Title: mine and my own
Disclaimer: not my characters
Warnings: character death
Pairings: implied Gibbs/Tony
Rating: PG
Wordcount: 185
Point of view: third
Prompt: melt
"McGee!" Jethro yells, storming past his desk. "Has Fornell sent those files yet?"
"No, Boss," McGee answers. "I'm still trying to decode the info on the second ID, but Sacks said they have to—"
"Ziva," Jethro barks, turning, "get those files from Fornell."
His phone rings and he grabs it off his desk. He answers and listens, then slams it down. "They found two bodies beneath ice in the Potomac, one of 'em a marine. Let's go." He strides past Tony's empty desk without pause. McGee and Ziva fall in behind silently.
o0o
Jethro doesn't need Ducky to make the identification and when McGee finally tracks down the most tenuous of connections, Jethro doesn't wait for NCIS to sanction his actions. Half a dozen mafia lieutenants end up dead before he's done, one for each month Tony was missing, and Jethro looks the crime boss in the eye as he pulls the final trigger.
"His name was Tony DiNozzo," Jethro says quietly. "He was mine."
"He suffered," the bastard replies. "He begged."
It takes five bullets to kill Tony's murderer and Jethro never returns to NCIS.