After Kate and I regained some of our strength, we managed to stumble to the med bay of the ship and both of us were fine. We were sent home and after two days of rest, both of us were back to health. We solved the original case on our own, as it turns out is was the dick-headed lieutenant. Gibbs has been missing for one week, and now, we're worrying.

We have no case of late, and we're all going through paperwork.

Surprisingly, Kate walks over to me and whispers "Tony, Gibbs gave me a message to give to the whole team after he's been gone a week."

"I'll call a camp fire." I say

I call Abby in her lab "Hey Abs?"

"Yeah, Tony?" I hear her slightly muffled voice.

"Meet us in the elevator in two. Get Ducky." I say, and then I hang up, yelling to Kate and McGee "Camp fire!"

Both hurry behind me to the elevator, where I send it down to Autopsy. When the doors open, Abby and Ducky are standing there. They get in and as soon as we begin to move again, I flick the elevator switch.

"Kate has a message from Gibbs." I state

"Did he contact you? Is he okay?" asks a frantic Abby immediately

"No." Kate shakes her head "he just wanted me to deliver this message before Ari took him: "If I'm not back in one week: 45 and follow these orders; Tell McGee 16, Tell Abby 3, Tell Ducky 2, Tell Tony 38, and you, 40. All of you remember 15. Don't come after me!" finishes Kate

"What does that mean?" asks McGee

We all pause, trying to figure out the numbers.

"The rules!" gasps Ducky, finally "The numbers are what rules we should remember!"

"So, first of all, rule 45." Says Kate

"Clean up your own mess." Recites McGee.

"Then, for you McGee, rule 16." Continues Kate
"If someone thinks they have the upper hand – break it." Recalls Abby

"Abby, rule 3." Kate says

"Don't believe what you're told. Double check." Says Ducky.

"Ducky rule 2." Continues Kate

"Never be unreachable." I say

"Tony, Rule 38." Kate says "Your case, your lead, and finally, me. Rule 40."

"If you think someone is out to get you, they are." Whispers Abby

"Lastly, he told us all to follow rule 15."

"Always work as a team." I finish.

Silence follows.

"We need to find him guys." Abby says, breaking the quiet.

"He'd do the same for any of us." Agrees Ducky.

"He told us these rules for a reason. He must have a plan." McGee nods

"I think so too. We need to save Gibbs!" Says Kate, firmly.

"We're all in agreement then?" I double check and everyone nods.

"Alright then." I announce "Abby, Ducky, you all gather anything you have previously on any of our cases concerning Ari and his past. Kate, McGee I want you to dig up anything we need to know about him and do a detailed profile. I'm going to speak with the director and we're going to find Gibbs." I explain "Meet in the third floor conference room one B in one hour with everything you've got."

I turn the elevator back on and we all get to work.

We're all sitting in the conference room, our papers spread out in front of us.

"Abby. Go." I order,

"Well, I don't have very much to go on, but we do have his blood and fingerprints which should make matching him to places easy, but I'm afraid I don't have any more than that." Apologizes Abby

"Kate. What was Abby's rule?" I ask

"Don't believe what you're told. Double check." Responds Kate

"I will." Abby promises

"McGee!" I yell, making him jump "and Kate, What about you two?"

"I did a lot of digging on him, and I'm on hold with the director of Mossad for his file there. He is currently refusing to send it to me because he believes I don't have enough evidence to need it."

"If someone thinks they have the upper hand, break it McGee." Says Kate "And I did extensive research. Ari Haswari was born in 1969 to Dr. Benjamin Weinstein, which I found out was the undercover alias of Mossad agent and now Mossad director Eli David, and Dr. Hasmia Haswari. She was an Arab woman, and they were both doctors working together at a hospital in Jerusalem. According to statements Ari has made, from the moment of his birth, his father shaped him to be a Mossad mole inside Hamas. In 1994, Ari graduated from Edinburgh Medical."

"That's my Alma Mater!" cries an outraged Ducky

"After graduation, he did his post-graduate work at the Edinburgh Center for Infectious Diseases. He was described by his colleague there, Dr. Martin Sedgewick, as 'a brilliant ladies's man who answered only to his surname 'Haswari', and "never Ari."'. Ari eventually left the center to work with his mother, Dr. Haswari, in a local clinic in the Gaza Strip. During this time, Ari began to also work with his father as a Mossad agent. Not log after, about four years ago, Ari's mother was killed during a retaliatory missile strike from Israel. Ari believed that Eli had orchestrated the strike on purpose: to give Ari a perfect reason for joining Hamas, while still working undercover for Mossad. He had two paternal half-sisters, though one was killed in a Hamas suicide bombing when she was sixteen. He is afraid of butterflies as well." Finishes Kate

"Alright. Good Job. I think what Gibbs meant for your rule Kate is that Ari always had a soft spot for you, and as much as I dislike it I think he loves you in some dark twisted way and he wants you for himself, which is why he's come after you so many times. If you think someone is out to get you, they are."

She nods her head "That would make sense."

"Ducky, anything else?" I ask

"No, but I received a call from an unmarked phone earlier, but they hung up before I could answer." Ducky says

"Rule 2!" cry Kate and I at the same time

"Ducky, give McGee your phone. McGee, try and trace the unknown call. Kate, do more research on the financial side of Ari and I'm going to talk more in MTAC. Go! We have to save Gibbs!" I order