She sat staring at the headstones. It was hard to believe that it had been over two months since they had passed away. Sometimes it felt like yesterday when she had received the news of the terrible auto accident. She was all alone in the world. If only she could remember who she was and where she belonged. Did she really want to find out?

Gibbs sat alone at his desk. His gut was telling him that something was not right. Gibbs looked at the single piece of paper that was part of the closed case concerning Shannon's Mother. The deceased private investigator had been hired by his former mother-in-law. She had starting looking into the deaths of Shannon and Kelly and had wanted someone to pay for them. On the yellow piece of paper was the name M. Collins and a phone number with the letter K. What did it mean? He could not put it off any longer. He would have to have McGee go back through the computer files and see about tracing the burn phone in the morning. It was getting late and he decided to go home.

His cell phone ringing woke him up. He had fallen asleep on the couch. "Gibbs." He answered while standing up and stretching. He listened as he headed upstairs to get ready.

"Boss we got a dead Marine." Said Dinozzo. "Looks like an overdose."

"On my way" said Gibbs. "Be ready to go when I get there and tell McGee I have something else for him to do."

Dinozzo started to respond when he realized Gibbs had already hung up. "Well, Boss is in his usual happy self." He looked over at McGee and threw a wadded up piece of paper into his garbage can and yelled "Score!" Then he said, "Probie you got a special assignment from the teacher! "

McGee looked over at Dinozzo and was about to reply when his cell phone rang. He didn't get the chance to say much but wrote down the information before Gibbs hung up on him. He continued typing without saying anything.

"So?' Dinozzo asked. "What is so special that you get to stay here and not go out with us? Do tell Obie One Probie!"

McGee just rolled his eyes and started to type away on the keyboard. Ziva threw a pencil at Tony and hit him in the arm. He looked up at her with this mocked wounded look on his face.

Ziva just smiled at his wounded expression and said, "Tony if Gibbs wanted you to know he would of told you! Leave poor McGee alone."

About twenty minutes later the elevator doors opened and Gibbs walked out with a cup of coffee in his left hand. As he walked around toward his desk he said "Grab your gear and let's go." He grabbed his bag while Tony and Ziva jumped up with theirs. He looked over at McGee as he was leaving and nodded. McGee nodded back in understanding. Tony and Ziva just looked at each other as the doors to the elevator closed just as Gibbs slid in. Both wondering what in the world was going on.

The house was lonely. She was not sure what she wanted to do with it. Her adopted parents had made sure that she was moderately taken care of. She did not have to work. She was almost finished with college with her teaching degree. She wasn't even sure she wanted to do that. They had always been so protective of her and now there was no one there to protect her. From what she was not sure but she knew her adoptive parents had known something. If only she could piece it together. Her memory wasn't that reliable anymore. Sometimes she had snapshots in her dreams of adult hands helping her with sanding a piece of wood. And then others were horrible nightmares of being trapped in a fire and hearing a woman crying. She wondered if that was her mother. She tried to ask her adoptive mom one time but she told her that they didn't know anything about her past. She decided to needed to go through the items in the desk in the study. Maybe there she would find a piece to her past.

"Duck, what do we got?" asked Gibbs as he kneeled down next to Dr. Mallard and Jimmy Palmer as they were looking over the dead marine.

"Looks like an overdose at first glance. But if you look closely there are defensive wounds." He looks up at Gibbs with a questionable look. "This poor lad was murdered Jethro. "

As Gibbs took a pen to turn over the nametag to look at it he realized a small piece of paper was covering it. On it was written the initials JLG. Gibbs and Ducky just looked at each other, Then Gibbs lifted up the small piece of paper with the pen. The murdered marine's last name was Kelly. Gibbs' gut told him this was going to be personal. He got up before Ducky could say anything further.

"Dinozzo!" Gibbs barked. "Bag and tag this name tag and get it to Abby." Gibbs walked towards the car and pulled out his cell. How he wished Mike was still alive to help. Maybe there was something else in that file box he left him that would help this case. He dialed McGee. "Anything?" he asked him.

"Not yet boss, working on it." Replied McGee.

Gibbs sighed "Work faster McGee." and closed his cell and gazed over at his team at the crime scene before getting in the charger.

McGee put the phone done and kept typing on the computer. Somehow he came across a photo file that had been sent from the burned phone. It had been buried deep within the private investigator's computer files. If he had not been looking it would have never been discovered. He started the program for facial recognition for those living and deceased. He sat back for a moment to take a break. He started to pick up the phone to call Abby when the computer made a beeping sound. It had a match. But according to the information the person was declared deceased years ago. McGee looked down at the name and froze. It can't be he thought. He started at both pictures and realized either it was or someone was pulling a very cruel joke. How in the world was he going to tell Gibbs? He picked up the phone and dialed. "Abby I need your help now."

Abby was working on the photos that Tony had sent her from the crime scene when McGee walked in looking pale. "McGee you look like you have seen a ghost!" Grinned Abby. McGee walked up to her and just looked at her for a moment trying to get the words out. "Cat got your tongue?" joked Abby.

"Here." He managed to choke out and handed her the jump drive to pull up the photos.

She put it into the computer and pulled them up to run all of the options of photo recognition. She gasped when a match came up and saw the name. She turns towards McGee and quietly said, "You have seen a ghost." She hugged him and asked, "What are we going to do?

McGee hugged Abby back and started to think quickly. He knew time was not on their side. Gibbs would be back soon demanding answers. Answers McGee wasn't sure he was ready to give. "Abbs, does your friend still like to go grave hunting?"

Abby pulled away from his hug and smacked him on the shoulders. "Good thinking McGee!" She got on the phone quickly to her friend. There was a grave that needed to be checked out. Would it be empty?

In the meantime McGee hoped they could stall Gibbs for at least two hours until Abbs heard back. Now he had to figure out where the photo was taken. There had to be another clue in those computer files.

Ducky and Jimmy had already started the autopsy when Gibbs walked in. He had checked with Kelly's commanding officer and knew this man was a fine marine. It was not his character to do drugs and Gibbs knew something wasn't right.

"What do you got Duck?" asked Gibbs as he was looking at the x-rays that Jimmy had just placed on the light box.

"Jethro, someone wanted this man dead. He fought like the dickens to stay alive." He pointed to the bruises on his chin, neck, and noise as Gibbs came and leaned over the body. "They forced the drugs down his throat and made sure if was enough to kill him." Ducky picks up the victim's arm and looks at his wrist. "The poor boy was tied down as well." He looked over at Gibbs choosing his words carefully. "Is the piece of paper on his nametag a message to you?"

Gibbs looked at Ducky as he thought for a moment. "I don't know Duck, but I am about to find out." Gibbs headed out of autopsy towards the elevator with his gut churning. He was going to get to the bottom of this.

Abby grabbed the phone on the second ring. "Abby at your service!" The caller on the other end was the one she had been waiting for all day while trying to avoid Gibbs. She wasn't sure she heard the news right and had him repeat it. She pulled up the images he sent in the email and double checked the information. She hung up and dialed McGee quickly.

"McGee you are not going to believe this. But then again maybe you will! Get down here quickly!"

"Abbs!" McGee almost shouted as he ran into the lab. "Just tell me what he found out."

"OK, but you might want to sit down!" Abby grinned. "There was nothing but bricks in there McGee! "She is alive! She has to be somewhere!" Abby was about to jump up and down with this news. She had always wanted a sister.

"And..what about you know…her…?" McGee tried to get the words out without having to say Shannon's name.

"She is there." Said Abby reverently. She wished she could change that outcome for Gibbs.

"How do we tell Gibbs?" asked McGee as he looked at the photos on the screen.

"Tell me what?" demanded Gibbs as he came up behind them in the lab.

McGee and Abby froze. Abby started praying that Gibbs would listen to everything they had to say and not go crazy.

"Um McGee has something to tell you!" said Abby quickly. McGee just glared at her before turning towards Gibbs.

"Uh boss, I found something in the private investigator's files that was a bit well…it is a photo and when I ran the photo reconizition system it had a match."

"Well, who is it McGee?" asked" an irrated Gibbs.

"Let me show you" replied McGee. He nervously pulled up the photo and had the system match it again. It beeped and also pulled up a matching dependant I.D. card of the girl as a child. Gibbs felt he had been sucker punched in the gut.

"Abbs" he whispered as he stared at the screen in disbelief. "How?" He started to question.

"Gibbs when this photo was taken, Kelly was alive. She did not die in that car crash. And I have this to prove it." She pulled up the photo that Jace sent of Kelly's grave. "I figured it is better to ask forgiveness than permission. She is not in there Gibbs. Someone put in those bricks to make it feel like a body was in there." She looked at Gibbs and put her hand on his shoulder.

He started to ask about Shannon and before he could Abbs just nodded her head no. He silently nodded.

"Can we find out when and where the picture was taken? Quietly asked Gibbs. He was still shaken.

Abbs and McGee looked at each other before McGee answered. "We are working on it Boss. We are thinking it is a little bakery that is about two hours north of here."

"Send the info to my phone. I am taking Ziva and going." Gibbs said to McGee as he started towards the door.

"Wait Gibbs! There is more!" Shouted Abby. Gibbs turned around quickly even though he was not sure if he wanted to hear more. "We also found a tracking device on his computer. Someone else is looking too. We are not sure if they know about Kelly. But someone else is out there Gibbs."

Gibbs nodded and turned around to head upstairs. His felt it in his gut that time may be short. He had to find Kelly before someone else does. He was not going to lose her a second time.