WARNING: Contains spanking of an adult.

Disclaimer: The characters aren't mine. I just borrow them.


"All right. What have we got?" Gibbs asked as he swept into the squad room, coffee in hand.

Tim picked up the remote and clicked the vital statistics of their newest case onto the plasma. "Dana Michelle Jack, 6-year-old daughter of Captain Stephen Jack…"

"Captain Jack? As in Captain Jack Sparr…Ow!" Tony rubbed the back of his head. "Sorry Boss."

"McGee!" Gibbs yelled.

"Uh, she's been missing since yesterday afternoon. She and her twin brother, Kevin, got off the bus after school. According to Mrs. Jack, Kevin ran ahead up the street to the house but Dana never arrived." Tim clicked again. "A neighbor reported seeing this SUV drive up the street three times yesterday."

"Where'd we get this picture?" Gibbs asked.

"Well, when the neighbor called the cops to report it the second time, they pretty much hung up on her," Tony explained, reading from the file in his hand. "So when it came by the third time, she snapped a picture. Too bad she didn't actually get a picture of the plate," he said glumly. "According to the neighbor, the first two times it drove up the street, it was going really slow. The third time, when this picture was taken, it was driving a lot faster"

"McGee, I want surveillance tapes from every store, bank, whatever in the area. DiNozzo, David, you're with me."

* * * * *

"Hey Abbs." Tony dropped a box of evidence on the counter. "What are you doing?"

"Hi Tony. I was just looking at the picture of the SUV the old lady took. Take a look at this." She put the picture on the plasma and zoomed in on one of the back doors.

"What am I looking at?" Tony asked, squinting at the screen.

"You don't see it? Look, right here." She walked over to the plasma and pointed at a mark on the door.

"Can you zoom in any closer?"

"No, the resolution sucks on this thing. Besides, I thought you had superhuman eyesight. Look! Right there. I think it's a sticker."

"A sticker?" Tony twisted his body so that he was looking at the plasma upside down.

"DiNozzo! What are you doing?"

"Oh hey Boss," Tony said, standing upright quickly. "Whoa!" He'd made himself dizzy.

"Gibbs, look at this!" Abby called from her spot in front of the plasma. "There's a sticker on the door of the SUV. I'm pretty sure it's a flower, but I can't get a better look at it."

"Zoom out, Abbs."

A click and picture expanded. Gibbs studied it for a moment. "Zoom in here," he said, pointing. Another click. "Look at that scratch on the back panel."

"I'll get a BOLO out on a dark SUV with tinted windows, a flower sticker on the back door and a double scratch across the back panel." Tony disappeared. Gibbs gave Abby a kiss on the cheek and followed him.

* * * * *

"McGee, tell me you have something."

"Oh, um, yeah. I got tapes from three gas stations, a jewelry store, two banks, a convenience store and one traffic cam. I mapped them based on the time stamps and…" he glanced at his boss and received an impatient look. He stood up and clicked at the plasma revealing the map. "They went west, then north. I printed maps of a couple of places they could be headed." He held out the maps.

Gibbs took the maps and hurried away. "Keep looking, McGee. And update DiNozzo and me when you get anything new," he called over his shoulder.

"DiNozzo," he yelled over the music in Abby's lab.

"Hey Boss, we just finished going through the evidence. There's not much here."

"McGee mapped the SUV from the tapes we got. I left Ziva at the Jack's so you and I are on the chase. Here," he handed Tony one of the maps, "call me when you get there. McGee is going to keep looking and he'll update us as he gets new information."

"Can I go with you?" Abby asked. Gibbs swung around and stared at her. "I don't have anything else to do. We went through everything from the crime scene and there's nothing there."

"Help McGee," Gibbs ordered as he walked toward the door.

"McGee doesn't need my help. Gibbs, I can't just sit here and do nothing when there's a little girl missing!"

"No. DiNozzo, let's go," Gibbs ordered and headed for the elevator.

"Boss, I'm gonna hit the head before I leave." Gibbs nodded as the elevator doors closed.

Abby turned on him. "Tony, take me with you, please!"

"No way, Abbs."

"You just want me to sit here and do nothing while every one else is working on the case?" she whined.

"Abby, you heard Gibbs," Tony argued.

"He'll never know. I'll be really quiet when you're on the phone with him." Tony shook his head. "Tony, please," she said quietly.

He looked at her for a moment then sighed. "Fine. You can come. But keep quiet, and do everything I tell you to do. Got it?"

"Got it!" she answered excitedly.

It wasn't until they were twenty minutes away from NCIS that Tony allowed himself to think about what Gibbs would do if he found out Abby was with him.

* * * * *

Tony steered the car up the dirt road toward the cabin McGee had marked on his map while he talked on the phone. "I'm there…yeah, I'm driving up to it now…ok, I will…Abby? No, why?...I don't know, maybe she went out to run some errands or something…ok…I'll let you know if I find anything."

He looked at his passenger. "Gibbs is looking for…" her phone rang.

"Hi Gibbs!" she answered cheerfully. "Me? Oh, I'm just out running some errands. I didn't have anything to do so I thought…ok…see you later." She hung up and looked at Tony. "Think he knows?"

Tony shrugged. "I just hope he doesn't ask McGee to track your phone. Ok," he said as he put the car in park. "Stay here. I'll be right back."

"By myself?! I can't stay here by myself. What if they're here?" Abby cried.

Tony considered that for a moment. "Fine, but you stay right behind me and if I tell you to run, you run." She nodded solemnly and they got out of the car to walk up the road toward the cabin.

Tony crept along, looking in every direction at once. Abby kept her eyes on the ground, partly to follow the tire tracks she saw, and partly to avoid tripping on a rock or a root. They moved so slowly, that it took them about five minutes to reach the cabin. Tony pointed to a tree at the edge of the clearing and silently instructed Abby to take cover behind it until he cleared the building. She slipped behind it and, after checking that she was well-hidden, he moved toward the porch, weapon drawn.

He snuck onto the porch and peered in the window. The cabin was apparently made up of a single room that was completely empty. Tony looked back at the tree to make sure Abby was still hidden, then eased open the front door and went inside. After checking every corner of the room and for loose floorboards that might lead to a hidden basement, he pulled his phone off his belt and called Gibbs.

"Hey Boss, nothing here…he did? Ok, I'll head there next." He closed the door behind him and stepped off the porch. "Abby, let's go," he called toward the tree. "Abby?" He took off on a run toward the tree. "Abby!!" She was gone. But there on the ground, a few feet from the tree, was her scarf. "ABBY!!!!"

Tony ran through the woods shouting for Abby. He found a button that he recognized from her poncho and one of her hair ribbons as he ran. He made it to a clearing just in time to see a dark SUV with tinted windows peeling away in a cloud of dust.

He bent over to catch his breath for a few seconds, his mind racing. Knowing that putting it off would only increase the danger Abby was now in, he grabbed his phone to make the hardest phone call he would ever have to make. As he waited for Gibbs to pick up, he also realized it was probably the last time he would ever call his boss.