer of some sort. Because there is no file on Bowles in their computer systems."
"Kels, it's a case from the 1960s. I'm not expecting a computer file on it. But, I'll tell Michael to check anyway even though he'd bring it back here anyway if he finds a computer in there."
"Provided the State Police don't take it from him." Gibbs added.
"Matherson isn't the type to risk a Federal arrest over a computer. I'm sure Fornell's here for a reason."
Michael walked around the Bowles House. He was looking for something in what appeared to be the kitchen. Ben joined him.
"This is where Bowles murdered his family over dinner. No one understood why. I think my dad looked into this case. There's notes on it in his files." Ben said.
"I wonder if Bowles himself is still alive." Michael said as he looked for the basement door.
"If he is, he'd probably be in his 80s right now." Ben told his patient. Michael found the basement door and opened it.
"Basement."
"What are you looking for?"
"An answer that I may never find to a question that's been burning at me for a long time." Michael was in one of his moods. Ben looked at his phone.
"Pete said if you find anything that doesn't look right in here to take it back to Haddonfield and he sent Tommy down here to distract the State Police."
"You mean Ducky hasn't told Fornell to put Matherson in handcuffs for disturbing his bodies?"
"I guess not." Michael shined his flashlight into the basement.
"Someone's been here, probably the guy Ziva shot. Wilderness Survival packs and a computer setup. I guess this goes back with us." Ben shined a light towards another corner.
"Is vandalizing a grave a felony or something in this state?" Michael saw the tombstones of the Bowles Family in a corner with three coffins lying under each tombstone.
"It is if they dug up and stole coffins. He's gonna kill me when he finds out I told Fornell about this."
"I'd say you have no choice, except I'm the M.E. of record for the bodies we already have on this case. So, I choose to open these coffins." Michael gave Ben a pair of gloves.
"This house is now a crime scene." Ben put on the gloves and began to open the coffins with Michael's help. The sight before them shocked even Michael.
"I gotta get Ducky." Ben said.
"Tell Doyle to get over here, I'm gonna call the station and get Gibbs back down here. I need every inch of this house processed as a crime scene." Michael looked at three skeletons in the coffins and tried to conceal his fright. He had more questions then he had answers.