Jenny sighed as she rubbed her temples. After finding out what happened from Simon she had sent ten of her best agents to check the scene. What they had found had made her furious. The not even cooled body of Sargent Morris. Tony had the bastard cornered and by the looks of it Morris hadn't even been tortured yet. Ducky's autopsy showed that the tortured had been skipped and that he had immediately chopped the head off instead. This meant that she had two agents who were going to be tortured far worse, because the guy didn't get his ritual done. All this because two self-absorbed brats couldn't do their job. They could have had the bastard and now she had to tell Morris's family that NCIS could had saved him.
They were still waiting for whatever text the bastard was going to send. She had finally decided that she should call Gibbs and that had been a terrible conversation. Though Gibbs had decided to come back and handle the investigation himself which was an up side. If anyone could find Tony it was him.
Standing up she turned to look out her window. She didn't know were it all went so wrong. She herself could have stopped this. She could have given McGee and Ziva disciplinary action when Tony made their first reprimand. Instead she had let her feelings of owing Ziva her life to interfere with her job and now Tony was paying for it. Honestly she had mainly done it because she wanted the team to be waiting when Gibbs got back. Though now she knew she should have listened when Tony told her that Gibbs wouldn't want any of them dead because someone couldn't follow an order.
She smiled slightly. At least she knew that the rest of NCIS took care of their own. She had barely been able to stop them from mobbing the agents and the two were now in interrogation rooms waiting for Gibbs to take care of. Though it was actually for their protection to. she would be damned if she lost an agent because one of them got a little to rough on the backstabbers.
Simon sat stiffly in his seat ignoring the anxious stares. He was reading through Dinozzo's logs trying to see if he left some clue as to how he figured out were killer was. David and McGee had been useless. They barely knew a thing about the case, because they were so focused on taking down Tony that they couldn't do their damn job. He sort of wished Gibbs was here because he would swear the man had some kind of tracker on Tony.
Suddenly a shrill tune filled the silent room. Simon swallowed as everyone stared as he checked his messages. Here is a little show on why you shouldn't become between me and my work. Simon's eyes widened as a link to a video was attached to the text. Coming to a decision he sent the link to his email and then sent it to his team's tv screen. Clicking it he waited.
On the screen was a live feed showing Tony and Lee chained to the floor of an empty room.
When Tony heard their captor open the door he immediately situated himself in front of Michelle the best he could. He tried not to look at the camera facing them not wanting anyone to see the terror he was trying to hide in his eyes.
"Hello Agents, it was very rude of you to interfere in my work. I didn't even get to teach Sargent Michael Morris his lesson. I think it's time for your punishment." the voice of their captor could only be described as demented. He was wearing some kind of tribal mask in the shape of a skull. He was diminutive in size and had his hair hidden in a toboggan.
The man tilted his head and spoke, "I think it would be best to empty your stomachs. You don't deserve the privilege for keeping me from cleansing Victor of his unnaturalness."
Before Tony could react a needle was stabbed into his neck. Seeing him heading towards Michelle Tony tried his best from letting the bastard get near her. He couldn't let her get hurt. Not when she trusted him more than even the team mates that had known him since they joined NCIS. Why couldn't Tim and Ziva had just done their jobs for once? Was it too much to ask?
Pain erupted on his side as he was almost kicked aside, "You sure are going out of your way to protect her aren't you. You obviously follow the right path and for that I'll give you a boon and spare her pain. Her punishment for stepping between me and my mission will be to watch your punishment before she dies."
"Fuck you Ma-" Tony was cut off as he started vomiting.
"You were very thorough weren't you. Well I guess it's a good thing that this isn't a live feed isn't it."
Tony felt a hand pat his head before it smacked him hard enough for him to see stars.
"Don't you touch him you sick piece of shit," Michelle was screaming. She suddenly yelped as she was yanked by her hair and dragged to the wall that her chain was connected to. He punched her in the face stunning her and used that time to cuff her arms to the wall.
Gibbs waited impatiently for the elevator to get to the right floor. Dinozzo don't you die on me. I owe you a headslap.
