In only a few hours Tony and Gibbs returned with a handsome Colonel. It was apparent Gibbs was the one who drove, even Tony looked green around the gills.
The handsome Colonel stood there in his service uniform. Ziva was drawn to his physical looks but when he spook there was just something in his voice that put her on edge.
Tony had seen the intrigued look on Ziva's face but he was pleased when her look changed.
"Where's McGee?" Gibbs asked.
"He went to give Abby a hand." Ziva sniggered.
Tony gave her a questioning look, which she ignored.
"This way Colonel." Tony said directing him to the conference room.
"If you hear anything from Abby or McGee I want to know immediately." He said fallowing Tony.
Ziva nodded.
In the conference room
"Colonel Tom Applewood." Tony said smiling.
The Colonel smiled back.
"You heard that former Lance Corporal Larkin was found dead yesterday?!" Asked Gibbs.
"No! I… I didn't know that." Answered Colonel Applewood.
"Really?" Tony asked suspiciously.
"I haven't seen Larkin since his honourable discharge I mean I know he was making a go of it with the whole NCIS thing but -." He shrugged.
"Where were you three days ago?" Gibbs asked.
"Right were you picked me up, Fayetteville base."
"That's funny Larkin's last call registered at a cell tower at Fayetteville."
Applewood took a deep breath and sat back.
"I guess if he's dead there's no harm in telling you what I know."
"Which is?" Tony asked moving forward.
"So about a week ago Larkin rings me, says he's got in deep in something but that he doesn't want to talk over the phone. I agreed to meet him three days ago, I missed a call from him and when he didn't turn up at the base I figured he changed his mind."
"So Larkin says he's in deep, disappears and you don't think anything of it?" Gibbs asked sceptically.
"Look I'm not saying Larkin wasn't a good solder and I mean everyone who met him liked him but I couldn't say he had any friends to speak of. He had got these two buddies but shortly after he was discharged they seemed to fall out. My point is Larkin wasn't really my responsibility and we certainly were not friends. So maybe he changed his mind about confiding in me, I don't know all I know was he didn't meet me like he was supposed to."
"Maybe because he was too busy getting murdered." DiNozzo quipped.
"I know that now." The Colonel snapped.
"What were the names of these two friends'?" Gibbs asked.
"At the time Ryan Goldberg was a Private First Class and Jackson Taylor was a Lance Corporal."
Gibbs and Tony walked The Colonel to the lift.
"If you need me you know where to find me." The colonel said as the doors closed.
Gibbs turned to face the room.
"McGee, can you run a background on these two names. Get Abby to help if you need too."
"Sure thing boss." He answered taking the piece of paper and heading to the lab.
"Ziva get an update on Larkin's family; make sure there's someone there to meet them at the airport."
"The O'Leary's land in a few hours."
Gibbs looked at his watch.
"Running late boss?" Tony asked.
Gibbs didn't answer but headed off towards director Vance's office.
Ziva picked up her phone and died a number.
"More coffee I guess." Tony said checking his wallet.
"I'll have a double shot of cream." Winked Ziva.
Tony was so taken a back he had to make sure no one overheard.
In the lab.
"McGee!" Abby said cheerfully without turning round but using a remote to low the level of her music.
"Hi Ab's." McGee answered awkwardly without looking up at her.
"What have you got for me?" She had asked innocently but as soon as the words had escaped her she thought of McGee's over whelming size and girth.
"The boss wants us to try and track both of these men."
He passed her the piece of paper.
"Ok so we'll start with the privet." Her mind wondered again.
She stocked the keys of the computer within moments she had a summary of the men.
"Private First Class Ryan Goldberg, twenty eight, from Birmingham Alabama. Says here after he failed his last psych eval he was honourably discharged. He is currently working as a mechanic in Birmingham." She said reading the screen.
McGee didn't answer and stood there writing it all down.
A little annoyed Abby typed in the second name.
Jackson Taylor came up but he was a Lance Corporal Abby couldn't access anything else she didn't have the clearance.
"McGee!" She said actually grabbing his arm.
McGee stopped writing with the shock.
McGee looked at the screen.
"Vance!" They said at the same time.
McGee returned to his desk.
"Coffee?!" He said picking up the cup and taking a mouthful.
"Tony got them." Ziva told him.
"Thanks Tony." McGee said lifting the cup in a sort of salute.
"What you got McGee?" Gibbs asked walking around the corner.
"Goldberg, twenty eight, from Birmingham, Alabama."
He said clicking a remote and watching the screen change.
"He left the Marines after he fail a psych eval."
"And Taylor?"
"His file was sealed."
Gibbs turned and headed for the stairs.
"How was Abby?" Ziva asked McGee.
"Fine." McGee looked taken aback.
Tony looked suspiciously from one to the other.
Gibbs walked back down the stairs moments later.
"Tony you're with me. McGee, The Director is setting up a satellite conference if I'm not back you take it." Ordered Gibbs.
"Where are we going boss?"
"Alabama."
"Ziva, you have a guest." Gibbs nodded behind her.
Standing there was Mrs Larkin.
"Hola." Mrs Larkin said walking around the booth.
Mrs Larkin had made her way there to ask Ziva if there was a chance she could meet Landon's family. Ziva explained that they wouldn't land for a few more hours. Mrs Larkin said that she would return the next day.
After Mrs Larkin's visit Ziva helped McGee go through Goldberg's phone records and bills.
"Besides car parts and cable this guy doesn't exist." Muttered McGee.
"That and pizza." Ziva added.
(Meanwhile in Alabama)
Gibbs and Tony pull up to a small garage.
Gibbs went around the back.
"Hi can you help me?" Tony asked an old man who was leaning over the open bonnet of a Toyota.
Tony showed him his badge.
"What can I help you with?" The old man asked cleaning his hands on a dirty rag.
"I'm looking for Ryan Goldberg."
"My grandson, he is working on a Chevrolet." He pointed to the rear of the building.
Tony walked back the way he came, his gun drawn.
Suddenly there was a sound of an engine.
"NCIS!" He shouted as a blue pickup sped towards him.
"Stop!" Tony shouted but the truck kept coming.
There were four shots, the truck stopped and Tony checked his chest for holes.
"Step out of the car!" Gibbs shouted walking around the side.
"You ok DiNozzo?" Gibbs asked pulling Goldberg from the car.
"Yeah boss." He gasped.
"Ryan Goldberg your under arrest."
"For what?" He asked shocked.
"Murder!" Tony said taking him from Gibbs. Once his cuffs were on Tony frog marched him to the car.
When Gibbs got back to NCIS McGee told him MTAC was ready.
"Take him to interrogation room 5."
"Want me to take a run at him boss?" Tony asked shaking Goldberg by the scruff of the neck.
"No let him stew."
Gibbs ran up the stairs.
In MTAC Gibbs waited for the screen to make a clear picture.
"Lance Corporal Taylor sir."
"Gibbs NCIS."
"I know sir."
"Did you know that Lance Corporal Larkin has been murdered."
"Yes sir when I was told to get here for this linkup." Taylor seemed genuinely upset.
"So you had no clue he was in trouble?"
"No sir, I last spoke to him three months ago just after he was shipped home sir."
"Where were you three days ago?" Gibbs asked thought he was sure he knew the answer.
Taylor looked off camera.
"I'm not at liberty to give specifics sir but I was out of the country. I've been on a top secret mission for the past two and a half month's sir."
"Were you and the Lance Corporal close?"
"Yes sir?"
"How close?"
"We were best friends sir, since first day of training."
"What about your falling out?"
"Sir?"
"Just after Larkin's discharge you had a disagreement."
"No sir!"
"So you are telling me that he didn't have a problem with you being made a Lance Corporal?"
"Sir it was him who suggested I go for it and I think he even put in a good word for me."
"What about Goldberg?"
"What about him sir?"
"Did Larkin fall out with him?"
"No sir, I probably shouldn't say this…"
"Continue Lance Corporal."
"Between you and me Sir, Goldberg wasn't made for service. He only joined so he wouldn't be the first in his family not to serve. His kid sister is in training right now but Ryan he would have washed out if it weren't for Landon and me. We did everything we could but I was sent away and Landon was discharged we couldn't cover for him anymore."
"Do you think that being discharged might have made Goldberg want to kill Larkin?"
"Ryan? No way you're talking about someone who only ever fired a gun in basic. No way if someone killed Landon it wasn't Ryan sir, there's just no way." The Lance Corporal was adamant.
"Thank you." Gibbs started to walk off.
"Sir?!"
Gibbs stopped.
"Larkin didn't have family I was just-"
"He's grandparents from Ireland will be here tomorrow and his wife is here."
"Sir his wife?"
"Yeah, you were such good friends you didn't know he was married."
"I haven't talked to him since I took this post."
"He never spoke to you about someone special?"
"No sir, but we didn't talk much after he got injured like I said I was sworn to secrecy. You might want to talk to Colonel Applewood."
"Why?"
"In his letters Lark said Applewood visited him every day when he was in hospital. Larkin said he was a great comfort, even suggested Larkin become a paper pusher. Sorry sir that was his term not mine."
"Thank you Lance Corporal."
Gibbs gave the signal to cut transition.
Gibbs returned to his desk.
"Ziva take another look at, The colonel."
"I'm not finished with-"
Gibbs gave her a look.
She picked up her phone.
"McGee give Abby a fresh pair of eyes."
"DiNozzo your with me."
"Yes Boss." Tony looked more than delighted.
They walked into interrogation room 5.
"Hey look I know I get a lawyer."
"Do you need a lawyer?" Gibbs asked.
Ryan was a jittery kind of person he hadn't sat still the whole way to NCIS.
"Ever seen Jarhead? No what about Platoon? War can do funny things to people it can turn friends against each other. Is that what happened? Get jealous Larkin was getting a second chance at serving his country?"
"No! I was glad when I got my discharge, sure my parents don't want anything to do with me but my gramps took me in. Wait what happened to Larkin?"
"Like you don't know." Tony laughed.
Gibbs showed Goldberg the crime scene photos.
"No, No, No, Not Landon. It can't be him!" Goldberg shouted banging his fist on the table as tears filled his eyes.
Tony was shocked and Gibbs studied Goldberg.
"Where were you three nights ago?"
"I….I was with my grandpa." He cried as he held a picture of Larkin's body.
With a nod Gibbs signalled to Tony to take off the handcuffs.
"Wait three days ago?"
Goldberg asked looking for his phone.
"I hadn't heard from him in months then I suddenly got this."
"Goldy! It's me Lark. I thought I could take them down on my own but he's on to me I need your help. I'm on my way to NCIS."
"And you did nothing?" Asked Tony.
"I tried to call back but I didn't get an answer."
"So you didn't look for him."
"I had no idea where he was and I thought with his connection with NCIS I thought he got help."
"Oh my god this is all my fault, if I had of looked for him." He said blaming himself.
DiNozzo and Gibbs joined Ziva by the desk.
"Any idea who Larkin was refusing to?" Tony asked Jethro.
"No."
"Did McGee find out anything?" He asked Ziva.
"I don't think so."
Gibbs headed to the lab.
Ziva quickly picked up the phone and tried to ring the lab but got no answer.
(In the lab)
"Hey Abby, Gibbs said I was to come give you a hand." He explained while looking at a file.
When he got no answer McGee looked up.
"Abby! What are you doing?" McGee blocked his sight with the file.
"I was expected you, Mr McGee."
Abby stood there in only her white coat and Demonia Trashville 518 platform boots.
"Abby seriously what are you doing?"
"Well you had, had a breakthrough just before we… so I figure maybe we need to you know, and then we'll come up with another breakthrough."
"That sounds farfetched?!"
"Worth a try though."
"Abby-?!"
"Look at me McGee."
Slowly he lowered the file.
"Why don't you want me?"
"It's not that Abby."
"What then."
"I want to be with you but there are so many things."
"Name one?!"
"Gibb's rules for one."
"What else?"
"I don't want you to look at me different and now you do."
"Well come on, I wanted you before. Now I know what you're like I want you more."
"I don't want you to want me just for my, my you know!"
"Timmy, if I could make love to your brain I would but I can't so your, you know, will have to do." She smiled widely as she came over to him.
"Do you really not want me?"
McGee looked down at her breasts, her pail skin, the light covering of hair that lay between her legs.
"I want you but-."
"You're letting someone else's rules dictate your life."
"I know but It's Gibbs."
"Is Gibb's going to give you head?"
McGee was stunned.
"Because right now there is nothing I'd like more then to have you fill my mouth."
She didn't have to look down she knew that her words had captured McGee.
"Timmy, I want you here." She pointed at her mouth "Here," her breasts "Here," She pointed to the little smattering of hair she had "and-"
"Stop! I get it, you want me."
"Don't you feel the same?"
She asked worried that waiting naked for him had been a mistake.
"Of course I do but here?" He indicated the room.
"Don't you think that adds to it, the risk?"
"I don't know it feels like we're being watched."
"I kinda like it." Abby said lifting one of McGee's hands and putting it between her legs.
"Can you tell?" She asked.
That was it McGee couldn't take it anymore he had wanted her the second he walked through the door.
"What do you want me to do?" He asked closing his eyes.
She brought him over to the desk, she bent down and released his already throbbing member.
"I keep forgetting just how big you are." She said taking hold of it.
She gave it teasing licks. McGee held on to the desk.
Suddenly Abby slid her whole warm mouth over him. She pushed her head forward as much as she could, making a gaging noise.
"Oh god!" Timmy groaned.
Abby moaned her agreement.
She repeated the action bobbing her head over him, she could feel him at the back of her throat. She used her right hand to pull on the base of his erection.
McGee had only just let himself relax into the pace Abby set when the doors opened.
"Where's Abby?" Gibbs asked looking around the room.
"You just missed her." McGee coughed.
"Where did she go?" He asked.
"The toilet I think." He voice constricted.
Abby was still going hard under the desk and a gaging sound escaped her.
Gibbs turned to look at McGee who faked a cough.
"Ok tell her I'm looking for her."
Gibbs left and Abby went full speed. Before he knew it he was about to cume.
"Ah fuck Abby!"
"Not yet!" Abby said making McGee take two steps back.
"God Abby, don't teas me."
"I just want you to cume here."
Abby signalled to McGee to finish himself off and cume over her breasts.
"I can't, I can't do that in front of you!"
"Please McGee, you were just in my mouth. I need it here all of it." She pointed at her breasts again.
Slowly McGee started to pick up where Abby left off.
"Please McGee." She begged massaging her breasts.
"I can't … if you talk I can't"
Abby put her finger to her lips.
"Abby I need-"
He didn't even finish his sentence when Abby's mouth was around him again.
"Abby!" he ground pulling on one of her plats.
It wasn't long before Abby could feel Timmy's mussels tighten she let him free and watched as he came all over her chest.
"Abby." He said holding himself.
"Timmy." She said massaging his cume all over her breasts.
McGee let his head hang backwards as he felt the release.
McGee looked down at Abby, it was almost enough to get him going again but suddenly she jumped up.
"I have an idea!" she shouted and ran towards the evidence.
"Abby!" McGee said stunned as he tidied himself away.
"Contamination!? Maybe you should clean up and get dressed?!"
"Oh yeah! Thanks for the help McGee." She shouted as she walked into the next room.
