Here's chapter 13! Thanks for the reviews! And I'd like to thank CelticCrossings, my beta, she always does a great job. :)

Chapter 13:

The next morning, Caitie was tired but happy, three puppies had been born the night before and the teen already had names picked out.

"Time for school," Gibbs peeked into his room; Caitie was lying on the bed, still looking at the puppies.

Caitie sighed and picked up her backpack. "I'll be back, Beckett."

"I thought her name was Castle?"

"Castle's a boys name; Beckett's a girl's name." Caitie grinned.

The drive to school was quick and Gibbs was soon back on the road to pick up Ziva and McGee and they got to work to find that Tony was already there, working on the case Gibbs had dropped on his desk the night before.

Gibbs started to go down to Abby's lab to see if she had made any more progress on the credit card that had been paying the PI but was stopped by Vance. "Gibbs, I need to speak with you." He spoke from the stairwell.

Gibbs nodded and started up the stairs, the sooner he finished with Vance the sooner he could get back to his case.

"I know you're having Abby look into a Private investigator." Vance started as soon as the door was closed.

"He was following me and Caitie around taking pictures; so yeah I'm looking into him." Gibbs said.

"SecNav gave me a call this morning. He told me to tell you to stop looking into it. The Private investigator won't be taking pictures of Caitie anymore but stop looking into it; if you continue, you'll be in trouble with SecNav."

Gibbs glared at Vance. "What do you know about him?" Gibbs asked, "The PI."

"Nothing," Vance said, Gibbs could tell that Vance was being honest. "He said it's above both of our pay grades and if you have any questions, to call him."

Gibbs nodded and walked out of Vance's office intent on calling SecNav and then having Abby still look into the PI some more. As he walked down the stairs, Tony passed him going in the opposite direction. "Boss, I'm needed in MTAC."

Gibbs nodded and went down the stairs to call SecNav.

As he got to his desk, though, his phone rang. "Gibbs." He sighed as he realized that it was a call about a body. Taking down the info, he looked to McGee and Ziva. "We got a body in Norfolk." He said, "Gear up."

"What about Tony?" McGee asked, picking his stuff up.

"You stay here; drive with him, here's the address." Gibbs said, he tossed the paper he'd written the address on at McGee and left with Ziva.

The drive to the crime scene was quick and Gibbs and Ziva both quickly went inside to start working. The victim's brother was there as well, he had been the one to call the cops. He had come over early in the morning to go jogging and had come upon his brother's body.

After finding out that the cops had messed with the body, trying to find ID, Gibbs left Palmer and Ducky with the body and took the brother outside to try and talk with him. An interview with him was the closest thing they could get to an un-tampered crime scene.

"What happened when you came over this morning?" Gibbs asked.

"Dude, I saw my brother dead!" The brother said, agitated.

"Where exactly was he?" Gibbs asked.

"The cops moved him less than a foot before they called you in, so maybe 8 inches from where it is now?" Gibbs's gut was sending him signals, and Gibbs spoke again carefully, trying to figure out what was wrong.

"I'm going to have to ask you to take both hands out of the pocket and place them where we can see them." Gibbs said quietly.

The man did so, and it became clear that there was something else in the front pocket, but knowing he'd been planning to go jogging earlier, Gibbs gave the man the benefit of the doubt that it was a bottle of water and continued with the interview.

"So you came inside and saw your brother, did you unlock the door? Or was it already open?"

"I unlocked it, my brother and I have keys to each other's place."

Gibbs nodded and asked another question. "Did you notice him right when you came in or did it take a moment?"

"It took a moment; I'm used to hearing him move around the house as I walk in. I didn't hear anything this time. It caught me off guard."

"When you didn't hear him, where did you look for him first?"

"I went through the living room to go to the kitchen to grab a glass of orange juice; I ran out yesterday and haven't had a chance to go to the store. At first I figured Michael was upstairs or something."

"Where was he when you saw him?"

"In the living room, he was lying in front of the window, a huge puddle of blood under his head." The man began to shake and Gibbs looked around, trying to see if Tony and McGee had gotten there yet. Ziva had gone over to the gate leading out to the front yard.

"My brother's dead." For some reason, the whisper made Gibbs turn, something in his voice made Gibbs uneasy, when he turned he realized why.

The brother had a gun out and was pointing it at himself, the classic suicide pose.

"I know where you are," Gibbs said, "you want revenge for the bastard who did this to your brother. We're working on trying to find the guy who did this; we just need some more information about how you found him."

"You don't understand!" The gun suddenly turned on Gibbs and Gibbs got his own gun out, behind him, he could hear Ziva getting her gun out.

"Put the gun down," Gibbs ordered his voice flat.

"No! You don't know what I'm going through!" The brother screamed, pulling the trigger.

Gibbs felt a searing pain in his upper arm and he fell back, through the pain, he could hear three more gunshots in quick succession.

Ziva ran to the brother, who had fallen and kicked the gun out of the way before running to Gibbs, Ducky and Palmer rushed out, knowing that they'd be needed.

"Don't worry, Gibbs, we'll get you to a hospital." Ziva promised.

*Meanwhile in MTAC*

Tony walked into MTAC, which was surprisingly empty, there was usually close to a dozen people typing away on the computers, but today there was only one woman who was bringing up the call as Tony walked in.

"Yes Mr. Secretary?" Tony asked as he saw SecNav on the screen.

"A few years ago, you were instrumental in helping a fellow agent go undercover, do you remember the case?"

Tony thought for a moment before it registered who SecNav was talking about. "Yes Sir, I remember."

"She's no longer needed undercover and she said that you had offered to help her transition to life outside her undercover position, are you still willing to help?"

"Yes Sir." Tony agreed instantly. "Is there a way I can contact her?"

"Turn around." SecNav said, then disconnected the call himself.

Tony turned, MTAC was still quite empty, the only person still there was…Tony sucked in a breath as he realized who was in MTAC.

The woman who had been at the computers turned around. He couldn't help but return the smile she gave him. "Hey." He knew the greeting came out strangled, but he didn't care if he cried, he'd missed her.

The woman looked at Tony for a few moments, smiling warmly. Finally the woman spoke. "I've missed you too, Tony."

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