PLAYING COWBOY
By Peppe1951
Summary: While investigating a case out West Tony gets a taste of what not to do when under attack. Warning: Disciplining of an adult. Don't like? Don't read! Disclaimer: NCIS belongs to CBS and Paramount; I only write about them.
Spoilers: South by Southwest. (I've changed some of the conversation and scenes from the original episode but for the most part the story is based on the episode, South by Southwest.)
Prologue:
Special Agent Patterson had been gunned down only blocks from NCIS and Special Agent Jethro Gibbs team had been assigned the case. They found out early that Patterson had been on his way to meet with their Forensic Scientist Abby Scuito which only made the case more mysterious especially after Abby had received the package that Patterson had sent her.
"There's a mystery in this," muttered Abby as she viewed the painting of a landscape. It pictured mountains, a small girl reading a book by a lake but nothing that she could see that was a clue to what Patterson had wanted her to find.
Gibbs left McGee, Ziva and Abby to continue their investigation in Washington, D. C. while he and DiNozzo went to Arizona to pick the case up from the beginning.
He got in touch with Sheriff Clay Boyd in their search for the artist of the painting, Dina Risi. It was while they were in flight that Abby discovered the uranium that was found in the actual paint that was used.
DiNozzo and Gibbs traveled by four-wheel drive until they could go no farther and met with Sheriff Boyd at the beginning of the trail to Ms Risi location. It was during their return trip down the mountains that McGee warned them of the helicopter heading in their direction.
They soon found out that they were being targeted when the man impersonating FBI Agent Bart Lemming who opened fire on them and they had to flee for their lives until Sheriff Boyd fell from his horse and they had to seek cover.