A/n: Thanx to all the reviewers and all the feedback and suggestions ...and to my a big thankyou to my beta!!..Also this mightbe my lastest one for a bit because ofsome work issues... but it should be allok soon!! :)

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QUANTICO MARINE BASE: Monday 1300

Gibbs pulled quickly into the docking station at the marine base and abruptly stopped on the outskirts of the yellow taped police boundary.

Kate was glad that she had her seatbelt on because her PDA flew straight off her lap and into the windscreen.

A little stunned; Kate looked at the usually mellow, occasionally high-strung, senior agent, but he had already slammed the car door and was heading towards a group LEOs standing by an open shipping container.

"Identification" Barked one very prime looking LEO.

Gibbs promptly flipped his NCIS badge with one hand and breezed through and headed inside the shipping container. Kate wasn't so 'lucky' and had to go through and explain to the blank-looking officer.

"NCIS….Naval criminal investigative service…" Kate stated matter-of-factly, slumping one hand on her hip. She had just lost sight of Gibbs entering the container and she knew now that of she missed anything it wouldn't be that easy to catch up.

"Uugh, well…" began the officer. Kate was getting a little annoyed now and raised an eyebrow.

"Yes… proceed." He finished and pointed her in the direction of the container.

It was in the middle of summer and as Kate approached the container, there sure wasn't a pretty smell coming from it.

Stacked inside the container, which was about the size of a shoe box, a very large shoebox in that case, were a few dozen or so, ordinary looking brown boxes labeled 'industrial equipment. They piled to the roof of the container and to a few feet from the opening of the container. Kate then noticed a space between some of the boxes and saw Gibbs kneeling over something. She felt a little nervous, from what Gibbs had told her in the ride over and already from the hot air around, she wasn't looking forward to what was in the container.

As Kate began to prepare herself Tony and Ducky arrived and gave her a bit of a start.

"Whoa…WHAT is that??" Tony exclaimed, bringing his hands up to cover his face.

"Here.." Motioned Ducky as he handed both Kate and Tony a surgical mask. "This should make it a bit easier." With that he handed Kate the camera and went over to Gibbs.

Kate decided that she needed some fresh air before surveying the scene when she suddenly noted that Tony had slyly disappeared. She stepped just outside the container where she found Tony and it didn't look like he wanted to get-right-in-there as much as she did.

"Where are you two??" Barked one impatient Gibbs.

Kate signed and looked over her shoulder into the container and then over to Tony.

"Ready?…" She asked, well teased, and found herself looking at a very pale Tony. They both looked at each other and went in.

Their Jane Doe was hidden behind the first couple of stacked boxes. She was partly decomposed and had died in a crouched position with her arms wrapped around legs. Gibbs was collecting evidence from around the scene and Ducky had just finished his preliminary analysis.

Kate began to take photographs and Tony went behind Ducky to begin taking the sketches.

FLASH

"So, Ducky, what can you tell us about our Jane Doe?" asked Gibbs.

FLASH

"Well, she is defiantly from the Oceanic region with this type of bone structure and I'd have to guess but she looks to be between 25 and 35 years of age. The trip from there to here takes about 3 to fours months depending on how many port calls this voyage docked at. However once I get her back to the lab I'll be certain of exactly when she died and quite possibly also her cause of death…poor thing…" Ducky finished, looking over the body one last time before, with the help from an assistant ME, putting her in a body bag.

They had to remove the body and their evidence before the container was moved onto its next port that afternoon.

"Take these back with you when you leave for the lab." Added Gibbs and handed Ducky a few evidence bags filled with what looked like fluorescent glass shards and a sooty-white powder.

Gibbs noticed that Kate was looking a little green, let alone Tony, and the LEOs outside weren't going to stay around forever… "Kate go and round-up the arresting MPs and start a profile on Lt McCuthen..."

He watched as she took one last look of pity for the Jane Doe.

"Damn…not again." He mutters, but he couldn't seem to unlock his eyes before she disappeared out of the crime scene.

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