Chapter 6

Hope you all enjoyed the little twist in the previous chapter! Thanks again for everyone who's read/reviewed, makes my day! Let the mole hunt begin!

Happy Thanksgiving!

It had been over a week since the meeting in Gibbs' basement, and Tony was starting to get frustrated. Despite all the time he and Gibbs were spending, going over case files, personnel history and slowly making their way through the NCIS system, thanks to a backdoor access Tony downloaded onto the system before he left, they weren't making any progress.

To top it all off, trying to keep up the rouse of his life falling apart was becoming increasingly difficult, it was lonely isolating himself from everyone, and he had to wait until he was in a public place to even message Kyle. Abby and Ducky had tried to contact him and come see him, but he had to push them away. He felt horrible for lying to them, but it was safer for all of them the fewer of them knew what was going on, at least until they get a better sense of what is going on.

The last few days Tony felt as if someone was following. As a result, Tony and Gibbs have been squatting in one of his university frat buddies apartment on the other side of town, luckily he was out of town for the next few months, so it was the perfect place, no names on mailboxes, underground garage access, and key card entries, made it so no one was able to follow him into the building and see where he was going. It also meant he had to spend an extra forty minutes each time trying making sure he wasn't be tailed.

It was late in the evening and Tony was sitting in his friend Eric's apartment going over the latest incident reports from the agent's afloat when something clicked for Tony. "Gibbs come see this."

Gibbs, who was sitting at the dining room table moved to sit beside Tony on the couch, "What've you got?"

"These are four Navy ships that have docked at NS Naples, one aircraft carrier, two cruisers, and one destroyer, over the last six months. Each one of these ships has had one crewman go MIA for a period of twenty-four hours then turns up in a local hospital with no memory of the previous twenty-four hours."

"Do the reports identify anything unusual in the crewman's hospital records? Or any indication of why they went MIA?" Gibbs asked taking a closer look at the file Tony had pulled up.

"According to the agents afloat notes, their tox screens all came back positive for Flunitrazepam, aka Rohypnol, they also had significantly elevated cortisol levels."

"And no one is looking into it?" Gibbs asked.

"The agents chalked it up to them partying in Naples. I don't think anyone else has made a connection yet, they were spread out over six months, different agent afloat's. Only NCIS headquarters would review all files." Tony offered.

"What are you thinking?"

"I don't know yet, but my gut is screaming that this is somehow tied to our mystery mole. If this information is at NCIS headquarters, someone has got to be covering this up."

Gibbs nodded, "So let's go deeper."

"We are going to need more equipment to do that." Tony said looking around at their two laptops, "We aren't equipped to do an investigation like we could at NCIS."

"So what do you suggest?"

Tony paused, running through all the options in his head before deciding on their best course of action. "I've got a friend, he's a CEO of one of those big tech companies, I am sure I can call him up and he could let us borrow the stuff we need."

Gibbs thought about it for a moment and nodded, "OK, give him a call and see what we can get and we'll go from there."

Nodding, Tony grabbed his burner phone and dialed. "D-dog, it's been too long" he said walking into another room.

Gibbs sat there looking at the file on Tony's, trying to make sense of it all. Compromised top secret ops, drugged sailors, and god knows what else, but for what purpose? Closing the computer he ran a tired hand down his face, whatever he and Tony had stumbled acrossed was unlike anything they have faced before.

Tony returned to the living room a few minutes later. "Deryck is going to send us what we need. He's gonna call with a delivery time, we just need to send someone to meet him to pick it up."

"Someone?" Gibbs questioned.

"It can't be either of us in case we are a followed, to big of a risk if we are seen picking up computer supplies."

Gibbs nodded, "Alright DiNozzo, who do you suggest we ask?"

"As much as I hate it, it's gotta be either Jimmy or Kyle. They are the only ones who know, and as far as we know they aren't being tailed. We can easily coach them on how to lose a tail just to be sure."

"I don't like it" Gibbs stated.

"I don't either boss, but do you have a better idea?"

"Not at the moment." he stated.

"Well then we will go with them for now."

He sighed, "Alright."

Two days later Tony got a call from his friend Deryck telling him to meet him in the parking garage of his office building on Wilson Boulevard. Tony drove out to Eric's apartment tell Gibbs."

Walking through the front door, Tony saw Gibbs sitting on the couch watching TV. "Boss, Deryck called, equipment's ready for pick up, meeting i set for six pm gave us the code to open the garage, no cameras, no questions."

Gibbs nodded, "Alright, call Palmer, see if he can do it."

Tony picked up his phone and called Jimmy, "Tony?" came a whispered voice after several rings.

"Hey Jimmy, how's it going?"

"Now isn't a good time, I had to sneak away from Dr. Mallard to answer."

"Sorry, Jimbo, wouldn't have called if it wasn't important. We had to order some supplies are you able to do a pick up tonight at six?" he asked.

"Wish I could, but we just caught a double homicide, we will be here most of the night doing the autopsies. Since you left, the solve rate for MCRT has significantly dropped, they have been caught a few times for poor evidence collection, Sec Nav has been riding us pretty hard, us and Abby have had to try and pick up the slack." Jimmy sighed, clearly frustrated.

"Man I am sorry to hear about that Jimmy."

"Not your fault Tony. Wish I could help you, but I gotta get back to Dr. Mallard."

"No worries Jimmy, we will talk soon." Tony said hanging up.

"Well looks like Jimmy out of the picture." Tony sighed not happy about his section option.

"That leaves Kyle." Gibbs offered, "She'll be ok Tony."

He nodded, "I know."

Picking up the phone Tony called Kyle, "Evan's Pecan farm, which nut would you like to speak to?"

Tony laughed, "The nut I am talking to."

She laughed, "Thought you'd like that one."

"You are crazy."

"Dating you, aren't I?"

"And funny too." he said sarcastically.

"What's up babe?"

He sighed, "Are you working tonight?"

"No, work a double tomorrow though? Why?"

"I need a favour, and I wouldn't ask unless it was really important."

"Of course, what is it?"

"We need you to pick up some equipment from a friend of mine. I can't be seen getting this stuff, it will raise too many flags."

"Ok, it's not illegal what I will be doing?" she asked.

"No, all on the up and up. You will have to be careful to make sure you are followed."

Tony waited for Kyle to respond. "Kyle?" he asked

"Light bulb!" she said

He shook his head, "Did you just quote than damn minion movie?"

She laughed, "It's Despicable Me, and I did. You have your cinematic classics, I have mine." She sassed back at him.

"What is your light bulb thought?"

"Well I am at my parents place, I can use my parents car, dress like my mom and they won't know it's me in the car." She offered.

Tony thought about it and nodded, "That could work, but won't your parents ask what you are using their car for? Especially your dad?"

"Let me worry about my parents, just give me the plan and I will make it work."

Tony passed along the meeting location and where to drop off the equipment afterwards. Despite the situation, he was glad he was going to be able to see her, a week and a half was too long.

Tony turned to Gibbs, "Looks like we are all set."

Kyle knew trying to get her mom's car and clothes was going to be tricky. Her dad had this sixth sense, he always knew when she was lying or up to no good, her and her brothers always got caught.

Sitting in the family room, Kyle was trying to put her game plan together when her dad walked in. At six foot three inches and all muscles, Kyle's dad was a very intimidating man, he had a hard look to his face, but his eyes gave away a gentleness that you wouldn't expect from an Admiral.

"What evil plot do you have going through your head boo?" he asked coming to sit beside her.

Startled to see her dad right beside her, Kyle quickly recovered, "I don't know what you are talking about?"

Admiral Evans lifted one eyebrow at her, not believing a word she was saying. "What to try that again?"

"Damn it." she swore before taking a big breath, "How do you always know?" she asked turning to look at him.

"It's your eye Boo, they give you away every time." He smiled, "Does this have anything to do with your former NCIS boyfriend?"

"What do you mean?" Not liking where this was going.

"You know the military is worse than high school for gossip. Word reached me that your former boy-toy quit NCIS and he's not been doing so hot."

"Boy-toy? Really dad?" she laughed.

He just smiled and shrugged.

"Where did you hear this from?"

"Sec Nav." was all he offered.

"What did he say exactly?"

"That my daughter's ex-boyfriend was on a downward spiral, quit his job, dumped his girlfriend and was a drunken mess."

Kyle paused, this was not good, she thought. "Do you trust him?" she asked cautiously.

Admiral Evans eyes narrowed. "Why?"

"Because, no one at NCIS knows that Tony and I broke up and he hasn't seen anyone from NCIS since he quit."

Admiral Evans head snapped and he went still as a board, "What are you saying Kyle?"

"I am saying, that the only way he would know that is if either he was watching the camera's in Tony's apartment, or the person who told him was." she stated.

He sighed, "Oh Boo, what have you gotten yourself into?"

She offered him a small smile, "I'm sorry Daddy." she started.

"Don't apologize Boo, just start from the beginning."

Kyle spent the next hour with her Dad going over everything that had happened. Her story was interrupted every now and then by had Dad's yelling.

"So what are you supposed to do tonight?" he asked

"Tony and Gibbs need me to pick up some equipment they need to help them with their investigation."

"Alright, let me make some calls, and I will go with you. You can duck down in the backseat." HE said getting up.

"No Daddy, you can't! You are the Chairman of the Joint Chief's of Staff, you can't be involved, you'll get in trouble!" she cried.

"Boo, if your boyfriend is going to investigate a mole at NCIS, he is going to need all the help he can get, especially if he wants the charges to stick. Trust me." he said, kissing the top of her head before heading off to his office.

Tony was going to kill her she thought as she sat back down.

Kyle was looking up at the ceiling of her dad's SUV, "Are we there yet?" she whined.

Her dad laughed, "Dear lord, flashback every car ride we had when you were growing up."

Kyle laughed, "I wasn't that bad!"

"You really were, your mother and I used to bet how long into the drive you would ask that question."

Kyle crossed her arms in front of her chest, "Hmph" she replied.

He just laughed.

"Still didn't answer my question." She said a few moments later.

"Just pulling up now."

Once they were under the cover of the garage, Kyle popped up and looked around. It didn't take them long to find the person they were supposed to meet. The multiple boxes gave him away. Pulling up Kyle and her dad got out.

"Deryck?" Kyle asked.

He nodded, "You must be Kyle." he said sticking his hand out to shake hers.

"That's me."

"Nice to meet you, Tony speaks highly of you, and often." Kyle blushed.

"Let's get these loaded." Kyle said.

It didn't take them long to load the car before they were making their way back onto the road.

Forty minutes later Kyle and her dad pulled up to Eric's place. She sighed as she picked up a box, this was going to be interesting.

Knocking on the door, Kyle turned to her dad, "Just remember to be nice."

Her dads smiled was pure evil, "Of course."

She shook her head; clearly she and her dad had different definitions of nice.

When the door opened Tony had a big smile on his face, which he quickly lost when he saw her Dad standing behind her.

"Kyle?" he questioned.

She shrugged, "I tried."

He nodded, "Come on in." he said motioning them in. "Gibbs just went to pick up some dinner."

Turning to Admiral Evans, "Sir, it's a pleasure to see you again."

Admiral Evans gave Tony a hard stare, "Is it?" he asked.

Tony gulped, looking to Kyle for help, "I'm just gonna go get another box." she said quickly making her way out of the apartment.

"Traitor!" he called out to her.

"Damn straight!" was the response that cam from the hallway.

Turning to look at the Admiral, Tony sighed, "Sir" he started, but was stopped by the Admiral raising his hand.

"Don't. We will wait for Gibbs to have this discussion, but just know this. If anything happens to my baby girl because of you, Hell will seem like a Disney vacation. Do I make myself clear?" he said looking Tony straight in the eyes.

Tony nodded, "Yes sir. Crystal."

"Good. Now let's go help Kyle bring up the rest of the boxes."

This was going to be a long night, Tony thought.