A/N: Here's another chapter folks! Welcome to my newest followers & favourites, so glad to have you with us on this continuing journey! To my dearest reviewers, thank you so much! I love hearing your thoughts, so keep 'em coming!

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Disclaimer: I do not know anything about how adoption processes work now nor back in the 1960's, the way I have it working is purely for the purpose of this story & by means holds true, it is purely fiction.

Now, can the names reap any rewards?

Gibbs rushed into the bullpen, he saw almost the entire room full of agents ready to go & awaiting the briefing, he saw McGee "start!" he ordered briskly, not wanting to delay another moment.

Tim hadn't known what had kept Gibbs, he was rarely ever late, he guessed it was something family related, that would be the only reason for the delay, he wouldn't ask now about it now though & began "Palmer was able to get us an image of the tattoo, the NATO tech's were able to enhance it & they ran it through the database, it got a hit, Andre Withers, he was the guy assuming Moretti's identity." He started, glad that their databases kept images of identifying marks.

"He's a Belgium national, former special ops, now a mercenary for hire, Italian Customs have confirmed that he entered through Milan on Saturday on a flight from Abu Dhabi. We've just gotten confirmation that he then left the Milan airport in a hire car. The car was hired by a Rudolf Guthrie, he matches the description of Mandel, and we're running his details now." Tim continued.

"Got something" Silva interrupted "A serviced apartment was hired under the name Rudolf Guthrie over in Arzano, they rented it for a week, so it should be un-touched"

Tim nodded before continuing "we're running known associates & also trying to find any links between the pair. Palmer's helped us confirm that they were both killed by single shots to the temple, long range boss, longer than we suspected originally"

Gibbs nodded, he turned "Wu! You're on the apartment, I want it processed ASAP!"

"Yes boss!" Wu replied.

"Donnelly! Kruse! Back to the crime scene, take Silva & Zuse too, scout the new target area for where the shot came from, I want his nest found & combed with a toothcomb!" Gibbs ordered, he wouldn't usually split teams, but the area they'd likely need to cover was vast, so they needed the bodies in the field.

"Yes boss!" came the reply.

"Vella! Brunswick! Your teams are to take over any current investigations the other SSA's are on & anything that come up" Gibbs added, he was glad to have two of his teams back in country, it gave him resources, which he was glad for, he knew though they had to keep some teams on the other matters.

"Right boss!" came the reply.

Gibbs finally turned back to McGee & the rest of what he still considered his team "Find everything on them!"

"Yes boss" Tim & Ziva replied.

"Move people!" Gibbs barked clapping his hands.

Tony would have been off-put had anyone else assigned his agents to another team but not Gibbs, he knew he was right, they needed bodies in the field, so he'd given his two agents a nod of agreement. He was glad they'd found the identities, but it still didn't get them closer to who killed them or progress on finding his sister!

Gibbs headed straight for the stairs "DINozzo! With me!" he called, knowing Tony should be present at the briefing with Vance too. He didn't even stop to make sure he was being followed, because he knew he didn't have to.

Shannon was enjoying her time with her little man, though he wasn't really little anymore, breakfast had been finished & they were watching Smurfs 2, he was nestled into her side as they laid there. She noticed though he was on his phone too "are you watching the movie or busy on your phone?"

"I can do both" Nix replied with a small smile.

Shannon smiled "who you texting with anyway?" she asked stroking his head.

"Stac" Nix answered.

"How is she?" Shannon asked, seemed those two had become good friends, very good friends she thought.

"Good" Nix replied.

"Enjoying nursing?" Shannon inquired.

"yea" Nix answered.

Shannon smiled to herself, one word answers.. was there something more? "Will be nice to see her at Christmas, yes?" the Taylor's were heading over to spend the Christmas break with them, they'd already organised it.

Nix smiled to himself "yea" he was really looking forward to seeing her.

"Any ideas what we can get her for a present?" Shannon prodded, she'd been trying to suss him out for a while on her.

Nix knew what his mum was trying to do, this wasn't the first time she'd tried asking about her in a round-a-bout way, but wasn't ready to speak about it "ahh, well, she's into all kinds of things"

"Like?" Shannon asked.

"stuff" Nix answered.

"So I'm to get her 'stuff'? Clothes 'stuff', makeup 'stuff', nursing 'stuff', could you perhaps be more specific?" Shannon prodded, there was definitely something to this, his vagueness said it all.

"Thought you wanted to watch the movie?" Nix asked, flashing a look up to her.

Shannon just smiled "let's" she wrapped her arms around him "my little man still loves watching cartoons with his mummy"

"Always" Nix replied, he loved this one on one time with his mum, he'd never be too old for it.

"We find the defendant not guilty" came the announcement.

Kelly breathed a sigh of relief, she wasn't concerned about the outcome, she knew the man was innocent. She was just glad the session was over, she rose & shook hands with the Petty Officer.

"Thank you Kelly" Petty Officer Brickson said shaking her hand.

"You're welcome, but next time…" Kelly replied

"I won't be dealing with anyone without checking them out first. I assure you" Brickson interrupted.

"Good, cause I never want to see you in one of these rooms again Petty Officer" Kelly remarked eyeing him, he'd made a very bad mistake, one she hoped he'd learn from.

"Yes ma'am" Brickson replied.

Kelly nodded & headed straight out, she had to get over to NCIS! Checking her watch as walked she noted it was just past, 14:00 & she was starving, she'd have to heat up her lunch in their break room, she pulled her phone out & turned it off silent, she had half a dozen missed calls & messages, why couldn't it just be one thing to deal with? No, when it rained it poured!

Kelly approached the NCIS building & saw Wu team's approach too "Jonas!"

"Hey Kell" Jonas replied

"What's going on?" Kelly asked, she'd gotten nothing out of her dad in the few minutes it took them to drive to the short distance from home.

"Just got back from the apartment we think those two men used while in town. Place was wiped clean, no prints, no nothing" Jonas replied.

"Damn!" Kelly sighed "so you got nothing useful?"

"Didn't say that" Wu remarked as they headed out of the lift, he saw Gibbs "Boss!"

Gibbs had been standing in the middle of Tony's bullpen area when he heard Wu, he spun around instantly "what?" he demanded, but then he saw his daughter & smiled.

Kelly smiled at her dad, she dropped her bags right by Tim's desk & gave him a quick kiss, but she noticed something, her dad was holding a container of Mac 'n cheese, already heated! "Hi" she grinned as she walked up to him "ohh, you heated up lunch for me, thanks dad!" she said motioning to the container.

Tim let out small chuckle, Gibbs had barely gotten a mouthful to himself.

Gibbs handed it over gladly, she was obviously hungry, he knew she'd come straight from court, he turned his attention back to Wu "what did you find?" he asked as he pulled out his daughters container of cold Mac 'n cheese from her bag & shoved it into Dodd's hands "warm it for me"

She nodded & headed off instantly.

Jonas & Tim shared a smirk, gosh having probies around was nice!

"The place was wiped clean, definitely a professional clean up job" Wu started.

Gibbs eyed "anything useful Wu?"

"Yes boss" Wu answered "there's a service station across the road, they just put in new security camera's" he grinned holding a USB drive in his hand "brand new camera's only went in last week & they were concealed extremely well, I didn't even see them at first"

"Good work" Gibbs had to smile, if they were brand new & concealed there was a high chance that the men hadn't spotted them either! "Jonas! Go through the feed!" he ordered.

"Yes boss" Jonas replied instantly & motioned to his junior partner Sam to help him, they headed for their desks.

Tony felt a small sign of relief, today they were finally catching some breaks! He spied a cookie sitting on Tim's desk, and couldn't help himself, he grabbed it.

"Tony!" Tim called

"Snooze, loose, McGooo" Tony said with a full mouth.

"I was saving that for my afternoon coffee!" Tim exclaimed.

Gibbs & Kelly shared a look before looking between the pair, they both had smirks on their faces as Kelly pulled out her container of cookies "cookie dad?"

Gibbs just smiled "sure" he replied as he took one, he saw both Tony & Tim eye the new stash "these are reserved for those with the name Gibbs, learn to ration the cookies you get more effectively" his wife & daughter made a certain amount each week for the office & they were divided up between everyone.

"I do! He took mine!" Tim remarked eyeing Tony "you owe me a cookie!"

"Put in an 'I owe you' for my next allotment" Tony replied "that was nice, thanks!"

Gibbs just stared in amazement, how many of his kids were actually 'adult' children?

Ziva could see the amusement in the eyes of everyone watching on, she was glad Tony could act like this even with everything going on. She knew it wouldn't end until something happened, so she decided to help "here McGee, you may have one of mine, Tony's 'I owe you' will be repaid to me" she finished with curt smile to Tony.

Tony just eyed her wondering what she meant.

"Can we get back to those men?" Kelly asked, while it was amusing to watch this brotherly tiff, she wanted to get back to things "what are their names?"

The team caught her up on everything found during the night & morning. It included what they'd discovered about Rudolf, a German national another former special ops turned mercenary for hire.

"Any links between the pair?" Kelly asked

"We've found nothing connecting the pair before they left the Milan airport in that car together" Ziva answered.

Kelly nodded, but her phone rang, she saw the number was Jim! "Hey Jim, what have we got?"

Tony's eyes widened the investigator! He waited as patiently as possible, he saw Kelly start to pace as she listened, all she was saying was 'yea', 'uh huh', 'ok', it was driving him nuts! "Kell!"

"Hang on Tony, just give me another minute" Kelly said "sorry Jim, keep going"

Gibbs could see Tony was bursting at the seams, he placed a hand on his shoulder "relax, take a breath, as soon as she's done, she'll tell you what they've found"

Tony took a deep breath & nodded, he just needed to know.

Kelly hung up, she was glad it just them, all the other teams had gotten back to everything, but she saw their eyes were on her "ok, it's a bit messy but Jim & the team are getting there…"

"what'd they find?" Tony interrupted her.

Kelly smiled "they've managed to get into the archive records of the hospital, and the week she was born there were 6 babies put through adoption. Two were twins, two were boys. The remaining two were both girls. The hospital put them through different agencies for adoption, one was put to the New York Adoption Authority & the other the Louise Fallon Adoption Agency. Both institutions are still open today & they've got appointments at both places tomorrow morning their time to see what details they can get & see if we can see which…"

"But we know her name & her date of birth" Tony interrupted, why'd it matter how many babies were adopted that week or where they ended up? They knew his sister's details, surely it would help!

"We do Tony, but adoptions processes back then were very secretive & strict, they were designed to severely limit the chances of the mothers….. and fathers, from being able to easily work out where their child ended up. The hospital records showed very few details of the babies they arranged adoption for. The outgoing forms only show the week of birth, sex, and a first initial, unlucky for us both girls have the initial of P" would the odds be?

Tony just huffed "how will they know which girl was…"

"Because legally the adoption agency's paperwork for when the child is placed has to match the birth certificate details" Kelly answered "so Jim will have to follow the paper trail for the two adoptions right through in order to see which baby was Patricia, it could take another few days Tony. I know it's hard, but you're going to have to be a little more patient"

Tony just nodded, what other choice did he have?

Tim could see Kelly was still mulling something over "Kell?"

"Just considering something, it'll have to wait though" Kelly answered, her idea wasn't 100% legal, her phone rang again, it was her office "can I use your office for a short while?" she asked her dad, she wanted to be around in case she could help.

"Sure" Gibbs replied

Kelly nodded & collected her things as she answered her phone "Si Marisa?"

Tim watched her head up, he was curious about what was floating through her mind, but he saw Kruse & the other return.

Gibbs knew there was something his girl was giving serious consideration too but he had no time ask he saw the field teams return "Donnelly! Kruse! Anything?"

"Yes boss" Donnelly replied, she was glad they'd found it "we found where we believe he shot from, but the scene was policed of any spent rounds. It was rooftop car-park. We collected numerous prints & trash, Lovett & Johns have taken them over the labs for processing"

"We canvassed the area & no one saw anything suspicious, but we've got copies of a half dozen camera's from the area, so we can hopefully pick something up on those" Kruse added

Gibbs nodded & motioned for them to get going, not that he needed to, they'd already started to turn around to move.

Kruse was just walking past the elevator when he saw Nix come off the lift, something was off "you ok Phoenix?"

Gibbs eyes & ears peaked as soon as he heard Kruse speak, his son looked off indeed, he approached quickly "what's wrong?" he asked. He was however comforted by the fact that Mike had gotten off the lift too, so at least he'd had someone with him, so the concern wasn't a physical one. Though looking at Mike, there was tension, he was clearly annoyed at something.

"Yea, it's just that there's a lady down in the lobby trying to get herself & another lady up here without having to wait for the visitor clearance badge to be processed" Nix started, he took a breath "but when she saw me basically walk straight through without delay, she…"

"She what Phoenix?" Gibbs prodded, his entire family had permanent visitor clearance ID's, but they never had to show them anymore, all the security guards knew them by sight.

"Let's just say she wasn't impressed that Nix was able to walk through without any checking or nothing & voiced her opinion to him & the MP's" Mike answered.

Gibbs nostrils flared, he wanted to meet this woman!

"Lt Andrews & myself put her back into place" Mike added, he'd been in the lobby on the phone, but had sprung into action as soon as she started raving "he's still dealing with her, I thought it best to get Nix out of the situation"

"Who's she here to see?" Gibbs asked, he was glad though that Mike had removed his son from the situation.

"They gave Silva's name sir" Mike answered.

Silva swallowed, crap! Someone that was here to see her had pissed Gibbs off?! Great! Just Great! But.. "I'm not expecting anyone boss" she said quietly, he was eyeing her.

"They get up here & I'm not around, send them straight to me Silva!" Gibbs ordered.

"Yes boss" Silva nodded.

Gibbs put his arm around his son's shoulder & steered them back towards Tony's area, he was in his team tracksuit, so he was clearly on his way to the club grounds for game prep "you ok?"

"Yea, don't think she really liked that I got to go through looking like I do without complaint, yet she, with her badge was being stopped" Nix replied, he also couldn't help shake the feeling that the lady had looked him over more than once for other reasons.

"One of the perks of being the boss's kid Phoenix, good luck tomorrow" Kruse nodded towards him.

Nix smiled "Thanks"

Gibbs gave a small smirk, he was the only one that had perks from his position in this building. "Let's go see your sister in my office huh?"

Nix nodded "sounds good, can't stay long though, gotta get to the club"

Tim watched as Gibbs headed to his office with Nix, he knew he wasn't alone in his utter conflicting emotions, they all wanted to go see him play his first game, but they also had a commitment to finding Patricia. He really didn't know what to do, he felt like he had to both be at the game & be here at NCIS looking for Patricia, neither options were appealing, there'd be someone that felt let down.

"McGee, Tim, man" Tony said quietly.

Tim looked across at him "yea Tony?"

"You go to the game, be our cheer squad" Tony said, he really want to go, but he just couldn't, but one of them could & Tim deserved to go.

"Tony…" Tim tried to say.

"I'm your boss McGee, so no arguments, you're going, you go, scream, yell & carry on for us, and I want a detailed report upon your return" Tony said more assertively.

"Thanks Tony" Tim smiled.

Silva had been caught watching the exchange between the pair she didn't hear the lift ding, she turned & saw ladies approach, could these women be the two that Nix had dealt with "can we help you?"

Tony, Tim & Ziva all turned to see who Silva was talking to & their eyes all widened, they shared a look not quite believing their eyes.

A/N: I know this was mainly a filler chapter, but we learnt a few things; they're getting closer to verifying Patricia's adoption, they've learnt who the fakers were, but can the various CCTV footage provide any details? And could a certain young redhead have a young lady friend? And could those cookies be office place currency? ;p (gotta have some fun amongst the tension :)

BUT just who are the visitors? I seriously doubt Gibbs will be happy to see them after their antics in the lobby with Nix, no matter who they are!

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