The Little Things Give You Away
Chapter 11

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When Jenny awoke the next morning she found the space beside her in the double bed warm but empty. Feeling panic building up inside of her she knocked on the bathroom door, she guessed Jethro must be in there from the light spilling out from under the door.

"Jethro? Are you okay in there?" Jenny asked, not caring that her voice showed exactly how worried she was.

The door opened and Jenny stepped over the threshold and into the bathroom just as Gibbs flushed the toilet.

"Have you been sick?" She asked, looking up at him with concern.

Gibbs nodded, rubbing his hand over his face.

"I think you were right Jen, mixing those pills and the bourbon together wasn't such a great idea."

Jenny smiled a little, rubbing her hand up and down Gibbs' back.

"I'm sorry, did you just say that I was right and you were wrong?" She asked playfully.

Gibbs smirked down at her. "Rare, eh?"

Jenny laughed. "Well, I see you're feeling better now!" She paused. "I'm going to shower and dress, then I'm going to head over to HQ and see how we proceed. I'll call you when I know the details." She turned to head back to the bedroom area to collect clean underwear and clothes but Gibbs grabbed her by the arm.

"I'm coming with you." He stated simply.

Jenny shook her head. "Oh no you're not, remember what the doctors said, and for God's sake Jethro, you were shot!"

"Not the first time." Gibbs replied. "And I doubt it'll be the last either."

Jenny sighed and rolled her eyes; she knew it was fruitless to argue with him.

Jenny and Gibbs were back in their cramped office that day, searching through more files on King that seemed to have appeared out of nowhere overnight. Agents were tracing him currently but King had been wise enough not to use his credit card and there had not been any concrete sightings since the previous day when he escaped again.

"This is useless." Jenny complained as they sat eating lunch, she viciously stabbed a piece of her chicken salad with her fork to make a point. "We should be out there looking for him, not frying inside an office."

Gibbs put his own fork down on the desk. "We will get him Jen, it's just going to take time. King is smart, but we're smarter."

"Since when did you become all patient?" Jenny asked, with a hint of amusement.

"Mayo." Gibbs said and Jenny looked confused until he reached out and wiped the mayonnaise from her bottom lip with a napkin.

"Thanks." Jenny replied. She leaned forward and grazed her lips against Gibbs', pulling him into a long, tender kiss.

"Agent Shepard; Gibbs." Maral said, pushing the door open with a bang, which sent the two agents flying apart like guilty teenagers. He tried to hide his hint of amusement before he became deadly serious. "Another young woman has gone missing, she fits the profile we've drawn up of the victims so far. Her name is Elodie Devereux. We need to start interviewing her friends, family, teachers and anyone else we can think of. Now."

Jenny was aware that her cheeks were still flushed red when she and Gibbs left the stuffy office and she knew they'd have to be more careful from now on.

Jenny and Gibbs sat opposite Clair Devereux in the living room of their house, sipping cups of coffee. Jenny took the lead in the interview, and Gibbs enjoyed watching the way she handled the situation, she was especially good with the more vulnerable people they interviewed but he knew she could be tough when she needed to be.

"When was Elodie last seen?" Jenny asked gently, leaning forward slightly in her chair so she was a comforting distance away from Clair.

"She left here for school as usual this morning," Clair explained. "And then she just didn't come home. I wouldn't have thought anything of it except all of this news about these young girls getting abducted and murder."

"Is that what made you inform the police?" Jenny prompted.

Clair shook her head. "I didn't know that Elodie was going to be meeting her boyfriend after school until he showed up and wanted to know if she was home."

Jenny nodded and Gibbs watched her make a note of this.

"I hate to ask this, but has Elodie been behaving differently lately?"

Clair shook her head. "No, actually her school grades have improved of late, she's got some good friends at the moment and she's dating a nice boy too."

Jenny looked around at Gibbs; this was enough for them to link Elodie's disappearance with King for now.

A science technician back at Paris Police HQ was able to use Elodie's phone to start a trace but it was hard to pinpoint an exact signal.

"I'm sorry," The technician told Maral, Louis and the NCIS agents. "We've lost the trace completely. The battery is either dead or King had made her turn it off."

Jenny looked him straight in the eye. "Or it means he's killed Elodie."

The technician nodded gravely. "Worst case scenario: yes."

"We've got to find her." Jenny muttered almost to herself. Despite what everyone, including and especially Gibbs, Jenny could not help but blame herself for letting Gary King get away. She was determined not to let him murder another young woman.

"Agent Shepard! Agent Gibbs!" Detective Louis called after the two NCIS agents just before they were about to leave HQ.

They exchanged a glance and turned back, joining Louis in front of his computer.

"King has left us a message." He said gravely and Jenny felt her stomach flip.

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