Okay, I'd like to say a special thank you to Blessedgrace for pointing out that there wasn't any markers between scenes. I put them there, but then they didn't show up. Sorry. I've resorted to using X's instead of my other stuff.

Hopefully, all answers will be revealed in this chapter. If not, feel free to ask and I'll add them into the next chapter.

Chapter Four: The Truth

Tony sat at his desk, completely confused. None of it made sense. Why would a decorated marine worry so much about his wife and son, then a week later start abusing his child and end up killing his wife? There was something wrong with that. Not to mention the other problem of Tyler being Jenny and Gibbs' kid. How come the doctors said he was dead? What was going on here?

The elevator dinged and Tony looked up to see Roger walk through the doors. "Uh, Boss," Tony said.

Gibbs looked up to the elevators and his face got that angry look on it. He stood up and walked towards Roger, who had panic written on his face.

"Agent Gibbs, I think Alison and Tyler have been kidnapped again!" Roger said. "Neither of them were in the house this morning!"

Gibbs pulled his right hand back before swinging it around, punching Roger's nose. Roger fell back, his hand covering his nose.

"Whoa, bossman can pack a mean punch," Tony said.

"You're just learning this, Tony?" Ziva asked, standing up and going to stand behind Gibbs with her gun drawn and pointed at Roger. Tony and McGee followed suit.

"What was that for?" Roger asked, looking at the blood that was now on his hand from his broken nose.

Gibbs picked him up by the lapels of his shirt, slamming him against the wall. "You know damn well what it was for, you son of a bitch!"

"Look, I just came to see if you knew where Alison and Tyler were here and safe," Roger said.

"Tyler's safe. Can't say the same for Alison," Gibbs hissed.

"What happened to her?"

"You killed her!" Gibbs shouted.

Jenny came out of her office, disturbed by all the shouting. "Agent Gibbs!" she reprimanded. "What is going on?" She noticed Roger. "Bring him into interrogation," she said, changing her tone. She walked down the stairs and walked up to Roger, glaring at him. There was blood down the front of his shirt from his nose now.

"What is going on here?" Roger asked. "I swear, I didn't kill Alison! I love her! Why would I kill her?"

"You tell me," Gibbs said, shoving him into the elevator. Jenny and the team followed, all of them managing to squeeze into the lift.

"What makes you think I would kill my wife?" Roger asked.

"She told us that you were the one that put her in the hospital about a minute before she died," Jenny said, her jaw set.

Roger looked at her, confused. "Why was she in the hospital?"

"Because you beat the living shit out of her!"

"I told you, I didn't do anything to harm her! I would never hurt her!"

Gibbs glared at him. The elevator doors opened up and they all walked out. Ziva, Tony, and McGee walked into the observation deck while Jenny followed Gibbs and Roger into the interrogation room. Gibbs thrust Roger into the chair.

"Why'd you do it?" he growled.

"I told you!" Roger said. "I didn't do anything."

Jenny pulled a small flash drive looking item out of her pocket and plugged it into the plasma. She grabbed the clicker and turned on the plasma, showing the dead body of Alison. Roger looked at it in horror.

"What kind of monster would do such a thing?" he asked.

"YOU!" Gibbs shouted, slamming his hand on the table.

Roger jumped. "I'm telling the truth, Agent Gibbs. I didn't harm anyone."

Gibbs glared at him, knowing that this was going to take a while.

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Tony looked at the paper in his hands. "We've got a warrant for his house."

"Search it," Jenny said. "I'm going out for coffee."

"Gibbs still with Roger?" McGee asked.

Jenny nodded. "Roger is still saying that he didn't do anything."

"That bastard," Ziva muttered. "Does he think he can get away with it?"

Jenny shrugged. "Who knows." She picked up her purse. "Call me when you find something."

"Sure thing, Director," Tony said. They watched as Jenny left. Tony looked at his two fellow team members. "Let's go search his house now."

XXX

"Hey, Tony, come over here," Ziva said. Tony walked over to where she was taking pictures of a glass with a small amount of an auburn looking liquid in it. "Looks like Roger's been drinking." She bent forward and sniffed it, repelled by the smell. "Ugh, that's disgusting."

"What is it?" Tony asked.

"Smells like a beer of some sort, but there's something else in it," Ziva replied.

"Bag it."

Ziva nodded and took one last picture before grabbing an evidence bag and putting the glass in it.

McGee came up to them. "There's nothing here," he said. "It looks like nothing ever happened, except for the blood on the couch, but we already knew about that." He looked at the bag in Ziva's hands. "What's that?"

She shrugged, handing it over to him. "Don't know. I'm sure Abby and her 'babies' will find out." She smiled at the name that their forensics scientist had given the machines in her lab.

"We've done all we can here," Tony said. "Let's pack it up and get this stuff back to Abby."

"She's not my girlfriend!" McGee said.

"Don't deny the truth, McGee," Ziva said, smirking at him.

McGee glared at them both. "If Gibbs hears about this—"

"You'll get the head-slapping of a lifetime, we know," Tony said. He made sweeping gesture with his hand. "Now go! Find out all that geeky stuff!"

McGee sighed and took the elevator to Abby's lab. Tony chuckled as he walked away. "Oh, that geek never ceases to amaze me."

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Gibbs looked over at the door to the observation room. Jenny came in with two coffees and closed the door behind her. She handed him one of the coffees and took a sip out of the other.

"He confess yet?" Jenny asked.

He looked over at her with a 'yeah, right' expression on his face. She noticed his look and sighed.

"Says he can't even remember last night," Gibbs said.

"Bastard," Jenny muttered. Gibbs gave her a look while sipping his coffee.

"That man doesn't deserve to go to jail."

"I'm not going to let him walk, Jethro! Are you insane?"

"Jen, do you want him in jail?" Gibbs asked. "He abused Tyler. He killed Alison. He deserves to be dead! Not behind bars!" He gave her his famous look. "That's our son he abused, Jen."

Before Jenny could respond, her cellphone rang. She took it out of her pocket and answered it. "Shepard… alright, Abby, we'll be right down." She clicked the end button and put her cell back in her pocket. "Abby's got something."

Gibbs gave Roger a glare through the two way mirror and walked out with Jenny down to Abby's lab. Neither of them spoke on the way there. Gibbs quickly stopped to grab a Caf-Pow from the machine.

"What've you got, Abs?" Gibbs asked when he and Jenny got there. He noticed Tyler was sleeping in the back office of the lab. Turning back to Abby, he set the Caf-Pow beside her.

"Petty Officer Roger Hackeman didn't kill Alison or abuse Tyler, at least not purposely," Abby said. At Gibbs' and Jenny's confused looks, she turned and grabbed the glass that Ziva had found with the mysterious alcohol. "He was poisoned."

"Poisoned?" Jenny repeated.

Abby nodded. "There were traces of lysergic acid diethyl-amide in the beer he was drinking."

Gibbs and Jenny both stared at her, not knowing what she just said.

"Uh, LSD," McGee translated. "It's a hallucinogenic drug."

"So he was hallucinating?" Gibbs asked.

Abby and McGee both nodded.

"But what was he hallucinating?" Jenny asked. "It had to be something bad for him to beat Tyler and Alison."

Gibbs sighed, turning around. "That's what we're going to ask Roger."

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"Have you been experiencing anything unusual lately?" Tony asked Roger.

"What do you mean?" Roger asked.

"Anything abnormal happen to you in the past couple of weeks?

Roger thought for a moment. "Yeah, actually. You see, there's a security system on my house, but it hasn't been working lately. I was going to go tell Tyler to go to bed, but when I entered his room, a man was in there about to hurt Tyler. I punched the man a few times and he left, so I went out of the room. The man kept coming back, though."

Tony looked at the mirror behind him before looking back at Roger. "We'll take that into note." He stood up and left the interrogation room. Gibbs, McGee, and Ziva were waiting for him just outside. "Looks like we have our answer."

XXX

Gibbs walked up to the door of Jenny's office. It was wide open. Ignoring Cynthia, he walked in, about to slam the door closed when he saw Jenny at the conference table with Tyler.

"How about some green for the grass?" Jenny asked softly.

Tyler nodded and she handed him a green crayon. He softly colored the paper in front of him. Gibbs noticed the lollipop in his mouth and smiled. That kid was addicted to candy. He leaned up against the doorway, watching Jenny and Tyler interact.

"What color are you going to make the car?" Jenny asked.

"Red," Tyler answered. "It's my favorite color."

Jenny smiled. "Red's a nice color."

"What's your favorite color?"

Jenny thought for a moment. "I like lavender."

Tyler snorted. "That's a girl color."

"Well I am a girl," Jenny pointed out, a smile spreading across her face.

He nodded, then Gibbs noticed his face went serious. "Where am I going to live now?"

Jenny sighed softly. "We're still figuring that out."

"My mommy's not okay, is she?"

She shook her head. "No, she isn't. She's gone, Tyler. I'm sorry."

"Gone like Grand-pappy?" Tyler asked.

Assuming it was his grandfather, Jenny nodded. "Yeah, gone like Grand-pappy."

"What about my daddy?"

"He's okay, but you won't get to live with him anymore."

"It's because he hurt me, isn't it?" Tyler asked. "He gave me bruises like the ones I got when I fell off the swing at the park, or when Kyle kicked me by accident at soccer practice." Jenny nodded. "Why'd he do it?"

"Because he didn't think it was you," Gibbs said, alerting them to his presence.

"Jethro," Jenny said, surprised. "How long have you been standing there?"

Gibbs shrugged, walking over to sit down beside Tyler.

"What do you mean he didn't think it was me?" Tyler asked.

"He was hallucinating," Gibbs said. "He thought someone was trying to hurt you, but it was all in his imagination. He didn't mean anything by it."

"But even though it wasn't done on purpose, I don't get to live with him," Tyler said.

Gibbs nodded. "Yep."

Tyler looked at the bare lollipop stick in his hand. "Can I go see if Agent DiNozzo has anymore lollipops?"

Jenny and Gibbs both laughed. "Sure thing, Tyler," Gibbs said. Tyler jumped up and ran out of the office and down to the Squad Room.

"He's a cute kid," Jenny said. "I wonder if we had raised him, what he would have been like?"

"Like you," Gibbs said. He changed into work mode. "Roger said that he thought he was beating up someone that was trying to hurt Tyler. He was hallucinating from the LSD in his beer. It doesn't explain Alison, though."

"He was drunk last night," Jenny said. "Bad things happen when people get drunk. Plus, if there was LSD in it, it couldn't been even worse."

Gibbs nodded. "The question is: what do we do with Roger now?"

"Personally, I want to shoot the bastard, hallucination or not," Jenny said. "But the director side of me says to just put him in custody. Bring him over to the Metro PD. They can keep him."

"And Tyler?" Gibbs asked, even though he knew the answer.

Jenny gave him a look that said 'Really?' "He can live with me. He is my son after all."

"You're not my mommy," Tyler's voice came from the doorway. He had another lollipop in his hand and a confused look on his face.

Both Jenny and Gibbs whirled around, looking at the baffled child. They exchanged a glance. How were they going to explain this? Especially to a six-year-old?

A/N: I know, a cliffhanger. Sorry 'bout that. Thanks for all the wonderful reviews I got! I really appreciate them, along with the favorites/alerts, and all the people that are just reading this story. Please review now! :D