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Part 2

"DiNozzo, do you know how late it is?" Leroy Jethro Gibbs, Tony's superior asked.

"Yes, Boss. It's a bit after ten. Why do you ask? Is your watch broken?" It was just the normal talk between the two of them.

"DiNozzo, go to work!"

So Tony went to his desk, started the computer and put his feet on the desk. He earned some bad looks from the other team-member Special Agent Caitlin 'Kate' Todd.

The three of them did have a strange relationship. They were friends but none of them know much about the others private life. And Tony thought it was better in his case.

"Tony, what's the matter with you. You are out of your character for the last couple of days. You are a pain in the ass all time, but in the last couple of days you are even worse. " Kate asked.

"What do you care?"

"We are all worried about you. We are your friends. Why don't you tell us, perhaps we can help you."

"Nobody can help me. It's just an anniversary that's coming up. I'm lost in memories without work to occupy."

"What was she like?" Kate asked sitting down on the edge of his desk.

"She? I never said it was about a woman!"

"DiNozzo, you don't have to tell me it's about a woman since I know you. You wouldn't be like this without a good reason. So what was she like?"

Tony sighed. "She was a good girl. Her name was Max. We worked together in some ways. She was an orphan. Nine years old when she came to a foster family. Since then she tried to find her family. I kind of helped her getting information about there whereabouts. She helped me with my work, since I wasn't able to do it anymore. Well she found her family and built a place for them to stay. She had just started to live her life. I gave her the space to find the person she will be today. I thought I would do the best for her, but I miss her so terrible, even after this long. I told her she will find me when she is ready for me." He couldn't believe that he had told Kate all this.

"I'm sorry Tony. When did all this happen?"

"Two years and another life ago."

"Two years are no time. I'm sure she will come back to you. Just be patient."

"Kate, you don't know her. Two years are an eternity for her."

Just in this moment Gibbs entered the bullpen. "Okay you two, we got a crime scene."

"Thanks god." He said to no one in particular.

They got to the car and went to the Chesapeake Bay. When they got there they saw two death bodies lying on the beach. A boy and a girl in their late twenties. Ducky, the coroner of their team was looking over them.

"Ducky, what do we have so far?" Gibbs asked.

"Two twen's, looks like they were drown. I will know more after the autopsy. But both of them were having a tattoo on the back of their neck. Looks like a bar code."

Tony looked up at this information. "Are you finished Ducky, so we can start to bag up evidences?" He asked hopeful. Ducky nodded yes and Tony went over to the bodies to have a look.

"DiNozzo, what do you think you are doing? It's Ducky's job to look at the corpse. You are looking for some traces." Gibbs bellowed.

"Please Boss, let me have a look. I know some guys with such a tattoo on the back of their neck."

Gibbs didn't say a word. So Tony went to the male body and looked at him. It was Alec, some kind of friend of him. He looked more closely at the woman. The agent couldn't see her face from where he stood. All he saw was her long dark hair. Praying to god that he wouldn't recognise her as the love of his life he went over. He didn't know her.

"Boy's name was Alec. He's about 27. Last time I saw him was back in Seattle." Tony told Gibbs and Todd.

"Seattle? When do you were in Seattle?" Gibbs asked.

"That's a long story and I'm not going to tell you about this. It happened a lifetime ago. If you will excuse me, I have a call to do."

Tony left the crime scene and took his cell phone out. "Hi Abby, it's Tony. Do you remember the virus I carried you found a serum for?"

"Yes Tony, I remember. What's the matter with it?"

"You said there were a strange DNS, something you had never seen before."

"And I asked you about it but you never told me about it."

"Well now you have the change to see more of them. We are just at a crime scene with two victims. Both of them will have this strange DNS. The male one was some kind of friend of mine."

"Is he the one the virus was for?" Abby asked.

"No Abby, my girl-friend was the host of the virus. But please, don't tell anybody that you have seen something like this before. They don't know about this."

"Okay, I will try my best. But if you knew one of them what will you do? If you find his family, you can solve the case and perhaps you can hinder a further murder."

"I haven't thought about this and I'm not sure what I will do then. Thanks Abby."

He closed his phone and went back to the others who were bagging up evidence. "Boss, why are we on this case? He had some kind of military education, but I don't think Alec was with Navy!"

"Tony, what's the matter with you? We got a case and you never asked before?"

"Boss, why?" He pleaded, trying everything to put this case to someone else.

"Those two were found on Navy ground so it makes them to our case. And now tell me what your problem is. And I won't ask a second time."

"It's about Alec. I was hoping I would never see him again. We hadn't had the best relationship."

"DiNozzo, this guy is dead, for god's sake! He won't be a problem for you. And your connections can help us to solve the case. The sooner we solve it, the sooner you will get rid of him. And since you know him, I'm sure you know where his family is. Somebody needs to find and tell them."

"He hadn't had any family. He was an orphan. Just some friends he called his siblings. And I don't know where they are now. I haven't heard a word of them since two years."

Kate was coming to him. "Tony, did this guy have a connection to Max? I have never seen you this grumpy."

He looked at her. "I'm not grumpy. And yes he was a friend of her, a close friend. That's one of the reasons I don't like him."

"Tony, you have to separate private life and work. We need your help. You are our only hint so far. Let's go back to the head-quarter and tell us, what you know."

Kate told Gibbs to head back to the office. There they met at Gibbs cubicle.

"Kate said you were going to tell us about this guy." Gibbs asked.

"Boss, you will not like what I'm going to tell you now. Like I said it was a lifetime ago. To be exact it happened in another life. Until two years ago I lived in Seattle. There I worked for a newspaper and tried to help the weak ones. I lived in an expensive penthouse and had a good life. One day there was a theft in my flat trying to steal an artefact. It was a girl. I tried to find her since I just had to see her again. Her name was Max. I helped her to find her family and she helped me with my work. We were a good team. We felt in love but none of us told the other one. We were able to find some members of her family. Then she was captured by the Government. They were going to use her as a birth mother since she had some features they would copy. Alec should be the male donator. I freed her with some friends. The next few months we tried to destroy this government facility. After doing this we had to build a place for her family to stay since the public was afraid of them. The day before I left her we built this place."

They looked at him unbelievable. "Why did they need a place to stay and why was the public afraid of them? Are they murderer?" Gibbs finally asked.

"No, they were no murderer. Do you know Manticore?" When nobody answered he explained. "Manticore was a place where some sick guys tried to build the perfect soldier, Max and Alec being one of them. And there are others, the first experience who don't bend into the public like Max or Alec. They manipulated their DNS; put some cat genes or other stuff into it. It is amazing what they can do. Max knocked out my bodyguard, a man like a castle without a single drop of sweat. And this is not all. But we destroyed Manticore and after that they were followed by the Government. The bar code on the back of their neck is some kind of ID for them."

"Amazing story! And why don't I find a single word of this in your file?" Gibbs asked.

"Well, I had the equipment to erase all of this. I create this new personality when I first came to Washington, DC. I was never with Baltimore Police." The young agent grinned one of his famous smiles.

"Well, that explains a lot!" Kate smiled.

And it was true. It was no secret that when he first started to work for Gibbs he hadn't had an idea what to do. He just knew that he couldn't live as Logan Cale any further. So he became Anthony DiNozzo, a charming guy who dated every female being he saw. Tony dated much women but he never felt in love with one of them. But they liked him like he was with all his mistakes and wrong attitudes.

They were about to go back to the bullpen when Ducky called. "Guys, we got some amazing results. At first the DNS. I haven't seen something like this before."

"We already know that, Ducky. What else?" Tony said.

He starred at him unbelievable. "Both of them were drugged with different kind of stuff. Some of them are unknown to us some of them were hormones, sedatives, truth serum and several kinds of drugs. The girl was four months pregnant. The embryo is having a bar code, too."

"That doesn't sound good. I need to make a call." With these words he left the others and went to his desk. There Tony dialled a familiar number.

"Hey?" he heard.

"Normal, as friendly as ever."

"Do I know you?"

"I think so. Is Max still working with you?" Tony asked.

"Max is on holiday leave since two weeks. If you see her, you can tell her she's fired. She got one week, not two."

That was Normal, just like he remembered him. "Okay, I will tell her. Can I speak to Original Cindy, Herbal or Sketchy?"

"Cindy is here, but I don't allow private calls."

"Since when? Normal, I need to find Max. It's a matter of life and death."

Normal was shocked but he got Cindy to the phone. "How can I help you, baby?"

"Original Cindy this is Logan. I need to find Max."

"Logan? I haven't heard of you in a while. Do you know what you have done to Max when you left? You hurt her and now you think I'm gonna tell you where she is so you can hurt her again? No way."

"Cindy, please. I need to find her. It's a matter of life and death. I need to find her soon and I promise I won't hurt her again. You must know, I love her and leaving her was the hardest thing I have ever done. But we had our reasons. So where is she?"

"I don't know. She said something about some friends she needed to find. And in the last few weeks she spoke much about you."

"So you think she is looking for me?"

"I think so, but I'm not sure. Sorry Logan."

He went back to the team. "Sorry guys, but I don't know where she is. I just called on of her friends but she said Max is on holiday leave to look for some friends."

"Okay, then we need to find another way."

Just in this moment a guard was entering. "Special Agent Gibbs, this woman wants to see a Mr. Logan Cale. I told her that nobody called so is working here but she said she saw him entering in the morning."

"Logan?" The woman said, addressing Tony. All eyes were looking at him, waiting for an explanation.

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