Chapter 3

Gibbs walked out of the elevator, slowed down and looked at his watch when he saw Tony already sitting at his desk. He stopped and watched the young man closely.

Yesterday he had sent him down to Ducky, who had examine and cleared him fit for work but Gibbs knew his old friend very well and he noticed the M.D. studying Tony during their food brake, when no one was watching.

He had asked Ducky about it, his old friend just shook his head and said that it was nothing. Gibbs knew that he could trust him, but he was curious why Ducky suddenly would be so interested in Tony and not tell him about it.

So he looked at the young man, Tony looked a little tired but that could be explained easily, everyone could have a sleepless night and it wouldn't be any strangeness about it. He shook his head a little to himself before he walked into the bullpen.

"Didn't you go home last night, DiNozzo?" Gibbs said and smiled when Tony almost fell out off his chair at the sound of his boss voice.

"Jesus, boss." Tony said sitting up. "Why do you always do that?"

"Just keeping you on your toes." Gibbs sat down behind his desk, turned on his computer and checked his messengers.

The elevator doors opened and McGee walked out, he said good morning to Gibbs and Tony, frowning a little at Tony but said nothing. A couple of minutes later Ziva came, she said hello to McGee and Gibbs and seemed a bit surprised when she saw Tony. She sat down at her desk and exchanged looks with McGee and they both stared at Tony.

"Why are you two looking at me like that?" Tony exclaimed.

"We aren't used to see you this early…." McGee said.

"What happened to you?" Ziva asked. "Are you ill or something?"

"No, I'm alright." Tony said sounding ironic. "I can be early without any reason."

"Sure you can, Tony." McGee said sounding as he wanted to believe Tony.

"Yeah, yeah…" Tony waved them off and turned to his work.


"So where do we start?" Marco asked as he sat down across Emilio, he had arrived in the night but was now up and excited. "What do you know?"

"Not much. He chased some dude, tackled him and handcuffed him." Emilio yawned as he poured himself a cup of coffee.

"So our little brother is a cop?" Marco shook his head disbelieving.

"Maybe, I don't know. He had two with him: a woman with dark, curly hair and dark eyes. Good looking but had a professional look. And a man in his late forties, grey hair, blue eyes and he had a military look over him." Emilio said, drinking coffee and taking a bite of his sandwich.

"So where do that leave us?"

"I really don't know but I did get the license plate and Vinnie went to check it out." Emilio sighed and looked at the cell phone photo he had taken. "What are we going to do if it's him?"

"I don't know, we'll have to be sure that it's him and take it from there and hope that dad won't interrupt us."

Emilio nodded, looked up when he heard foot steps walking towards them and saw Vinnie walking into the room. The big man nodded to the two brothers before he started to talk.

"I found out that the car is registered to a company that rent cars to several companies and something called NCIS. This specific car is rented by the NCIS."

"So what does that stand for?" Emilio asked.

"I asked the guy and he didn't seem to know but he asked some guy beside him and it stands for Naval Criminal Investigative Service."

"So our little brother may be in the Navy?" Marco asked not really believing his ears.

"I don't know yet but it sounds like it." Vinnie smiled a small smile. "I'll see what I can find out about it."

"Do that, Vinnie. I and Marco will go down town to check things out…"

"If you plan to take a field trip, I want to be there with you." Vinnie said. "I have some orders from your father, so I will just delegate this to one of the others."

"If you think its best…" Marco said knowing that it was useless to argue with Vinnie. The big man nodded and walked out of the room, the two brothers looked after him.

Vinnie had been looking after them since they were babies, he and their father were friends. They had grown up together and Vinnie was one of the few people that Angelo trusted and listened to.


Tony stretched in his chair, he really hated to be stuck behind the desk and work with papers. McGee sat at his desk completely engrossed in his computer, Gibbs stood up and walked out to the small kitchen to get a cup of coffee.

Tony looked at Ziva, then around him the he took some old napkin lying on his desk, ripped it to small pieces and threw it at her. At first she didn't notice, some of the pieces stuck in her hair and then he threw one right on her nose. That got her attention and she looked at him.

Tony tried to look like he was busy and innocent, after a minute or so he felt safe to look up and was rewarded with a big paper ball in his face.

Now it's war he thought and threw a paper ball back at her, hitting her in the head and she threw one back at him, hitting him in the face again.

Tony was threw another one, Ziva retailed and the war was on. Suddenly Gibbs stepped into the bullpen again and was hit by two big paper balls, making him spill some of his coffee on the floor.

"Uh, boss…" Tony started but not really wanting to say anything for he knew that he would only make it worse.

"DiNozzo! David! Does this look like a day-care center!"

"No, boss…"

"No, Gibbs…" Tony and Ziva said in chorus.

"Then why are you throwing paper at each other?"

"He started it." Ziva said pointing at Tony.

"Snitch." Tony said back to her.

"I think the best thing is if we all go down to the gym and work some of that steam off." Gibbs said. "You got five minutes. You too, McGee."

Tony, Ziva and McGee made their way down to the changing rooms and were on the gym floor in five minutes, somehow Gibbs was already there in his gym clothes and he had an evil smile on his face.


The DiNozzo twins were sitting in the same restaurant as when Emilio had seen what he thought was their little brother. Vinnie was sitting at the same table with them and at the table beside them sat three other men that were watching over them.

Vinnie's cell phone started to ring and he answered it, at first he just listened, nodding his head and after a couple of minutes he hung up the phone.

"Who was it?" Emilio asked.

"It was Donnie, he checked out the NCIS thing. They have an office here in Washington and they investigate all sort of crimes and threats against and in the Navy. They have around 2300 employees but they are not all employed here."

"So if this is our little brother, he is a marine?" Marco asked.

"He doesn't have to be. Donnie said that we had to take it carefully, because when he gave the guy the description Emilio gave, the guy went paled and almost threw Donnie out right away. He told Donnie that you don't want to mess with the older man but he knew them and he could tell that they worked for NCIS so it seems like we are on the right track."

Both brothers nodded and looked at each other, feeling rather excited and it showed on their faces, Vinnie just shook his head.

"Let's go and check out the office." Emilio said and got up, Marco was right behind him and they moved towards their cars.

They stopped in a parking lot near the NCIS building, Marco and Emilio stepped out of the car and walked into the park outside, Vinnie and a another man followed them closely. They sat down on a bench so they could watch the main entrance.

"Are you feeling lucky, Emilio?" Marco asked his brother and smiled. Emilio was known for his luck, he was usually in the right place and at the right time.

Emilio smiled at his brother and focused on the entrance as he said:

"Yes, I'm."

TBC

AN: So there was chapter 3, I hope that somone liked it. Sorry for the lack of updates, I just moved and we will not get internet until 3-4 weeks... Many big thanks for all the reviews! I would love for them to keep on coming, so tell me what you think!