After leaving the Bar Gibbs and Sloane walking slowly toward the car. And then Gibbs realized that he forgot his cellphone in bar. He tells Sloane to wait for him and he went into the bar to collect his cellphone.

"I thought you said "no" when I asked you for drinks? " Wayne asked him.

"Yeah, but I forgot my cellphone without that how in the hell we're going to talk." Gibbs replied.

"Yeah, you're right. C'mon Steve let's celebrate your first deal. C'mon let's have a drink." Wayne insists.

"Sorry, Wayne next time. I'm tired right now and just want to go home and want to take hot shower. If you don't mind. " Gibbs answered.

"Oh...it's okay, next time. Have a good night. " Wayne stumble when he tried to get up but Gibbs caught him before he fell down.

"You should go home too, Wayne. That's enough you have drunk a lot. Look at yourself you can't even stand up without support." Gibbs said with little concern. He also don't know why he even care about him.

"Yeah, maybe you're right. Let's go boys and Victor go get the car. Steve you made my day, you know we didn't make too much profit lately. And that deal with Russians was also very cheap." Wayne started sharing his stress with Gibbs. Gibbs watched Victor leave to get the car. Victor was very angry because of Wayne showing too much trust on Gibbs and sharing their details with him.

"But you make too much money from that deal." Gibbs asked him as he held him up and starts walking supporting Wayne by putting his hand around his own neck.

"It's not enough to make profit. And we have to pay money to who help us with the deal. You know insider they helps us to make a deal and we have to share our profits with them.

And sometimes we have to pay them more money to keep them our side because they know we need them. They all are bastards. They get money from government agencies and from us by selling their weapons. It's a huge business. So many people are involved in this business. Some of them you know as a hero, idel and some of them are still working in Government."

Gibbs was shocked about what Wayne was saying. He know Wayne was drunk he don't know what he was saying right now. But Gibbs was very angry after knowing that some of their own army personnel are involved in this or might be running this business.

"What do you mean some of them? You said our Boss is in Russia right now. So there's someone else who is running this business..?"

"No and yes. Our Boss is in Russia but the person who supplies and supports us is inside from U.S Government. He's very respected person for this country but only we knows who he really is. It's very long chain Steve. You'll get this one day." Wayne started mumbling as he lost consciousness. Victor came and with help of Gibbs he lays Wayne in back seat and closed the door. And turn around and face Gibbs.

"You came too close to him in such a short time Steve. He don't trust people easily. But you gain his trust very easily or should I say smartly. But don't worry very soon he'll regret on his decision that why he trusts you. You are not like you are pretend to be. I know what you are telling us is all stories. But I will find out. And show your real face to Wayne." Victor take steps forward to Gibbs and stand in his personal space as his nose almost touches Gibbs.

"I Will Expose You." Both staring each other. Gibbs just smile at him and with coolness he tapped him on his cheek and replied.

"You should put some ice on your nose. It will help to reduce your Pain." Gibbs put his hand on his shoulder and gave him laugh and leave.

"What took you so long? I was worried about you. Hey... I'm talking with you Gibbs." Sloane asked him with panic. Gibbs can see fear in her eyes clearly.

"I will tell you but first I have to inform Vance about what just Wayne tell me." Gibbs replied and started driving.

After reaching at their home Gibbs change his clothes and make some coffee. They both are drinking coffee silently. When Vance called for an update.

"What do we know Gibbs?" Vance asked in his usual tone.

"Wayne shares some information about this business."

"It's not that much helpful Gibbs..." Sloane tried to talk about what Wayne said but Gibbs cut her sentence.

"It's very huge than we are thinking Vance. He said that the last deal they made was very cheap and they didn't make profit from it. Even the deal we made was better than that."

"Gibbs I'm not interested in how much profit they get. If you have something important about this business please just tell. "

"If YOU let me finish what I am trying to say about this. You're just intrested in information here but I am interested in why didn't we get this before until now...unh. Didn't you notice that before DIRECTOR." Gibbs was very angry by Vance behavior.

"Hey... Gibbs, Leon both of you please calm down and how about just concentrate on the case. It doesn't matter why we didn't notice it before but we noticed it now so let's just short this out." Sloane trying to handle the situation. But when Gibbs didn't break his glare at Vance. She put her hand on his chest and tried to calm him down. Gibbs turned his face from screen and look at her face. And Sloane just nodded her head as she rubbed her hand on his chest and tapped gently. Gibbs takes deep breath and starts to inform Vance.

"Wayne said that they're not making any profits in their business Because they have to pay bigger amounts of money to who are helping them from inside. He said his Boss is in Russia for their next deal. But there's one more person helping them. Who supplies weapons from inside. Leon we have to find this guy. You have to pull some strings and try to get more information about this.

We have to go deep in this assignment Jack, we have to find out who's supplying weapons to Wayne." Gibbs informed Vance.

"You're right Gibbs. Leon... we need to find out who's behind this ring. And Gibbs I was with you whole time when did he tell you about this?.. "

"When I go inside to get my cellphone back. He was happy because of deal. He was drunk too much and started talking about this stuff and..." before Gibbs complete his sentence Vance interrupt again.

"So you're telling me that a person who was very drunk told you all this stuff and you believe that?" Vance asked Gibbs with anger.

"Look Leon if you don't trust me on this Then Next time I will direct report to SecNev." Gibbs replied as he disconnect the line.

"Gibbs... what's wrong. You can't just disconnect his call like this. I know he's being harsh on you but we have to inform him every single detail." Sloane tried to calm Gibbs down.

"Don't you think I know that Jack. But he's not ready to listen to me. He's just cutting me off." Gibbs was angry at Vance very badly.

"C'mon sit down. Come on. Tell me what happened? I know there's more Gibbs. What you are not telling me?" Sloane asked him taking his hand in her.

"It's Victor. He knows we are hiding something from Wayne, not exactly what but he's not ready to trust me. He threatened me that he is gonna find out what I am hiding and he will expose me in front of Wayne. He said he knew what I said to Wayne was all story. And he'll find out what the truth is. And he was not bluffing." Gibbs said with tensed voice.

Sloane's mouth was opened in shock. She managed to hide it before Gibbs look at her. She can see fear in his eyes.

"Hey, I heard that you're fearless team leader the great Leroy Jethro Gibbs. And you are looking scared."

"C'mon Jack cut that crap. And I'm NOT scared. I'm worried about you. I don't care about myself because I can handle it but it's your first assignment and you are my responsibility. If anything happens to you Jack I will never forgive myself. Don't you understand that." Gibbs stands up and walking toward the main door. As he opened the door he informed Sloane that he is going for coffee.

Vance was upset the way he reacted with Gibbs. As a Director he has to trust his agents ability and especially Gibbs. He know Gibbs would do anything to prevent these peoples. He is the best agent of this agency. And he have to trust him. So he decides to make a call again but Sloane informed him about Victor's threat and also tell him that how much Gibbs was angry with him and how much he worried about her. Vance decided to provide them backup but Sloane denied. Because after all this Victor still don't trust him and if he find out anything hinky Gibbs life will be in danger. Because since the beginning Gibbs didn't Involved Sloane that much. But Vance still tell her that he is going bugg their home and going to install CCTV in their apartment. But again she denies. She tell him that let Gibbs do his work on his own way. She also tell him don't do anything that makes Gibbs more angry because Vance didn't shows trust on Gibbs when he was informing him about Wayne.

Vance agreed with Sloane and tell her that if she finds anything wrong with anything call him. And they hung up.

And then after 15 minutes later Gibbs came back with food and coffee for Sloane and himself. Sloane came out as she heard voice of door open and shuts. Her gun was in her hand. She relaxed her shoulders as she watched Gibbs sitting on couch and eating his food.

She smile as she noticed that Gibbs looks relaxed and calm. She sitdown next to him. And starts eating her food.

"You talk with Vance.?" Gibbs asked

"Yeah, he called back after you left. I told him about Victor's threat. So he was going to provide backup from FBI. But I denied. So he wants bugged this apartment and wants to install CCTV cameras. But I denied again. I told him to let you work on your own way. But how did you know that Vance called us? Did you already put cameras in this house?" Sloane informed him.

"No. I didn't. Just have a Gut feeling."

After few awkward minutes Sloane takes long and deep breath and decides to starts talking about what happened before between them.

"Hey, Gibbs. I'm sorry what I said before. I was just trying to help you with your feelings." Sloane chooses her words very carefully.

"There's no need to be sorry, Jack. I'm the one who overreacted. And I'm Sorry for that I got angry on you. And I didn't have to leave you alone.

I made mistakes in my life before. I leave my family alone and they died because I wasn't there to protect them. I have lost a lot of people in my life Jack. The people I used to love. The people I cared about. My family, my friends and coworkers. Even my ex wife and ex fiancee. My father.

All of them died because of me. Mike Frank, Kate, Jenny Shepherd, Paula Cassidy, Diane my ex-wife. I lost Ziva until we found out about her being alive.

Phineas lost her mother because of me. And I lost him almost. Every time I let the people in my life they gets hurts or end up dead. That's the reason I keep distance from people I love and care about.

That's why I didn't tell you about how much I loves you. And just week before I tell you about how I feel for you and look what happened. I put your life in danger.

I should have to stop Vance when he assign you. But I didn't. I let McGee down in Paraguay. I should have to gave him direct order to leave with that marine and those kinds. But I failed to protect him. Sometimes I feel like I'm a curse for people. I don't deserve to be alive. Because so many people died to just save my life..."

Gibbs sounds so broken and his eyes filled with tears. He didn't looking at Sloane because he don't want to saw her how much he is alone and broken from inside.

Sloane's have tears in her eyes too. She tell Gibbs to look at her. As he did she can see tears falling down from his face. She put his face gently between her hands and tell him..

"You're not curse for anyone Gibbs. Not for your team, not for your friends and coworkers. Not For ME. You're just doing your job when your family dies. And the people you lost they died doing their job.

Kate Todd, Jenny Sheppard, Paula Cassidy, Pachi they all died on line of duty. And your ex-wife's death was not your fault. You both were set up by Sergei.

And Sahar was terrorist she deserves to die. We doesn't know that she's Phineas's mother. And what happened in Paraguay it's not your fault either. McGee chose to stay with you because you taught him and your team that way.

So stop blaming your self Gibbs. Otherwise I will call Grace. So it's your choice listen to me or deal with Dr. Grace." Sloane comforts Gibbs. And they both finished their dinner.

Gibbs and Sloane both changed their clothes and seating in their hall. Gibbs was feeling relaxed after talking with Sloane. She's smart woman. She knows how to handle Gibbs in anysituation. She really love Gibbs without exception. But she also knows Gibbs love her too.

Gibbs took her hand and then they both sitting together one hand was around her neck and one hand in her hand.

"Thanks." Gibbs said softly.

"For what?" Sloane asked

"You know why. For take care of me." Gibbs replied.

"I can do this whole life. If you want to." Sloane asked him.

"It's too late Jack. We'll talk about it in the morning. Right now I'm very tired." Gibbs said in tired voice.

"Okay. Good night Cowboy. " Sloane said as she kissed him on his cheek. Gibbs kiss her back. And they fell asleep.

From few blocks away from their house someone was watching them through night vision binoculars. The person was sitting in car's driving seat. Window glasses are black so nobody can see who's sitting inside. But whoever's in the car making good notes on their moves. And watching them very closely.

What do you think? Who is keeping an eye on them? Victor or someone else who figured it out already about Gibbs and Sloane.?

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