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Chapter 25
"Rachel, you said you were dating his cousin. Where can we find Sean?" Jenny asked.
"I haven't talked to Sean in over three years but when we were dating he was working at the D.A.s office as a first year intern."
Gibbs walked downstairs and they all followed behind him. "McGee, I need to pull up the records on Sean Jacobs and Carl Munroe. Munroe is our primary suspect right now."
"Aren't these the nephews of the assistant director of the DEA?" Ziva asked.
"Yes they are. Ziva with me, we're going to question Jacobs."
"What about me, boss?" Tony asked.
"Stay out of the way." Gibbs said walking out of the room with Ziva and Fornell. Mike went upstairs to stay with the Director and the girls.
McGee noticed Tony's distress and said, "Tony, we're going to find her."
"I know that, McGee. It's just Gibbs and I have fought before but never like this. He didn't even head slap me today."
"Tony, he'd upset about what's happening to his daughters and to top it off you are dating his daughter. Considering how protective Gibbs is of his daughters and the fact that you don't have the greatest track record with women, it's no wonder that Gibbs is upset about it, but when he sees how much you and Lizzy love each other, he'll understand and accept it."
"I do love her, McGee. I can't live without her." The two were silent for a long while when Tony said, "McGee, I'm going to marry that girl."
McGee just looked at his friend and smiled. "I know, Tony."
Gibbs, Ziva, and Fornell walked into the District Attorney's office and asked the secretary for Sean Jacobs.
"Mr. Jacobs is in a meeting right now. He should be done in about twenty minutes. I can show you to a waiting area if you want?"
"No, this is important." Gibbs said and started walking to the conference room.
"Wait a minute you can't go in there!"
"Watch me." Gibbs said opening the door to the conference room.
"Excuse me, but who are you?" a man asked.
"Special Agents Gibbs and Fornell and Officer David, NCIS and FBI. We're looking for Sean Jacobs."
"I'm Sean Jacobs." A man said standing up. "What is this about?"
"A series of kidnappings." Fornell said.
"I didn't hurt anyone."
"Why do you automatically assume that your in trouble? Unless you have done something." Gibbs said.
"Excuse me." Jacobs said and walked out of the room. As soon as he was out of the room, Sean started running.
"He's running!" Ziva yelled and the three of them pursued him.
They ran after him and Gibbs jumped on the man's back and they both fell on the ground. "Sean Jacobs, you are under arrest for the kidnappings of Elizabeth, Rachel, Chloe and Anne Gibbs. You have the right to remain silent. Anything you say can and will be used against you in a court of law. You have the right to an attorney. If you cannot afford one, one will be provided for you. Do you understand these right as they have been read to you?" Gibbs said while cuffing Sean.
The four of them drove back to NCIS and they started questioning Sean, but Sean just kept silent. Ducky, Jenny, Mike, and Tony were in observation while Gibbs and Fornell tried to crack him.
"You think he's involved, doc?" Mike asked.
"Maybe not directly, but he knows something or else he wouldn't have ran."
The two of them looked at Jenny who had been silent ever since Rachel told them about Carl. She looked at the man in interrogation in silence while fiddling with a locket that Jethro gave her three years ago for their wedding anniversary. It held pictures of all five her children from the day they were born.
"Red, you alright?"
"I won't be alright until Lizzy and Annie are back home."
"Probie will find them. You know he will."
"I know, Mike. I just hope it's sooner rather than later."
In the interrogation room, Fornell and Gibbs were having a difficult time cracking this guy until Gibbs said, "I hope you realize you're going to jail for four counts of kidnapping."
"I didn't kidnap the Gibbs sisters."
"If you weren't involved then why'd you run?" Fornell asked.
"I know how it looks-"
"Oh you have no idea how it looks." Gibbs said.
"You know you don't need to go down with your cousin, Carl. Just tell us where to find him and then it'll be over." Fornell said.
"I don't know where he is."
"Have you had contact with him at all in the last week?"
"The last time I had contact with him five days ago. It was around three in the morning. He called me."
"What did he say?" Fornell asked.
"He said that he needed to talk to Lizzy. If he could just talk to her, he would make her understand that they belonged together. I told him to forget her and move on like she had. He asked me what I was talking about and I told him she had a boyfriend. When he said that she would never cheat on him I told that I heard from a reliable source that she was dating someone. Carl hung up and then called me back two hours later. He said he was going to prove to her that they belonged together. And that's all I know."
"Who was this reliable source of yours?"
"A friend from college, Charles Sterling. He used to work for NCIS."
"Did he say how he was going to prove to Lizzy that they belonged together?"
"No but he said he wanted to get away and start fresh."
"Where?"
"He didn't tell me that. Why does it matter?"
"Well, it matters because that bastard cousin of yours is more than likely planning on taking my daughter someplace where she can't be found!" Gibbs yelled and was ready to throttle the man when Tobias pulled him away.
"Gibbs, control yourself or leave the room." Fornell looked back at the suspect.
"Can I go now?"
"No!" Both of them said at the same time.
"Why not?"
"We need you to sit tight for a while, we may have more questions for you." Fornell and Gibbs walked out of the room.
"You shouldn't have held me back, Tobias."
"Gibbs, if you attacked him, he would have walked."
Gibbs furious just walked away and went back into the squad room. "McGee, did you get what I asked for?"
"I did you one better. Not only did I pull their financials, I looked at their phones GPSs for the Munroe has been parked in front of Lizzy's apartment building every night between two and five in the morning for the last five months."
"Did Munroe make a call to Jacobs within the last week?"
"Yeah, five days ago at three in the morning that lasted for twenty minutes. Then another call the same day at five that lasted about forty minutes."
"What about Jacobs?"
"Jacobs is clean, Gibbs. There is nothing in his records that proves he went along with his cousin." Ziva said.
"I wouldn't say nothing." McGee said looking at his computer.
"What did you find, McGee?"
"Jacobs made an unexpected visit to his uncle, Assistant Director Jacobs, the day he received the phone calls from Munroe. According to his uncle's records, he was meant to have lunch with a couple of Senators when his nephew, Sean, showed up and then they went out to lunch together. Pretty long lunch the two of them had, it lasted three hours."
"McGee, can you hack into the security system of the DEA and track Sean Jacobs' movements?"
"Just give me one second... and here we go. Here's something interesting, five minutes before Jacobs left, he went into the supply room and removed a cell phone jammer. He was very cocky, boss, he even signed it out under his name knowing that his uncle would protect him."
"Yeah, but this means he was part of it from the beginning." Gibbs said walking back downstairs. Gibbs stormed back into interrogation and slammed the door shut. "You son of a bitch!" Gibbs grabbed Jacobs and slammed him into the wall.
"What the hell?!"
"You told me you had nothing to do with what happened to my girls and yet I somehow have you getting cell jammers out of the DEA office, where, conveniently, your uncle works as the Deputy Director."
"I don't know what you're talking about."
"Play it!" Gibbs said to the techs. After watching the video, Gibbs asked, "Care to change your story?"
"Don't have to."
"And why is that?"
Before Jacobs could answer, Fornell walked in and said, "Gibbs, upstairs now."
"Can't you see that I'm busy, Fornell?"
"Gibbs, trust me, you need to come upstairs."
Gibbs let go of Jacobs and walked upstairs with Fornell. "This better be good, Tobias."
Upon entering the squad room, Gibbs saw Mike glaring at a man in his fifties talking to Jenny. "Special Agent Gibbs, this is Deputy Director Lyle Jacobs of the DEA. He is inquiring about his nephew, Sean Jacobs."
"Why are you holding him, Sean has done nothing wrong."
"Deputy Director, were you aware that Sean removed a cell phone jammer from the DEA office five days ago?"
"Yes, he said it was for court. What does that have to do with anything?"
"Well, two days after that, the daughters of Director Shepard go missing and we are unable to track their phones due to a cell jammer."
"And you think my nephew had something to do with it?"
"Oh we know he did, along with your other nephew, Carl Munroe, the mastermind behind all of this."
"Where is your proof?"
"The facts that your nephew was stalking my daughter and your other nephew took out a cell jammer days before the kidnappings."
"Coincidence."
"I don't believe in coincidences."
"Well good luck convincing a judge of your ludicrous allegations. I'll be taking my nephew now."
"That's not going to happen." Gibbs said.
"Oh and why not?"
"I just told you why."
"Well then get a court order and then he's all yours, but until then he is to remain in my custody."
"Yeah and by the time we get that court order, he'll have conveniently escaped from your custody. Am I right?"
"Director Shepard you should learn to have better control over your subordinates, but from what I've heard about you get under them."
"What did you just say?" Jenny said angrily.
"I don't believe I stuttered."
"Agent DiNozzo and Officer David, please escort Sean Jacobs to a holding cell until further notice. And you can get the hell out of my building." Jenny said to Lyle Jacobs.
"Don't kid yourself into believing that this is over."
"Wouldn't dream of it."
"What a narcissistic bastard." Fornell said.
"Not the words I would have chosen to describe him." Mike said.
"O.k. I bought us about twelve hours before Deputy Director Jacobs comes back with a court order for us to release Sean Jacobs into his custody. We have until then to find Lizzy and Annie."
"Boss, another feed is coming from the kidnapper." McGee said.
"Agent Gibbs, I have left you enough bread crumbs to discover my identity. At this point in the game, do you know who I am?"
"Let me guess, Carl Munroe?"
"You are correct, Agent Gibbs." the man removed his mask revealing who he was. "Since you answered correctly, I'm going to give another one of your daughters back to you."
"Let me guess, Annie?"
"For that smart ass answer, I'm going to make it much more difficult for you." He moved the camera over to Annie and showed her lying in an open coffin. She was crying and shaking.
"What the hell is that?"
"You have a choice Agent Gibbs, you choose between your oldest or your youngest. If you choose Annie, Lizzy and I start our lives over away from all distractions. If you choose Lizzy, Annie will be buried alive and you will never find her. So what is your choice?"
"What kind of choice is that?"
"A fair one."
"You sick bastard."
"No need to resort to name calling. I can see that you're upset and I'll let you mull things over for three hours. You better have had a decision made by then."