Chapter 2: The Teams Meet

An hour after the trip to the airport, Ryan returned with NCIS in tow. "Follow me, we need to get you visitor passes," he said as he led them to the secretary's desk. "Excuse me, but I need seven passes," he told the secretary with a disarming smile. The secretary handed him seven passes and with a quick thank you he handed them out. "Follow me to the break and we will soon start the short tour," he said as he led them to the full break room.

While Calliegh begins to refill her coffee, Ryan leads the NCIS team into the room. "The feebs are here," Eric mutters under his breath to Natalia. "Guys, this is Special Agents L.J. Gibbs, Anthony Dinozzo, Timothy Magee, Ziva David, ME Dr. Donald Mallord, his assistant Mr. James Palmer, and Analysist Abigail Sciuto, the NCIS team," Ryan introduced as he pointed to each member respectively.

"We'd like to see the evidence first," Gibbs said to Ryan after the introduction. "Eric, Calliegh, and Natalia know the scene better since I immediately started the fingerprint analysis," Ryan stated as he pointed to each co-worker upon giving their names. "How about I show Abby to the labs while you get acquainted with the information so far," he explained as he led Abby out of the break room.

Eric leads the team to the layout room where the recently gathered evidence and photos were. "So far, we have a boot, men's size 11, bullet casings and a bullet. The suspect fired more than once, but we only have one bullet, found in the victim," Calliegh explained as Eric stood with his arms crossed watching the agents. "We think there was a second person at the scene, but there is no further evidence showing that." "Well the only person that Pethaco was contacting was Private Anrai Ethan," Gibbs explained from his missing agent case file.

In the trace lab Ryan begins Abby's tour. "This is the trace lab and you'll probably spend most of your time here," Ryan told Abby. Ryan led her to the DNA lab where he introduced her to Valera. "This is our DNA Analysist Valera, one reason why you'll spend an eternity in trace. Valera this is NCIS Analysist Abby Sciuto," Ryan explained as the two women acquainted themselves to each other. Five minutes went by before Ryan led Abby to the A/V lab and she met Dan Cooper. "This is the A/V lab and that's Dan Cooper," Ryan says blandly before dragging her to the Ballistics lab. "Finally, we have the Ballistics lab, home to our residential Bullet Girl," Ryan said tiredly as Abby looked around the room.

"Why are you so tired Ryan?" Abby questioned as she turned around to look at him. "I had a late night," he muttered in return as he looked down at the ground. "How about a hug that will make you feel better," Abby replied before the phone cut her off, to Ryan's relief. "Hey Gibbs what is it," answered Abby in her cheerful voice. "I need to talk to Ryan before we go to the crime scene, put him on," Gibbs answered from the other end. "Yeah," Ryan answered as he took the phone from Abby. "Ryan were you by chance at the crime scene?" "I don't know I can't remember that stuff and you know it," Ryan answered agitatedly. "Come down here an see if you recognize anything." "Alright I'll head down there," Ryan answered dejectedly.

At the crime scene NCIS is spread out amongst the scene as Gibbs waits for his nephew to show up. "Gibbs I have blood on the ally wall," Ziva called from her spot at the ally's dead end. I better have Abbes do the DNA for this case, Gibbs thought as Ryan showed up in his hummer. "Come here, Ryan. What animal do you think was here to be shot twice?" Gibbs asked Ryan in a you-were-here-and-I-damn-well-know-it tone. "Well I guess a bird or a bat could," Ryan replied back. "Come with me, "he said to Ryan as he steered him past the tape. "Ryan you were hurt as a werewolf weren't you?" Gibbs asked as Ryan starts to relapse into a dream.

A beast slowly jumps the rooftops through the night before he begins to smell fear. The creature follows the scent to an ally behind a strange man. "Please leave me alone," said a man at the other end. Without thinking the creature ran past the man and next to the soon to be victim scaring both men. "Take this you rutty animal," said the soon to be killer a he shoots off two rounds out of his 9mm at the creature, hitting it in its shoulder. The creature gives a howl and climbs up the wall leaving blood drops as it disappears into the night.

As Ryan came back from his memory he crouched to the ground and grasped his shoulder in pain. Ryan slightly pulls his shirt away from his left shoulder to see two round scars staring back at him. "I guess I was," he answered to Gibbs' previous question as he released his shoulder and stood up. "We have all the evidence we need, let's head back," Dinozzo suddenly yelled from the scene. "I'll see you at the lab," Ryan told Gibbs before he entered his hummer and left.

TBC