The First Time
Peppe1951
Summary: DiNozzo goes after the murderer of a Petty Officer without authorization from Gibbs. Warning: Disciplining of an adult. Don't like? Don't read! Disclaimer: NCIS belongs to CBS and Paramount; I only write about them.
(The story takes place during DiNozzo's first year with NCIS, before Kate joined the agency.)
Chapter 1
Gibbs had fallen asleep under his boat again when the phone rang,
Buzz….buzz…"Gibbs…DINOZZO! Where in the hell are you? You are AWOL mister," began Gibbs only to hear from the other side,
"Boss…not so loud…they only give you one phone call. I'm at Micksville…yeah I followed the Petty Officer…yeah I'm in jail. Boss come and get me, please… before he does it again….," and just as sudden as the phone call had come it was gone.
Gibbs looked at the phone in his hand, noticing the time and muttered angrily "DiNozzo…one of these days," before dialing another number and saying rapidly, "Ducky, I need you…DiNozzo's in trouble again and usually that means he's hurt, too. I need you to come with me and check him over…It's six now I'll be over in a hour and pack a bag no telling how long it will take to iron things out with the local LEOs," before hanging up. He needed to take a shower and get his coffee, pack a bag for himself and one for DiNozzo and then go and pick Ducky up for the long trip after his AWOL agent.
Tony looked at the Sheriff who had ended his phone call, "Hey I still had a couple of minutes left."
"No son, I gave you your allotted time…now it's late and it's back to the cell for you," replied Sheriff Black.
Tony nodded and allowed the older man to push him towards the two cells in the back of the office.
"Now you get back on that bunk and don't cause any more trouble today; it will take your boss some time to get here and I want you in good condition when he arrives," he said as he offered him some fatherly advice. He had arrested Tony after he had had several of the local citizen's call in about a young man harassing them about one of their local boys, Russell Benton.
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It had been Monday morning around ten that Special Agent Anthony DiNozzo with NCIS had arrived into the city of Micksville. He had identified himself as a NCIS agent, which the Sheriff had to verify before he would give out any information. NCIS was just one of many Federal agencies he wasn't familiar with. After that Tony had informed him to his mission…the apprehension of Petty Officer Russell Benton and from that point everything had gone downhill.
Sheriff Black had informed him that they would try and help but they were short a man or two due to sickness and he would have to wait until he could free up an officer to accompany him with his search. "That won't do Sheriff…look I know what the petty officer looks like I can go out on my own and find him," Tony had informed him as he headed for the door.
"Freeze…I don't want you bothering our good citizens especially since most of them know Benton and his family for years and would take affront with any one trying to 'bad mouth' him," ordered the Sheriff.
"I'm a Federal Agent Sheriff, I don't need your approval to carry out my job," and left before the sheriff could say anything more.
It hadn't taken Tony long to align nearly everybody he talked to and all too soon calls and complaints were coming in to the Sheriff's office and the Sheriff had been forced to send one of his men to forcefully bring him in, if it took that; but thankfully it hadn't. This didn't mean that Tony was happy…he was far from it.
"All I'm saying Agent DiNozzo is that you have to treat these people with a little more respect when you try and question them," pleaded the Sheriff,
"and I'm telling you this if I get just one more complaint because of you I will be arresting you and you can just stay here until your superior springs you…you understand?"
"I understand," and with that Tony was out the door once again.
The Sheriff had only shook his head and called out, "Shirley make sure that the first cell as clean bedding on it I have a feeling that our young agent will be spending the night with us," and had waited for the inevitable to occur.
"Got it boss," replied the young officer as she went down the hall to the cells.
It wasn't until ten o'clock that night that the call came out about a bar brawl at the Mountain Retreat and when they arrived Sheriff Black wasn't surprised to find out that the whole thing started from a line of questions asked by Agent DiNozzo who was sporting a black eye.
"That's it!!!" roared Sheriff Black as he stalked over to the agent, "I've had it with you," he said as he relieved Tony of his weapon and badge and cuffed him before pulling him along, "maybe a few days as our guest will get through to you about how to behave…but what you really need is a visit to a woodshed and I'm just about mad enough to take you," he lectured as he got Tony in the back of his vehicle and drove away.