Betrayed

Part 9

Grace and Colin stood beside Colin's car and talked. Tony was watching them out the window of the building. Gibbs then came by and gave Tony one of his famous Gibb slaps.

"Get back to work DiNozzo." Gibbs said as he went over to McGee.

"On it boss." Tony said as he rubbed his head and sat back at his desk.

"I'm sorry that uncle Gibbs brought you in to be interrogated like that. You obviously had nothing to do with it." Grace told Colin.

"It's alright love. I understand they just needed to do their job as investigators." Colin smiled. Grace smiled back at him, then Colin put his hand on her arm.

"I promise you, it'll all be over soon." Colin reassured her.

"I really hope you're right.." Grace said as she looked to the ground.

Colin picked her head up, "trust me. Keep your chin up love. I'll see you later when you get out."

"Alright." Grace said. Colin got into his car and Grace was still standing there. Colin rolled his window down.

"Thank you Colin." Grace said.

"For what?" Colin asked.

"Being here for me even when I'm like totally depressed." Grace said, giving a small laugh.

Colin smiled, "I'll always be here for you." Grace smiled as well and waited until Colin had driven out of sight before going back inside. She decided to go down to the lab to see Abby.

"Abby?" Grace called as she stepped into the room.

"Hey kid, what's up?" Abby said as she was dusting the vial that was found in Colin's trailer for fingerprints.

"Just needed a break from everything upstairs," Grace said as she sat down on a stool across from Abby, "find anything yet?"

"In just a second, we should have a fingerprint off of this," Abby said as she covered the vial in dusting powder, "bingo." She grabbed a piece of tape and put it on the print then put it onto a print slide and started scanning the database for a match. Grace watched her as she was searching.

Abby sighed, "no matches in the database. Might as well tell Gibbs."

"Or we could just take a fingerprint kit, go to the studio, get fingerprints from everyone, and find a match that way." Grace suggested.

"Thinking old school, huh? I like it. Let's go." Abby smiled. She grabbed a kit and her laptop with a scanner then Grace followed Abby out to her car. 20 minutes later, they were at the studio.

"Hey everyone. This is Abby, our forensic scientist at NCIS. She wants to get fingerprints from everyone who's recently been in Colin's trailer." Grace explained as they were standing in front of the entire cast. In the background, someone secretly slipped out, but no one saw who it was. After collecting 10 fingerprints, the producer allowed Abby and Grace set up shop in an unoccupied room on set. They then set to work scanning all of the fingerprints. Grace's eyes widened when she saw the match of the print.

"Robert did it?" she questioned out loud.

"Let's get back to the lab." Abby said.

When they got back, Gibbs came down and stood behind the two girls.

"So how's progress?" Gibbs asked, making the girls jump.

"Uncle Gibbs, don't do that." Grace said as she turned to face him.

"We have found a match for the fingerprint on the vial, and it belongs to Robert Carlyle." Abby explained.

"Alright, let's bring him in for questioning." Gibbs said as he walked out of the room. Abby started following him. Grace was still sitting at the work table, lost in thought. Abby stopped in her tracks and looked back at Grace.

"You coming G?" she asked.

"I um... I'll be up in a bit." Grace responded.

"Ok." Abby said concerned, then followed Gibbs. Grace looked at the match results again and sighed. How could Robert do this? He was like a father figure to Grace. Why would he want to hurt her, especially by killing her best friend? Grace sat in disappointment as tears started sliding down her cheeks.

"I promise Robbie. Robert will pay for what he did to us." she said, anger in her face as she clenched her fist.