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Chapter Six
Lieutenant Pamela Douglas came in and sat at her desk and sighed. Another exciting day of purchase order requests piled up in front of her. So what was her most exciting purchase of the day going to be? It was a little game she played with herself to ease the boredom of a necessary but often dull job. Would it be a gross of standard toothbrushes? Iowa creamed corn to be shipped to Iraq? Or perhaps an armoured tank piercing rocket launcher? She picked up the layer of pink request forms and shifted through them. Nope it wasn't going to be a rocket launcher sort of day. In fact creamed corn suddenly seemed like the pinnacle of excitement as she flicked through requests for water bottles, socks, staples, medical swabs and insect repellent.
Just then the fax next to her desk started up and leaning over she absent mindly grabbed it, running her eyes over the text. Her eyes grew wide and with a smile she started reading it again, her mouth moving over the words. Six foot one, big green eyes, pouty mouth, solid build, light brown silky hair, last seen at 11.30 last night outside of base housing. Believed to be naked except for small white bath towel????' Tattoo. Probie???!!!!
She picked up the phone 'McArthur here' 'This is Leutenant Douglas in Purchasing. I have just received a strange fax from you. A search request for a missing naked NCIS Special Agent. Is this a hoax?'
'No its real. Trust me I know it unusual but they insisted. Now I have to go.' he cut her off and in an instant the phone rang again. 'McArthur here. Yes I know the fax. No it's a real description. No its not a joke.' McAuthur sighed and rubbed his temples. It was going to be a very long day.
Lieutenant Douglas sat for a moment considering . Well she wouldn't be doing her job as duty officer if she didn't investigate further and it was a lot more interesting than what her In Box presented.
She shot up out of her chair and headed down the corridor between the dozens of standard cubicals occupied predominately by woman, waiving the fax above her head.
'Oh girls you have to read this!! We're going to need the whiteboard on this one. Jenny, get legal on the phone.' Pam smiled as her 'troops' gathered excited around her.
Yes, Purchasing might be the most underrated and undervalued department on Base but they had connections to every level and every department. They also had leverage most government agencies would die for. You want that weapons upgrade before April? Can't be done. Well maybe if we had access to your security cameras?
This was going to be a base wide search such as had never been seen before and her department was going to be the one that found him!