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Part 370 of Dictionary.Com Word of the Day Drabbles , Part 38 of One shots - Case fics
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2017-02-15
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Portentous

Summary:

A mutilated body appears.

Notes:

Another dictionary.com word of the day drabble. This time from 05/06/2000 for the word portentous.

portentous
Foreboding; foreshadowing, especially foreshadowing ill; ominous.
Marvelous; prodigious; wonderful; as, a beast of portentous size.
Pompous.

This is for the ncis-drabble community on LJ's challenge: #086 Too late.

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Portentous

Lying at the crime scene, the portentous mutilated body clearly indicated to anyone who was looking that they had a serial killer on their hands. Normal people just did not do this to a body. McGee had already rushed out to find somewhere to throw up. Even Ducky who normally had the staunchest of stomachs had turned a bit green at what had been done to this person.

The only one unaffected was Gibbs and Tony was pretty sure that that was only because the man had already eroded his stomach lining with the black tar he preferred to drink under the auspicious name of coffee. While the team had been too late for this victim, Tony hoped that they could stop this serial killer before they claimed anymore victims, but the brutality worried Tony that they might be too late for the next victim too.

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