Izzy/Penelope's Point Of View

I drove slowly down the interstate, where our base was set up. When Tyler had called me to tell me in his words "get your but over here, we need you.", I was irritated. Ty might be one of my favorite team members, but still I was sort of taking a break. I hadn't seen Anthony for years. The relief I felt knowing he was alive was all these years, I don't know how, but I had somehow got it in my head he was dead. Though all through the time, I remember thinking To will find me. That's why I pressed on, that's how he saved my life. I read up on what he has been up to before I went and meet him. I had to make sure before I made a complete fool of myself.

I drove into the building we had been using as our base. It was close enough to monitor, plus when we got word that there might have been an attempt at someone, we were sent out. We sort of had a reputation to going into every situation. I wallked up the door and took the elevator to the third floor room we were using. Ty had all his electronic equipment spread out and he was sitting at it. Haley, our demolitions expert among other things, was sitting looking over a file. Then there was Ed, of course we called him Ice, but there was more to it then the face of ice that was pretty much unreadable. "Hey, guys." they turned.

"What took you so long." Haley almost yelled into my ear.

"Look, I had some personal business to take care of plus I thought you guys would appreciate me picking up some food and coffee, seeing as we will probably be here awhile."

"Then where is it?" Ed asked.

"It's in the car Ice, just be careful. It's a rental." Ice ran off as I threw him the keys. "So what did I miss."

Sarcastically Tyler answered, "Nothing big, just having the Secretary of Defense being kidnapped." I could tell he was teasing.

"Well, do you got anything?"

"Besides a picture, not much."

"Picture, did you try running it?"

"What do you think I am stupid. I'm not a four year old." I turned and saw that one of his monitors were running something.

First order of bussiness, "Any demands,"

"Not yet."

"Well, you probably get something soon. Someone is defiantly going to take credit for this. You don't just kidnap somebody and think it threw without wanting nothing at all."

"Yeah," Haley smiled, "somebody heard, it could be nothing, but someone called a bomb threat at one of leading defesnse manufactor's office, It could be a copycat."

"That's exactly what we need. Hopefully the press doesn't get word too soon. Who's heading the investigation? I know there is the whole "we don't negotiate with terrorists," but come on, we know something is coming. We need to find out who this guy is."

"NCIS, he was a marine."

"And I just came from there, I could have car pooled with them."

"Really." Ty asked.

"Don't give me that." I glared at him, "I know you have a tracking device in my phone."

Ice came in interupting or little conversation., "Anybody want some coffee?"

Ty and Haley automatically jumped up. Ty had to have his coffee, but not as bad as Ice. Not by along shot. "Anybody got an idea?" I opened up the discussion for ideas once the whole team was there. Hey, we didn't sound like much, but look at our record, we had never lost a hostage, let alone someone we were sent to protect from a bomb or anything like that. We actually were good at what we did. Not that we looked like it, but we had a casual dress code. The only reason I was dressed up was because my meeting with Tony and I knew I wouldn't hear the end of it. Sometimes, theses guys were more kids then adults

I laughed. Ice interupted me, "So, who is this Tony Dinozzo, guy. Your boyfriend."

"He's not my boyfriend and shouldn't we stay focused."

"Yeah," Haley came to my rescue, "you know Pen doesn't date."

I nodded in agreement before Ty interupted. "Yeah, yeah, on to the case. I'm not letting this go."

"I know, " I shrugged. I grabbed my coffee and took a sip. "Ty, Haley?"

Ty answered, "This isn't just you regular hit. This had to be planned, calculated. He wants something, and I don't think it is just the attention everyone will give him. Though how he did it tells you he wants control. We better be careul or he might jump the gun too early."

Haley continued, "our best bet is idenitfying this guy. Once we have some idea what his brain is like, we have a better idea of dealing with them."

"I agree, does anybody recognize him."

"He's not on our watch list, not easy to figure out."

"Let me see." Ty turned the screen toward me. I knew that face, but I'm not sure from where, "I know that face." I whispered. "No idea where, but I know it."

Ice looked at me, "Really?"

"Yeah, I'm sure I do. Let me think. Ice, hand me a sandwich." Ice handed me a sandwich.

"Now what?" Ice asked.

"Not sure. We should find out what NCIS knows." As if on cue there was a knock on the door.