"Okay what have you got?" Gibbs asked as he walked into Abby's lab with McGee hot on his heels. During the car ride to the headquarters Tim and Jethro had talked a bit and brought their emotions under control. They both knew that in order to get Tony back before anything else would happen to him or he would be taken away permanently, they had to have their heads on the game and they couldn't afford to have their feelings cloud their judgment.

Abby jumped as she heard the man's voice as did Kate and Ducky who were both down in the lab as well.

"Gibbs don't scare me like that!" In contrast to her slightly annoyed words she rushed to the two men and threw herself in Gibbs' arms. "We haven't found much yet, cause we haven't been down here long enough for that, but I think something hinky is definitely going on." She extracted herself from the older man and went back to her computer "I'm trying to get my hands on the alleged abuse report, but haven't had much luck yet, but I will get it."

"Jethro, When did the woman say the report was filed?" Ducky asked from his standing place by the desk where he was watching the two women work on the computers.

"She didn't say. Why?" The ME frowned in thought and clucked his tongue

"Well as I understood it she has already removed Anthony from Timothy's custody, in my experience that is not possible before a proper investigation can be conducted or if the child is in risk of serious harm, but seeing as young Anthony is in the safety of the hospital, there really was no need for such extreme measures."

Everyone thought of the words for a while until Abby's exclamation shook them from their thoughts.

"Got it! Lets see, the complaint was filed by Marco Rossi on the day of the kidnapping. It says here that he claims to have seen you Tim slap Tony in the face to stop his crying! It also says that you've strangled him! But that's not true how can he say things like that!" Abby looked at Tim and saw the shock she was feeling reflected by his face. There were murmured curses from Gibbs and a quiet 'oh dear' from Ducky as they processed the information.

"Is that it?" Gibbs asked finally

"No" Abby shook herself out of her shock and continued to read the document "There are also mentions of McGee leaving Tony alone for long periods of time and the like. The last thing is a mentioning of Tony living in 'unhealthy conditions caused by the relationship between Agents Gibbs and McGee' and here is a note of the fact that Rossi claims to be Tony's real father and demands custody."

"Is there anything about who ordered Tony to be removed from me and McGee?" Abby shook her head.

"No, but check this out. This was made on Friday and the kidnapping wasn't until Saturday. According to the log the report was written by Joanne Shiers at five o'clock on Friday, but the report wasn't officially filed before Saturday morning at the time of the kidnapping!" Abby pounced in her seat as she said the last part and she looked expectantly at the other people in the room.

"Why wouldn't she the file the report immediately? I mean that kind of abuse should have made the case urgent" McGee cringed as he said the words because it made him think about everything his little boy had gone through and that just made him think of the fact that he couldn't be there to take care of his son. He shook his head and concentrated back to the matter at hand as he heard Gibbs talking.

"She couldn't risk her supervisor ordering immediate actions as at that time there hadn't been any abuse done yet. She had to make sure that by the time the report was filed there would be something to report. So she must be working with Marco. "

"Boss I checked her bank records and there was a sizable deposit to her account just hours before she filed her report. I tracked the source to be Marco Rossi." Kate called from where she was working on one of Abby's computers.

"So now we can connect them together, but why would they go to all of this trouble? Once the hospital determined that Tony's injuries are from the kidnapping Tim should be cleared of the abuse charges, and now that we have a way to link Marco to Shiers we know how he filed the bogus charge, but what was he hoping to gain" Gibbs paced the floor as he spoke.

"Maybe he didn't think of that" Abby suggested as she kept tapping on her keyboard.

"No, there's something we're missing"

"Jethro" Came McGee's hesitant voice from the other side of the room. Gibbs turned to his lover, not having noticed the younger man moving to work on the computer over there. He saw how pale the man had gotten and mover closer to then younger agent.

"What is it Tim?" Gibbs asked with concern in his voice

"It's gone" The younger man whispered so softly the others had to strain their hearing to catch the words.

"What's gone?"

Tim turned sad eyes to his boss and the older man could see tears glisten in his eyes.

"The paternity test, the results are gone I hacked the system and they're gone"

Jethro couldn't believe his ears. So the only evidence they had of Tim being Tony's dad was gone.

"What are you talking about my dear boy?" Ducky asked as he watched as Gibbs bent down to survey the computer screen and curse loudly as he saw the truth in McGee's statement.

Gibbs raised his head an looked at the expectant faces and told about Maria and her willingness to help

"She told us that a paternity test had been done and it showed that Tim is Tony's father. Now the records are gone. So we've lost our trump card for the moment. Abby try to contact CPS, make a complaint of Ms Shiers and make sure she's taken of from this case. Kate look into Marco Rossi, fnd out his motivations for doing this and see if any of the medical staff in ICU are connected to him in any way, I don't want any surprises."

The two women nodded and went to work trying to make things better and make sure that Tony would be returned to his real dad.

"Is there anything I can do Jethro?" Ducky asked as he approached the two somber men.

"Thanks Duck, but there really isn't anything more to do than to wait."

TBC...

A/N: Sorry for the shortness of this chapter, but I had to stop this chapter here and I'll continue in the next chapter, it's kinda the only way I could think of to make the transition from this scene to the next work. (so next chapter we actually get to see Tony! Yay so there's something for you to look forward to)

Thank you for all the reviews and alerts they're very much appreciated :)

Next chapter will be up this weekend so Saturday or Sunday! (though technically it is now Saturday, but since it's only like ten minutes into Saturday I'm not sure it counts...)