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A Son for a Son

Chapter two

Monday morning

Gibbs sipped on his third cup of coffee as he sat in front of his computer and clicked on his e mail. He came to an e mail without a subject listed and clicked on it. All it said in large letters was ' Missing Something?' he noticed there was an attachment at the bottom.

"Damn junk mail." He muttered to himself as he deleted it.

He finished reading his other e mail then walked out to the main office. Kate was busy at her desk filing reports.

"Have a nice weekend off?" Gibbs asked as he walked over. None of his team had had an entire weekend off in a long time.

"Yeah I did." Kate smiled over at him. "Thanks for asking."

Gibbs glanced over at Tony's desk.

"DiNozzo not in yet?"

"No, I can't believe I bet him in for once." She smiled to herself. DiNozzo prided himself on being at his desk already working when she arrived in the morning. For once she got there first.

"Must have had a wild weekend." Gibbs winked at Kate then walked away smiling. He knew Tony and Kate were attracted to each other though neither one would admit it. Kate looked at Tony's empty desk for a few seconds wondering what he had done over the weekend to make him late. She shook her head and returned to her filing, she didn't want to think about it.

Later

A half hour later when Tony still had not appeared Kate tried calling his apartment, then his cell phone. No answer. She was beginning to worry and headed to Gibbs's office. The door was open but she knocked first then walked in.

"Tony's still not here."

"You tried calling him?"

"No answer. I'm getting worried Gibbs. It isn't like Tony not to call in if he was going to be late. Maybe he had an accident."

"Why don't you run over to his apartment and see if he's there. Maybe the phone is out or something and he overslept." Gibbs could see the worry on her face. "I'm sure he's fine Kate."

Kate nodded, hoping he was right. She hurried back to her desk and grabbed her coat.

Tony's apartment

"Tony?...Tony you in there?" She rang his bell then knocked on his door. When no one answered she took his key out of her purse. They each carried each others key just in case of an emergency which she considered this one. She opened the door and as she went in pulled out her gun, just in case.

"Tony you home?" She walked into his bedroom, her heart pounding. Nothing. She noticed the light on his answering machine blinking two times over and over. She pressed the button and felt a moment's guilt intruding on his privacy but knew there might be a clue to his whereabouts on the machine. A woman's voice came on.

'Tony are you there? Hey, I thought you were bringing Chinese over at seven. Give me a call when you get this' The time showed Saturday seven thirty PM.

The second message was from the same woman.

'Now I'm starting to get worried Tony. Please call me as soon as you get this.' The time said eight ten PM.

Now Kate was really worried as she hurried back to work.

NCIS Headquarters

As she entered the building she hoped Tony would be sitting at his desk giving her a big 'worried about me' smile, but he wasn't. She hurried down to Gibbs's office. The door was open and this time she didn't bother knocking but walked right in.

"I can't find him Gibbs, I'm starting to get worried."

"Anything on his answering machine?"

"Just a woman asking where he was. Apparently he was suppose to bring Chinese food over to her house Saturday night……………He's missing Gibbs." She couldn't hide the worry in her voice.

When she used the word missing, something clicked in Gibbs's brain. Missing………… 'Missing Something?'. He remembered………….He had deleted an e mail with those words.

"Damn!" He said softly.

He clicked on his e mail and was going to go into the trash to see if he could recover the deleted message. He didn't have to bother, at least ten more blank subject messages were in his e mail. Kate, sensing something was up, walked behind him and looked at his screen. He clicked on the message and 'Missing Something?' once more appeared on the screen with an attachment. He took a breath and held it, he hoped this wasn't about Tony. He clicked on the attachment then shut his eyes for a few seconds when a video came on the screen of a car parked in an alley way of a Chinese takeout.

"Oh God Gibbs, that's Tony's car!" Kate said as the camera zoomed in a little on the car and restaurant. She put her hand up to her mouth trying to prepare herself for what ever image was next.

Gibbs didn't answer her, he just watched the screen. The next image showed Tony coming out of the restaurant carrying bags of Chinese food as he walked toward his car. Next the video showed a figure dressed in black walking in front of the camera and toward Tony. Tony must have sensed someone approaching and was just starting to turn around when he is struck on the side of his head and falls to his knees dropping the bags. He tries to get up but is once more stuck and this time falls unconscious in the alley. The figure then looks up and down the street, his face hidden behind what looks like a black ski mask. He then grabs Tony by the legs and drags him toward the camera, a streak of blood follows his body. The video then shows Tony lying in the trunk of a car, blood running down the side of his face from a nasty cut near his temple. The screen then goes black.

For a moment Gibbs and Kate say nothing, each trying to absorb what they had just seen.

"Who'd want to hurt Tony?" Kate asked still staring at the blank screen.

"Just about anybody he ever arrested, or someone in their family………..who knows. There are a lot more people then you'd think………Can these e mails be traced?" Gibbs asked. All this technical stuff still confused him.

Kate nodded.

"I think so………I'll get McGee." She tried calling McGee but when his answering machine came on she hung up and hurried off to find him.

While Kate was away Gibbs clicked on the other e mails without a subject heading and discovered they were all alike. It was as if the kidnapper was mocking him. He shut his eyes and pinched the bridge of his nose. Damn it DiNozzo, what did you walk into?

After McGee showed up they left him work on trying to track the e mails while they headed off to the Chinese restaurant shown in the video. Kate knew of the location because once when she and Tony were working late on a case they had stopped there to take food back to the office so they could work through the night.

On the way to the restaurant Gibbs called the police to see if they had any report of a disturbance near the restaurant on Saturday night. The police confirmed that they had been called to the restaurant when blood and the bags of food were discovered in the street, but that was all they had. No witnesses had come forward and they hadn't been able to get any clear prints off of the bags of food so they had no idea who the victim was. In other words they had nothing to go on.

TBC