Still Alive

When the two arrived at the morgue it was at least noon. They got out of the car and walked up to the office. Tony opened the door for his lady friend and walked in after her " Good afternoon, we areNCIS Agent Anthony Dinozzo and Ziva David. We are here to ask a few questions." He said.

The fine haired old lady spoke angrily at him and turned to the door. She walked to the two and began to swear in Russian when Ziva stepped in "Успокойте мисс. Мы должны здесь только задать некоторые вопросы, который является всем, если это в порядке. Меня зовут Ziva и нам сообщили....

Tony's eyes just about fell out of his head, he had not a clue she could speak Russian and when she did he had the slightest clue of what she had said. He let her finish and she was finally handed a set of keys and told something more andZiva said a couple of words and linked arms with the Tony. When they were outside Tony had to ask " What did you say? you know back there?"

"I told her basically to calm down and we were here to just ask some questions when I told her we had a lead to here the morgue she told us we could have a look around." she headed the direction she was told to go and found the underground tomb. She walked with quiet feet and Tony followed. When they came to the door she handed him the keys. He rolled his eyes and opened the door. He looked for a switch but found none so he continued with out her down the hall. When finally he found a switch. "Ziva come on." He motioned for her to come along.

She shut the door and followed after him, when she caught up with him she kept her hand at her waist the whole way down. The steps were deep and it seemed like the hall way was going forever. Tony finally saw fluorescent lights coming closer which meant a lab of some sort. When they finally reached the light Tony turned to her to make sure she was alright. " So lets look for this girlnow...where to start?"

McGee and Abby were back at the lab working on the case, trying to identify all the fibers on the clothes. they found what seemed to be pine needles from the sub alpine larch, dirt, his own blood, items in the wallet and his clothing. The bullet was not left and the autopsy was not done yet. The time of death was obviously 46 minutes ago. The last person he called was Tony and how he got his number was on a card in his pocket. He must have found it some where.

Abbey leaned her head onto McGee " McGee this stinks having allergies. I want to sleep all the time."

"Why don't you just take a day off?"

"ARE you kidding Timmy! I have never taken a day off...not even when Ziva was missing." She exclaimed.

Gibbs walked in through the doors of her lab and asked " Why would you be taking a day off?" He asked holding her a Caf-pow, the drink she was addicted to. McGee had gotten used to it by now but at first it was a horrid drink. Gibbs handed her the large Styrofoam cup. The red lettering accented the cup to let Abbey know she was being rewarded. " Oh my silver fox how you make my cold disappear."

Gibbs could not say much but a smile, he tried being serious around her and keeping his cool. But that always failed because Abbey just was so bouncy even with her nose all red and eyes all puffy.

" Abbey you have a cold and you are at work."

" It's not a cold its allergies. I already tested it to make sure it wasn't a bug. You see when you have the common cold one the cells in your system are a different looking. Two-

"Abbey."

"Oh right. But found traces of this tree that is only in higher altitudes like the rocky mountains, Idaho, British Columbia, Alberta and our good old city of Washington. It lives in higher altitudes so he must of went around an area with mountains and these trees at least with in a couple of days. The dirt on his shoes show that he was around maybe even sooner than that."

"How do we know he wasn't in Canada before this?" Gibbs asked raising an eyebrow.

"He doesn't have a passport." McGee responded to this pulling up a page saying one was not registered.

"What about his phone records?"Gibbs asked McGee

"They showed nothing that will lead us any where. Except Tony's number and one other number." McGee stopped and stared at Gibbs for a moment.

" McGee waiting?" He questioned confused.

" Oh another cell phone registered to a Shelby K Jacobs."

"His girlfriend, wife or relative." Gibbs stated.

"Nice work Abbey. McGee with me." He said hastily as he walked for the door.

Abbey smiled with her dark red lipstick. She sat down in her chair and began to run some other test so they would be ready by time he would get back. That was her every day life make sure test were done fast and accurate.

Gibbs walked with McGee through the squad room and grabbed his jacket. He knew this was going to be tough if it was either of the three. Relative hurts the most because they have known you for a longer time. A loved one like a girlfriend or wife is hard because well he knew what it was like to lose that. Gibbs recalled his wife and it pained him. He looked over at McGee " McGee have you heard from Tony andZiva yet?" He questioned.

"No boss I have not. Should I call them?" He asked.

" Not yet, Tony will inform us when he find something."

Tony and Ziva had now been looking for any suspicious bodies for the last 45 minutes and had no luck. Tony was starting to feel this was just a strange hoax. But how did this guy get his card? He only gave those out to like visitors and girls and well " I guess that wouldn't be to hard then to get a hold of it." He thought.

"Tony maybe we should call it cold." Ziva spoke with frustration.

"Well it is cold. But not this case. I just know we will find something."

" Yeah, how do you know?!" She exclaimed in more frustration.

"My almighty gut." Tony grinned

Ziva hated that grin but at the same time she liked it. It was that boyish trouble maker aspect that made her kind of melt with him. She had never had this kind of emotion before considering she never let her guard down enough to let someone in. She always had a shield and armor to protect herself. So when he came along and just well didn't care in general, it was surprising. Most men feared her but not him, he just grinned and was always in-mature so this aspect made her smile now. But before it was like she wanted to kill him.

As he was grinning at her something drew his attention from her, a groan. The two agents put there hand to their waist ready for anything.Ziva looked over to him and asked him " Have you seen that movie with the wombies? Night of the living dead?" She asked quietly.

"Hyea? Who hasn't. By the way they are Zombies. Why are you bringing this up now?"

"Because we are surrounded by dead people and we just heard a groan." She stated moving the hair from her face. She glanced over to Tony.

" Ziva, there coming to get you Ziva." He quoted from the movie

"Tony! Stop"

"Ok ok back to the case. don't get me started." he laughed and walked over to where they heard the noise. He had already checked this cooler. It was a female, at least early twenties and she hadblonde hair. He remembered because if she were alive she would be one cutie. He looked over to Ziva " We checked this one already but I think it came from over here." Tony whispered to her.

"Why are you whispering." she asked.

" This is suspenseful if there is any time to whisper now is it." He stated grinning again.

" I thought we checked this one already. The girl was attractive."

"That's what I-

Without further ado Ziva took the time to slap him Gibbs style on the back of the head. She always wanted to do that and now she finally got the time. He stopped in mid sentence shocked at what just happen. He straightened up and turned around to face her " What was that for? Who gave you the right to do that?"

"Gibbs. He said when the time was right and if he wan not around for me to do it for him."

"But I am senior o-

"I am senior head slapper." She laughed.

He bit the inside of his lip and raised and eyebrow in confusion, he was about to say some witty comeback when the groan was heard from right in front of them. The two both backed up " Lets get up to where we can get some reception." Tony stated nervously.

Ducky walked over to the body of William he held the scalpel in one hand and was uncovering the body " Well my friend you were not so lucky today now were you. Considering the last person you talked to was Tony. Not that, that is bad. He is a good man and great friend but I am sure you had someone special in you life."

The phone began to ring on the counter across from Dr.Mallard. Palmer walked over to the phone and answered it for him " Hello?"

" Palmer is Ducky there?" Tony asked.

"Here you go" Palmer walked the phone over to Ducky and put it up to his ear.

" AH Tony how are you?" Ducky said excited

" Well we are in Baltimore and were at the morgu-

"I know exactly where you are. so whats it like-

" Ducky we were investigating and down in the morgue we heard a groan. I think someone is alive down there."