Burley and Ziva rode the elevator down to Abby's lab. "Seriously, if I did what he did, she would have slapped the back of my head so hard, I wouldn't be able to see straight for a week." Burley told Ziva.
"Yes, but you're not engaged to her nor is she having your baby." Ziva countered.
The elevator stopped and the doors opened. They stepped off and began walking down the hall to Abby's lab. "So, what? Their personal relationshipaffects how things work here?" Burley countered.
"He is a capable investigator. He's a detective for a reason." Ziva countered. "Plus, with him having a working relationship with John. It is wise for him to be involved."
"What are you two talking about?" Abby asked, looking up from her computer.
"Just the fact that Stan is Jealous of Detective DiNozzo." Ziva answered.
"I've told you, I'm not jealous." Stan replied. "It's just this team has always been a certain way and now he's messing with it. All because of their personal relationship."
"Oh, Stan, you know that when it comes to this team, you're Charity's right hand man." Abby said, walking over and hugging Burley. "No one can replace you."
"Thanks Abs." Burley said.
"So, what exactly is going on?" Amy asked. "I mean I know that DiNozzo and Charity are dating, but what else is there?"
"Well, they're engaged." Abby said.
"And Charity is pregnant." Burley added. "She just returned from the hospital where she was being treated for severe morning sickness."
"Oh wow." Amy replied. "Well, good for them."
"Charity sent us down here to get an update." Ziva interuppted. "So, what have you two found?"
"Well, we've been running the fourth sample of blood in every datebase possible." Abby answered.
"We've also been throwing out every piece of evidence that John touched." Amy added. "I always knew he was a lying prick."
"That doesn't mean he's a murderer." Abby countered. "Going through evidence like this means we have to be objective."
"I know, but you haven't had to work with the guy day in and day out." Amy countered. "I mean you've seen the way he treats women. Could you imagine how he would treat a woman he was dating?"
"You have a point." Abby replied. Then she turned back to Stan and Ziva. "We've also been going through all three of our victims' emails. McGee is checking their phone records."
"Find anything?" Burley asked.
"Well, Amanda and Lt. Marshall had been exchanging emails for a few weeks. They were talking about Julia." Abby answered.
"Julia had wanted to know more about her father." Amy said. "Amanda asked him to meet her and Julia so that Julia could know her father."
"Julia did say that he was a jealous man." Burley said, speaking of John.
Just then McGee entered the room. "I just pulled their phone records. Amanda and Lt. Marshall were calling each other almost everyday for the last couple of weeks."
"Uh-oh." Abby said.
"What?" Ziva asked.
"We weren't the only ones checking Amanda's emails. It looks like John had a snooper program installed on the computer." Abby answered.
"Looks like we'd better go to the boss with this information." Burley said.
Burley, Ziva, and McGee were getting ready to go to Charity, when the computer dinged. "Looks like we finally have a hit on that fourth DNA sample." Abby said. She then pulled it up.
Tony and Charity about an hour later...
Tony and Charity entered the interrogation room once again. They sat across from John. "Are you two here to let me go?" John asked.
"Just a few more questions." Tony answered. "I know how easy it is to get jealous. Believe me, do you think I really like my woman working with all these men?"
"Real easy to get jealous." John replied.
"I mean, I couldn't imagine how it would feel if Charity had a kid with another man, and he had nothing to do with that child and out of nowhere she starts talking to the biological father again. I mean, you must have been out of your mind with jealousy?" Tony said, working on playing his part.
"I was a better father to Julia than anyone else could have been." John said. "I was a better man to Amanda than any other man could have hoped to be."
"Then why'd you kill her and try to frame Julia?" Charity asked. "Then you went to kill Lt. Marshall, Julia's biological father. You just weren't expecting him to have his cousin there, too. So you killed them both."
"How dare you suggest that I would kill Amanda and frame Julia!" John shouted at Charity. "I loved Amanda more than anything. I was going to ask her to marry me and adopt Julia."
"Look, I know that jealousy can drive a man to do strange things." Tony said, once again playing his part. "It had to be hard to see her contacting Julia's biological father."
"It was." John admitted. "I thought I might lose her."
"I know exactly how you feel." Tony said. "You just imagined finding him and killing him. I know how that feels."
"You think about it with these guys that work here with Charity, don't you?" John asked.
"Everyday." Tony answered. "But I never actually followed through, unlike you."
"What?" John asked.
"Your DNA is on the knife." Charity answered. "Now show me your hands."
John looked up at Charity. He held out his hands, palm down. "Satisfied?"
"Palms up." Charity ordered.
John slowly turned his hands over and sure enough, on his right hand, there was the tell-tale cut. The cut from stabbing the three victims. "Yes, I killed them. Amanda was an ungrateful bitch. Just like you!" Then he was up and jumping to leap towards Charity, his hands out.
Tony grabbed John before he could hurt Charity. He slammed him against the wall. "You keep your hands off of her and don't you dare call her that ever again!" Tony shouted at John.
"This is what a real man does." Charity said. "He protects the woman he loves, not kills her out of jealousy."