Tony was sitting at his desk when Ziva walked through. It had been just under two full days since they found out about Leo Silva. True to his word, McGee had made sure his transfer to the Navy yard would be swift and smooth. Silva was due to arrive early this morning. "Morning, Ziva."

"Tony," Ziva greeted as she walked over to him.

"Get any sleep?" Tony asked. He knew he had hardly slept. He doubted he would get much until Jenny was found and Gibbs was out of the woods.

"Very little," she said.

"Me too," Tony said.

"I think we have both gotten more than McGee. Has he even been home since this happened?" Ziva wondered. McGee was there when she got in in the morning and still there when they all left for the night. Although, she supposed that wasn't much different from normal.

"I don't know about home, but he has left the building. He showed up at the hospital when I went to see Gibbs last night," Tony said in a quiet voice.

Ziva felt guilty that she had not gone as well. She wanted to, but she had been running on almost no sleep. She figured it was best for everyone for her to go home and rest. Not that it ended up working. She doubted she got a full three hours. "How is he?"

"No change," Tony said sadly before standing up. "Come on. Drop your stuff off at your desk. Then we need to meet with McGee. I got something after I left last night."

Ziva nodded and immediately went to drop her bag at her desk. She took off her coat and followed Tony to the stairs. When they got to the director's office, Tony knocked once before letting them both inside. Once inside, they heard Tim on the phone with someone, and he didn't seem very happy.

"I don't care what you think about the new change in management. Take a damned number, and feel free to take it up with the Secretary of the Navy!" Tim snapped before hanging up the phone.

"Wow. You almost sounded like the director herself for a minute there," Tony said.

Tim snorted a bit. He had been told as a child that he was a lot like his aunt. He could see it in certain ways, he supposed. "It's seems the guy in charge at Norfolk isn't too happy about me taking over until the director returns. It probably doesn't help that I used to work for him, and his ego is the size of this entire building."

"It sounds like you handled him well," Ziva said.

"Thanks. What's up? Do you have something?" Tim asked.

"Yeah, I think I might know why Director Shepard went to see Leo Silva," Tony said.

Tim was sure he knew that too, but of course he didn't tell Tony that. He just stood there silently and waited for his friend to go on.

"So, this guy is a real piece of work. He was involved with a man who is suspected of killing a CIA agent and his entire family during a home invasion. The agent was the director's brother," Tony said sadly. He didn't even want to imagine losing loved ones that way. If Jenny had gone off the rails for this, he couldn't blame her.

"That is awful! You said it was a home invasion? That cannot be a coincidence," Ziva said. She had no idea about this, and she knew more about Jenny than most of her teammates. She'd known her much longer, and Mossad had compiled a file on her just like the others. However, that file contained very general information about her family. Ziva knew that Jenny's brother had been killed, along with his wife and children, but she didn't know the nature of their deaths.

Tim flinched slightly. He should've realized it wasn't a coincidence too. He just couldn't see why they'd come after her now. And he supposed a part of him didn't want to believe that the two cases could be related. He knew the danger Jenny faces if they were.

"They were killed pretty savagely. It's probably the most brutal case I've ever seen or read about," Tony said with a shudder. He didn't know a lot about the case, but after getting the little information he got, he looked up the case online, knowing there had to be a lot of media coverage. What he managed to find out was awful. Those people were not just killed. They were tortured first.

"Well, we have a lead now. We can question Silva on the matter when he arrives," Tim said, purposely steering the conversation away from where it was heading. He did not want to hear about the details of his family's murders. He knew all those details already. He was there.

"Was Silva involved in the murders?" Ziva asked.

"Not sure. I've put in a request to get the case file, but that will take a little bit. I got all I have from a friend with the FBI, who was able to give me more information on Silva, but he couldn't get me the Shepard case file himself. I do know that Silva was questioned about the murders, but he was never charged. If he was involved, there was no proof," Tony explained.

Tim felt very uncomfortable listening them talk about what happened to his family. It brought back a lot of memories. Not that that was very hard. Not a single day of his life passed when he didn't remember what happened to him and those he loved.

Just then, the phone rang. Tim immediately picked it up. "McGee? Thank you," he said before hanging up and turning to the others. "Silva just got here."

"Alright. Let's get him into interrogation," Tony said to Ziva.

Ziva nodded, and the two of them headed for the door.

Tim just sat there for a bit. He would be joining them soon, but first he had to try to find the willpower not to take out his gun and kill Silva the second he saw his face.

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Less than fifteen minutes later, Tony and Ziva were sitting across from Leo Silva in the interrogation room. "You have the right to have a lawyer here if you want," Tony told Silva.

Leo laughed at him. "I'm in for life. What do I need a lawyer for? I can tell you to go to hell myself, unless you plan to have my sentence reduced in exchange for my help."

Tony ignored the last part of his comment and instead took out a photo of Jenny. "Did you tell her to go to Hell?"

"I don't know her," Leo immediately lied.

"We have seen the visitor's log. We know she came to visit you," Ziva said.

Just then, the door to the interrogation room opened and Tim walked in.

Tony looked at McGee in confusion. He wasn't expecting him to join them. He figured the Acting Director would leave them to deal with while he handed whatever else he had to.

Tim didn't say a word. He just grabbed an empty chair and took a seat at the head of the table. Then he stared at Silva. He wasn't going to speak yet. Right now, he wanted to see if Silva would recognize him. He doubted it. Tim was nothing to Silva except for his latest victim. He probably forgot about the second it was all over. Well, either way, Tim would make sure this piece of garbage remembered him.

After a few moments of McGee not speaking, Tony cleared his throat and continued with the interrogation. "Tell us why Jenny Shepard came to see you."

Leo didn't say a word. He turned his head to the newest agent who walked in, who kept staring at him coldly. He definitely didn't like the way the guy was staring at him. There was nothing but hate in his eyes. He'd never seen that when dealing with a cop or fed before. None of them liked him, but they never appeared to hate him.

"She wanted to confront you about the murderers of her brother and his family, yes?" Ziva asked.

"I have nothing to say about that. Make this guy stop staring at me," Leo said.

"He's the director. He can do what he wants," Tony said. He didn't blame Silva for being unnerved by McGee. He was making Gibbs interrogation stares look like warm smiles. Tony was unnerved by it too. What was McGee doing? "You want him to stop, tell us what you know."

"I don't have to tell you anything, unless you get my sentence reduced. Maybe I'll help you then," Leo said.

It was then that Tim spoke for the first time. "Why would we do anything to help you? You're a killer. We won't lift a finger to help put you back on the streets."

Leo shrugged. "Then you can all go screw yourselves."

"What we can do though is make your life much more difficult," Tim said.

He laughed. "I'm doing life right now. You can't possibly make my life worse than it is."

"Oh, I'll take that bet. See, I'm betting your buddies inside don't know all the things you've done. Any of them fathers? How do you think they will react when they find out you helped murder a family, including a five-year-old girl?" Tim asked. He pushed back the sheer despair he felt when he spoke of his sister. Hers was the first murder he'd seen. That was the moment that his innocence died. It went right with his baby sister.

Tony looked at his friend in shock. He could only guess McGee was talking about the Shepard murders, but how did he know a five-year-old child had died. Tony didn't know that. Unless Tim was bluffing his way through this threat.

"Y…You can't prove that," Silva said.

"I can actually, but I don't need to. I just need to make sure the right people find out about it. Your life will be hell on the inside, for however long it lasts anyway," Tim said.

"You can't do that. It's an abuse of power," Leo protested.

Tim felt an overwhelming rage build up inside of him. That this man would dare to talk to him of all people of rage infuriated him. "You dare talk to me about abuse? Look at me!"

Tony and Ziva glanced at each other, both becoming very nervous. They had never seen their friend like this before. Granted, they'd quite a few characteristics in him in the last week that they hadn't before, but this was different. This seemed personal.

"You have no idea who I am, do you?" Tim asked.

Tony was starting to get alarmed. This was personal for McGee. He knew this man. Tony should have seen it coming. McGee seemed off when they showed him Silva's picture, and their had been nothing but hate in his eyes since he entered the interrogation room.

Leo shrugged. "How would I know you?"

Tim was furious to the point where it no longer mattered who else was in the room. It didn't matter what he might reveal to his colleagues, which was why he didn't kick the others out before pulling out the picture of himself and Jenny that he'd found in Jenny's desk. He slammed it down in front of Silva and watched the color drain from his face. "Now you know who I am."

Leo leaned as far away from the man in front of him as he could. He would have stood up and backed away if he wasn't chained to the chair. "It's not possible! There's no way you could've survived!"

Tony quickly reached forward and grabbed the picture McGee had put in front of Silva. When he looked at it, he was Shell shocked. It was a picture of Jenny with a young boy that looked very much like McGee. In any other circumstances, Tony might say that was a coincidence, but McGee showed Silva that photo for a reason, and Silva recognized him. McGee knew Jenny when he was a child.

"Oh, I'm sure that was the plan. I'm sure your boss had every intention of eventually killing me when plucked me from my home in the middle of the night after slaughtering my entire family in front of me!"

Ziva covered her mouth as she suppressed a gasp. She knew McGee's past had horrors in in it. She suspected it was child abuse. She never imagined that he'd actually had to watch his family get murdered.

"It wasn't personal," Leo said.

It Tim was angry before, he was absolutely livid now, to the point where it took every ounce of willpower he had not to take out his gun. He did, however, angrily stand up and advance on Silva. "What did you say?!"

Tony immediately got up and pulled his friend back before standing in front of him. He was confused as hell, but he knew enough to know that McGee was mere moments away from killing this man, and it seemed to be for good reason. Apparently the bastard helped kill his family. Tony could do the math, even without having a lot of information. McGee's family was killed when he was a kid by Silva and others, and there was a picture of McGee with Jenny as a child. The Shepard murders. McGee was there. It was his family.

"The hell it wasn't personal! It was damn well personal to me. You people ruined my life! You killed nearly everyone I love. You murdered my mother!" Tim screamed before once again trying to advance.

Tony held him back. "McGee… Tim, stop. You don't want to do this!"

Tim ignored him as he continued with Silva. "Do you remember what my mother said to me right before you beat her nearly to death and then snapped her neck!"

Tony cringed. He couldn't imagine having to see that as a child. He was surprised that McGee didn't shoot Silva the second he entered the room. Tony certainly would have.

"I'm sure you don't. You wouldn't care about something like that. I remember it though. It was the last time I'd ever hear her voice! She said, 'Don't look. Don't look, Jasper. Close your eyes.' She knew she was going to die, but all she cared about was making sure I didn't have those images in my mind," Tim said. His voice was cracking by the time he was finished.

"Tim, don't give him the satisfaction. Come on," Tony said as he pulled him out of the room.

Tim let him because he knew he'd kill Silva if he was in there longer. He thought he could be more composed, but he couldn't. Facing that man had filled him with nothing but rage, and he was already filled with that and fear for Jenny before he even got in there. All the anger he felt over nearly two decades combined with the fear and anger he'd been trying to bury since Jenny and Gibbs went missing, and he finally just broke. He could no longer control his emotions.

Tony pulled Tim across the hall into a storage closet. The entire agency didn't need to see their current director in this state. "My God, McGee."

"He knows something. She went to see him for a reason. He is involved somehow!" Tim said

Tony nodded. "We'll find out what he knows, but you cannot go back in there." He knew that he couldn't really stop him from going back in there, as he was the director, but he hoped his friend would realize that it would be a terrible idea.

"I know. I'll end up killing him. Tony, you have to find out. I can't lose Jenny. I can't," Tim said emotionally.

Tony nodded again. He had a million things he wanted to ask, but now wasn't the time, and McGee was in no shape to answer anyway. "You won't, Tim. We will find her. Listen, you should take a walk or something. Try to calm down a little. Ziva and I will get answers out of Silva. I swear."

Tim nodded before taking a deep breath and heading out of the room.