NCIS
chapter seventeen
Teaser- Tony looks shocked while still being interrogated...
Gibbs is in his office when McGee come in.
"Hey, Boss. Uh...I have something to say."
"What is it, McGee."
"About returning to work. I don't think I'll be back. I just don't think this is the place for me-"
Gibbs goes over to him and smacks him on the back of the head.
"You're not a bad agent. Things happen and we just have to keep going. You will be back. You got that?"
"Got it, Boss. Great to have you back."
Gibbs smiles as McGee leaves. He passes Ziva hurrying to Gibbs office, and wonders what is going on.
She goes in and locks the door.
As the effects of the truth serum overtake Tony, he begins to think of all the times he's been in this kind of situation. When he and an escaped convict were handcuffed together. When he and Ziva when undercover assassins. All he can think about is his partners.
"Where do you ant to start?" Marashi asks.
"I've been thinking of the past recently. Why don't I start with my parents. My father always ridiculed me. 'Do this Anthony' Do that Anthony.' He always tried to make feel unwanted. Even if it meant alienating me. As for my mother, she always praised me, and tried to mother me all of the time. I remember once when I was ten, she came to my classroom and showed everyone a baby picture of me. She called me he little Tony DiNozzo. I hated that name."
"We were thinking something more recent, Agent DiNozzo."
"Oh, okay. How about last year when that bastard Ari shot my partner right in the middle of the forehead. You know I relived that moment for months after that."
"Your partner was a mistake. We didn't-"
"A mistake! The only mistake you made was going after Gibbs and killing Kate just to piss him off even more!"
Marashi stands and goes over to DiNozzo and asks, "What of this 'Kate?"
"She was my partner. She was a good friend. She always teased me about trying to flirt with her. Every time I did she would hit me in the stomach. It was her way of letting me know she liked it. I don't think she hated it. Near the end, we were becoming close. I knew that when she stayed with me when I was infected with plague. She really cared for me. I really cared for her too. You could says that I was falling...in love with her."
"Well, that is a fascinating story. But we're more interested in Agent Gibbs."
"Well, you know the boss had a thing for her too. But I think he knew she wasn't interested. Even though he has had three failed marriages, he still likes to go out with women."
"Does Agent Gibbs have a girlfriend, or lover?"
"No. He likes to be single. But, he doesn't speak much of his personal life. But neither does Ziva. She is as much of a mystery to me as he is. She has this charm to her. She can tease you one minute, and be pissed at you the next. That's what I liked about Kate, but thank to Ari, that's gone now. You could say Ziva is like Kate in certain ways. I don't know but I might be falling for her."
"We are going to get the the point agent DiNozzo. We want Gibbs. Where is he?"
"I don't know. He just up and left one day and no ones I knows has seen him since. He left me with no one left in my crew, so I had to recruit new agents. He'd probably hit over the head a couple dozen times if he knew what happened."
Tony looks down at the floor and then turns his attention to Marashi, "Everyone has moved on. Ziva has a boyfriend. McGee is still on leave and if I know probie he won't want to come back. Abby may have left, I don't know yet. Gibbs is gone. So is the director. You could says that I'm living in the past. So you may have made a mistake by kidnapping me because I don't what anyone is doing or where anyone is."
"We have ways of getting you to talk." Marashi says.
She orders the guards away and the proceeds to takes off the wrap around her head. She removes it and Tony is shocked by who she looks like.
In his mind he is thinking, it can't be. She is an exact match to her. There's no way it could be.
"Kate?" he asks.
TO BE CONTINUED...