I'm so sorry for the long wait. Hope this will make up for it:)

"Mac I've got the COD from Sid and I have the victim's name." Stella said walking up to Mac's desk and sat down across from him.

"ID first" Mac said

"His name is John Casey he's 39 and a marine" Stella said. He watch the MO of the other bodies.

"Okay, so we've got three bodies all in the marines. All between 35-40, but with different COD. What was the COD of the last victim?" Mac asked

"From the report Sid gave me the COD is several blows to the head and stomach" Stella read to Mac. Stella showed Mac a photo of the victim. She saw the way Mac reacted to the photo that she knew something was wrong.

"What is it Mac?" Stella asked after a couple of minutes.

"Just recognized the name. He was in the same unit as me in the marines. He was a good friend of mine, but we lost contact over the years. I haven't heard from him in so long that I didn't recognized his name right away" Mac said and looked at this office wall with the pictures of his marines days.

In front of the NYPD building

Gibbs, Tony, and McGee got out of the cab they had taken from the airport, and walked into the building. Gibbs went up to the security desk to get a pass.

"What can I help you with?" asked the security guard on duty.

"I'm Special Agent Gibbs, NCIS, I'm here to talk to the detective in charge of the crime lab" Gibbs said.

"Okay. One moment please" the guard took the phone and dialled a number. Moments later he spoke into the phone.

"Detective Taylor a Special Agent from NCIS is here to talk to you"

"Okay I will send him up" he then hang up and turned his attention back to Gibbs.

"You can go up now" Gibbs didn't respond but walked over to the elevator with the others right behind him.

When they reached the floor of the crime lab they walked out of the elevator. They continued down the hallway until they stood out side Detective Taylor's office.

Mac's office

When Mac was done telling Stella about how he knew the victim there was a knock on the door. They both looked up and saw Hawkes standing in the doorway. Mac mentioned for him to come in just as his phone rang.

"Taylor" he said

"Okay, that's great. Just send them up. It's okay" Mac said to the person on the other end. In the meantime Hawkes told Stella about what he had found out.

"I looked into the background of the latest victim and found something interesting. He knew..." Hawkes said, but was interrupted by Stella before he could continue.

"Mac Taylor" Stella said. Hawkes looked shocked that she knew what he was going to say. "Mac just told me" Stella said smiling.

"Oh okay. Well then I don't have something knew to tell you" Hawkes said and started to walk out, but was stopped by Mac's voice.

"Hawkes tell the others to meet us in the conference room in twenty minutes" Mac said and continued when he saw the look on Stella's face. "The NCIS team just got here. They are on the way up"

When Hawkes left Stella turned to Mac and smiled.

"What?" Mac asked

"Nothing, just happy you opened up to me" Stella said. They looked into each others eyes. Over the past few month they had become closer friends. They both wanted something more, but was afraid of how they other would react. They held each others eyes locked. It was something that happened more often, but before they could do anything there was another knock on the door.

"May Taylor. Long time no see" Gibbs said as he walked through the door to Mac's office.

"Jethro Gibbs. I didn't know I would have the pleasure to work with you" Mac said back. They both walked forward and hugged each other. It wasn't something they normally did, but they had been best friends in the marines and hadn't seen each other for so long.

"Yeah well you do. So what can you tell me about your case?" Gibbs asked and looked at Stella with a smile on his face. When he had walked into the office he had seen Mac lock eyes with a beautiful woman. Mac didn't look happy when he had interrupted them. Gibbs could read his old friend like an open book and could see that his old friend was in love.

"I have told my team to meet me in the conference room in twenty minutes. So I will tell you about the case there. First of all I would like to introduce you to my partner Stella Bonasera" Mac said to Gibbs and introduced Stella to his old friend.

"How nice to meet you Stella. I'm Jethro Gibbs. I was in the marines with Mac. Mac this is my team Tony DiNozzo and Timothy McGee." Gibbs said and turned to his team as he introduced them.

"I really hope you can help us, because I don't want any more to die" Mac said before Flack came running in to the room.

"Mac I'm sorry to tell you this, but I got a body. It's not a male this time so I don't think it has anything to do with the case, but you never know" Flack said

"You're right. I will send Hawkes to the crime scene and if he says it has nothing to do with the case he can turn it over to someone else. You can go tell him" Mac said to Flack as be left. "Well should we go and get started with this case?" Mac asked

In the conference room

"Okay team this is the NCIS team that is going to help us with this case" Mac said to the NY team when they were all in the conference room, except for Hawkes and Flack. "Danny Messer, a CSI. Adam Ross our lab tech. Sid Hammerback our ME. Then we have Sheldon Hawkes who is out at crime scene. And Detective Flack who you saw in my office" Mac told the NCIS team.

"Thank you Mac. Okay so now that we know you. You should know who we are" Gibbs said as he stood up. "I'm Special Agent Gibbs. And this is Special Agent DiNozzo and McGee"

"Now that we know each other we can get started" Stella said and stood up to start telling the NCIS team what they knew so far.

"We have three victims. All male between 45-50 years old. They are all in the marines. We didn't know it was the same killer before we saw the last victim. He offender left a note saying 'More to come. One will hit harder than you think'. The COD for all the victims are different" Stella said and Mac took over.

"We don't know anything else. Flack said something about the victim Hawkes is with right now maybe connected to this case. We don't know before Hawkes call us. But I do think we need a real profiler for this case" Mac said. DiNozzo looked at his boss to see how he would react to needing a profiler and Kate wasn't here.

"I think you're right Mac. It really sounds like we need a profiler. Unfortunately our profiler is on vacation right now, so if you know one we could use it would be great" Gibbs said with a far away look in his eyes when he talked about Kate.

"Maybe I can be a help with the profiler" Stella said and continued when she get the okay nod from both Mac and Gibbs. "Mac you remember the friend I told you about that lives with me for some time?" Stella waited for Mac's nod before she continued. "Well she's a profiler, maybe she could help" Stella said.

"If she could that would be great" Mac said

"I'll go ask her now. The sooner the better, right" Stella said with a smile to which Mac responded. As soon as Stella was gone Mac's cell phone rang.

"Taylor"

"Hold on I will put you on speakers" Mac said and put the phone down on the table after pushing a bottom. "What do you have Hawkes?"

"There are two victims this time. It's both female. One is between 30-35 and the other is a little girl no more than 8 years old" Hawkes said.

"How do you know it's connected to this case?" DiNozzo asked

"And who is this?" Hawkes asked

"Hawkes is okay. It's the NCIS team." Mac said

"Okay. The offender left another note. 'Now that I have your attention, no more marines'" Hawkes read out loud.

"Okay so it sounds like this guy just wanted both our attention." Gibbs said. "No more marines? Do you think that means he's going to kill innocent people until we catch him?" Gibbs asked. No one knew what to answer so kept quite.

"Thank you Hawkes. Bring the victims back to autopsy" Mac said and ended the call. "Now we just wait till the profiler comes before we can do anything more" Mac said to the group in front of him.

In Stella's apartment

"Hey Penguin. Do you think you could help us with a case?" Stella asked as she saw her friend.

"Yeah. I'm just going to profile right?" Penguin said

"Jep. Thank you so much. Come on lets go"

Back in the Crime lab

"Hey guys here is my friend" Stella said and walked in to the conference room where the others still where.

"Hey I'm Ka...." Penguin was interrupted by Gibbs

"Kate? What are you doing here?" Gibbs asked

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