Chapter Nine - "Got Yeah"

Tony and McGee walked off the elevator and back into the bullpen. It had been a couple hours, but they believe they finally found what they were looking for. It hadn't been easy to get the evidence they needed, but if it put their suspect at the crime scene it was worth it in the end.

"I will find Gibbs, you take the evidence down to Abby" Tony said. McGee quickly grabbed his bag and headed down to Abby's Lab. Tony headed towards the conference room, hoping Gibbs was there with Ziva. Once he got to the conference room he peered in to see Ziva staring out the window and no sign of Gibbs. Tony ignored that and walked into the room. "Ziva" Tony said softly. Ziva turned to see Tony standing there.

"Tony" Ziva said a bit surprised. "What are you doing here?"

"I was looking for Gibbs" Tony said, it wasn't a complete lie. "Also wanted to see how you were doing?"

"I am fine" Ziva said to him. Tony knew that was a lie.

"Okay" Tony said to her with a small attitude.

"Is something wrong Tony?" Ziva asked him.

"No, I'm just not going to waste my breath telling you something that clearly doesn't matter" Tony said to her. He really didn't mean it, he was just still angry that she lied to him.

"I am not sure what are you talking about" Ziva said to him.

"I thought you trusted me, Ziva" Tony said to her.

"I do trust you" Ziva said to him, even more confused.

"I don't think you do" Tony said to her. He knew this wasn't the time to be discussing this, but he just couldn't stop himself.

"What is going on Tony?" Ziva asked him.

"Nothing, it doesn't matter" Tony said, now trying to drop the subject. "We found something, just waiting for Abby to confirm it."

"Gibbs was here" Ziva said to him. "He offered me some coffee and then left."

"He must be on a coffee run" Tony said. "I'll find him." Tony said before starting to leave.

"Tony" Ziva said to him. Tony stopped and turned to face her. "I do trust you, and I know you are here." Tony just gave her a small half smile and then left.

"So you really got prints three months later?" Abby asked him as she entered the prints into the system.

"Well we got prints wither they are his prints, has yet to be seen" McGee said to her. "These are the prints of the current tenants" McGee said as he handed her more prints.

"Well hopefully we will get a match" Abby said.

"Were you able to find him, Abs?" Gibbs said as he walked into Abby's lab with a coffee in his hand and a Caf-Pow in the other.

"I was able to find him in three other photos for three different crime scenes." Abby said to him. Gibbs walked over to her h and handed her the Caf-Pow. "He was watching waiting to see something"

"Most likely looking for Ziva" McGee questioned.

"Does that mean he was stalking her" Abby questioned.

"No he was just watching to see her react to the murder" Gibbs said. "He's trying to hurt her and only way he knows he's getting to her is if he can see it himself"

"Now that he knows Ziva is back, what is he going to do now" Abby asked concerned for her friend.

"We are going to make sure we don't find out" Gibbs said. Because anyone could say another word Abby's computer dinged. "What was that?"

"The prints" Abby said. She turned to her computer and minimized the photos to find the prints got a match. A picture of a guy with dark brown hair, slightly different features popped up on Abby's screen with wanted info and a name, Ethan Vasquez. "I thought Ziva said his name was Matthew Mackenzie?"

"I thought he wasn't in the system" McGee said looking at the computer screen.

"Looks like we aren't the only ones looking for him" Gibbs said. Just then Tony walked in to find them all looking at Abby's Computer screen. "Abby I want you to run that photo with the photos we have. I want to know that is who we are looking for."

"What did I miss?" Tony said as he walked in and over to Abby and McGee.

"We might have just caught a break" McGee said to him. "We got a match on the prints, looks like your idea wasn't so crazy after all."

"So we can prove he was in the room at the time of the murder?" Tony said.

"Care to fill me in DiNozzo?" Gibbs said to him.

"Long story or shorten version?" Tony said to him.

"Story that proves this will not screw this up" Gibbs said to him.

"I remembered Ziva mentioned a while ago, that her apartment complex had gotten security cameras, so I went to check it out. With the help us the landlord he gave us the tapes for the past five months. Abby here went through them and we found our suspect entering the apartment next to the victim's apartment" Tony started to explain to him. "So after careful research we found the building had a small ledge he could have got from one apartment to the other. I knew it was a long shot, but the best one we had at the time. We dusted the railing and windows and everything we could hoping to find prints."

"Sure enough we found something" McGee said to him.

"Now someone just needs to find me him" Gibbs said to them.

"Checking the bolo now boss" McGee said. He moved over to the other computer that was next to the one Abby was using and pulled up the bolo they had put up. "It's got a hit" McGee said before pulling it up. "Looks like someone spotted a guy with this description at a motel just outside of town. It just gives us the Motel."

"Give me a second" Abby said. He minimized everything she had and pulled up a fresh page. She typed in the motel name and within minutes she was able to get information on the motel. "They really need to stop making this so easy" Abby said, she then pulled up the list of everything staying at the motel. "No Matthew Mackenzie, but there is a Mitch Jones staying there" Abby said to them.

"The boyfriend of second victim" Tony said. "Well our first but his second."

"DiNozzo" Gibbs snapped.

"Shutting up boss" Tony said.

"Here's the address and room number" Abby said, writing it down on a piece of paper.

"DiNozzo, McGee, go pick him up" Gibbs said. Abby handed the paper to McGee. McGee and DiNozzo headed out of the lab and on their way. Gibbs walked over to Abby, leaned in and kissed her on the cheek. "Good work Abby" He said before heading out as well.

Tony and McGee arrived at the motel and before they could park, they saw him heading to what they could only assume was his room. Tony put the car in park and let McGee know where he was. The two, undid their seat belts and grabbed their guns. They slowly got out of the car and Tony signaled to McGee to go around the other side and the two would corner him. McGee nodded and they headed on their way. They were slowly approaching the suspect when he turned his head to look and saw Tony. He turned his head the other way and saw McGee coming at him. Without a second thought he took off running in the opposite direction.

"He's running" Tony yelled as McGee and he went running after him. "NCIS freeze" they started chasing him through some trees and before Tony knew it the suspect and McGee were nowhere to be found. "McGee" Tony yelled, hoping McGee would respond. Instead he heard this loud thud, and ran towards it. When he got to where the noise was, he saw the suspect on the ground and McGee hand cuffing him.

"What took you so long DiNozzo?" McGee said to him.

"Real funny McGee" Tony said to him. He then helped McGee get the suspect back on his feet. "In case you didn't know you're under arrest. Now let's go" Tony said, and then three headed back to the car. Once they got back to the car, they put the suspect in the back seat, before Tony and McGee got in the front seats and headed back to the Navy Yard.

AN: To tell you the truth, had Fornel in this chapter, but totally rewrote it because he was like in it for a few sentences and then you never see him again. So basically there was no pay off and He is far to awesome to do that to him. Maybe he'll show up in later chapters you never know.