Chapter 4

(Ziva)

As I help Ducky. Gibbs took McGee, Tony and Palmer to the child's room again because he really wanted to know what it was he had heard earlier.

"Ducky what do you think happened to him?" I asked the old man across from me.

"Well it looks like he was shoot three times in the chest and then stabbed five times, three of the times in the stomach and one time in the left leg and the last time in the heart" Ducky told me and then he stuck his big needle in the marine's stomach.

"Okay then that doesn't sound good" I said back to Ducky and then turned to the door.

"Are you scared Ziva?" he asked me.

"No I'm not" I told him still with my eyes on the door.

"Are you sure?" he asked me and this time I turned around to look at him.

"Okay I'm a little scared" I confessed to him; I never confess to anybody what is happing to me.

"Okay Ducky it looks like you have everything under control here so I'm going to get something to drink from the kitchen" I told him and started to walk to the door and down the stairs and past the child's room and the bed and the bath room and then down the next set of stairs.

When I came to the kitchen I walk in and started to look for a glass so I could get something to drink.

When I found a glass I walked over to the sink and opened for the water when I got a shock because instead of water it was blood there came out.

I started to scream so I think the whole house could hear it. Not long after Gibbs and McGee came running down the stairs.

"Are you Okay Ziva" McGee asked me with a worried look.

"No I'm not there is blood coming out of the sink instead of water" I said when I got another shock when Gibbs took me into a hug.

Gibbs and I were still hugging when Ducky, Tony and Palmer came into the kitchen.

"Are you guys Okay we heard a scream" Tony said and then looked at Gibbs and me we where still hugging.

"Sorry it was me" I told them and was about to let go of Gibbs when I took another hug from him and then I let go of him. I then walk to the sink and turned on for the water so the others could see why she was screaming.

Just like me they got a wired look on there faces and got scared.

McGee looked like he was going to die and Palmer was about to throw up and Tony got a really big shock; wile Ducky and Gibbs just looked at them.

"Well we better find out what happened here" Gibbs told us and then walk over to me and turned of the blood.

Then Gibbs started to walk out from the kitchen and when Tony and McGee follow him not long after I walk out with Ducky and Palmer right behind me.

"Okay now McGee and Ziva go with Ducky and Palmer back to the attic to find anything you can there will help us with the case and Tony and I will go back to the child's room because I think there is someone in there" Gibbs said and then we did as we were told.

When McGee, Ducky, Palmer and I got to the attic again, Ducky and Palmer went to the dead marine with the same and McGee went to the box where the marine was before and I walk around for a little wile.

When I was walking around I saw a small box when I took it up and opened it a ring came to sight it was really beautiful there were two small diamonds and in the middle there were one a little bigger then the two others.

I closed the small box again and walk over to Ducky "Ducky do you think this could be his?" I asked him.

"Yes my dear it could be his I think it is his" he told me with a small smile.

I smiled back at him and then looked down on the marine "What do you think his name was?" I asked him and then looked back up.

"Petty officer Micheal Price" he told me.

"Did you found a card on him?" I asked him and when he gave me a card.

"I found it in his pocked" he answered me with a smile.

"Thanks Ducky I will go tell Gibbs that" I told him and walk towards the stairs and when down them when I walk into the child's room I saw Gibbs and Tony looking around.

"Boss Ducky found a card on our dead marine his name was petty officer Micheal Price" I told him and walk over to him so he could see the card from the marine's pocked.

"Okay then can you and Ducky get petty officer Micheal Price down in the hallway downstairs?" he asked me.

"I don't know if Ducky want that but I can ask him if you want" I answered him back.

"Yeah go do that" was all he said back to me and I did as he said.

When I got back to the attic I ask Ducky what Gibbs wanted me to and Ducky agreed so we got the marine down the stairs and all the way down to the hallway.

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