CHAPTER 12
A/N I hadn't intended posting this till tomorrow but I thought I'd give Pjrybicki another one to say thanks for the reviews!
The team worked the crime scene slowly with an awful sense of de ja vu. Every one of them was on edge and jumpy.
Ducky and Abby examined the body several times but didn't find any foreign DNA or fibres, planted or otherwise.
McGee took note of which file the victim originally appeared in and poured over the original details something was nagging the back of his mind but he was too tired to chase the thought. He needed sleep, he had been working 20 hours a day and his mind was starting to shut down.
He left his desk and went down to the lab. "How long till you can leave Abby?"
"Well I should wait till these test finish but that could be hours, lets just go now, the results will still be here in the morning"
They left the office together and got into Abby's car. They were both too exhausted to notice the car which followed them most of the way.
They stumbled through the Gibbs front door, McGee was barely able to stand, but the sofa had been taken by Tony and the air bed by Ziva. Despair flooded his face.
Gibbs caught his arm "Tim, take the guest room, Abby can bunk in with me tonight"
Abby turned to him with a grin.
"No funny business Sciuto" Gibbs said with a smile of his own.
Everyone slept late the next day, McGee later than everyone else, no one having the heart to wake him.
"Go, go in, McGee can work from here today"
When McGee finally surfaced he didn't look and more rested than he had the night before. Scratching his head he mumbled "Agent Gow, that name mean anything to you boss?"
"Gow? Patrick Gow? Jeeze Tim, where did you drag that name up from?"
"So you know him?"
"I wouldn't say I knew him, I knew OF him. He joined NCIS roughly the same time I did, he didn't last long, less than a year, then he transferred out of field work. What's the relevance?"
"Something I noticed on each of the files, there are two names that appear in each file, yours in the main file and his on the audit sheet that gets appended to each file once it goes into archive"
Gibbs looked puzzled then lifted his burn phone. "I'm calling Mike Franks" he said to McGee as he started dialling.