Chapter 5-

Tony sat at his desk, typing away at his keyboard. He kept glancing over at Gibbs' desk with an irritated look for Kate was sitting there, smiling at him. "What?" He finally snapped.

Kate shrugged casually and turned around in the chair. "Nothing."

Tony rolled his eyes and got back to work. The entrance elevator opened with a ding and Tony looked up to see who was coming out. He smiled a little to see Ziva but stopped when he saw Kate watching him, smiling widely.

Kate narrowed her eyes at Tony and looked from him to Ziva. She got up and walked over to Ziva. "Hey, sorry about ditching you last night, Tony just got really boring."

Ziva huffed. "I am sure you feel so bad about leaving me and Tony alone."

Kate laughed a little and shrugged. "Suit yourself." She slowly jogged back to Gibbs' desk and sat down.

Ziva sat down at her desk just as Gibbs walked in with a coffee. "What do we got?" He asked.

Tony immediately shot up to his feet. He grabbed the clicker to the plasma and pressed a button. "Ethan Lagneron, our dead marine recruiter, has a clear background. He went through school with no problems; he didn't do any sports, the low kid on the food chain though. Several reports that he was bullied, but they were just discarded. He started school in Fair field, Virginia in eighth grade, no trace of him before. It's weird…there is absolutely no mention of him before eighth grade. No birth certificate or anything to track him. It's like he just appeared at age fourteen." Tony explained what he found.

"Changed name." Kate muttered.

Gibbs looked over at her. "What?"

Kate looked up. "Huh? Isn't it obvious? He changed his name, the reason I don't know but if there's no record of his birth and he's real he's either a robot or he changed his name." She shrugged like it was no big deal and started playing with stuff on Gibbs desk.

Tony looked at her, a little surprised at her knowledge. "Well how are we supposed to know his first name?"

She shrugged. "Who cares? As far as you know he didn't have a purpose as his first name, only as his second. What you need to find is his parents. They changed it and you need to know why."

Ziva looked around the squad room. "She has a point."

Gibbs nodded. "Yeah, she does. Now find his parents." He ordered.

Tony cut in, "I did; they're both dead. The father was unemployed, and the mother was in fashion design, but I didn't see any record of her over the internet."

Kate stopped what she was doing and looked up at Gibbs. He was staring back at her. They both had the same thought.

Ziva and Tony looked at the two curiously. Apparently Gibbs hadn't told them what Kate told him about her mother. "What?" Tony asked.

"Tony," Gibbs started. "Do you have a picture of Ethan's mother?" The senior field agent nodded and clicked a button the plasma clicker. The team leader looked at Kate expectantly.

"No, that's not her, but she could be a co-worker." Kate peered at the picture closely. "Now that I think of it, she looks familiar. I've definitely seen her talking to my mom…"

"Um …Boss?" Tony spoke up, wondering what they were talking about.

"You," He pointed to Kate. "Are going to Abby's lab."

Kate nodded and stood up without questioning him. She walked off to the far elevator and pressed the button to go down. The girl was gone within a few more seconds.

Tony waited until Kate was gone before speaking up. "So…" He didn't know exactly what to say.

"I want you two to go and search Ethan Lagneron's house." Gibbs ordered them.

"For what exactly?" Ziva asked, getting her stuff together.

"According to the records DiNozzo found, his address hasn't changed since he was a kid." Gibbs said.

"And you want us to find anything about his mother's supposed job that we have no record of." DiNozzo guessed and headed for the entrance elevator with his stuff. Ziva walked right beside him.