Disclaimer: I dont own any of em! besides Mark & Velma, but theyre both smelly... oh, and i own this sock! only this one though... the other belongs to the table


Chapter 9: She's baaaccckk...

"Ducky!" McGee stared in wonder as the doctor practically ran from the elevator to the bullpen, looking rather frantic. "Wha- what are you doing here? Not that I'm not glad to see you up here again so soon, but… what are you doing here?" He asked exasperatedly.

"I haven't got the time for niceties Timothy; I need to see Jethro, now!" He insisted.

"I don't have time for a chat now, duck. We've got a new case." Gibbs turned the corner, coffee in hand, and walked over to his desk where he promptly opened various files, making it look like there was work to be done.

"You never do anymore, Jethro. And I know as well as you that there is no case, and you're just making it up to get rid of Me." he retorted, before placing the slip of paper on Gibbs' desk. "I think you might have one now, though," he said with a grim expression. Gibbs picked up the piece of paper and gave it the once over. McGee, Tony and Velma all looked on, highly interested and curious as to what the note might contain. Gibbs' eyes widened as he realised what the note said. Tony began to walk over to his desk to read over his shoulder. He quickly put the note, still in the baggie, into his desk drawer.

"We've got a case. DiNozzo, get the truck. McGee, get the gear." He began to walk towards the elevator and then said, almost as an afterthought "Mackenzie, you're good at sketching, right? Good, grab the notebook from the bottom drawer of your desk and get in to the truck." he said, then turned away from the elevator and walked into Director Sheppard's office instead, leaving the rest of the team standing dazed and confused. He burst in the door and grinned inwardly at the reaction this caused. There were three other people in the room besides the Director and himself, and they were staring, outraged, at the man that had just disrupted their meeting. Director Sheppard leapt from her chair.

"Special Agent Gibbs, what is the meaning of this?" She said sternly. "Can't you see I'm in the middle of a meeting! I would ask you to leave, immediately!" She then turned to her guests and began to apologise "I'm very sorry for this interruption, I promise you it will not happen again and Special Agent Gibbs will be punished for…" she stopped, noticing that Gibbs was still in the room. "What are you still doing here Gibbs? I told you to leave."

"No, Jen. You asked me to leave," he mocked. The director was about to argue this point, or yell at him again, when he said, "she's back."

"Excuse me? Who's back?" she asked, a look of perplexity crossing her face.

"You know exactly who." he replied, before slapping the note to her desk. She picked it up and read it, then turned to her associates and said, "I'm sorry, but I'm going to have to ask you to leave. We will have to continue this meeting at another time." as they filed out the door, she sat in her chair and read the note again, and again.

"I told you that you shouldn't have hired her in the first place Jen. It was a mistake. We didn't even want her on the team!" he said angrily, pacing around the room.

"Jethro, we don't even know for sure that it is her! It might just be someone that knows the same things as her." She replied defensively.

"And writes like her, and has the inside knowledge that only a member of our team would know! If I know her she's gonna go after the women I'm close to first, then after the men." He stopped pacing, looked at the note, and started pacing again.

"You may know her a bit, Jethro, but I know her better. Whenever she had a problem with you or any of your team, she came to me for help, because she knew she couldn't go to Abby. I believe she will go after the men first, that's just the way she is." she said, grimly. There was a long silence then the Director asked "How did you receive this note?"

"Ducky brought it up. I was trying to avoid him, and he gave me the note. It was already in the baggie." he said unworried. Just as he said this, there was a knock at the door. It was Abby with the lab results.

"Hey guys, sorry to interrupt, but I thought I should show you this Gibbs." she said uneasily as she handed over a page of results. "The other day Ducky gave me a sample of white powder he found in the nose of a victim that was brought in, a Petty Officer Gabrielle Stephens. I heard about the note that was left in autopsy, and I sped up the processing and found this. I thought it looked familiar, so I ran it against the sample we had from that time Tony got sick. It's the same strain that was sent here before Gibbs." Gibbs was reading and re-reading the test results.

"That's not possible Abby. That woman is dead, and her daughter is not seeking any sort of revenge against us. All remnants of it from her lab were destroyed."

"It is possible Gibbs, and it is happening. I'm thinking that it was an inside job, from in here, because here is the only place with any proof that it actually existed." Abby stated firmly, then a realisation hit her. "Oh my gosh! Ducky might be in danger. He read that note without the bag. There might have been traces of it on the note, which means there is every possibility that he's infected with it!"


A/N: Sorry about the povishness of it all... I'm running out of ideas for the chapters... I know whats gonna happen in the end and I've got the last chapter written, but I've gotta write everything in between still >

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