Tony kneeled on the pillow Gibbs had gotten for him beside Gibbs' desk, today Tony was back to trying to organize cold case files occasionally looking through them to see if he saw anything noteworthy.

Gibbs gave Tony post-it notes and a pen so he could mark anything that he found so far Tony hadn't needed to use one. Tony and Gibbs had made it to the office about an hour before McGee and Kate were supposed to arrive it was now 9:15 and McGee and Kate weren't there yet.

Gibbs had been called into MTAC for a meeting, leaving Tony temporarily alone and Tony found the peace of an empty office refreshing.

Tony looked up when he saw someone from the neighboring cubicles walk down the hallway between McGee's and Kate's desks Tony looked up and smiled "Hello, can I be of assistance sir?"

The man smiled "Hi, My name is Agent Balboa I was hoping I could speak to Gibbs?"

Tony nodded "Master is in a meeting in MTAC right now, but I can take a message if you'd like?"

Balboa smiled "That would be great could you just let him know that I was looking for him?"

Tony nodded "It won't be a problem."

Balboa nodded turning to leave he stopped for a moment though before turning back around "Your Gibbs' new sub right?"

Tony nodded and Balboa smiled at him "It's nice to meet you I'm both my team's leader and the sub specialist. How is everything going with you and Gibbs? I know that you being his first sub and all he must have a lot of questions."

Tony nodded "I love being with Master he is so kind. He does have questions though, and I'm not entirely sure how to answer them when he asks."

Balboa nodded "Well if you two need help you let me know alright? I have no problem with teaching him some things and answering some questions."

Tony nodded Balboa noticed that the folders stacked around Tony and asked curiously "What are you doing Tony?"

Tony smiled excitedly "I am organizing all the cold cases for Master!"

Balboa nodded and took a moment to see how Tony was organizing them smiling "You're doing a really good job Tony, since you Master isn't here I'll just say it, good boy Tony."

Balboa rubbed Tony's head fondly for a moment as Tony basked in the attention and praise instinctively baring his throat and relaxing. Neither saw Gibbs watching from the stairs that lead to MTAC having just gotten out of his meeting.

Gibbs waited until Balboa left to head down to his desk startling Tony who was still blissed out from Balboa rubbing his head.

Tony seeing Gibbs approach quickly sat up straighter "Welcome back Master, Agent Balboa was hoping to speak with you."

Gibbs still deep in thought nodded "Right I'll go see what he needed then."

Gibbs headed over to Balboa's desk they stood outside his bullpen and Gibbs asked "So you wanted to see me Balboa?"

Balboa nodded "It's about your sub, I wanted to see how you guys are getting along, and since you're the first in the office to get one I was wondering if you would let me borrow him for an hour or so around one, I was hoping to train some of my guys on subs."

Gibbs thought about it for a moment then nodded "That should be fine, would you mind if my team and I sat in?"

Balboa smiled "Sure the more the merrier, thanks for doing this."

Gibbs nodded "I was hoping about learning more too, I don't really have much experience with subs."

Balboa nodded "A lot of people don't, no worries hopefully this training will help and you can always come to me to ask questions."

Gibbs nodded and thanked him quietly before heading back to his desk he saw Tony still reorganizing files his tongue peeking out slightly from between his lips in concentration.

"Tony." Gibbs said quietly his voice barely above a whisper.

Tony jumped obviously startled and looked around "Master, I'm sorry I didn't hear you come back."

Gibbs nodded "Its fine Tony, has Mcgee or Kate come in yet?"

Tony shook his head "No Master, they haven't arrived yet."

Gibbs nodded his head again before saying "Balboa asked if you could help him later with training his guys on how to act around subs."

Tony bowed his head "If that is your wish I would be more than happy to assist him."

Gibbs smiled "I would like that very much, I'm also going to have our team attend."

Tony nodded "As you wish Master." then turned back to sorting through the files scattered around the foot of Gibbs desk.

It was an hour after lunch when Balboa came to get them "Hi there Gibbs, I was about to start the training, could I borrow your boy now?"

Mcgee and Kate both looked up surprised and Gibbs nodded "Sure, we're coming right now."

When Gibbs stood up Tony followed suit the slight tremble in his legs, all but invisible, the only sign that his legs had long since fallen asleep. Gibbs shot Mcgee and Kate a look before tilting his head in an obvious follow me motion.

When they reached the training room in which Balboa was having the training session Gibbs was only mildly surprised to see that there were at least three teams there not including Balboa's or the MCRT.

Balboa walked up to the front of the room where there was a wide open space in front of three rows of chairs and smiled "Alright, it seems we've got quite a few people here. Well today I'm going to be teaching you the dos and don'ts when handling submissives, especially while out in the field. Today Agent Gibbs was kind enough to let us use Tony as my assistant. Tony why don't you come up here?"

Tony nodded and walked to the front of the room from where he had been kneeling on the concrete beside Gibb's chair.

When Tony was beside Balboa, Balboa smiled at him reassuringly "Now in order for this to work I'm going to demonstrate both the right ways and wrong ways of dealing with a submissive, as well as hold a Q&A of sorts."

After addressing the room Balboa turned back to Tony "Ok Tony, are you ready to start?"

Tony nodded "Yes sir."

Balboa smiled "Great, so first things first you find a submissive during a case and they are obviously distressed what do you do?"

For a moment the room was silent before Kate rose her hand and spoke up almost hesitantly "You hold on to the back of the neck and squeeze gently, it is a show of dominance and thus makes them feel safe."

Some of the others in the room nodded their heads in agreement, it sounded pretty reasonable. Balboa nodded for a moment "And that is your professional opinion as a submissive specialist?"

Kate straightened further "Yes it is."

Balboa nodded again and said "Well then if it's alright with Tony let's test your solution shall we?"

Tony took a deep breath as if bracing himself before tilting his head forward slightly giving Balboa easier access Balboa gently put his hand on the back of Tony's neck his thumb and index figure on either side of his brainstem and gently put the slightest bit of pressure…

Tony immediately started to hyperventilate his mind immediately taking him away from the NCIS training room…

"You've been bad Tony, I'm your master and you defied me." Master Alexi said with a disappointed tone of voice.

"I'm sorry Master." Tony said quietly but Alexi just sighed "You aren't, but you will be."

The hand on the back of Tony's neck pushed his head back underneath the water Tony's body begged him to fight, he couldn't breathe!

Tony faintly heard Alexi say "Next time if I tell you to kill, you will now won't you?"

Tony was allowed up for a breath of much needed air and said quietly "Yes Master Alexi."

Alexi smirked "I don't think I believe you Tony."

Tony let out a single choked sob as his head was plunged back into the full tub of water.

Tony blinked hard feeling a grounding pressure on the pulse point of his wrist. Balboa sighed "And that is why under no circumstances are you to ever grab a submissive by the back of the neck." Balboa turned to look at Tony "Are you alright now?"

Tony nodded and stood up from where he had curled himself into the corner of the room. Balboa sighed "When you come in contact with a distressed submissive in the field you never touch them just speak reassuringly until they calm down, if they start having a panic attack you gently apply pressure to the pulse point of their wrist, and you should know that Agent Todd."

Kate ducked her head in embarrassment "Another thing you should never do is try and order and distressed submissive as it could cause a panic attack or worse send them into a near robotic state." Everyone was nodding and taking notes.

It went on like that for nearly an hour Tony being brought to a near panic attack twice more before Balboa decided to finish up with a big time do "Alright one last important thing to remember is praise, to many people including Masters forget the power that praise has on a Submissive so on days like today when Tony has done especially good or made someone happy or any other reason under the sun you can think of, just run your fingers through their hair or pat their head gently and say good job Tony your such a good boy."

Gibbs watched as Tony seemed to instantly relax and a small smile played on his lips "Thank you sir."