AN: So, I know I am a terrible updater and no matter how much I try to put the effort in, things just seem to not change. In saying that though, I have already started on the next chapter and I have a more specific idea of where I am going to go with this story. If you have any idea's at all, please share...
We don't get to see any Jenny or Kylie (Shannon/Kelly) in this Chapter but Gibbs makes an interesting discovery.
Please let me know what you think in a review as I would love to hear your thoughts, thank-you and enjoy! :) xx
The elevator dinged open revealing Ziva and McGee.
"It was a simple question, McGee." Said Ziva as the pair walked out of the elevator and into the Squad Room.
"Yeah, one that I expected from Tony, not you." He replied, clearly embarrassed at something that was nagging his mind, perhaps a previous not-so-great experience.
"I'm just being curious." She explained as they walked to their area
"About when I lost my virginity." He said low
"Now you misunderstood, I'm not asking when you lost your virginity but if you lost it." She explained, lifting her index finger up.
They came to the middle of their team area, each of them going to their own desk.
Ziva turned around and look across from her to see Tony working hard away at his desk.
"What's wrong with this picture?" she asked aloud to anyone willing to answer
"You mean beside Tony being here before us and actually working?" McGee questioned
"I can actually hear you, you know." Tony said, not lifting his head
McGee sat down at his desk, without another word being said but Ziva was not satisfied.
Looking at her partner, she decided to intervene.
Walking to the front of his desk, he finally lifted his eyesight when he decided that no time soon she was moving.
He raised his eyebrows at her.
"I am here if you'd like to talk." She put the effort forward
"About what?" he asked confused
"I know how you cared about her." She offered
"I'm fine, Ziva." He cut her off, wanting to silence the topic, that was something that he did not want to go into today,
"Alright, I just thought you may need a little cheering up." She seemed to let it go of which he was thankful
"If I needed cheering up, I would have put super glue on McGee's keyboard." Answered Tony
Not noticing that McGee had stood up from his desk.
"Hey, you put super glue on my keyboard." McGee accused him, lifting up the piece of equipment that was now stuck to his fingertips.
Both of the other agents looked at him and then back at each other.
"Well..." smiled Tony, "You got me, I've been saving that one for a rainy day."
"Did it help?" she asked, raising an eyebrow
"Well it didn't hurt." Replied Tony as he looked back over at McGee, a small smile gracing his lips.
McGee put the keyboard on his desk, lifting his foot and placing it on the keyboard to act as some form of leverage to pull his fingers from the board.
It wasn't working, not to mention that the method was slightly painful.
McGee let out a frustrated groan as Gibbs walked through to his desk, a large cup of coffee in his hand.
He had not slept that night, at all.
"Boss, Tony -" started McGee but Gibbs cut him off annoyed
"I know."
Reaching into his desk for a bottle of acetone, he threw it at McGee and McGee had to bring the keyboard to his face to avoid the object.
"Are you ever gonna learn, McGee." Said Gibbs as he walked away in a huff and he headed upstairs to the Director's office.
All of the agents looked at each other.
"What's wrong with him?" asked Tony confused, after all, he had not let anything slip.
At least not yet.
"She in?" Gibbs asked Cynthia as he went to open the doors to the Director's office.
"No." She answered quickly which stopped him dead in his tracks, turning around to face her, he held his hands up in the air; his silent way of asking her where the hell Jenny was.
"She's not here yet." Cynthia said slowly
"What do you mean, she's not here yet?" he asked even more frustrated than he was when he originally jumped up the stairs.
"As in, exactly that." Replied Cynthia, the ring of her cell phone interrupted them
Answering it straight away.
"Hello?" greeted Cynthia
"Cynthia, it's me. I'm not feeling well, reschedule everything for tomorrow. I'll see you then." Said Jenny before Cynthia could say a word, she then hung up the phone on the assistant.
"Director?" Cynthia asked, Gibbs staring at her strangely, awaiting the explanation
"She called in sick." She explained, Gibbs' eyes widen slightly.
She never called in sick, ever.
Something was wrong, but he could not focus on that now, he had his own problems to worry about.
Taking another sip from his coffee, he turned on his heel and walked to the nearest elevator, to go to Abby's lab to see if she had made any progress.
He stepped in the elevator and pushed the relevant button, the doors closed behind him, leaving him alone to gather his thoughts.
Today was not what he had expected at all.
Flashback...
Abby turned around with a salute, ready for work.
"Thanks for coming in on such short notice, Abs." Said Gibbs as he walked into the lab, a bag full of evidence in his hand, walking over to the table.
"Neither rain, nor snow, or sleep or hail, will keep this scientist from her appointed grounds." Said Abby with a smile
Reaching inside the bag, he placed the photo frame and the wrapping on the table, each of them wrapped in separate plastic and evidence bags, including the gloves that he had used.
"I wanna know whose fingerprints are on these." He said without any other detail
Abby clicked a pen from the middle of no-where; Gibbs followed the sound with his eyes, already knowing what Abby planned to do.
"Chain of evidence is not important." He stated as Abby looked at him strangely
"Not a word about this to anyone, Abby." He said as he walked out the door, leaving a baffled Abby alone.
He walked into the lab quickly; Abby had passed out on the floor and was sleeping.
Her computer was beeping quietly and what he saw shocked him.
There were two positive matches.
An alias, he decided.
But what shocked him even more was that one of the matches was his daughter Kelly and a much older looking version of her but with a different name.
Kylie Shepard.
What the hell?
Jenny?
Abby groaned, she was waking up.
He quickly went closer to the computer and cancelled the AFIS Search; he would look more into this later.
Abby was up in a second, gathering herself together.
"Oh my God, Gibbs." She said all at once
"Thanks Abs, for staying all night." He said as he made a move to walk out the door.
Her voice stopped him, "Did we get a match?"
He turned around, what could he say? Even his brain wasn't registering it.
"No." He said as he walked out the door in long strides.
Abby sighed, "Poor guys, working all night."
She moved to her beeping computer which had an icon on it that confused her to no end.
ERASE SEARCH RESULT?
Flashed on the screen.
"What search result?" Abby asked herself, now she truly was confused
She clicked the NO option as her curiosity really was getting the best of her.
The Results brought themselves on the screen.
"Oh my God!" Abby gasped as her eyes practically popped out of her head.
Gibbs had lied to her and tried to hide the evidence.
But not only that, she knew about his family and Kelly was meant to be dead, so who was Kylie?
And why did she have the same last name as the Director?
"This is not good." She said finally after having her internal mind war.
On the way back to the Squad Room his phone rang, picking it up and flipping it open, answering it.
"Gibbs."
A few moments passed before he sighed, closing the phone and sliding it back into his pocket.
Out of all the times to catch a case...
It had to be now.
AN: So what did you think? I want to incoporate the team a lot more, so I hope you don't mind :) Review? x
