Chapter Ten
New York City 6:30 p.m..
in Denver 3:30 p.m..
in DC 6:30p.m.
in Dallas 4:30 p.m.
in LA 2:30p.m.
in Vegas 4:30 p.m.
Saturday April 26th, 2007
Martin looked up as the door to the office opened and in walked Jack and a group of people. Jack walked over to the board and turned around to the whole group.
"Ok guy's, this is the NCIS team that Agent DiNozzo belongs to, Special Agent Leroy Jethro Gibbs and his team." Jack said as Gibbs just nodded as did his team.
"With me is Special Agents Kate Todd and Tim McGee, and also our lab tech Abby Sciuto." Gibbs said
"Agent Gibbs, this is my team, Agents Danny Taylor and Martin Fitzgerald. Then we have a CSI team from here, Detectives Mac Taylor, Danny Messer, Stella Bonasera, Lindsey Monroe, and their M.E Sheldon Hawks. We also have Texas Ranger Carlos Sandoval. Now, they have found out something's and I know that so have we so let's sit down and talk." Jack said as he pointed to each person. Gibbs nodded at them all then he stood.
"Ok what we have so far is this; twelve years ago Tony changed his name from Rocky DeSantos to Anthony DiNozzo. He lied about where he was born and where he went to school. We now know that who ever did this was a computer genius, because Tony got by the FBI background check. We know that Tony was from Angel Grove California and we think that he ran away because a friend was accused of molesting a boy and him and nine others took off. Now, we found out that most people in Angel Grove don't think that he did it. In fact, two of the people that we talked to said that they thought that Oliver had been framed. They also told us that the kids that ran away were the kind of kids that don't get in to trouble, the kind that go to college and do good. We also found out that a Kimberly Hart called Tony a number of times and soon after Tony would move, either cities or homes. She is the one that told the police about drawings and a photo, which is what had them all over Oliver. We also have found out who the other nine are and were they are now." Gibbs said as Abby and McGee started pulling up everything that they had on to a big computer screen and then he sat down, Jack and them nodded at what Gibbs had said.
"Well you found the same thing that we did, but we also have found a couple of other things. Two of my people, down in Texas, found out that Oliver might have been molested as a child and that that is what the drawings are. As for the photo, it's a fake, a good one twelve years ago, but now you can really tell the difference. They also found two letters from what we now know are Oliver and Cranston; the letters told us a lot of the story, but not any of that. There was a lockbox found in Dallas, it had three sets of ID's in them, they were TOP stuff. My agents and the Texas Rangers down there also found a piece of jewelry that belongs to a man that Ranger Cordell Walker knows, he is going to be looking in to how Ranger Mason got a hold of it." Jack said then turned to Mac who stood up.
"Ok, we found the same things that you found, the runaways, and we also found out where they are now. Now we didn't find a lock box but we do know that Amber Wilton, one Tanya Sloan did have one. That's it for what we have on this end of things." Mac said, and then he sat back down.
"Ok, what we need to do is talk to the other seven runaways, I take it that you have worked out how your going to do that?" Gibbs asked as he looked up at the screen that had the photos on them.
"Yeah, I have Messer and Martin going to Vegas in a couple of hours to check out James and Carson. Walker is sending out one of his and one of my Agents, Samantha Spade to L.A and we have Stella Bonasera and Agent Vivian Johnson are going to Miami. Then Taylor and Ranger Sandoval are going to Denver. I was going to hit D.C while Mac and Walker found out everything that they could about the ten runaways. We can switch some of it up if you want?" Jack said as he, Mac and Gibbs looked at each other.
"No, we can help the best here. McGee and Abby can help us track down everything on the runaways. And Kate can do a profile on all of them." Gibbs said as he looked Jack then Mac in the eyes. They both nodded at him.
"Alright, everyone knows what their to do, so let's get it done." Jack said as he stood up, everybody nodded and got up and started pulling their stuff together. Jack motioned Mac and Gibbs in to his office; they nodded and walked into the office and went to tell the teams that had left know what was going on. While the rest of them started gathering their things or started running searches on laptops and other computers. Kate was looking at the copies of the letters that had been found in Dallas.
"Do we know what this is talking about here?" Kate asked as she pointed to a spot on the letter.
"I just wished that we could go back to worrying about Rita and Zedd, those were the days, huh. Do you have any ideal what that might mean?" asked Kate as she looked at Carlos then looked at the others.
"No, I don't think that we even thought about it. Do you think that it means something?" Carlos asked as he took a closer look at the letter.
"I don't know, it's jus that… Well if you take out the fact that Oliver and Mason are in a relationship then what's in the letter changes, but then once you know that they ran away, it changes things again. Look at the start of it, Oliver starts out by calling Mason Bro. Now that might be so that no one would know that they are dating, or it could be that because they grow up in California that that is the way they just talk. But then there's the fact that Oliver never uses Mason's name, not the one that he is using now or his real one. Then you have Oliver say that Mason has been sounding 'a bit bothered lately when we talk', and 'If there is something wrong you know that you can tell me', that sounds like they are really close, not just in the relationship but as friends. Then he goes on to tell Mason that he thought he saw… Bulk on T.V!!!, he say that he swears. Now this Bulk could be a friend from high school or something, but look at the way that he talks about what happened. I know, you're asking your self if I hit my head, or if it was on Americas Most Wanted or what not. But it wasn't, he was on this show that I like to watch, called Bones. You would really like it, but anyway there he was, right there on the show. Anyway, thought that you might get a kick at seeing that, he thought that Mason would get a kick out of watching this Bulk on T.V and I think that he thought it would make Mason happy." Kate said as she grabbed her pad and started writing on it.
"Right, the letter can be interpreted to mean any number of things. Like here," Danny Messer says as he points at a part of the letter.
"~Trini is still seeing that CSI Eric Delko, it's funny to watch Bro, he's all trying to be careful of her when they spar. You should have seen her wipe the floor with him the other day; I'm telling you it was just like she use to do back home. Eric just sat there and stared up at her for a full minute, there for awhile I thought that she had broken him. I even told her that I wasn't helping with the disposal of this body, she wiped around and gave me that dirty look of hers, you know the one. The one she gives when you have done something that she hates, and she just narrows her eyes at you and her mouth pinches. Man I thought that she was going to cook that night, FOOD POSINING, just don't tell her that I said that~ you can almost hear the laughter in the way that Oliver wrote thought. But what's funny is the way that Oliver talks about Trini, especially when you look at the picture of her. Oliver says that she wiped the floor with him and that it was just like she used to do back home. Now, he could be trying to cheer Mason up or he could be telling him this because he thought that he would find it funny." Danny said as he turned and looked at Kate, who was nodding and writing on her pad as fast as she could.
"Right, then he makes the crack about her cooking, and how she looks when she's mad. An then he goes on to talk about her looking at wedding dresses online and her getting serious about Eric, and that 'she can't marry the man that she loves and that loves her, because her ex-best friend will find us and hurt us all, including Eric' which shows that there is a threat. But look at the other letter, there is no mention of the threat in it when talking about Trini and Eric. In fact the way that it talks in that letter, Billy has no ideal about any threat to them from any former friend of Trini's and I would guess the rest of them." Kate said as she looked at the second letter then back at the first one.
"Your right, the way that Billy makes it sound, their running to protect Tommy. But why wouldn't Mason or Oliver tell the others?" Danny Taylor asked as he, Martin, and Stella came up behind them.
"Maybe they are protecting them, trying to keep them safe from this friend of theirs." Stella said as they looked over what they had, then with the others that were going rushed around to get to were they were going.