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I'm not sure if there are shark pens or storehouses in New Orleans, I just made that up.

This chapter has been edited and it is quite dark.

NCIS New Orleans Headquarters

A few minutes later

"What do you mean she's missing?" Pride exclaimed.

"She's just disappeared. She's was sitting in the bar as I was buying drinks and then the next minute she's gone. I checked everywhere, vanished," LaSalle, said, heaving and sweating after his dash back to the office.

"Typical Jennifer; she has done that often since I knew her," Brody remarked haughtily.

"No, I think this is something heavily related to our case," LaSalle countered.

"Chris…" Brody tried to argue back when suddenly the video conference receiver beeped.

"Yeah Loretta?" Dwayne answered as Doctor Wade and Sebastian Lund appeared on screen.

"Dwayne, we've got not-so-good news for you," she began.

"Like, pretty bad news in the forensic…" Sebastian added but the Medical Examiner cut him off.

"Bonfiallo was not in any of the remains from the blast earlier. We fast tracked all samples and am 100% sure she's not amongst the bodies."

"How…?"

"Old forensic trick; the leaving on fingerprints. I discovered that they were planted just before they launched the attack, judging by the density on the staining," Sebastian added. "And the pieces of metal that came from the blast were pieces not from the car; they were planted in the car to look like debris from a bomb explosion."

"The bone fragments that were supposed to be feminine are actually from some other body. Sebastian is tracing it and the other evidence now." With that the call ended.

"It is about the case," Pride stated with an extremely serious tone. "We…"

"I've got CCTV footage from the bar," LaSalle offered. "Maybe…"

"Triple PPP will analyse it," Patton said, wheeling himself in.

This is going to be another all nighter, Brody groaned silently.

Unknown Location

The same time

Ow, Ow, ow, Jennifer Coates thought as the pain circulated her head. What the hell was...she blinked several times but her vision was still blurred. Instinctively, she tried to raise her hands to rub her eyes but she felt stiff resistance. What the...she tried to speak but then felt an icky adhesive around her lips.

"Mmmm..." Coates wailed through the duct tape gag. Suddenly, her vision cleared and a dark figure stood in front of her. "Welcome back to 'life', Jenny," the voice said and a hand reached to remove the mask, revealing a face Jennifer had not seen for while.

"A long time since those days in Washington DC eh?" Pia Bonfilio cackled like a hyena. "A long time since to we're sleeping with that hot Navy Commander, what's his name Harm?" She laughed an eerie laugh. "Where is he know? I hope he hasn't forgotten the fling he had with you." Coates glared at her with her eyes and gave a muffled reply.

"Language, language, Jenny. You aren't a crook anymore, or so I hear. Somehow you heard some of the old gang was down here. But no, that's wasn't why you came down to the Big Easy right?" Pia circled the chair Coates was bound to. "No, you're smarter than that. You heard I was here before hand right?" She paused and bend down so she was face-to-face with Coates. "Yeah, I always remembered you have some magical brain, accurately predicting stuff before others do. You know after we parted at Union Station I got back to steal and shoplifting, all by myself. But when I heard some of the gang had moved to better military lives, I thought, why should they have all the fun?"

So you came down to murder them all, Coates thought

"Oh sorry, you wanna speak?" She ripped off the tape aggressively, creating a small cut on Coates' lips.

NCIS Headquarters

"Talk to me people," Pride remarked.

"So there was this white van at the back of the pub where the toilets and dumpsters are," Patton began and flashed a grainy video on the LCD display. Tapping on his tablet, he continued, "There you have several figures carrying someone into the van. I can't adjust the quality of the picture with this sort of film but you can just pick out the long brown hair there," he pointed. "Gotta be our girl, uh, I mean Jennifer."

"BOLO's out on the vehicle," Brody added, still partly wishing that she could be home in her bath. Silly Jenn got herself into some trouble and we have to rescue her. And it was because she went out with LaSalle! Wait, does this mean they are in a deep relationship?

"Uh, Brody, when did your cousin actually come down to New Orleans?" LaSalle asked.

"Why?" Brody asked, trying to keep a neutral tone.

"Because I did some checking and she arrived on the 12th, which is two days before you mentioned she was around. I got a buddy of mine to pull a short video tape," he emailed the file to Patton and soon they were watching Coates talking on her Cellular. "Not much help."

"She's calling an operator, asking about Wayne Wright, our first victim," Brody remarked, then turn to the rest "I can lip-read. So she lied to us about that. No wait, who's that in the background?"

"That looks like our suspect Bonfilio. Patton, she's receiving a number!"

"Tracing it now."

Unknown Location

"You were always the biggest bitch," Coates tried to spit on Pia but had quite a parched mouth. "You deserve a good time behind bars. No, after what you did to the others, you deserve the death penalty."

"Aw, you think so? Oh, your mighty NCIS friends," Pia said 'N' like 'end'. "They'll pretty sloppy and will never find us."

"Their not sloppy," countered Coates.

"Oh they might or might not, but they won't stop this," Pia said, extracting a device with emitted humming.

"What the..." but a fresh tape gag was sealed over her lips. With a large yank, Pia ripped away both sides of Jennifer's shirt and pressed the electro-shock device against each of her breasts. Jennifer squealed like a pig about to be slaughtered but Pia broken into hysterical laugh, continuing to torture her old comrade. Ten minutes later, Coates was veering on the edge on unconsciousness but Pia showed no signs of mercy.

..." Just then, a masked man ran it and whispered into Pia's ears.

"Well, get out there you buffoon and shoot them!" she yelled at him.

"Mmay" Coates grunted, tugging at her bonds.

"Shut the hell up," Pia thundered. "Never mind," she cut the former Navy Legalman lose and cuffed her hands before she had time to react. Extracting a M1911, she yanked Coates up and hissed, "You'll never see your Fed friends again. Or this life."

Outside the building

"Ok, Brody, you take the back, Chris, front left side, I'll enter through..." Rapid gun fire cut of Pride's orders and the Agents duck before returning fire.

"Go, go go!" Pride yelled and he pressed his Sig Sauer several times and dashed across the dimly-lit courtyard. Brody managed to hit one thug as she manoeuvred behind the building then struck another with her bare hands. Just as she looked for a way inside, she heard a high-pitched scream. "Jenn!" she yelled as she pressed her body weight against a nearby door and entered. "NCIS!" she called and fired shot, hitting another of Pia's accomplices.

LaSalle on the other hand faced even tougher resistance as he crashed through a half opened window and reloaded his P226 in time to fire. It took him the nearly all the ammunition in the new clip before he cleared the next level. Suddenly, he found himself looking down at an open pool and two figures below.

"Federal agent, drop your weapon!" LaSalle announced.

"You drop yours, before I push your lovely girlfriend here into a pool of sharks. They haven't eaten for hours and are hungry for human flesh," Pia called back.

"You drop..." he saw Pia press her .45 harder against Coates' droopy head and reluctantly released his Sig Sauer.

"That's good Mr. NCIS. I saw you with Jenny here. You like her right? Well, you can be at the front row of her funer..." Pia's taunt was cut off as Coates summoned all her remaining strentgth pressed her boot hard against her nemesis' foot, knocking her down. Just before Pia could react, Brody sprung out behind her and tackled her. Both girls fought furiously but just before Pia could reach for her weapon, Brody gave her a violent kick, which sent the former gang leader into the shark pool. Pride reached the arena just in time to hear Pia scream defeaning see the pool turn a murky red.

"Jenn, Jenn, are you ok?" Brody moved over to her now unconscious cousin. "EMS! I need a medic here right now!"

To be continued.