"What's this about Director?" Tony asked as both he and Jen were back in her office.
"I heard that you were over at Ziva's yesterday." She began. "How'd that go?"
"Are you asking me if she told me about Sam?" Tony asked.
Jen nodded.
"Well seeing as I know about her, I guess she did tell me."
"No need to be a smartass Agent DiNozzo." Jen said smiling.
"Sorry Director." He replied grinning.
"So how'd it go?" She asked, a moment later.
"It went good. I mean, as good as it can go when telling a co-worker that you were raped."
"Did she tell you about…"
"Sarah?"
Jen nodded.
"Yeah. And about how she blames herself for her death."
"Yes.
She always did blame herself for that. She probably always will."
Jen sighed and rubbed her temples. "What else did she tell
you?"
"She told me about Cairo. About how long you both were
held and how long you both held up under interrogation."
"She always was disappointed that she lasted only eight days." Jen said sighing, putting an emphasis on the word 'only.'
"Yeah. I noticed that." He said grinning.
"So do you have any plans tonight?" Jen asked with a 'knowing' look on her face. Eerily similar to the ones Gibbs wears.
"Yeah. Ziva invited me over to dinner."
"Really?" She asked, smirking.
"You've been spending to much time with the Boss."
"He was my boss at one time too, Agent DiNozzo." Jen said, with a grin on her face.
"I know. And yet, you're his boss." Just then Tony's cell rang. "DiNozzo," He answered as he lifted it up to his ear. "Good job Abs. I'll grab McGoo and the boss and we'll be right down." He turned back to Jen, "Got to go Jenny, bad guys to catch, David's to eat dinner with. Gonna be a busy day." And he ran out of the office leaving Jen to roll her eyes.
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"I watched the tapes and found this." Abby said as she hit a few buttons on her keyboard. A doctor and Lieutenant Martin appeared on the plasma.
"What are they saying Abs?" Gibbs asked as he watched the two figures argue.
"She's saying, 'I saw what you did. You could have saved him. That was deliberate malpractice Doctor Greene. You gave that man way too much morphine.' And he's saying 'I don't know what you think you saw Ma'am, but I can assure you that there is no malpractice going on in this hospital. And seeing as I am the doctor, I can assure you that I gave him the right amount."
Abby hits a few more buttons and the tape speeds up.
"They exchange more ugly words, and then…" She hits another button and it plays in normal speed.
The team watches as Doctor Greene picks up an empty metal tray and hits Lieutenant Martin over the head. She falls to the floor and even on the video, you can see the blood starting to form around her head.
The phone in Abby's lab begins to ring.
"Hold on a moment." She said as she makes her way over to the desk. "Abby Sciuto, NCIS Forensics."
Abby listened for a moment before, "Ok. Got it Duck man." Then hung up.
"Ducky says that Lieutenant Martin drowned."
"But we just saw her get hit over the head." McGee said confused.
"May I Gibbs?" Abby asked, walking back over to the men.
"Sure Abs." Gibbs said.
Abby came up and stood directly in front of McGee and smacked the back of his head.
"Hey!" He exclaimed.
"She was knocked unconscious! Doctor Greene must have panicked and dumped her body into the river! It's spitting distance from the hospital! Plus seeing as he is a doctor and it is a hospital, he could easily put her body into a body bag to get it out of the hospital without being suspicious!" Abby exclaimed, before taking a deep breath and continuing, "I watched the whole tape and she threatened to go to the supervisor and report what she saw. I hacked into the hospital records and found that a Horace Peters, died that night. I think that good old Horace, may be the he Martin is referring to."
"How'd he die Abs?" Gibbs asked.
"That's just it Gibbs, he came in for an x-ray and to have someone treat his stitches that got infected, and he came out in a body bag! Doctor Greene offered to take his case! I smell something hinky."
"Conspiracy at a hospital? Sounds like a great plot for Thom E. Gemcity's next book." Tony said as they made their way back to the elevator.
"Shut up Tony."