-CHAPTER 13-

The clock on the wall showed the agents had been hard at work on this case for nearly twelve hours and were not going to stop until the person responsible for Jimmy's accident and the death of a soldier was apprehended.

"What have you got for me Abs," Gibbs asked as he strode into the lab, a Caf-Pow in his hand.

Pulling up a few photo's on the screen she said. "Here's a picture of our suspects hand from the garage video, and here is a picture of Cameron Jenkins hand—clearly his is bigger and has his engagement ring on it...That's so sweet, they gave each other engagement rings..."

Gibbs just rolled his eyes. "Abs..."

"Yeah, right...evidence," Abby then moved towards the evidence table, "I found hairs inside the hoodie you took from Jenkins locker, which in and of it itself is not hinky...we all shed hair and skin every day. What is hinky is this..."

Gibbs looked at the evidence bag Abby was holding and raised a questioning eye, "What I'm I lookin' at Abs?"

"You're looking at a group of tangled strands of hair."

"How is that significant?" Gibbs asked.

"If you put on a hood and pull it off a few strands are going to come off inside the hood, but these strands are tangled, and show signs of stretching..." Abby explained expectantly.

When Gibbs still looked at her blankly she sighed in frustration and grabbed a nearby hairbrush and ran it roughly through his hair.

Dodging away from the forensic scientist, Gibbs exclaimed, "What the...what are you doing?"

She held up the brush with a smile and pulled his hair from the brush, "When you brush your hair the brush pulls and stretches the strands, pulling some out in little tangled clumps...now I've tested all the hair; of course some belongs to Jenkins and Cort, but this tangle mess doesn't belong to either of them, but no one would leave this kind of tangled clump just by putting on and pulling off a hood."

"So, someone borrowed his jacket and his car." Gibbs surmised.

"Give me something to compare it to and I can tell you who these other hair strands belong to." Abby said.

"Working on it," He said, giving her a quick peck on the cheek, "Good job, Abs."

TBC-