Two days later: Tony was at Rossi's with Penelope and he was resting on the couch near a nice crackling fire. He had tried to not take his painkillers but his back and ribs had been too sore. He had an olive green loose fitting button down shirt on and some older jeans of his that were looser than they had been a few months before.

She said "Do you feel like some macaroni and cheese for lunch angelfish?"

He replied "Sure that sounds good if you let me make a salad to go with it. I have some ideas for what to put in it."

She smiled. "I like it when you do ones with strawberries and green grapes."

"For you lucky penny that's what we will have."

Then his phone rang. "Dinozzo." "I'm ok, I would like to have my normal life back soon though Gibbs."

He replied "On the voice recording that was sent to you, we got a definite match to Trent Kort. Fornell is bringing him in in about a few hours. Hotchner and your new team are going to be here."

Tony nodded. "Well I'll leave it to you to break him, though I would like one shot at that face to wipe his smirk off."

Gibbs laughed a little. "You're in protective custody plus not up to full speed. But I will promise you this, if there is anything left, we will give you that shot. "

He replied "Thank you. I don't like someone keeping me from doing my job because he decided to hurt me. The frog died with Jenny and I don't know why he couldn't let him stay buried. Never should have been on that undercover op."

Gibbs said "Don't go there Tony. You followed orders and did what the Director asked of you. If that's on anyone it's me."

"You didn't know about her vendetta boss. There were things she didn't share with you or anyone."

He replied "Well Mr. Kort just arrived so duty calls. If we need you to come in we'll arrange that. There's enough here though to build a solid case."

Tony said "Be careful. It's never a good idea to make a snake mad, they tend to bite when provoked."

Then they hung up.

Penelope said "Ok what just happened, I know something did."

"The voice print matched to Trent Kort. Gibbs, Fornell and Hotch are taking charge of things. They will tell me if I'm needed. Said they have enough to build a case without me being there."

She nodded. "Why would he want to hurt you after all this time?"

"I don't know. I wish I did, I wasn't the one who killed Rene Benoit in the first place. That would have been out there. Even though I lost my Camaro because of him, it still doesn't justify murder."

She patted his arm. "Well maybe after today this will be over and you can have your life back again."

"I hope lucky penny." "Not that Rossi's home isn't comfortable, it's just not mine."