Since I have been so behind I am giving you a second update for the day.

Kort comes by

It was a few hours later and everyone was doing paperwork or something else at their desks, only with the symphony of keystrokes to be heard in the bullpen. Most of their thoughts probably drifted to their guest as they worked and to the conversation that they had once the team returned from the crime scene.

"Why are we not arresting the kid for the three dead bodies in Autopsy?" Gibbs asked once everyone was present in the conference room again. Ian had been spinning his chair around while he waited for everyone to show up since Tony put him in there and left. But now everyone who needed to be there was.

"A couple reasons; one being that they were all terrorists." Ian answered from his spot at the head of the table.

"You called them scorpions earlier," Tony commented.

"That's because they are,"

"Are they bugs or terrorists?" McGee asked.

"They're both, aren't they?" ZIva answered, Ian nodded.

"Yes, its a long story as to why I call them that. But it was a job to take them out for the CIA."

"Why you?" Vance asked.

"That too is complicated."

"Then what were those other reasons for not arresting you?" Gibbs asked.

"Apparently he has diplomatic immunity, since he was undercover he could not inform us of his status," Vance answered.

"How does he have diplomatic immunity?" McGee asked.

"I am a guest of the CIA,"

"So you're not American?" Tony asked.

"British," he said with his british accent for emphasis, "Joe asked me to do this job personally."

"So you're a british spy?" Tony asked, "Like James Bond?"

"He is a complete joke," he replied using his American accent, "so I am nothing of the sorts and would appreciate not being compared to him."

"So since your alias was burned, what should we call you?" Ziva asked.

"Byrne did call you Alex, right?" Tony asked.

"Alex would be fine or Cub."

"Cub?" Gibbs raised a questioning eyebrow.

"My codename back home where I am enlisted. Technically it's Jaguar but they all insist on my original name."

"So you are enlisted?" Gibbs asked.

"I didn't lie to you about that, you just didn't specify where I was enlisted."

"Now who do you work for exactly?" Ziva asked.

"That's classified and honestly I don't care to open that can of worms anytime soon."

"can of worms?" Ziva asked.

"She can't keep the expressions she already knows straight so we don't need to introduce any new one to her," Tony explained to Alex.

While still caught in their own thoughts, they almost missed it when the elevator dinged and out came Agent Kort who came walking towards the bull pen.

"Hello Agent DiNozzo, Agent Gibbs," Kort says, Tony looked up in surprise.

"What are you doing here Kort?" Tony asked.

"I am here to pick up everything you have on the Calloway case, and no I don't honestly know why."

"You're not going to say hi to me Trent?" A british accent said from the back cubicle, all heads turned as Alex slid out from behind the divider. Kort stood there confused.

"Do I know you?" Kort asked, Alex sighed.

"Joint operation last summer in Hong Kong," Alex got up to stand closer to everyone. "Just imagine me with tattoos and brown eyes," he said to Kort in chinese, and Kort gave a chuckle.

"Never thought I'd see the devil's spawn again before I hit my death bed." Kort said giving Alex a handshake.

"Nice to see you too, Trent. Good to see you're holding up well after everything went down."

"And you were the main cause of it," Trent countered.

"Not all of it, but it was my job, I get it done by any means."

"You know each other?" DiNozzo asked when he saw their behavior.

"Worked together on an assignment in Hong Kong like he said. Now I understand why Byrne sent me really ticked him off this time."

"When don't I, and he deserved it,"

"Well it's nice to know that you're still alive,"

"Likewise, considering my track record with partners."

"I've heard, especially skeleton key,"

"It happens to the best of us," Alex shrugged.

"How well do you know this kid?" Tony asked.

"'This kid'? Did you really just call him that? Because he is anything but."

"Don't mind the Americans, Trent. They have limited knowledge about me, I've been undercover for a while now. So don't spoil anything for them, you'd be ruining my fun."

"That in itself is a scary thing, your definition of fun."

"I'll take you down to autopsy to collect the bodies," Gibbs said getting up expecting Kort to follow after once he said his farewells. They were in the elevator in silence before Gibbs stopped it. "Okay Kort, how much do you know about him?"

"You really don't know anything do you?" Kort asked.

"Not enough to be considered satisfied."

"Well, he is an excellent agent, he's british, currently for CIA but I don't think that's the only one, a very convincing undercover agent, great fighter, though I guess you already knew that. Is there anything else?"

"What happened in Hong Kong?"

"Not at liberty to divulge such sensitive information, but I can probably say that Alex both saved and put my life at risk, not in that order though."

"Do you know how old he is?"

"What do you think?"

"He told us 19, but-"

"But you have reason to doubt everything he's told you so far. I'd say that is a good guess, but with his disguises he could be any age, so I don't know, Agent Gibbs."

"You never saw his file?"

"Nope, met him in the field, he was already deep undercover when I met him. Only way I knew it was him because of a code phrase that CIA gave me to find him."

"What was it?"

"Um, 'How can one kill a creature that is both a cub and devil?' I believe it was, I found it odd until I met him and once the op was over it made sense."

"What was the answer?"

"'You can't, its luck keeps it alive and kills those who try.'" Kort leaned over to start the elevator up again so he could leave before Alex found out he gave Gibbs a clue about his character. "All I can really tell you is that you would do well to not be his enemy. So be careful." Gibbs was turning the words over in his head until the doors opened to the autopsy room. They entered to find three body bags ready to be wheeled out.

"Ah Jethro, I guess the CIA finally came to collect these men?"

"Yes, I have. May I look real quick, before we take them to the truck?" Kort asked and opened the bag to where the bullet hole was, he checked all three. "Yep, this is definitely Alex's work."

"To have such accuracy and precision is quite a talent," Ducky commented taking another look himself.

"He had that before I met him, told me that I didn't want to know, and I'd be better off that way. 'Ignorant and breathing is better than informed and cold' were his words on the matter, so I left it at that. He knows how to keep secrets, be best not to go digging them up."

"I'll keep that in mind," Kort zipped the men back up and with their assistance, took the bodies to the truck waiting in the garage. Once he and the case were gone Gibbs returned to autopsy with Ducky for a private discussion. "What did you think of the victims?"

"They didn't stand a chance against our guest, the bullets ripped straight through their hearts and broke the spinal column on the way out, the first one had it go through his brain resulting in an instantaneous death. Our guest would probably give you a run for your money, he is not new to the ways of killing people. He is, I would say, a professional killer."

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3/18/15