McGee's eyes widened.
"This is not good." He hit a key, and a sheet of paper rolled out of the printer. He stood up to grab it, when Gibbs strolled into the squad room. "Hey Boss, we may have a problem." Gibbs looked over at the paper, as Tony and Ziva rushed in.
"Boss. We found something at the house." Tony blurted, swinging his backpack onto the floor, and headed to him. Ziva did the same. McGee frowned, and continued.
"I was going through some of the files from the Marine database. The records of aspirins and painkillers in the storage doesn't match the delivery slips." McGee said. "There was an investigation conducted, and some of the medications were recovered. But the street value of those which are still missing would amount up to-"
"Two hundred and fifty thousand dollars?" Tony butted in. McGee looked at him, eyebrows furrowed.
"No. Two times more. Half a million." He replied.
"We only recovered two-fifty from Daniels' house." Tony added.
"So where's the other two-fifty?" Ziva remarked, peering at the other two agents, Gibbs standing in the background. Tony stared at the screen, thinking.
"So let's say Charles Petrelli and Anthony Daniels are ripping off medical supplies. They sell it. In the end, both end up killed, and only half the money is found. Which, also means that-"
"Someone else found out." McGee said.
"In the interviews, there was a name that came up. Ellen McKenzie. She was said to be seen with the two officers very often. Almost like a trio." Ziva said. McGee brought up Ellen McKenzie's details on the plasma.
"Petty officer Ellen McKenzie. Comes from a family of Marines. Two brothers, also Marines." McGee said. "CO is also Lieutenant Holly Worth. Coworker of Petty Officers Charles Petrelli and Anthony Daniels. Financials are normal for a Marine."
"In other words, a normal, ordinary Marine." Tony said. Ziva smirked.
"As normal as normal can get when your two best friends are murdered." She remarked.
"Good point."
"Okay, wait." Tony said. "Let's assume that Ellen has the other two-fifty. So, she's the killer?"
"Or she could be the next victim." Ziva said.
"Ellen McKenzie did not report for work this morning, Boss." McGee called from his desk. He tapped on the keyboard.
"And neither did Lieutenant Holly Worth." Gibbs said. He nodded at McGee. "Trace her cell." McGee started typing rapidly, and everyone was waited. Tony was staring at McGee's fingers.
"I think he has six fingers." He mused to Ziva.
"Boss she's making a call to…" McGee frowned. "Ziva?" Right on cue, Ziva's phone shrilled, and she picked it up, cautiously, pressing the speaker button, and placed the phone on McGee's table.
"Ziva David." There was silence on the other end for a moment. Then, the faint sound of running footsteps. "Hello?"
"Agent David!" a shrill, panting voice shrieked into the phone. Tony jumped. "McKenzie is trying to kill me!" she screamed. "Please, no, no…" she moaned, then the line went dead, a flicker of static.
"If this were a horror film, I would almost believe it." There was no answer from anyone, and Tony actually regretted saying it. Almost.
"McGee." Gibbs said. "Got a location?"
"Yeah boss." He replied, and handed him a piece of paper. Gibbs read it. Everyone waited again.
"What are you guys waiting for? Let's roll." Gibbs said. Backpacks were pulled up again.
"Autobots. Transform and roll out." Tony chortled, as they headed into the elevator. Ziva smiled, as did McGee, and the elevator doors slid shut.
A/N Okay, so I didn't add two 'scenes' together for this chapter because the next one is pretty long, so I'm gonna upload them separately:D Do review/follow/favourite (or all three in the Christmas spirit:P )
-Eliza:)