Gibbs with gun in hand began his exhaustive search of the warehouses on that pier. At the Navy Yard McGee tossed the keys to Ziva and said, "You drive." Ziva stood there shocked for a second but then quickly got her gear and headed for the elevator. Vance, Kort and Ducky, with his medical bag, met McGee and Ziva at the elevator.

McGee went to protest Ducky being there but Ducky held up his hand to stop him; Ducky said, "Anthony is going to need immediate attention if he is to survive. I will stay in the car until it is safe for me to enter but dear Timothy I AM going." The small group piled in the black expedition and took off toward the docks at Norfolk at great speeds."

The last warehouse was far from empty. Gibbs knew as soon as he saw the room filled with torture devices that he found Tony. Now he needed to see what he was up against. Gibbs spied a ladder that led up to a walkway that went through all the warehouses. He climbed up to the walkway and stealthily made his way across the warehouse. The warehouse was divided into two rooms. One side had the torture things and the other side was empty except for a black van and three men sitting around a card table. Behind the three men was a small door that had a pad lock on it he could only assume that was the door that hid Tony.

He sat and watched the three men play cards and casually talk about how they were going to finish Tony.

Mark smugly said, "We are going to off the kid in a way that will cause the old man to have a major heart attack this time and hopefully both the bastard and his son will die." The three men laughed manically as the anger inside Gibbs only grew more.

Gibbs decided right then and there that this would end and it would end on Gibbs terms. Gibbs made his way behind a crate that was on the walkway and began to line up his first shot. BANG the first one of Sanchez's goons fell face first onto the table with a perfectly placed bullet right in the brain.

Before they could even think to react another BANG and the second goon fell to the table in a puddle of his own blood. Sanchez hurried over to the door that held Tony he unlocked it and grabbed an unconscious Tony in his arms and shielded his own body with Tony's all the while holding a large Kay bar knife to Tony's neck.

Gibbs froze when he saw Tony. He looked dead. Gibbs began to shake thinking, "Oh God son I am too late. I am so sorry."

Sanchez screamed, "Why don't you come out and face me man to man.

Gibbs yelled back, "Oh like you did. You're a big man kidnapping, torturing and murder. Now you hide behind a dead man to save your own sorry skin."

Sanchez screamed, "He isn't dead, get down here in the next minute or he will be and you will be able to witness his throat slit and him bleed to death right in front of you in living color.

Gibbs was slowly making his way down stairs and finally he came from behind some boxes with his gun pointed at Sanchez.

Gibbs snarled, "Put him down, you have done enough with him, your beef is with me not him."

Sanchez smiled, "Oh you still don't get it do you. I wanted you to feel the pain that I went through. Going to visit my son each week finding new scars and bruises on his body each week will finally I come to visit and the God damned chaplain meets me instead of my son and he tells me he was found dead that morning. I could shoot you or stab you but seeing the pain of a child and not being able to do a damn thing about it that is worse than death for any father."

Gibbs tried to gently talk him down but Sanchez just screamed and began to tear into the flesh on Tony's neck with the knife. Before Gibbs could line up his shot. A shot rang out from the doorway and Sanchez fell to the ground with a sickening thud. He looked over in the direction of the shot and he saw, Vance, Kort, McGee and Ziva who was still in her shooting position staring at the man that she killed.

Gibbs nodded at her and then ran over to Tony. He held the lifeless man in his arms and he couldn't help but cry. It felt just like the horrible dream that he had in the hospital. Gibbs cautiously placed two fingers on Tony's bleeding neck and he let out a sigh when there was a very soft but steady heart beat thumping under his fingers. He pulled Tony into his lap and kissed his sweaty blood stained head and said, "Oh thank you God your still alive."

Ducky came over to the two men after a few minutes and he opened his bag and began to treat what he could on Tony. He bandaged his neck after he was confidant that it didn't nick any major arteries.

For a brief moment Tony woke up he looked at Gibbs who was holding him close to his chest and he gave him a weak smile and said, "I knew you would rescue me. I held on because I knew you would come. Thank you."

Gibb's voice was laden with emotions said, "You're my partner and I always have your six. You can count on me."

Tony smiled a weak smile and before he fell back unconscious he whispered, "Love you Dad." Gibbs kissed his head again and began to rock the unconscious man back and forth he whispered in his ear, "I love you too son."

The EMT's came within 5 minutes of Sanchez falling to the ground. While they were working on Tony Ducky turned his attention to Gibbs he could tell that Gibbs was hiding the fact that he was physically feeling the affects of the morning's events. Ducky begged Gibbs to go to the hospital and get checked out too before he had another heart attack.

Gibbs of course being Gibbs brushed Ducky off and kept his focus on Tony.

The EMT heard the exchange and noted the Gibbs physical condition and when they stabilized Tony the best that they could the lead medic told Gibbs, "We will allow you to ride in the ambulance if you promise to let the ER docs check you out while Tony is in surgery? Gibbs reluctantly agreed.

The four agents and the ME were left standing in the middle of three dead bodies. They all looked around the room and Kort asked, "So what agency do we call to come and take out the trash?"

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