Tony laid sleeping in a hospital bed. A simple cold, had been blown out of proportion and turned into a serious case of pneumonia. Gibbs stays all night with Tony and every free moment he has between cases. If he can't be there he tries to make sure that someone else is always with him.
"Boss." Tony cried out gasping for air.
"Easy Tony, relax your breathing. In. Out. In. Out. That is it." Gibbs said holding him until he fell back asleep.
Nurse Johnson came in the room. "Gibbs you have a phone call. It is NCIS."
"Okay. If he wakes up and I am not back will you let him know where I went."
Gibbs arrived at Rock Creek Park behind Ziva and McGee.
"How's Tony?" Ziva asked.
"He was sleeping when I left. What do we have?"
"Name is Lieutenant Maxwell Jacobs, at least according to his dog tags. The picture doesn't match, but he could have had face reconstruction." McGee answered. "I will check into it as soon as we get back."
"Also no fingerprints" Ziva added.
"How does anyone manage that?" Gibbs questioned.
In the bullpen Maxwell Jacobs's picture was up on the screen in a split screen, the other part of the screen was the dead body.
"Did Jacobs have face reconstruction surgery?" Gibbs growled.
"I found no evidence of it. Parents live in Rhode Island. Father is a Marine, Commander Alex Jacobs." McGee answered.
"David with me. McGee find out all you can and then go sit with Tony at the hospital. But don't tell him about the case; he'll want to work and he is supposed to be resting."
"Yes Boss."
Gibbs and Ziva arrived at the Jacobs home in Rhode Island hoping for information as to why the picture doesn't match the dead body wearing the dog tags. The sooner he wraps this case up the sooner he can get back to Tony.
"Agent Gibbs, David. NCIS." Gibbs said as soon as the door opened.
"Come in. This is my wife Maxine." Alex said. "This is about Max, isn't it?"
"Why do you say that?" Gibbs asked.
"I was a Marine. When NCIS shows up at the door, it is never a good thing."
Gibbs showed Alex the picture of the dead body. "Is this your son?"
Alex took the picture. It wasn't Max. "No, it isn't."
"How long ago did you see your son?" Gibbs asked.
"2 days ago, he came home on leave. He was heading to DC. He was so excited." Alex explained.
"This guy is wearing Max's dog tags." Ziva informed.
"It could be his spare tags. He had them made for his brother. He was going to DC to give them to him." Alex explained.
Gibbs and Ziva looked at him confused. Maxwell's file never mentioned a brother.
Tim was about to leave, he had found as much as he can which wasn't much. Now he was going to sit with Tony, he really wishes he could talk about the case with him. Tony always has a way of seeing things that people don't. But Gibbs is right as usual; Tony won't rest if he can work on the case, even if it is from his hospital bed. Just as he was waiting for the elevator, the doors opened, a guard escorted someone to the bullpen. But not just anyone, Lieutenant Maxwell Jacobs.
"So much for going to see Tony." He thought.
"Lieutenant Jacobs." Tim said and then turned to the guard. "Take him into interrogation 1."
Tim watched the guard lead the Lieutenant away before calling Gibbs.
"Gibbs."
"It's McGee. Lieutenant Maxwell Jacobs just walked into NCIS. He is interrogation 1."
"Alright we are on our way back."
"What about Tony? He should be waking up soon, that is if he isn't already awake."
"Send Palmer. We will all head over as soon as I interrogate Lieutenant Jacobs."
Gibbs showed back up at the yard. Alex and Maxine came back with them. Ziva escorted them to the conference room until they were done with their son.
"Lieutenant Jacobs, do you recognize this man?" Gibbs asked showing him the picture of the dead body.
Maxwell looked at the picture. "No, I don't."
"He was wearing your dog tags."
"I got into DC yesterday. By the time I got to my brother's place. I was so exhausted, I just crashed. This morning I realized my spare dog tags were gone."
"You know what this is?" Gibbs asked showing him a file. "This is your file. There is no mention of a brother. You mentioned having a brother, your parents mentioned you having a set of dog tags made to give to your brother. So tell me this Lieutenant Jacobs why isn't it in your file."
"My brother isn't a blood relative. He is someone I knew when I was a teenager. From the first time I met him, he is just became my brother." Maxwell explained.
"This so-called brother lives here in DC?"
"Yeah. When I realized he didn't come last night. I came here."
"Why here?"
"My brother is somebody who works here. But I haven't seen him yet, Agent Anthony DiNozzo."
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