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AN: O.k. so we are officially done with season 4 of NCIS. I'm wondering how far I should go with this story so let me know in your reviews. Also, I'm not a person that normally asks people to review but I want to reach 100 reviews with this chapter so please help me reach that goal. And now without further ado the latest chapter of My Boss' Daughter.
Chapter 36
Tony was sitting in the limo quietly listening to Jeanne and Rene catch up with one another. When Rene asked him a question, Tony was so lost in thought that he didn't hear him until Jeanne lightly shoved him. "Oh, I'm sorry, what?"
"I asked how you became a professor?"
"How did you know that I'm a professor?"
"Oh I told him." Jeanne said.
"My daughter tells me everything that is going on in her life."
"And that includes you." Jeanne said with a smile. Just then, Jeanne got a page from the office telling her to come back in to sign the death certificate to release the body. "That's the hospital. They need me back to sign for the body. Do you mind?" Jeanne asked looking at her father.
"Of course not." Rene told the driver to turn around.
Once they reached the hospital, Tony jumped out of the car and went over to his trying to convince the Benoits that he had to go and they needed this time together to catch up. Before he could drive away, Rene approached Tony and told him that he should join them for breakfast and that his assistant would drive his car to the restaurant. "Oh no, I really should get going. I hav-"
"I insist, Anthony DiNozzo."
"Alright." Tony said getting out of the car but not before sending Jenny a call from his phone.
As they were driving in the limo, a few car lengths behind them, Tony's car exploded.
Meanwhile:
Ziva arrived at NCIS and noticed that McGee and Gibbs had been there all night and had questioned them about it. Gibbs cuts off her rant by saying, "The CIA ordered the mandatory polygraphs. They're after Jenny."
"Why would they be after her." Gibbs just gave her that look that told her she already knew the answer. "La Grenouille."
Just then Jenny got off the elevator and walked into their squad section. "Tony is in trouble." she said simply.
"And how do you know that?" Gibbs asked.
"The woman that Tony has been seeing is Jeanne Benoit, La Grenouille's daughter."
"He's been on an assignment?" McGee asked.
"We should have seen it. All the times he mysteriously disappeared. It turns out he was telling Lizzy the truth about working late and over time. He was working a case for you." Ziva said hurt that her former partner kept her out of the loop.
"Back up, how do you know that he is in trouble?" Gibbs asked again.
"I just received a phone call from Tony's alias' phone. Tony DiNardo. The number is 209-555-5967."
"DiNardo, that's original." McGee said.
"Can you trace it?" Jenny said impatiently.
"Sure."
"And a live video feed from MTAC?"
"Of course."
"Alright. Let's go then." Gibbs said all of them walking upstairs. Before they reached the doors to MTAC, Lizzy stepped off the elevator looking pissed.
"Mother, we need to talk." Lizzy said angrily.
"Lizzy, now is not the time."
"Well make the time."
"Elizabeth, I don't have time for this and I have an agency to run and an agent to find."
"Wait what agent?" When no one said anything, Lizzy said, "It's not... it's Tony isn't it? I knew it. I knew he was in danger when he was working that assignment that you gave him. What exactly did you have him do?"
"That is none of your business." Jenny said and opening the door to MTAC with her eye scan.
Everyone followed her inside, including Lizzy. "You know you can't be in here." Gibbs said to his daughter.
"Do you really think that I care. Tony is in trouble and I need to know that he is o.k."
McGee started the trace on Tony's cell phone and the traffic cam trace. All of them were looking at Tony's car on the screen and watched it go up in flames. Everyone was in shock and the only noise that could be heard was everyone's heavy breathing and Lizzy whispering the word no over and over again. Tears were coming down her cheeks like a steady stream and Gibbs noticed his daughter's distress. He grabbed her and hugged her tightly and put her head in his chest so she wouldn't have to look any more at the screen.
They all left the room and quietly. Jenny called Rachel and told her to come and get her sister. When Rachel got Lizzy, she asked what happened. "Tony was killed in a bomb explosion." Gibbs said.
"What? How did that happen?"
"Ask your mother." Gibbs said simply looking at Lizzy through the window of Rachel's car. "Take her back to your place. I'll be over there soon to look after you girls."
"Alright." Rachel said getting into the car. Gibbs was devastated when he saw the numb look in his daughter's eyes. It was the same look he had when he found out about Shannon. As much as he didn't condone the relationship between his senior agent and his oldest daughter, he knew that they really loved it each other and that scared him.
As they drove over to the crime scene, Gibbs didn't say one word to Jenny. He was really pissed at her. She not only cost him a good agent, but she cost their daughter her boyfriend.
After taking the body back to NCIS, Ducky determined that the charred body couldn't be Tony since the man in autopsy never had the plague. Ducky runs upstairs and tells Gibbs about the body not belonging to Tony. "If it's not DiNozzo, then where is he?"
Looking into it, Trent Kort walked in and started yelling at them about the importance of Operation Lodestone. He warns them to stay out of his way. Before Gibbs or Jenny could get a word in, Tony steps out of the elevator. "Hey, Kort, someone blew up my car today, was that you?" Tony asked with a cocky smile.
Kort grabbed Tony and was going to punch him when he heard Gibbs say, "I wouldn't do that if I were you." Kort turned around to see Jenny, Gibbs, and his entire team pointing their guns at him.
"You better watch yourself." Kort warns to no one in particular before he leaves.
Gibbs, Tony, and Jenny were upstairs in looking at the video feed. "That was better live." Tony said.
"What happened?"
"He figured out who I was. He must have known for a while." Tony explained everything that happened that morning and throughout the duration of his assignment.
"You weren't supposed to care about her." Jenny said.
"Oh, I'll remember that for next time. Oh, wait there's not going to be a next time."
"What else?"
"Nothing."
"Nothing?"
"Nothing that you need to know. Now, if you'll excuse me I need to go and see my girlfriend."
"Lizzy saw the feed of the explosion." Jenny said before he could walk out the door.
"What? How did she even get into MTAC?"
"She's our daughter. She has both of our stubborn streaks." Gibbs said.
"Did anyone call her and tell her that I'm alright?"
"No."
"Well why the hell not?"
"Right now that is not our priority. We need to catch La Grenouille." Jenny said.
Tony was so angry that he just walked out of the office.
"What the hell is the matter with you, Jen? Do you not even care about our daughter? Or is getting revenge for whatever bullshit reason all that matters to you?"
"Oh like you cared about our daughter when you ran off to Mexico a year ago?"
"That is complete and utter bull-"
"Regardless of what it is, it is none of your concern."
"None of my concern huh? Well guess what "Director", you made it my business the second you involved one of my agents, the second you involved Lizzy, and the second you involved my wife."
"Oh I'm your wife now? That's why you're divorcing me?" That shut Gibbs up. Jenny went behind her desk and pulled open a drawer. "You want to know why I'm coming after him. Because of this." She showed Gibbs the pictures of all four of their daughters that La Grenouille had sent.
"He sent these?" When Jenny didn't answer, he said, "I'll kill him." He walked out of the office and started barking orders at his team to find La Grenouille. Tony and Ziva searched Jeanne's apartment and found a letter addressed to him. He couldn't open it just yet.
Meanwhile, Gibbs walked into Jenny's house and saw her talking to Rene Benoit. When Jenny pulled out a gun ready to shoot La Grenouille, Gibbs said, "It's not loaded. He took the bullets out before you came here."
"What do you want?" Jenny asked.
"I want protection. Not for myself or for my sons but for my daughter."
"Why should I give your daughter protection when you didn't give mine any consideration when you sent those photos of them." Jenny seethed.
"Let's let bygones be bygones."
Jenny walked over to him and said, "You have the bullets, take the damn gun. Protect yourself and your family."
"You are signing my death warrant."
La Grenouille walked out of the study and left the house. Gibbs said, "You know I saw right through you in your office. You may have gone after La Grenouille because of the threat that he posed to our girls, but it didn't start that way. You believe that he killed your father, don't you?"
"It doesn't matter." she said taking a drink.
Gibbs took the clip out of his pocket and put it on the desk. He walked out of the office and walked back in, "If the gun was loaded and I wasn't here, would you have shot him?"
"We'll never know." Gibbs just sighed before he walked out.
Tony went to Lizzy's apartment while the rest of the team went looking for La Grenouille on his yacht. He knocked on the door and Rachel opened the door. "Oh my God." she said before hugging him. "Are you o.k?"
"I will be once I see Lizzy. Where is she?"
"In her bedroom crying her eyes out."
"I'll be back."
Tony walked into Lizzy's bedroom and saw her lying on the bed with her back to the door. "Rachel, I don't want to talk right now."
"I don't know about you but I don't think I would look very good in her mini skirts. They would make my calfs look fat." Tony said with a grin.
Lizzy turned around and looked at him with her puffy, red, watery eyes. "Tony!" She ran up to him and jumped into his arms. She kissed him deeply. "How are you alive? I saw the video feed."
"It doesn't matter. I love you Lizzy and I'm sorry you had to see that." he kissed her and said, "I'm ready to tell you everything."
"Wouldn't you be compromising your position at NCIS?"
"I don't care. You deserve to know." He started telling her everything about his assignment with Jeanne.