A/N Hey, sorry the chapter's up late again, but at least it's still Wednesday? I've literally just finished it up now. It's a short chapter and it's not really that good but I want to finish this case up (I can't leave a case unfinished) and I'll do that over the next two chapters and then we can get back to the Tiva and McAbby, woo! Anyway looks like I'm slightly going to enjoy the fact that you won't get to find out what happened with Tony and Ziva that night… Yet… This just picks up the next morning, when everybody's already at work. Sorry! It's from Tony's POV again :) Read and hopefully you'll think it's okay and then review :D

Chapter 10- Finishing Up- Part 1

I'd been in work for all of 2 hours looking for some sort of a lead on this, and even fresh faced this morning as I was, the few hours of sleep I'd had weren't helping.

Heck, if anything going home last night was just taking my mind further and further off of the case.

In my mind I just kept on playing and replaying everything that had happened, and I could feel the toothy smile sneaking its way across my face.

As the grin crept across my face, my eyes crept upwards, to the desk facing me. Where the most beautiful woman I'd ever seen in my life sat.

Her perfectly shaped eyebrows were furrowing together in her concentration, and underneath them, her beautiful chocolate brown eyes stared at her screen.

It was strange, how different the two of us were; her so concentrated in her work, and myself, so intent on procrastinating from doing just that.

I was awakened back into the real world by Gibbs' familiar ringtone.

He glanced at the caller id quickly and picked up. "Yeah, Ducky, I'll send DiNozzo down now."

So I guess Gibbs must've noticed that I'd hardly done anything all morning.

I just hoped he hadn't noticed who I could barely keep my eyes off.

Or even worse, why I couldn't concentrate…

He nodded his head at me once, and I jumped up and headed right over to the elevator and, once inside, I pressed the button for sub- basement and headed on down to autopsy.

The elevator pinged and I hopped out. The automatic doors to autopsy slid open and I strolled inside.

"Ah, Anthony," Ducky said.

"Hey Ducky, you got anything for us?" I said, hopefully.

"Let me guess, you have no leads as of yet?" Ducky asked me.

"Nope, nothing, nada," I said bluntly.

"Well, I haven't found anything out of the ordinary. As you've already seen, her stomach has been slashed violently, so obviously she bled to death. There's no unusual bruising or broken bones. She seems a perfectly healthy woman. However, the lack of bruising or fractures implies that she knew her attacker."

"Okay, well thanks Ducky. Maybe this will finally get us somewhere on this case," I said, already heading towards the door.

"Oh, Anthony, I sent the blood up to Abigail, perhaps she will be able to give you a little more on this?"

"Thanks Ducky," I said, exiting autopsy and pressing the button on the elevator that would take me back up to the bullpen.

I pretty much jumped out of the elevator, in the excitement of some sort of lead on this stupid case at last.

"Boss," I shouted running into the bullpen. I looked at Gibbs' empty desk in confusion.

"Where's the fire DiNozzo?" A hand slapped around the back of my head, full force, accompanied by Gibbs' familiar voice.

"No boss, no fire. Ducky just told us that whoever killed Christina, she knew 'em."

"That's it?" He asked expectantly.

"Well yeah," I said, wondering why he expected anymore. "I mean c'mon boss it's a lead isn't it?"

"Not a very good one, but if you wanna follow it, take Ziva with you."

"Really boss?" I said, the smile back on my face.

"Hey, like you said DiNozzo, it's a lead."

I grabbed my bag, shouted Ziva and headed with her over to the elevator.

"Where are we going Tony?" Ziva asked me, questioningly.

"We, Ziva, are following a lead," I said, grinning at her.

A/N Short, I know, sorry! I'll do a longer next chapter so that I can actually finish this case. Thank you to anybody who reviewed the last chapter, or anyone who added it to their story alerts, it makes me happy to know people are reading it :) Review please :D