After his examination Jimmy was declared stable enough to be transferred to a regular room. Arrangements had already been made for him to be put in Breena's room. The transfer paperwork just had to be filled out, and Breena had to informed and prepared for Jimmy to be brought in. She was still distressed but the doctors and nurses were cautiously optimistic that having her husband by her side would calm her at least a little bit. She still had a long way to go emotionally. Given the severity of her attack and the events leading up to it. When Jimmy arrived she was still awaiting the results of the test that would determine if she would be able to carry anymore children. Apparently Ball had delivered a few punches to her abdomen and that was the likely cause of the miscarriage. Due to Jimmy's hearing loss Breena had been put in the bed on the other side of the room. So that they would still be able to communicate with ease.
"How are you?" Jimmy asked nervously.
"OK" Breena replied.
"How are you really?" Jimmy asked.
"Miserable" Breena admitted.
"I still can't believe the baby's gone." Jimmy replied.
"I know. They did tests to determine if I will be able to have another but I haven't heard anything yet. I am terrified I won't be able to." Breena explained.
"Even if you can't we can always reopen our adoption process. We'll have to redo a few things but it will be much easier this time. No baby will be able to replace the baby we lost but we still have a lot of love to give." Jimmy explained.
"I don't know if I want another one. After all this." Breena confessed.
"That's OK, just Victoria is perfect." Jimmy replied.
"You're right there." Breena agreed.
"Now I wonder what is going to happen to me." Jimmy commented.
"With your hearing loss?" Breena asked.
"Yeah" Jimmy replied.
"Can you go back to NCIS?" Breena asked.
"That will depend if I will be able to use a hearing aide or not. It would be a safety issue if I was half deaf. Though I may be able to get away with it as long as I always have somebody with me in the field. I am still waiting for word from Vance." Jimmy explained.
"Well if you can't go back you can always work with my dad." Breena replied.
"He would take me after all this?" Jimmy asked.
"If he wants me to keep the business open after he retires he will." Breena replied.
"I don't want to worry about this now. I just want to be with you." Jimmy replied.
"Alright" Breena replied.
McGee was the one who went into interrogation with Ball. While Bishop stood on the the other side of the one way window and observed. Ball pretty much knew that he was totally screwed. That the interrogation was simply to get the last bit of information out of him. He knew that he was going away forever.
"You really put Jimmy and Breena in grave danger, by revealing the location of the safe house and leaking private information to Kemp. You really did that because you once loved Breena? Doesn't that seem risky? I mean if Kemp kills Jimmy. Who's to say he wouldn't have killed Breena too?" McGee questioned.
"OK! Fine! That wasn't the only reason!"Ball snapped.
"Then what the hell was your reasoning? You never even knew Ducky until four years ago?" McGee questioned.
"Because! I knew Jimmy before! When he was Seth!" Ball snapped.
"What do you mean?" McGee asked.
"We lived together in the compound! It wasn't a cult! It was just a different neighborhood! Jimmy being a pussy ruined my life!" Ball snapped.
"What do you mean?" McGee asked.
"My birth name is not Alexander Ball but Jebidaih Barber. I was born into the same community as Jimmy. My parents had high authority on the compound and as a result I had a great life. I had everything I ever wanted and I was in charge of all the kids. My life was perfect. Then one day when I was thirteen Jimmy reported his father for abuse. It wasn't abuse, all the parents knocked their kids around. Jimmy was just weak. The compound was declared a "cult", my parents and all the other adults were arrested. I was put into foster care. That's when my life became hell." Ball explained.
"Were you abused in foster care?" McGee asked.
"No and I was only in foster care for a few weeks before being adopted by the Ball family and renamed. They were good parents but I was a nobody and I almost never got presents." Ball explained.
"You are telling me that you put Jimmy's life at risk and nearly ruined Tony's all because you weren't treated like a God in your foster home?" McGee asked.
"You wouldn't understand agent McGee. You were never anybody." Ball remarked.
"Moving on, why the hell did you set Tony up?" McGee questioned.
"Because he is the only person at NCIS who is a big enough jackass to actually pull a stunt like this and if we are being perfectly honest. I hate him and I want him to suffer." Ball explained.
"You son of a bitch!" McGee snapped.
"What the hell are you going to do?" Ball asked.
"You are under arrest for leaking classified information, human endangerment, impersonation of a Federal Agent and well we'll just see what else." McGee said dragging Ball out of interrogation.
Bishop stood in the hallway. She had been observing Ball's interrogation when she got the call from Ducky. After hearing the news she could no longer stand in this little room. She had to run out into the hallway and gasp for air. She was devastated, angry, and betrayed. Even worse she would have to break the news to Abby and McGee. She did not know how she would handle that.
"You are under arrest for leaking classified information, human endangerment, impersonation of a Federal Agent and well we'll just see what else." McGee said dragging Ball out of interrogation.
"You can add accessory to the murder of a federal agent." Bishop relied.
"What do you mean?" McGee asked.
"Ducky called me a few minutes ago. Kemp killed Tony. In front of Gibbs." Bishop explained.
"You son of a bitch! You are just lucky Gibbs wasn't here!" McGee snapped.
A/N: Next chapter will be the last. New chapter will be up soon. Please review and thanks for reading.
