Christmas Miracles
Chapter Two
"I just don't understand this at all." Gibbs will be talking to himself with Doctor Palmer and his assistant were placing the body onto the stretcher. While Palmer was still watching Gibbs reaction to the gold bracelet. The last time he had seen it was hiding in a tin box in his basement having placed it years ago. What he doesn't know was how this man the robber was able to get a hold of the bracelet.
However for now he had other concerns with the case with walking out of the vault room to be meeting up with Torres and McGee. "Find anything else gentlemen?" He had sounded tee off with annoyance with asking the question.
"Nothing other than the fact this store was in debt and Corporal Donny James tried putting in new money into his business. And sources just might indicate that the mob or other high power officials just might be behind it." McGee will make mention to a worried Gibbs. "Boss are you alright?" He was concerned for the 69 year old supervisory agent.
"Fine. Are we done here now with the interviews for now?" I have evidence that needs to be given to Kasie to find out on whether there are any prints." They head outside into the snow elements still snowing slightly hard as Gibbs will be driving back to the Naval Yards. Once Gibbs had developed the evidence and the bracelet. He had to call his wife Loreile to check something for him in the basement.
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Naval Yards Director Vance's office
He was getting ready to head out for a meeting downtown at the Pentagon even if it means driving in the snow. While he was in the elevator heading onto the lower level. He will meet up with Gibbs and his team coming out. "Enjoying the snow everyone?"
In unison: "NO!" Gibbs tells him they had gotten back from checking out a crime scene.
"What happened Special Agent Gibbs?" He had to asked since he wasn't informed by his secretary.
"Shooting of an ex marine retired working as the owner of the Apex jewelry store not too far from the Naval Yards." Gibbs had said with his tone of voice slightly off. "He was shot three times with Doctor Palmer has the body to be doing an autopsy on him."
"Well carry on I have a meeting at the pentagon." He walked out with placing on his gloves and snow multi color hat over his head.
"I will be in the lab the both of you. I need for you to check all of his finances and any or all telephone calls during the past few weeks. Understand?"
"Yeah boss we do." As he walks away from them to head for the lab and Kasie.
She had the lab door wide open doing some winter Christmas decorating finishing up with the lights, Rudolph and a small Christmas Tree in her office filled with all types of small gifts for the employees of NCIS and including for Bishop and when the baby boy is born. She had turned on the last of the lights when Gibbs walked in not realizing how great of a job she did with decorating the lab.
She was humming a Christmas tune when he tapped her on the right shoulder to scare the hell out of her. "OMG! Gibbs why do you always have to do things like scaring me?" She will say to the very quiet agent.
"Are you done Kasie? I have something of important for you to check out for me with this piece of jewelry that was found at the crime scene." He announced with handing it into her hands once she had placed on the blue gloves from the box sitting on the counter.
It had taken her a moment to read the inscription on the back. She was shell shock to have read the name. She was finally able to get her voice back with asking. "Jackson Gibbs! Did this belong to your father by any chance?" Not to sound all that stupid in the eyes of Leroy Jethro Gibbs.
"Yes it is Kasie. I need for you to see if your able to pick up any prints on the bracelet." He said with not waiting to hear her answer. She was wondering why he was acting like this in the first place...
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Some twenty five miles away at a fish market owed by Ex marine officer Bobson Robbs age 31 had retired as a marine. He was able to get into other lucrative business and two others. They were waiting for their third partner Ex sergeant marine officer Jack Ackerman also of Quantico and camp Pendleton. He walked into the office wearing the same clothing from the robbery moving into the back entrance.
Robbs asked his partner walking inside to ask the question. "Did you get the diamonds from the vault?" He moved over to him with his other partner Ackerman.
"I did and I left the evidence of the gold bracelet behind for Gibbs to figure out. Hernandez is going to like the like the idea on how well a plan comes together. We need to start placing other clues for our pigeon in the coming days." Ackerman will have to say to his partners to begin calling the vendors in order to get paid for the diamonds worth a fortune.
Robbs moved over to the phone with the numbers listed of those interested with the final payments from them and accounts. He dialed the first number on the list.
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Leroy Jethro Gibbs didn't like mysteries. And here he had one for when it involved his father's bracelet. Sitting at his desk he pulled out his cell-phone to call Loreile upstairs of the their house checking on Shane and the nanny taking care of him now eight months old and in great health.
She had walked in to see him asleep in his new cradle that her husband had put together with his own hands. He was sound asleep after being fed and changed by the nanny Madeline.
She headed out to go on downstairs to work on her writing on the laptop. When her cell phone was going off with a Merry Christmas ringtone for the holiday. She looked outside with the snow coming down with the snowplows cleaning the roads and with a cleaning crew on the block digging out Gibbs driveway and other houses and including Phineas across the street.
She saw her husbands name popped up onto the screen of her IPhone smiling. "Hey Jethro! Bored already with the snow falling?"
"No Loreile. The reason I am calling is to asked you a favor with going downstairs into the basement to check out that one tin container I had placed behind the black & white tv towards the back."
"Am I looking for anything particular?" She had to asked with going down into the cold basement while Shane and the nanny Madeline was upstairs warm as a toast.
"My father's gold bracelet. Please call me back and let me know on my cell Loreile." He hung up on her without saying goodbye or I love you.
She mumbled under her breath with grabbing her phone getting now curious as to what is going on with her husband again. NEVER A DULL MOMENT...