Jethro Gibbs was in his basement with his unfinished boat. The team wasn't supposed to go into the office until the next morning. They were working on a case involving a serial killer who killed women and strung them up outside their houses.

Gibbs was sandjng the wood down on his boat when someone appeared at the top of the basement and knocked on the door. Gibbs looked up to see Anthony DiNozzo standing there.

"I thought I told you all to get some rest. We have a big day tomorrow."

""I know. But theres something about thes photos boss."

He walked down the steps and approached Gibbs with the crime scene photos.

"What are you talking about?" Gibbs asked as he never looked away from his boat.

"I mean look at the way these girls were handled."

He tried showing the pictures to Gibbs.

"I've already seen them DiNozzo."

"I know. But Ducky just called. Each of these girls had the same tattoos on their backs. Ducky said thry got it after they died."

"After? He branded them?"

"Looks that way."

Tony handed him the pictures if the tattoos for each victim.

Gibbs examined it. "Go home. Get some rest. We will workon this in the morning."

Tony nodded and went back to his place.

The next morning, one by one arrived at the navy yard, Gibbs being the first, followed by McGee, Ziva and then Tony. McGee had already pulled up pictures on the screen.

"Ducky said there was a fingerprint found on the third victim. Abby is running it right now to see who it belongs to." McGee said.

It was quiet for a few minutes and Tony heard something. It was a beeping sound.

"Hear that?" He asked.

"What?" Ziva said and looked up at him.

Tony bent down and started looking for what was causing the beeping. He approached Gibbs desk and saw. flashing red light underneath.

"Gibbs, we have a problem."

Gibbs looked over at Tony. "What are you doing?"

"We need to get out of here. Theres a bomb under your desk and we have less than 10 seconds to get out of here!"

"Evacuate the building!" Gibbs shouted at eeryone inside and he wuickly got away from his desk before it exploded...

sorry this is a short chapter. I'll try to do better.