Revenge Is Sweet
- Chapter 8 [without title] -
Gibbs walked into the bullpen armed with four cups of coffee and a bottle of tropical fruit juice, 'DiNozzo, David, McGee, anything new?' All three jumped up, 'yeah boss, Abby called, she's got something,' Gibbs nodded and headed towards the back elevator, he past the stairs and stopped, he turned back to the others, 'well, you waiting for an invitation or somethin'? The others jumped up quickly and followed him into the elevator. The doors opened and they raced down the corridor to Abby's lab.
Abby was jumping up and down in front of her computer, and Leanna was watching her giggling, she stopped suddenly when she saw Gibbs and positioned herself as far away from him as possible. He placed a caf-pow down on the table before Abby and set the bottle of fruit juice beside it. 'Gibbs, I've been running the DNA on the semen we found on the bedspread at the hotel,' 'and?' 'and, I got a match,' 'who?' 'well, its not quite who it is, more what else they left behind, one of the blood samples had identical DNA, the splatter pattern of the blood indicates it was most likely caused by a slashing motion, this guy the director slept with in the hotel he got hurt too Gibbs,' Gibbs frowned at her, 'so he might not have been involved?' McGee interjected, 'or he might have got hurt trying to force Jenny to cooperate, we got nothing useful,' Gibbs turned to leave and the others followed him, 'Gibbs I'm not done,' 'what Abby,' 'I found that a second sample of blood, also splattered across the crime scene shares the same mitochondrial DNA as the owner of our mystery semen and blood, I also found the owner was male too.'
She grinned triumphantly, 'Abby bottom line,' Tony looked on intrigued and squinted at Abby as she spoke, 'mitochondrial DNA is passed from the mother to her children, all siblings from the same mother have the same mitochondrial DNA , it also works for cousins if their mom's are sisters as they would all share the same mitochondrial DNA from the maternal grandmother, so,' she continued seeing the look on Gibbs face, 'the director and Daniel Carson were attacked by his brother, and before you ask yes I'm certain, I compared the DNA and the percentage match indicates brothers, rather than cousins,' Gibbs turned to McGee, 'find the brother McGee.'
McGee jumped onto Abby's computer and ran several searches, as he typed a window popped up flashing on screen, 'we got a hit on the BOLO boss, car's been spotted abandoned outside a warehouse,' 'address?' 'right here boss,' he scribbled it down and passed it to Gibbs as he jumped up. Gibbs slipped the paper into his pocket, 'Good work Abby, McGee with me, DiNozzo, Ziva, car,' he stopped and looked at Leanna, who was now glaring at him. 'I'm sorry Leanna, I never meant to hurt you or scare you. I know there's no excuse for taking my temper out on you, I'm just worried about your mom and I didn't want you to get hurt too,' he watched Leanna for some sign of recognition and got a slight not of the head before she jerked it towards the door, 'go find evidence so you can find my mom.' He nodded and turned to Abby, 'make sure she behaves herself, can you work on finding the brother for me,' he stated rather than asked but Abby nodded all the same. 'Sure,' Gibbs smiled and hurried from the room to join the rest of his team outside.
They pulled up on the lonely street and pulled out their weapons, slowly they made their way towards the car, 'clear,' Ziva called pointing her gun at the passenger seat window, 'clear,' McGee and Tony both confirmed, Ziva looked around the doors and windows and pulled on the door handle. She flicked the lever for the boot and Gibbs opened it quickly, 'clear,' he finished, 'Tony, dust for prints, Ziva fluids, McGee photo's,' he ordered and himself began looking around the outside of the vehicle for any sign of the driver or passengers.
'Gibbs, we have blood,' Ziva called as she sealed a swab in an evidence bag, 'we've also got prints on the door handle for the backseat passenger side,' Tony added as he made notes on his sketch. Gibbs spotted something shining in the long grass and pulled on his gloves, he pulled the blades of grass apart and turned to McGee, 'McGee number and photo, and evidence bag,' McGee ran over with his camera and started to take photo's before passing Gibbs an evidence bag.
Gibbs picked up the knife, he slipped it inside the evidence bag and examined it through the plastic, 'there are fibre's on the blade boss,' McGee stated, 'could be the knife used to slash the director's dress, it looks like blood on the blade and handle too,' he added quietly. 'Let's get this back to Abby asap for tests, in the meantime, I want the team in the bullpen going over all the evidence with a fine toothcomb.'
'Right, no ransom demands, no contact of any kind from the kidnappers,' McGee summarised as Gibbs entered the bullpen. 'Okay let's go over what we do know.' McGee picked up his clicker and the team assembled in front of the plasma screen, 'from the beginning,' Gibbs jumped in before anyone else could speak.
Tony nodded and took over, 'the director and her partner had dinner at the Hashnav Hotel, they were kidnapped from their room later that night, at some point between dinner and leaving with the kidnappers the director had sexual intercourse with an unknown man we presume to be Daniel Carson her boyfriend, Leanna confirmed they had been seeing each other. The same man left his blood in the bedroom, the director had time to leave a message in her own blood on the floor. A second blood sample belongs to the unknown's brother.' 'So Daniel Carson's brother kidnapped the director and his brother, so far we have no motive, and Abby is searching for the brother.'
'Abby has found the brother,' the four turned to look at Abby holding Leanna's hand tightly, 'and?' 'you're not gonna like it,' she stared at the floor. 'Abby, come on,' Gibbs was starting to get worried now, 'tell me, what is it?' Abby began typing on McGee's computer, 'I searched for Daniel Carson's brother, he hasn't got a brother, he is an only child, both his parents died in a car accident ten years ago, their car was going the wrong way down an expressway, they think it was a suicide attempt by his father.'
'No wonder they got on so well, hang on, no brother, but his brother got cut, his blood was spattered up the wall,' Abby looked at the screen and bit her lip, 'I ran the DNA from the semen sample and the two blood samples through all the databases I could think of, I got a hit.' Gibbs stared at her, she swallowed nervously, 'And?' She took a deep breath and spoke quickly trying to hide the emotion in her voice.
'Simon Philips, arrested for armed robbery and smuggling weapons and drugs into the
It was Ziva who spoke first, 'the director had sex with her kidnapper?' She looked at the floor, 'we are going to assume it was not consensual yes?' 'There's more, Simon Philips is known to have been involved in activies with Le Grenouille.'
Jenny sat with her head on Daniel's shoulder, she had her hand in his and squeezed it gently, 'I'm sorry for getting you into this,' she whispered so their captors would not hear, 'why?' 'I'm the director of a federal agency, a high value target,' he nodded slowly, 'I didn't want you to get hurt,' 'you didn't know what they were planning,' He nodded again and held her to his side, 'Jenny I want you to know I love you, what ever happens remember I love you,' she smiled and wrapped her arm around his stomach, 'I love you too,' she lifted her head to meet his lips in a tender kiss. 'If only they'd waited a few more minutes, we wouldn't have been so preoccupied with each other to notice two men entering the room.'
As she sat snuggled in his arms the voice that had spoken earlier reached her ears, he was shouting, it was that which caught her attention, the nastiness he injected into his voice seemingly with minimal effort. He was English, she remembered his name, some facts were coming clear whilst others were even more blurred, who was his new boss, what were they up to and what were they planning to do with her.