Chapter 7- Skin Diseases

Now on board the U.S.S Patrison, Petty Officer Ron Wolcott's place of work, or his second home. Gibbs and Nicole walked up to him, "What are you doing here?" Ron asked. It appeared that Ron's shore leave was up.

Nicole walked over and took a card from off a cabinet, "Oh, what are you?" she asked, then read the card out loud, "C-H-3-C-O-O-5-H-11."

Ron walked over to her and snatched the card. Gibbs looked at Ron, "So you're a chemist. What are we cooking today?"

"Not that it's any of your business, sir." Ron answered.

Nicole raised an eyebrow; "The chemical name sounds pretty hardcore, Petty Officer."

"That is none of your business. And what the hell is this about?"

Nicole looked at Ron harshly, "Your little degree in Chemistry, and the fact that Chealsy was drugged before her death."

"You can't possibly think I had anything to do with that!"

"You and your wife both knew Chealsy had changed her mind." Nicole replied.

"Now, why did you lie to us?" Gibbs asked.

Ron shook his head, "I knew. But she didn't. That's why I didn't want to say anything. In front of her."

"You expect us to believe that you didn't tell your own wife that she shouldn't be expecting a baby." Nicole shot back.

"I thought I could convince Chealsy to do the right thing."

"By killing her." Gibbs commented.

"No. No. No. By cutting off my credit card. To show her that she couldn't support a child." Petty Officer Ron Wolcott answered.

"Chealsy put quite a dent in your bank account. She owed you." Gibbs pointed out.

"You were just taking what was rightfully yours. You really botched it up, though." Nicole added, showing the Petty Officer a photo of the dead infant.

He shook his head; "This is my daughter! I didn't do this. I couldn't. Chealsy was having last-minute doubts. But I knew she'd come around."

"Not according to your phone records. You were hounding her right until the day she died." Gibbs stated. He would rather be doing this in interrogation. But, apparently it didn't look like it was going to go that way.

"Not in person!" Ron countered, "I might've called her too much, but I certainly didn't kill her by phone!"

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WOLCOTT RESIDENCE

13358 EAST 111TH STREET

WEDNESDAY, APRIL 5TH

Now in the Wolcott's kitchen Tony, McGee, Ziva, Gibbs and Nicole were searching for any evidence, Tony looked at Nicole, "There's a bathroom upstairs. Luminol anywhere he might have washed up."

Nicole looked at him, "Why don't you do it Tony?"

"Because I told you too."

"No, you can do it." Nicole said passing him the Luminol.

Tony mumbled and went up stairs. As he did so Kelly Wolcott, Petty Officer Ron Wolcott's wife looked at Gibbs and Nicole, "Why are you doing this to us?"

Gibbs turned to her, "'Cause your husband has a penchant for lying." He said, "Did you ever thing to notice?"

Kelly's mouth dropped open, "No! Ron is honest to a fault!"

"Mrs. Wolcott, he swore that you had no idea the Chealsy was keeping the child." Nicole commented, "Now, if you did know, he lied to us."

Ziva walked over, "If he didn't, he lied to you." She added.

McGee opened one of the drawers in the kitchen and he found something. He looked up to see Kelly still talking, "You have no idea what I've been through. Much less care. He lied to protect me."

McGee pulled the item out of the drawer. It was a small, black box. He opened it and inside he found four vials of chemicals, "Mrs. Wolcott, did your husband ever bring his work home with him?" McGee asked.

Kelly shook her head, "No…"

Gibbs looked down at what McGee found, "No? Then what are these?"

Kelly shrugged, "I don't know."

Ziva looked over; "They look like pharmaceuticals to me."

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APARTMENT BUILDING OF

CHEALSY KERN

145 EAST 97TH STREET
WEDNESDAY, APRIL 5TH

Ziva, Gibbs and Nicole were looking through Chealsy's apartment – once again. This case seemed a little weired and seemed to have really had Gibbs out in the field more then normal cases would. But, its comes with the job. Nicole looked around, "So remind me again, why we are here – again?"

Ziva looked over at Nicole, "You never know. Death doesn't stop the mailman. Did we check her box since she died?"

"It was rerouted to NCIS." Nicole answered, "Okay, let's go over this. She hit the gravy train with this couple. Why would she cut them off?"

Gibbs looked at her, "'Cause her maternal instincts finally kicked in."

Ziva through for a second, "Or she found a higher bidder. Did McGee look for a paper trail to another couple?"

"No." Gibbs answered, "That would be a waist of time!"

"She just checked out all these books on child-rearing. We know she was keeping the baby." Nicole pointed out.

"Did we find out when she checked them out?" Ziva asked.

Nicole answered, "I'd say judging from the due day, a couple days before her death."

Gibbs looked through the books and picked one out, "Skin Diseases of the Elderly? Why would a 22-year-old pregnant woman need this?"

Nicole shrugged, "Beats me."

"Well find out." Gibbs ordered.

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NORFOLK

PUBLIC LIBRARY

1038 TEWILIGAR AVENUE

THURSDAY, APRIL 6TH

Tony and Ziva were showing a photo of Chealsy to a Miss, Giddens, one of the library employees, "Recognize this girl?" Ziva asked.

"Oh, of course. She'd just sit and read the periodicals all day." Miss Giddens answered.

"So what else can you tell us about her?" Ziva asked.

Miss Giddens thought for a second, "She was determined to better herself. Always checked out self-help books."

"Like what? Cashing in on Your Inner Child?" Tony asked.

"Seems like you got to know Chealsy," Ziva commented.

"Just from her reading list. I tried to talk about the baby, but it was a very touchy subject." Miss Giddens answered.

"Until last week. She cleared off the baby shelf." Tony commented.

"Oh, it was the oddest thing. First she came to the counter, very anxious. Asked how she could find information about someone in her magazine."

"Who?" Ziva asked.

"I don't know. I sent her to Josephine, in Computers."

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In the Library Computer Lab, Ziva and Tony found who they were looking for. Now they were with Josephine, "Yeah, I remember her. The article was from a new magazine called: Good Lookes." Josephine answered.

Ziva looked at Josephine, "What was it about? A celebrity? Athlete?"

"Dermatologist. I looked up his bio for her. He wrote a book called…"

"Skin Diseases of the Elderly?" Tony asked.

"That's it!" Josephine answered as she sat at her computer and began to look up the book.

"Dermatologists are MDs. Easy access to Versed and Pitocin." Ziva told Tony.

"Yeah, and everybody who goes to medical school learns how to deliver a baby." Tony answered.

"Dr. Archibald Newlands." Josephine interrupted, with the author/doctor's name.

"She say why she wanted information on this guy?" Ziva asked.

"She didn't have too. The next thing she asked as how to file a paternity suit." Josephine answered.

TBC…