Shattered
Disclaimer: I don´t own any characters or anything
Summary: Twilight left them shattered. When Ari is killed 6 months later, the team learns surprising news, but will those news come soon enough to keep one of them from breaking?
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2- News
The following Sunday, Tony was sitting on his couch, watching a football game on TV when his cell phone started ringing. He looked at the caller ID and frowned. "Dinozzo." He answered it and wondered why Director Morrow would call him on his free weekend. It was barely noon and he hoped that it was really important. After all, free weekends were rare since they were only three field agents right now.
The man on the other end of the line sounded rather calm, but somehow there was something in his voice that didn´t belong there. Tony had worked more closely with Morrow for the last months. That was something the job as teamleader brought along. "Agent Dinozzo, I´m sorry to disturb you on your free weekend, but I need you to come to the office immediately. There are news concerning Haswari." The director said and it was all that was necessary.
Half an hour later, Tony sprinted into the office and took three stairs at once as he made his way up to the level where the offices lay. He had almost caused an accident when he hit a red light, but the tone in Morrow´s voice had made him curious enough to throw all caution over board. He knocked at the first door and heard the low voice of Morrow from the inside. "Enter."
Tom Morrow had been on this job for a long time, but every time he thought that he had seen everything, something unexpected would come up, confronting him with a completely new situation. He walked around his desk and sat down when Dinozzo came in. "You asked to see me, Mr. Director?" The younger man asked and remained at the door.
"Yes, please have a seat." Tom said and sighed inwardly. When he had gotten a call from the FBI three hours ago, his world order had yet again been thrown into chaos. He watched how Dinozzo sat down in front of the desk. "I received a call from the FBI a few hours ago. Ari Haswari has been shot last night when a team of FBI and CIA cornered him in Chicago. He was about to leave the country, but they were able to stop him. It has been confirmed that it was the right person as well -DNA doesn´t lie." Morrow said and watched a sparkle in Tony´s eyes.
"That´s good news, but why did I have to come here immediately?" This didn´t make any sense -it would have been sufficient to send a message about this around. Tony suspected that there was more to learn about the most recent events. Something in Morrow´s face told him that he was in for some surprises and he wasn´t sure if all of them were good.
"As you know, several people were placed on the witness protection program because of Haswari. Since he´s dead, those people will return to their normal lives now. Miss David will return to Israel tomorrow morning, she has already been notified and will clear out her desk tonight." Morrow went on and watched the expression of surprise on the younger agent´s face. Everyone who worked at NCIS or one of the other agencies knew very well what WITSEC was. They had to work with safe houses and altered identities a lot.
"With all due respect, Sir, but we can hardly do our job with only three field agents. I don´t think we will be able to cope with only two of us." Tony said and noted a slight smile on the face of the older man now. He was puzzled and tried to guess where this was leading. Ziva David had had a hard time on the team at first, being forced into the spot of someone who had died in the line of duty. She had tried to do her job good and earned some recognition for it soon.
"I´m aware of the implications this will have, Anthony. I´m aware that we made mistakes in the past, one of them being the plan to set up Haswari on that rooftop." Morrow watched the look in Tony´s eyes. He knew how much these events had changed everyone´s life and yet he knew that it had been necessary at those times.
"Sir, I lost my partner and my boss that day. Calling it a mistake won´t make that any better." Tony felt his pulse beating stronger as a wave of anger rose inside him. A mistake! All Morrow could think of was calling her death a mistake. He was close to jump up and leave, but the look in the director´s eyes somehow kept him in his seat.
Morrow reached for a piece of paper and wrote down something that looked like an address. "I need you to go to this address after we are done here. The name is Sasha Turner. Tell her that Shadowrun is over and that you´re with NCIS. She will explain everything to you. That will be all for now, Agent Dinozzo." The director said and leaned back in his chair. He wasn´t sure how he should feel about sending Dinozzo there, but yet he hoped that he would understand.
Tony looked at the address and walked out to his car. This talk with Morrow had been the strangest thing that had happened to him for a long time. 40 minutes later he parked his car in front of a small house. The neighborhood lay just outside the city boundaries of Norfolk. It seemed to be a calm area and some children were playing in the street. Checking the sign next to the door, he rang the bell and waited. He wasn´t sure what to make of this whole thing -it was Sunday after all and maybe this Mrs. Turner had gone to church. Soft steps approached the door and he heard a voice a moment later. "Who´s there?"
For a short moment, that voice seemed very familiar to him, but he put that thought off and remembered what Morrow had told him. "Anthony Dinozzo, NCIS. I´m supposed to tell you that shadowrun is over, ma´am." He finally said and heard the deadbolt sliding back.