Hi, everybody! I went as fast as I could and look! A new chapter! Thanks again to my reviewers. Those reviews mean the world to me. Please keep reviewing… Anyways, I had the weirdest ideas for this fic… Something that has to do with red ribbons, Tony in a tuxedo… You'll have to wait and see I guess. Now on with the story.

DISCLAIMER; I, sadly, don't own any of the NCIS characters mentioned in this fic.

REACTIONS AND ACTIONS

NCIS office building; 8 thirty in the morning;

After his explanations Tony was waiting for a reaction from the three agents. Any reaction. But it just didn't come. 'Are they too shocked to talk? What did they think? That I am a complete idiot?' Tony thought. He waited for some more seconds until he started feeling uncomfortable under their gaze, so he turned to Gibbs and asked;

"So boss, what do you want us to do?"

It seemed that that was what they needed to wake from their trance, since they all started talking together.

"When and how did you do all this work?" McGee wanted to know.

"What time did you said the meeting in the airport is?" asked Gibbs.

"Since when do you speak Russian" Ziva pondered?

'O.K., now they are giving me a headache' thought Tony and immediately decided to answer only Gibbs's question, since it was the only one that was actually related to the case.

"At five this afternoon boss. The e-mail said; package delivery, 11th of November, 17:00 hours, international airport, Mike's." Tony said turning to Gibbs.

"Mike's?" Asked Gibbs.

"Yeah, that's why I know that they are meeting to the airport that is near Rosenberg's base. Turns out 'Mike's' is a bar in the airport and the unofficial meeting point of the base's officers when they travel from that airport. I think it's because it is owned by a former marine seal or something like that…" Tony said.

"Right then. McGee, you try to locate that unknown server DiNozzo mentioned. David, call the airport and tell them we will send agents to check on the cameras. If they ask why, tell them we are searching for an escapee from the state prison. There is no need to tell them that five dangerous weapons are about to enter their airport and cause panic." Gibbs said. He then turned to Tony and said; "DiNozzo, you call special operations and tell them we need them to discretely surround the airport and make sure that they get the 'discretely' part right"

"Consider it done, boss" Tony answered.

"I am going to inform the director about this and I'll be back in a few minutes" concluded Gibbs and turned to leave. He suddenly stopped though and looked at Tony who was already dialing the special operations number.

"And DiNozzo" he said.

"Yeah, boss?" asked Tony.

"Good job." Gibbs said and proceeded to the director's office.

Tony raised an eyebrow and stared at Gibbs for a couple of seconds smirking, as he realized that 'good job' was the best compliment he could ever receive from Gibbs for doing his job. He went back to his phone call, missing the looks of amazement that came from McGee and Ziva, who had also heard Gibbs compliment.

NCIS office building; Director Shepard's office; 9 in the morning;

"So you are trying to convince me that the killer of lieutenant Jones is actually going to sell mass destruction weapons he stole from the army in an international airport. Today. And that you got this information by agent DiNozzo who hacked into the Russian and American military databases. Without clearance." A very much confused director Jennifer Shepard asked a very much pissed off agent Gibbs. For the second time.

"Rule number 23, Jen." Gibbs said.

"Excuse me?" Jennifer asked, even more confused this time.

"DiNozzo didn't ask for clearance because he followed rule number 23; better ask for forgiveness than for permission." Gibbs explained. "And I am not trying to convince you about anything. I'm just giving you the facts and informing you about my next actions, as you requested Jen." He added.

Jennifer sighed and tried to take in all the information she had just received. "Jethro, I am only going to ask you once; are you absolutely certain that what you just told me is true? I do not want to base a complete operation on a hunch DiNozzo had and jeopardize my position over nothing." She said approaching Gibbs.

Gibbs looked at her with disbelief. "It is not a hunch. I saw the databases and lieutenant Rosenberg's e-mails myself." He said. "Anyways I wouldn't do anything to jeopardize your position" he added bitterly, while thinking 'Your precious position, which seems to be all you care about these days'.

Jennifer, who was too concerned thinking about how she would justify the operation to her superiors without mentioning the illegal hacking into military databases to notice the bitterness in his voice, said; "O.K. Jethro. I'm going to go with you on this one. Just make sure you are not going to lose the suspect and I will take care of everything else."

"Thank you director. Now if you don't need me for anything else I should return to my agents and organize the operation." Gibbs said, stressing the word 'director'.

Jennifer, who was still trying to come up with a convincing reason to give to her superiors as to why she had just approved of such an operation, just said; "Yes, off course. You should better go."

Gibbs just sighed and left Jennifer's office thinking that no matter what he did, he was never going to completely understand that woman.

NCIS office building; 12 thirty in the evening;

For the past three and a half hours Tony had non stop tried to organize the operation to the airport. He was going to make sure everything went perfect in this operation. It was the first one to be actually based completely on him and he wanted it to work. So he would make it work. For himself but most importantly, for Kate. 'I only wish you were here to see this Katie, you would be so proud of me. If you haven't thought of the solution first that is.'

Lost in his thoughts he didn't notice some of his colleagues staring at him from the other side of the room. But they were there none the less. As a matter of fact, that specific moment Abby Sciutto, Timothy McGee and Ziva David were observing every move Tony made and talking about those observations with each other;

"So he actually hacked those databases, solve the case that nobody could solve by himself and now he is organizing an operation to capture a killer and some weapon smugglers" Abby said, trying to summarize all she had heard during the last fifteen minutes. "Who is this guy and what has he done to Tony?"

"I know." McGee said. "If I hadn't seen it with my own eyes or if he hadn't actually made fun of me three times in the past two hours, I would be skeptical too."

"I don't know why, but I think that he looks hotter than ever" Ziva said.

The answer to that statement was two amazed looks from Abby and McGee and spontaneous "What are you talking about?" from both of them.

"No, I am serious" Ziva insisted. "Look Abby you are a woman, right?"

"Should I be insulted right now Ziva?" Abby asked.

"Why?" Ziva wanted to know.

"I think you just questioned if she is a female or not." McGee stated.

"What he said" Abby agreed.

"That is not what I meant. I just stated the obvious." Ziva said.

"Oh, if you put it that way…" Abby started, but never got to finish her sentence since Ziva interrupted her.

"As I was saying, you are a woman and you can't disagree when I say that Tony is not what you would call bad looking." Ziva continued.

"I will have to agree with that." Abby said, while McGee looked at her in shock.

"His problem sometimes however is that he can't be trusted to be serious in serious situations. But look at him now. He is giving orders and solving cases and being complemented by Gibbs, all in four hours." Ziva said.

"Talk about complete transformation!" Abby stated.

"And I think that Ziva is not the only one that has that opinion" McGee informed them.

"Come on Tim," Abby said, feeling her heart skip a beat as she saw all her hopes about McGee disappearing "don't tell me that you…"

"Me? What about me?" McGee asked confused. Then he started blushing furiously as he understood what Abby had suggested. "No! No, Abby, I am not talking about me!"

"Oh!" Abby said letting out a breath she didn't even know she was holding.

"Then whom are you talking about?" Ziva asked.

"Well I don't know if it's just me," McGee continued "but doesn't it seem like agent Blake is trying to get his attention?"

"What do you mean she is trying to get his attention? How?" Abby asked.

"Well," McGee said "the building has temperature control that keeps the temperature cool enough. However she has unbuttoned the top two buttons of her shirt and she keeps walking in front of Tony's desk with no obvious reason. She has already done it six, no scratch that, seven times the past hour." He said as agent Blake passed in front of Tony's desk once more.

"And the unbelievable here is not agent Blake trying to get Tony's attention but the fact he is ignoring her!" Abby exclaimed.

And it was true. Tony was completely oblivious about agent Blake and her attempts to flirt with him, due to being completely absorbed with his work.

However, they didn't have the time to further analyze Tony's behavior, as Gibbs chose that exact moment to announce; "Final update everybody. We are leaving in thirty minutes."