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Tony's Point of View
It had been a week since Gibbs had taken Rikki home, a week since the death of Janice von Housen, Gibbs hadn't returned after that day due to him worrying about Rikki, apparently she was taking the news very hard, so hard in fact that she hadn't returned any of my calls or texts in days. I was really worried about her, I'd even tried to visit her a couple of times but she had refused to come out of her room. It hurt me to see how much she was hurting, it hurt me not to be able to help her through the pain. Tim and I were close to solving this case, we had found out that Janice had moved to DC just a couple of months after Rikki had come and found her father, she had been married to a marine and that her husband who had been a special operative for the United States government had been keeping secrets from his team, apparently he'd been killed about ten months ago in the line of duty, but Janice hadn't been sure that is what had happened to her husband and had been digging around. I was running a search through her phone calls again because something wasn't adding up, it just wasn't making any sense to me. McGee was down with Abby in the lab going over the reports that we'd managed to find in Janice's house and were trying to see what they could find there, but there was something in the pit of my stomach that was telling me that something was wrong and I didn't like that feeling. I think Gibbs was getting annoyed with how many times I'd rung him to check on Rikki or to see if she'd made any progress and when he said that she still hadn't left her room I said the same thing to him "Tell her I'm always here for her if she needs to talk" he would grunt and say that he'd pass along the message.
Decideing that I needed a pick me up I made my way to the cafetria and made myself a cup of coffee, it felt weird not making one for Rikki as well, or having her sit at the table as I did so and tell me stories of how she'd grown up or her favourite movies and songs, or how she'd start humming a song she had stuck in her head that day which would then turn to her singing, and I would smile at her as she let her walls down just enough to see how beautiful she truly was and just how much she really trusted me. Instead of having my coffee in the cafeteria I made my way back to my desk and just as I reached it there was a ding on my computer. Eagerly sitting down in front of my computer, hoping for some kind of message from Rikki but seeing something completely unexpected. I would know that number anywhere, it was Rikki's number. Grabbing my bag and heading down to the car calling McGee to let him know where I was going and letting him know what I had found.
It was about half an hour later that I pulled up outside the Gibbs residence and knew that this was going to be hard, I wish I'd brought McGee with me as it would've made this slightly less awkward than having to interrogate my girlfriend. Knocking on the door, I waited nervously for someone to open the door. When Gibbs opened the door, he looked at me confused before asking what I was doing here, when I explained to him that I had found a link between Janice and Rikki that may potentially close this case once and for all he reluctantly let me inside. I walked up to the room where Gibbs said she would be and knocked, when there was no answer I opened the door and there lying on her bed was my girlfriend, looking like an absolute wreck, she looked broken and my heart tore. I rushed to her side and sat next to her on the floor holding her hand and moving the hair out of her face.
"Rikki, my poor girl. I'm so sorry this has happened to you" I said trying to remain strong for her but I could see that there were fresh tears in her eyes and I squeezed her hand in mine, trying to get her to calm. I spent half an hour with her just trying to calm her before I began to ask her questions about the contact that Janice had had with her over the months they were in contact and what I found out really surprised me, she had found reason to believe that Janice's hunch was correct, Robert hadn't been killed in the line of duty he had been killed in a case of friendly fire, by someone in his team and she guessed that given the fact that Janice had been shot and killed that she would be next, which is why she didn't want anything to do with anyone at the moment, on the one hand she was hurting from losing the last link to her mother and childhood but she was also fearful of what would happen to anyone who got too close to her. With this new information in tow, I carried her out of her room and managed to get her into the basement with Gibbs and knew that she would be safe down there with him. After a quick explanation of what Rikki had just revealed to me I told Gibbs that I was heading back to NCIS to figure out who this person was and stop them before they could hurt his little girl.
I made it back to headquaters and called McGee up, letting him know everything that Rikki had told me and then went up to tell Jenny of our progress since she was more than a little worried about Rikki. Once I was back at my desk I helped McGee search through the Robert's team. It took a long time for us to sift through everyone and we narrowed it down to three people on his team, knowing that each had there own reasons for wanting to murder Robert and trying to keep anyone who meddled with them or the case a secret but what was troubling me was that this person needed a very high clearance to access our server and to look into what we were searching, let alone change reports and the like to make it something else. I got a phone call just before I decided to call it quits for the day, smiling when I saw who it was that was calling me.
"Hey beautiful" I said into the phone, there was no one else around in the bull pen since McGee had left about an hour before me saying that he was beat.
"Hi babe" I heard Rikki say back
"What can I do for you beautiful?" I asked and I heard her take a deep breath
"I want to spend the night with you, not to do anything like that, I'm not ready for that but I do want to spend time with you, make up for how I've been ignoring you" she said and I smiled
"Of course, Rik. I'm just leaving work now. I'll see you at my place soon" I said and heard her let out a deep breath
"See you soon babe" she said and hung up the phone. I smiled now as I had a reason to look forward to going home, a reason to be happy to head back to my apartment. Though this was the first time Rikki was coming over to my place as my girlfriend it wasn't the first time she was coming to my apartment, so I knew that she would be there soon.