Chapter 6
Emilio took two steps at the time as he climbed up the stairs in the house they were living in for the moment, he had a big smile on his face and was met by Marco on the top of the stairs.
"What did you do know?" Marco asked as he saw his twin brother, he shook his head at Emilio's smile and followed him into his room.
"I haven't done anything wrong."
"I don't think I believe you." Marco sat down on Emilio's bed, listening to his brother as he told him what happened.
"I mean, I was so close to reveal myself but he walked into his apartment before I could." Emilio said his green eyes glowing with excitement.
"Lucky you didn't." Marco said, feeling a bit jealous but he knew that they had to go slowly.
"Man, how can you say that? That's our little brother and who knows what he have been thru since she took him away from us."
"Think, Emilio, think! Why didn't he call us after she died?"
"She probably lied to him or something like that."
"Exactly, she probably said that daddy wanted them dead or something like that."
"Do you think so?" Emilio looked at his brother with disbelief in his eyes.
"You knew her, she would do anything to get what she wanted. Making Antonio believe that we would want him dead, would only serve her purpose."
"I can see that." Emilio said, sitting down beside his brother. They talked a little more before Marco went back to his room to get some sleep.
Tony walked into the bullpen, the last one as usual, McGee and Ziva looked up and greeted him as he walked over to his desk.
He had slept well after the incident with the door handle, no nightmares about her and he felt refreshed as he woke up.
"So Ziva… Any soreness' or aches from the gym time yesterday?" Tony asked winking his eyebrows at Ziva.
"Hmpf, Tony. I'm surprised that you can walk today." Ziva said shooting him a glare. "McGee here couldn't almost sit down when he came this morning."
"I, uh…" McGee stuttered as he blushed.
"Don't you two start again or I'll let you stay the whole day at the gym." Gibbs said as he walked into the bullpen, a steaming cup of coffee in his hand.
Tony and Ziva turned back to their work before Gibbs could say anything more. Gibbs smiled at them as he sat down behind his desk.
The morning was filled with paper work again, to the dismay of the whole team and when lunch time were getting close, Tony offered to go out and buy them some lunch from a place nearby.
"Sounds good. Take McGee with you." Gibbs said.
Tony and McGee gathered up the orders from the others and were on their way. Tony breathed in the fresh air as they walked the five minute walk to the restaurant, he really hated to be stuck inside the office and he knew that the whole team felt like him.
Suddenly the hair on the back of his neck stood up and he felt watched. He glanced over his shoulder, he didn't see anyone suspicious but he kept on looking as the feeling stayed.
"Everything ok, Tony?" McGee asked as they walked into the restaurant, when Tony held the door for him.
"Yes, everything is alright." Tony answered but kept an eye on the door as he let McGee order their food. It didn't take long for them to get their food, the personnel knew them well.
As they walked back to the office, the feeling of being watched still there and he kept looking for the reason.
"Are you sure that everything is ok?" McGee asked as he walked beside Tony. "Because you look like Gibbs when he has a bad feeling about something."
"Just feeling paranoid, that's all." Tony said as he looked at McGee.
McGee nodded but looked unconvinced and they walked into NCIS-headquarters, just before they walked in Tony to a last long look and suddenly he thought he saw someone.
Someone that he hadn't seen in a really long time, someone that gave him the chills as he did when Tony was young but as he blinked the man disappeared.
"Are you coming?" McGee asked.
"Yeah." Tony answered as he walked behind McGee. He had seen him, he would never forget how that man looked.
The man had been around him and his mother since he grew up and he hadn't been a very nice man. Like her, not having patience to be around a child. He sighed and tried to push those childhood memories into a corner in his mind.
Gibbs was sitting at his desk, they just had their lunch and were looking at Tony, who seemed a little preoccupied during lunch. He was just about to ask if everything was alright when his phone started to ring.
"Gibbs." He listened to the speaker on the other end. "Ok, I understand. Thanks." He hung up and frowned.
"Something's up, boss?" Tony asked meeting Gibbs clear blue eyes.
"Maybe. I have to get some coffee." Gibbs said as he got up and walked over to the break room. The caller was one of his informants, a guy that had connections with some bad people and the guy was terrified of him. So someone had been asking around for him and his team, that made him a little on edge and the guy had said that they had given Tony's description first, a very detailed description and that made him worried.
He looked up as McGee joined him beside the brewing pot of coffee. The younger agent looked at him a little nervously.
"Something on your mind, McGee?" Gibbs asked.
"No, yes, no, Maybe." McGee paused.
"Get out with it." Gibbs growled and McGee told him about Tony's behaviour. Gibbs listened carefully to him and when the young agent became silent Gibbs was thinking hard. He nodded to McGee and shued him away as he poured himself a cup of coffee.
So yesterday he felt something as they ate their lunch, then at the parking lot late at night he had felt something also, someone asking question about Tony, Ziva and him and now Tony was acting like someone was following him. So to sum it up and he knew that feeling in his gut: someone was following Tony.
Gibbs walked back into the bullpen with a determined look on his mind but before he could say anything to Tony his phone rang again.
"Gibbs." He growled into the phone and then he hung up. "We have break-in and a possible kidnapping. Grab your gear." Gibbs threw the truck keys to McGee. "McGee, take Ziva in the truck. Tony, you're with me."
McGee and Ziva looked a little surprised at that but knew better than to argue. Tony just grabbed his gear and ran after Gibbs.
"Tell me about earlier today." Gibbs said as they got into the car. Tony looked at him surprised but told him about how he felt like someone was watching him and that he thought he saw someone but he didn't tell Gibbs that he thought he knew that person.
Gibbs listened carefully to Tony as he drove to the crime scene, he felt like that it was something that Tony didn't tell him but they arrived at the crime scene so he kept his questions until later.
A officer and his family, a wife and a child, was coming home from a few days vacation and as they stepped into the house a man grabbed the wife and held a knife to her throat.
As the man tied up the two adults, their kid ran away and the man after him. The officer got lose and called the police who called Gibbs. It all happened in a span of 30 minutes, so the man couldn't have gotten far with the kid.
Gibbs and Ziva stared to talk with the officer and his wife as McGee and Tony checked for clues. Tony made his way up the stairs and checked the rooms upstairs, he walked into the kid's room. When he was just about to turn away he thought he heard a noise.
"Jim?" He called, it was the boy's name. He thought he heard something again and took out his gun. "Jim, are you there buddy?" He moved closer to the closet and jumped back as the closet doors sprung open.
A big man walked out, he had the little boy in one of his hands and a knife in the other.
"Let him go." Tony said pointing his gun at the man.
"Drop it or I'll hurt him." The big man mentioned his knife towards the little boy, who was crying, his eyes big with fear.
Tony could take a shot and shoot the man but knew that would become a big trauma for the little boy, so he lowered his gun.
"Let him go and take me instead." Tony offered as he looked the man right in the eye.
The man nodded, you could see in his eyes that he wouldn't like to hurt a child but would do it if he had to.
"Lay down your gun and move towards me slowly."
Tony did as the man said, laid down his gun on the floor and walked slowly towards the man and the child as he spoke softly to Jim.
"Tony, did you found something?" McGee said.
At the sound of the younger man's voice everything sped up, McGee walked into the little room as Tony grabbed the kid, pushed him towards McGee, placing himself near the big man who grabbed Tony and immediately held his knife against the agents throat.
McGee instinctively caught the boy and hid him behind him before he really understood what was happening. Seeing Tony with a huge arm around him, locking his arms so he couldn't move them and a knife pressed against his throat made him nauseous and he had his gun out in less than a second.
"Drop your gun or I'll cut him." The man said his eyes intent on McGee.
McGee looked at Tony for some guidance, not really knowing what to do and not wanting to risk Tony's life, Tony just looked at him with calm eyes.
"You won't get far." McGee said. "The house is surrounded by cops and you don't want to mess with our boss."
That comment made Tony smile, as he took it like a joke but McGee was dead serious and couldn't understand how Tony could be so calm with a knife against his throat.
"Listen to Probie." Tony said. "You don't want to mess around with our boss."
"Shut up." The big man said pressing his knife harder breaking Tony's skin making a small trickle of blood running down Tony's neck and soaking his shirt.
"DiNozzo! McGee! Get down here know!" Gibbs yelled from the first floor. "Don't make me come up there!"
"You hear?" Tony said trying to hold still. "Now he's pissed."
"I said shut up." The man squeezed Tony and pressed the knife harder making the trickle to a trickle a little faster.
"DiNozzo, I swear to God!" Gibbs said as he started to walk up the stairs. He made his thru the hallway, seeing a little boy standing behind McGee who was pointing his gun into the room, Gibbs had his gun out in no time. "What's going on?"
"Hold it or I'll slit his throat." The man said as he saw Gibbs.
"McGee, take Jim down to his parents." Gibbs said and McGee looked at him before lifting Jim up, he cast Tony a glance before walking out.
Gibbs looked at the big man who was holding Tony in an iron grip and had a knife to his throat. His eyes widened as he saw the little trickle of blood that flooded down his agents neck and he made eye contact with Tony who was looking at him calmly.
"You won't get outside this house like this." Gibbs said in an iron voice. "Let him go and we'll talk your options."
"Now you are in big trouble." Tony said as he sighed.
"I…I…" The man didn't know what to say and slacked his grip a little as he tried to think. Tony took the opportunity, pushing the man backwards with all his strength and they lost their balance.
Gibbs could only watch with horror as Tony pushed himself and the man backwards and towards a window. The older NCIS-agent could only pray that the glass of the window would hold against their combined weight but his prayers weren't answered as both men tumbled outside thru the window.
McGee just got outside as he heard the shattering of a window and as in slow-motion he saw Tony and the big man fell down from the second story to the ground. There were a loud thump and for a moment the world turned silent.
Without thinking McGee ran up to the fallen men, Tony was lying on his side, his eyes closed but as McGee came closer he could see that he was breathing. The big man was lying on his back staring into the sky and for a moment McGee thought that he was dead, but as he was thinking the man draw a deep breath and closed his eyes.
"Tony." McGee said as he leaned over his fellow agent. Tony opened his eyes, groaned as he rolled onto his back.
"Take it easy, DiNozzo." Gibbs came out of nowhere and kneeled beside Tony across from McGee.
"Did you also fell out of the window, boss?" Tony asked confused as he saw Gibbs.
"No, I did like a normal person would do. I took the stairs." Gibbs said dryly but McGee could see the concern in his eyes and knew that his had it also.
The paramedics came rushing up to them, pushing McGee away they tried to push Gibbs but the man was as a rock beside Tony, not letting go of his hand.
"I'm fine." Tony said as the paramedics asked were it hurt and as they checked him over. "I landed on him so he is far worse."
"Maybe but we have to take you to the emergency anyway." One off the paramedics said to him as they lifted him on a stretcher and carried him.
Tony sighed and he heard Gibbs yelling for McGee to take the car and meet him at the hospital, Ziva would drive the truck back and tell Ducky what had happened.
"I hope that we don't drive at the same time as her." He said smiling at the paramedics. "If we do let her go first because she drives like a maniac."
The paramedics laughed a little at that but no one dared to protest as Gibbs climbed into the ambulance with them and they drove off.
Gibbs sat and listened as Tony and paramedic talked and joked. Tony told him about some tv-serie about cops called the Third Watch, where some guy named Bosco also had fallen out of the window. Gibbs shook his head and leaned back keeping his eyes on Tony as they drove off.
No one noticed that the ambulance was followed by big black GMC Yukon with tinted windows.
"Vinnie, its Al." Al said into the cell as he followed the ambulance at a safe distance. "He fell out a window and is on the way to a hospital. Should I stay on him?"
"Do that." Vinnie said on the other line.
"Ok." Al hung up as he continued to follow the ambulance. He really hated to do this kind of babysitter thing. He slammed his hand on the wheel, no one had told him he followed but after seeing the name yesterday and the guy today he knew who he followed and he wasn't happy about it.
That kid had killed the love of his life, maybe not with his own hands but he had been a contributed factor to her death and he had been a pin in the ass as he was little.
He shook his head as followed the ambulance.
TBC
AN: That was chapter 6, what do you think? I hope some of you like it. Thanks so much for all the reviews, everytime I get one I smile big and becomes really happy!
