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26 years ago:

"Tony, you don't have to go." Dean looks up at his older brother, eyes begging him not to go.

"Dean-o, yes I do. Dad…he's not the same. I remember him before, he was nicer, unstable still, but nicer. You know what's out there. I can't keep hunting like this…I need my normal life back, buddy."

"But…you're supposed to help me keep Sammy safe."

"You're a big boy now, you don't need my help to protect Sammy."

"…Who's gonna protect me?" Dean has tears in his eyes now, the idea of his big brother leaving him scaring him more than the monsters that go bump in the night. Family was all he had.

Tony kneels in front of his little brother. "I'll only be a phone call away. I'm still going to be here for you, Dean-o. Dad will keep you safe, and soon, you and Sammy will have each other's backs for the rest of your lives." He hugs his brother tightly. "I'm going to come back for you guys. I'll talk to you soon, buddy. Keep Dad out of trouble and protect Sammy." Tony ruffles Dean's hair before climbing into his car and driving off. He knew that he couldn't stay a hunter forever. He also knew that everything he told Dean about being there for him was a lie. To start his new life, he'd have to erase his old one completely. Dean had Sammy, he didn't need his big brother too.


Gibbs and Tony walked into the interrogation room of one Dean Winchester. Dean was immediately tense but didn't say anything and instead just watched them both with a blank expression.

"So, why'd you burn Sergeant Furler's body? Is this one of your rituals or something?"

"I don't know, isn't it your job to find out?" Dean glanced at Gibbs with a small smirk on his face. "But ask all you want, you won't have long until this is all over." He looked at Tony when he said the last comment.

"What do you mean by that? You two planning an escape? Because, I'll tell you now that you two aren't going anywhere except death row."

Tony looked angry and nervous all at once and it once again caught Gibbs' attention. Gibbs didn't have a good feeling about any of this. Gibbs forced DiNozzo out of the room and they walked back towards the bullpen.

"There's something you're not telling us, DiNozzo. What do you know about the Winchesters?"

"I know all that you guys know. I watched them on the news like everyone else, boss." Tony walked over to his desk without another word. Gibbs grabbed his cell phone and dialed Abby who was now downstairs looking over evidence and fingerprints from past possible Winchester crimes.

"Abbs, I need you to watch the recording of DiNozzo's interrogations with the Winchesters. Look for any signs of anything strange. He's hiding something, and we need to know what it is."

"Gibbs, this is Tony. I'm sure he's just still uneasy about being taken down by a badass like Dean Winchester."

"I hope you're right, but check anyway." He hung up and walked to his desk. "What'ya got?"

"The Winchesters first got onto our radar when Dean killed three women in St. Louis back in 2005, before being declared dead. Though this Agent Hendrickson thinks they were doing things like theft, identity fraud, and grave desecration way before that." McGee said as he looked over some files. "The next year the brothers are arrested and Dean is charged with another series of murders, before the brothers escape custody. They aren't seen again until early 2007 when they attempt to rob a bank and Dean is suspected of killing several more people, this time with the help of Sam. They steal S.W.A.T. uniforms off of two officers and sneak out of the bank without being noticed." Tony smirked just slightly, proud that his brothers can think on their toes like that. "A few months later they are arrested after being caught in an attempted robbery, but escape 3 days later supposedly with the help of someone inside. In 2008 they are arrested after a tip by an anonymous call but are declared dead the next day in a helicopter explosion, and then the whole station goes up in an explosion which this report says they blame the Winchesters for after finding out they were again, still alive. They then basically disappear, though there's been several small cases tied to the brothers over the years, until 2011 when they go on their killing spree and are again declared dead, well until now boss."

"And how are they still alive?"

"They were declared to have been killed while trying to escape in Iowa. The sheriff filed a report and then so did an FBI agent after checking out the scene. They're reports are on file." Ziva answered.

Gibbs nodded and hadn't missed the smirk that Tony had on his face during the whole run down. "I want you to find out how the brothers are connected to the recent deaths in the area. I have no doubt that they are involved. McGee find out where they were staying and Ziva, DiNozzo, go talk to the local PD and find out about those deaths. We need to connect them to the deaths." He walked off and headed down to Abby's lab without another word.

Tony knew that they'd find the families of those murdered to have talked to Sam and Dean. They may be the best, but they could easily be followed. He decided to just work like normal while trying to figure out how to get his two idiot younger brothers out of NCIS and once again out of his life.


On a TV in Abby's lab, Fornell was announcing to the media that they had captured the Winchester brothers, and NCIS and the FBI were working together to put them away forever. The fact that they were still alive sent the press into an uproar and he was overwhelmed with questions. Gibbs sighed and turned the TV off, always disappointed in the FBI for telling the press everything.

Abby was watching a recording of Tony talking to Sam in interrogation, and seemed to be typing something as well. "What'ya got, Abbs?"

"Well from the crime scene the tire tracks definitely match their Impala, the blood was Sam's as we assumed, and the bones were definitely burned with salt and a common lighter fluid, which makes sense because in past possible Winchester cases-"

"The video, Abbs. What about the video?"

"Hold on..." She hit a button and her computer quickly translated the video. Gibbs and Abby watched the whole exchange again.

"He hates you." Sam said to Tony and the look of surprise on Tony's face was obvious.

"Well hello to you too. You two should not have come to D.C."

"And you should not have left us behind."

"Just don't ruin this life for me." Tony stood and walked out of the room.

"What did he mean: left behind? And who hates Tony? Dean?" She turned around to look at Gibbs but found him already heading into the elevator looking totally pissed off. She sighed. "Tony, what did you do?" Obviously Tony knew something about the Winchesters, maybe from his past. She quickly sent a request for his file for Gibbs before heading down to the garage to do a thorough search of the Impala the Winchesters were so famous for.


Gibbs headed up to the bullpen to find it empty of both DiNozzo and David. "Where's DiNozzo?" Gibbs all but yelled at McGee.

"Uh-you sent them out to take to the local PD about the murders, boss…" McGee almost said more before his computer found what he'd been waiting on. "I found their motel, boss. It's just outside of the city."

"Then let's go." Gibbs grabbed his gear and was followed by McGee to the elevator.


Tony and Ziva quickly found out that the Winchesters had talked to the local PD and the victims' families. They walked into the local police station and the families and officers seemed to be waiting for them. The police told them that they had shown up at the crime scenes and said they were agents Caulfield and Salinger.

"Which of them gave you their names?" Tony knew it had to be Sam since the names were related to the book The Catcher in the Rye and there was no way Dean had read it. Ziva glanced at Tony, curious why it mattered.

"The taller one. Sam I believe." The officer said. "We had no idea they were the Winchesters. We get FBI involvement around here all the time, we didn't think anything of it until this morning at the graveyard."

"Which crime scenes did they go to?" Ziva asked.

"They showed up at the third and fourth. They then asked for copies of all the files on the case and talked to all four families."

All four families said that they seemed normal at first, but then started to ask weird questions like if they felt any cold spots or if their family members had a bad past. They asked about the smell of rotten eggs and any unexplained occurrences. Ziva and Tony got statements from all the officers and family members that talked to the Winchesters. Tony then asked each family if the victims knew Sergeant Furler, and wasn't surprised to find out that each one knew him in some way. One was an ex-girlfriend, two had been serving with him when he died, and the last was his best friend from high school, though they had had a falling out over the ex-girlfriend. When asked if the Winchesters killed their loved ones, they stated that it was a possibility, though Tony had to force the words out, before they left and walked to their car.

"They asked some pretty odd questions." Tony nodded in agreement. He believed that his brothers could learn to be more subtle. "And why did it matter who gave their names to the officers, Tony?"

"Their aliases tend to be related to a pop culture reference. Caulfield is the last name of the main character in The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger. Sam was the one who went to Stanford, he seems more like the one who reads books like that, not Dean."

Ziva didn't quite understand how that was relevant, but had other things on her mind. "How did you know that the victims would have a connection to Sergeant Furler?"

"That's how these two work. They are said to hunt monsters and worship the devil, Ziva. If they dug up Sergeant Furler's grave, there'd have been a connection with the case they were pretending to investigate on."