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Chapter 6 – The Voyeur's Web

The last things that Gibbs wanted to hear about were the things that his team found erotic. He knew that Ziva was baiting Tony, but he didn't want to listen to it all day. His hand connected with the back of Tony's head. They were talking about that stupid Honey Dust again.

"Gear up. We're heading for Dumfries; a Corporal's wife is missing. Local police think she may have been abducted."

When they arrived at the scene he got some of the info on the missing Marine wife and relayed it to the team. "Her name is Jamie Carr, just got a call from her next door neighbor, no one's seen her in two weeks."

"Why are they assuming abduction?"

"Back door was kicked in. McGee you take the perimeter."

"On it."

"Ziva, check with the neighbor who called it in. Tony, you're with me."

"Is there a reason I'm always the one taking statements?"

Tony was annoyed with the amount of information about him she had extracted from McGee. "Obviously you're good at getting people to talk."

"Today, DiNozzo!"

"On your six Boss!"

When the rest of the team joined Gibbs and Tony inside McGee had a revelation about the room that they were investigating. He remembered a video of a woman supposedly being murdered there live on the Internet.

Down in Abby's lab Gibbs was verging on angry. "It doesn't look like a hoax to me McGee."

"Boss, I'm sorry, it didn't occur to me-"

Gibbs cut him off, "Abby, talk to me."

"I was analyzing the file Gibbs, it's a compressed .mpeg4. Both those are rendered using Kodak-"

But just as soon he interrupted her as well. "In English Abby."

"Well from what I can tell there's no signs of layering, special effects or tampering. Sorry McGee."

"I wanna know where it came from. You've got an hour."

"Boss I don't need an hour. I scanned through Jamie's hard drive. I found it." He pulled up a website so that Gibbs could see it. "That is Jamie Carr, or Rain on the right. The web camera ran a direct feed into this website."

"Who's the other girl?"

"Net name Skylar. She runs the site. I traced her webcam feed back to the same neighborhood as Jamie Carr."

"The residence of Sergeant Jake Roberts. Also deployed in Iraq, his wife Leanne lives there alone."

"Get the car."

McGee left and Abby turned on Gibbs. "It's not his fault Gibbs. If we investigated every weird video on the Internet, I mean you know. Well you don't know, but trust me cyberspace is crammed full of all kinds of bizarre things. It's a whole new world in there Gibbs. And a lot of it ain't pretty."

"You can say the same thing about this one Abs."

The case proceeded like normal and later that afternoon Gibbs found himself down in Abby's lab again. "What do we have Abs?"

"Um, a PhD in porn. I spent the last six hours searching through webcam files trying to find some kind of lead, and I have consumed more porn than Tony has in his lifetime." Gibbs just smiled and handed her her Caf-Pow. "Okay, maybe not, but I have watched a lot of smut."

"Learn anything?"

"I'm not nearly as flexible as I should be."

He poked his head around her computer monitor, "Anything about the case?"

"Right," she smiled, "I was getting to that. I filtered through all of Jamie's files and I found the original feed of her murder."

"This helps?"

"That it does! By coordinating the original stream with the hard drive I obtained the date and time the file was written. I know when Jamie Carr was murdered." She handed Gibbs the print out. "Eight days ago, at nine pm."

"That's good work Abby." He left and she continued to talk to herself.

"I do what I can. And as a reward, I will treat myself to more, exiciting, girl on girl action."

"Ms. Sciuto."

Abby spun around, startled by the man that had slipped into her lab. "Whoa, okay that was quieter than Gibbs."

He looked down at his shoes, "It's my high-tech model fives." Abby's eyes trailed to the ground. "Yeah their designed to dampen ambient sounds."

"Nice shoes, who are you?"

He looked confused. "Charles Sterling. Your new assistant ma'am."

"I didn't order a new assistant."

"Human Resources told me to report tonight."

Abby tried to figure out what was going on, but finally she gave up and made a quick phone call. "Gibbs, I have a problem down here."

She looked up when she saw him coming towards her. She didn't move from her spot on the railing, instead choosing to let him join her. "You needed to see me?"

"Abby Sciuto's new assistant?

She looked up at him as he leaned next to her. "Abby's overworked she needed help down there."

"You haven't been here long enough to know what she needs yet, Jen."

"The girl practically mainlines caffeine Gibbs. The guys in the mail room call her Energizer Abby." She smirked and went back to writing on her clipboard.

He grinned slightly at the smile in her voice. "She works best alone. She's a lot like you." He turned to look at her, "Very hands on."

She didn't miss the suggestion in his voice, and brought her eyes up to meet his. "Is that right?"

"Yeah." He let his eyes linger over her longer than necessary. "I like it that way Jen."

She sighed, "Give it a month Jethro. If she's still unhappy we'll talk about it." He rolled his eyes and stood back up straight so that he was taller than her again. "You can give me a month, can't you?" She smiled.

"It's not me you have to worry about Director." He gave her a look. "She works alone for a reason."

"Which is?" She didn't back down from his stare.

"Something you should ask her yourself."

"I will." He pushed away from the railing and started to walk away from her, but she raised her voice. "I'm briefing SecNav in about an hour. Anything on the two missing Marine wives?"

"Not yet."

"I need more than that Jethro!"

"Well you can tell him that they were running an Internet sex site while their husbands were deployed and as a result of that they may have been murdered."

His gaze made her unconsciously lick her bottom lip; "I guess I can hold off on briefing him for a little while."

His phone rang and he started down the stairs away from her. "Good call Madam Director. Gibbs." He answered the phone and descended the stairs. They were doing a hell of a job keeping their personal lives out of the office.

The team located one of the missing Marine wives shortly after. Gibbs, Ziva and Tony returned with Ducky and the body to NCIS, and they left McGee to head the search for the other missing wife.

Gibbs found Ducky working on his autopsy. "What's the time of death Duck?"

"Based on decomposition and bloating, ten, twelve days ago."

"She was killed prior to Jamie Carr."

Palmer came into the lab, handing over the x-rays. "Thank you." He clipped the x-rays up and looked them over. "As I suspected, cause of death, compound fracture of the skull."

Gibbs found himself alongside the Director again that afternoon. Standing in MTAC talking to Sergeant Roberts' unit overseas. "I want you to understand Ma'am, Sergeant Roberts is a good man."

Jen nodded, "Understood Captain, but my people still need to talk to him about his wife."

"I'd like them to do more than just talk ma'am. They have to stop him."

Gibbs spoke up, "From doing what Captain?"

"From ruining his life sir. Sergeant Major told me to contact you Special Agent Gibbs. Sergeant Roberts requested emergency leave two days ago."

Jen shot Gibbs a look and he asked the question on both of their minds. "We just found his wife's body, how's that possible?"

"He doesn't know she's dead yet sir. He requested leave for another reason."

"Which was?" Jen had her arms crossed, and she was looking for answers.

"A personal matter ma'am."

Gibbs cut across him, "We know about the sex site Captain."

"Well, then you should know that Sergeant Roberts blamed one of his neighbors for it. According to his squad he's planning on killing the man."

Jen was not thrilled by this revelation. "And you sent him home to do it Captain?"

Gibbs let his eyes shift from her back to the screen.

"I was unaware of his intentions until this morning ma'am. I just need your help."

"When's the Sergeant scheduled to land Captain?"

"Tomorrow sir."

"Check his flight manifest." She barked the order to one of the techs working in MTAC.

"He just needs a cool down period Agent Gibbs. Like I said he's a good man, and an even better Marine."

"We're on it Captain. We'll pick him up at the airport."

"Thank you sir. The Sergeant Major said that we could count on you."

Gibbs smiled. "Did he get that bottle I sent him?"

"He did. He told me to tell you to keep 'em coming." The feed cut off and Jen turned on him.

"Alcohol is contraband in Iraq."

He leaned forward and stepped closer to her, invading her personal space. "I thought it'd take longer Jen."

She looked at him with wide eyes. "Longer for what?"

"For me to see you as a Director and not a Field Agent." He said it softly, but there was still a world of hurt in her eyes. He promised himself he would make it up to her later.

"Ma'am," the tech she had asked for the manifest earlier stood up as she walked away from her. "The Sergeant changed his itinerary, he left West Germany last night."

"When's he due in?"

"He arrived two hours ago at Dulles."

She looked across to Gibbs who was standing closer to the door and he took off without another word.

They got ahold of Sergeant Roberts and of the man that he thought was the one responsible for everything that had happened to his wife. They took them both back to NCIS and Gibbs comforted the Marine as best as he could after interrogating the other man. Jen, Abby and McGee were in the observation room.

"He wants you to roll the tape."

Abby hit the keyboard quickly; "I guess it was worth it then."

"Worth what?"

"Watching over twenty hours of porn with Chip."

McGee's face turned funny. "Who the hell is Chip?"

"Her new assistant." Jen answered him from across the room.

"That I didn't ask for, Madam Director."

"Abby its Director or Ma'am, not Madam. How is Mr. Sterling working out?"

"All I can tell you right now, ma'am, is that he's easily excitable."

She met him in the hall after he was through with his suspect. "It's been awhile since I've seen you in interrogation Jethro. You haven't lost your touch."

"I should have let Sergeant Roberts kill him."

DiNozzo cam running around the corner towards them, "Bad news Boss, Powell's alibi checked out. The week Leanne Roberts was murdered he was in Disneyworld with his wife and kids."

"Did you tell Sergeant Roberts yet?"

"Thought it's be best if it came from a fellow Marine. So if Powell didn't do it who did?"

"That's what we're going to find out Agent DiNozzo."

He looked from her to Gibbs and back again. Not too many people spoke for, or exactly like, Gibbs.

That night after getting everything they could do for the day finished Gibbs let the team go home and get some rest. He had seen her leave about an hour earlier and so instead of driving home he drove to Georgetown. He knocked on her door and leaned against the frame waiting for her.

When she pulled the door open she didn't smile. "Special Agent Gibbs, can I help you with something?"

"I'm sorry Jen."

Green eyes shot up to meet blue ones as she sucked in a breath. Whatever she had been expecting it wasn't that. "What about Rule Six?"

He pulled a dozen white calla lilies from behind his back. "Doesn't apply to us anymore."

She took the flowers from him and let him in. "Kind of like Rule Twelve?"

"Exactly like Rule Twelve. Couples apologize Jen, and I really am sorry. I never should have said that. You make one hell of a Director."

"Is that what we are again Jethro? A couple?"

"I thought so." He looked over at her as she put water in a vase. "Unless…"

"No," she walked across and stopped in front of him. "No unless. I'd like to think so too."

The next day dawned bright and early for the team. Before lunch McGee had found the money, Abby had determined that the weapons used in both crimes weren't the same and Tony and Ziva had caught Jamie Carr after she left a up the team we will be there. mirror before she left. was empty. he dead man in her hotel bathroom.

The Sergeant met with Gibbs in the observation room over looking Jamie Carr. "I never thought that she'd…"

"I know exactly how you feel."

"How do you…" He stopped and looked up at Gibbs who nodded slowly. "How do you live with it sir?"

"Sergeant you ask yourself that question everyday until you find the answer."

"And what did you find sir?"

A smile tugged at the corner of Gibbs' mouth.

She walked up and stopped in front of his desk. "How did Sergeant Roberts take it?"

"He's on his way back to Iraq."

"You think it's wise sending a Marine who just lost his wife back into combat?"

"Wise?" He shook his head and stood up. "It's what I'd do."

"You heading out?"

"Yeah."

"Good." A smile played on her lips. "I'll walk you to your car." He held her gaze for a moment before moving around his desk and wrapping an arm around her waist. Together they walked past Tony and Ziva and headed for the elevator.

Ziva gave a knowing smile, and Tony watched with burning curiosity. "What's going on there?" He used his head to indicate the Director and Gibbs.

"I have no idea Tony."

"You're her friend!"

"Exactly."