Just My Luck

Summary: 7 years ago, Ari Haswari murdered Annabelle Todd's big sister, Kate. After the case she resigned from NCIS, and accepted an offer at the FBI. When the decomposed body of a Navy Petty officer is found and taken to the Jeffersonian, her partner Seeley Booth, calls in the NCIS MCRT, without her knowledge. How will Annie react to seeing her old team, and why is one of them not surprised to see her there? – Set I don't know when…Rated T coz I'm paranoid! TIVA (They hid it well…), B&B (Because this is set when B&B are expecting, 7 weeks), MCABBY (towards the end), HODGELLA (Because they are married and have a kid, Michael who is 6 months old!).

Disclaimer

Me: Who wants to do my disclaimer for me?

Booth: I will. Lilliana-Lissa HathawayDavid does NOT own Bones or NCIS, or any of the characters in the TV shows, as much as she would like to. She does however own my senior agent, Annabelle Todd!

Me: Thanks Booth. Now on with the story!

A/N: Hey, Guys! Guess what? I'm not dead! I am soooo sorry for not updating in so long. First there was VCE, and then there was a nasty review that seriously put me off writing and made me very self-conscious about my writing, I also accidentally deleted this chapter and I have been trying so very hard to remember what I had written. But thank-you all for sticking by me, and waiting so patiently for this chapter. I love you all 3

~Lilliana-Lissa HathawayDavid~

Chapter Three

It didn't take long for Annie to reach the quaint two story house that belonged to the Amos family. She knew the way there like the back of her hand. Tony and Ziva had been playfully insulting each other the whole way, with Annie smiling and laughing, and occasionally adding her own witty quip directed at Tony, that is until she turned into Harmony Crescent, the street where Stephen and Natalie Amos lived. Ziva noticed this subtle change in attitude and grabbed her friend's hand, giving it a squeeze. Annie smiled weakly. She parked the car in the driveway, like she always did, out of habit.

The three federal agents got out of the car just as the front door opened. Natalie Amos had heard the sound of her best friend's car drive into the driveway and park, it was hard to miss the well tuned purr of that engine.

"Annie. Aren't you supposed to be working today? What are you doing here?" Natalie asked her friend, and Annie smiled slightly, beckoning the two people on the other side of the car to follow her.

"Hi Natalie. This is Special Agent Ziva David, and Special Agent Tony DiNozzo from NCIS." Annie said motioning to the man and woman who had come to stand beside her. "Can we come in?"

"Of course. Come on, follow me." Natalie answered, furrowing her brow. She was very curious and a little bit frightened as to why NCIS was at her doorstep, with Annie of all people. Annie was FBI, although Natalie did know that Annie had worked at NCIS for a while.

Natalie Amos led the group into the lounge, where Ziva stopped and looked at one of her's and Stephen's wedding photo, the one with the groomsmen and the bridesmaids. A small smile played on her lips, and she looked at Annie. Annie looked back, smiling slightly. Annie had been Natalie's maid of honour at the wedding.

Natalie moved over to one of the couches in the middle of the room and sat down, and the other two women followed suit, taking a seat on the couch opposite. Tony however moved around to stand behind Ziva.

"What's this all about, Anne?" Natalie finally asked. She was now getting worried, especially from the looks Annie shared with Ziva, and then Tony. After what seemed like forever, Tony nodded at Annie. She took a deep breath.

"Nat, we found Stephen." Annie said softly, her face grim. Natalie gasped. Her husband had been missing for 2 weeks. She had been frantic.

"Where is he? Is he oaky? Do you know what happened?" Natalie rushed.

"Nat, we found his body. I'm so sorry." Annie explained, and Natalie broke down. Tears welled up in Annie's eyes as she saw her friend sob. She moved from her seat on the couch over to Nat and hugged her. Natalie just clung to her and sobbed harder.

"This can't be happening! What happened?" Nat cried, and Annie kept holding her.

"We don't know yet, Lieutenant Commander. Our teams are trying to figure it out though. All we know is it wasn't an accident." Tony said in a soothing voice. Natalie drew a shaky breath, pulling out of Annie's grasp.

"Please, call me Natalie. Oh my God. I can't believe this. He's been on two tours of Afghanistan and come home unscathed, but he gets killed at home." Natalie sniffed. Then she turned to look at Annie. "I never got to tell him."

Annie knew what Nat was talking about. Almost two weeks ago, Natalie had called to tell Annie wonderful news. She hadn't seen her husband all day and she was too excited to keep it to herself. Annie, being the selfless person she was, dropped everything (which mainly consisted of paperwork in her office, texting Angela and emailing Ziva), to meet her friend. When they had met at their favourite coffee shop and ordered their coffees, Natalie broke the news. She was 3 weeks pregnant. After not seeing Stephen again that night, or the next day, Natalie reported him missing. She had gotten over her excitement as soon as her husband hadn't come home and she had been frantic. Annie noticed Tony and Ziva exchange puzzled glances, and sighed.

"Nat's pregnant. She found out the day before she reported Stephen missing."

"I'm so sorry, Natalie. I can't even imagine what you are going through right now. Do you mind if we ask you a few questions about your husband?" Ziva asked gently.

"Of course not." Natalie answered. She knew everything about her husband, and she would do anything she could to help find out what had happened to him.

"Did Stephen have any enemies?" Tony asked in a soothing voice.

"No, at least not here. Everybody loved Stephen. I'm not sure about when he was on deployment, we don't really like talking about our tours, it can be very depressing." Natalie answered truthfully.

"What was your husband doing since he returned from Afghanistan?" Ziva asked.

"He was working at Quantico, taking boot camps and taking classes, teaching the marines that were about to deploy to Afghanistan what to expect. He did it with me, before I got promoted and transferred to the Pentagon, and now with one of his best friends, Charlie." Natalie answered, then gasped. "Oh my god! Does Charlie know? They've been best friends since freshman year in high school."

"Nat, we have agents talking to the men in his unit, they'll tell Charlie." Annie answered.

"Well, if you can think of anything else, please give us a call." Ziva said, handing Natalie her business card.

~NCISxBONES~NCISxBONES~ NCISxBONES~ NCISxBONES~ NCISxBONES~ NCISxBONES~

Two hours later, the two groups of agents reconvened at the Jeffersonian to discuss their findings. Currently the MCRT, along with Ducky, Jimmy and Abby, and the Squint Squad, along with Annie and Booth, were huddled around the Angelator, watching the reconstruction that Angela and Abby had done up, with Ducky narrating.

"As you can see, the Petty Officer would have been taken by surprise, which means he either knew his attacker or he was caught completely off guard. The Petty Officer's attacker came at him from the front like so," Ducky explained, gesturing to the animation. "And thrust a knife of some sort, Abby is running it through the FBI databases, into his stomach. That would have been enough to down Petty Officer Amos, before the assailant stabbed him multiple times more." Ducky finished and the other doctors, Cam, Jimmy and Dr Brennan, nodded. Annie shuddered. Horrible things always seem to happen to those who don't deserve them.

"So, did you find anything helpful out from the men in his unit?" Angela asked Booth. Gibbs, however, took that explanation.

"Amos seemed to be a well respected member of the unit, although, according to some, he was a bit tough on some of the younger guys in the unit, but only because he knew what they were going through. He was up for a promotion, and nominated for a purple heart. No one seemed to have anything bad to say about the guy." Gibbs explained.

"What about the ex-Commanding Officer's younger brother? He seemed to think it was Petty Officer Amos' fault that his brother was dead." Temperance added. Booth looked on proudly as his partner shared that bit of information. Annie, however scoffed, and all eyes turned to her.

"Stephen did everything he could to save Tom. Stephen was the one to pull Tommy out of the firing line after he was shot. He was the one who called for the corpsmen. He was the one who was with Tom when he died. Nicky was always one to hold a grudge, but he would never kill someone out of revenge. Although I don't think Nick appreciated Stephen ordering him back home in the first group. He's only 20. " Annie said, absently reading a message on her phone.

"How do you know all that, Annie? You said Stephen and Natalie didn't like to talk about their tours." Tony asked the young agent. Said agent, however was now out over the heads of everyone else in the room, as if she were looking for someone, but everyone was in the room with her.

"Ummm..." Annie started, then broke off with a gasp. Her eyes widened, but her expression lit up like a child's on Christmas Morning.

The other agents, scientists and doctors in the room turned and saw a man walking towards them. He was tall-ish, around 5'11", and looked as if he had come straight off the Marine Base. His honey blonde hair short, obviously a marine buzz-cut and a he had piercing green eyes. What happened next, however, had everyone shocked.

Annie was suddenly sprinting at the man from where she was standing on the far side of the room, and slammed into him, almost knocking him flat. The man had just enough time to catch the girl before they both ended up on the floor. The man laughed and hugged Annie close, kissing her forehead. A few seconds later Annie pulled away and stepped back to take the man in.

"Annie, would you care to explain what the hell is going on?" Booth exclaimed. Annie just held up her hand, not taking her eyes off the man in front of her. Gibbs understood, at least he thought he did. When Annie finally turned away from the marine, he linked his hand with hers affectionately.

"Everyone, this is Petty Officer Callum Day. He was in Petty Officer Amos' unit, got home four days ago. And my boyfriend. Cal, this is everyone." Annie explained, smiling. Abby and Angela squealed.

"Why didn't you tell me you had a boyfriend?" Asked Angela, playfully glaring at her friend.

"Because he has been on deployment for the past 12 months. Can't I have one secret, Ange?" Annie replied. "Anyway, Cal's here to help anyway he can."

"Okay, Petty Officer. What can you tell us about Nick DeBoer?" Gibbs took charge, glancing at Annie, and Anne nodded, understanding.

"Please, call me Callum. I'll probably say the same things as Anna though. Ummm... Nick's a great kid, bit ambitious but not nearly enough to hurt anyone. He's only a kid, so when Stephen forced him home, with the first half of the unit, I think he felt that he was being coddled. He was the youngest in the unit and hated it when people played the age card. I swapped out with Nick so that he could come home in the first group." Callum answered.

"And you don't think he would kill someone like this?" Booth added, not wanting to be left out of the discussion.

"Nick, God no. Like I said he's a good kid. He looked up to Stephen. He just needs someone to blame. Gibbs, you would know about that, right, being a marine and all." Callum explained.

"I'll give you that one." Gibbs answered. "Is there anyone you can think of that would want Petty Officer Amos dead?"

"No. Everyone loved him. If I can think of anything I'll let you know. Has anyone told Charlie? They were best friends." Callum asked.

"Who's this?" Booth asked. Callum opened his mouth to answer, but Annie got there first.

"Petty Officer Charlie Phillips-Stone. Stephen and Charlie have been best friends since freshman year at high school. If there was anyone who held a grudge on Stephen, he'd know."

"He didn't turn up at Base today, called in sick." McGee stated.

"That's unusual for Charlie. I don't think I've ever known him to call in sick. He wouldn't go to the doctor unless he was on his death-bed, or if Annie or Nat forced him to." Callum said, puzzled and Annie agreed.

"He might have heard about Petty Officer Amos and stayed home to grieve." Angela suggested.

"But how is that possible? He called in sick before we showed up, and no one knew about Petty Officer Amos until we went to the base and told them." McGee said, and Booth nodded. This was starting to get strange.

"I think we need to go pay the Petty Officer a visit." Gibbs said, and all the agents nodded. "McGee, you stay here and try and help Abby, Angela and Hodgins. Ziva, Annie you're with me." McGee and the two female agents nodded. Annie and Ziva grabbed their gear and went to wait for Gibbs in the parking lot.

"What about me, Boss?" Tony asked

"You, DiNozzo, are going to stay with Agent Booth and go though the list of people who Amos had contact with in the few days before his disappearance." The Senior Field Agent nodded and went to run phone and credit card checks, with Booth following close behind. The doctors went over to Cam's office and started discussing their findings again to see if there was anything they missed.

Hey Guys... Again, I am so sorry this chapter took so long. And thanks soooooo much for sticking by me and waiting for this chapter. I am not very happy with how this chapter finished, but I also didn't want you guys to wait any longer! I am not even going to say when I hope the next chapter will be up, because I don't want to put any of your hopes up, and then not deliver when I promised. Any constructive criticism would be much appreciated, but please not flames!

Until next time,
~ Lilliana-Lissa HathawayDavid xx