This is post Twilight. My version of what happened afterwards.


It's Not What You Think-Chapter 1-The Missing Corpse

"What do you mean she's gone?" Jethro Gibbs yelled at Ducky as they walked towards the crypt.

"I mean, I came down here this morning and I was going through the files. I saw that Kate's body was to be released this afternoon & so I had Mr. Palmer get her body so that it could be made ready for transport. That's when we discovered that she was missing," the ME said, his British accent becoming obvious as he explained to his friend and colleague the events of that morning.


A few hours earlier

Dr. Donald Mallard, "Ducky" to his friends, walked into the morgue of the NCIS building, listening to his assistant Jimmy Palmer tell him about an article he had read the previous night.

"Anyway, Doctor, I just though that you might find it interesting," he finished as he handed the magazine to his superior.

"Thank you, Mr. Palmer, I shall read it later."

Ducky put the magazine down on the counter and began looking through the files he had left there the day before. He stopped as he came across the autopsy file of his late friend and colleague, Special Agent Caitlin Todd.

"Are any bodies being released today?" Jimmy asked.

"Yes. Caitlin will be leaving us today." Ducky smiled sadly as he thought of what he had just said.

"Should I get her ready for transport?" Jimmy asked, careful to not interrupt his mentor's thoughts.

"What? Oh, yes. If you will, please."

Jimmy nodded and proceeded to do the heartbreaking task of getting the agent's body out of its drawer. He stopped when he saw the empty space where her body had been the day before.

"Uh, Doctor?"

"What is it, Mr. Palmer?"

"I, uh, think you should take a look at this."

"A look at what, Mr. Palmer?" The body of one of my closest friends?

"There's nothing there," he said when he came to see what the young man was talking about.

"Exactly, Dr. Mallard. There's nothing in this drawer. But she was here yesterday."

"What do you mean?" The older man took a look at the label on the front of the drawer.

Todd, Caitlin

"She's gone, Dr. Mallard."


So, what do you think?