………….The second day of their capture…………
"Tony, you have to stay awake. Come on talk to us. Say anything." Nick pleaded. He knew that if he fell asleep there would be a chance he would never wake up.
"Today…It's on year today…One year ago he left us to die and now he's doing it again."
"We're not going to die. Think happy thoughts like the day you will marry Kate." Abe encouraged him.
"All I can think about is Turner and that except for him we are the only ones who know where we are." Tony replied while still lying on the floor to tire to even sit up.
"How do you know we are in B city? They blindfolded us, chained us up and put headphones on us so we couldn't hear a thing. How can you be so sure?" Nick wondered.
"I'm not so sure but he wants revenge and it is too obvious if he chooses C city because that's where we were the last day of the mission, A city doesn't exist anymore and D city is too far away." Tony explained to them.
"Logical reasoning…I understand but Ari can't be stupid enough to choose this place." Abe said to them.
"If he doesn't know Turner knows about it too… I think that Ari thinks that Turner is dead just like we were told to act. He disappeared with the help of CIA and we were left behind. If Turner can contact Gibbs then he will. Us four went through four months of hell and Turner knows that." Tony told them knowing Turner would somehow do the right thing.
"Are you freezing a lot Tony?" Abe asked seeing him shivering.
"Not so much…"
"Tony!" Nick said while he dragged him closer to them to keep him warm.
"I'll be ok."
"Tell us about how you proposed to Kate again. How she glowed and everything…"Nick said to him.
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"Ok, it hasn't been a good day for us. I'm ordering everyone to go home and get some sleep. Early tomorrow morning we'll start fresh." Gibbs told them when the clock got close to 9pm.
"Are you going too?" Lauren dared to ask.
Gibbs looked at her and didn't want to say no because then no one would go home.
"Yes. I'm going too. We've been through a lot and not much information has come in. We know that Turner's last known address was in Switzerland and he lived there five years ago. He can be anywhere now and until someone tells where then being here all night won't help us." Gibbs explained to them all.
Then they all started to pack their things. Gibbs went up to Kate.
"How are you holding up?"
"I keep thinking that Tony got killed today. Doing it today would be genius and that is how Ari thinks." Kate said while she held the picture she had of him.
"He's not dead. Tony wouldn't want you to give up. Would he marry someone who gives up that easily?" he asked her knowing she already knew the answer.
"I'm going home or rather to your house…Where are you going to sleep if Abby, Lauren and I are at your house?" Kate then asked him.
"There is always the sofa…" he replied.
"Or with Lauren…You need a good night's sleep too. Take good care of him Lauren." Kate said before she went out with Abby.
"I guess she knows." Lauren concluded.
"I bet Ducky told her. Or was it too obvious?" Gibbs asked Lauren.
"It is so obvious. I heard Abby and McGee talking about Tony and they said that if he was here he would place bets on when we would get married to lighten up the mood here." Lauren told him.
Gibbs smiled and remembered all the time he had to smack him on the head to get him to focus. If he only could do that again.
…………………The third day of their capture………..
"Nick, how much is the clock?" Abe asked him.
"7.32 AM…Feels like we've been here forever." He sighed.
"Is it me or is it much colder now?" Abe asked him.
"Yeah, it's colder. We haven't seen or heard anything since we did the video. I think they left us here to die." Nick said starting to lose all hope.
"You can't think that way. Tony hasn't lost hope. He tried to talk about his favourite movies, Kate and what we would do when they finally find us yesterday. That is how we should think." Abe said hoping Nick would feel better.
"Tony, wake up. It's morning now." Abe said trying to see if he was still alive.
"Ehh…What?"
"Morning…What would you and Kate do in the mornings?" Nick asked him trying do what Abe said because it was the best thing to do during this difficult time.
"Who is Kate? Why is it the light so strange?" Tony answered.
"Oh no…Tony…Come on…You know there is no light here and that Kate is your fiancée. " Abe said trying to get him to remember.
"Tony saved us all those years ago and if he dies now I'm going to kill Ari myself if we survive this. It isn't fair. What did Ari do to him while we weren't here?" Nick said holding on to Tony to keep him as warm as possible. The three guys now sat in the corner and if you didn't know there were three people in the room you would think it maybe was only two persons sitting there alive and breathing.
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"We're here early. I guess you couldn't take your own advice." Lauren said as they arrived to work. When they looked around they saw a man sitting in Tony's chair.
"Who are you?" Gibbs said while taking up his weapon. Lauren played it cooler and just stood there ready to take up her gun as soon possible.
"I'm Jacques Beneau formerly known as John Turner." He answered. You could hear how he now spoke English with a French accent.
"Prove it!" Gibbs told him.
"That will be hard." Beneau/Turner answered.
"It's him Gibbs." Fornell then answered.
"What!" Gibbs said surprised when he emerged from the shadows.
"I owed you one." Fornell said to him.
"Why?" Lauren asked before Gibbs could say anything.
"If you can catch Ari then you have FBI's permission to do whatever which is necessary." Fornell explained to him not expressing any emotion behind that statement. Lauren went up Beneau and gave him the case files.
"This seems too thin to me." Beneau told her.
"We know…We hoped you could fill in the blanks." Lauren said and you could hear a bit of pleading in her voice.
"I'll have to go now." Fornell said while walking away to the elevator. Gibbs followed him and the usual procedure happened. The elevator stopped and they talked.
"So what happened?" Lauren asked when Gibbs came back.
"Ari happened. One of his men was found dead. They had stolen a lot of money during the night and one of his men was the casualty. All we know is that Ari wasn't apart of the crime even though of course the money was for him."
"Where did it happen?" Beneau asked him.
"Some place called Stanton." Gibbs replied.
"A lot which we found out was not written down or saved in other ways. I also see that much which was written down was not given to you. Because of the leak we had to be very careful on what we said and what we told the other agents." Beneau explained.
"What was your role in this?" Gibbs asked him.
"I was their contact. What FBI told me I told them. I was undercover too but they were in the gang and I was an outside observer who could take pictures and record what was said and so on…Anyway I can think of four locations they can be at if Ari is really into this revenge thing. Only us four knew about them and we never told them to anyone else. When the leak was exposed we decided to not tell the whole story because if they could have one agent on their side then there could be another one. I guess we were right. Everyone else except my family thinks I'm dead and I want it kept that way. Right now I work for CIA in Europe and Jacques Beneau's identity can't be revealed." Beneau explained to them.
"Who is that guy?" Kate asked as soon as she entered the room.
"I was John Turner but now I'm Jacques Beneau." He answered.