Tony was up before the sun rose. He never anticipated that packing his apartment would be so hard. It would be easier if he could just take a day or two off of work but taking time off would raise questions. Questions he wasn't quite sure how to answer just yet. Jimmy knew because he was trustworthy and somehow he always knew what to say. He knew that he would have to tell the others eventually but he was hoping to put it off until after. Well after everything that was going to happen, happened. He just hoped that the others believed him and didn't think that it was a crazy scheme to get more time off. He did love his vacation days but not enough to use something like this as a lie. Even with getting up before the sun. He was still running late. So late that the "search party" was called in. It didn't help that he had accidentally packed his charger the night before. Leaving his phone dead and him in unintentional violation of rule number three. He grabbed his keys, wallet, badge, and dead phone and shoved them into his pockets. Before rushing over and swinging his door open.

"What the hell are you doing? You are over an hour late. Gibbs is pissed." McGee questioned.

"Seriously pissed." Bishop added.

"Sorry I uh I overslept." Tony lied.

"Well you need to leave now!" McGee warned.

"On my way." Tony replied coming out the door.

"Are you moving?" McGee asked.

"What?" Tony asked.

"You had boxes on the floor, are you moving?" McGee asked.

"Oh no just moving some junk to storage." Tony lied hastily.

"Most of your stuff?" Bishop asked.

"Fine you got me. I am moving." Tony replied.

"Where to?" McGee asked.

"New place on Sycamore not too far from where Jimmy lives." Tony replied.

"I didn't know there were apartments around there." Bishop commented.

"I am buying a house." Tony replied.

"You're buying a house?" McGee gasped.

"Yeah since I broke up with Zoe. I don't know. I need a change and I thought I would have a house by now. So yeah." Tony explained.

"You and Zoe broke up?" Bishop asked.

"It's a long story. We should get to work before Gibbs kills us all." Tony replied hoping to drop the subject.

Tony breathed a sigh of relief that McGee and Bishop hadn't prodded the truth out of him. Well he had admitted that Zoe and him had broken up. Of course a breakup was a hell of a lot easier to explain than well what he was going to be doing.

Tony found himself challenging Gibbs's driving to get to NCIS. Ironically he was speeding to at least soften the wrath of Gibbs. He thought briefly about telling his boss about the situation he was about to be in but he didn't want to use it as an excuse. So he sped down the road to NCIS.

"Where the hell have you been?!" Gibbs demanded.

"Didn't McGee tell you I overslept?" Tony asked.

"McGee did call me but he didn't say why you were late. Just that you were moving." Gibbs replied.

"I was up late last night packing and I accidentally overslept today." Tony explained.

"Well you better not do it again." Gibbs warned.

"That's it? I just get a warning?" Tony asked amazed.

"Oh no I am just trying to decide what to do with you. I just wanted to remind you. That you do not show up late! You do not over sleep! And rule number three! You are NEVER unreachable!" Gibbs yelled.

"I know boss. I am sorry." Tony apologized.

"Rule six DiNozzo! Now sit down and try not do piss me off anymore!" Gibbs snapped.

"Yes sir" Tony replied sliding into his desk.

Part of Tony's punishment was that he had to get lunch for the team for the next two weeks. Not exactly fire and brimstone but certainly not a task that most people wanted to do for an entire two weeks. Especially since Gibbs had told McGee and Bishop to go as hard on him as he wanted. As he stood in line at the sandwich place. He had two horrible thought's occur to him. One how would he explain that Bishop wanted the gluten free bread on her sandwich but regular croutons in her soup and two. He had left his phone on his travel charger back at the office. What if the call came?

"May I help you sir?" The girl behind the counter asked.

"Yes I will have a turkey club on gluten free bread with tomato soup and extra croutons on the side, An Asian Chicken Salad but instead of the chicken I would like the chopped turkey, and can I get the bourbon pork sandwich with extra bourbon or is the sauce already made?" Tony asked.

"Sir did you lose some kind of bet?" The girl asked,.

"Worse I pissed off my boss. If your boss is a retired Marine, don't ever show up late." Tony explained.

"Don't feel too bad. Last year I forgot to wash the dye out of my hair after Halloween and my manager made me stand outside of my college dressed as a foot long, handing out coupons." The girl explained.

"Ouch" Tony laughed.

McGee sat with his feet on his desk. He was starving and hoping that Tony would get back soon. In a way he felt bad for being so hard on Tony but then again it was pretty rare for the golden boy to slip up and incur the wrath of Gibbs. He was surprised to hear Tony's phone ringing. Figuring that it would serve Tony right if he answered his phone for once.

"Hello?"

"Yes this is Tony's friend McGee."

"Seriously? Is this some kind of joke?"

"Oh I see. Hold on I think he's coming in right now."

"Probie! What are you doing?!" Tony demanded storming into the room.

"Your phone was ringing. So I answered it." McGee replied.

"Well who is it?" Tony asked.

"Tony it's social services. They said that you need to get to St. Andrews hospital right away." McGee replied.

A/N: Why is social services calling Tony and what does it have to do with his sudden move? New chapter will be up soon. Please review and thanks for reading.