Author's Note: Ok I'm begging. PLEASE gimme some feed-back.

Disclaimer: If you're curious I still don't own NCIS and I don't think I ever will.

V

"Aaaaah!" Tony screamed in frustration as he slammed the stack of files he was carrying down on his desk.

He was the only one in the bullpen and even though it had been weeks since he left the hospital, five weeks and four days to be exact, everyone was treating him like some sort of an invalid.

Gibbs wouldn't let him pick up suspects or even help with crime scenes and he was stuck doing paper work and looking through old case files.

He was so tired of it and to make things worse he couldn't even blow some steam of on the weekend by playing some football or basket ball with his friends.

He sighed and ran his fingers through his hair.

It wasn't all bad the way they were treating him. Kate and McGee were buying his lunch and coffee every day and Abby…he chuckled at the thought of Abby…she was the most extreme, but then again Abby always did things to the extreme. Every day Abby brought over DVDs and pizza or some kind of take out to his place and they would watch and eat until Abby forced him to go to bed sometime around nine making Tony feel like a toddler, especially right after he had just left the hospital when she had tried a few times to tuck him in bed.

Tony didn't know how much more he could handle. Even the new director was tip-toeing around him and she didn't even know him. Worse everyone was giving him looks of pity every time they saw him, even those shut-ins down in Cyber-crimes.

Two probies passed and Tony saw the pity in their eyes as they looked at him and could take it no more. He walked to the other side of his desk and pulled a file from one of his drawers. The file contained a single form he had filled out weeks ago.

He looked over the file then quickly made his way up to Director Sheppard's office.

NCIS NCIS NCIS NCIS NCIS

Gibbs walked into the bullpen closely followed by Kate and McGee and immediately noticed DiNozzo's absence.

He noticed the stack of files on his desk so he figured that his senior field agent could have gone far.

"McGee go help Abby do computer things to our vic's computer," he ordered, "and Kate put a BOLO out on the vic's missing vehicle and the one the witness saw."

The two agents rushed to do as they were told and Gibbs took a sip from his cup to find it empty.

"Where are you going boss?" Kate asked as he headed towards the elevators.

"Coffee," he said not even looking back.

He returned a few minutes later to Kate doing something on her computer and DiNozzo and McGee's desks still unoccupied.

"Where's DiNozzo?" he asked Kate taking a seat behind his own desk.

"Not a clue," she said shrugging.

Gibbs was about to call Tony when he saw the post-it-note on his computer screen.

He grabbed it off the screen after reading it and stormed off to the director's office with Kate looking after him.

Cynthia tired to stop him but Gibbs ignored her walking straight in unannounced.

"What the hell Jen?" he asked angrily.

"Oh Jethro," she said calmly, "I take it you've seen Agent DiNozzo's note and you are not taking it kindly."

"You think?" he asked sarcastically, "You can just do as you like where my people are concerned Jen."

"Really? That's funny Jethro, because the last time I checked it said Director on my door."

Gibbs practically sneered at her and stormed out of her office crumbling the piece of paper I his hand.

He walked down the stairs and into the bullpen still in a huff pausing just long enough to toss the piece of paper with Tony's note on it into the nearest trash can before heading straight to the elevators.

Kate watched him go then quickly rose to retrieve the piece of paper from the trash. She straightened it out and read it in astonishment. It read:

Boss,

Gone to Europe. Don't know when or if I'll be back.

I just needed to get away. I know apologizing is a sign of weakness but sorry anyway.

Tony

Kate quickly made her way down to Abby's lab to show the note to Abby and McGee.

Gibbs on the other hand drove as fast as possible across town to Tony's apartment but the younger man was already long gone.

Author's Note: OK what do you thing. Ziva will be introduced pretty soon. I'm the one writing it and I can't wait lol.