A/N: To those that most recently joined this ride as a follower or favourite, welcome aboard! Glad to have you with us! To all my reviewers, you all rock! I really love hearing your feedback, hearing how much you're all loving this story & your opinions, really spurs me to keep writing, so thank you! I know I normally reply to you all, but tonight I am in desperate need of sleep & want to get this posted, so please forgive me!
To answer all the comments about the INTERPOL agents all I can say that they are real agents...as for the comments about Tony's father... yea, not comment..
Can Gibbs get there? I think he will... so let's see what happens & what Gibbs has up his sleeve to deal with them!
It was only a very short drive, even so Gibbs had gotten there in record time, he was worried sick. He pulled his car up, double parking it in front of the mystery black sedan he presumed belonged to the 2 men he could see speaking with Tony, Tim & his wife.
Tony & Shannon were still staring these INTERPOL men down when Gibbs arrived & both breathed sighs of relief seeing him pull up.
Gibbs marched straight over & put himself between the men & his wife & team "and you are?" he demanded.
Agent Moretti looked him up & down "Agent Moretti, INTERPOL & as we've already said, we just need Agent DiNozzo here to come with us to answer some questions" showing his badge & I.D.
Gibbs made sure not to show surprise at the INTERPOL remark, but what kind of questions did they have for Tony? "My Agent is leading an investigation right now, so unless you can give me further information, I wont take him off that"
"It wont take long, but the matter is confidential, we only have authority to speak with him directly, this is not an NCIS matter" Mandel asserted.
"Not good enough" Gibbs replied.
"If it's not NCS related then what is it about?" Tony asked, what on earth did they want?
Moretti looked at him, he was curious, that could help them "We can only explain in private, the matter is..."
"yea, yea, confidential... you've said that already" Tony interrupted "But I have no secrets from these people, so go ahead"
Shannon had to smile at that, she was getting even more concerned though, this wasn't work related, so what was it about?
"Afraid we can't speak to you, unless it's in private, we've been given strict instructions.. only in private, so please, if you'd come with us?" Mandel said.
"If you think I am letting him go anywhere with you without me, you are dreaming!" Gibbs asserted "you want to speak to him, you can do so at NCIS" at least that would keep them in their backyard, where they had advantage to deal with whatever it was.
Mandel shook his head "unfortunately not..."
"Ok" Moretti agreed, it drew a look from his partner "we need to speak with you urgently, so we can't keep standing here debating turf. All I will say is, we will speak to him privately, no other NCIS personnel are allowed into the room & that includes you Deputy Special Assistant Director Gibbs & I would go so far as to include your wife in that category"
Gibbs again hid his surprise at them knowing him & his wife "ok" he agreed.
Tony was a little taken aback by Gibbs's ready agreement, he was going to say something but didn't get the chance.
"McGee, take DiNozzo back to HQ, now!" Gibbs ordered, he turned to the two men "you two can follow us"
"Yes boss" Tim answered pulling Tony with him, they'd already finished up processing the scene, which was a good thing.
Shannon sat down into her husbands work car "what are you up to?" he clearly had gotten a idea as to how to deal with these men from INTERPOL.
Gibbs just smiled as he started the car, he then dialled his phone.
Tony was pacing in Gibbs's office & was oblivious to the fact that Gibbs had entered "what do they want? Not work related... what do they want? I haven't done anything!"
"Tony" Gibbs said trying to get attention, but he was clearly still rambling to himself too loudly to hear him, he approached his agent, a man he considered much more than that really. He was like a son, he knew he had to snap him out of it, so he gave him a quick 'tap' to the back of his head "DiNozzo"
Tony's eyes snapped up to see Gibbs "Boss, I've done nothing, I swear! I don't know what they want!"
"Relax DiNozzo, I know you haven't done anything" Gibbs said reassuring him "just see what they want & we'll take it from there"
"Wish you could be there with me" Tony confessed, he'd feel so much better if he could have him with him.
Gibbs felt the same way, he didn't like that he wasn't going to be able to be there for him "Me too, but you wont be alone" he had a plan!
Before Tony could ask Gibbs what he meant a knock came on the door & Tim entered "they're in the conference room boss & said Tony had to go there now"
Gibbs felt his phone vibrate, he looked at it "coming inside now" he nodded, they could go now "ok, let's go"
"Boss?" Tony queried.
Gibbs held a small smile "gotta trust me Tony"
While Tony was nervous, trusting Gibbs came so naturally, so he would trust him, the man he considered a father, sometimes even more of a father than his own "I can do that"
"Good" Gibbs smiled.
Tony followed his boss towards to the conference room, as soon as he saw the INTERPOL agents his stomach gave another nervous twitch, but standing with them was Shannon, who was giving the pair glares that would rival Gibbs glare. It gave him a small lift knowing just how much she cared to be here for it, to go toe to with these men for him.
Mandel opened the door & looked at Tony with clear meaning, go inside.
"Go on in DiNozzo, we'll be right outside" Gibbs said motioning his man to go in.
Tim had followed the pair to the conference room, he couldn't believe Gibbs was being so accommodating to the pair & basically sent Tony into the room alone.
Agent Moretti waited until his partner & Tony had gone inside "I appreciate your assistance, this wont take long"
Gibbs just nodded "Agent Moretti, let me make something crystal clear, you step over the boundary & I will hold you personally accountable" he finished giving the man a death glare to show just how much he means it.
"I assure you, all we have are a few questions for your man" Moretti replied.
"Shall we get started then Agent Moretti" Kelly said brushing past him & heading for the conference room door.
Moretti's eyes widened "and you are?"
Kelly had one hand on the door handle & looked back to him, he was tall, very skinny with extremely thinning black hair, not a good looking man one bit "I am Supervisory Special Agent DiNozzo's personal lawyer. You want to speak to him, that's fine. But I am present, or he wont say a word"
"He's not under arrest" Moretti replied.
"Don't care, you mentioned this was a non-NCIS related matter & therefore it's personal for Agent DiNozzo. Given that, he is entitled to a lawyer, and that's me!" Kelly asserted, she opened the door & saw Tony still standing up "Good, you haven't started talking yet Tony, I'm right on time"
Tony was startled at Kelly's appearance, but then he realised this was Gibbs's plan! He said he wouldn't be alone & who better to piss off INTERPOL agents than a lawyer! "Was waiting for my lawyer" he said playing along.
Shannon smirked, Moretti looked like he was ready to explode.
"Agent Moretti my agent has things to do, so please go in & get on with it" Gibbs asserted, he loved how off balanced this man now looked with the appearance of his daughter, he was starting to realise that lawyers could be very useful!
"I said alone, this doesn't require the attendance or attention of a lawyer" Moretti replied.
Tim just smiled, he'd seen Kelly make a move to come back out of the room, he was going to get schooled!
"Any person is entitled to legal counsel when in a discussion with any law enforcement agency & my client is no different. He won't utter a single word without me present, Do you want to have a one way conversation? Do you want to do all the talking & have my client not utter a single word, if so I can leave" Kelly replied "Oh, I have other cases going on, so if we don't get started, you'll have to come back tomorrow. Your choice, we can talk now & you can tell us what my client can help you with, or you can come back when we see fit, that happens & I will be forwarding my bill to your office and I doubt your superiors will appreciate my charge out rates"
Gibbs wanted to grin, but he held his firm gaze on the man, he loved that his girl was putting this guy in his place, leaving him no room to manoeuvre! Tim loved that Gibbs had obviously called Kelly, that was brilliant! Shannon knew how much her daughter cared for Tony, as soon as they'd called her she'd left her office instantly wanting to help.
Kelly watched Moretti reluctantly enter the room "wise choice Agent Moretti, now what's all this about?" she asked as she closed the door.
"Great idea boss!" Tim said as soon as the door closed.
Gibbs smirked, he had to agree "Where's Silva & Zuse?"
"Ah, over at the NATO labs boss with the evidence" Tim reported.
"Get them back & get Ziva here too" Gibbs ordered "something tells me this isn't going to be cut & dry"
Tim nodded & moved down the hall to call the troops back, if Tony needed backup, he'd make sure the whole team would be ready to give it, that was his role as Tony's 2nd after all.
"What do you think is going on?" Shannon asked.
Gibbs leaned back against the wall "Not sure, but I'm not liking this" he admitted.
The pair stood in silence for a few minutes, both wondering what conversation was taking place on the other side of the door, both wished they could be in there to help, but they relied on the fact that Kelly was with Tony, she wouldn't let them get away with anything, for starters she was a damn fine lawyer, the other was the protectiveness she felt towards him, like they all felt for each other & that meant she'd fight even harder whenever required.
"Gibbs" Tristan greeted "Got your S.O.S., what's going on?"
"Not sure, INTERPOL are speaking with DiNozzo, apparently it's got nothing to do with NCIS, they demanded a private conversation with him" Gibbs said
Tristan didn't like that one bit "INTERPOL?"
"mmhhmm" Gibbs confirmed "Kelly's in there with him, as his personal lawyer"
Tristan raised an eyebrow "and I bet that went down extremely well"
"They handled it like any federal agent would..." Shannon surmised.
"So not well" Tristan said sharing a smile with Shannon.
"Not in the slightest" Shannon agreed.
Gibbs started pacing, yea his girl was in there with Tony but it still concerned him. His gut was telling him that whatever the reason was it wasn't good, not one little bit. He tried to prepare himself for what ever it was,..
A/N: Hmmm... this isn't looking good! But at least Kelly is in there with him! She'll keep them from going too far! But what on earth do they want?!
How exactly will Kelly handle it? How will Ziva handle the aftermath? And who exactly is next on the list of people they'll need to speak with?
More up soon! Remember, I alway love hearing your thoughts, so review away!