It was a slow day for Gibbs' team. There wasn't a case, which meant endless hours of incredibly boring and seemingly pointless paperwork. The bullpen had been silent all day. Gibbs was attempting to check his email, but got frustrated and unplugged his computer. He then looked up from his desk and began watching his team. McGee had fallen asleep with his head resting on his keyboard, Ziva was also sleeping at her desk. Gibbs glanced at his senior field agent's desk, fully expecting him to be asleep as well, but saw Tony wide awake and staring into oblivion. Gibbs walked across the bullpen to stand in front of Tony's desk.
"Can't sleep, DiNozzo?" Gibbs asked sarcastically. Tony looked up at Gibbs as if just noticing he had been standing there.
"What?" Gibbs realized Tony hadn't heard him, but decided against repeating himself.
"Something wrong, Tony?" Tony glanced down at his desk where a cold case file lay open. Gibbs followed his gaze down to the desk as Tony shut the file.
"No. I'm just a little out of it right now. I didn't get much sleep last night, I had a date and you know how that goes…" Tony said coolly with his usual cocky attitude. Gibbs automatically recognized this as Tony's way of deflecting in order to hide the truth.
"Steak tonight at my place," Gibbs said as he headed back to his desk.
"Actually, I had plans tonight -"
"Be there at nine," Gibbs said in a voice that said the topic was not up for discussion.
"Right, boss," Tony said, defeated.
He exited the bullpen without as much as a glance back at his agent.
Gibbs had told his team to head home around eight, which they obliged to gladly. After his team was gone, Gibbs stood up and approached DiNozzo's desk. He immediately noticed that the top of the desk was cleared off, which shouldn't have come as a surprise because it was normal for Tony to keep his space clean, but something still felt wrong to Gibbs. He sat down in his senior agent's chair and opened the drawer shifting items around until he found what he was looking for. He pulled the file out and began examining its contents.
The case was from over 20 years ago. The victim was a young woman, who had bled out after a vicious beating. She had been kept in a basement and tortured for an extended period of time. There were signs of sexual assault. Her murderer was never found and the case went cold. Gibbs didn't know why Tony was looking at this. He was about to close the file when he noticed the name of the victim.
Sarah Paddington.
Tony's mother.
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