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Sam, Tony, Nicky and Abigail stepped off Le Scoot water ride. The kids were slightly damp, but Tony and Sam were totally soaked. Lila and Nicole smiled and tried to bite back their laughter. Dean and Gabriel weren't as successful.

"You two look like drowned rats," Dean sniggered. "Very large drowned rats."

"Not funny, Dean," Sam snapped. "Next time, you get to ride with your niece."

"Yeah," Dean retorted. "I call bumper cars."

"Hey, Gabriel," Tony pleaded. "Can't you do something? Snap your fingers, make us dry?"

"Oh, so now your not worried about someone noticing, DiNozzo? Even with all these people here?" Gabriel asked. "I don't think so. You can take your lumps like everyone else who just got off the ride."

Just then, Tony's phone rang and he pulled it out of his pocket and shook the water off it. "DiNozzo," he answered. "Uh, huh…yes…but, Boss, it's Nicky's birthday weekend…I see...okay, will do."

"Tony, what is it?" Lila asked, concern etched across her face.

"That was Gibbs. There's been a murder at Norfolk Naval base. It is similar to a case we dealt with before. The one back at Halloween right before Kenzie was born, the one we never solved. Since we are so close, he wants us to go check it out."

"But its Nicky's birthday weekend!" Lila moaned.

"I know, sweetie," Tony answered. "But he really didn't give us a choice. Let's get everyone back to the house, so I can change and then we will head over to Norfolk. The sooner we go, the sooner we can get back."

Abigail and Nicky protested having to leave the park early, but Nicole and Sam promised to take them out for pizza for dinner. Gabriel once again found a secluded corner of the park so that he could zap everyone back quickly. When they got to the rental home, they found it quiet. Too quiet. They found Kenzie and the twins sleeping upstairs, but Annie was nowhere to be found and Gabriel couldn't sense her anywhere nearby either. Then Dean spotted something on floor.

He looked up at the Archangel. "Gabriel, I think its blood."

"I have to go look for her," Gabe said, clenching his jaw.

"Then let me go with you," Dean offered.

It was quickly decided that Lila and Tony would go to Norfolk, as ordered by Gibbs and Gabriel and Dean would try to find Annie. That left Sam and Nicole to take care of the kids. Before they left, Abigail approached Gabriel.

"Is Mommy going to be alright, Daddy?"

"I am going to do my best to find her, Sugar," Gabriel said, kneeling down in front of his daughter.

"I want to help too, Daddy."

"I understand, Sugar. But I need you to stay here with your Uncle Sam, okay?" Abigail nodded, eyes brimming with tears. Gabriel gave his daughter a hug and kissed her forehead before he stood and snapped his fingers, disappearing with Dean.

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The pounding at the back of her head was the first thing she was aware of. As she tried to lift her head, a wave of nausea became the second. So she just sat there and tried to breath. There was something wet trickling down the back of her head and neck. She could feel the damp grass beneath her and her arms were pulled tight above her head and tied against something hard and rough, like…like…she couldn't finish the thought. She was still too disorientated.

She heard a voice in the background but couldn't yet distinguish the words. She tried to open her eyes, but the harsh light was too much for her pounding head and she immediately closed them again. As the words became more distinct, she could hear a man's gravelly voice complaining about having to offer another sacrifice so soon.

"Soon…too soon…will be caught for sure this time…even mistress won't be able to prevent them from making the connection…this one has family…not like the others…strange one she is…drugs…shouldn't be breathing…yet she is still moaning…"

As she tried to recall who she was or where she could be, images flooded her mind along with another wave of nausea. A man with brown hair, honey colored eyes and a lopsided grin, a little girl with auburn curls and green eyes who never sat still, and then two... two giggling toddlers with light brown hair. She tried to concentrate on them. They were familiar to her, like home. She wanted to go home. But then she heard another voice, this one female. Before she could comprehend the words, everything went black once again.

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"I'm gonna hurt Gibbs, I swear to God." Lila muttered as they got out of the car. She had been going on about the unfairness of having to cut her son's birthday short. "That boy is eight you know that?"

"Of course I do." Tony said.

"I have not once missed or cut short his celebration." Lila said.

"Look Lila, I'm upset about this too." Tony reasoned. "But we did tell Gibbs we'd stay on call and this is what we do. We'll make it up to Nicky later, and we'll make sure Gibbs does too."

"Damn right we will." Lila declared, approaching the scene. They flashed their badges and moved towards the body. They both froze for a few seconds, struck by how similar this murder was to the one they had dealt with before their niece was born. They walked closer and looked it over. "This is so bizarre."

"Ya think?" Tony asked.

"You two are from NCIS aren't you?" A police officer approached them.

"Yep." Tony said. "Special Agents DiNozzo and Curtis."

"We heard you guys had something similar to this before." The officer said, nodding at the body and ignoring the introductions. "This lady just moved here with her fiancée, navy man, right up your alley."

"Let me guess...no friends or family in the nearby area." Lila stated.

"You got it, sweetheart." The officer said. Tony paused then looked at the officer, noticing his eyes were on Lila. "You need anything, just yell for me. Name's Anderson."

"Sure." Lila agreed, her attention mostly on the body. The officer grinned and walked off.

"He was hitting on you." Tony said.

"Huh?" Lila asked.

"That cop, he was looking at you." Tony said. Lila looked at him and raised an eyebrow. "You know like..." He did his own version of the eye sweep and threw in a cocky grin for added effect.

"Oh relax Tony, I'm not interested in anyone else but you." Lila reassured her boyfriend, patting his cheek. "You're my Dinny and the father of my child, no one compares." She looked back at the body and took out the camera to start snapping pictures. "Guys can look but I'll never be interested."

"Yeah...okay." Tony muttered, his mind flashing back to the conversation with Gabriel, Dean and Sam at the bar the other night. Damn...he was going to have to admit they were right then do some serious shopping without Lila or Nicole finding out. He knew Nicole was a big sweetie but she couldn't keep a secret from her sister.

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Gabriel was having no luck finding Annie. He could sense her, but he couldn't pin her presence down to any particular location. It was like he was in a fog, or maybe she was. Dean wasn't being much help either, beyond being a smart ass.

"Huh," Dean smirked. "Maybe your mojo is on the fritz. Maybe you should've sent the Wonder Twins after her."

Gabriel turned to Dean. "What did you just say? Man, they are wrong about you after all. Maybe you are the smart one." And with that, Gabriel popped them back to the rental house.

"Oh, thank God you're back," Sam exhaled at sight of his brother and the angel. "All three toddlers woke up and the twins have been screaming."

"Perfect!" Gabriel smiled as he walked over to the boys. "That is exactly what they need to be doing."

"Has he lost his mind?" Nicole asked, holding onto her daughter's hands as Kenzie attempted to make her way towards the twins herself but wasn't quite stable enough.

"I'm not sure," Dean replied. "But I think he might have a plan."

Gabriel picked up Isaac and Levi one in each arm, but that didn't stop from them screaming. "Good, good," he encouraged them. "Keep it up. Who do you want? Who do you wanna see?"

"MAMA!" cried one of the boys.

"That's right, Levi," Gabe said. "You want your mama." And that is when understanding dawned on the others in the room. As Gabriel continued to encourage the boys the call for their mom, Annie's crumpled form soon appeared on the floor at his feet.

"Dean, Sam! Take the boys" Gabriel called out, as he handed each of the hunters a toddler so he could turn his attention to Annie.

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"I'm bored." Nicky complained.

"Me too." Abigail agreed, lazily stacking a block on top of the castle they had built in the temporary play room. Sam and Nicole had asked them to find a way to entertain themselves, inside the rental house, once the toddlers had woken up and the twins started freaking out. They could hear all the voices in the other part of the house and Abigail was almost tempted to go see what was going on if it weren't for the fact that she was afraid that there might be something hugely wrong that she wasn't sure she wanted to see.

"Do you think they're really, really distracted?" Nicky asked suddenly. Abigail looked at him as he stood inside the block castle.

"Probably." She replied slowly, wondering what her friend had suddenly thought of.

"So they wouldn't notice if we just...went back to the park real quick for one more ride...would they?" Nicky asked.

"I don't know." Abigail said, biting her lip. It was tempting and it would be a good distraction from her worry over her mother. But then, she was worried about Annie and didn't want to go too far. "Just one ride?" Nicky nodded, knowing how his friend was feeling and thinking. He frowned slightly, wondering suddenly if he was pressuring her.

"We don't have to." Nicky reassured, ducking down to move out of the castle through the archway. "It was just a thought. We're not doing much and if we went out there, we would just get in the way." He sighed, hating using that term.

"Well it is your birthday." Abigail's mood picked up as she smiled at the older boy. Nicky looked a bit surprised. "And you are right. Maybe if we go right now we can get a ride then come straight back."

"Yeah!" Nicky exclaimed, then quickly slapped his hand over his mouth, fearing he had been too loud. When they heard no new noises from the other room, they assumed they were safe. So, hands clasped tightly together, the two children disappeared to get in one more ride.

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"Is she going to be okay?" Nicole asked. Gabriel had moved Annie onto the couch and healed any wounds she had. Now all they had to do was wait for her to wake up. Isaac and Levi were still crying but they had quieted down a bit. Dean and Sam had put the boys on the floor to sit with Kenzie and they each now clutched stuffed animals to their chests.

"She should be fine." Gabriel answered, a little unsure himself with worry lacing through his voice. "We just need her to wake up and tell us what happened."

"And I thought Tony took a while to wake up after being knocked out." Nicole muttered. Her phone went off and she paused before looking at it. "How does he do that?"

"That him now?" Sam asked, turning his eyes from the unconscious woman to the awake one.

"Yeah." Nicole replied. She flipped her phone open and pressed her thumb to the "speaker" button before holding the device out in front of her. "How's it going Tony?"

"Not too good." Tony's voice came through the phone. "We're nowhere nearer to figuring this one out than the one we dealt with a couple years ago."

"Same thing?" Dean asked.

"Nik, am I on speaker phone?" Tony asked.

"Yep." Nicole said. She heard Tony sigh and mutter something, probably to Lila. Dean and Sam looked at the phone. Gabriel was listening but his eyes were staying on Annie.

"Yeah, it's the same sort of deal." Tony answered finally. "Fiancée this time rather than a wife though. Engaged to marry a marine, just moved out here, and of course no friends or family in the area."

"Think there might be a connection between the two mur...problems?" Sam asked, glancing over at Isaac, Levi and Kenzie.

"I don't know. It's possible. But we haven't had this much trouble since we first started with stupid Randalls." Tony said. Nicole sighed, her eyes drifting over to Kenzie who was the product of her own dealings with the infamous crime lord.

"How much longer do you think you are going to be?" Nicole asked.

"About an hour. We have a few things to wrap up, and we want to make sure that the DC office is kept in the loop on everything, but then will head back. How about you guys? Are things going okay there? Did Gabriel and Dean find Annie yet?"

"Actually, the twins brought her home," Dean supplied. "But she's still unconscious, so we don't know what happened yet."

"Well, let's us know if there is anything we can do." Tony said before cutting off the phone.

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"If we are going to do this Nicky, then we better do it right," Abigail said. "I am not wasting this on silly train ride."

"Agreed," Nicky said, nodding. "What do you think? I'd love to check out the Griffon, but we aren't tall enough."

"If my dad could make us tall enough, so can," Abigail smirked. And with a blink and a smile, the pair was soon tall enough, and at the front of the line for the ride. They rode not once, but three times before exiting the ride, changing back and returning to the rental house, without any of the adults every noticing their absence.

Abigail and Nicky collapsed on the floor of the playroom in giggles. "That was so much better than any present," Nicky laughed.

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"What do you mean Annie is still unconscious?" Lila demanded, as she and Tony got back into the car to head back to Williamsburg. "I thought Gabriel would be able to heal her?"

"Look, Dean didn't elaborate, and we had our hands full here. I am just passing on the message." Tony put their equipment in trunk and closed the lid.

"Well, hopefully, she will have come to by the time we get back and we can figure out what happened. I am so tired of all this weird crap happening. And Nicky still hasn't even had presents or birthday cake," Lila sighed.

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This time, the first thing she was aware of was the fact that someone was holding her hand. Then she realized that her hands were not tied above her head and she wasn't sitting in damp grass against a hard surface. She was laying down on something soft and her head wasn't pounding anymore, it was just a dull ache. She heard voices again, but there were more of them. And even a few children crying. She slowly opened her eyes. The light was bright, but not as harsh as before, so she opened her eyes more fully.

She then saw that it was the man with brown hair, honey colored eyes and the lopsided grin that was holding her hand.

"Annie," he sighed. Relief flooded his face, as he brushed a few stray curls out of her eyes. "You're awake. You had us worried there for awhile."

She concentrated on him. This was one of the people whose faces she remembered, who reminded her of home. But she couldn't recall his name. "I know you, don't I?" she asked hesitantly.

And worry crept back into the angel's face as quickly as it had left.