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Chapter Seventy-Four {Light Sleeper}

Beckett knocks heavily on the door, "Mrs. Dawson? NCIS. We have a few questions." The baby started crying and she tried the door handle, finding it locked making her push harder. James comes up beside her, "Yoon it's me, please. Yoon open up." "You have a key?" "It's locked from the inside. Yoon!" The baby starts crying louder making James throw his shoulder into the door. The baby, Rebecca, was in her crib but the changing table was knocked over and the window was broken, and Yoon was gone. James paced the living room trying to stop Rebecca from crying, "It doesn't make sense sir. Someone kills my wife's two best friends, then they decide to kidnap her?" Beckett sighed when James huffed, making her reach out. He nodded remembering she was good with her before, so he handed the baby off to her. She bounced her humming quietly as Gibbs questioned him. "When's the last time you saw her Sergeant?" "About an hour before you showed up. She was putting the baby to sleep in our room." "You didn't hear anything?" "No. Can we stop standing around and do something." "We are, sit down." "And what exactly is that sir?" Gibbs sighed as Ziva walked in behind them, "Figuring out if you're a suspect or a victim." Ziva met Gibbs eyes, "The window was broken from the outside. Whoever did it slipped in, grabbed her, and slipped out." Tony opened the front door, "None of the neighbors heard her," "Sh!" Tony help his hands up in defense as Beckett shushed him so he lowered his voice smiling, "Or saw anything unusual boss. MPs are searching the area. They're also checking every vehicle leaving the base." "You think she still might be on base?" Gibbs paced over to where Beckett was, finding himself in a trance as he watched Beckett rock and sing the baby to sleep. Tony nodded his head at James "It's possible." "Then we need to be out there looking for her." Gibbs, tearing his eyes off of Beckett, turns to face James again "If she's still on base we'll find her." Ziva sat down on the coffee table to look him in the eye, "Someone put a lot of effort into taking her away from your home without alerting you, Sergeant. There's a good chance she's not dead yet."

"Yet? God why would someone do this?" Gibbs sighed under his breath, "Maybe for the same reason someone killed her friends." "You think I had something to do with this?" "What happened at the Officer's Club Sergeant?" James ran his hands through his hair, "It was nothing, okay? Sun and Min go there all the time. Yoon just dropped them off. This one time she went in and had a couple of drinks. She couldn't drive home so she called me." Gibbs answers his phone walking back over towards Beckett. Tony looks up from his notebook, "At which point did you get into a verbal altercation with the two Marine captains?" "They were drunk okay? They were hitting on my wife. They tried to stop me from taking her home. What would you do sir? You think one of these captains might have had something to do with this? Look we're wasting our time! I'm telling you I had nothing to do with this!" Gibbs approaches him pocketing his phone, "I know that. Your alibi just checked out. The sergeant was on duty at the time of the shootings." "So what now sir?" The room went quiet, and they all turned when they heard Beckett singing a lullaby. James smiled feeling relived that at least his daughter was happy. That night Gibbs was driving Beckett home, who was her usual quiet self. "You were good with her today." Beckett smiled at Gibbs nodding her head, "So were you." She left it at that, but there's so much she wanted to say or ask. The way he was, she knew he had to have done it before. There's so much about Leroy Jethro Gibbs that she desperately wanted to know. But Beckett held her tongue, like she always does. She wished it didn't have to be that way but in her defense Gibbs is not the easiest person to get to know. She isn't either but she's way more open than him. Beckett stayed quiet the rest of the way and prayed it would change soon. Gibbs, was hoping for the exact same thing.

The next morning Beckett was sitting against Gibbs desk facing the screen as Tony, Ziva, and McGee were standing in front of her. "Three Korean women met and married Marines in Seoul at roughly the same time. Two of them are dead. Our prime suspect was locked up here when the third went missing. Think it's a racial thing?" McGee looked over at Tony shaking his head, "No definitely do not think that it's a hate crime. In my experience there's only one color in the Marines." "From what I've seen of your Marine Corps, it's very ethnically diverse." Beckett shook her head as she caught Ziva's eyes, "He means green Ziva." "And I think he's right," Tony said as he sat down beside Beckett. McGee titled his head gazing around at the three of them, "You know maybe it's a Korean thing. Maybe something in their past." "Ooh, like some kind of blood feud- competing villages, ancient oaths, revenge from across the ocean." "This is not one of your stupid action movies Tony." "No it isn't. If it was you'd be dressed differently Ziva." Ziva smirked at him, "And you'd be far better looking." Beckett and McGee laughed at that making Tony harden his gaze towards McGee, "You'd be dead by the opening credits probie." "And me?" "You're with me 'till the end, kicking ass all the way through," he stated making them fist bump each other smiling. McGee stood up from where he was slouched at his desk, "You ever stop to think that maybe I am the plucky comic relief?" Gibbs appeared from around the corner, "You find out what the hell happened to Yoon Dawson yet.... Plucky?" "Um, well.... Ziva and Tony and Beckett and I....." Tony stood up to face them, "We're just working on that boss." Ziva held a file up, "We're going through a list of anyone suspicious who had access to the base in the last two days. So far no solid leads." "What about the Marine captains Sergeant Dawson fought with?" Tony and Beckett finished each others sentences, of course. "Both transferred out of Quantico last month," "One is at Camp Pendleton, the other is in Okinawa."

Ziva pointed to the ID pictures of each women on screen, "The two dead women lived insular lives. They spent most of their time together or with other Koreans. Yoon Dawson seems to be the only one who embraced American life." "Any reason to believe that Sergeant Porter isn't still involved in this?" "He could have had an accomplice probie." Gibbs sat at his desk, surprising Beckett when he didn't shoo her off of it, "Could have had three DiNozzo. We need more information." McGee approached his desk as Beckett looked up at him, "Uh boss, actually Abby and I, we have been working on something. We gathered the women's phone records, credit card receipts, address books. Abby is cross-referencing to see if there's a pattern." Gibbs walked over to Tony's desk as he spoke, "DiNozzo, I want to know about anybody in the area who's made threats against Koreans, foreign Marine wives or women." "Oh is that all?" Gibbs kicked the front of Tony's desk making Beckett jump. "On it boss." "Ziva find out about their lives before they married Marines. Come on, you're with me elf lord. Beckett, help Tony please." Beckett wheeled her chair over sitting beside Tony who just stared at her. "What?" "He said please. It's a word Gibbs doesn't use very often." "So?" "So it's weird. Right?" Beckett ruffled his hair and he slapped her hands away as she laughed, "That's not what you should be focusing on right now." Abby discovered that all three women received calls from the same payphone within the last few months, it was located outside of Lee's Neighborhood Market. The night Yoon went missing she called that same payphone. Lee also runs a very high end catering business, where all three women have worked as hostesses. They were scheduled to work an event for him tomorrow afternoon, a Korean diplomatic event at the Pacific Rim Society. Two hours after Yoon made the call she went missing. Which is important because someone is still using her cellphone to call that payphone. Unfortunately Abby can't get a fix on the phone but McGee was putting a tap on the payphone. Which means, a stakeout.