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Now, let's see how Gibbs is doing..

Gibbs heard a voice, he wanted to ignore it, he had been pacing, he was trying to work out all the clues, but nothing had come to him & he'd just sunk down onto the floor, he was now lost in thought. Seeing Franks had brought up a whole host of painful memories, why on earth had he listened to that bastard & not gone seen the bodies?! He would have realised it wasn't his family! Why'd he let Mac talk him into not going? He was pissed off, with Mike, but also himself!

He was also thinking about everything he'd missed out on, all the moments of joy in raising his two kids, in being able to spend the time with his wife, and at her his thoughts remained, why didn't she say something? What if they couldn't find her? What if they got to her too late? He just couldn't bare if something was to happen to her, he'd seen her twice now on video & each time his heart, his soul had yearned to reach out & touch her, he had to see her again! He was feeling so much pain at what she'd had to go through, all the hurt that had befallen her, it ripped him up! He wanted to either rip into something, or curl up into a ball & cry for the pain that had befallen her, and there it was again, the voice. He sucked down a deep breath, wiped his face with hands trying to not show any form of weakness & looked up "what?"

Jenn had crouched down, he looked horrible, it tore her up, he was obviously struggling, she hoped Franks appearance hadn't pushed him over the edge "Are you ok Jethro?"

Gibbs didn't want to tell her how he really felt "fine, do you have something?"

Jenn knew he wasn't fine, but wasn't going to push it, he'd talk when he was ready "one of Quinn's men has been picked up, they're bringing him here now, Ziva is putting him into interrogation"

Gibbs jumped up, this was the break he was hoping for "how long?"

"Should be here in the next 10 minutes" Jenn answered.

Gibbs nodded "he's mine!"

"I'd like Tony in there with you" Jenn requested, she really didn't want him in there alone.

Gibbs eyed her, he had a feeling there was a reason & it was the same one for why Tony had been requested in her office for the meeting with Mike "Didn't really help with Franks" he smirked "and besides, he's spearheading the search, I don't want to take him off that"

"Ok, then either I go with you, or Ziva, or Fornell" Jenn stated, making sure he knew it wasn't a debate.

Gibbs was already on his way up as he considered who he wanted, she was out, she was running interference for Franks, Ziva was leading the charge with the BOLO's.. that left "Fornell, you are handling Franks & Ziva is working the BOLO's"

"Very well, but to let you know Fornell is bringing a detail of agents with him, they're going to help with the BOLO sightings & Franks will be with them, in the field"

"Fine, Ziva is still running point" Gibbs asserted.

Jenn didn't answer, she merely followed him towards interrogation.

Gibbs stared at the man that was now sitting in the interrogation room. It was one of the men from the pier, he looked at the dossier that Ziva had passed him, his name was Michael Barret, dishonourably discharged from the Air Force's elite paratrooper unit, assaulting a superior officer, partaking in a killing of innocent civilians too, this guy wasn't going to be easy to break, but he'd break him!

Fornell had come across to NCIS as soon as he'd been briefed, ok, as soon as he'd come out of the shock of what he'd heard, he was seriously dumbfounded. He knew Gibbs had seen him, but he was too focused on the man sitting on the other side of the glass, he'd already been briefed on who he was & what he'd done. He knew Gibbs wouldn't play nice & had already been given the speech by the Director to make sure he didn't let it get too far, but if he was honest he was looking forward to helping put the screws to this guy, after what he'd heard, he wanted a piece of these bastards!

"How you want to handle this?" Fornell asked.

Gibbs didn't look at him, he kept his gaze firmly on Barret "He talks or he wont be walking"

Fornell raised his eyebrow "he's already limping, Ziva gave him a through & through in his thigh"

Gibbs smirked, he was glad she gotten one of them "he should know what to expect then"

Fornell saw Gibbs went to leave the room "Jethro..."

"Not now Fornell" Gibbs dismissed him quickly.

Fornell sighed, but followed him, this was going to be an interesting interrogation.

Tony couldn't believe he was sitting the interrogation out, but Gibbs had given him a clear instruction to stay with the search, so that's what he'd do, he also had to make sure Franks would stay in the field, they were getting sightings of Quinn & his other man in the Washington area, so they all had to be checked out.

"Anthony" Ducky said for the second time trying to penetrate his thought pattern.

"Sorry Ducky, what's up?" Tony asked.

"Any word from Lt Taylor?" Ducky asked.

"Yes" Tony answered "He just called, said a few people at one of the truck stops just outside of Shreveport saw her, they said though that she got into the same truck she arrived in, trick is one of the people said they thought he heard the driver say he was heading for St Louis, he's heading towards St Louis with the Seattle unit, He's having Dayle & LA head towards Kansas City."

"That's something then" Ducky said, he wished it was better news, he looked towards the other room where Kelly & Phoenix were, he wondered how they were coping, he hopped up & headed towards them "Kelly" he greeted.

Kelly was sitting in one of the chairs, her head was hanging backwards & was a little startled when Ducky approached, it took her a second "Sorry, hi"

"No need to apologise my dear" Ducky smiled as he took a seat next to her, he saw that her brother was engrossed in a video game a little way away, a car racing game though. "How are you doing?"

Kelly just looked at the doctor "You a psychologist as well as a medical examiner?"

"No my dear, but I've often been told my ears are good listeners" Ducky replied.

"No offence Ducky, but for me, friendly ears are ears that know me, know me more than a few hours" Kelly said, while she was getting more comfortably with him, she definitely wasn't ready to open up to him.

"Fair enough, but if you change your mind..." Ducky suggested.

"Thank you" Kelly said "Any idea where my dad is?" he hadn't come back since he left with Tony.

Ducky looked at her a little oddly, surely Jethro would have come down before going into the interrogation, which was well over an hour ago, but apparently not. He wasn't sure what exactly to tell her, he didn't want her to worry about there being someone here that had basically assaulted her. "An associate of Quinn's has been brought in for questioning, he's trying to get information out of him about Quinn's whereabouts"

Kelly just stared at him, even Nix had stopped playing his game & stared at Ducky.

"Who?" Kelly asked.

"I don't think that matters my dear, your father is well seasoned in getting required information" Ducky said, trying to reassure both of them.

"Dr Mallard who have they got?" Kelly asked more formally.

"I believe his name is Michael Barret" Ducky answered, damn Jethro for not coming down here.

Nix flinched, this guy was as bad as Quinn.

Kelly flashed a look at her brother, she knew how he felt "they caught him?"

"Yes, but I assure you he is secure & will not be able to get down here" Ducky replied.

"The guy's not one to follow rules or give a toss about anyone else or their wishes, he's a grade one asshole" Kelly spat venomously.

"and your father is no push over, Mr Barret will find him a very different proposition to deal with, unlike any other he's faced before" Ducky said.

Gibbs just sat & stared at the man, he'd been staring him down a good 40 minutes, while part of him wanted to rip into him straight away, he needed to calm himself & this guy was obviously not going to be easy to break, so he was trying to get a handle on him.

Fornell watched as the 2 men just stared each other down, how long could this go on for, he knew that Gibbs wouldn't flinch first, but this Barret guy didn't look like flinching anytime soon either..

Ziva entered the observation room to find the Director in there, she looked through the glass to see Gibbs staring down Barret "have they said anything?"

"No" Jenn answered quite surprised that Gibbs hadn't said a word yet "an hour in there & nothing, just a staring competition"

Ziva was surprised too "well, so far all the BOLO sightings on Quinn haven't yielded anything & there's been no sightings of Mac or his men"

Jenn nodded "stay on it Ziva"

"of course" Ziva replied & left the room, having given her report.

Gibbs had played over a dozen different ways to start this & had settled on one he hoped would rile the man "Guess Quinn decided you weren't worth keeping around"

Barret just smirked "I'm a big boy, I know how to take care of myself"

"Oh, I can see that, but he would have kept you with him if he thought you'd be of value, guess the wound my agent gave you would be a hinderance to his plans" Gibbs smirked back.

Barret raised an eyebrow "unless, me allowing you to pick me up was part of the plan"

Gibbs eyed him, trying to ascertain if that was the plan, his gut was telling him it wasn't "doubtful, Quinn wouldn't want to loose backup, especially someone of your calibre"he finished trying to stroke his ego.

"Well... I am qualified in numerous disciplines, I believe your son is familiar with my skills, he really sucks when it comes to self defence training" Barret snickered.

Gibbs used all his willpower to not reach over the table & beat the crap out of him.

Fornell saw just how Gibbs was feeling, he needed to give him time to try to recompose himself, he stepped forward from the wall he was leaning against "you know, I've got to ask you something... how's it feel to have been shot by a chick"

Barret turned his attention to Fornell "It's just a flesh wound, will heal"

"yea, but you've gotta be hurting, you know, knowing you got beaten by her, it's gotta hurt." Fornell held a smirk "I know I'd feel like an idiot for letting a chick get the better of me" he knew though getting beaten by Ziva wasn't the same as being beaten by a chick, she was much tougher than a simple lady.

"I'd definitely feel it" Gibbs chimed in, glad Fornell was allowing him time to regroup.

Barret just glared.

Fornell shared a look with Gibbs "Guess he feels the same way" he looked back to Barret "so, is that why he left you to fend for yourself, cause you got shot?"

"Don't try to get between me & Quinn, I'm not a snitch" Barret stated.

Gibbs remembered something else from the man's file "Oh, I thought you were, didn't you try to rat out several other paratroopers in your court marital, even if they were innocent" he almost spat, men who tried to rat out other unit members just to try to save their own ass's, especially when the other men were innocent, were the lowest of the low as far as he was concerned.

"Why should I be the only one to fall on the sword for what happened?" Barret challenged.

"Those men were innocent & it was proven" Gibbs replied.

"Actually, they just weren't found guilty, guess their lawyers were better than mine" Barret said.

"Doesn't change the fact that you are a snitch, so come on... you don't want to go to jail for Quinn or Mac, do you?" Fornell coaxed.

Barret dismissed that idea "I wont"

"No?" Gibbs asked almost in rage "you partook in assaulting my daughter! I am pressing charges for that, I also have no doubt that you did several tasks for Mr Fielding that you could be jailed for as well" he finished a lot more calmer than he felt, he left out that he had assaulted himself, cause really then he shouldn't be interviewing the guy.

"All under the boss's orders, he takes the blame for everything, got signed declarations for it all" Barret said confidently.

"and you think Mr Fielding will allow himself to take all the blame?" Gibbs laughed "You seriously have no clue about the man then"

"He knows how to negotiate, he'll spring me & you have no idea the shit storm you've started" Barret replied.

"That I started?" Gibbs asked in shock "Do you have clue what your boss did?"

Jenn tensed, Gibbs had stood & almost come right into his face, she saw that Fornell was close, ready to intervene if required.

"Sure I do" Barret sneered "That stubborn, but charming lady is your ex, you obviously had some issues including letting go, so he did the proper thing & saved her & his grandkids from having to live another minute with you"

"and your actions at the hospital?" Fornell enquired.

"We got word that Louise had found you..." Barret started.

"Kelly!" Gibbs barked, he was changing his daughter's name.

"Sorry, but we know her as Louise, Louise Barbara" Barret sneered.

"You wanna breath? Her name is Kelly!" Gibbs barked.

Barret just smirked "anyway, I found it extremely surprising that she found you, but he didn't want her to have to go through pain at your hand, so we were ordered to keep her from you & you from her" Barret replied.

Gibbs stared at him, he seriously wondered what lies Mac had told these men about him, they were obviously pretty big, but what he said made him curious "so when Quinn threw her into the water? when he decided to allow me near her & tried to get my son instead? How'd that go with your orders."

Barret shrugged "Quinn's in charge, not me. He has his way of doing things, some times they don't always follow the letter of the boss's instructions, but they always yield results"

"and here I thought the man wouldn't have wanted harm to come to her" Gibbs said plainly.

"yea, he wasn't really pleased at that, but Quinn was adamant that you'd get her & then that we'd get them both back to him, this whole let them leave probably wasn't the best idea, but hey.. everyone makes mistakes & I'm never one to disobey the man" Barret said.

Jenn just watched on, while they were getting plenty of information, they weren't learning anything about where Quinn or Mac was. She knew though it was only a matter of time before Gibbs got the information.

A/N: The guy looks like a prick! Will be break though?

How are Kelly & Nix doing though knowing he's in the building? An what will the next phone call bring news of?

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