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Abby's lab

The lack of music told McGee that someone was sad in the lab. Under normal circumstances he would know it was Abby but due to the state Jessica was in as Ziva and Abby walked her down to the lab. McGee stood in the elevator think back at that moment. Jessica was really shaken up when she saw the case file. She wasn't even able to speak a complete sentence and when she did it didn't really mean anything. McGee was taken back at the emotional connection Jessica had with Tony. He had noticed the sort of big brother attitude Tony had when Jessica was around some of the boys in her class. He didn't know someone was so connected with Tony. McGee walked into the lab and saw Ziva and Abby looking through some of the boxes of evidence

"Where is Jessica?" McGee asked putting another box on Abby's table.

Ziva nodded her head and looked over at Abby's desk. McGee followed her gaze and saw Jessica sitting in Abby's chair.

"Looks like she's calmed down. You talk to her yet?" McGee asked looking about at the two girls.

"She said she needed to be alone, and when she was ready she would come out and talk." Abby said as she started to look at the new box of evidence.

"She was really shook up earlier. You think it's alright to just let her sit there and think?" McGee said as he stood their looking from Jessica to Abby.

After a moment of internal thought McGee made up his mind and started to walk towards Abby's office. He opened the door and left it open. After walking in he sat down in a chair and looked over at Jessica.

"How are you feeling?" McGee said after a long silence.

"Better…" Jessica said finally hugging the stuffed animal in her hand. This one was what looked like a duck.

"You want to talk about it? That can help." McGee was trying to ease her into the case but was having a hard time fighting his curiosity. The case file they had said nothing about Tony because he wasn't part of NCIS. The most they got was Tony was investigating a double homicide that lead him to the robbers.

"McGee how could you ask that?" Abby walked over and smacked Tim.

"No its ok I kind of want to ask you guys something too." Jessica said her legs now off the chair and firmly on the floor.

"What is it you wanted to ask?" Abby said.

"I think I'll tell you about the case first. Who knows I might help solve it." Jessica said now completely back to her old cheerful self.

Ziva was surprised and the 180 she saw Jessica do. She was stronger then she gave her credit for.

"The case was about 8 years ago. Tony was working this case. A girl was found in her apartment shot dead. She was young about 18. The young cases always got to Tony. Every time one came up Tony seemed to become a homing missile. You know people like that?" Jessica said as she put the stuffed animal on the desk.

"Yea" Abby, Ziva, and McGee all said at once.

"Well this one seemed to shake Tony up even more then normal. He started to become distant in his letters. Answer my questions in one sentence and not ask any of his own. I could tell something was wrong so I tried to call but he didn't answer or even call back. It was over a month before I heard from him…" Jessica said as she went quiet.

Bullpen

Tony and Gibbs walk into the bullpen and start to set up shop. Dividing the case files among the 4 desks. After five minutes of silence Gibbs decided to talk.

"You want to talk about it." Gibbs said not even looking up from his desk.

"What's there to talk about what we need to know is in the case file your holding." Tony said. Also not lifting his eye's from the case file.

"Tony" Gibbs said. He now looked up from his work and watched Tony. He knew when his senior field agent was troubles. And right now Tony was remembering a painful memory. "Alright let's go." Gibbs stood up and waived a finger to signal Tony to follow him. He did just that following Gibbs to the interrogation room. They sat down and Gibbs said one sentence. Start from the beginning.

Tony let out a sigh. He looked at the floor and then the wall and finally back at the table where Gibbs sat across from him.

"It was a mission like any other. Dead girl in an apartment. Shot twice in the chest. The kick was the gun fired was attached with a silencer so we believed it was premeditated. The girl was a runaway so not a lot was able to be found about her past, and what we did find only led to dead ends. It wasn't until the ring was examined that we caught the break in the case and saw the mistake the murder made." Tony said putting pictures of the case on the table.

"The jewelry was the key to the robbery crew." Gibbs said pointing to the pictures of the robbers.

"Yes the ring the girl was wearing was one of the rings stolen from the latest robberies. We later found out she was seeing the leader of the crew, guys name is Jason Cummings. We believe she found some of the jewelry and tried them on, when Jason came home and found her with the jewels he grabbed a weapon and shot her twice in cold blood.

Abby's Lab

"So after Tony had this break in the case they followed up on it. This lead him to the FBI task force assigned to the robberies. Tony was made to take a back seat, but Tony wasn't about to let the man be caught by anyone other then him. By now I'm sure he was bordering on obsessed. He used to be such a work aholic." Jessica smiled as she said this.

"What Tony?" Ziva asked smiling trying to picture Tony working with a stressed face on. She just couldn't see it.

"Don't make the assumption that Tony is a kid. He takes his work more serious then all of you put together." Jessica snapped at Ziva. The silence after was long.

"I'm sorry. It's just that the Tony you know and the Tony I know are two very different people." Jessica said. "This case will show you just that. Tony had finally gotten a break in the location of who the fence was for the robbers. He when to the location with his former partner along with a squad of FBI field agents, they surrounded the house and called for the people inside to come out. Then things when really wrong."

Interrogation Room

"To give you an idea I want you to picture wakco. Only instead of a cult they were trained and organized. With military grade weapons. This was chaos and we were not prepared. Moat of the FBI people didn't even have body armor, not that it mattered. My partner… he got hit in the chest 2 minutes into the firefight. That's when we knew they were using armor piercing bullets." Tony's tone during the explanation was getting softer and softer. Finally he fell silent.

Gibbs saw the pain and held himself to one question. "How did they get out?"

Tony stared at the wall. "We ran out."

"What do you mean?" Gibbs said straight back.

"We ran out of ammo. They seemed to find out when we stopped shooting. So they ran to their cars while shooting and drove off. Due to back up being almost an hour away we couldn't follow and after that they have been on the lamb." Tony feel silent and then stood up and started to walk out. "Boss I need to find them. I need to catch them. Adam wouldn't let me quit."

"Yea. I bet he wouldn't" Gibbs said as he also got up and walked out of the room.

Abby's Lab

"So Tony was part of the Baltimore Massacre?" Abby asked looking at Jessica in disbelief. "How come Tony never told us?"

"Tony doesn't like to talk about it. He's not really the kind to talk about the past at least not the painful history. He isn't avoiding it. Its more like he knows it's wrong for a cop to get emotional, he told me that is when they make mistakes that get people killed." Jessica said standing up.

"Where are you going?" Ziva said standing up and following Jessica as she left the lab.

"Find Tony I'm sure he is trying to bury himself in the paper work. If someone talks to him it can help." Jessica said walking into elevator.

"So you really do know Tony." Ziva said slowly

"Yes I do what do you want to know?" Jessica said with a straightforwardness that startled Ziva.

"What was he like in his early letters? Did he talk about anyone here on the team?" Ziva asked to soon! Ziva said to himself.

"Ok well in the beginning he was a normal nice guy cop. Said to stay in school and don't do drugs. And he talks about everyone on the team. Gibbs, McGeek, Abby, Ducky, and even you so now that you're done dodging the main question. I am going to ask you a question. What are your feelings for Tony?" Jessica asked crossing her arms and looking at Ziva.

What did she say? My feelings? What does she mean? Tony is my partner. What is she trying to get me to say? I mean I haven't told her anything. Did she catch me staring or something?

"I don't know what you mean? Tony is my partner and I trust him with my life and respect him as an investigator." Ziva said now crossing her arms in a similar fashion as Jessica.

The doors of the elevator opened and Jessica unfolded her arms. "Ziva I am going to tell you this once. Tony likes you. He has for some time but something about a rule and more his inability to just man up and do what needs to be done has caused him to make no progress. So now I am going to leave it up to you. I am tired of him talking about you and not doing anything, Yes Ziva he talks about you. In fact he talks a lot about you. And I think you like him to so go and make him man up. GOT IT?" After this Jessica walked out of the elevator leaving a very confused and very still Mussad assassin.

And there it is Jessica lays down what needed to be said. Will this spark a dialog or cause a disaster! All will come into the light but not until I finish my paper for school. I will try to get the next chapter up soon but my Political Science reading is killing me. But I will try to get it up as soon as possible. Please Read and Review because it will get me to write faster. I know sad but it's true I just like to know what people think.

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