Here is the fourth chapter of That's Classified been really busy so don't hate me. Hope you like it.
"Oh my gosh!" Abby ran up to Alex and gave him a hug as he and Gibbs walked in. Alex grew stiff but, did not fight it.
"Should've warned you that she's a hugger." Gibbs said.
"Well how could I not hug him after hearing his story. Poor little guy." Abby said.
"Well I try not to think of it. I have bigger things to worry about." Alex shrugged his shoulders.
"Aww, the little brave soldier, you are so cute!" Abby exclaimed.
"I got to go get some stuff done. Can you stay down here and behave?" Gibbs asked.
"Yes, sir." Alex said to gibbs as gibbs turned and left the lab.
"Okay I gotta know did you really knock out Ziva and Gibbs?" Abby asked.
"Yes." Alex stated.
"How did you knock the security feed and block it too?"
"That's classified. What are you up to?"
"Well nothing much, but I was looking at your guns, nice choices I may add, a Glock 54 and 17. May I asked how you came to acquire these fire arms?"
"Classified."
"Wow, you're really play that card with me?"
"Yes, and I was going to ask that if you were done with my guns, could I clean them?"
"I guess," Abby said nervously as she brought his guns out from the back room.
"Thank you." Alex said as he began to disassemble the guns, fully aware of the audience and he wanted them to watch. To his viewers', meaning Abby and the rest of the team whom hacked into the video feed one again that day, amazement, he took the guns apart piece by piece and began to clean each piece with the rag Abby supplied him.
In the bullpen Tony said. "Wow, he treats his guns with as much care as you might, Ziva."
"Do you find that calming?" Abby asked Alex.
"Yes it does, and if you're going to ask to check me for gunshot residue then I'd hate to upset you, but even though I did kill him this morning, you will not find any." Alex said.
"Seriously how does he everything we plan to do, before we do it." Tony asked the others in the bullpen.
"To answer DiNozzo's question, I just know that that's protocol." Alex answered to Tony who was not even in the room.
"Why is it that he creeps me out the most." Tony complained.
"Tony, you are an easy target." Alex chuckled.
"Why me?" Tony questioned with his head in his hands.
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"So are you going to hack into the video feed and block it for my lab, like you did with Ducky?" Abby asked after Alex finished reassembling his guns.
"No I am not. Because I do not need you to know exactly how I do it."
"Why can't I know?"
"Because it is a classified method and... you are sadly under authorized."
"Okay you seriously don't talk like a teenager."
"Why should I?" Alex questioned.
"Well because you're a... well a teenager, so you should be acting like one; shouldn't you?" Abby said with akwardness and difficulty.
"And how would one, Ms. Sciuto, describe how to act like a teenager?"
"Um, well... I don't really know how to explain it. But you act like you're already a grownup. Like you can't worry about the little things."
"Like what?"
"Like.. worrying about a crush, or acne, or if you're gonna make curfew or not, stuff like that."
"Then to you I am not a teenager, since I don't worry about petty things like that."
"Don't you go to school?"
"Yes, but I am homeschooled."
"By who? You said you lost your family."
"By the company that legally is my guardian, though I hate their guts, and they know it."
"Why don't you just get someone else to be your guardian?"
"Doesn't work like that, they are holding all the money that was ever left for me and won't let me access it until I become 18, or older since I would still have to work for them."
"Wait a sec, same people you work for are the same ones that are suppose to be your legal guardians?"
"No comment-" Alex was cut off by Abby getting really annoyed.
"So the same people who are suppose to protect you, are the ones that send you on jobs to kill people?"
"Actually they hand me over to others but most of the time, pretty much."
"That is so not right."
"Tell me about it." Alex got comfy because he had a feeling she wouldn't be done her rant for a while.
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After dropping Alex off with Abby, Gibbs went back to autopsy to talk to Ducky about the kid.
"Ah, Jethro I was wondering when you would show up." Ducky said finishing the report on Alex.
"What did you get about the kid?"
"Always to the point with you, why can't you ever be patient like the lad and... have a cup of tea and simply talk. He was quite the guest."
"What can you tell me about him, Ducky it may be important to the case. I need to know." Gibbs asked.
"It is not pretty, Jethro. He is used too much for his age, he is severely scarred both physically and as I could tell, mentally as well. Most children that have been down act a bit skirmish, but he could care less for the dead. He said he was used to it since there was so much on 'both sides of the battlefield.' He is mentally an adult, he said that he trained with full-grown men. So I could say he could have managed to kill your marine. He also said the people who he works for are from different countries. And he mentioned that the man he killed was a threat to national security of multiple countries, so he felt no guilt for that man's death. He is scarred, he may not completely admit but he knows that he has problems. But I was startled from our conversation, he put up a wall and joked to easily, like he has practice at keeping people out."
"What about his physical exam?" Gibbs asked.
"Like I said, he is scarred, it would be horrifying to see all that on a veteran, imagine scars upon scars wrapping a torso, still healing from pure torture and extreme stress, on a teenage boy. That is a pure nightmare, that is an understatement at the pain the lad has went through."
"What else was there? What is worse than evidence of torture on a kid?"
"Signs of attempted assassination. He was lucky, the sniper's bullet missed his heart by only a few millimeters. And the worse thing about it, he has to lie about the origins of everything visible on his body."
"Now a new question, why would someone want him dead, and who is trying to cover up all his pain?"
"There is only one person we can ask."
"I know Ducky. But he would lie to us."
"Well I too have a question, how could someone with such a painful history, keep a neutral facade, and prefer formalities."
"From experience, formalities means normality. And from what you told me, that is all he wants, to be normal." Gibbs said leaving autopsy, and leaving with a new respect for Alex, and slightly understanding his paranoia and stoicness.
Meanwhile, up in the bullpen the rest of the team were quiet after hearing what Ducky had to say since they hacked the security feed again.
"Wow, I feel sorry for the kid." Tony said.
"No wonder he wouldn't tell us anything, it probably hurts too much to talk about." McGee added.
"I don't think that's why he won't talk," Ziva said to McGee. "he said it's classified because of his employers."
"Well then lets figure out who his employers are." Gibbs said as he sat as his desk, and the rest of the team went to their computers and started typing.
"What's going to happen with the kid, Boss?" Tony asked.
"For now he will hang out with Abby until we need him, I will try and get him the ability to contact his employers so he can grant us clearance." Gibbs spoke and they all got to work.
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