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~Goldfishmind

Chapter 14

Hours later, McGee was still searching for some clues that helped the case, and plead his father innocent.

"McGee, you have something about that son?"

"Yes." McGee stood and walked towards the plasma screen.

He grabbed the controller and clicked in a button. "Devon Thomasson, 16 years old. He was raised in Washington, but moved to Australia to study forensics. He has been known for being smart. He is already in his third year. Last summer he went back to Washington, but after visiting his dad, he went back and hasn't been here since. So, either he is innocent, or he hired someone."

"Or came in under the radar/unnoticed to the US." McGee looked doubtfully to Gibbs but then nodded in agreement.

"Yes, that is a possibility, but then he'd have to have friends inside an airport or a friend who owns a private airplane. I'll check." McGee went back to his desk but Gibbs stopped him.

"No McGee, you look like a dead body. Go get some real quality sleep."

"But..." McGee started.

"No McGee, just get some sleep, if you want to stay close, go get some sleep on Abby's cot."

McGee nodded unwillingly and went to the lab.

Gibbs looked at Ziva and Tony. "Do you have anything?"

Ziva stepped forward, "a theory."

She took a breath and started her story. "McGee's' dad, James McGee, was friends with the lieutenant Carl Thomasson. They drank together and when they had drunk a little too much, they got into a fight and Thomasson got hurt. McGee got scared and ran away. Then, his girlfriend comes around and kills him, the girlfriend, Audrey Massar, she goes back to Thomasson's apartment and her son locks her into the basement and blows everything up, to mislead the evidence."

Gibbs and Tony looked doubtful. "How did she get the blood and wounds on her body, the wounds McGee saw?"

"She fought with Thomasson before she killed him?" Ziva answered.

"Ziva, a woman who fights with a man is usually not the winner of the fight." Tony said

"Or Thomasson was surprised, or he didn't think she would kill him." Gibbs blew Tony's statement away.

Tony tried again. "So anyways, we think we have found the girlfriend, she was the one who was blown up. Then we need to find that son."

Gibbs walked to the lab and smiled when there wasn't any loud, banging music.

He saw Abby dancing in her lab, with earphones.

She didn't notice him and danced along. Gibbs went to the other part of the lab, where Abby's desk was.

In the room was a cot, lying on the ground, Tim lay on it and was asleep.

Time to wake up, he thought.

He moved toward the sleeping person and softly shook his shoulder. McGee was awake within the second. "Huh? What?"

"Nothing's happened Tim, you slept for four hours. You can sleep again in a moment, but I need to know this. Were the wounds on the body in the basement, wounds from a fight?" McGee thought back and slowly shook his head.

"Different, not like the wounds Thomasson had, less bruises, more blood."

"Are you sure?" Gibbs asked

"Not really, I didn't have a lot time. However, there was a lot of red, so, more than likely a lot of blood."

Gibbs patted him of his shoulder. "Go back to sleep."

Tim fell asleep very quickly.