A/N Thank you for your reviews. I really appreciate them.

well another chapter down so Enjoy :)

Disclaimer: It's mine...I collected all the box tops and sent away for it ;P

(FYI For the purposes of this story, no one at NCIS has EVER met Senior!) Hey, I did warn ya it was AU! ;)


Chapter 7

Sarah pushed past Gibbs and tore into the bullpen.

"Where is he, is Tim with him?" she asked.

"We do not know yet." Ziva said sitting Sarah down on her chair and walking towards the plasma,

"His phone is registering as being at a set of abandoned warehouses off Forestville road" She pulled up the address and they set off.

"I'm coming too!" Sarah said. Gibbs tried to argue with her but she stormed past him and got in the car.

"Fine but you stay behind us." Gibbs said.

Gibbs drove like a man possessed; Tony actually had not felt this scared in a car since he had first driven with Ziva.

They got to the warehouse and took positions by the back door, Ziva and Gibbs took one door Sarah stayed behind Tony as he entered from the other side.


Jarvis was laughing with DiNozzo senior, They had gone back to see Tim. Jarvis, fed up with Tim's 'whining' as he had put it had used the code word and had Tim standing at attention. He had been that way for 12 hours. Occasionally a lone tear had escaped Tim's eye but no one had noticed.

Inside himself, Tim's body was screaming, his muscles were burning and he felt like he was locked in a cage.

For Tim he could move around inside his mind, visiting different facets of his personality. This was just like his nightmares; he would see the psychotic kid screaming to get out of one room, the manic killer laughing at the bloody bodies locked up with him. The depressed, scared kid who hid in a corner to scared to even show his face…..this one scared him most of all, he felt this was the most real version of himself he had encountered and the confidant federal agent who was sometimes too cocky for his own good.

Jarvis noticed they were in trouble first, Tony had snuck past a back window, but Sarah was not as stealthy and he saw her.

"McGee! Here!" He called and Tim walked stiffly towards him.

"Is he fighting his programming, you never told me this was a possibility." DiNozzo, Senior complained.

"Never mind that," Jarvis snapped, "We have company."

He turned to Tim, "Defend us. No one who comes through those doors must live." Jarvis ordered.

Tim grabbed a gun and put it in his waistband and the two machetes he had used earlier and took up a protective stance between the door and the two men.

Jarvis and Senior headed for the back corner.


"NCIS FREEZE!" Gibbs said as he kicked the door open.

Tim's eyes went wide in shock. As did Gibbs' to see his agent standing, even though he was obviously exhausted, covered in dried blood, moving into an attack stance.

"Tim, put the weapons down son," Gibbs spoke quietly lowering his gun.

Tims face contorted as though he was trying to fight against himself. "Run..." He managed to say against gritted teeth.

Gibbs took two steps closer to him as Ziva and Tony entered the room.

Tim moved into position raising the machetes.

"Tim NO!" Ziva pleaded.

Tim took his first swing as he did he yelled, "Please, RUN!"

Ziva dodging the machetes tried to disarm him.

Sarah came in and for a second stood shocked. Then just as Tim had a clear swing at Gibbs and lifted the machete for a blow that would have killed him she yelled. "Kaka Quokka!"

If Gibbs had not seen it for himself, he would have never believed it.

On hearing the word, Tim dropped like a rock. His eyes were open but he could not move.

Sarah ran to his side. "It's ok Tim, it's going to be ok." She cradled his head and stroked his hair.

Gibbs pointed his gun at Jarvis who was looking around madly. "Agent Gibbs thank goodness you're here to save me"

"Can it Jarvis….you're under arrest for the kidnapping and illegal imprisonment of a Federal Agent." Gibbs growled.


There was a noise as something broke in the other room, Gibbs looked at Tony who nodded to Ziva to cover him, and they both entered the room with their guns drawn.

Tony went in first and saw an older man trying to climb out of a window.

"Turn around slowly." Tony said his voice dripping with menace.

Senior turned around, "You!" He sneered at his son.

"D…Dad?" Tony slightly lowered his gun; Senior took three steps across the room and backhanded his son.

He grabbed a gun and held it to Tony's head, "you ruin everything." Senior snarled and went to pull the trigger.

Tony closed his eyes and heard a gunshot.

For a second he thought he was dead, and then he realized he was not but Senior was.

"Tony?" Ziva rushed up to him, "Are you ok? How did he manage to get so close?" She asked looking at the body of the man.

For a second Tony looked distraught, then he looked at Ziva, all emotion hidden, "How's Tim?" He asked.

"Sarah has him," Ziva said, "Paramedics are on their way."

They walked back into the main room; Jarvis was sitting in a chair in handcuffs.

"Where is…?" Jarvis started to ask. But Tony cut him off, "He's dead." He said flatly.

Jarvis laughed. "Never thought you'd have the guts."

Tony ignored him and the looks he was getting from Ziva. He walked over to Tim, "How is he Sarah?" He asked.

Tim was breathing heavily his eyes flickering from Gibbs to Tony to Ziva. Nothing else on him could move.

"Shh." Sarah said to him stroking his hair. She looked up at the others "He's going to be ok." She said more to reassure Tim than them.

Gibbs walked away and made a phone call.

"Dr. Sutton has agreed to work on Tim's case; we have his journals so we can use them."

"No you don't?" Sarah said. "Those five books, those are just these months' journals." She told them.

"He has fifteen boxes of journals he usually writes one a week. Always has done. Most of the boxes are at home with mom and dad, but in his lock up there are loads of boxes." She informed them.

"Lock up?" Tony asked.

"Sure, near your place." Sarah informed them.

"My apartment?" Tony asked confused.

Sarah shook her head, "No, just down the road from the Navy yard, the storage place." She replied. "He used to write in the morning and after work and drop a book off each week."

Gibbs waited as Ducky came in and dealt with the body in the other room. Tony had not said anything much about the person and he had not left Tim to go and look.

Jervis had sneered at the sight of Tim on the ground. The first thing Gibbs did was gladly hand him off to the back up team.

"He's all yours." Gibbs said roughly pushing him in the direction of Agent Balboa.

"No problem Gibbs, the Director wants to interrogate him personally." Balboa smiled as Jarvis tripped over Balboa's foot. "Oops." He sniggered with a lopsided grin at Gibbs who nodded and turned back to the crime scene.


Ducky walked in with Palmer, "Anthony, I hear we have a body to process?" he asked.

"It's over there," Tony waved his hand in the general direction of the other room and went to help Sarah as the paramedics got ready to transport Tim to Bethesda.

"DiNozzo!" Gibbs called, "Tell Sarah that Ziva will accompany her to the hospital, I need you to photograph the crime scene."

Tony's jaw tightened but he nodded. "On it boss." He said, went, got the camera and started shooting.

Gibbs turned to Tony "I know it's a lot but we are a man down, Take the shots to Abby and then I'll meet you at the office, we need to get as much on Jarvis as we can before he walks. He's not going to get away with this, find out as much as you can about his accomplice we need everything." Gibbs said.

"That won't be hard." Tony replied and Gibbs pulled up short.

"What you got?" Gibbs said looking at the body.

"The dead guy is Anthony DiNozzo, Senior. 76 years old, multi millionaire and all around asshole!" Tony spat the last word out, as both Ducky and Gibbs looked on shocked.

"He's wanted by the FBI, The CIA and the DEA for basically anything you can think of. He was probably Jarvis' buyer, he tends to buy his way out of trouble," Tony laughed sourly, "Couldn't buy ya way outta Ziva's bullet though could ya!" He said looking at the body.

"Anthony, my boy I am so sorry," Ducky said.

"What for Ducky? Him? He was going to hurt Tim, My family….if I could I'd have shot him myself….again." Tony added quietly as an afterthought.

"Again?" Gibbs asked.

Tony turned away, "Boss I'll drop the evidence off to Abby, then I want to check on Tim." He said.

"OK, DiNozzo." Gibbs said seeing the deflection and allowing it. "Tell Sarah I'll need anymore information on that storage locker, I'll finish up here and meet you there."

Tony nodded and left.