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This is a longer chapter so I hope you guys like it! We're actually halfway through the 'Lost' part of the story!


Chapter 3

Tony, Ziva, McGee and Ducky who had been watching the interaction from the other side of the glass all looked at each other. It wasn't like Gibbs to just give up interrogating a suspect when he thought they were disclosing the truth.

But this person was no suspect.

She wasn't even just a regular person to the rest of them.

Like Gibbs, they also saw the look in her eyes when she had told him that she didn't know whom he was talking about. It was like she was a child again confused and innocent and maybe she just was. But they were all taught to always double check and not believe in coincidences. This was just too big to just let go, too big to not believe.

"You think she's telling the truth?" Tony asked to nobody in particular, breaking the silence that descended upon the room. The team looked at him with solemn faces.

"I don't know Tony," Ducky said being the first one to get out of the room followed by the rest of the team. He pressed the elevator to go down knowing that Abby hasn't been told of the recent revelation about the Director's death.

Ducky had gone to autopsy where he knew a dead body has been waiting too long for him to examine while the rest of the team sulked to Abby's lab where she had her music turned up ten notches than any living creature should.

"ABBY!" They all yelled out covering their ears as soon as they got into the place where Abby was dancing to her music with Bert the Hippo and Caff-Pow in her other hand.

Abby suddenly stopped a big smile on her face as she ran over to the speakers and turned down the volume. She was always cheerful when the team was together.

"Hey guys!" she greeted them. "Where's my silver haired fox?"

"Uhm," McGee started looking at Tony and Ziva for support, they nodded making him continue. "We don't know."

"Oh alright, I don't have anything new on the case right now, so you guys have to come back later," she said skipping (as much as she could in her shoes) to her computer typing up a couple more things.

She turned around a frown on her face seeing the team hasn't moved from their spot yet. "What's up guys?"

The three looked at each other internally debating who would break the news to Abby about the Jenny look alike who was currently sitting in an interrogation room in two floors above them. They all knew how she would take the news and get her hopes up like she always does when it was personal to her but they weren't so sure about this one.

The sad looks on their faces and their silence sent another message to Abby though, one they didn't even intend on giving her.

"Oh no! It's not Gibbs is it?" she started. Ziva, Tony and McGee opened their mouths to say something to her but she interrupted them. "Why? First mommy, now daddy? Why would the world be so cruel! Did you guys process the scene? Are you sure he's dead, because he's the silver sneaky fox he could just be ---"

"ABBY!" All three of them shouted interrupting her charade.

"Gibbs isn't dead. We're here to tell you that there's a woman, Genvieve Staton who ---"

"Who looks like the Director," Tony continued for Ziva.

"A woman looks like Director Vance? Really?! Oh, that's so cool! I always thought he had some feminine ---"

"Director Shepard, Abbs," McGee cleared up for her.

"Well it's not that hard you guys, there's a lot of pretty red-headed people in the world with green eyes," Abby said brushing it off.

"Look her up, Abby. Genvieve Staton," McGee advised her walking up to the computer typing up her name knowing that it'll show up with only minor details.

A second later, Genvieve Staton's picture came up the computer taking Abby's breath away and before they knew it she was out of the lab on her way to interrogation. They all ran after her only ending up running into Gibbs who was currently making his way to Autopsy to talk to Ducky.

"Where do you guys think you're going?" Gibbs asked them.

"Looking for Abby, boss," Tony replied.

"Get to your desks and start your paper work," Gibbs ordered, yet they didn't move. "Now!"

"Yes boss!" they all replied jumping to action seeing their boss' mood.

Walking a few more steps into Autopsy, he saw Ducky concentrated on analyzing the dead body of the Marine that lead them to the discovery of Genvieve Staton. He didn't know which mystery he wanted to solve first, whether it be the mystery of who killed the marine or who the woman in interrogation really was.

"You got a minute, Duck?" Gibbs asked breaking his friend's concentration.

Ducky turned around not surprised to see his best friend there knowing that he needed to talk in his own way. "Jethro, I didn't hear you come in."

"Did you lie to me, Duck? About Jen's death," Gibbs asked him friend.

Ducky analyzed him in silence for a moment knowing his friend inside out. This was eating him out alive, knowing that the other love of his life could potentially be alive. That he could get a second chance and make things right this time – something he never got the chance to do with Shannon and Kelly.

"I'm not lying to you, Jethro. I wouldn't, not about this."

"You've lied to me for her before, Duck," Gibbs pointed out being reminded of Jennifer and her condition before she had died. Her secret sickness that she and Ducky both denied in front of his face.

"Yes Jethro, but not to hurt you. I've seen what this could do to you and you know as much as I do that I wouldn't do that to you."

"I want to believe you, Duck, but there's a woman upstairs that has more than a passing resemblance to Jenny. You did her autopsy, she's ---"

"I didn't do her autopsy, Jethro," Ducky said interrupting him. Gibbs' eyes focused on him urging him to continue telling his story like he would. "Director Vance thought there was a conflict of interest with me being too emotionally involved with the case, I agreed with him. It was hard to autopsy Kate, it would be harder to do it for Jenny."

"Ducky, I need to know, did you see her body," Gibbs asked him. Ducky looked his friend in the eye and shook his head.

"No I didn't, Jethro."

But Gibbs was already out and in the elevator hitting the emergency stop and banging his head against the cool metal wall.

That woman could be Jenny, his Jenny.

Now all he had to do was figure out how.


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