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Chapter Twenty-Seven

Gibbs was literally watching his phone, waiting for it to ring. He was watching Tony carefully who was sitting beside him, obviously waiting for news as much as he was. Gibbs was surprised by this new Tony, this was definately a side of DiNozzo he had never seen before.

10 minutes later, the phone went he answered it within the first ring.. 'Gibbs,' he barked down the line.

'Don't yell,' Aurora said. 'I need you guys at that address, I only have 2 Omega people, not enough. We don't want to be ambushed,'

'Okay, we are on our way.'

'Not Tony,' Aurora said. 'Handcuff him if you have to,'

Gibbs sighed. 'Okay but you know you could do with the extra manpower.' he told her.

'What? And have him take a bullet for me?' she asked.

'We'll keep him on the second line of defence,' Gibbs told her

'Gibbs I don't have time to argue,' she growled.

'Neither do I,' he told her. "We will be there.'

'If he gets hurt Gibbs, I'll have your head,' she growled before hanging up.

Gibbs shook his head, hanging up the phone. He remained still for only a moment.'Righto DiNozzo lets roll, just don't get yourself killed.' he grabbed the car keys.

'I can come?' Tony jumped up, surprised

'Yes you're coming with us,' Gibbs said. He could see how much Tony wanted to be there and he could understand, If he was in the position Tony was in, wild horses couldn't keep him away from that warehouse.

'Thank god,' he said softly, walking with Gibbs out to the car.

'I heard that DiNozzo,' came the gruff reply.

'What? I'm sick of sitting around on my ass doing nothing,' he grumbled.

'Isn't it better to sit on your ass doing nothing then wind up in a pine box?'

'Not if Aurora ends up in one,' Tony climbed in

'DiNozzo,' Gibbs shook his head warningly

'What? Is it so wrong to want to keep her safe?' he asked. 'Am I that terrible?'

'No Tony you're not, but sometimes you have to think about your own safety as well'

'That means nothing if she's in danger,' Tony said as Gibbs pulled away from the kerb.

'Oh really? I'll tell that to your mother when I have to phone her and tell her that her son is dead.'

'It will be worth it if I save Aurora,' he growled.

'You really feel that way, don't you?' Gibbs sighed

'Yes Boss, I honestly do,' he said seriously.

'I'm seeing a different side of you DiNozzo,'

'Yeah?' he asked.

'Yes and I can understand Tony but I don't want to see you in a body bag and neither does Aurora. And before you start saying anything just listen. This is personal and when it gets personal it can get messy

'Yeah well sometimes it does get personal and sometimes you need to be there regardless,' he said.

Gibbs sighed. 'You're coming with us but you're not going in! You stay outside the warehouse. You're the back ups, back up,'

Tony nodded. It was start. At least he was going to be there.'Thank you Boss,'Tony said seriously..

'We have to pick up Cait and McGee and then we're gone,' Gibbs told him

'Then lets do it,' Tony said.

At the warehouse, Aurora approached with caution as she always would.

She hadn't seen the back up but could feel them there. It would have been too risky to meet with them before hand, in case they were seen.

Instead, she had told their Boss when that needed to know. She knew Gibbs, Tony and the rest would have caught up with the Omega agents, she had arranged the meeting so they'd be out there somewhere, waiting.

So now here she was, entering the warehouse, wondering exactly what Barry's plan was.

She knew she was a sitting duck, an easy target but instead of being scared she was sort of primed up for the fight, she knew she had the best back up in the business

Her back up was divided around the warehouse where they couldn't be seen. Tony held his breath as Aurora pulled up her car and moved toward the warehouse and slipped inside.

His heart thundered against his rib cage and he took several deep breaths to steady himself.

'You don't go inside,' Gibbs voice cut into his thoughts.

'Me boss? It never crossed my mind.' Tony lied easily.

'Yeah right,' Gibbs muttered.

'It didn't boss honestly.' he said, mentally wincing at the lie.

'Good,' he nodded, not believing aword his younger agent told him.He turned his attention back to the warehouse as a car pulled up.

Barry climbed out of his car but not before scanning the area. He didn't notice anyone around and smiled to himself. No one would know Aurora was here, it was perfect.

She wouldn't know what hit her, she had no idea. Of course it would have been oh so perfect if they'd had DiNozzo, he'd had that all planned but of course even the best laid plans could go astray and that one had but there was always Plan B. DiNozzo had been a means to an end. He hadn't cared about the ex cop but would have used him to get to Aurora.

As it was he hadn't been needed everything had fallen so nicely into place despite all the stuff ups

He knew everyone was in place and without a further thought, he slipped into the warehouse.

'Fucken bastard,' Tony muttered under his breath as he watched the older man slide through the door. The bastard had been Aurora partner!

'Tony,' Cait said warningly. 'Simmer down.'

'I'am,' he muttered, although he could have shot the bastard then and there.

'We don't have a green light yet,' Gibbs muttered. 'Besides we are only the backup to the backup,' he turned and nailed Tony with a hard look.

'Understood?'

'Perfectly.'

Aurora was waiting inside, leaning against a wall so no one could sneak up on her. She looked up into the rafters, knowing it was the perfect place to shoot from. It was dark and at a good angle.

She heard Barry approach and brought her attention back to the ground.

'Barry,' she turned to face him.

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