A/N Thanks to all those who reviewed Favorited or story alerted My bunnies and I appreciate it.
I won't be posting for a couple of days as am spending 2 days of quality time with my 16 year old. (Oh God, non-stop Harry Potter!)
If i survive i hope to post Tuesday.
Disclaimer as usual, I don't own but if i did i would kidnap DiNozzo, Gibbs and McGee and you'd never see me again...Mawhahahaha!
Chapter 4
Rob Novacek sat at the table outside the room Sarah was being held in, He knew his boss wanted her kept safe but she unnerved him.
He got up opened the door and threw in a packet of sandwiches and a bottle of water and looked at her,
"Who are you?" She demanded looking scared.
God she couldn't be more than a kid, about 25 by his reckoning, his own daughter was older than she was.
"Just be quiet and eat, and you won't get hurt." He growled and closed the door on her.
He sat back at the table and looked at his partner, Jerry Slifer. He was about Sarah's age and he didn't like the way Jerry looked at her and had tried to hurt her earlier.
"She need me to go visit?" Jerry drawled.
"Just leave her, the boss said not to hurt her and you already knocked her out once." Rob moaned.
His cell rang and Rob answered it, "Yes…Sure boss…OK." He closed the phone up and turned to Jerry, "Varano called, Turns out the girl is the daughter of the Director of the CIA. We are going to trade her in for some weapons grade plutonium."
Jerry grinned, "We'd better look after her then."
"Varano will call us when the trade is going to take place. That way if they find him they can't find her."
Rob knew that their group desperately needed the plutonium to make this bomb and that all would be lost without it, but, he reasoned to himself, there was no other way to make America see that war was useless and all the fighting abroad was not saving their country. American servicemen and women were dying needlessly and THE WAY were going to expose this by setting off nuclear bombs, even if people had to die to make a better America, the sacrifice would be worth it to ensure a safe world for future generations.
Tim stopped and stood up.
"What is it?" Gibbs asked.
"Boss, I think I've got a lead, it's an obscure group called The Way, and it's a terrorist group trying to stop all war. There are some online groups talking about them and how they plan to build a nuclear weapon and let it off in the US to bring all our troops home."
"That's nuts, trying to stop war by killing millions!" Tony said.
"Boss there's an email just come in," Tim laughed dryly, "They tried hiding their IP address. But I found them, they're in D.C."
Tony looked on as the plasma screen pulled up a map and showed them the co-ordinates the email had originated from.
"Wow, it's like seeing the inside of Probies head," Tony sniped and Gibbs head slapped him lightly, "Focus DiNozzo." He said.
"Grab yer gear." Gibbs said and Tony, Ziva and Tim grabbed their bags.
"Not you McGee." Gibbs said and Tim looked confused.
"Boss?"
"You've got a bunch of crazies after you, you're staying here." Gibbs said and headed for the elevator.
"But Boss?" Tim started.
"McGee, unless it turns out you're bulletproof too, you're definitely staying here. Now check on that lead and make sure the area's safe before we get there." Gibbs said as the elevator doors closed.
In the car Gibbs looked at Tony and Ziva, Ziva seemed to be taking this whole thing in her stride, considering she had been Mossad that was understandable. But Gibbs was worried about is SFA. Tony was quiet, too quiet for him. "DiNozzo, you ok?" Gibbs asked.
"Fine," Tony snapped looking out of the car window.
Tony's mind was working a million miles an hour, this was huge, and why hadn't Tim come to him and told him, and Abby had known and not said anything, he had thought they were friends and right now more than anything he felt hurt and betrayed, although he knew he had a job to do so he'd decided to push his feelings down at least until Sarah was safe.
But one question was bugging him more than anything else. Why didn't Tim trust them?
Ok he understood there were parts of his life that were classified, they had been told that much, but to not know Tim was adopted? Tim knew all about Tony's father and Ziva's father, would it have been so bad if he had trusted them enough to say 'hey I'm adopted, oh and my dad's the head of the CIA.' Tony rolled his eyes even in his head it sounded stupid!
Ziva concentrated on the work at hand, she knew why Tim had kept the secrets he had, in the 70's according to her father's stories Mossad had tried to find people with extraordinary skills and train them to fight for Israel. They had found a few people who showed promise but they had all burnt out quickly being over stimulated. She found herself worrying for the sanity of her friend and his sister knowing what some of her fathers' people had gone through. In fact as far as she could remember the best Israel had come up with was Uri Geller, he could probably rival McGee she reasoned.
They pulled up outside a house that had definitely had seen better days. Gibbs picked up the phone and called McGee.
"Ok we're here what've you got?" He asked.
"Julius Varano, head of The Way. His IP address tracked back to your location, there's been no movement outside the building for a few days but they must be there" McGee told Gibbs.
Gibbs closed his phone and filled Tony and Ziva in on the information he had on Varano.
Tony and Ziva took the back of the building and Gibbs entered through the front to find Varano typing his manifesto on his laptop.
"Agent Gibbs, I presume." Julius Varano said and stood and extended his hand.
He was an imposing man, over 6ft tall with dark hair and looks. He exuded power and confidence, even Gibbs could feel this man was filled with confidence and it slightly unnerved him.
"Where is Sarah McGee?" Gibbs asked leveling his gun at the man.
"She's not here, but she is safe, I assume Agent McGee was not permitted to accompany you?" Varano asked.
Gibbs looked at him, annoyed.
"Pity," Varano said, "I had hoped to have the set."
"You're under arrest," Gibbs said and put the cuffs on. If nothing else, Gibbs thought he would get this guy in the interrogation room, and maybe having their leader in custody would make the rest of the group nervous and maybe they could find Sarah and any parts to the weapon they have that much quicker.
"Good I can't wait to meet Tim, I've heard so much about him." Varano said and gave a knowing smile as DiNozzo put him in the back of the sedan.
"Gibbs!" Ziva said coming out from a back room, "Sarah McGee is not here but I found a quantity of HMX in a box in the back."
"Tag it and get it back to the Lab for Abby." Gibbs said gruffly and got in the car beside DiNozzo.
"You can arrest me, but you will not stop our cause, we will make all nations of the world equal by setting of nuclear bombs in the US and no nation will be above another." Varano told them.
Tony rolled his eyes and Gibbs just looked in the mirror fighting the urge to tell their suspect to shut up.
A/N well there you have it for the next two days, oh and Abby will explain what HMX is for those that don't know in her usual lovely way in the next chapter.
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