Chapter Two
Two hours later, Kate, Tony and Gibbs were at their desks working on the latest case. Kate's brown hair was tied up in a usual pony-tail, and she was looking over the case files. Tony kept glancing up until Kate got fed up and look at him with a 'I'm going to kill you Tony' look in her eyes. "Gee Kate. Have you always been this workaholic?" Tony looked straight at her with a slight grin. "I'm actually working on something important Tony. Unlike you, I'm not lazy and immature." Kate responded, giving him a hard cold stare.
Gibbs stepped from his desk and said in his commanding voice, "Ducky has something." Just as Tony was about to say something to Kate, Gibbs walked past them. "Shut up Tony!" He demanded without a look back. Silently, he hid a smile, imagining Tony's face.
The glass door slid open and reveled Ducky and Palmer examining another body which lay on the table aside from the body of Mrs. Corrine Dane. This body had been mutilated and cut up into pieces. Ducky was figuring out where a small piece of skin and muscle went, when Gibbs, Tony and Kate arrived at the body of the rose-in-forehead woman.
"You know, this case reminds me of one down in Thebes. The woman was-" Ducky started one of his long, boring stories. "The body, Ducky." Gibbs interrupted like always. "Yes well, the poor girl died of massive blood loss from internal and external injuries. Her cervix walls were split and bruised. She had been hogtied and the ropes cut through the skin and muscle." Ducky said with sadness in his voice. Turning her body over slightly on it's side, he told them that the mark on her was made with a strong blow using the flat part of a blade.
"Tony will you stop being so immature?" Kate complained to Tony a little bit away from the body. "Kate, will you just show me the tattoo?" Tony moaned, his green eyes scanning her body as if the tattoo might just pop out. "NO! And stop looking at me like that." Kate said in her pleading voice while giving Tony a punch on his arm. "Kate! That hurt!" "If you two are done playing, we need to go to Abby. Ducky found some skin cells and is having them examined." Jethro's voice boomed out in the silence as he moved towards Abby's lab. Tony and Kate jumped and followed him, leaving Ducky to talk to his bodies.
Loud, heavy metal music exploded when the sound proof door opened. "ABBY!" Gibbs screamed. When he got no reply from the Goth in the chair, he proceeded to the stereo and pulled the plug. "ABBY!" "Gibbs!" The gothic girl spun around in her seat and reached out her hands. Rolling his eyes, he handed her the KAF POW. "The skin in the nails Abs." "God Gibbs, your so impatient. I ran it through what we have on AFIS and got a 70 hit to a Dale Brandon." "You mean the movie star?" Tony perked up. "Yep!" Before Gibbs could assign jobs, the three together said "On it". "I've been working here to long." Looking at his right hand and seeing nothing there, he went to fetch some coffee but first he plugged the wire in the socket for the stereo.
"Gibbs?" Kate spoke out into the silence. "Yeah?" The big plasma screen pulled up a bunch of files. "Our marine has been missing for two years before she turned up dead. So have three others, all part of the marines and married." Tony walked up to Kate and stood beside her, McGee on the other side of her. "So, we got a serial killer?" McGee asked. "At least he has good taste." Tony stated after Kate nodded her head. Gibbs slapped the back of Tony's head hard. "Boss? I was just making an observation." He replied innocently.
"Kate? Are you positive you two are going to fine?" Abby questioned to her best friend. Tony and Kate were in Abby's lab getting information for them. Tony would be posing as her husband and keeping track on the case. "Abs, chill. We'll be fine." Kate said trying to comfort her friend, as well as herself. "Kate?" Tony's eyes flickered to Kate. "Tony. I'll be fine. Why are you so worried?" Tony put his hand over his heart. "That hurts Kate. To think hat you don't think that I care if you get hurt." Kate rolled her eyes and turned to Abby. Abby pulled a piece of paper from the printer and handed it to Kate. "Your Cindy Lublock from Boston. You're married and just got back from your station in the marines. Tony your Jake Lublock." "Thanks Abs." Kate gave Abby one last hug and walked out of the cold DNA room with Tony by her side.