Walking into the warehouse Kate immediately took over telling them all where to go and what to do.

"Hi, you must be Agents Todd, Dinozzo, and Cassidy?"

Kate responded, "Yes, what do you know already?"

"Well the JAG is Lt. Commander Catilina Colo. It appears that she was murdered, choice of weapon standard issue glock. It was one shot, a through and through, to the heart. Seems like a crime of passion, the Gunnery Sergant is Laris Ludo, who apparently after killing Colo then took his own life. Same weapon, one shot through and through to the mouth." Jessica spoke in a slow steady tone, her long redish black hair fell over her shoulders and down the nape of her back. What stood out were her ice blue eyes, they were almost transparent. As Kate looked at her she couldn't stop but wonder why Tony wasn't drooling over this attractive younger woman. Maybe it was the sense that she was familiar in a way, or something below the surface...

"Alright, lets search for evidence keep them away from the body alright?" Tony spoke weakly but kept the pain he felt below their depth of sound.

"Right. By the way I am Special Agent Jessica Gibbs..." with that she walked away to speak with her team leaving the rest shell-shocked mouths gaping looking at each other.

"Did she say?" Kate trailed she be his daughter?" Cassidy suggested, as Tony remained silent his breath coming in painful bursts of air.

"It doesn't matter Ducky is here." And Kate walked over to tell him what they knew. Tony and Mcgee began their separate searches, as Tony walked off he gasped with each step as sharp pains went through his back. His body ached and throbbed from the weakness he was facing, for the first time he was actually afraid that he might die at this crime scene in this warehouse. The very thought made him shiver.

"My dear Catilin what's wrong with Anthony?" Ducky watched as Tony collapsed on his side holding his chest.

"What? Nothing..." she turned to look and saw him down immediately she kicked off running to him screaming, "AGENT DOWN! AGENT DOWN!"

Tony's head was spinning, he could hear their voices, and feel their breath but he was gone buried deep within the shell of the man he had been. Inside he was screaming unable to move darkness covering him. He knew he was dying, that he could tell as he began to move groaning in pain he felt her hands on him and heard her voice...

"Damn it! Tony don't you do this to me!" she slapped his cheek hoping it would revive him but it didn't. Her eyes fell on Ducky, "Call an ambulance! Cassidy talk to Special Agent Gibbs!" as the walked away doing their jobs she kneeled there cradling him like a sick babe. She had noticed something had been wrong with him but had refused to admit that he could ever become weak.

Twenty minutes after the phone call the ambulance had came gotten Tony and Kate and gone to the hospital. Kate sat in the waiting room head on her hands waiting for the doctors. Gibbs had arrived shortly after the ambulance and had left to get some coffee. The boys were still at the crime scene.

Though she didn't have romantic feelings for Tony, Kate couldn't help but worry about him. As she sat each passing minute wrenched her heart, 'I should have talked to him...I should have known...he would have known if something was wrong with me...'

"Kate, its going to be fine, remember its Dinozzo." Gibbs spoke approaching her.

"Gibbs, I feel like its my fault..."

"Explain."

"I've noticed something has been wrong for awhile, actually about six months, but I dismissed it as typical Tony. Gibbs what if I was wrong? What if this kills him?"

Walking to her he placed a hand on her shoulder but before he could speak the doctor came and their attention fell on him.

"Agents Gibbs, Todd." They both nodded and he continued, "he is just fine, however, I am afraid that whatever has happened is more mental than anything. Have either of you noticed changes in him?"

"I have..." Kate spoke softly.

"Well it seems they have been due to a type of nervous disorder, we are going to conduct some tests to find out what it is exactly, but we can't keep him here. You all can go see him, then check him out tonight."

"Will he be fit for work?"

"Not for a few days, let him rest then he will be."