Disclaimer: I do not own Def Leppard, although I wish I did because they rock! Ah, sounds from my happy childhood. I also do not own the Backstreet Boys. Oh no... songs from what a loser I was in elementary school. GO AWAY!
Go ahead and read on while I fight away the boy bands that are battling in my brain at the moment. LEAVE ME ALONE! AHHH!
Oh wait, one more... I do not own Geico, but I love the little lizard man. Pardon me, I mean, Gecko man.
Around the corner there she was. Laying on the ground in a pool of blood, her brown hair scattered around her. Her face was bruised from obvious beating and her skin pale and cold. Tears streamed down Kate's face. Seeing this was horrible, but at the same time it was one of the greatest moments of her life.
"Thank you God," Kate whispered. "Thank you so much."
Walking down into Ducky's autospy room, she felt the coldcapture her body. The temperature always remained below seventy degrees in there. How Ducky and Jimmy could stand the cold so much was beyond her.
"Hello Caitlin. How are you?" Ducky asked comfortingly as Kate stood beside the the cool metal table.
"Better now that I know Dawn is still alive. Ducky we were all so afraid that it was going to be her body laying out there. I don't know what Abby would have done without her baby girl." Kate breathed a sigh of relief.
"Ah Caitlin, I am quite sure that Abigail would have been upset, but just imagine Jethro."
The music blared from Abby's lab once again. It seems like the news of the young girl not being Dawn, had brightened her mood a little. Although she felt pain for the family that had lost their child, she rejoyced in the fact that Dawn would most likely be coming home. They would find her and once they did, she would never leave Abby's sight.
"Love is like a bomb, baby, c'mon get it on. Livin' like a lover with a radar phone. Lookin' like a tramp, like a video vamp. Demolition woman, can I be your man?" Abby belted out Def Leppard's 'Pour Some Sugar On Me' as loud as she could. It didn't sound all that bad either.
"Be your man!"
"Holy shiitake mushrooms Tony!" Abby yelled, walking over to turn the volume down on her radio. "Are you trying to give me a coronary?"
"I don't know what you mean by canaries here Abbs, but I was just trying to show my love for the classics."
"Awesome. You like Def Leppard?" Abby asked, disregarding the canary comment.
"Deaf who? No Abbs. This song."
"Right Tony. Stick to your Backstreet Boys okay? Anyways, what can I do for ya?"
"Oh umm, Gibbs sent me down here to see what you have on the hair ribbon."
"Well, good news of course," Abby said.
"You just saved a bunch of money on your car insurance by switching to Geico?"
"What's the good news Abbs?" Kate asked, walking into the lab and elbowing Tony in the ribs.
"Hey what was that for?"
"Not knowing who Def Leppard is."
"You've been standing there for that long. You are silent as a freaking mouse."
"Quit trying to be charming. News Abby?"
"I wasn't trying to be charming. I was succeeding ver..."
"Shut up Tony!" Abby hollered. A look of shock appeared on the faces of her two co-workers. Abby never yelled, except at McGee or maybe Gibbs, occasionally Dawn... just rarely at Tony and actually meaning it. "Sorry, I just have some news, which I really want you guys to know now that we are done with pop culture references."
"You're forgiven and I promise to shut up."
"Thank you. Okay... the moment we have all been waiting for," Abby took a long dramaric pause. "There were no traces of blood on the hair ribbon."
Kate eyed Abby, a tad bit confused. "Abby... you... what... that..."
"That was your good news?" Tony said, speaking up for Kate.
"No. That was news, but I have better news. There is nylon thread and wire in this ribbon. Not thick strands of wire, but enough to make it pretty durable. Normally, it is the kind of ribbon used in crafts such as scrapbooking and stuff," Abby said excitedly.
"But plently of places make that kind of ribbon," Kate responded.
"True which is why I tested further and found out that this ribbon wasn't dyed with regular black dye. They actually used more natural dyes."
Tony and Kate still looked sort of clueless.
"Guys, only one place in a fifty mile radius is so 'earth protective' to use natural dyes. Mothers Crafts down the street from the resteraunt we ate at. They had their grand opening there last weekend. Whoever left this ribbon knew that we could trace it back to there. We can find Dawn!"
Okay, I haven't the foggiest clue about all that ribbon crap that I wrote about above, but it sounded pretty damn convincing to me.
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