Title: Death Becomes Him

Author: Wereleopard58

Pairing: Gibbs/DiNozzo

NCIS/Highlander crossover

Spoilers: All of NCIS and Highlander

Summary: Ziva and McGee turned off the radio (Dead Air) not expecting anything to happen. Tony ends up being stabbed and dies but it doesn't take and he comes back to life. He finds out he's not the only immortal at NCIS and how does his life change after this revelation.

Disclaimer: I don't own anything to do with NCIS or Highlander. I am not making anything from this. I am just doing this for fun

Feedback is always welcome.

A/N I've been writing this on and off for a while. I just want to see if people like it and would like to read more. I've also changed the timeline a little. I am sorry about not replying to reviews but I am barely able to write at the moment. I have just a few bits to do on the last chapter of 'Inside a Broken Man' and the next chapter of 'First Indications of Tony 'doormat' DiNozzo.' They hopefully will be posted soon.

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Ziva turned to McGee and smiled. "It is quiet, is it not?"

"Yes, it's great." McGee looked up from his PDA. He'd used this time to catch up on emails he needed to reply to that concerned his current novel and quickly jotted down some notes on this situation. It would be about how annoying Tommy was and how the others could do the job better. It was much easier to do without Tony's voice as he yammered on. "Shouldn't we turn it back on now?" He indicated to the lifeless radio.

"No, not yet. I want to finish this crossword puzzle." With that, her attention was drawn to the paper that was on her lap.

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Tony frowned as he heard a noise, it sounded like metal hitting metal. It was definitely out of place

"Ziva, McGee." He whispered as he headed towards where the sound came from and poked his head around the corner. Two people were fighting with swords. The man was a lot larger than the woman and had more power behind his strikes. "I need back up now. I'm on the corner of Housen and Monroe."

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Amanda froze as the stranger seemed to come to her rescue, not that she needed it. Her opponent appeared to be all brawn and no brains. Power was the only thing he had in his arsenal; men like him were easy to take out. They had too much confidence in their strength and never even tried to learn any skills. Then the young man came was in front of her and everything happened so fast, she couldn't seem to be able to get to him in time as her opponent turned and stabbed this man with a saviour complex through the chest.

"This isn't over Amanda. I'll be back for your head, I promise you."

"Of course you will be darling." She muttered as he ran away. She reached the stranger's side and fell to her knees. There was a slightly familiar buzz from him, so she pulled his head into her lap and held on as he took his last shuddering breaths. The blood spread, his once white shirt covered in red blood. "I am so sorry for all of this." All she had to do was to wait for it to happen. His upper body suddenly shot up into a sitting position and took deep gulping breaths. His face was pale as he scrambled to his feet in shock. "Who are you?" Her voice was soft as not to scare him any more than he already was.

"Tony." He muttered and paled even more as he stared down at his shirt. He gripped hold of it and ripped it open. The button scattered all over. He ran a hand up and down his chest trying to find the wound. He ripped off the electronic device that had been strapped to his chest and stared at the, now broken device. "Oh God, McGee and Ziva, what way did he go."

"That way" she pointed, "now darling you have to calm down."

Tony felt he could breathe a little easier it was the opposite direction of his team, but if they weren't hurt where were they? "Why haven't they come to help?" He whispered, which was when the constant buzz in his head started to annoy him. "What the hell is that?" He hit his ear as he tried to stop it.

"Don't do that; it won't help. Hi, I'm Amanda." She took hold of his hand and shook it. "You'd better come with me; I have a lot to explain and that noise you hear, it's me. From now on you will be able to sense people like me, well, us now." She threaded her arm through his. "I have a friend who 'visits' me and one of his shirts should be able to fit you. Once you're cleaned up, I will explain the situation, and then you can ask me anything."

"What about my friends?"

"Tony, I am sure your, uh, friends would have been here by now if they'd heard anything."

"Not, if they didn't care." He muttered; he'd been feeling left out of the group more and more. Would they leave him to die? There had to be some explanation? Tony would deal with that later. Firstly had to find out why he was still alive; he'd died, there was no doubt in his mind about that. Tony glanced down at his ruined shirt. He would need a new one. He glanced over at the beautiful, tall blonde. Who was she? Why was she fighting with a sword, in the street? She seemed to be taking all of this in her stride, what was going on? What was he going to do if he found out he'd been left with no backup? There might have been a problem with the radio? Deep down he knew that Abby would not have let them go out with faulty equipment. If not, well, they apparently didn't care if he lived or died.

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The buzz started, and Gibbs looked around the office there was another immortal nearby. Then he heard the laughter from McGee and Ziva. That was when his eyes fell on DiNozzo; there was something off. He noticed that his SFA was in a different shirt and that he kept wincing and placing his hands near to his ear as if trying to stop a sound, a buzzing sound. This was who he'd been sensing. What had the hell happened? DiNozzo hadn't been immortal when he left this morning. If he'd died why were his team-mates laughing?

"DiNozzo, with me, now." Gibbs stormed off to the elevator. He did not doubt that he would be followed. As soon as the doors closed and it started, the emergency button was thumped.

"What?" Tony was genuinely confused at why he was here. He'd just walked in; he couldn't have done anything wrong in that small amount of time. Had Ziva or McGee called and made a complaint about him?

"Do you mind telling me what happened today?"

"We were getting voice samples. Are you okay Gibbs?"

"Damn it, Tony." He pushed the younger man against the wall and leaned forward so he could whisper into the younger man's ear. "Who killed you?"

"Wait…what?" Tony's mouth fell open as soon as he realised what was going on. "You're a…that's you I can sense?"

"Yeah, it's me."

"You can't sneak up on me ever again I'll know when you're around, nice."

"DiNozzo, focus damn it, you didn't leave an immortal. At some point, you were killed. I want to know what happened and why the two people, who were your back up don't know. They don't right?"

"Can we talk about this somewhere else?" He didn't want to discuss how people he cared for left him without back up for a joke. He hadn't planned on telling anyone at all. Who would've believed him anyway? Gibbs now knew that he been killed and the other two had no idea. There was no way out of this without telling the truth.

"Fine, my place after work, but you'll tell me everything."

DiNozzo sighed and nodded.

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The rest of the day dragged on, and at the end of it Abby came up and joined them.

"Are you ready?" She asked Tim and Ziva.

"Yes, we are. We're going out for a drink; Gibbs would you like to join us?" Ziva asked as she ignored Tony.

"No." He replied as he watched the members of his team. Things were more out of sync than he thought.

"See you on Monday." Abby gave both Gibbs and Tony a kiss, and then she grabbed Tim and Ziva's arms and pulled them along.

Gibbs waited until they had vanished from sight when he turned and looked at the younger man. "Why didn't you go with them? We could've talked afterwards."

"They didn't ask me." He replied quietly.

Gibbs felt as if his team was starting to fall apart, or had it been for a while and he'd never noticed. "Come on let's go back to my place, and we'll get some food."

"Cowboy steaks?" Tony asked hopefully.

"Is that what you want?" He couldn't deny his SFA anything at the moment.

"Yep."

"Okay, I'll need to stop off and get some things." It was sad to see that something so simple, made him so happy.

"I'll go home, get changed and head to your place."

"I don't know how long this talk is going to take, so why don't you bring a change of clothes with you and spend the night?"

"If you sure?"

"DiNozzo, I wouldn't have asked if I didn't mean it."

"Okay, I'll see you soon." Tony smiled as he ducked his head shyly; something seemed to be different about tonight.

Gibbs watched as Tony left. Why had the others turned from him? He didn't like how they acted towards his second in command. The man he relied on most. You could see in his expressive hazel eyes how much it hurt him. First things first he needed to find out how McGee and Ziva never knew that Tony died? Had Abby heard the recording and ignored it? Was she involved in this little campaign? He hoped that she wasn't, Gibbs never thought that Abby would do something like that. These were questions that he needed the answers too.

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Tony put the plate down on the table and then leaned back. "So what happened to you?"

Gibbs looked up; the pain could be seen clearly in his blue eyes. "Well…"

"You don't have to tell me."

"You know about my wife and daughter." He waited until Tony nodded. "I was with them when they died. I came back, and they didn't."

"That's why you've always felt so guilty; I'm so sorry Gibbs."

"A couple of people who knew about Immortals got me out of the country and back to my unit. They were all told I was on a classified mission."

"I…I don't know what to say."

"What you can do DiNozzo is to tell me how you managed to die and the two people who were your back up didn't know anything about it?"

"I was getting voice prints, and I heard some sound, it was like metal on metal. I told McGee and Ziva what I heard and that I was going to investigate. I saw a man and woman sword fighting. I whispered I needed back up and went to help."

Gibbs slapped the back of his head. "Why did you do something so stupid? You should have waited for back up."

"I didn't think I had time; I did get my gun out. I was afraid I would hit the woman if I pulled the trigger."

"So you just headed into a dangerous situation."

"Yes and then he stabbed me in the chest, straight through the microphone. As soon as I, uh, woke up, came back to life? Whatever happened I had my head in Amanda's lap. She reassured me that the guy went off in the other direction so he wouldn't have run into McGee or Ziva. When I got back to the car, I barely said anything when they told me that they hadn't heard anything." Tony took a deep breath.

"What did they do?" Gibbs growled.

"They turned off the radio because they were tired of listening to me talk."

"What!" Gibbs shouted.

"They didn't know anything that happened they didn't even notice that I wore a different shirt. Amanda explained all about being immortal; we exchanged numbers so she could help me."

"Have you finished your report yet?"

"Yes, but I left out the dying and coming back thing."

"Talk to this Amanda, see if she will bend the truth slightly. I mean as immortals there are certain things we have to lie about."

"What do you want me to ask her to say?" Tony watched his boss doubtfully.

"That she was being attacked, you helped, and you were hit in the chest. The recordings will verify you heard something and went to help. You also called for back-up. McGee and Ziva cannot get away with this if they do what's to say that it won't happen again. The next person may not be immortal."

"Okay, I'll ask." He didn't like doing this, but he could see what Gibbs meant.

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McGee looked up as a tall, beautiful blonde walked over to them and looked around.

"Hello, I'm looking for Tony, is he around?"

They had seen his gear, so they knew he was in the building.

"I'm sure he won't be long, but I'm confident that we can help you." Tim indicated himself and Ziva.

"I don't think so; I'll wait for Tony." She stared at them and then smiled. "Oh, you're Mc uh."

"McGee, Tim McGee." He snapped.

"Yes, that was it, and you're…" Her voice faded off. "I'm sorry I don't even remember any of it."

"Ziva David, so Tony talked about us."

"Yes, he mentioned you, briefly."

"Why didn't you remember it then, we are very important in his life. He needs our help all the time." Ziva grinned and could see Tim do the same.

"Darlings, I don't remember anything that isn't important," Amanda replied snidely.

"And NCIS isn't important to him?" McGee looked disbelievingly

"Oh, NCIS is essential to him, you two aren't."

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Gibbs grabbed DiNozzo as soon as he had arrived and took him down to the lab.

"Abby, I need you to check something for me."

TBC