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Searching

Down in autopsy Ducky was in the middle of one of the marines autopsy and telling Palmer about one very strange picnic he had in his youth, (it involved a tuna sandwich and a crazy duck), when Palmer interrupted him.

"Doctor Mallard, do you think Tony's going to be okay?"

Ducky looked up from the body startled, like he had forgotten Palmer was even there, "Mr Palmer, Tony has got Agent Gibbs looking for him, we'll have him back in no time," Ducky said smiling comfortingly at his assistant before continuing to search for the second bullet, which he found just moments later.

"That's rather odd," Ducky said frowning at the bullet, "this bullet looks different from the other ones we have found," he then dropped it in the container which Palmer was holding out for him, "take that to Abby, please, Mr Palmer, She'll be able to tell us more."

Gibbs strode out of the elevator, slowing down for a moment to observe his two remaining agents. At first glance they both just seemed hard at work, but he could tell that they were both on edge and worried about their friend. He had already broken one of his own rules, rule 10, by getting personally involved in a case, but this was Tony so it was impossible not to get personally involved and he would break every one of his damn rules if it got Tony back.

Mcgee jumped out of his seat when he saw Gibbs coming towards his desk, he seemed slightly calmer after his visit with Abby but he still looked angry.

"Hey boss, I've found something," he said, as soon as Gibbs was within earshot, Gibbs just stared at him, waiting for him to continue.

"erm, well, it was a Friday night when Tony went missing," Gibbs stare was turning into one of his famous 'death glares' and Mcgee was trying not to stutter like he did back in his probie days, "so I, er, assumed that Tony would either be going to a bar or renting a movie and eating pizza. So I pulled cctv footage from all the bars, dvd shops and pizza places in the area near the park were the Marines were shot and I saw him coming out of a dvd store about 5 minutes away from the park, my guess is he was walking home, heard gunshots and went to check it out."

"Were there any cameras around the crime scene," Gibbs asked

"No, some kids smashed them up a few days ago."

Gibbs nodded, and then turned to Ziva who was looking through some of Tony's old case files. She looked up from her work and saw him glaring at her, silently ordering her to tell him what she had found out.

"I've found quite a lot of people who would want Tony dead but it would take too long to tell all their names, so I narrowed it down to the five most likely candidates," she said, getting out of her chair, taking the remote for the screen from Mcgee, who had been using it to show Gibbs the CCTV footage, "Sam Bishop, William Jones, Jack Smith, Ray Skelton and James Field," she finshed showing Gibb pictures of each of the suspects on the screen.

"What about the marines?" Gibbs asked hoping one of them had looked into the marines even though he hadn't asked them to.

"Captain Harry Thompson and Lieutenant Tom Clarkson, clean records, no reason for anyone to want them dead," Mcgee replied.

"Ziva try to narrow down that list of suspects even more," Gibbs said just as his phone started to ring, "Mcgee, go talk to the marine's family's see if you can find out anything else about them." He then answered his phone and heard Abby ordering him to get down to her lab.

Gibbs walked into Abby's lab and found her looking a lot better then she had on his last visit down. She turned away from her computer when she heard him coming in.

"Hey Gibbs, I got a name," she said sounding like she had had one too many Caff-Pows, "Captain Adam Green, he owned the gun which the marines," she said giving him the address.

"Nice work, Abby," he said turning to leave but Abby pulled him back.

"Gibbs, do you really think I called you down here just to tell you an address? Besides that guy's probably not even the killer, I mean when have our jobs ever been that simple? I mean he could be involved but-"

"Abby," Gibbs cut her off, "what else have you got?"

"One of the bullets which Ducky sent me wasn't a bullet," she said smiling the way she did whenever she found something 'hinky'

"What was it then?"

"A capsule with a note inside."

"What did the note say?"

" 'Hello Agent Gibbs'," Abby replied the smile gone from her face.

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