A/N: Here's another chapter folks, sorry for the delay… life! To my recent follower welcome! To my reviewers, I love you all! Reading your comments keeps me greatly inspired so keep them coming!

Guest Reviewers: Sue Dooley & Momcat: Thanks for the reviews! Yes this answers one question, but creates a dozen more, just like you've mentioned and we'll get through them all, eventually!

None: Thanks for the review! The question is does Tim actually know who he was comparing the photo of to? I don't think he did! But yes, she might be wondering what he did in the office whilst in there

Please note, I'm invoking my writers creative licence and so canon for Delilah Fielding is about to take a massive shift! Let's get straight into it..more to learn!

Gibbs brought his wife into a tight embrace "shh" he soothed as he ran a hand up & down her back, he really had no idea where to go with this information & after a few moments felt her pull back up "babe.."

"He died, at least that what we thought, what happened? He loved mum why would he do this to us?" Shannon asked, she was utterly lost.

"I don't know babe, I wish I did, but its something we'll have to figure out" Gibbs replied, this was killing him.

"He left us! He left us and adopted Tony's sister! He replaced me!" Shannon cried, how could her dad have done that to her? She always thought her dad had loved her, the few memories she had of him she cherished!

Gibbs had tears running down his cheek, he lifted a hand and brushed hers away "Babe we don't know what happened back then, I'm sure there's a reason, but I doubt he replaced you" he saw the look he got "think about what we've found out, he was at that symposium Kelly was invited to, he taught her how to decrypt exchanges involving people that knew Mac, something that wasn't part of the actual curriculum of the event. Heck he traded insults with the men that tried running her & Myles out of NOLA! And let's not forget that he came to you, he came to that Country Club to speak to you, but left as soon as Quinn showed up, so he obviously realised he shouldn't be there. But he went none the less! He had a one on one conversation with Kells, and what he said to her about her studies and that it was because of you & me she could get there. The fact that you said he was so easy to talk to & was genuinely interested in what you had to say. None of that sounds like someone who forgot you."

"I just don't understand why…" Shannon started to say.

Gibbs had to interrupt her "Me either, but we will find them, and we will ask him because I don't like this anymore than you do" he was going to ask the guy more than one question!

Shannon nodded "Kelly….."

"I know babe, we need to tell her first & my dad too?" Gibbs agreed, he saw her nod & grabbed his phone to text Tim "send Kelly & my dad to my office, now!" he wanted this to be family only first, they'd then tell the others.

"Yes Boss" Tim replied instantly.

"I can tell her babe" Gibbs offered

Shannon took a breath "no, I want to" this was something she needed to do, she went into the room & sat down on the couch, she saw the door open & saw her daughter, oh gosh!

Kelly walked in not really knowing what to expect, Tim had been tight lipped since he'd last come out of here "mum?"

"Darling come sit down" Shannon motioned, she saw her husband motion Jack to sit down too on the other couch.

Jack couldn't help but wonder what was going on, Shannon looked like a wreck!

Gibbs sat down on his daughter's other side, this was going to be hard to hear!

Shannon took a breath "darling I want to show you something"

"Ok" Kelly nodded

"Do you remember who this is angel?" Shannon asked showing a picture of him with her mum.

"Yea of course" Kelly nodded "that's grandma & your dad on their wedding day" what did this have to do with anything?

"Yes it is" Shannon nodded "you remember his name?"

"Alexander McLowry" Kelly answered, of course she remembered her grandfather's name but where was her mum going with this?

Shannon nodded again taking a deep breath, could she do this? No she had to "the thing is…"

Gibbs could see she was struggling, he decided to help "angel, when mum looked at the photo of Lawrence Alexander.."

Kelly flashed a look at her dad before turning back to her mum "what about him?"

"Sweetheart, it's the same person" Shannon whispered holding her girl's hands.

Kelly's eyes widened "what do you mean same person?"

"The man that taught you that decryption technique was not Lawrence Alexander, he was Alexander McLowry, your grandfather" Shannon whispered

Jack couldn't believe his ears! This man they'd been looking into was Shannon's father? Really? He just didn't know what to believe!

Kelly's eyes remained wide looking at her mum, she actually didn't know what to say, but really? "you sure?" she finally whispered

"We're sure angel" Shannon nodded quietly

"Tim ran a program to compare the facial features, it's a match" Gibbs added

Kelly switched her gaze to her dad "what program?"

"Its still up on my computer" Gibbs remarked he didn't know the name of it, and he wasn't surprised when she jumped up & headed over to see it.

Kelly sat down at her father's desk & stared at the screen in front of her, side by side were the images, she could see similarities & she saw the green lines between the two images confirming the matches, but she needed to check herself. As much as she trusted Tim she had to redo this herself, she clicked cancel & started again, she knew this program enough to know what to do, Tim had shown it to her about a month back.

Jack had followed his son & Shannon to the desk & saw his granddaughter had restarted the program, he still couldn't believe it, so was glad that she was redoing this.

Kelly made sure all the parameters were properly aligned & accounted for, and they were, she hit the run & sat back to watch.

Shannon knew why her daughter was doing this, she wanted to make sure the program had given the right answer, she had to make sure of that herself, she did understand her daughter's need. And when it came back as confirmed she rested a hand on her shoulder.

Kelly looked up to her parents "I don't understand, he died when you were like 5!"

"We don't understand it either angel, but we'll get the answers, I assure you" Gibbs remarked

Kelly nodded but looked down, that man was her grandfather? She'd spent time with him.. what if "did he know.."

Gibbs had to interrupt her, he was resting against his desk as he placed a hand on his girl's cheek to lift her face up to him "Yes Kelly, I'm convinced he knew who you were in NOLA. He didn't have to teach you that decryption & he didn't have to speak to you one on one, but he did & you said it yourself, he was easy to talk to. Myles saw him get into that argument with those men, I'm convinced he knew who you were" he was convinced the man knew who she was, why he did all of this was another matter & it was something he would get to the bottom of! He'd grill the man for answers!

Kelly nodded again, if things weren't complicated enough they now were! "what now?" she asked quietly

Gibbs could see it wasn't just his daughter looking at him, but his wife & dad too "we keep going, we find Phoenix, we find Patricia, find Jacob & find Alexander. We work out why they were taken and then…" he took a breath "then we get to the bottom of why he did everything he did" he wasn't going to just let the man walk into their lives without a detailed explanation, the man would have to explain himself! He owed Shannon one hell of an explanation! And he'd make sure she got it!

Jack could see in his son's eyes how much he wanted to make the man explain himself for everything, and he agreed, while he could surmise there was one. I mean, with everything they've learnt he was sure it tied in, but what made him do it all? What could possibly make him fake his death? Sure it wasn't a first in this family unfortunately, but that was before MacDonald was on scene! So… wait… he had a thought, he needed a word with his son.

"Why don't you girls go see how Marcus is doing finding the plane" Gibbs suggested "I'll go downstairs and tell the others, this might help us find them quicker" he saw his wife nod in agreement "I'll be in as quickly as I can, ok?" he knew she'd need as much support as possible.

Shannon nodded "please" she still didn't know where to go with the thoughts that were running through her head, but her father, her real father, her dad, the man she called daddy was alive! Part of her wanted to demand answers, wanted to demand to know why he left them, left her! Part a small part of her just wanted to hug him & be held in his embrace.

Jack watched as the girls left the room, and he placed a hand on his son's arm, he wanted to keep him here for a moment.

Gibbs felt his dad's hand & only turned to him once the girls had left & his door had closed "dad?"

"There is something unnerving about this Leroy" Jack remarked

"I know dad" Gibbs conceded "there's a major player that we have yet to find"

"That's not what I mean" Jack remarked "how soon after Alexander died did Joanne marry MacDonald?"

Gibbs thought about it "From what I know, maybe 18 months" he remembered more "Shan did say that she remembered her mum telling her that whilst she would have been comfortable on her own, she received MacDonald's advances and she did grow to care for him as much as she could and given back then it wasn't seen as appropriate to turn the advances down, especially when she had Shan to look after she accepted his proposal" he took a breath and considered something "You think he had the guy go on his way on purpose?" he wouldn't put it past the man, but could the hate go back that far? Why? and what would he gain from getting rid of Alexander & then marrying Joanne? And how on earth did adopting Patricia fit into this whole thing?

"Its not like he didn't know how to fake a death, my only question would be why?" Jack said

"One of the many questions we need to get an answer for. Let's go downstairs, see if we can't find some answers" Gibbs suggested

Arriving down in the squad-room Gibbs could see everyone was getting on with their work, he saw Tristan approach, he took a breath this wasn't going to be easy "DiNozzo! McGee! David! Kruse! Vella!" he called all the SSA's that he could see, and he'd tell Tim & Ziva too.

Tristan waited until those called arrived & form a small huddle "Everything ok Gibbs?"

Gibbs flashed a look at his dad 'ok' wasn't the closet word for it "Not even close"

Tony shared a look with the others, he'd wondered what had sent Shannon off.

"Look, I want no questions because quite frankly I have no answers" Gibbs remarked, he took a breath & saw his dad give him nod of encouragement "this Lawrence Alexander guy" he said shifting his gaze to Tony, the boy was going to get the shock of his life!

Tony saw Gibbs stare at him "what?"

"We know why you could get no history on the name, his real name is Alexander McLowry" Gibbs remarked looking at his charge.

"Who's Alexander McLowry?" Tony asked he just wondered how they got another name for the man.

Tim was flashing looks between everyone, he was sure he should know this & knew it was important but he couldn't put the finger on the connection.

Gibbs took a deep breath "Alexander McLowry is, well, Shannon's father"

Tony's jaw dropped open "he's….. who?" he stuttered, huh?

Tristan's eyes widened, what?! She knew she wasn't alone, everyone was gaping "I'm sorry Jethro, did you say that this Lawrence Alexander, the man that adopted Tony's sister was in fact Shannon father?... I thought he died"

Tim was wide eyed, he knew it was important, but this? Oh man! This was major! No wonder Shannon looked like a wreck! He instantly wondered how Kelly was doing with this information, he needed to check on her!

"So did we" Gibbs agreed "but its him, Shannon knew it as soon as she saw the image, and Tim ran an image of him that she has on her phone against this one" he said motioning to the plasma "it's a match, the man that adopted your sister is Shannon real dad Tony" he finished looking at his charge

Tony had no idea what to say, all he could think was, huh? Like HUH?

"As I said, no questions because we have no idea on any answers, but use his real name to try to track anything, let's make this name work for us!" Gibbs instructed as he clapped his hands trying to get his charges to get back to work

"Yes boss" was the reply chorused through his SSA's and team.

Gibbs was going to say something but he saw Myles rushing out of MTAC, had they found the plane?

"We got her sir!" Myles called "my team & some MP's are 5 minutes out"

Gibbs knew instantly whom he was referring to! They'd found Delilah Fielding! Time to get some answers!

Hollis was on the phone in the reception of NCIS, she was making a few calls when she saw a group of men, all in full kit head towards the building, the way they were walking they were clearly escorting someone, and then she saw her, they had Delilah with them! They had totally boxed her in, she was surrounded by 5 Army Rangers & 2 MP's.

"Delilah, everything ok?" Hollis asked, she thought all of this was total overkill! And her analyst looked worried, very worried!

"Step back ma'am, we have orders to take her straight upstairs, no communication allowed" Staff Sgt Montgomery remarked stepping up to intercept the woman before she could get close to their target.

Hollis's eyes widened "I don't think so, she's my analyst!" this was total overkill!

"Specialist Evans!" Montgomery barked

Evans approached Hollis "Step back ma'am" he instructed moving her backwards.

"I'm coming" Hollis asserted

Evans got a nod from his Staff Sgt before speaking "ok, but you stay behind me ma'am, no interference"

Hollis followed the group upstairs, she couldn't believe her eyes really, she thought this was total overkill, each man was in full kit, like full kit! Rifles and everything, this was insane! She was actually upset with Gibbs for allowing it to get this insane!

Gibbs was waiting outside of interrogation with Tony, this was getting personal & they both wanted to get the answers personally! He looked over his shoulder "two of your men on the door with an MP, the rest can go back to security downstairs"

"Of course sir" Myles nodded

Gibbs saw Carter & motioned him to take Delilah into the room.

"Fisher, Evans, stay on the door! Montgomery head back downstairs with Byrnes & Osborne and assist with security" Myles ordered his team.

"Yes sir!" all of his men responded, with Byrnes & Evans taking up position on each side of the door.

Montgomery flashed a look to Hollis before looking back at his LT.

"I've got her" Myles said answering his look "Private, you're on the door too, Corporal go with my Staff Sgt!"

"Yes sir!" the MP's confirmed.

Hollis waited for the hordes to move before looking at Gibbs "don't you think this is all over kill?"

Gibbs eyed her "no, you don't know the history, she knows something, she stuffed up & we're going to get to the bottom of it! You can watch, but no interfering!"

"I know you want some answers, but do you really think she did what she did on purpose?" Hollis asked, she didn't think so! "Oh and I will interfere if you go over the boundaries!"

Gibbs shook his head "oh no, you interfere & Lt Bond will escort you out!"

"Yes sir" Myles confirmed

Hollis could have taken offence, and she did a little, but thought better of getting into an argument here, so she just followed the trio into the room.

Tony headed in & looked down at Delilah, she was definitely unnerved & fidgeting!

Gibbs took a seat & could see that the girl was nervous, if he had more time he'd wait for her break but he didn't "why'd you take off?"

"Needed to clear my head" Delilah replied quietly.

"Guilty about screwing up that decryption huh" Tony remarked

"I'm sorry?" Delilah asked a little startled.

"You know, that email exchange you decrypted, you screwed it up" Tony answered looking her in the eye, she was nervous about something, but he could see she was genuinely surprised at this.

"No, I ran a translation cypher over it, it turned out a bit strange, but I didn't screw anything up" Delilah answered, she knew she'd gotten that right.

"Think you did" Gibbs remarked "the results you got, made no sense!"

"That's not my fault, I worked on it for quite a while, translated it the best I could" Delilah said defensively.

"Your translation was a load of garbage" Myles remarked, Tim had shown him the initial attempt to translate it.

"I agreed it made no sense, but we made it work the best we could, ask Agent McGee! We worked on it together!" Delilah remarked "and how would you know anything about it…" she would have continued but got interrupted

"Intelligere et loqui Latine perfectius" Myles remarked interrupting her, he saw the blank look "that's Latin for I speak and understand Latin perfectly"

Tony saw Delilah's eyes widen, he couldn't help but smile internally, she clearly couldn't see past his uniform.

Delilah refocused at the man just staring at her "I don't know what you're talking about"

Gibbs could see that she genuinely believed she'd done it right, he'd move on & come back to it later "clearing your head for 10 minutes is one thing, you were gone for hours, that's not clearing your head"

"Time got away from me" Delilah replied

"No" Gibbs disagreed "MacDonald Fielding, you know him"

"I'm sorry I know no MacDonald Fielding" Delilah replied

"You know something though" Gibbs observed

"I don't know what you're talking about" Delilah said quietly.

"Oh I think you do" Gibbs remarked

Hollis saw her shake her head, she couldn't help but notice that she was chewing her bottom lip, maybe he was right? Maybe there was something she knew.

"You know them" Gibbs remarked as Tony put a few headshots down on the table.

"That's Loch, the man from the exchange" Delilah remarked

Tony saw a little hesitation in her body language.

Gibbs saw something "and the rest"

"I…" Delilah started

"Don't bullshit me! I want to truth or so help me you'll wind up…" Gibbs said menacingly.

Delilah looked at him, then at Tony, and then Lt Bond & Hollis before she looked down her hands "he's my cousin"

A/N: Well, looks like Delilah knows a lot more than she let on! She's definitely involved! Tony though is also still reeling in the knowledge that Shannon's father is the one who adopted his sister! So many things in play, and it will not be slowing down! We're going to be going full throttle!

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