Chapter 2
Arriving at the scene, the sight that greeted them would have made even the strongest of men throw their guts out.
There; in the living room laid two men, one on the left, had his face skinned to the bone, he was unrecognisable, body and legs covered in bruises and a few bullets, his arms tied back and a few were also covered in bruises. The man on his right had his hands and feet chopped off, no where to be seen, face smashed to a bloody pulp and it seems the teeth have been pulled out and a bullet hole in his head, his clothes covered in blood.
Ducky and Jimmy had arrived on the scene with Jimmy being extremely pale, about to throw up and Ducky heavy hearted. "My dear boy, what did you do to deserve such treatment? Mr Palmer I can take this one from here, get some fresh air." Jimmy said nothing and was grateful he got up and bolted for the front door, as Gibbs, Ziva, Tony and McGee came in. "What's wrong with Jimmy? He should have gotten use to a dead body by now? It's not someone he knows is it?" Questioned Tony. No one answered when they entered the room, no one needed too. As they saw for themselves the sight before them.
Both Tony and McGee gone pale, Gibbs harden his jaw and just stared. Ziva gasped and cursed in Hebrew at the sight. "What do we have Duck?" He asked, it was plainly obvious but needed to hear from Ducky his thoughts and then get the work done, he needed to work fast if he wants to get this bastard and bring him to justice. "We have here a very nasty piece of work Jethrio. I have seen some cruel acts on what one human being does to other but those are in war torn countries. This...This shouldn't be happening here... This was a barbaric and personal act of violence they wanted this boy to suffer, we have to find this bastard Jethrio. I had to send Mr Palmer out, the poor lad was going to be sick." Gibbs and like the rest of them were shocked at Ducky's outburst but clearly understood why. "Uh... I'm going to start taking the photos." McGee said. "We start investigate the scene." Tony said pointing to himself and Ziva, Gibbs didn't do anything just nodded solemnly. "What else?" Gibbs asked. "There's too much trauma, I have to get this body back to NCIS. To dig further."
"Okay, what about the other guy."
"A single bullet to the head would have killed him instantly. But only his hands and feet were chopped off, but they are not around here that I can see, looks like they took all of his teeth to."
"To avoid being traced."
"Exactly, my guess is that, this guy here." Ducky points to the man on the right. "May have been responsible for this boy death. When his job was done they killed him and got rid of any traces that can identify him. I might stand corrected about getting the boy's killer. You might have indeed found him."
Gibbs sighed this was going to be a slow and long day. "But who killed the killer? He couldn't have done this all alone."
"You will be surprise on what one man is capable of if he has a lot of hate inside him. And, that my dear Jethrio is your job to find out. Right, I'm going to see if Mr Palmer is alright then we take both bodies back to NCIS." Gibbs nodded and carried on investigating the scene.
Ziva was helping Tony looking for clues catching a glimpse at a the body on the right, a memory flashes by inside her mind and then looks out of the window, suddenly stopped what she was doing and stares. Tony notices this and asked what's wrong. "Nothing." Ziva replies. Not taking her eyes off the window.
"Nothing, you looked liked you've seen a ghost." He said looking at her worried. Ziva turned to him briefly and looked back at the body. "You can't 'see' ghosts Tony..." She turned her attention back at the window "...But you can feel their presence." She had a feeling that they were being watched.