(This is not a death fic, it is a Tony whump and Gibbs psychologically whumping along with minor McGee and Ziva whumping in other chapters. I hope you enjoy it. Thank you for taking the time to read it.)

Tony and Gibbs were sitting at the new Sushi place in Georgetown they were joking about the last case they closed, Tony was making some movie reference when he noticed Gibbs was looking at something outside the window.

Tony was curious, "Whatcha looking at Boss?"

Gibbs didn't answer he just got up and headed outside to the black sedan that was parked across the street from the restaurant. When he exited the restaurant the black sedan speed off. Gibbs wrote down the license plate and put it in his pocket for later.

Tony followed Gibbs out of the restaurant after quickly paying the bill. Tony looked at the fleeing car and asked, "What was that all about?"

Gibbs had a worried look on his face, "That car was behind us when we left the Navy Yard and then at the batting cages and I noticed whoever was in the car was taking pictures of us in the restaurant. Lets go back to the office and run these plates I got off the car."

Tony followed Gibbs to his car. The ride back to the office was quiet. When the two agents got back to the office they ran the plates of the car that was following them. The car was registered to a Marshall Gray a college student at Georgetown.

Marshall has a clean record except for involvement in a grass roots terrorist group called the Alliance for Peace. Tony reported that the Alliance for Peace was a pretty benign antiwar group but lately they have managed to get on Homelands watch list for upping their game with minor explosions and property defacing. Tony grimaced, their favorite means of protest is to throw dog mess on solders."

Gibbs shook his head, "What do they want with us? Tony if they are upping their game you aren't safe you need to come home with me the spare room is made up."

Tony started to protest but was stopped by a glare from Gibbs he smiled and told his boss, "Sounds like a great idea, I will go home and get some clothes and I will meet you at your house in an hour."

Gibbs sighed, "An hour DiNozzo not a minute more. If you're not at my house in an hour you will have hell to pay."

Tony smiled and headed to the elevator. Gibbs followed a few minutes later and went home and made up the guest room with the special sheets that he got just for Tony when he came over. He smiled to himself as he made up the bed. He would never tell Tony this but he always enjoyed having Tony stay with him. The chance to eat breakfast with him and watch movies till midnight it was a nice change to always being alone.

Gibbs got done setting up the bedroom and then headed down stairs. Once he started another pot of coffee he looked at his watch DiNozzo had 20 minutes to get to his house or else.

Tony raced up the stairs at his apartment building he hit traffic because of an accident on the way to his apartment and he was painfully aware that he was running out of time. He thought he would go and gather his clothes and then call Gibbs from the car and tell him he would be a few minutes late.

He unlocked the front door to his apartment and quickly fed his fish Kate and ran to the bedroom but froze in his tracks when he saw the state of his bedroom.

On the wall in red paint said, "It was all your fault, you did this." And everything in his room was completely destroyed. His NCIS shirts were on his bed marked up with red markers, " Puppets of the man" was on one shirt and "defending the criminals who fight wars" was on the other shirt.

Tony started to reach for his phone and he managed to press the speed dial for Gibbs and heard his standard terse greeting when he felt a sharp blow to the back of the head and he fell to the ground unconscious.

Gibbs was on the other end of the phone listening to the attack on Tony. He gathered his gun and keys and was running out the door yelling, "I am coming Tony, hold on."

He put his phone on speaker and listened to Tony the whole time he sped to his apartment. He double parked behind Tony's car and took the stairs two at a time and when he got to Tony's door the door was open.

Gibbs proceeded into the apartment with Guns drawn. He cleared every room and then made his way to the bedroom. He was stopped when he saw Tony on the ground.

He ran to his side and tried to wake Tony up by gently slapping his face. After a few slaps Tony began to open his eyes. The first thing he saw when he opened his eyes were Gibbs brilliant blue eyes starring at him. He looked at his boss and said, "I screwed up boss, I am sorry I didn't make it back to the house in an hour.."

Gibbs just snickered, "Oh Tony, are you okay? What happened? Did you see who attacked you?"

Tony tried to sit up and answered, "Yes, don't know, no" When he sat up he immediately became nauseas and grabbed his Ohio State Garbage can that was by his bedroom door and he threw up in the can.

Gibbs sighed, "I am calling Ducky to check you out and the team to process the apartment. If this was the work of Marshall Gray and the Alliance for Peace then they chose the wrong guy to try and make a point with."

Tony laughed as he laid back down, "Easy there Papa bear we don't know who did it yet?"

Ducky and the team arrived quickly. Ducky confirmed Gibbs initial diagnosis of a minor concussion and gave Tony some prescription strength Advil to take for his headache and prescribed a day of rest for him. Tony tried to complain but Ducky silenced him with a strict warning, "Don't argue or I will make you take three days rest."

The threat of a three-day forced leave was enough to silence Tony. He wasn't feeling very good anyway. With some help from Gibbs and McGee he moved to the couch and took a nap while the others processed his bedroom.

There were tons of fingerprints in his room; it would take Abby hours to process them all. They bagged all the evidence and took samples of the paint off the wall and within two hours they were all done. Before they left Gibbs told them, "These maniacs seem to be targeting Tony and me but you two make sure that you watch your six and if there is anything off you call me okay. We don't know what these people want and I will be damned if I am going to let him hurt any of my team."

McGee and Ziva promised to be careful and promised to call when they knew anything from the evidence.

Gibbs gathered a bag of Tony's clothes and then gently woke the sleeping man up and took him back to his place to sleep off the concussion.

Gibbs tucked Tony into bed and then went down to the basement to work on his boat. He tried to think who this Marshall Gray was. He must know him but how and why does he want to hurt Tony?

Across town-Marshall Gray sat in his apartment with the 10 other members of the "Alliance for Peace." The AFP like they call themselves is a group of College Kids against the war and determined to make statements that will get them time on the news.

Marshall called the meeting to order and began, "The 2nd anniversary of my brother Mark's death by the hand of that fascist sell out Agent Jethro Gibbs is in three weeks. I want our group to make a special statement in honor of my brother. Something that the Pinko bastard that shot my brother will not soon forget."

Tommy who was the groups resident explosives expert raised his hand and asked, "Marshall, killing him wont make any difference to him we have watched the man he isn't afraid of death he works like he has a death wish. So what are you thinking of doing to him?"

Marshall smiled an evil smile and answered, "Tommy man, I am so glad you asked that. You're right killing the SOB would be way to kind. What I have planned for him will hurt him way more than anything I could do to him."

Marshall walked into his bedroom and brought out a stack of pictures. "This is Special Agent Anthony DiNozzo, he is the closest thing that Gibbs has to family. DiNozzo has worked for Gibbs for 8 years and as you can see in these surveillance photos they spend a lot of time outside of work too. There is one where they were at the batting cages, one where they were out at a Sushi restaurant and there are others in the stack too. It is obvious that Anthony is like a son to Gibbs the perfect person for my plan."

Marshall handed Tommy a small box, "Tommy, I want you to pack this box with explosives and I want you to rig it to where it will open when DiNozzo opens the box. I am going to send a special delivery package to Agent DiNozzo from his lost love Jeane Benoit and tell him to open it when he is at work alone. And when he does, Gibbs will finally feel what I have felt and Vengeance for my brother will finally be served.

Tommy everything you need is in my Garage you better get to work the rest of you I want you all to make signs and picket outside of the Navy Yard. The idiots will be so concerned with you all they wont give the box a second thought till it is too late."

Three weeks later Tony was late getting into the office, as soon as he stepped off the elevator he heard a gruff, "YOUR LATE DINOZZO" from Gibbs. Tony rolled his eyes, "Sorry Boss wont let it happen again, I was driving into work today and was stopped at the gate by a bunch of war protesters who decided that my car would be a good car to lob piles of dog crap on."

Ziva looked at Tony with a look that held a mixture of pity and disgust, "Let me get this straight, I know I am a new American but how does the right to assemble translate to a right to throw dog crap on someone's car."

Gibbs answered her, "It doesn't, DiNozzo did you stop and have the guards arrest them?"

Tony waved him off, "Nah Boss they were just college kids, a trip through the car wash on the way home will clean up the mess. I am just mad that they made me late to work."

Gibbs got up and stood in front of DiNozzo's desk, "Listen Tony, these same college kids broke into your apartment destroyed your bedroom and gave you a concussion."

Tony shrugged, " We don't know for sure if they broke into my place or not and I was an idealistic college student once. I was never a war protester mind you, and I would NEVER throw dog crap on anyone, I always believed in our military and what they did but there were other things that I was passionate about and yes McGee I was passionate about things other than Coed's and people gave me a break so I try to return the favor."

Gibbs scowled at Tony, "Well if this happens again I will bring the group up on charges myself got it?"

Tony smiled at Gibbs and said, "Yes Sir."

Gibbs was about to walk a way when he saw a small brown box in Tony's inbox it was addressed to Tony and the return name was Jeane Benoit with a note that said not to open it till he was alone.

Gibbs looked at the box and then looked at DiNozzo, they were having one of their silent conversations no one else knew what was being said but Tony and Gibbs knew. Gibbs was letting the man who is as good as a son know that he is there for him if he needs him and his son was thanking him for always caring but he would be all right. Not one word was said but they both understood and Gibbs went back to his desk.

Thankfully the day was quiet with no new cases, the group spent the day trying to unbury them from the mountain of paperwork that each one of them was under. At 1730 Gibbs sent David and McGee home.

Gibbs shut down his computer and gathered his stuff, "You want me to stay while you open the box?"

Tony smiled, "Nah it is okay boss, go home."

Gibbs raised his chin to look him in the eye and said, "Don't forget my door is unlocked and if you want I have a steak we can share."

Tony smiled, "Thanks Boss."

Gibbs walked out of the building and got into his car. Before he could pull out of the garage his phone rang, the person on the other end said, "Vengeance is mine, you should really go check on Tony, it is all your fault!" and then he hung up. Gibbs sat in his car for just a moment and then the whole building shook and Gibbs took off running.