As Tony drove to work he glanced up at the thermometer in his car. It was a hot day, by rights a "normal" person should be sweating, but he was fine and he hated it. He parked his car in the parking lot and opened the door and stepped out, to preoccupied with the mornings events he never looked at his watch to find out if he was late or not. And sure enough, he was already ten minutes late for work. He cursed under his breath and began to jog up to the offices. He sighed when he stepped in the elevator and waited impatiently for it to take him to his floor.

Walking out he looked around for Gibbs, he wasn't there maybe he didn't notice he was late. Of course he knew he was Gibbs nothing got past him. Tony walked in and quickly went over to his desk and sat down without saying a word. Kate looked up and smirked.

"Have a girl in bed and wake up late?" She asked raising her eyebrows.

Tony forced a smile and looked up at her placing his arms on his desk. "You bet, tall, blonde, very good too."

She scoffed and looked disgusted. "You're a pig Tony."

Tony heard McGee laugh a little.

No just a freak, he thought but kept his smile up anyway. "You joke because you love me."

"Shut up." She said and put her head back down to her work. "But Gibbs is mad at you. He went storming through here about ten or fifteen minutes ago looking pissed. He didn't have his coffee yet."

"Oh lovely." Tony said and sighed looking at the work piled up on his desk. They heard someone coming down the steps at a fast pace and Tony immediately knew it was Gibbs. He looked up just in time to see Gibbs walk by his desk and give him a slap upside his head. "Ow." He said closing one eye and making a face.

"You're late."

"Sorry, Boss."

"Don't do it again." He said sternly.

"I won't, Boss."

McGee looked up from his work and looked at Tony for a minute. "Aren't you hot?" He asked Tony.

Looking up from his work fast Tony looked slightly worried. "What?" He asked quickly.

"A – aren't you hot?" He asked again. "Usually you're the first one to be complaining, even if the air conditioning is on." He questioned.

"What's that supposed to mean, Probie?" Tony asked smiling and forcing a laugh.

McGee rolled his eyes and went back to his work. "Well you just don't seem yourself today."

Tony didn't let his worry show through. "Well, Probie, I can assure you I am perfectly fine, normal, regular old Tony." He said, wow that was such a lie.

"Ya know, Tony, McGee is right. You are acting a little off today." Kate said.

Tony tried to protest but Gibbs saved him from saying anything as he came through again looking at a folder in one hand and a cup of coffee in the other. "That anything to worry about, Boss?" Tony asked looking questioningly at the folder, happy to be away from the conversation he was having with his coworkers.

"It's nothing, DiNozzo, just something about those mutants," Tony's head snapped back up to his boss and silently asked what happened, Gibbs caught on to his wonder and began explaining the situation. "Says here a young Marines Petty Officer just manifested some mutant abilities, says she couldn't control them and blew up her dorm room."

"Was anybody hurt?" Kate asked worried.

"No, her roommate was just injured." Gibbs said, "There just warning everybody about this."

"And w – what do you think, Boss?" Tony asked stuttering a bit.

"I don't know, never actually met one." He said as he went away to get himself another cup of coffee. "And, DiNozzo!" he called back, "I want to see that paper work done today."

"Sure thing, Boss." He called back. Dammit, Tony thought, he could feel heat rising up in him again. Damn, why did he have to get so nervous? If he didn't get nervous then he wouldn't have to worry about a thing. Being nervous lead to unwanted power and unwanted power led to nervousness. It was a never ending cycle.

Tony looked at his work afraid to touch it. After a little while he felt eyes on him and looked up only to see Kate and McGee staring at him. "Tony?" Kate asked. "You sure you're okay? Ya look kinda pale."

"Yeah." Tony breathed. "I'm fine."

"You don't look too fine." McGee said. "Are you s – sure you don't want to go down and see Ducky? You might be sick."

"I said I'm fine, I don't get sick." Tony said a little harsher then he meant too.

"What the hell's going on now?" Gibbs asked walking in with a fresh cup of coffee as he walked back through the bullpen and to his desk. "Why can't you just do your work?" He was obviously in a mood today.

"Boss, it's Tony, he doesn't look good and he won't go down and see Ducky." Kate complained.

Gibbs gave Tony a quick looked over and walked over to the younger agent. He placed his hand roughly on his forehead for second and then took it off. Tony breathed a sigh of a relief that he didn't burn Gibbs hand.

"DiNozzo, you're burning up, you're no good to me sick go down and see Ducky, if he confirms that your sick you're going home, no questions asked." He ordered.

Just be thankfully I didn't burn you up, he thought in the back of his mind. "Boss, I feel fine, nothing wrong here."

"Well then if you feel so fine, go down and see Ducky. If you're not sick then you won't be afraid to prove it." Gibbs said backing Tony into a corner.

"Fine then." Tony said and got up; he walked over to the elevator when it opened they were greeted by their very own gothic forensic scientist.

"Um, hi!" Abby said surprised to see them all standing there. "What's going on?" She asked.

"We're taking Tony to Ducky because he's sick." Kate answered.

"Aww." She said sympathy filling her eyes. "I was coming up because I was going to get a CD out of my car but this is much better." She quipped.

They all stepped in the elevator next to Abby who joyfull accompanied them, and that's when Tony realized his stupid mistake; of course they were going to notice something now. He looked up and saw McGee and Kate also went in the elevator too and Gibbs didn't stop them. Great that was less room in here, he was already scrunched up against the corner so not to touch anybody.

The elevator dinged and the doors opened reveling the morgue. Ducky was standing in there, he seemed to be sliding one of the bodies back in. He glanced up when they "Why hello, why bring all of you down here?"

"Tony feels icky." Abby said.

"No I don't." He said even through no one was paying attention.

"Okay young Anthony, open wide." Ducky said as he set a thermometer and placed it in his mouth.

Tony reluctantly did what he was told. They all waited for several seconds without saying anything until the thermometer beeped fast, signalling that he did have a fever before they even looked at the numbers. Ducky took it out and furrowed his eyebrows as he read the number. "Why this says your temperature is too high to read but that's impossible."

"What do you mean impossible." Gibbs asked.

"Well when it says it can't read it, basically it means Anthony should be dead. But there is the chance this one is broken. Come follow me."

Oh it's not broken, Tony thought as he dolfully got up and follwed him.

"Sit there, now this one can go up to amazing temperatures it transmits the signal to that screen and it'll show the exact number." He placed the thermometer in Tony's mouth and Tony closed his eyes.

He heard the slight beeping of the numbers going up behind him and he turned slightly to see it. 105, 110, 130, 165, 189, 210, 260, he could take it anymore the final number was 277 degrees and it wasn't even finished. Tony threw the thermometer out of his mouth and ran from the room. He heard them following behind him, he pressed the button the elevator praying it was not in use and lucky him it wasn't. He ran in and closed the doors immediately. He heard pounding on the doors and sighed that they couldn't get in.

"The stairs." Gibbs said and the group ran up the stairs after their team member.

Tony could feel the heat rising rapidly in him, he saw a small flame start in his hand but he closed his fist before it got any bigger.

When the doors opened he ran out and to the next elevator that would take him to the garage. Running through the office he felt a hand grab his arm. Tony turned around to find Gibbs Tony used his free hands and tried to push Gibbs away but in the process flames erupted form his palm catching Gibb's suit on fire and leaving a nasty burn on his shoulder and chest. Tony stared at it with his mouth open in horror. Kate was standing beside him and she let out a short scream when the flames appeared. McGee came up with Abby and they only saw the aftermath of Gibbs trying to put his shirt out.

When they all came up Tony turned and tried pressing the button on the elevator but it was being used. He cursed and headed to the stairs. it didn;t take him long to run down, he was skipping almost every flight, jumping his way down. He already had a good lead on everybody else and he pushed open the doors to the garage. He reached in his pocket and grabbed his keys when he got to his car he tried to open the door but he glanced at his hand he realized the heat from had warped them so he couldn't open the door.

"God dammit!" He screamed as his coworkers ran in the garage. He turned around to face them; they stood about seven yards from him. Tony looked at them with fearful eyes and steaming hot tears running down his face. Tony's hand was on his car and he felt something under it, he looked down and lifted his hand and there was a hand print imbedded on the roof of his pride and joy.

Slowly he looked back up to them. "I'm sorry." He choked out.

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AN: Wow people read it and liked it! Cool! I'm sorry if some people seemed a bit OOC in this chapter but I have no excuse the only one I can think of is this is my first attempt at this and that one has been used to death. Thank you all those who reviewed and they are: G, Shirik, CSIMel, imbreena, Melissa Jooty, and gopie. Thanks again, and to say one thing when I was trying to decide what kind of powers Tony should have I was stuck between Gambit and Pyro so it's not quite either it's kind of in between sorta. Ah that's confusing, I know it. He can start fires but only when he gets energy high enough at all other times it's just a lot of heat. Okay, I'll be back soon with a new chapter!