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Chapter 9
At 0700 with couple of delays and dozen of different time zones the British Airways Flight 085 from Tel Aviv trough Heathrow to Washington D.C. finally arrived to Dulles International. After taking her suitcase Sarah David exited the airport. She took a moment to Washington's cold October breeze and think what to do first. She told Ziva that she will be here at noon on purpose, because she wanted to go and find out as much as she could about the tiny bracelet in her pocket.
On the other end of the airport Lisa Mallard and her father were calling a cab to take them to their hotel. They were tired and wanted to get some sleep in a proper bed before Ducky finished work for the day. Once the cab was here they put their bags in the trunk and climbed in the back seat.
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A half hour later Sarah entered the main hallway at Bethesda Naval Hospital and went straight to the nurse station. Once she was there she took the bracelet out of her pocket and put it on the counter.
" Can I help you Miss?" an old, kind looking nurse asked with a smile.
"As a matter of fact you can. I need to know who this belongs to!" Sarah replied showing the bracelet to the nurse.
"I am sorry I can't do that!" the nurse shook her head.
Then realizing that she would get nothing with this approach so she pulled her badge on the counter and glared at the nurse.
The nurse cleared her throat and circled the counter and directed Sarah to a more private place where they could talk. When they reached a more quiet hallway, they sat down and the nurse started talking.
"No matter how many years pass I will never be able to forget this number" she started taking the bracelet in her hands "it belonged to one of the 'unlucky twins' as we called them. It was a little more than fifteen years ago when we got a call that the NCIS Director was involved in a car accident and ten minutes after the call she was brought her with almost no injuries but in labour. She gave birth to two healthy baby girls. They were both with red hair just like hers. The older girl had green eyes but the younger one, the owner of this bracelet, she had the most beautiful blue eyes anyone of us had ever seen. They were quite similar to yours." the nurse said and smiled absently as she thought about the events of that fateful night "They were both very beautiful, which was natural because even now their father is considered one of the most handsome men in the entire US Navy, we heard he retired recently and went to Mexico!"
"So you knew him very well?" Sarah finally dare to ask.
"No, even though would love to know him better, I only treated him when her got injured on a line of duty or so!" the nurse said with a smile.
"Well you never told me why they are called the 'unlucky twins'?" Sarah ashed with more curiosity than before.
"That same night, the 24th October I will never forget, out of a sudden the both girls died in sleep from lack of oxygen, holding hands!" the nurse finished and a lonely tear rolled down her cheek.
"What were their names?" Sarah asked feeling her own tears threaten to escape.
"The older was Tamara Shepard Gibbs and the younger one was Christina Shepard Gibbs!"
"Do you by some chance know what happened to the mother?"
"Well, the rumour was that she moved to Paris after a fight with the father over some threatening letter she never told him about or so!" the nurse answered as she started to wander who was this girl asking so much about the 'unlucky twins' and what she wanted, but she didn't mention anything because the girl stood up, said her goodbye and left.
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