A/N: To all those who celebrate Christmas, I'd like to wish you a Merry Christmas! To all those celebrate Chanukah, I hope the 8 days was enlightening & joyous! To Everyone else, may you be happy as you celebrate life! It's a very precious thing!
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To all my recent followers/favourites, welcome aboard! To my reviewers, thank you! You rock.. now, let's see what awaits the team on a new case..
Tristan saw Gibbs walking up the stairs towards their offices "Morning Gibbs, how's your son doing? How are you doing?"
Gibbs sighed, he'd barely gotten any sleep, they'd all been too worked up to go to bed "Morning, well, he's angry, annoyed, pissed off, upset, depressed & we are right there with him!" he was still fuming.
Tristan let out a sad smile, she hadn't been able to get to the game, but she'd heard all about it "I can understand that. It seems to be the talk of the building, everyone I think is sharing your feelings, can the club appeal or anything?"
"They're looking at the options today, normally it would mean an automatic 1 match suspension & maybe more, so they're going to try to appeal the charges, Nix has headed in this morning for a recovery session, after that they'll have a meeting about it." Gibbs answered.
"I'm sure Kelly has offered her assistance" Tristan smiled.
Gibbs smirked "She wants to sue the referee, the Italian Referee's Association for employing a blind man, the Italian Football Association for allowing the Referee's Association to employee him, so yes, she wants to help"
Tristan laughed "I'm sure she would succeed with some of that at least"
Gibbs grinned "I have no doubt" he had to admit, a lawyer in the family was a good thing!
Tristan nodded & made a move to head to her office but was stopped.
Gibbs held her back, there was something he needed run past her "Nix is having a hard time focusing on anything else & his mood leaves something to be desired. Shannon is showing my dad around today, so they won't be home much. I've told Nix to come here as soon as he's done at the club, he's gotta get on with his college stuff, so I'd like to set him up in my office to make sure he does that" he knew that wasn't really normal protocol, but he needed to keep an eye on him.
Tristan smiled, he really was a good dad "I'd do the same but just as long as he watches his mood around everyone, can't have him mouthing off left right & centre"
"Trust me, he knows when & where he needs to watch that" Gibbs replied, one thing he knew was that having his son here at NCIS would keep him in check, because he knew how to behave here & if he didn't then he'd call his son on it.
"Then that's fine Gibbs" Tristan smiled, but all of a sudden both their cells went crazy with messages - it was dispatch.
Gibbs checked his & dialled dispatch back "what you got?"
Tristan waited for Gibbs to finish, she could there was more than one thing "well?"
"Give the Post Office job to DiNozzo & Wu the assault" Gibbs said to the dispatcher, he turned to Tristan "It's begun, the base post office has had a break in, Local LEO's are holding 2 sailors on assault charges too" he replied
Tristan shook her head "you know sometimes I wish we didn't have to run the navy with so many sailors & marines"
Gibbs smirked "it would simplify things"
"Still can't believe he got sent off!" Tim vented, it was just soo wrong! Nix had scored such a great goal, it wasn't offside & he definitely didn't handball the ball!
"It was a pathetic call! That ref should be fired!" Silva added.
Jonas leaned over the divider "I say we find out where he lives!"
Wu looked up "Jonas! Sit down! We aren't going to hunt him down. I suggest you do something more constructive with your time" he took a breath "like finding the nearest optometrist, then you can send the details to referee's ruling body, the guy clearly needs glasses, let's help out"
Jonas grinned "with pleasure sir"
Tony couldn't help but let out a small chuckle, they were all feeling the same way. He heard his phone go, seeing it was dispatch, he wondered what it would be this time, he answered the call & listened intently before hanging up. "Gear up! Base Post Office has had a break in" he called.
Tony then heard Wu call "Time to go! 2 Sailors are being held by local LEO's on assault charges"
Tony shared a look with Wu, they didn't even get a single day before the onslaught of situations came about with the added personnel in Naples.
Ziva was out doing a handover with the new Agent Afloat for the Sea Hawk but Tim & Silva instantly got their gear & weapon & were making their way to the lift right behind Tony, but Zuse was slow on the uptake.
Tony turned, he saw Gibbs & Tristan standing on the level above & sighed "Zuse! Move your ass!"
Zuse swallowed, he'd been in the middle of an mandatory online tutorial about safety matters at NSA Naples when Tony had given them the command & had been slow off the mark to get up "coming sir"
Tony could have sworn he'd seen a smirk on Gibbs's face, he shot him a glare.
Gibbs just raised his eyebrow in response, he grabbed his phone & texted Tony 'he's your probie, not mine. Train him to heel, just like I did!''
Tony read the text & stared at it wide eyed, he shot a look up to his boss.
"Get going DiNozzo!" Gibbs barked, this was going to be fun to watch!
Tony smirked "On it boss!" he replied, yea, guess he had been trained to heel & now it was his turn to do the training, he grinned.
Tony entered the lift & looked Zuse squarely in the eyes "when I say gear up, you drop everything, gear up & start moving. There's no delay!"
Zuse nodded "yes sir" he thought Gibbs had been an hard arse, but Tony was pretty tough himself!
Tim smirked, they'd all learnt that the hard way with Gibbs, he was glad Tony wasn't going to give Zuse any lighter treatment.
"What 'ave we got?" Tony asked.
"Employees found the back door busted open when they arrived this morning, the safe that held what small money they kept on sight was broken into, security system was disabled around 01:00" Tim reported.
Silva took over "Some of the mail has been opened, will take a while to see if there's any pattern to what they opened, it may be random, may not. But so far, it looks like only outgoing mail was targeted"
"How much money was taken?" Tony asked.
"Ahh, employees think around a thousand dollars, they're just trying to get us a more accurate figure as we speak" Tim answered "It's not a lot of money, you'd get more breaking into one of the base clubs"
"Maybe it wasn't about the money then, maybe it was the mail." Tony replied he turned to Silva "you said it was all outgoing mail?"
"Yes sir" Silva answered "Zuse is packing it all for transport, maybe we can get some prints off the envelopes & find a common denominator"
Tony nodded "get it packed & over to the NATO labs, let them see what they can find, take Zuse. We can then look for patterns" he instructed Silva.
"Yes sir" Silva agreed & moved away.
Tony saw Tim was back at the back door "anything?"
"Nope, wiped clean, no prints here or anywhere, they must have used gloves. What you thinking?" Tim asked.
Tony considered it "Why steel or go through the mail? I mean in this day and age, snail mail is really old school, when was the last time you wrote a letter & actually mailed it?"
"A while" Tim had to admit.
"Exactly! No one our age uses real mail anymore, heck even Gibbs has joined the 21st century now!" Tony smirked "whoever it was..."
"was older, much older..." Tim mused.
A light bulb hit both of them "or they were after information an older person had!"
"I must say it's fascinating watching you two work" Shannon commented.
Tony & Tim snapped their attention around to her in utter shock.
Shannon smiled "The way your minds are so in sync really is something"
Tony had no idea what she was doing here "what are you doing here?" he scanned the immediate area, they had just gotten outside the Post Office.
"As you so rightly put it, post offices are used for the older generation mostly. Jack is expecting a parcel, so I came by to see if it's arrived for him" Shannon replied "What happened?"
"Break in" Tony replied "maybe you should come back later?" he suggested, knowing full well Gibbs wouldn't want her mixed up in anything of a sort, he saw that one of the employees had called for Tim & he'd headed off.
"Maybe I should" Shannon agreed, but she then saw a car pull up right on the curb in front of them, with 2 men in dark suits hoping out.
Tony saw these 2 men get out & instantly tensed, placing himself in front of Shannon, it was a natural protective instinct reaction, something didn't seem right.
"Mr DiNozzo?" man in suit number one asked.
"Supervisory Special Agent DiNozzo, NCIS" Tony answered.
"Of course" man in suit number two smirked "Supervisory Special Agent DiNozzo, we need a word"
"About?" Tony asked.
"It's a sensitive matter, we need you to come with us" man in suit number 1 answered.
"and you are?" Shannon asked, she didn't like the feel of these men one little bit.
"Agent Migel Moretti, INTERPOL" Moretti answered "and this is my partner Agent Arthur Mandel, also of INTERPOL"
Both Tony's & Shannon's eyes widened INTERPOL?
"What can I do for INTERPOL?" Tony asked, what the hell do they want?
"You can come with us, we need to speak, it's sensitive & confidential" Mandel answered.
"Yea well, I'm in the middle of a case right now, so unless you can give me a better reason..." Tony said.
"We have been given authority to take you by force if necessary, don't make us do that" Moretti said giving Tony a death glare.
Shannon's eyes widened, she saw Tim was standing not far away & was keenly watching on, using her hand which was resting on her thigh, she tapped out G-I-B-B-S with morse code, hoping he'd get the message to call her husband.
Tim had seen the car pull up & the men start to talk to Tony & Shannon, but he was busy with the employees, it wasn't until he saw Tony tense further that he started to pay very close attention, he then saw Shannon tapping her hand against her thigh, he saw a pattern. He realised what it was was G-I-B-B-S in morse code.. GIBBS! He dialled his phone instantly "Boss! Need you at the Post office now! Something's not right, There's 2 men speaking with Tony & your wife & she just signalled me with morse code to call you!"
Gibbs had been listening to McGee & he propelled himself out of his chair, what on earth was Shannon doing at the Post office? Morse code signalling? That couldn't be good! "I'll be there in 10! Nothing happens to her!"
"No boss" Tim agreed, he moved closer, he certainly wasn't going to let anything happen to her or Tony, he didn't like the look of his men, and with Silva & Zuse already gone, he signalled one of the MP's who was on duty at the scene, they needed to keep an eye on these men.
Shannon was relieved when she saw Tim on the phone, she didn't know what these INTERPOL men wanted, but it was unsettling her to no end. She certainly didn't like the thought of Tony having to go anywhere with these men, without even a reason and their threat about using force was worrying her, what did these men think he'd done? He certainly would never do anything illegal or untoward.
A/N: I hope Gibbs gets there in time! But what on earth do INTERPOL want with Tony? Can they really succeed in getting a 'private' conversation with Tony? Or will someone crash the party?
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