Chapter 11
Being a Sunday evening Kate and Gibbs arrived at the hospital quite quickly though that may have had something to do with Gibbs erratic driving.
"Dr. Craig, Special Agent Gibbs. This is Special Agent Todd and Emily and Thomas Parker." Dr Marissa Craig stood before Gibbs. She smiled at the children before leaning down to speak to them.
"Hi Emily, Hi Thomas, I am Dr. Craig. Do you want to just follow me and the nurse will help you put on a special hospital uniform?" Tom simply nodded and Emily's hand squeezed harder against Kate's.
"Can Kate stay with me?" Emily's small voice asked.
"Special Agent Kate will just stay outside while you get changed, but I promise you as soon as you are done, she can come back inside." Emily nodded reluctantly letting go of Kate's hand. Kate and Gibbs watched the two Parker children being led away.
"Sometimes I just hate the world," Kate sighed. Gibbs looked at Kate, his eyes softening. "Don't you Gibbs?"
"Kate," Gibbs replied softly, "There are some things you can't control. You just do your job and try to stop whatever is wrong today. Then you begin again tomorrow." Kate looked at Gibbs. She noticed the lines that had formed around his eyes. She could see suffering in his eyes.
"But how do you survive Gibbs?" Kate asked.
"Find someone to love and who loves you and never lose that feeling Kate." Gibbs replied. His lips then formed a smile. "But you don't need me to tell you that, do you?" Gibbs walked off when he saw Dr. Craig enter the corridor. Kate looked at Gibbs for a moment and smiled at the thought of Tony she then shook her head: Gibbs knew. She then hurried to Emily's room.
Emily was sitting on the side of the bed in a hospital gown, her legs dangling over the edge, when Kate entered the room. "You ok?" She asked Emily feebly. Emily looked up at Kate, fear dancing in your eyes.
"Is it going to hurt?"
Kate bit on her lip, unsure of how much information to reveal to Emily. "It might hurt a little bit, but I'll be here the whole time."
"Where's Tom?" Emily asked, suddenly aware that her brother was not with her.
"He's in the next room with Gibbs. He's fine," Kate said soothingly. Emily relaxed a little, but it was obvious that the day's events were haunting Emily. Kate could tell that she had never spoken about it before, so she was on a rollercoaster ride of emotions.
"You're a very brave little girl, Emily," Kate whispered in her ear as she wrapped her arm around the small child. "Your mother would have been very proud of you today." At the mention of her mother, Emily began to cry.
"You're not going to find her, are you?" Emily asked through her tears. Kate reached over to the bedside table and reached for the tissue box. She gently wiped away Emily's tears.
"Honey, we are doing everything we can to try and find your mummy and daddy." Kate said, hugging Emily to hide the tears that had formed in her own eyes. Soon Dr Craig entered the room.
"Hi Emily, I just need to do a few tests. It may be uncomfortable, but it's going to over soon?" Dr Craig said as she sat down at the foot of the exam table and began her examination. Emily spent the time in tears and Kate sat beside Emily holding her hand being there for the child. Inside, her heart was breaking she was unable to take away the pain the hurt and the humiliation Emily was feeling.. The child was only six. Minutes later they left the hospital room. Emily briefly released her hands from Kate's to hug her brother. Gibbs looked on, but Kate could see a smile forming. Dr Craig quietly spoke to Gibbs and Kate.
"There is reason to believe that Emily has been sexually abused for some time," Gibbs remained motionless, placing his hands in his pockets to prevent him from breaking anything in sight. "Tom appears to be physically at least in good health. I have taken some blood to do a full work up, but I am allowing you to take them for their own protection. I will pass on their folder to a caseworker, who will be in touch with you in the morning." Kate nodded,
"Thank-you, Doctor Craig." They then went back to NCIS HQ where Gibbs and Kate were hoping that there had been some sort of a breakthrough.
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Back at NCIS, Tony had found addresses for the three Richard Jones that Lieutenant Parker possibly worked with in the Navy. The two Petty Officers were still serving with the Navy but Lieutenant Richard Jones had been dishonourably discharged twelve months ago. Tony dug deeper into his file and found that it had been Lieutenant Parker who was responsible for his dismissal. "Gotchya!" Tony yelled, jumping out of his chair. Of course it was circumstantial at this stage, but it just seemed to be too much of a co-incidence. He was also the one who worked with Lieutenant Parker the most.
McGee looked up from his desk, startled at Tony's sudden bust of energy. That sudden resemblance to Abby had shocked him. "What have you found, Tony?" McGee asked.
"Lieutenant Richard Jones was dishonourably discharged from the Navy twelve months ago, Probie!"
"That doesn't mean that it's him. There are three Richard Jones stationed at Norfolk," McGee rationalized.
"But Parker was the one in charge of his dismissal."
"Well, that um does make it interesting," McGee said looking at Tony. McGee bringing up the file saw something even more interesting.
"He was granted entrance into the base last week, his visit lodged as a guest of Lieutenant Parker at her office," McGee said looking up at Tony.
Tony went over to Probie's desk. "Probie contact the security office, get a tape of it. His naval photo is quite old, we need to know what he looks like now." Tony ordered. Just then the elevator doors opened. "Boss," Tony said getting up. "We think we have found our Jones. Twelve months ago he was discharged due to a complaint Lieutenant Parker made against him. He also visited her last week at the office. I have Probie pulling the surveillance tapes." Tony said, catching his breath.
"Kate contact JAG and pull his dismissal case," Gibbs ordered. "Tony find his address and evaluate the site for entry and possible exits. We may be paying him a visit, but I want to be prepared." Gibbs said before walking up the stairs, to contact Director Morrow presumably.
Emily and Tom were standing on either side of Kate. As Gibbs disappeared from view, Kate ushered them to her desk and Tony came over to speak to her. Leaning in, he spoke softly. "Everything go ok at the hospital?"
Kate looked up at him and bit her lip. "The Doctor said that there is evidence that Emily has been sexually abused for a while, but Tom is ok, physically at least."
Tony nodded. "And how are you?" He leant in a little bit closer, his face barely centimeters from her own.
"I'm fine. Look, let's get moving. The quicker we find Jones, hopefully, the sooner we'll find their parents… alive." She turned away from Tony and sat on top of her desk. She picked up the phone and dialed a familiar number at JAG.
"Commander Coleman, it's Special Agent Todd," Kate said curtly into the phone. "I need you to fax over the dismissal case for a Lieutenant Richard Jones roughly twelve months ago." There was a pause before Kate spoke again. "Oh! You remember it?" Tony looked up from his desk, waiting to see what their favourite Commander had to say about it. "Right, yep, I understand," Kate said. This was followed by another lengthy pause. "Thanks. I'll get back to you about that. Bye." Kate hung up the phone and walked over to where Tony was sitting at his desk.
"Commander Coleman remembers the case. Parker made all sorts of accusations against Jones, only one of them held up in court though. She's faxing through all JAG's got on it."
"This case just keeps on getting more interesting by the minute," Tony remarked.
"Too many minutes have gone by, Tony," Kate said softly before turning back to the kids. "Hey Emily, Tom, let's go down and see if Abby has any new computer games for you to play." She smiled as their faces lit up and they jumped from her chair. She held out her hands, which they willingly accepted. With Tom on her left and Emily on her right, they walked over to the elevator to go down to Abby's lab, not knowing what the next few hours were going to bring.
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