Tim had known from the start that there was only so long his family could ignore the signs that they weren't alone in the house, Sighted or not. It hadn't been a surprise when they called for a hunter, and it hadn't been fair to feel hurt.
This was going to make it more difficult to make his dad proud, though.
He found an empty house to hole up in for the time being and set up a computer station to monitor his family's house with. He kept an increasingly worried eye on Tony's emails too. The last one had sounded worryingly like a goodbye.
The next one, although cheerier, wasn't any better. He was going with a federal agent? Was he crazy?
It seemed to be working out, though. His emails stayed cheerful and they were definitely from Tony. No government agent trying to lure him in could have come up with half of this stuff.
Still. As much as Tony might like Gibbs, Tim wasn't quite ready to trust him yet.
A favor, though . . . He could do a favor for Tony. Especially if there was going to be steak at the end of it.
After all, he reasoned, it wasn't like he was ever going to have to actually meet Gibbs.