Chapter 55-Regroup

Upon returning to his office space House sent his parents home with British agents to watch over them but not before confiscating their phones in case Sherlock called either of them. He figured Sherlock knew that their parents were with him and he doubted that Sherlock had his own number. House's actions were rewarded with a call from a blocked number not fifteen minutes later interrupting a terse and ineffective conversation with the NCIS group. House simply announced to the group that it was probably his brother on the line and put it on speakerphone.

"Sherlock?" House answered his mother's phone.

"Sherrinford. Is she gone?" House's younger brother sounded defeated.

"Yeah. Afraid so." House answered and waited as his baby brother gave into the urge to let out some solid curses. He heard the muffled voice of woman try to calm him down but his brother snapped at her to get away from him. Another masculine voice snapped at him in return and House determined that it could only be the infamous Dr. Watson whose child he was harboring.

"What happened, Sherly?"

"We have an inside man in the group-"

"You don't have to explain. Your brother is familiar with Division." Mary Watson interrupted.

"Our inside man convinced Molly to go with him saying that she would buy us time." Sherlock was straight to the point.

"How close are you to being finished?" House interrogated his brother.

"We have two items to retrieve plus the one on the inside."

"Where are they located?"

"Pennsylvania and Canada. The agent in Canada says he is willing to hand his box over."

"And you are?"

"Looking for flights out of Finland."

"Plan?"

"Redrawing." There was a pause in the conversation. "Go to Pennsylvania?"

"I'm out of the game."

"No one gets out of the game."

"What do you expect me to do?"

"Work with those pathetic excuses of agents to bring down Division. Should be their responsibility anyway."

Tony let out a sharp, "Hey!" in response to the insult.

"They're there with you?" Sherlock asked.

"Yep," House popped the 'p'.

"Mr. Holmes, this is Director Vance of the NCIS-"

"I couldn't care less about who you are. What I do care about is that my wife is in danger due to your ineptitude."

"To be fair, Sherly, she chose to leave. These insults aren't going to get your wife back."

"It's your fault?" Sherlock deduced.

"I didn't say-"

"Redbeard? And now my wife and child?"

"We'll get her back stay on topic. Your feelings are only going to be a distraction so put them aside." He heard the good doctor call him a name from the other side.

Sherlock took a minute to regroup his thoughts. When he spoke again he was the epitome of calm, cool, and collected. He told the agents what he knew and answered their questions with brief concise answers. He filled them in on the black boxes and what exactly was at stake aside from his own personal loss. He left out the information in regards to the information in Molly's head. The NCIS members in return did not tell of the family connection that had been discovered. Those details would have to wait for later once Molly was safe once more.

Through discussion they came up with a plan. House would go to Philadelphia and meet with Wiggins who had located the currently lone agent guarding the box. Vance agreed that an agent or two could assist him in the recovery of the box. Sherlock's team, meanwhile, would go to Canada to retrieve the other box before joining NCIS in the DC area. Vance and his team would continue to give the appearance of looking for Molly so that Percy would not be aware of their plan. Business had to go on as usual if they were going to succeed in this mission.

Vance had many more questions but would have to go along with the Holmes for now. Once Sherlock was off the phone and House was out the door he gave his own set of orders. He was sending Gibbs and Ziva to his father's house in Stillwater Pennsylvania. He would be sending Mike Franks to take Ziva's place and she would rejoin the main group at NCIS headquarters. From there on Franks would 'keep an eye on' Leroy Jethro Gibbs to make sure he did not get in to any trouble. Wink, wink, nudge, nudge. The rest of the team would work their hardest to find out more about Division and to find out how deep this went. Vance called Fornell to retrieve the agent that had worked with Nikita so that they could find out all that they could.

They all hoped that this would be over in a matter of days. Hopefully less.

Gibbs would get his daughter back. He made a vow to never lose her again.