A/N: Here's another chapter folks! To my recent followers/favourites, welcome! So glad to have you with us on this continuing adventure! To my reviewers, thank you so much! I really love hearing your thoughts, so keep them coming.

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Sue Dooley: Thanks, glad you liked the chapter, yes, they're be angry, suspense & more in the chapters ahead.

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Without further ado, lets get into it. Suffice to say, we're starting to really get into things & while things will be confusing, they are definitely starting to learn things, big things are coming!

Gibbs looked at the large map that was on the screen in front of him, Marcus & his Lt had gotten many alerts about 'blackbirds' and they were being plotted, but he couldn't work out which way the plane was travelling, there were dots in various directions. His other issue was time, they'd been at it for an hour or so already, he knew it wouldn't be a quick, but every moment his son was getting potentially thousands of miles away.

"I don't think our blackbird went east over Serbia & Romania sir" Anderson remarked

Marcus agreed "remove the positions over those regions & the ones south over Corisca & Malta, let's concentrate over Central Europe" they were still plotting all the blackbird sightings the towers had received but as the locations came through he could tell the blackbird wasn't going east or south, so they could stop plotting those & concentrate on the area remaining, he had to find their blackbird!

Tristan saw there were now positions over Spain, France, Italy, Switzerland, Germany, Austria, Belgium & the UK & the list was growing, there just wasn't a clear pattern for a route.

Shannon knew this would take time, but she just wanted to know where her boy was!

Marcus looked around & saw numerous frustrated faces "this could still take a bit of time" he hated giving that answer, but this wasn't a quick thing to achieve.

"Boss!" Kruse called coming into MTAC "Kelly's asked for you to go see her, she says she's got something, she's also getting angry" but she wasn't getting angry! She was already there!

"I've got this sir, I'll find that plane!" Marcus asserted.

Gibbs nodded & led his wife, Tim & Myles back out and as soon as he cleared the door he heard it, heard her, his girl was angry!

"Where is she?!" Kelly demanded look furiously at Hollis.

"She said she was going out to get some air quickly, what seems to be the problem?" Hollis replied, my gosh, she felt like she was in a match off with Gibbs!

"Kell, what's wrong, where's who?" Gibbs asked her getting down there & placing himself between her & Hollis.

"That Delilah lady!" Kelly answered

Gibbs eyes widened and his nostrils flared, he knew it!

"Why are you looking for her?" Shannon asked hesitantly.

"That exchange between Lancert & Withers, she fucked up the decryption!" Kelly exclaimed taking a further step towards Hollis "where is she?!"

"Who's Delilah?" Myles asked curiously

"What's wrong with her decryption?" Tim asked at the same time.

"One of my analysts, Delilah Fielding" Hollis answered

Myles flared his nostrils instantly, Fielding? What the heck?!

"No relation" Tim instantly said.

"That we know of McGee" Gibbs remarked, his gut had never settled on her & now that his girl said she'd stuffed something up, he really wondered if that was true "where is she Hollis?"

"Like I already said, she said she wanted some air to clear her head, I'm sure she'll back soon" Hollis answer him "and I doubt she got the decryption wrong, she is one of the finest analysts we have, she knows her stuff" she thought Delilah would know decryptions a right side better than Kelly, I mean she was a lawyer, not a computer analyst.

"It wasn't a damn decryption!" Kelly huffed.

Gibbs saw Lt Carter "Carter!" he barked

"Sir?" Carter approaching

"Find me DOD Analyst Delilah Fielding, now!" Gibbs barked.

"Yes sir" Carter answered, instantly speaking into his radio "Need a location on DOD Analyst Delilah Fielding, ASAP!" he finished already walking towards the stairs.

"My team will help" Myles remarked as he grabbed his phone, texting Montgomery "See Lt Cater, there's someone you're finding, I want her now! Now Staff Sargent!"

Gibbs nodded towards Myles, he welcomed the extra bodies to find her. He turned back to his girl "what did she get wrong Kells?"

"She just ran a translation program over it, that's it! It translated the sentences from Latin & Old English to modern English, no actual decryption!" Kelly said, trying to regain composure.

That confused Tim "Kell she said ran a cypher over it"

"Well she didn't!" Kelly replied briskly, she turned to the nearest plasma "that's part of the original exchange" she said pointing at top half of the screen "that is what she translated it to" she said pointing to the bottom half.

Shannon looked at the screen "Kell my Latin is a little rusty"

"Mine isn't Mrs G" Myles said as he came to look at the screen, he looked over the sentences, one was in Latin, the next was in Old English "this is weird"

"It's a direct translation, isn't it? from both Latin & Old English" Kelly remarked

"Yea you're right, it's a direct translation" Myles nodded as he looked at the lower part of the screen "you wouldn't need a cypher to translate this, but the sentences don't make sense, the dates, locations don't align within the initial structure"

"The dates were from the past" Tim commented

"That's all well & good & seeing it translated does make sense, looking at it in modern English makes perfect sense, but to anyone who knows Latin & old English it makes no sense, none" Kelly remarked, she understood why Tim thought it was a good translation, because it was.

"And you know Latin & old English that well?" Hollis asked, this girl thought she knew law, computers & now what? Latin & old English?

"Yes" Kelly answered "I did study Shakespeare at school, and as for Latin well, learnt that too & that continued after school" all those extra classes her mum had her in were really paying off!

Shannon smiled "she certainly learnt a great deal when she was younger"

"As did I, and I still use it today" Myles remarked "and these sentences make no sense"

"Unless you run an actual decryption over it" Kelly remarked "run one in Latin to begin with"

"Kell, you're talking about running a decryption in Latin? We don't have time to create that!" Tim remarked, that could take days! No, weeks! He saw a look in her eyes "you've already got one? Seriously?"

"Well… yea" Kelly replied "but we don't have time to get into it" she took a breath "I ran my decryption over the exchange.."

"Sorry, but if half is in old English…" Hollis said trying to ask something

"Hollis, be quiet & let her finish, we don't have time for your thousand questions!" Gibbs barked, he couldn't let her continuously interrupt his girl.

Hollis took a step back, she was clearly in a minority of one that would even dare to ask a question.

Kelly couldn't help but smirk but she thought she'd answer the question "A large portion of the English language comes from Latin, regardless that many people think its of Germanic origins. So using Latin to decrypt the sentence can show another level of hidden meanings." She answered her briskly "anyway, I ran my program over it & this is what it translated it to"

Myles took a step closer as he read what Loch wrote "Praecipui loci congregentur ad opus. Carlisle illa die - non erit - ut ne tardaveris"

"What does that mean?" Ziva asked, Latin was not a language she knew, I mean it was dead language, why would you need that?

"Important situation, need to meet to discuss. Carlisle same time same place - HE will be there - so do not be late" Myles answered

"Carlisle?" Gibbs, Tony & Ziva all asked at the same time. The trio shared a look, that was one of the locations from the list that Le Salle read out that Patricia had written in New Orleans.

"That's what the exchange says, it goes on" Kelly remarked

"I want double the money, the last job was risky enough, and your family can afford it. They own half of the UK!" Myles read what Withers said translated of course.

Kelly continued with what Loch replied with "Be very careful with what you demand Withers! We are not to be messed with, remember everything we've done! So be very careful with what you demand from him"

Gibbs gave it a moments thought, "where is Carlisle exactly?" he asked

"Far north England, 10 miles south of the Scottish border boss" Kruse answered "its actually not far from where we located the previous meeting between him & Guthrie boss, they met in Greta, which is 20 minutes north of Carlisle & its just over the Scottish border"

"Did the emails say anything else?" Ziva asked

"They argued about fees, and about using Guthrie or not" Kelly explained putting up the rest of the exchange but just the English translation.

Gibbs read it, this was such a raw exchange, the pair obviously didn't think anyone could crack it "have we found any exchanges between Loch & anyone else?" the immediate group all shook their heads he turned & whistled drawing everyone's attention "has anyone found any more email exchanges?!" he barked

"Ah I think I just found something boss" Lambert remarked as she approached him "I managed to get into…"

"I don't care how you did it, just show us the emails!" Gibbs barked.

"Ahh.. yes boss, here you go" Lambert stuttered passing the USB to Tim "I haven't been able to track the sender's IP or get any details yet of who they are"

Kelly waited for Tim to insert the USB, she brought up the details "this is in the same code, give me a minute to decrypt it"

Tim watched as she ran her program over it, this code was really strange, I mean it was for Latin, but it was very unique, similar to her unique coding language for her other stuff, but not quite the same "where'd you get this from?"

"That doesn't matter McGee!" Gibbs barked, seriously it didn't matter right now!

Tim swallowed but nodded.

Myles looked at the screen, she'd decrypted it & he started to read & his eyes widened, what the heck?

"Myles? What does it say?" Shannon asked, she knew he'd already read it, she knew he had a very solid grasp of Latin, his mother had all of her boys learn it, and they still read Latin when in church, they were very traditional that.

"Ahh" Myles "sorry, it says 'Necesse est, contra omnes prope Cumas inventum est . Missusque secundo opus non erit genus eorum non nunc! Non iterum illa! non umquam Sunt in genere significatur dominari! Fac contingit illud! Et non accipitis peccatum! Alexandrum maxime pati!"

"Which means?" almost everyone asked.

"We need to move against them all, she is getting close to finding him. I will not have our family loose to them! not now! not again! not ever! We are the family meant to rule! Make it happen! I will not accept failure! Alexander is to suffer most of all!" Myles remarked, he didn't quite get it, but it was getting mixed up, that's the least he knew.

"Alexander? Lawrence Alexander?" Tony wondered "if this is a family feud what's he got to do with it? And this doesn't even make sense! How can it be a family thing when we aren't even related!" nothing was making sense to him.

"Beats me" Gibbs remarked, he was on the same page as Tony, nothing was making sense but hang on "Mac's relatives, those cousins.. they were in Scotland weren't they?"

"Northern Scotland boss, Isle of Skye" Tim confirmed "cousins through his mother, but they hadn't seen or heard from Mac since he was a teenager boss, they weren't that close"

Tristan entered the area, she knew they were discussing something important but she had news "Sorry to interrupt, but I've just heard from the hospital, your brother is still in surgery, but Jonas is in recovery" she looked to Wu who was now staring at her "I told the nurse to call you Wu once he's ready to talk" she then shifted her gaze back to Gibbs & Shannon "I also just heard from Brunswick, they're going through the 2 SUV's and the surrounding area, she has though found Phoenix's wallet & what she thinks is his watch, is this it?" she asked showing them a photo of what Brunswick had found.

Gibbs looked at the photo "yea, that's his watch" it was his son's sports watch, the Certina one him & Shannon had bought him when they got to Naples as a reward for his hard work, and even from the picture he could see it was cracked.

Shannon looked at the picture & her heart broke, she needed her boy in her arms!

Gibbs took a deep breath there was one question he needed to ask, but he wasn't sure he wanted to but he did need to "any signs of…... Blood?" he finished taking a firm hold of his wife.

Kelly's eyes widened at her dad & then she stared at Tristan.

Tristan saw that everyone was focused on her now, even those who working at their own desks were now looking at her & waiting "Jess has found a small amount in the backseat, along with some in the front passenger seat. We know Phoenix was in the backseat & she wanted me to stress that it wasn't a lot of blood, just some minor traces is all" she looked to make sure that her point had been taken on board with both Shannon & Gibbs, she then flashed Kelly a small smile again trying to convey the message, once she'd done so she continued "they're taking samples & will get them to the labs, they stripping the SUV's, looking for everything inside & out, they're combing the entire airstrip. Jess has her team spread out with the platoon of marines to check every inch of the place"

Gibbs nodded in thanks & understanding "he's fine Shan, he's fine" he moved over to his girl "he's fine angel, trace amounts are barely anything, he's fine, ok?"

Kelly nodded "yea"

Gibbs then shared a look with his dad, there were no words, but it was a silent conversation that both men shared their concern & relief that there wasn't a lot of blood.

Shannon tried to shift her utter worry out of her mind, because if it stayed there, she'd crumble. Looking at her girl who was just staring at her computer screen "darling how you doing?"

"Don't know" Kelly admitted, if she crumbled now it wouldn't help, so she tried to clear her head & decided to ask something that had been bugging her for a short time "I'm wondering though, why would they make such sensitive comments over email" Kelly wondered

"Kell it's not like anyone would know how to decrypt that" Tim remarked, if would help all of them to stay focused on what they could deal with, rather than worry about what they couldn't control "I wouldn't even have thought of that! Decrypting within a now dead language before translating it isn't really an obvious thing to do" it was one thing to use a dead language, but usually that was just code for something translatable, not requiring decryption within the dead language before translation! "how'd you know how to do it like that?"

Shannon saw her girl just staring at him "sweetheart what is it?"

Kelly looked at her mum, she looked to her dad & then Myles "it was an idea from one of the lecturers I had while I was in New Orleans. He said that people would use Latin to write correspondence to throw people off, so having a decryption written could one day help" she took a breath as she recalled it "his name was Alex" she whispered.

Gibbs looked around the room, everyone was getting more confused "the guy that taught you this decryption was from NOLA, and his name was Alex?" he needed to verify.

"Yea, it was" Kelly nodded, suddenly coming to the same confused state everyone else was in.

"None of this makes any sense" Shannon remarked.

Myles wasn't really understanding everything & he was stretching out as he paced when he came up behind Tony's desk and caught sight of the image on the screen "Ahh, who's this guy?" he asked pointing to the screen.

Tony came around to look at what he was looking at "That's Lawrence Alexander" he answered, he'd kept it up on his screen because there was something nagging him about the guy.

"That's the man that adopted your sister?" Myles asked him, they'd been caught up on everything already.

"Yea it is, why?" Tony asked back

"Because that's the guy that had the run in with the arsehole downstairs!" Myles exclaimed "that's the older guy from NOLA!"

"Plasma!" Gibbs ordered instantly.

Kelly watched as Tony feed the image to the screen, she hadn't seen any images of him yet, she looked at it for a good a minute or two, and then it came back to her "oh my g-d! That's him! That's Alex!"

Gibbs shifted his gaze to his girl, and he stared at her wide-eyed "this guy was the one that taught you that decryption?"

"Yes!" Kelly answered, what the heck was going on!?

Jack's eyes widened, this man seemed to be the centre of so man things it wasn't funny, just who on earth was this man? and how on earth did it all fall together? And what did he have to do with his grandson's disappearance? There were so many questions, but knowing who this man seemed to be a key to answering so many of them.

A/N: Hmm… where to start? Did Delilah make the mistake on purpose or did she merely fall into the trap of translating without decrypting like even Tim said he would have done? And just who on earth is this Lawrence Alexander or Alex as Kelly knew him? Everything seems to be really zoning into him, but how is he related to everything? And could anyone else recognise him too? That's the question...

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