McGee glanced down at his watch and then frowned. Tony should've been in by now. His gut instincts were as finely tuned as his two superior team-mates, but it was screaming out at him that something was wrong. He grabbed his cell and called Tony, and waited. It just rang until the answerphone message kicked in. With everything that was going on at the moment, there was no way that anyone of them was going to be unreachable. He knew Tony wouldn't be because there might be information about Gibbs, or maybe Tony knew something they didn't and had done very stupid.

That sounded something like Tony would do if it meant getting the man he loved back.

The elevator doors opened, and McGee hoped that it was his friend, but it wasn't, it was just Sacks, and his partner from last night's protection. Before the agent could say anything, he jumped in.

'Tony's not answering his phone.'

Ziva opened her desk drawer and pulled out her gun. She stood the grabbed hold of her coat ready to go.

'So, he's not answering, he's probably sleeping in while the rest of us real agents do the work? What's new about that?' Sacks snapped his fingers. 'Right, Gibbs rules, and his little pet always follows them.'

Ziva just glared at him. Her nails dug into her palms as she stopped herself going over there and beating him to a pulp. She liked that phrase; it was one that Tony had taught her. 'Tony…'

Sacks interrupted her. 'I just came in to give an update, so I'll do that and be on my way.'

Fornell stopped his agent cold; he knew that he was going to have to do something about Ron's attitude towards other agents, especially DiNozzo. 'You'll stay here until we find DiNozzo, and then I will take your report.'

Sacks wanted to yell at them, as per usual the fucked up agent gets in the way of something he needs. Sleep. Well, not just that as he managed to get some last night will he watched the apartment. What he had been going to do was call his very flexible friend again, who also had an extremely talented mouth.

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Fornell and McGee are the ones that went to Tony's apartment. They knocked on his door and waited.

And waited.

Still no answer.

They waited for a moment longer until Fornell's bad feeling about this started to grow. He couldn't wait any longer and picked the lock. It didn't take them long to search the whole apartment and find out that Tony wasn't there. All that was out of place was an empty box on the table and on a post-it note was a cell number written on it in very familiar handwriting.

'What the fuck was Sacks doing last night that he didn't see DiNozzo leave?' Fornell knew that his F.B.I agent, had a problem with Tony, but not actually doing his job had been well over the line.

'I don't know, but this is Tony's writing. We need to know everything we can about this number.' Tim waved one gloved hand in the air, which held the yellow post-it note.

'Yeah, but we can both guess where it came from.'

Neither man needed to say anything out allowed, but it was obvious that Marks had managed to get a cell to Tony somehow. He had then blackmailed the agent into giving himself up for Gibbs. This now meant that the psycho now had his obsession within touching distance.

'Gibbs.' McGee whispered with a wince. He could already feel the head-slap.

'He's going to fucking kill me.' Fornell muttered they needed to find out about Sacks' involvement and get that dealt with. The elder F.B.I agent turned to the computer genius. 'Get Abby on any camera's in the area, and not just ours. I want to know everything that happened last night.'

McGee grabbed his cell and called his ex-girlfriend. Once he had managed to calm her down and then explained what he needed he cut off the connection and turned to the other man. 'You think Sacks' might be involved, and could have doctored the footage?'

'Well, something happened, and until I know otherwise I'm going with the worst case scenario.'

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As soon they arrived back they were both called up to Vance's office. It seemed that Abby had sent up the footage, and by the director's tone it wasn't anything good.

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Sacks felt extremely nervous as Fornell and McGee glared at him as they headed up to see he director. He didn't understand what the problem was; he hadn't done anything wrong. They should be more concerned with that waste of space Agent DiNozzo, who hadn't even turned up yet. For a man who was supposedly in serious danger he didn't care that much about his safety.

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'I guess this is not good news?' Fornell muttered as he rubbed his forehead.

'Take a look for yourself.' Vance indicated to the large screen. When they were all looking at it, he then turned on the footage that Abby managed to obtain; there was also the phone call that Sacks made on his cell phone.

When it all was finished Fornell just continued to stare at the monitor. 'He's an idiot.' Fornell growled; he wanted to call him more than that, but he was in the presence of the NCIS director. Ron Sacks was so filled with importance and thought that DiNozzo was so far beneath him. It never even occurred to him that he'd actually done anything wrong. Not that he would say he had fallen asleep while alone. He also forgot that his work cell calls were recorded in case anything happened, and something did happen.

'I've spoken to your director Agent Fornell, as you can guess he isn't very happy with this situation. He would like the three of us to hear Sacks account of last night, and then tell him the result of that. By the end of this he will, of course, be suspended without pay as last night, and other cases will get looked into.' Vance explained coolly. Just because a jumped up, F.B.I agent thought he was better they had lost a man. A man who'd been through so much already, who could and had run rings around him as a fellow agent. They'd better find DiNozzo safe and sound, or suspension was going to be the least of his worries.

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Agent Sacks had gone up to the director's office and explained everything that had happened the night before. He couldn't understand the anger coming from the three men especially Fornell.

'So that was it, nothing else?' Fornell asked quietly.

'That was it.' Sacks replied he followed the three men as they turned to look at the monitor and played something. His face paled, as it showed him alone and asleep. 'Nothing was going to happen, why don't you chase up you agent.' He spat out.

'My agent, who's already been through being kidnapped by this man,' Vance's voice was arctic. 'The man who somehow managed to walk out right under your nose, and hand himself over to this psycho to save his boss.'

Sacks froze as the men indicated the screen again, and there clearly it could be seen as DiNozzo snuck straight past him.

'Well, I hope your friend was worth it. You have plenty of time to spend with her.' Fornell could see the confusion on the other man's face. 'You called her with your work cell Ron, remember all the calls are recorded. You're on two weeks suspension without pay, while this matter gets looked into.'

'I get suspended because DiNozzo decides to be a hero?' Sacks whined.

'You're on suspension for not doing your job Agent Sacks. I don't know where this attitude has come from, but it needs to stop. Agent DiNozzo has more recommendations on his file than you do. The F.B.I has offered him positions that they have never even considered you for. Just to get one thing clear, he wasn't playing the hero. He handed himself over to save a man he works with and admires.' They didn't add love into their even though it was true. 'It was also to stop a murderer from killing other people.' Fornell yelled at him finally having enough.

'Would you have done the same thing as Tony?' McGee asked quietly.

TBC