Chapter 2

"What the fuck happened to you!" McGee exclaimed as Tony took off his sunglasses at his desk the next morning.

Tony was a bit shocked because he never thought he would hear his 'partner in crime' say such a naughty word. "You wouldn't believe how easy it is to slip in the shower and wham your eye on the faucet." he said with a shrug. "Oh and you really need to wash your mouth out McPotty Mouth."

McGee rolled his eyes and walked from his desk over to Tony, looking at his eye close up. "You seriously expect me to believe you when you say it was just a slip in the shower?"

"Yes" Tony said point blank and sat down in his chair. "Now tell me anything I've missed."

McGee was going to say something about him being so bossy but decided not to. He was debriefing Tony on the early morning activities when Gibbs came walking into the room, coffee cup in hand. He already looked frazzled and it was only 7am. Whatever he heard from Ducky or Abby must not have been good news.

"What's up Boss?" Tony questioned the older man.

Gibbs proceeded to tell everybody in the squad room that none of the evidence they had collected the day before had ANYTHING to do with any of their current suspects…which meant they were back to the drawing board that day with nothing really to go on.

"I have a feeling I should call Jake to tell him I will be home…never." Bishop spoke up as she walked into the room at the end of the conversation. She wasn't late per-say but just not as early as everybody else had been.

"Well if we get to work right away maybe we will figure something out." Tony said trying to be positive even though he felt nothing but positive at the moment. Ellie's comment about calling her husband early in the day to warn him about a possible late night made him think he should do the same thing for Becca. Sighing he pushed that thought aside and sat at his desk trying to think of what to do next.

"What happened to you?"

Tony was shaken from his thoughts when Gibbs came and stood in front of his desk looking at him like had a third eye. "What?"

"Your eye." Gibbs stated and actually reached over and gently touched Tony's eye which caused the younger man to wince in pain.

"He had a run-in with his shower facet." McGee said from his desk.

Gibbs raised an eyebrow. "Better be more careful."

"Right Boss." Tony replied.

"What about Thomas Field?" Bishop questioned from her spot upon her desk. It was now almost lunch time and they were still trying to find people connected to their Petty Officers murder.

"He was in Texas at the time." McGee grumbled form his desk.

"Marshall Hebert?"

"Australia."

"Seriously?"

McGee nodded.

"Poop."

Tony was getting a headache listening to McGee and Bishop say names and locations. "Who wants lunch?"

In a weird 'school' sort of way Bishop and McGee raised their hands and then went back to chattering on about names.

Tony groaned and got up. He saw Gibbs do the same thing and wondered what that was about. "Going to see Abby?" he questioned his Boss and good friend. Heck, everybody in that room was a good friend.

Gibbs shook his head, "No thought I would tag along with you."

"Oh"

"I was thinking Hugo's."

Tony had to admit a great sub sandwich from the local sub shop sounded really good at the moment. "I guess I should get orders from THOSE two." He said nodding at the other agents.

"Probably."

"Right," Tony got sandwich orders and soon he and Gibbs were in the car on the way to Hugo's.

"Plan on telling me the real reason for your eye sometime today?" Gibbs questioned as they were driving.

Tony sighed, "I am telling the truth." He said even though it would go in one ear and out the other with Gibbs because he would know he was lying.

"Right."

Again Tony sighed, "Can we just drop it…I hurt my eye and it still hurts like a son-of-a-bitch and I really don't want to talk about it."

Gibbs nodded his head, "Okay."

"Jeremy Filbert."

"Alabama."

"Kenny Chesney."

McGee was about to respond to that and realized what Bishop had done. "Ha ha…funny."

Ellie Bishop smirked but got serious again when Tony and Gibbs came walking back into the room with sandwiches. She hopped off her desk and went to sit in her chair so she could use the desk's surface as a table. "This looks SOOO good." She said taking a bite of her chicken breast and avocado sandwich.

"Why were you talking about county singers?" Tony questioned as he sat down with his own sandwich.

McGee glared at Bishop before responding to Tony. "We've been going at it with names since you left. She decided to play a joke and said the singer's name."

"Creative." Tony had to admit and Gibbs actually chuckled slightly from his desk.

"I still think we need to look into Harold Nisbit." Bishop said after swallowing some of her food. "He was actually in The DC area the night of the murder."

"But he has that strong alibi. He was in the emergency room with is daughter getting a cast on from falling down the stairs." McGee pointed out.

"Yes but what if this guy is so sinister that he pushed his own daughter down the stairs in order to have an alibi for killing one of his fellow sailor's?" Bishop answered with a 'ha' look on her face.

McGee didn't say anything for a second as he processed that information. "I guess he is worth looking into again."

"We can go check it out after we finished eating." Tony said to McGee.

"Sure" McGee said around a bite of his food.

"This place is a disaster…" Tony said as he and McGee stepped over broken…well…he wasn't sure what it was but it was broken. They were walking in the front yard of Harold Nisbit's house and things were definitely looking pretty hinky when it came to this guy.

"I don't exactly doubt his daughter falling if the yard is any indication of the inside of the house." McGee added as they gingerly climbed the front stops and knocked on the door.

It took a few minutes but soon a frail looking middle aged woman answered the door. "Can I help you?"

"Hello ma'am I'm Special Agent Tony DiNozzo and this here is my partner Tim McGee. We were hoping to talk to Harold Nisbit."

The woman looked confused for a second, "Harold hasn't lived here in almost three years…when he joined the military."

"Do you happen to know where he is living now?" McGee questioned. "We have talked with him and he said he is living in town with a daughter."

The woman looked even more confused now. "That is news to me. Last I heard he was living in Iraq with some lady named Sasha."

"Excuse me ma'am but what is your connection to Mr. Nisbit?"

"I'm his older half-sister." She replied. "I wish I could help you, but I honestly don't know where Harold is and I definitely don't know of any daughter."

"Thank you for your help ma'am" Both Tony and McGee said as they headed back to the car. Ones there they looked at each other with worried eyes. "This case is beginning to give me the creeps."

McGee had to agree. "We should just go straight to the office and talk to everybody about this new development. Because if Harold Nisibt is in Iraq then who did we talk to the other night at the hospital?"

"Carl Jackson."

"Robert Killington."

"George Johnson."

"Sam Brooks."

"Would you two stop it?" Tony exclaimed as he rubbed at this temples. He had been listening to McGee and Bishop say names back and forth for a good half an hour now and he was getting sick of it."

"Do you have anybody to add, Tony?" McGee spat.

"Whoa Elf Lord enough with the attitude." Tony said looking over at his friend. "It's not worth being pissy."

"I'm not pissy." McGee stated before looking back at his computer screen in a huff.

Just then both Jake Bishop and Becca Lawrance-DiNozzo came walking into the room laughing about something causing the whole NCIS team to look in their direction.

"Ohh a surprise!" Ellie said jumping up from her desk and going to give her husband a huge hug.

Quite frankly Tony did NOT want to go and hug Becca after what happened the night before but he knew needed to keep up the act he was playing. He got up and went over to his wife and gave her a gentle kiss on the lips. "Hey Baby."

Becca smiled, "Hi sweetheart."

Both McGee and Gibbs made playful gagging noises which caused everybody to bust up laughing.

"So what brings you both by at the same time?" Ellie questioned looking from Jake to Becca.

"We just met in the lobby and decided to head up together."

Tony glanced at his watch and realized it was after 6pm…home time. That is if you had a normal job that didn't have to do with criminals…because they never slept. "You're both probably hoping we can pause for dinner."

"Which you can." Gibbs said from his spot. "It's dinner time and I have learned over the years that dinner's spent with others is the best way to go."

Everybody looked at Gibbs like he was slow or something. Did Mr. Recluse himself actually say it was best to eat with a partner and not alone?

"I guess it's settled then….we will break for dinner." Ellie practically squealed as she dashed out of the room with Jake.

Becca looked hopefully at Tony. "Where are we going to go?" she questioned her husband.

"How about the pizza joint around the corner?"

She made a slight face but it turned to a smile. "That sounds great, I could go for a nice slice of veggie pizza."

It was Tony's turn to make a face but this time it was at his wife's choice of pizza. "I don't know how you can eat that." He said playfully as they got in the elevator and headed to the lobby level of headquarters.

"It tastes good to me." She said with a shrug as they walked to her car since his was down in the parking garage and it was simply easier to take her car. She had a brand new dark blue Toyota Corolla. One that Tony had bought her only a month earlier for her birthday. She had been so excited that they were up until 3am making love.

Soon they were at the pizza restaurant and they got out of the car. "So how is your case going?" Becca questioned.

"Ugh…awful." Tony said as they stood in line to get a place to sit. It was a hopping joint on a workday afternoon. People from all walks of life would come in and get a slice of the legendary pizza.

Becca pouted at the information. "I take that as to mean you won't be coming home with me after this."

"Not even close." Tony sighed. "We keep getting names but they always fall through."

"Maybe you should think about getting another job." Becca said after a second and after they were sitting down.

This caused Tony to be taken aback. "Excuse me?"

"Maybe you should think about getting another job." Becca repeated her sentence word for word. When she didn't get a verbal reply but weird glare she continued. "I'm not getting any younger Tony. Shouldn't we start thinking about a family?"

Becca was full of interesting information and Tony wasn't liking any of it. "NCIS *IS* family." He pointed out. "I would not be full if I didn't have NCIS or YOU."

"It just seems like NCIS gets everything while I sit on the backburner." Becca replied, showing how she really felt which was a bit different because normally she was more cryptic."

They both dropped the topic for a second when they placed their order. Once they were done they got right back into it.

"You knew what my job was like when you married me." Tony pointed out. "AND you can't tell me you haven't held any late night meetings and things with your clients." Becca was a powerhouse attorney. It was on a case that the met each other six years ago.

Becca sighed, "I want a family, my job can wait."

"Seriously?"

She nodded and Tony sighed. "I will figure something out with work, but don't get your hopes up."

Tony drank down his third Monster Energy Drink and looked at his computer with cross eyes. "This is getting ridiculous."

"I agree." Bishop said actually making a point by closing up her laptop. "I don't know about you three but I am going home."

Gibbs looked at the clock and noticed it was after 2am. "Yeah we should all go home." He admitted to his team. "And nobody come back until at least 9am tomorrow, you all need sleep."

All three of his team members nodded their heads and grabbed their stuff to head home.

On the way to his car he was shocked to find somebody leaning against it. Since he couldn't tell who it was he pulled his gun and walked slowly to the vehicle. When he got closer though he found himself putting away is gun and walking faster to the car. "What are you doing here at this time of night?"

Becca shrugged her shoulders. "I couldn't sleep…I missed you."

"How long have you been waiting out here?"

"Only a few hours."

"What the hell, Becca? You somehow got down here and then spent a few HOURS waiting for me to get out of work? What if we pulled an all-nighter and I stayed through the morning. What would you have done then?"

Becca sighed, "I don't know…I just missed you so much Pooky"

Tony made a slight face at the weird term of endearment. "You are acting nuttier then a fruit cake the past few days, what is going on?"

"Nothing is going on. I just want to see my husband for more than two minutes every day!" She exclaimed.

"Well sneaking into your husband's place of employment is NOT a way to get brownie points. At least not with this husband." Tony yelled causing the parking garage to echo.

"Fuck you!" Becca yelled back and before Tony knew what happened he wat struck over the head with a blunt object and he was down on the ground.

TO BE CONTINUED