A/N-I'm so sorry for not having updated earlier, I have been sick with a terrible head cold, the kind that knocks you down and wrestles you to the floor, but I have kept this story in mind. Please read and enjoy.
Hawkeye and company were in a taxi cab and the cab driver stopped and let them off on the site where Hawkeye told him. He looked at the bunch strange while getting the money but it was none of his business what they were doing right? Dana is the first one out and she helps all the elderly out. The cab leaves and they go in the building, they look around then they see Gibbs coming toward them carrying several files and he says:
"You called and wanted to see me?"
Hawkeye looks back at everybody then says:
"Yes, well, last night, Trapper remembered something"
Jethro and everybody looks at Trapper and he says:
"Spearchucker came home one night after a shift at the hospital, obviously very upset and we started to try and calm him with drinks but then Hawkeye got a call from home and had to go"
Jethro leads them into a room and Radar closes the door then Jethro asks Trapper:
"Could it have been something about the hospital?"
Trapper scratches his chin then says:
"No, it was more personal, I could tell"
Jethro asks him:
"Did he mention Dhan?"
Trapper thinks and says:
"Once then we got too drunk to do much talking after that"
Jethro and all the men smirk but Margaret and Dana just roll their eyes then Hawkeye says:
"It's really not much to go on is it?"
Jethro sadly shakes his head and says:
"No, not really, just that…"
The door opens and Tony sticks his head in and says:
"We're ready boss"
Tony closes the door then Hawkeye asks:
"You found something?"
Tony says:
"Yeah"
He asks:
"We couldn't come with you, could we?"
Jethro shakes his head and says:
"Not on a official NCIS investigation, I'm sorry"
He picks up the files and shuffles them in his hands but somehow one of them slips back onto the table and Jethro goes to the door then looks back at them and says:
"But if you wanted to follow….I don't see how that would break any rules"
He leaves and Hawkeye smiles and looks at everybody then Trapper says:
"He dropped a file"
Hawkeye picks it up and says:
"I don't think he dropped it….."
He opens the file and says:
"This is about Dhan, the discovery they make on his bones….."
He scans over them then says:
"Oh, God"
Margaret's eyes widen and she asks:
"What is it?"
Hawkeye shows her, she puts on her glasses and a few tears stream down from her eyes and she sits down in a chair and Trapper asks:
"What is it?"
Hawkeye takes a deep breath then says:
"They found multiple layers of broken bones, layers and layers of healed lacerations and some that were in the process of healing"
He closes the file and slams it on the table then looks back at the shocked gang, After a few minutes of silence, he says:
"Come on"
They all get up and leave.
Dana signals for the cab driver to stop and she tells her dad:
"We're here"
The bunch gets out and Jethro sees them, he tries not to show anybody the small smile on his face then he asks Ziva and Tony:
"Ready?"
Tony smiles his smile and Ziva sighs then says:
"We are ready boss"
he signals for her to go ring the doorbell then back at Hawkeye and company, the cab drives off and he looks around and see a state road sign that says 'Uijeonbu---ahead' then Hawkeye says:
"Spearchucker and that sergeant were killed trying to protect that boy, I can feel it, I know it, in my gut, Radar, how long would you say it would take you to travel by jeep to Uijeonbu?"
Radar looks around and says:
"Half hour maybe"
He looks around in frustration then Margaret asks:
"What are you thinking Hawkeye?"
He scratches his head and says:
"Listen to me, just listen…what if, what if Spearchucker and that Sergeant took a jeep down here and got out because Spearchucker recognized the place or saw Dhan or something, then…"
Trapper says:
"That's a good theory but nobody ever mentioned a abandoned jeep then or now in this investigation"
Hawkeye tells him:
"Not necessarily. black marketers were all over the place in those days, if anybody saw a empty Army jeep they would take it right?"
Margaret says:
"Right, go on Hawkeye"
He looks around then says:
"I don't know what else to say except maybe they saw something and were trying to run back to the jeep and they were killed before getting away"
Trapper then says:
"This is pure speculation…"
Hawkeye shakes his head and holds on to his cane then Trapper finishes his sentence:
"Let's see what happens with those guys"
They all turn and see Jethro and his team go up to the door and Ziva rings the doorbell.
The same elderly Korean woman that Ziva asked comes and answers the door, when she sees Ziva, her face drops some and she asks ( in her native tongue ) :
"What do you want?"
Ziva shows her the picture of Sergeant Hamilton and asks:
"Do you recognize him?"
The Korean woman says:
"No'
Ziva then takes a picture of Spearchucker out and the woman's face loses even more color and she says:
"****"
Tony asks:
"What did she say?"
Jethro says:
"****, it's the Korean word for dark skinned people"
Ziva says to the woman in Korean:
"You're lying"
Jethro says:
"Tell her that we would like for her to come with us for some questions"
Ziva tells her and the woman shakes her head and leaves with them"
A while later, the Korean woman sits at a table across from Ziva and uncomfortable silence is between them then Jethro comes in, he quietly sits down and spreads out the pictures of Dhan, Kenneth Hamilton and Oliver 'Spearchucker' Harmon Jones and the woman asks:
"Why are you showing me these people? I told you I never saw them before"
Jethro calmly says:
"You're lying"
Jethro says:
"I saw your face when you first saw the picture of this man"
She mumbles in Korean:
"It's just that it was the first time I had ever seen a black man in a long time"
Jethro points to the picture and says:
"No! You first saw this man and this man in 1951, and this boy! ( holding up a picture of Dhan ) was buried on your land murdered and I think you know something about that!"
She cries and says:
"Don't make me tell! I don't want to tell!"
Jethro says:
"Listen, if you don't tell us, this boy will be buried someplace forgotten, like he was never cared for or loved and from the looks of his bones, he never was!"
The Korean woman says though tears:
"That's not true, he was loved, he was my brother"
Everybody becomes still and quiet both in that room and in the room behind the one way mirror. Hawkeye and all of them.
A/N—I tried to do research for the Korean word for dark skinned people and the closet I could find was "Herp' and even then I wasn't sure so that's why I used astricks. Please let me know what you think of this chapter.