Hey all, sorry for the delay! Hope you are all enjoying the holiday season! Looking like a White Christmas here (which is rare!). Thanks again to everyone who read/reviewed the last chapter, hope you enjoy this one, should be able to update more frequently over the Christmas holiday!

Chapter 11

Kyle stared at the man in front of her for several minutes, waiting to see if he would say anything. When it was clear he wasn't her patience ran out, "What do you want with me?" she demanded.

He said nothing for a few moments, "Many things Ms. Evans, many things." He said as he motioned towards the door. A few seconds later a small table and chair were place in front of her.

Taking a seat, the man cocked his head to one side, "I can see Tony's interest in you, beautiful, smart, and brave."

Kyle paused, "You know Tony?"

He laughed, "Of course I do, I know him very well."

"How?" she asked.

"All in good time."

"Now, Kyle, can I call you Kyle."

"You can kiss my ass." She spat at him.

"Tisk, tisk. That is not very nice." He mocked, "As I was saying Kyle, do you where your boyfriend is?"

Kyle smiled innocently, "What boyfriend?"

He shook his head; "I wouldn't get cute with me Kyle…you know who I am talking about."

"Nope doesn't ring a bell."

Before Kyle could blink, a resounding smack echoed through the room, and she was suddenly facing the sidewall, it took her a moment to feel the burning shooting through the right side of her face.

"Now, would you like to try again?" He said calmly from his chair.

Kyle turned her face to look at him, summoning all her strength not to let her face show any pain. "I don't have a boyfriend." She said starring him straight in the eyes.

"Well this is going to be a long night." He said, before motioning towards the door.

"Take her across the hall."

Tony was anxious the whole ride home. After they returned from the naval base, they quickly packed up their things and made their way to the airport. Tony had called Admiral Evans before they took off, and unfortunately there was no update.

Once they landed in Washington, the group was met by an armed escort. It wasn't until Matt had identified them as fellow I.C.E agents that they relaxed.

"Admiral Evans has asked us to escort you straight to headquarters." A young, armed female agent stated.

"Is there any news" Matt asked.

The young agent turned to one of her colleagues, looking for guidance.

"Speak." Matt ordered.

"Sir, Admiral Evans is waiting." she replied.

"Agent Collins, if you want us to go anywhere I suggest you tell us what you are hiding."

"Yes Sir. We intercepted a call from the local PD, some tourists found a body in Rock Creek Park. We sent a unit to investigate." She paused, "There was more than one body found."

Tony paled, "Are you telling us Kyle is dead?"

She shook her head, "No, sorry Sir, the bodies were that of her protection detail." They all breathed a sigh of relief.

"They were shot at point blank range, right between the eyes." She added.

"Professional hit." Gibbs added.

She nodded, "That is what we believe. Whoever did this were good Sir, they left no trail."

"If you would, we need to get going." Agent Collins' colleague requested.

Before Tony knew it, they were pulling into the underground garage; he honestly didn't even remember getting into the car. As they made their way to the office, Tony could feel the anxiety vibrating off everyone.

"Glad you all made it back." Admiral Evans said, pulling Matt and Tasha into a hug.

"I am glad you are back, we need all the help we can get." He said to the group.

Gibbs looked to the group, "Matt, you and Tasha brief the Admiral on everything we found, and begin the voice recognition on the voicemail. Tony and I are going to try and find out where Palmer and McGee have disappeared to, see if it is connected."

The group nodded, and Tony followed Gibbs to their office.

"Where do we start?" Tony asked, feeling more lost then he ever before.

"With Abby."

Kyle was dragged across the hall kicking and screaming, but her tiny frame was no match for the six foot body builder. She was roughly shoved into a chair and tied down. Taking a quick look around the room Kyle was surprised to see a man, with his backed to her, working away on a computer. She was sure she was going to be brought into a torture chamber room.

"Agent McGee, why don't you show Kyle here our surveillance of her and Agent DiNozzo." The man from the other room asked.

Kyle's body froze recognizing the name, Agent McGee was one of Tony's co-workers, how did he get mixed up in this.

"Of course." He sputtered.

Kyle looked at the computer monitor as McGee brought up a video of her and Tony exiting Gibbs' house one after the other. Next he brought up screen shots of her text messages to Tony.

"How did you get those?"

"You don't need to need to worry about that. But looking at those steamy texts, I don't think you and Tony are broken up."

"Now I will ask again, where he is?"

Kyle turned to look the man in the eye, "I don't know."

"Let's try another, how much does he know about the Syndicate?

Kyle tried not to let her surprise at the name show. "Everything." She answered.

He looked at her, "Judging from the look in your eyes, I would say you are lying to me."

She didn't reply.

"What does he know?" he asked again more forcefully.

"Go to hell." She spat.

He sighed and shook his head, "Fine then. We will do this the hard way."

Nodding at the man, who Kyle was internally calling the Hulk, Kyle found herself being dragged into another room and shoved on the ground, with her unknown kidnapper not far behind.

"I really didn't want it to come to this." He said as he delivered a swift kick to her stomach.

Kyle screamed out in pain, trying to curl herself into a ball to protect herself.

"This can all end as soon as you tell me what I want to know?"

She shook her head as she felt another kick to her side.

Gibbs dialed Abby's cell phone number.

"Abby!" she answered.

"Abs" he started.

"Gibbs! Oh my god, it is so good to hear from you! Where are you, why haven't you come home yet?..." she started.

"Abs!" he yelled.

"Sorry."

"I will answer all your questions soon, but I need your help on something."

"What do you need bossman?"She said happily

"I need to know where you are right now?"

"I am just out doing groceries."

"Alright, I need you to stay where you are, I am going to send someone to bring you to me."

"What's going on Gibbs?"

He sighed and pinched his nose, "I will explain as soon as you get here."

"Alright."

Abby gave him the name and location of the store, as Tony wrote it down in order to give to one of the Agents.

Around forty minutes later, Abby was escorted into their office.

"Gibbs! Tony!" she cried as she ran to hug them.

"Good to see you Abs." Gibbs said as he kissed her forehead.

Abby turned to look at Tony and frowned, "Tony, what's wrong?"

Tony shook his head, "Kyle has been kidnapped."

"What!" she yelled.

"Calm down Abs, we will explain everything."

Over the next fifteen minutes, Gibbs and Tony explained everything they could to her. "What do you need me to do?" she asked once they were done.

"We need your help to find Kyle and Jimmy." Tony paused, "and see if McGee is somehow involved."

Abby's headshot up, "Tim?"

Gibbs nodded, "Rule 39."

She nodded, "I don't like it, but of course I will help."

Tasha ran into Gibbs and Tony's office, "Guys you better come quick." She said before running back out.

Gibbs, Tony and Abby quickly followed her out of the room, there was a group of agents gathered around a computer, as they approached they understood why. There on the screen was McGee's face.

"What's going on?" Gibbs asked.

"We noticed a ghost server that was trying to hack into our system, when we tried to counter, this video popped up. It appears he has switched on the camera on the computer he is at."

Tony turned to Abby, "Is there any way you can communicate with him?"

Abby nodded, "Yes, if he is in the system I should be able to send him coded messages."

Tony nodded, "Do it. Tasha, while she is trying to get some answers out of McGee, try and see if you can get a fix on his location. It looks like they are in some sort of warehouse."

The entire room waited with bated breath for either Abby or Tasha to catch a break, Tony could feel his heart beating anxiously in his chest. It wasn't until a few minutes later that Abby cheered, "I'm in!".

The room exhaled, "Alright Abby, try and see if Tim can give us anything." Gibbs said.

She nodded and went back to fiercely typing.

"He said Kyle is with him, she is being questioned in another room." Abby spoke.

"Does he know where they are?" Tony said from behind her.

The only sound in the room was the sound of Abby and Tasha's typing. "No, he was knocked out. Palmer is there too somewhere, and it apparently in bad shape."

"Does he know who has him?"

"Tasha, any luck?" Matt asked his wife. "No, whoever designed their system was a pro, it is going to take me a while."

Tony turned to look at the screen where McGee's face was still recording, when he noticed movement in the background. "Gibbs, there is someone in the room with McGee."

Before McGee was able to provide a response and the dark figure approached the screen. "Have you broken into their system yet?" The voice asked.

Tony, Gibbs and Abby froze when they heard the voice.

"What the fuck!" Tony yelled, as he moved in for a closer look.

"Wow I didn't see that coming!" Abby said.

"Almost, their system has a lot of fail safes, if I don't disarm them one by one, it could trigger an alarm." McGee said.

The man nodded, "How long?"

"Another hour or so?"

"Son of a bitch!" Tony yelled as he threw a chair across the room.

"Why is the camera light on?"

They could hear McGee stutter in the background, "I don't know what you mean?"

"Don't play with me Tim. That little red light at the top there, means you the camera is turned on."

"I…I…"

"What the fuck did you do Tim!" He yelled as he went to reach for something and the screen went black.

"Tasha, Abby?" Gibbs turned to them.

"He's gone!" Abby said with tears in her eyes.

Tasha nodded, "The hack has been disconnected. I was able to narrow down the location, they are somewhere in Manassas."

Matt turned to the former NCIS agents, "You recognized him, who was it?"

Tony sighed, "That was Special Agent Michael Balboa."

Kyle took gasped for air as she came too; she looked around the room, and noticed she was back in the large empty room chained to the chair. Her whole body ached, she could barely see out of her eyes, which were clearly swollen, and she had the distinct taste of blood in her mouth. A wave of nausea came over her, as her world started to go black again.

Kyle came too several more times before she noticed someone was making their way into the room. As they got closer Kyle noticed that McGee was being dragged into the room and tossed beside her.

"You have been a very bad boy Tim." Balboa said.

McGee didn't respond.

"What did you show them?"

"Nothing." He said.

Shaking his head, "That would be the wrong answer." He said taking out a phone and dialing.

Balboa put the phone on speaker as he motioned for the two to be quiet.

"Kyle!" Came Tony's panicked voice through the phone.

"I'm sorry Tony, Kyle is unavailable at the moment." Balboa teased.

"Balboa you son of a bitch, what did you do with her!"

"All in due time. First I need you to tell me how much you know and who you are currently working for."

"And why would I do that?" Tony asked.

"Well at this moment I have a gun pointed at your girlfriends head. Don't I Agent McGee." Balboa said, nodding at McGee to confirm.

"He's not lying Tony." McGee said.

"Where are you Tim?" Tony tried as he realized he was on speaker.

"Strike two Tony." Balboa said as he smacked Kyle across the face with his gun. Tony could hear the hit and her scream in pain through the phone.

"Leave her alone!" He yelled.

"Then tell me what I want to know."

"You know I can't do that." Tony said desperately.

"Yes you can, you just won't. Where's the love." Balboa laughed. "One last time Tony."

"What does it matter?" Tony asked.

"Let me worry about that." He paused, "Time is ticking Tony."

"Please Balboa, don't do this, we worked together for five years, we were supposed to be friends." He begged.

"Sorry Tony. Times up." He said and a gunshot was heard before Balboa hung up the phone.

"No!" Tony yelled into the phone as he desperately tried to call back. When there was no luck, he threw the phone across the SUV.

The group looked at each other, as they all heard the gun shot go off.

"Were you able to get a location?" Gibbs asked Tasha through their com-line.

Tasha "Yes. Patching it through now"

Taking a deep breath Gibbs turned to Matt, "We need to get out there asap."

Matt nodded taking a deep breath as he punched in the address into the GPS. "Tasha, send back up and an ambulance. We are twenty-five minutes out."

"You got it. Be safe." She whispered.

Gibbs looked at Tony, his heart breaking for his younger agent, "We will be there soon Tony."

Tony said nothing, and made no acknowledgement that he even heard Gibbs.

"Kyle." He whispered.