AN: This story will mention rape and at times will become graphic. Please do not read if this topic offends you or you are disturbed by the imagery. It is rated M for a reason.
The MCRT minus one Timothy McGee sat at their desks in the bull pen finishing the reports that would close their latest case. The reason for Tim's absence was simple he had completed his report and was in the field collecting a few last witness statements that would solidify their case against even the most diligent defense attorney. This case had involved the children of a deployed marine and the whole team wanted to make sure the dirt bag didn't get off on a technicality so they were all making sure every T was crossed and every I dotted.
When the exterior elevator door opened only Leroy Jethro Gibbs looked up from his paperwork to see who was entering the building. His hid a smirk behind his coffee cup when he saw it was none other than his favorite FBI Agent Tobias Fornell, followed by his ever present shadow Ron Sacks.
"Gibbs, where's McGee?"he asked gruffly without any preamble.
"In the field. Why?", was the terse reply.
"Alone."
"Yes."
"Get him back here NOW."
Gibbs raised his eyebrow high enough that anyone that knew him would immediately either explain themselves or back down, however, Fornell wasn't in the mood for either, "I mean it call him back to the yard now, then meet me in the director's office."
Anthony DiNozzo had been watching the exchange with interest and looked to his boss while his hand reached for the phone on his desk. He didn't grab the handset until he received a nodded from the team leader who was getting up to follow the two men upstairs.
His partner Ziva David also reached for her phone, but pulled back to allow her partner to call their friend and team mate.
DiNozzo's brow furled and the grin he always wore turn into a frown has he mumbled, "Pick up, Probie. Pick up."
After a few minutes he hung up the phone and turned a worried glance to his partner who was still staring at him, "No answer. You think we should go tell the boss?"
Both of their curiosities has been raised by the brief conversation between the two long time friends and they were dying to get into the office so they could hear what was going on for themselves.
She nodded and they both got up a raced up the stairs to inform their boss that the Probie wasn't answering his phone.
"Man I hope he has a good reason for breaking rule 3 or the boss is going to head slap him into next year.",Tony told Ziva as they reached the top and turned to go into the director's office.
Gibbs followed Fornell upstairs and was right on his heels as they entered the office of Leon Vance, without knocking or waiting for his secretary to introduce them.
"Leon, you got the report?"
"About two minutes ago. How long have you sat on this?"
"Wasn't us. Local LEO's didn't want to cause a panic by letting the public know about the breakout so they decided to handle it themselves and sat on it for 72 hours before realizing who had gotten out and notified us."
"Damn, he could be anywhere by now.", with that Vance seemed to notice Gibbs for the first time since the conversation started. "Where's McGee?", he repeated Fornell question from earlier.
"In the field. Will someone please tell me what the hell is going on and what does it have to do with McGee?"
"By himself.", Vance asked Gibbs ignoring the question the rapidly angering team leader had asked.
"Yes by himself, I didn't feel the need to waste agency manpower by sending two agents to collect witness statements from a seventy year old couple who were more than helpful during our investigation."
"Damn" Vance repeated "Get him back here now."
"Already on it. Now will one of you tell me what the hell is going on with my agent."
Vance had gotten up out of his seat while the other man spoke and was unlocking a small file cabinet in the back corner of his office. He pulled out an older case file that had the logo of the Cambridge Massachusetts Police Force on the front and a second folder with the NCIS logo on it.
"Get your team together and meet me in conference room one.", Vance replied in a no nonsense tone.
As the four men got ready to leave the office they were met by the remaining two members of the MCRT.
"No answer,boss.", DiNozzo said trying to hide the grimace, because he knew he was ratting out his younger team member.
"WHAT?"Vance, Fornell and Gibbs all said together.
DiNozzo's eyes widen at the worried tone in the Director's and the FBI agent's voice.
Vance was the first to recover, "Put out a BOLO on the car he was driving and notify all police that he is not to be harmed in any way but brought directly back to NCIS headquarters in protective custody."
Fornell was on his phone giving similar orders to his team back at The Hoover Building.
Ziva rushed back down the stairs to follow the directives Vance had given them, while Tony stood rooted to the ground in shock.
Gibbs had had enough and wanted answers immediately, "Would someone please tell me exactly what is going on with my agent?"
Vance nodded sadly and motioned the men into the conference room and stood at the door waiting for Ziva to join them. Once Ziva entered the room he locked the door and walked around the room unplugging the microphones and cameras hidden throughout. Finally he sat at the table and pulled a lap top from the middle of it and started typing when he was ready he nodded to Fornell letting him know he was in charge of debriefing the MCRT on the details of the case that had now taken top priority at both of the agencies represented.
"Meet Victor Karson" Fornell began and Vance pulled up the image of a man in his late thirties on the plasma screen in the room, he was dress in prison clothes.
"In 1997 he was convicted of raping and murdering seventeen young women in Cambridge Massachusetts,between 1990 and 1994, two years ago his appeals ran out and he was serving 250 years in maximum security with no possibility of parole. That's when he escaped the first time."
Gibbs remembered the conversation between Fornell and Vance in the director's office and thought he understood a bit of what was going on, "Okay, so from what you said earlier he escaped again three days ago. What does this have to do with McGee?"
"Gibbs please let us continue.", Fornell said taking a deep breathe.
"When he escaped in June of 2008, he was hell bent on taking out the star witness against him at his trial", as Fornell said this Vance brought up another image on the plasma. This one had the other NCIS agents in the room inhale deeply in shock as the image of a very young Timothy McGee was looking back at them from the plasma screen.
"He killed three guards and two FBI agents before we managed to capture him and return him to prison. All he kept saying the entire time was that he was going to escape again and he wouldn't stop until Timothy McGee was dead."
AN: Here is my latest story, I will try to update regularly, but I won't make any promises for the next update because I want to put the finishing touches on Fear Steals what Love Gives Freely. As always please read and review. :) stray