Chapter 5

When Danny blinked against his pillow it was some time right passed noon, and it's very quiet in his apartment. He closed his eyes, tuned up his hearing – a small heart-beat sound and breathing told him at least one human's in his living room……Flack, probably sleeping. A thought came to him and he got out of bed putting on his glasses and some more clothes, picked up his spare gun in the bedside drawer before stepped out to the living room, carefully making as little noise as he could.

Flack was lying on his coach sleeping, and Tony……Agent DiNozzo was leaning on his sofa chair, also sound fast asleep.

'NCIS agents are here for a reason – most possibly working on some cases.' Danny thought, "Cases could've already kept them from getting enough sleep, and plus this must have tired him out……though I wonder where is Agent Gibbs? But that makes now the perfect chance."

Danny slowly moved to the door, opened it and sneaked out without a sound. He pushed it closed but not really shutting – that'd make a noise. He quickly got out the apartment and headed off to find Sonny Sassone.

Gibbs froze at the unlocked door. When he took off some twenty minutes ago the door was shut. He put his coffee beside the door frame and drew out his gun, carefully nudged the door open and stepped in slowly.

Gibbs exhaled slightly when he saw Tony and Flack were still asleep peacefully in Danny's living room, then frowned towards the open bedroom door. He quickly looked around the apartment before peeking in the bedroom, then sighed and put his gun back.

"Hey, Tony." Gibbs walked over put his hand on Tony's shoulder waking him, "I think we've got a problem here."

"What the hell was he thinking sneaking out by himself like that!" Speed could hear Tony's angry voice before he got to knocked. His eyebrows rising turned and looked at Horatio behind him.

Horatio smiled a little, "I have a bad feeling about this."

"Yeah like I don't." Speed sighed and knocked. The door was flashed open by a very angry Tony. "What happened?"

"That kid has gone out alone for two hours!" Tony growled, "I fell asleep on the coach after Gibbs went down for some coffee, when he's back twenty minutes later the door was opened and he's gone. Don't know where he goes but most possibly – went look for Sassone. By himself."

"Flack's back checking for any possible location nearby, and he called Munch for help." Gibbs stated back from the sofa chair, "He's not going somewhere too far, his car's still downstairs."

"Humph." Speed couldn't help but grinned, "I wonder why I could've see it coming." Tony glared at him then sighed without saying anything.

"And I'm not wondering why that doesn't really surprise me." Horatio pulled out what looked like a bigger size electronic dictionary and keyed in something, after a while it gave a light beeping.

"Get something?" Speed peeked over and got to his cellphone, "Flack? It's Speed, any place south about four or five miles from Danny's? ……got it thanks. Don't worry we're going now." He looked at Horatio shutting the phone, "12th Ave, 13th Street, warehouses near the port."

"What……" Tony waved a little confused, Gibbs was standing beside him now.

"Get moving guys." Speed said leading them out, "I put a tracer on Danny's glasses in case something like this happen."

"You WHAT!" Tony's shocked expression made Speed laughed.

"After what happened in New Orlean I figured something like it would probably be useful sometime, so I get Ichabod make me a small one and bring it along." Horatio grinned, "It only workes in a range, gives proximate direction and distance, but still could have come in handy."

"……Do I want to know where that information come from?" Tony shook his head.

"Actually it's the first time we use it." Speed took the driver seat as they got into the car, "I have the gut feeling that Danny's going to at least try to do something."

"And I have the feeling that you have that feeling because you two are the same in the matter of getting in troubles." Horatio bantered gently.

"That kid is even worse than you, Speed." Tony scowled, "You tend to get yourself in trouble, Danny just went finding trouble himself."

"……You know, Tony," Speed thoughtfully gazed at Tony from the reflector, "Danny may really get himself in some serious troubles……but he's not a child."

"Yes he is." Tony's words were firm, "He will be my child."

TBC