Title: Progeny, Chapter 2

Spoilers: As of right now, spoilers for Bette Noire and through unSEALed.

Rating: PG-PG-13ish. Nothing out of the ordinary, and if there is, I'll let you know ahead of times.

Disc: I don't own NCIS, but I do own the idea for the story and my new character(s).

Author: Kara E.

Summary: Someone Gibbs knows from the past comes back to haunt him while working on a new case.

Must be noted, this is a work in progress. Also, my normal beta reader is suffering from internet access withdrawal and has yet to be able to beta this, so alas, if there is mistakes, it's my fault.

Progeny

Chapter 2

"You have got to be kidding me," Sam frustratingly said to the guy next to her.

"If only I was," the guy said as he turned off the TV monitor in front of him.

"So you're telling me that there is nothing on the security tapes?"

"Not just nothing," the tech guy said as he held up the video tape, "the tape is brand new."

"So in other words, someone switched our tapes."

"Or they turned off the cameras."

"I got a look at Marmaxx's video security system. According to the stores managers it was just installed a month ago." Abby Sciutto said as she spoke to the NCIS team and Sam as she clicked away on her computer.  "Ten cameras are situated through out the store. The camera's feed into the stores security room where it is routed between an in store VCR and recorded onto tape," she said as she held the blank VHS tape up.

"And the other one?" Gibbs impatiently asked.

"The other one is sent to a computer at their corporate headquarters over a DSL line."

Abby proudly said.

"Which means we can get a hold of a copy of the tape," Sam said.

"Exactly."

"Thanks Abby!" Gibbs said as he walked out of the lab. His team, including Sam, followed suit. Just as Sam was about to exit the lab, Abby stopped her.

"Hey Sam."

"Yeah Abbs?"

"You should stop by more often, we'll do lunch."

"Sure Abby." Sam said as she left the lab. She had to walk quickly to catch up with the team.

"Who other than the Loss Prevention officer would have access to the LP office?" Kate quickly asked.

"Any one of the managers would." Tony replied.

"So then our thief could be anyone of the five managers the store has." Kate stated.

"No," Sam said interjecting herself into the conversation. "It would be between three managers, the two that opened this morning, and the one who closed last night."

"Dinozzo, since you like Marmaxx so much, why don't you call their corporations headquarters and get a copy of the security camera's video." Gibbs said as Kate laughed quietly while Sam raised one of her eyebrows at the two. "Kate, call the security company and get a log of the security system." Gibbs said as the elevator doors opened and he and Sam entered as Kate and Tony stood watching. 

"Is it just me, or is he ditching us?" Tony asked as the elevators doors closed.

"Ducky, what do we have?"

"Our Petty officer and his friend are a bit perplexing."

"How is that so, Dr. Mallard?"

"Samantha, you've known me for years and yet you still won't call me Ducky."

"Sorry Ducky," Sam said in embarrassment, "force of habit from working with our ME." She said referring to her work with the DC Medical Examiner.

"Ducky?"

"Sorry Jethro." Ducky said as he tried to get back on course. He then walked over to the bodies lying on the examining table. "I found small pinpricks all over the backs of their bodies."

"Pinpricks?" Sam asked.

"I'm with her Ducky. Pinpricks?" Gibbs asked in confusion. 

"Yes, pinpricks. Here, come have a look." The doctor said as he moved the magnify lens over to where it hovered over the Petty Officers back. As the two crime solvers looked into the magnify lens, they saw numerous small holes in the body, which were thicker than a syringe and about an inch apart.

"Almost looks like they were tortured." Sam said as she ran her finger over the glass of the lens.

"Unfortunately, these were made post mortem."

"Do both of the bodies have them?" Gibbs asked.

"Both Petty Officer Johns and Miss Whittle have the pinpricks. However, some of Miss Whittle's pinpricks have a blue tone to them."

"Is it natural?" Sam questioned.

"Definitely not; I sent a sample to Abby. I suspect she'll find that it is ink."

Tony impatiently waited on hold as he dealt with trying to get copies of the security tape from the Marmaxx headquarters. He tapped his foot to the beat of the music on the hold line. As the new song came on, he rolled his eyes. "I swear, this is the third Jessica Simpson song they've played in the last thirty minutes."

"At least you get music, Tony." Kate said from her desk across from his. "I'm stuck on hold with nothing to listen to."

"I can let my hair down, I can say anything crazy, I know you'll catch me right before I hit the ground," Tony sang along with the music on the phone as he danced in his chair. Kate laughed at her colleague as she tapped her pen on her desk.  "With nothing but a T-shirt on, I never felt so beautiful, Baby as I do now, now that I'm... Yes I'm still here," he said as the phone line clicked back to the security agent on the other side. "Yes, NCIS, Washington Navy Yard… Building 200… Washington DC... 20374, next day. Thanks." Tony said as he hung up the phone. He then heard the elevator doors open and looked up to see Sam and Gibbs walk out. He watched as they walked into the bullpen without a word said between the two.

"What do you got, Tony?" Gibbs asked as he passed by their desks and sat down at his.

"Marmaxx is next daying us a copy of the last twenty-four hours of security tape. It'll be here tomorrow by noon." Tony said as Kate hung up her phone.

"Good news is that Lifeline Security is faxing us copies of the last twenty codes entered and the employee that's associated with that code."

"And the bad news is?" Sam asked as she stood in the middle of the bullpen.

"The bad news is that it won't be here for another two hours." Kate said as she observed her bosses glare at her.

"Then it better be here in two hours." Gibbs said angrily. He then calmed himself down and asked, "Kate, do we have an address for any of the family members yet?"

Kate fumbled through her notes as Sam replied, "Miss Whittle has a brother who she lives with here in town."

"Address?" Gibbs impatiently asked as Sam quickly ripped the page out of her notebook and gave it to her father.

"Petty Officer Johns was stationed at Annapolis" Sam finished.

"Kate, you're with me." He said as he pulled his gun out of his desk drawer. "Sam, you and Tony go check out our Petty Officer."

As Tony and Sam walked in uncomfortable silence towards Sam's silver sedan, Tony could feel his gut nagging at him to start a conversation. "I take it that you and Gibbs don't talk much."

"You can say that." Same said bitterly. She opened the driver's door to her sedan and got in. She looked out her side window where Tony was still standing; she then gave him a look as she opened her door and asked, "What?"

"If you want to get into the Naval Base, then you're going to have to let me drive."

"What, just because I'm a girl you think I can't get into a Naval Base?"

"No," Tony said as he noticed how similar she was to Kate when she felt she had been insulted. "I'm just referring to the fact that my NCIS badge will be an automatic ticket inside, where as your DCPD badge will get us automatically stopped at the front gates."

"Fine," she said as she tossed him her keys and exited the driver's side of her car and walked to the passenger side. After she had buckled herself in, she watched as Tony's hands flirted with the siren switch for the inside flashing lights. She quickly slapped his hands away, "If you touch them, then you'll be sitting in the backseat with handcuffs on." She said with a smirk.

"Mr. Whittle, was your sister dating Petty Officer Douglas Johns?" Kate asked the sorrow faced man.

"Doug? No, Angelina wasn't dating Doug. They were just best friends."

"How long had she known him," Kate asked.

Mr. Whittle paused to count. "Ten years now. They met as freshman in high school."

"Was your sister dating anyone?" Gibbs asked breaking his silence.

"She had a date the other night with a guy named," Mr. Whittle paused as he got up from his couch and walked into the kitchen and shuffled through some papers till he pulled out a small card. He then read from the card, "Mike Peters." He then gave the card to Kate as he said, "He sent her flowers before her date."

"Do you have a number for him?" Kate asked. The guy simply shook his head.

"Then do you mind if we borrow the card?" She asked in hopes of being able to get in contact with him through the floral company.

"What can you tell us about Petty Officer Johns?" Tony asked as they walked around the base talking to Petty Officer Johns' commanding officer.

"Johns was your ordinary typical Petty Officer," the man simply replied.

"Help a girl out who's not familiar with the Navy, what do you mean by typical?" Sam asked from her position behind Tony and the CO.

"He did what he was told, didn't cause any trouble, just your typical Petty Officer."

 "Okay," Sam said. She wasn't quite sure if his explanation helped or not. To be exact, she wasn't sure why she was investigating the naval aspect of the case and not the civilian part, but she figured it had something to do with her dad's way of pushing her off the case.

"Did the Petty Officer have many friends on base?" Tony asked as he tried to regain control of the conversation.

"One that I know of, but he was shipped out last week for his tour of duty."  The CO paused. "I wish I could help you two out more, but I really don't know much about Johns.  If you'll excuse me, I have to get back to work." And with that he walked off as the two law enforcement officers stood dumbfounded.

As Tony and Sam walked out towards the police issued sedan, Tony glanced at his boss's daughter. He noticed that she bore the same frustrated look on her face that her father had been bearing since the event of the terrorist taking the NCIS headquarters hostage. When they reached the car, she automatically got in on the drivers side. As he got in on the passenger side, he watched as she pulled her auburn hair up into a sloppy ponytail and then put on her dark sunglasses. She then turned her head and faced him, catching him in his stare. "Ready?" She asked.

"Yup." He said as he buckled his seat belt. He decided at that moment that she was just like Gibbs in the way that there was more to her than she was letting on.

Kate looked at her boss as he drove towards the NCIS headquarters. She was curious towards the back story behind Samantha. She had figured from the way Gibbs acted around children that at one time, he was ether a father or a "big brother" to a kid, but she figured that she would never meet this person. From what she had seen of Sam, she really didn't look like her father. Although she did have his eyes, his soul piercing eyes. She had wondered if it was true that her mom had cheated on him. It had to be her mom since Gibbs had stated that he was on tour at the time when she cheated, and Sam would be around the right age for it to be his first marriage. Although it could be just like what Tony had said, Gibbs was lying to try and reach a common ground with the Commanding Officer who was being questioned at the time.

Kate placed her hand on her forehead as she felt the starting of a headache. She decided then that pondering the history of the Gibbs family was just too complicated for one person to try and figure out on their own.