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Gibbs had decided to go check on Tony while he waited for directions to the farm, and brought McGee with him. Tony hadn't showed up for work and Kate was just lured into some kind of trap. Something was up.

He frowned when he found the door open; pulling out his gun he kicked the door open and carefully made his way around. The place was fairly clean, which surprised Gibbs at first until he remembered Tony had a maid.

After he searched the apartment and found it empty, he kept his gun in hand just incase he missed something. He returned to the kitchen were there seemed to be a struggle of some kind. Shards of glass were on the floor and a pot on a bash in it. It looked like some kind of long, thick weapon caused the marks; possibly a baseball bat.

"Gibbs?" McGee said from behind him.

Blood was on the edge of the counter, McGee was pointing at it. Something happened to Tony, and once Gibbs found Alex Woods, he'd find out what.

The ringing of his cell phone disrupted his train of thought. "Gibbs," he answered in a gruff voice, "Abbs, what have you got?"

Abby gave Gibbs directions to where as he left Tony's apartment, which they'd deal with later, and headed back to his car with McGee following behind understanding the urgency of the situation. By the time he had his car unlocked and both him and McGee were inside, Gibbs had ended the connection and was starting the car.


Gibbs passed the speed limit as he drove to the farm Abby gave directions too. McGee was scared they were going to get stopped but apparently Gibbs new a short cut that was hidden from the main road.

As he got out of the car Gibbs took out his gun, as did McGee. "Go around back…" Gibbs ordered; McGee did as he was told and disappeared around the small house.

Gibbs tried the handle but found it locked, taking out some clips he picked the lock and entered the house. Slowly he walked down a long hallway, a small bathroom lust left of the door was clear, as was the living room half way down the hall. A door at the end of the hall was open slightly, light shining through the crack. After checking a room that appeared to be a guest bedroom, Gibbs found himself at the end of the hall. He passed the stairs, he'd check upstairs out after the kitchen.

Gibbs grimaced at the sight he found; a young girl lay on the floor, blood seeping from a bullet wound to the chest and the shoulder. An older man with multiple gunshot wounds to the chest, slumped in a nearby chair. By a stove an older woman lay on the floor, a bullet wound to the head.

"Gibbs?" came McGee's voice form down the hall, "Boss? You here?"

"In the kitchen," Gibbs called back.

After a few heavy steps, Gibbs heard the door creak open behind him. "Oh wow," McGee said, stunned.

"Call backup."

"Yes sir, but I need to show you something."


The barn was a horrible sight. Blood covered the floors, but there was no sign to whose blood it was. A gun lay on the floor forgotten. A baseball bat sat up against a wall and a cell phone lay in the pool of blood.

"McGee, if you don't get on the phone in the next two seconds-"

"Right away, Gibbs," McGee said grabbing his cell and dialing a number.

Where were they and what happened? Whose blood was this? Whose cell phone was that? Whose blood was that…?

That was a lot of blood.


Gibbs entered Abby's lab and wasn't surprised to find it blasting with music. Abby didn't notice him at first, she was too absorbed in her work, so Gibbs checked out the source of the noise and attempted to turn it off.

"Abby!" he yelled at the goth when he ended up turning the music louder.

Abby looked at him over her shoulder and jumped. She recovered quickly from the shock and turned the music off.

"Hey Gibbs."

"What have you found?"

"Well the bullets found inside the Henderson's," Abby said referring to the murdered family, "are from the gun found in the barn. And the gun is Tony's."

"So he was there, or at least his gun was."

"Um… yeah, well I ran a DNA analysis on the blood…" Abby trailed off.

"Whose was it…? Kate's?"

Abby shook her head, "Um…" she paused and bit her lip, "No."

"Alex?" Gibbs asked abruptly, trying to hide his hopefulness.

"No…"

"Tony was there?" Gibbs said, the tone of his voice made it more of a statement than a question.

"Yeah… I went through all the samples brought back but all the blood was a match to Tony."


A/N: You like? Short I know, this chapter was originally supposed to be taken in a completely different direction, but I've changed where I'm taking this story so it will hopefully be more interesting. Please review!

(I was to lazy to read over this, it's getting late and I want to sleep, so I'm sorry for any mistakes, I'll fix it later)