Sorry it's taken me a while to get this chapter up. I've had so many projects to do. Anyways, I hope you like it

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Chapter 7

Back to Work

"So how is it at Tony's place?" Abby asked. Kitty was in Abby's lab with McGee. It was Tuesday and Kitty was going to Ziva's tonight. Abby was busy running some tests on the few samples from the crime scene.

"There's a lot of pizza in his house," Kitty said. She blinked her dark blue eyes that matched her dad's. "Well, he let's me sleep in his bed."

"Together?" Abby asked suddenly.

Kitty stared at her. Then she realized how she'd taken it the wrong way. "Uh, no. I mean, I sleep in his bed and he sleeps on the couch. That was rather nice of him, I thought. He still annoys me."

"You'll eventually become immune to it," McGee said. He took the print from the doorknob he'd lifted at the scene. There was a match. "We've got a match."

"Oh, let's see," Abby said. She and Kitty went over to the computer. Just then Tony entered the lab.

"Wow, Probie, you've got the girls around you," Tony said. Gibbs came in after him and hit Tony in the head. "Sorry, boss."

"What's going on?" Gibbs asked.

"We've got a match on one of those prints outside on the doorknob," McGee said. Gibbs and Tony came over to see the screen. McGee clicked on VIEW. Jacob's picture flashed up onto the screen.

"Walter's is in the system?" Tony asked.

"He was about to be a Marine," Kitty said. "And besides, everyone at my school was fingerprinted. Take my fingerprint and my picture'll pop up.

"Try the other print, McGee," Abby said. McGee minimized the one screen and pulled up another. He took the print and put it on the first page. He clicked and they waited for a minute. A girl's picture appeared. Her name read Elaine Richards.

"You know her?" Tony asked to Kitty.

"Not her name," Kitty said. She tried to think of the girl's face. She could remember her but she couldn't place her finger on it.

Ziva entered the lab. "So this is where everybody is," Ziva said.

"Hi, Ziva," Kitty and Abby said.

"Err, what're we staring at?" Ziva asked.

"McGee, keep running prints. I have to go to autopsy," Gibbs said. "Kitty, Ziva, you're coming with me."

Tony looked up from the computer. "And me?"

Gibbs turned around. "Help Abby or something." He walked with Kitty and Ziva to the morgue. When they got there, Ducky and Jimmy already had Jacob out. They'd made the Y cut and had his insides exposed. Gibbs walked over. "So what do we have?"

"The neck wound is deep, cut into the main artery and well into the neck," Ducky started. "Whoever did this really had some resentment to our young gentlemen."

"Anything else?" Gibbs asked.

"Well, as we just started him an hour ago, I don't have very much," Ducky explained. Gibbs exhaled angrily.

Gibbs' cell phone ran. He flipped it open. "Agent Gibbs here."

"Gibbs, we have the apartment secured…" Director Sheppard said. "… to you're liking," she added. "They'll be police around to keep your agents safe."

"Thank you, Director," Gibbs said. He shut his phone and turned to Kitty and Ziva. "We're going back to the lab and getting DiNozzo." He led the way from the morgue and back to Abby's lab. Abby was busy working on something. McGee sat at the computer, typing in other things. Tony sat in a chair, gazing into space. "DiNozzo!"

Tony stood up from Abby's chair. "Yeah, boss?"

"We're going," Gibbs said. "McGee, stay here with Abby."

"Got it, boss," McGee said.

This time, Kitty was working with Ziva inside the room. Tony and Gibbs were outside, hoping to find anything that would've remained for a few days. Ziva was in Jacob's bedroom. His bed was a mess and everything was disorganized. She went over to the bed and noticed the sheets.

She sighed and shut the blinds. Then she turned off the lights. She pulled out her UV light. She scanned it over the bed and semen showed up.

"Looks like our victim was dealing with his stress of the Marines with a few nights with some girl," Ziva said.

Kitty walked into the bedroom. "What'd you find?"

"Do you know if Jacob had a girlfriend?" Ziva asked.

"Yeah," Kitty said. Then she remembered. That's who Elaine was. "Ziva, Elaine is Jacob's girlfriend. That's where she's from. They were still dating at graduation." She paused and thought about it. "I remember that Elaine had been dating Ivan before Jacob. You can see where that went."

Ziva nodded. "Yeah, I do," she said. She walked over to Kitty and noticed a picture on the desk. She picked it up and handed it to Kitty. "Is that Elaine?"

The woman in the picture was younger than what had been showed on the computer, but Kitty still remembered her. It was definitely Elaine. "Yeah, that's graduation," Kitty said. Jacob and Elaine were smiling brightly. Elaine's blonde hair fell to her shoulders. Kitty could remember how every boy on campus wanted to date her. Kitty came to her senses. "We should get McGee to find them so we can get a talk."

"Yeah," Ziva said. She got her cell phone out and called McGee.

McGee picked up his cell phone. "Yeah?"

"McGee, Kitty and I need for you to locate Ivan Lang and Elaine Richards," Ziva said. "There's a love triangle forming before our eyes."

"Sure," McGee said. "I'll call you once I've got everything."

"Thank you, McGee," Ziva said. She shut her phone. "McGee's on it."

She and Kitty continued to look around the apartment. About half an hour after Ziva called McGee, Tony and Gibbs came back into the apartment. They were both sweaty and red from the heat outside. Tony wanted to relax but Kitty and Gibbs wouldn't let him. Kitty went back into the bedroom with Ziva and took samples from the sheets. Kitty stripped the bed and stuffed the sheets into a bag, sealed it, and labeled it.

Tony knocked on the door. "What do you have?"

"Oh, what I imagine is usually in your bed," Ziva said.

Tony grinned embarrassed and scratched the back of his head. Kitty smiled slightly but went back to work. She walked to the bathroom and shuffled though a cabinet. There wasn't much; just some toiletries like shampoo, a razor, shaving cream and deodorant.

"Nothing out of the ordinary in here," Kitty said. She was about to walk out of the bathroom when she noticed a small trash can. There were bloody tissues in it. "Uhh… scratch that." She picked one up and looked at it. "I think he's been cutting himself."

"Excuse me?" Tony asked.

"Stress of joining the armed forces," Ziva said. She too came into the bathroom. "I felt the same in Iraq. Only I didn't cut my wrists."

Kitty labeled another envelope and placed all of the contents into it. She sealed that and handed it to Ziva. The three left the bathroom and headed to the kitchen. Gibbs was looking through the entertainment center.

"Find anything?" Kitty asked.

"Nothing," Gibbs said. He rifled through another shelf. Tony walked over and looked through an opposite shelf. "Just DVDs, CDs, pictures, books…"

"And a box of condoms," Tony said. He held up the box. "Why wouldn't he keep these in the bedroom?"

"Maybe he was partying elsewhere," Kitty said. She turned to Ziva. "Cut the lights?"

"Cut 'em," Ziva said.

Kitty turned off the light switch and Tony closed the blinds to the windows so that the room became darker. Once more, Ziva took out her ultraviolet light and shined it around the room. Enough evidence showed up that Jacob had been having sex other than in his bed.

"Okay, so far all we've figured out here is that Walter's doesn't know how to keep his pants on," Tony said.

"Sounds like the same problem you have," Ziva said. She turned the light back on. "But Tony's right. All we've got else is that Jacob was cutting himself. Other than that, we've got nothing."

"Are you sure?" Gibbs asked dangerously.

"A hundred percent, boss," Ziva said.

Kitty sighed and leaned against the wall. Her first case and they'd hit a dead end not even a week into it. She banged her head against the wall, trying to think of what else they could do. She figured out there wasn't anything until McGee had addresses.

Right then Ziva's phone ran. Ziva pulled it out of her pocket and flipped it open.

"Yes?" Ziva asked.

"Ziva, I got your addresses for Elaine and Ivan," McGee said. "Got a piece of paper?"

Ziva went over to Tony and pulled his sleeve up. Tony stared at her as she held a pen above his skin. Ziva leaned her head to the side to hold the phone between her ear and shoulder so she could hold Tony's arm still. "I've got a pen and Tony's arm. Now what are they?"

"Ivan's address is C27 at the Pinecrest Apartments," McGee said. "And Elaine's apartment is at 1824 at the Hills Condos."

"Thanks, McGee," Ziva said as she wrote down on Tony's forearm. She hung up her phone. "Thanks for your arm, Tony."

"What is this?" Tony asked.

"We have two addresses that will hopefully help us," Ziva said. "This one is Ivan Lang's. Turns out that he was dating Elaine but she went with Jacob. At least that's what Kitty told me."

"Well, we haven't found much more in this apartment," Gibbs said. "Let's get going." He walked out of the apartment with Ziva. Tony stayed behind with Kitty. He was about to say something when Gibbs came back. "DiNozzo! Kitty! Let's go!"

Kitty and Tony sighed and followed Gibbs.

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