A/N: Hi folks! I know, been a while! But RL has been utterly crazy & I wanted to get to a certain point in this chapter. Firstly thank you all! Can't believe this story has reach 400 reviews already! I'm utterly chuffed! Thank you so much for the support! It means so much! To my newest followers/favourties, thank you & welcome aboard! So great to have you with us!

To my guest reviewer: Sue Dooley: There's definitely a lot going on! Trying to keep it all straight is sometimes a challenge, lol. Glad you're enjoying it!

Momcat: I do love cliffhangers, lol! There's a lot of connections that haven't been made, and yes, Gibbs is showing great restraint! Not sure if it will last much longer though.. Thanks for reading!

Now, there's a lot going on in this chapter & new faces.. well, not new, but for this story new.. sort of. Let's get into it!

Gibbs was a little confused as he got closer to Tony's bullpen, he couldn't work how they were here, he was rather taken aback as he saw one of the closest approach him.

"Gibbs, DiNozzo" Vance greeted seriously, he was glad they'd arrived, this whole thing was a complete & utter mess!

"Director" Gibbs replied reaching out to shake his hand, how could he be here? He then took a quick look at his watch & his eyes flashed wide open for a moment, it had been 14 hours since his boy was taken! Had it really been that long already? His heart ached, he had to get to his son, wherever he was!

Gibbs then cast his eyes past Vance & he had to swallow the lump that was forming in his throat, standing behind Vance wasn't just one person, but many, there was Fornell, Ducky, Dorneget, Franks, even the Taylor men as well as Michael Barnes & Jim Nelson were all standing there looking at himself & Tony, he really didn't know what to say.

"Director" Tony greeted, he couldn't believe that the Director, as well as all of the others were here, looking at his watch he surmised that they'd basically had to have left DC soon after realising what had happened to Phoenix.

Vance took a step back, he could see the pair were a little lost for words "thanks to Agent Fornell & Captain Taylor knowing about the situation as soon as it happened we were able to mobilise extremely quickly. SecNav lent us her plane to get here as fast as we could" he'd literarily been called within moments of each man finding out, it was one after the other, he'd then jumped on the phone to Tristan & started to try to organise everything, but he hadn't wanted to disturb either man, so he'd avoided speaking with them.

Well that explained how they got here that quickly Tony realised.

"We're here to help, not going anywhere until this is resolved and Phoenix, Patricia & her family are found and are home" Vance added looking between the pair.

Gibbs felt again an overwhelming sense of gratitude, just like he felt when the original shit went down with Mac, they were all there for him, and Tony too & that was really.. "appreciate it"

"Boss!" Brian called from the floor above "Major Bond needs you! He…" but he stopped abruptly, it was then that he realised there were far more people in the squad-room than he thought, and one of the extra people in the room was the Director!

Gibbs looked up "we're coming Mancheeny" he replied before looking to Myles "head up, we'll be there in a minute"

"Yes sir" Myles nodded

Vance watched as the Army Lieutenant made his way through, he knew who the man was, the umpteenth updates & conversations he'd had with Tristan on their flight had given him a full update. He looked to Tristan & Gibbs "this is your house, where do you need us?"

Tristan couldn't help but be surprised, and she shared the look with Gibbs, the Director was asking them where they wanted him?

Gibbs took a breath, he had to respect Vance for not just trying to take over & he got an instant idea "Could use a hand in interrogating someone Mike" he said looking around Vance.

"Point me in the direction Probie" Mike remarked, as the hours went on during the flight he was getting more & more worked up, so to be here & finally able to help was welcomed! He'd literarily dropped everything when Ted had called him with what had happened and threw himself out the door.

Yates & Aymond shared a look, this Mike guy was calling their boss, Gibbs of all people! Probie? Who the heck was this man?

Gibbs looked to the man he wanted "Yates!" he called "show Agent Franks down to interrogation room 2 & catch him up on our guest"

Yates rose instantly "yes boss!"

Gibbs looked to Mike "no need to be nice with her, she's Mac's niece!"

Mike did a double take "who's Mac's niece?!" what the hell?

Tony could see that they were all now staring at Gibbs, he wondered how Gibbs would answer it

"That DOD analyst Delilah Fielding, the lady that Mann brought with her!" Gibbs remarked briskly "she's his niece and her cousins were the ones that took Phoenix and had a hand in Patricia's disappearance"

Fornell's eyes shot wide with horror "what the fuck?!" he thought they'd finish dealing with Mac, what the fuck was going on?

"That's pretty much it Tobias" Gibbs remarked, he didn't have time to delay "MTAC" he remarked as he headed through the bodies, he gave each man a nod in thanks for coming, he just didn't have time to stop.

"Dorney, could use your help" Tim remarked, he was trying to tie down an IP address & knew he could help.

"Sure" Dorneget nodded

Tony held Ducky back "Ducky thanks for coming but could I get you to head over to the hopsital & grab the supply of medicine we need for Jake, they've got it ready to go. I just want someone to double check that it was all in order before we bring it over but the Doc's are super busy and Jimmy & the others are still doing the autopsies…."

"Not a problem my boy, happy to help" Ducky nodded, he'd read up already on the young boy's condition, so he was glad that they had the medicine ready to go.

Tony nodded "Zuse, take Dr Mallard over to the hospital & ensure you have an MP escort" he ordered.

"Yes sir" Zuse answered, he didn't need to grab his side arm, because they were all already wearing them.

Harry saw the group of men head up stairs "McGee, where's.."

"MTAC" Tim answered interrupting him, he knew who Harry was looking for & wasn't surprised to see the guy take off up the stairs as well.

Shannon couldn't understand what was keeping her husband! But she breathed a sigh of relief when she saw him enter "Jethro! Whe…" but she stopped in her tracks, he was followed by Leon, Ted, Tobias, Harry, Michael Barnes & Jim Nelson, my word!

"Got visitors" Gibbs remarked

"Shannon" Vance greeted, but he saw Ted had gone to step forward

"Leon" Shannon remarked, she was surprised to say the least! But then she took in "Ted"

"Shan" Ted greeted softly "we're not going anywhere until Phoenix is back. My girls wont let me come home until he's home" Stacey had literarily thrown him out of the house saying go find him, it made him wonder about something.

Harry approached Kelly, he could see she was trying to keep it together "they kicked us out of the house, not allowed back until he's back" he said giving her a small smile. He was a little taken by the way his sister had acted, but he was damned if he wouldn't do everything possible to get squirt back, especially now that Mac was involved!

Shannon nodded "thank you Ted" she said quietly.

Kelly just gave Harry a smile & hug, she was so glad to see him, to have another pillar of support there for her. She then saw her boss & Jim! "Michael? Jim?"

"Kelly" Michael greeted softly "Jim & I are here to simply help wherever we can, for whatever we can"

Jim nodded in agreement "whatever we can do" he cast his gaze to Tony "I've still got some feelers out in NOLA looking into a few things"

Tony nodded in thanks.

Gibbs was going to ask for an update but there was something he needed to tell his girls, he was holding onto his wife and saw that his girl was only a little way away, he swept his gaze between them "I want the pair of you to stay away from that Delilah Fielding, she's under guard but please stay away from her"

"Why Jethro?" Shannon asked cautiously.

"Her uncle is…. Mac" Gibbs remarked

Marcus's jaw dropped in shock.

"What?" Shannon & Kelly asked in shock

"She knew him as Jeremiah, but they're related, she's also related to Loch Lancert, they're cousins, and the guy in interrogation, is Loch's brother Jethro Lancert" Gibbs explained

Marcus looked to his brother for confirmation, he got a nod in reply "knew I shouldn't have held Mike back from decking the dickhead" he muttered

Fornell looked over to the man in the Air Force uniform & saw the name badge "Bond" guess this was another brother.

"What have you got Major?" Gibbs asked wanting to get on with it.

"He's found the blackbird Jethro" Shannon answered

"Show me" Gibbs requested.

Marcus nodded & pointed to the screen "a technique that most pilots use who try to avoid detection is to constantly change not only direction but altitude, especially over land, where there are multiple flight paths. Knowing the plane's class has let us narrow it down further, there are specific altitude ranges that the planes have to stick within. I believe this is our blackbird" he said motioning to the blue line that had crisscrossed a large chunk of the continent.

"Projected destination?" Gibbs asked, that path had been criss-crossing across almost the entire Central Europe! His boy had been airborne for sometime! but he needed a final location!

"I would say they're heading either north or west, but given it has been criss-crossing so much & changing altitude it would be burning fuel at a much faster rate. They will need to make a least a pit stop very soon, if not already, I would say in the UK, or maybe at a stretch Iceland, or north in Norway, maybe Sweden sir" Marcus answered

"I'm thinking Scotland or north England could be a possibility boss, given what we know about Lancert's email exchanges" Kruse added, but he saw that Kelly was taking special interest in Hollis & wondered why.

"Carlisle?" Gibbs asked, that was one location that could possibly work, but he saw Kruse was now paying attention to Kelly & he looked too, why was she staring at Hollis?

"Could definitely fit into the flight path sir" Marcus added, he saw though that Gibbs had shifted his gaze and he too was now looking to Kelly.

Shannon realised that a fair few people were now staring at Kelly, she had sat down and she followed her girl's gaze & it was squarely on Hollis, and the lady was retying her shoelaces, she wasn't quite sure what was so important about what Hollis doing. She saw almost the entire room now looking at her as she approached "Kelly darling?"

Kelly just stared at Hollis & her shoes, she had completely zoned out of everything else.

Gibbs approached too, what was so fascinating? "Kells" he said softly.

Hollis realised that Kelly was staring at her & that everyone else was staring at Kelly, she wasn't quite sure why & got nervous. She'd seen the surprise & unhappy looks levelled at her already down in the bullpen, the surprise was from Ducky & Fornell, the unhappy looks were from everyone else.

Shannon didn't get a response from her & neither did her husband, she reached out & stroked her hair as she leaned down "Angel, what's wrong?"

Harry had stayed quite close to his friend, he was brimming with anger & concern, he knew she was too and realised that she'd zoned out a few minutes ago, but why was the question?

Kelly felt a hand on her head & she snapped a look up to her parents who were both looking at her concerned.

"What's the matter?" Gibbs asked, something wasn't right.

That's when it hit Kelly "Fuck! Idiot!" she yelled jumping up, she raced to the controls "move!" she yelled at Michelle.

Michelle jumped up out of the way.

Gibbs rushed to her side "what's the matter?" he got no response, she was facing the screen & typing away already, he turned head to look up at him "what is it?"

"Nix's shoes!" Kelly half yelled half cried.

"What about his shoes angel?" Shannon asked as she stroked her back.

"He was wearing his Nike's!" Kelly almost yelled, how could she not have thought of this sooner! She felt like hitting herself! How did it take staring at Hollis's shoes for this to happen?

Gibbs wasn't getting it & knew he wasn't alone "what about his Nike's?"

"His Nikes! His Nikes have the fitbit GPS chip in them!" Kelly exclaimed

Gibbs eyes widened, GPS? Fuck! How'd they not think of this sooner?!

"I need Tim!" Kelly exclaimed to the room in general.

Gibbs looked to Michelle "Montgomery get McGee & Dorneget!" he ordered

Kelly's eyes shot to him "Dorney's here? I need his help!"

Vance had come over to the controls & instantly logged into the terminal next to Kelly, he could help with this until the others got here.

Marcus watched what Kelly was doing when something came to him "Anderson! Call Sgt Lewis & tell him to fire up the satellite access, GPS code will be incoming!" he ordered

"Yes sir" Anderson replied

"Can you link it in with us?" Tristan asked, that would make it easier to deal with.

Marcus considered it as he shared a look with his LT "the router could get redirected? Switch interfaces.."

Anderson nodded "that could do it, but it would need clearance codes on our end from an authorised agent"

"Kruse go!" Gibbs ordered, after Tristan & himself, the man was next in charge & as such would have the code required.

"Yes boss" Kruse nodded he looked to the Air Force Lieutenant "let's go Lieutenant!"

Tim passed Kruse on the way in, he saw a lot of commotion going on, he saw Vance & Kelly at the MTAC controls "what's going on?"

"Nix was wearing his Nike's!" Kelly exclaimed "come on!"

Tim & Dorneget both drew closer to the controls, neither were making the connection.

"His shoes had his GPS Fitbits in them" Gibbs added seeing they weren't getting the obvious fact.

Tim's eyes widened as he took the seat over from Vance, he saw that Kelly already had the account up on the screens, but they needed to get into the back end & get the core GPS code. He saw that Dorney sat down on her other side & was already logged in to the account too.

"I've got something" Kelly called after a few minutes "the last log on his account"

"It's a ghost log" Dorneget remarked

"Ghost log?" Shannon queried, but she saw Jack re-enter the room, he'd taken a short rest but obviously had been made aware that something had happened.

"Its when the system see the signal, but its not connected long enough to transmit any data" Dorneget explained

"Don't Fitbits only store data & then send the data to the end program once connected?" Harry asked, how'd this chip connect remotely? And probably from a distance? He could see a few people in the room were thinking the same thing as him, including his dad.

"We got top of the range, Nix likes the data to feed back during his sessions and workouts, that way it's faster to ascertain his stats. It looks every 2 hours for an open Wi-Fi signal, if it finds one, it will transmit the data to the Cloud account" Kelly answered.

"The time stamp matches right after the scuffle at the port" Tim noted

"Location?" Gibbs asked

"Ahh, still down at the port district boss" Tim noted.

Gibbs was waiting for them to find something else when he saw someone enter MTAC "Brunswick!"

"Boss" Brunswick greeted, but she almost pulled up short "Director" when did he get here?

"Agent Brunswick" Vance nodded, he understood all of their shock, he hadn't wanted to disturb anyone, so apart from Tristan he hadn't told or let anyone know he was on his way, he wanted them focused on what was important.

Gibbs really didn't want to wait for all the introductions "you find anything else out there?" but he saw that Col Marks & Lt Col Morris had also come into the room.

Brunswick took a breath, she wasn't sure how he, they'd take it "we did boss." She confirmed, she pulled her tablet out of her case "Nassim found this, it was 100 yards on the other side of the fence in a trash can from where the SUV's were" she said showing him an image of a piece of paper they'd found.

Shannon looked on as her husband took the tablet, her eyes widened "That's.."

Gibbs took the tablet & looked at what was on it, it was a piece of paper, it had a whole bunch of things written on it, all were details of his son, the address of the club, the number plate of the Range Rover, times he'd come & go, common restaurants he frequented, there was also an image of his son, it was his club headshot. His son was clearly targeted, he wondered why his son, not that he'd like it if his girl had been taken any better, but why was his son targeted out of all of them and how the hell did they get these all of these details without him knowing someone had obviously followed his boy?

Fornell had looked over Gibbs's shoulder & the only obvious thing to him was the photo of Phoenix, but the other details were obviously related to him. He wondered just how his friend was holding it together, because there was a lot to handle, what he saw though was that he was gripping his wife very tightly & she was gripping him just as much.

"We'll find him" Gibbs whispered before he handed it back to his agent "get it checked for prints"

"It's already at the labs boss" Brunswick nodded "we also found some spilt petrol and burnt rubber pieces on the runway. Samples of both have already been received at the labs"

"Excuse me boss" Lovett remarked walking into MTAC "Agent Le Salle has sent over some things that his tech has found on the computer from the place in Clermont Harbour.. and it… well…" she didn't say a word just hadn't her boss her tablet, she knew she had to say one more thing "that's the list of websites that had been accessed very regularly over the past few months"

Gibbs traded tablets as he & Shannon looked at it & my word! "SSC Napoli Reverse Team player profiles, match reports, player interviews. The Barnes & Associates news feed, employee profiles and commendations. NSA Naples news, events & movements. The Base Chapel Meditation Centre" he whispered as he read it & then looked at his wife wide eyed

Shannon couldn't believe it & she really didn't know what to say, but was interrupted anyway.

"He looked at what?" Kelly stuttered wide-eyed, she had been focusing on the computer but had heard her dad start to list them off & just grew stunned!

Gibbs moved him & his wife over to his girl but looked to his wife first "He didn't forget about you Shan, he knows who you are & he knows you are too" he finished looking at his girl.

"Ah boss, if you swipe there's the image that he had as his desktop background" Lovett said hesitantly.

Gibbs wasn't sure if they could cope with this but he swiped anyway & the three of them looked at the image and just stared.

Tony saw the three of them staring at the image but then Gibbs flashed a look towards him & he was curious, he went over and looked too, holy cow! It was like a collage, there were various people intertwined. There was his sister Patricia, his nephew Jake, there was also Shannon, Kelly, Phoenix, even Gibbs but there was also… himself! He was in this image! And there was also "that's my mum!"

The Gibbs family all looked at Tony surprised, none of them knew what was going on! Gibbs took a breath "we really need answers"

"Does this mean that we're…. what…. related….. or what?" Tony asked but he wasn't looking at Gibbs, he was looking at Shannon.

Shannon was struggling but she could see he was too "I have no idea if we're related Anthony, but we are already family" she needed to reassure him, as well as herself.

Tony nodded, they were family, but could there be more? He really wasn't sure what was happening here!

Ted was a little confused at the exchange that had just happened & he'd taken a quick look at the image and got even more confused "why would you all be on that Lawrence Alexander's desktop?"

Gibbs looked at his friend & flashed a surprised look, they didn't know about the latest development! "We made a connection a short time ago, a very weird & personal connection, between that man & Shan"

"What?" Ted asked, he had no idea what it could be.

"His name is not Lawrence Alexander, it's Alexander McLowry" Shannon said very quietly "He's…"

Ted was shocked "your father? He… died" he took a breath "didn't he?" flashing a look between his two friends.

Vance, Fornell and the others all looked at Ted & Shannon utterly shocked! Her father?

Gibbs shook his head "right there with you, we're still not sure what's going on"

Marcus could see the majority of the people in the room were still fairly stunned & he was conversing with McGee, Dorneget as well as his Lieutenant as they were trying to get a fix on the GPS signal, but he saw his brother's CO approach "sir?"

He saw his brother had come to stand right next to him too.

"Any word on your brother yet?" Lt Col Morris asked, he was extremely concerned about both Captain Bond & Commander Kaplan. He'd basically put the taskforce on hold until it had all been dealt with.

"Nothing… " Marcus started but his phone started to ring & it was the hospital! "Major Bond" he answered

Myles kept his eyes glued to his brother, trying to find any hint of what he was being told.

"Thank you, please call as soon as… yes thank you, myself only" Marcus remarked before hanging up, he saw a lot of eyes were on him, but he looked at his brother "he's in recovery finally, he's not out of the woods, but they've stitched him up as much as they dare right now. They'll call again once he's out of recovery" he was glad that he'd come through surgery! He was so glad!

Myles breath a sigh of relief "Thank heavens!"

"Is he stable?" Kelly asked, to hear he was out of surgery was wonderful, but was he stable?

"For now KG, but it's moment to moment" Marcus answered, he saw the worry etched over her face as well as his brother's "Mike wont let those bastards win, he'd never let them win. He'll be fine" he was trying to lift their spirits, as well as his own.

Gibbs breathed a sigh of relief, he was glad that Mike was out of surgery & he would have said something but got interrupted.

"I have your Lieutenant, Major" Mancheeny asserted as he brought them up onto a small screen.

"What have we got Andrews?" Marcus asked, trying to move forward as quickly as possible.

"I went through the history logs from the Frankfurt centre, we got a hit & it actually links in with the timing of the blackbird. The hit was, of all places right near Esberg, Denmark, near their centre, just off the coast" Andrews reported "this confirms the blackbird that we tracked is the one we are after" he added

Marcus nodded "what about live satellite feed?"

"Nothing from our data-link yet, but we can't extend that far, so I linked us into the Frankfurt centre but we've still got no signs of the GPS signal, so I would say that rules out Demark & Norway sir" Andrews reported.

"We really need satellite access" Marcus commented.

That's when Tim got an idea! He instantly brought something up on his screen & prayed!

Gibbs was about to make a suggestion but was interrupted by a loud & very familiar voice!

"McGee!" Abby exclaimed, she was glad he'd called in, she was beside herself with worry! And while she could have gone on the plane, she knew she could help so much more if she stayed in DC, as well as the fact that she was in the middle of a few major cases in DC that she couldn't leave either!

"Abs, no time, I've got a GPS code that we need to locate ASAP, can you hook us up with your NASA friend?" Tim remarked, he really couldn't let her start to ramble!

"I can feed it into our system" Abby suggested as she looked at the log Tim was sharing.

"The signal will likely be over the UK somewhere Abs, your coverage wont reach, we need NASA Satellite access" Tim answered.

Abby hesitated "ahh.."

Vance came & stood behind Tim & looked directly at Abby "get us that satellite link Ms Scuito!" he knew why she was hesitating, she still wasn't allowed to connect with other agencies without permission of at least an SSA. It was a little ironic that they now needed to same access that had gotten her into trouble all those months ago.

Abby nodded "yes sir" she instantly went to dial her friend, hoping he was there.

Gibbs let out a sigh as they waited, seemed the man was there but it had taken Vance speaking with his boss to enable the pair to work together, it was penance they were both paying for what they did from before.

"I can do a search of an approximate area & initiate access with the GPS chip, but I need a target location" Ashton remarked hesitantly, he'd been reprimanded quite badly for his freeness to help Abby that he'd been so cautious in offering help since.

"Northern UK" Gibbs ordered briskly.

There wasn't really anything Kelly could do at the computer anymore, it was all now on this Ashton's shoulders to find her brother's signal, so she'd risen and gone to stand with her parents, she was glad when her dad took her into his hold.

"We'll find him angel" Gibbs said softly into her ear as he pulled her close.

Abby was twitching, she'd wanted to call them all since everything had started with Tony, she couldn't believe he had a sister! She'd then grown horrified when she heard what had happened to Phoenix! She wanted to ask Tim how they all were, but this wasn't the time, and she suddenly got a ding!

Tim had heard the ding through the feed "that something for us?" he asked quickly.

"Yes! BOLO sighting!" Abby exclaimed

"WHO?!" the entire MTAC demanded

"Patricia!" Abby replied "she was spotted at…. at George Bush Intercontinental Airport, Houston!"

"When?" Tony asked quickly, where was headed now? Did she know where her son & father was? Adopted father, Shannon's dad, his mind really wasn't knowing how to frame this guy!

"13 hours ago!" Abby replied

"Where was she headed?" Tim asked

"Not sure, we got her image off the security feed in the departure terminal, but she's not listed on any flight" Abby answered.

"I've got something!" Ashton asserted

"What?" Gibbs demanded

"Think I got a brief signal, but… crap, just lost it!" Ashton groaned "let me try to get it back"

"Where was it?" Gibbs demanded

"didn't get a clear signal, but somewhere near the Scottish & English border" Ashton replied.

"Carlisle boss" Tim presumed

Gibbs nodded, it was a good assumption, though he hated making assumptions, he was going to say something when his phone rang, he looked at the screen & saw it was Pride! He had no idea why he was calling, the guy was on holidays, he was going to divert it to Alice, like he was doing with every other call but his gut said to answer it "Gibbs"

Pride took a breath, he'd seen all the updates & knew things were tense to say the least, so he'd just make the point he knew would be wanted "I've got eyes on Commander Kaplan, Gibbs"

A/N: Well, lets take a breath! Not only have they narrowed down where Phoenix is, but Pride is apparently watching Patricia! That's getting somewhere! Mike's out of surgery, the troops from DC have arrived to help & Abby's helping too! Things are definitely moving a greater pace now & that will continue!

But where exactly is Pride? And will they get an exact location on Nix?

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