Here's chapter 14! Thanks for the reviews! And I'd like to thank CelticCrossings, my beta, she always does a great job. :)

Chapter 14:

Gibbs turned over onto his side, still unable to sleep. Peeking at the clock, he could see the red lettering said 12:45 am. Groaning to himself, he turned onto his back. His injury wasn't that bad, he'd been cleared to go at dinner time, but Caitie had somehow managed to convince both Gibbs and the doctor that he needed to stay the night for observation.

Tony quietly walked into to room, "Hey Boss." He said quietly.

"Hey DiNozzo," Gibbs spoke quietly as Caitie was sleeping in a cot next to him, he didn't want to wake the girl.

"I just wanted to see how you were doing."

"I'd be better if I could go home."

"I thought the doc cleared you to go home." DiNozzo said.

"He said he'd prefer it if I stayed the night for observation but I was cleared to go home at Dinner. Caitie convinced me to stay the night." Gibbs said, still quietly.

"Look Boss…." Tony started. "I gotta tell you something."

"Can it wait DiNozzo?" Gibbs asked, it was the middle of the night after all, and he didn't want to risk Caitie waking up, just because he couldn't sleep didn't mean that Caitie had to be woken up.

Tony's eyes widened as he tried to figure out if his news could wait. "It could Boss, but not much later then this afternoon."

Gibbs got up from the bed, Tony started to object but a look from Gibbs silenced him and both men walked out of the hospital room, and out to the empty waiting room.

"Is it about the case?"

"No, but Abby did find out that the gun you were shot with was the gun that shot the dead Marine." Tony said. "Looks like the brother killed our Marine but he died from the wounds Ziva gave him before he could get to the hospital."

"Well what else would you need to tell me?" Gibbs asked.

"First, I want you to promise you won't be mad." DiNozzo requested, even while knowing how childish his request seemed.

"DiNozzo…"

"Please Boss." DiNozzo pleaded.

Gibbs looked at the younger agent for a moment, it was clear something was bothering him. "As long as you don't apologize."

"I'm not apologizing for anything Boss," the tone in Tony's voice told him that Tony had no intention of apologizing. "But I do regret keeping it from you."

"I can tell DiNozzo, and while I can't promise I won't get mad, I will promise that I won't kill you."

Tony apparently decided that that was good enough and he started speaking. "A few years ago, when I was doing the undercover work for Jenny, the La Grenouille op, she asked me to help her with another agent who was going undercover." Tony started; he took in a breath and continued. "Until the day of that specific undercover operation, I didn't know who it was. I was never even told if they were a male or female agent until the day of the op."

"As a precautionary measure, this particular agent had to fake their death to go undercover." He shrugged, "apparently this agent had been undercover before and the previous cover had been blown and he or she was needed to go back undercover to tie up loose ends. To do so, this agent had to die to keep any of the loose ends from coming after this agent's family and friends before they could be taken care of."

"As head of NCIS Jenny had to give permission for the undercover work, and she was involved in what the undercover work would entail. She seemed to have a personal interest in the case and would ask my opinion on some of the ways she'd thought of to fake the death of this particular agent."

Gibbs nodded, what had Tony done that was so horrible? It sounded like he'd done his job. "Sounds like you did your job DiNozzo." Gibbs said.

"Boss, please, let me finish." Gibbs was surprised at how defeated Tony sounded. "At the time I had an idea of who it was, but I didn't know for sure until later." Gibbs was silent, he could tell that DiNozzo was using this as therapy, and needed to tell the long version.

"I helped Jenny figure out how this agent would go under cover; how they would "die" he used his fingers to make quotes, "How they would get out of the country, as they were flying to England and then onto the country that they had to be in for the undercover op."

"We had to get Ducky involved; he didn't know it was for an undercover op Boss, or if he knew, I didn't know he knew." Tony's tone took a pleading turn, and Gibbs could hear the silent plea don't get mad at Ducky, he didn't do anything wrong.

"What happened then DiNozzo?"

"I was asked by Jenny to help out by calling the airline that would take this agent out of the country after their death." Tony took in a breath. "I accepted the assignment and was told that when I got a text from a specific number I was to call in and do what I'd been asked, basically make sure the ticket was ready to be picked up at the kiosk outside the airport that this particular agent was going to be flying out of."

Gibbs noticed that Tony had said his help had been requested by Jenny, not ordered.

"Jenny stopped talking about this op about 6 weeks before this particular agent went undercover." Tony's voice had gotten quieter and his head was hanging down, clearly he regretted whatever he'd done.

"The day of Jenny's death," Gibbs' heart clenched both at what Tony was saying and at the sorrow in Tony's voice. "I got the text." There was silence as Tony tried to keep his emotions in check. "I called the ticket in, to LAX."

Gibbs gut signaled again and the agent tried to ignore it, he must have been misunderstanding Tony, the undercover agent couldn't have been…..

"It was then that I found out who the agent was Gibbs." The regret in Tony's voice tore at Gibbs' heart, and although he expected them, his heart stopped at Tony's next words.

"It was Jenny."

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