Gibbs walked into the evidence garage of NCIS where Abby was working on Tim's car. he saw her legs sticking out of the driver's side of the car. "Abby."

Abby crawled out of the car and turned to face Gibbs. "Hey, Gibbs. Any word?" She was made at McGee for lying and now felt like he didn't earn his place with them, but she still cared about him and wanted him to be okay.

"Not yet. I'm hoping you can help with that. You find anything?" Gibbs asked.

"No, DNA. I checked the whole car and there was no blood traces. That I think is a good thing though. I lifted some prints, but I'm pretty sure they'll all come back as Timmy's. I did find something on the bottom of the seat on the driver's side," Abby said before reaching into the car and pulling out an evidence garage with a small listening device in it. She held it up for Gibbs. "It's a bug."

"Son of a bitch. That's how he did it," Gibbs said. This was how McGee knew where Tim and Sarah would be when he shot at Tim. He'd planted a bug in Tim's car, possibly Sarah's too.

"Who? Do you know who did this?" Abby asked. She hadn't heard they'd had a suspect. She'd tried to ask when she learned McGee was missing, but the team wasn't telling her anything.

"Let me know when you get the prints back," Gibbs said. He was hoping McGee or someone who was working for him had left prints behind when they planted that device.

"Gibbs!" Abby whined.

"No, Abs. Can't talk to you about this. It's not my place," Gibbs said. He would not tell Abby Tim's secrets. Eventually, she would likely find out, but not through him. The only reason Tony and Ziva had been told was because they needed to know who they were up against. Also that decision had been made by Vance, Tim's father, not Gibbs.

"So he's still keeping secrets and you're gonna help him?" Abby asked unhappily.

Gibbs sighed. "Abby, Tim's missing. I don't have time to sit here and listen to you lash out because fhe didn't tell you everything about him. Any secrets he has, he has a right to."

"Not when it affects us. We all got our positions through hard work. It's clear that he…"

"Do not finish that sentence!" Gibbs yelled, causing Abby to flinch. He was pissed. He couldn't believe she could think that. Even when Tony had insinuated that, Gibbs knew he didn't mean it. He was just angry about being lied to and felt like a foolish knowing the things he'd pulled on Tim right under Vance's nose. Abby really meant what she was sayin. "How dare you accuse Tim of maneuvering his way to where he is through Vance? How can you think him that self-entitled and undeserving? He started off at the bottom just like everyone else and he worked his way up. Yeah, he kept his family influence a secret, but it wasn't so he could use it. I can't believe after six years of working with him, you could believe that's the type of person he is. And I can't believe you'd think I would go for that."

"What? No, Gibbs, I didn't say you'd do that. You didn't know," Abby said.

"Who hired him, Abby? Who brought him onto this team? Not Vance or Morrow. I did that. I fought for him. Now if I'm the one that did that and he could it through nepotism, than I must have succumbed to pressure from those above me, right?" Gibbs asked.

"No, I know you would never do that, but why else would he lie about it?" Abby asked.

"It wasn't any of our business, Abby. His life outside this building is no one's business but his own. Now I need to get back to work on finding him," Gibbs said before walking away.

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Gibbs walked into Vance's office and saw the man at his desk looking extremely tired. The man had obviously not gotten a lot of sleep lately, though who could when they'd had the week he'd had?"

"Tell me you have something," Vance said as he rubbed his eyes.

"Not much. We did find out how McGee knew where Tim and Sarah would be the night they were shot at. He planted a bug in his car," Gibbs said.

"That bastard was keeping tabs on them for a while. Well, at least it's one question answered. Of course, there are a whole lot more. One I've been asking myself all day is why did McGee shoot at Tim if his goal was to kidnap him and Sarah?" Vance asked.

Gibbs shrugged. "Play games with him? He seems to enjoy that. Either way, I think it's clear now that he never intended to kill him. Tony and Ziva pointed out that he waited until Tim saw the gun to fire and they're right. That's not a coincidence. The shooting was a warning."

"But why? It would've made more sense to catch them off guard rather than warn us to danger. You're right, McGee likes playing with people, but I don't think that's what this was. I don't know what it was, but something tells me there was a bigger motive than that," Vance said. Gibbs wasn't the only one that could have a gut. His was telling him something was going on here.

"We'll figure it out and we'll bring them both home. We'll find them," Gibbs assured him.

"it's not finding them that I'm overly concerned about. I know we'll find them because we won't rest until we do. I'm worried about what condition we'll find them in. McGee is a cruel son of a bitch," Vance said.

"How easily does he lose control?" Gibbs asked. He wanted to know exactly what he was dealing with.

"He doesn't, which in my opinion makes him worse. McGee isn't like a lot of other abusers, Gibbs. He doesn't have an anger problem. He has a bastard problem. Beating those he feels belong to him is his way of keeping them in line. He considered his family to be his property, as such he could 'punish' them anyway he wanted, and he did. He's a possessive, violent SOB," Vance growled. He hated John McGee more than anyone else. He hated what the bastard had done to his son. He'd nearly destroyed Tim. He'd beaten him down physically and emotionally and now it might happen again.

"So then in most cases, he won't go too far," Gibbs said. Of course, he wnt too far the minute he beat his wife and son, but the fact that he was so controlled meant that he wouldn't accidently kill Tim and Sarah.

"He's already gone too far. He kidnapped my children, that is of course after torturing Tim as a child. I'm scared for him. Sarah too, but mostly Tim," Vance said with worry in his voice. "Because Tim will try to take all of McGee's anger, including what's directed at Sarah," Gibbs guessed. He knew Tim well. He knew how protective he was of his sister. That had become clear during that murder she was a suspect in. He would take McGee's anger away from her if he had to.

Vance nodded. He knew he didn't have to worry too much about Sarah wih Tim there. He still did of course, but not as much as he did the couple of days. Tim was who he had to worry about most. He was going to bare the brunt of McGee's anger. "I swear to God if he touches either of them, I will rip him to threads!

"You won't be alone," Gibbs said. He would kill anyone who dared to lay a hand on his people. John McGee would suffer for what he had done and probably still would do.