Chapter 2
The day had not begun well for Tony. He had searched his entire apartment and his car for his lost cellphone. He could not find it anywhere and he hoped that he left it at work or one of his coworkers knew where it was. As soon as he gets off the elevator he walked over to the bullpen where Ziva and McGee were already at their desk working. "Hey guys, tell me you seen it."
"And good morning to you too Tony," Ziva said with her usual sash.
"It's the worst morning of morning." Tony reply as he quickly looking around his desk area. "My phone, tell me you seen it."
He walked toward McGee, knowing the techno-geek would be sympathic. True to his nature McGee responded, "Lost your phone. Ouch."
"Well you are a very capable investigator, why don't you just investigate." Ziva said with less sympathy than Tim.
"Yes!" Tony already knew this and Ziva sash wasn't helping. He grabbed his drawer out of his desk and dumped the contents onto the floor. He proceed to do the same with the second drawer when Gibbs walked by his desk. The senior field agent just stared at his boss, not saying a word as if he wasn't doing anything out of the ordinary.
Ziva deciding to be helpful tried to explain. "Tony is just—"
Gibbs cut her off. "I don't want to know."
He moved on to McGee and Tiny went back to his search for his phone. He caught bits of the conversation. Tony knew after working with Gibbs for ten years and McGee for eight, that Tim often get to technical and put too much detail in his report for their boss liking. After Tim explain what happened with the eye and hearing Tim tell their boss that it was being put on the back burner he knew it was time he jumped in.
"Agent Barrett and her team left for Hawaii last night following a new lead." Having given his input he went back to searching for his phone.
"Dinozzo!" Tony stopped and looked up at his boss. "What the hell are you doing?"
"I lose my phone. You haven't seen it?"
Gibbs rolled his eyes. He quickly unclipped his phone from his hip and tossed it to tony. "Here, use mine."
Tony felt the weight of it in his hand. It was so different from his own. "Wow, so heavy. I need a computer on it to program ringtone or else I won't know—" Tony did not get a chance to finish his sentence because the phone began to ring.
"Answer it." Gibbs said with a wave of his hand.
"Special Agent Gibbs' desk, Very Special Agent Di—" again Tony didn't get a chance to finish his sentence before the other person the line began to speak. "Oh hey. Where? Okay." Hanging up the phone Tony begins to explain the situation. "Dead guy at a navy log."
Tony tossed the phone back to Gibbs and grabbed his gear. Gibbs tried to hand back the phone but tony refused it. Gibbs rolled his eye. He would never understand why people needed the newest technology when the old one worked just as well.
Getting to the Navy Log and seeing the crime scene the team began working. Gibbs started with taking picture of the victim. Tony walked around the body inspecting it. "I guess the Port to Port Killer is back on the front burner."
Ducky held out the scissors toward McGee. "Agent McGee, if you would be so kind."
"Should I call Agent Barrett.?" Ziva offered.
"No." Gibbs said as he continued to take pictures.
"But it's her," Ziva gave Tony a look and Tony knew he shouldn't continue with that train of thought, "lost for not being in town."
Tony did not understand what Gibbs was so upset about. He liked EJ. When she first arrived they bonded over the Rota job. The position was original offered to him and because he had turned the job down EJ had received the promotion. Spending time with EJ helped him with the with ifs as he often wonder about what it would have been like if he had taken the promotion instead. He would spend hours listening to EJ recount her adventures in Spain. EJ was quickly becoming a trusted friend.
Gibbs still saw pass Tony little attempt to cover his slip of the tongue. "We don't even know what we are looking at yet DiNozzo."
"I know what we are not looking at. At his age there is no way this guy is a three star admiral." Having a father for an admiral McGee would have known.
"Well the Port to Port Killer is fond of dressing his victims in higher ranking uniforms." Ducky continue his observation of the victim as McGee continue cutting the wrap. Ducky pass the fortune cookie to Ziva to put in the evidence bag.
"Can't wait to crack that open," Tony joked hoping to get a slap on the back of the head. He had hoped that Gibbs would have already forgiven him for his EJ comment.
As Ducky and Tim talk about the time of death of the victim, it worried Tony. The killer knew when EJ and her Team left which meant that the killer was watching them. He worked many cases and his years as a cop, detective and finally as a federal agent he had not seen a smarter or most precise killer as the Port to Port Killer
"And for the grand finale," Ducky said bring Tony back to reality.
Tony got his camera ready to take the picture of the victim face. Ducky pulled the wrapper away and reveal a face from Tony past that he wish he never saw again. He hoped that he was mistaken. The light and the camera lenses had just made it look like him. Tony kneeled down to get a better look at the man. He looked different from the last time Tony had seen him but there was no doubting who he was. Tony didn't listen to ducky as he spoke more of his observations.
"Tony," Ziva said watching her partner carefully. "Is there anything wrong?"
"Yeah, I know him." Tony said not looking anywhere else but at the dead man in front of him.
As Gibbs heard Tony's comment and saw his indifferent face he took a look at the man himself.
"Who is he?" Tim asked curiously as he has never seen Tony this way before.
"He's my old partner." There were so many competing emotions going through him right now. The last time he had seen Danny, he had almost killed him. Tony had been so angry and would had killed him too if Gibbs had not step in to stop him. Now seeing him dead, Tony wasn't happy at the thought of his death at all.
AN: Please review and I'm still looking for someone to help me edit.