Gibbs walked into the bullpen and held out a hand to Tony for the report he had been working on, "That's everything I could find, I'm still waiting for a couple of reports from the British Embassy, Boss." the Senior Field Agent reported.
Gibbs looked over the information in the file that Tony handed him only slightly annoyed when Kort and Fornell both read over his shoulder.
Kort's eyes narrowed as he read what was in the file, while Fornell's eyes widen in shock over the information he was reading.
Gibbs got up from his desk and walked up the stairs to the Director's office to see if they had gotten in touch with the guest of honor for today's interrogation.
Gibbs didn't bother to knock or announce himself in any way before he started speaking to the Director so he was shocked by the presence of someone else in the office.
"Vance, is our..."
"Special Agent Gibbs, you remember Royal Marine Major Peter Mallory.", Vance interrupted with the pointed introduction.
Gibbs stuck out his hand glaring at the British National, "I seem to remember that to be MI6 Agent Mallory." Gibbs said barely civil.
The man in question simply smiled, "That information is need to know and there are several people here right now that don't need to know that, Gunnery Sergeant."
"What do you need, Mallory? I'm kind of busy right now."
Vance took this moment to inject himself into the conversation, "Major Mallory was sent to find out why our people have been looking into events that occurred forty years ago on British soil."
Gibbs glanced at Vance and realized the man didn't trust the MI6 Agent any more than he did, so he became very dense on the subject very quick, "I'm not sure what you are talking about?"
"It seems your Agent McGee was looking into historical records of events in England over the last few months. We assumed that he was doing so at your behest, so we thought it might be prudent to come here and give whatever aid you might need."
"We?" Gibbs gave the man a death glare, "Are you hiding someone in your pocket?"
The other man was suddenly uneasy in the present situation, "No, I just..."
"Agent McGee, is also a rather well known author and I'm sure anything he was looking up was simply research for his next novel.", Vance once again took control of the conversation.
"Well if I could just speak to him we could get this whole situation resolved and I'll be out of your hair.", Mallory said trying to regain his composure.
"Agent McGee is currently unavailable, but I'll be sure to let him know of your interest in his current Gemcity project." Vance dismissed the man and called from someone to escort him out of the building.
Once the man was safely out of the office Vance turned to Gibbs "Get Kort and Fornell up here, this just got a lot more disturbing."
Once the four men were secure in the knowledge that they were alone in the office, Vance brought everyone up to speed on the discussion they had just had with the MI6 Agent.
Kort became very uneasy with the revelation that MI6 was know aware of what was going on with the young Agent in question. "I've heard of Mallory on a professional level. He is not your normal Agent, he is a problem solver."
"Would the information you retrieved for McGee get the notice of a MI6 problem solver, Kort?" Vance asked trying to remain diplomatic.
"No, as I told you before, everything I got for him could be found by anyone with enough time and patience to go through all the old newspaper stories. The only thing that required any kind of pressure was the list of births, and even that could have been assembled without any government oversight by someone with enough time."
"So who did you apply pressure to, to get the list of births?", Fornell asked picking up on the fact that the CIA Agent admitted to using someone to get the information for him.
Before Kort could answer, Vance's secretary came over the speaker on his desk, "Director, Ms Langston as arrived and was escorted to interrogation."
"Thank you." Vance responded and turned to the other men in the room. "Are you ready for this?"
They all nodded and only Vance noticed the way that Kort's nostrils flared in anger at the mention of Penelope Langston.
"Kort, is there anything else you need to tell us before we interview Ms. Langston?" Vance asked still not fully trusting the other man.
"I'll let you know. It all depends on her.", he answered without truly answering.
Gibbs walked into interrogation room one silently, instead of his normal door banging entrance.
"Ms. Langston." he acknowledged the woman without offering any explanation to why she was brought to the Navy Yard.
"Surely you haven't forgotten, Agent Gibbs, it's Penny." She responded, the cold tone of her voice covering the politeness of her words. "Do you mind telling me why I was summoned here and where is Timothy?"
"All in due time, Ms. Langston.", Gibbs deliberately kept the formal tone. "We are interested in the activities of your husband during the time he was stationed in England, and we hoped you could give us some insight into his activities at the time."
"He was stationed there for several years and that was a very long time ago, I'm not sure how much help I could be?"
"How about we narrow down the time frame?" Gibbs said casually looking down at the notes DiNozzo had put together during his back ground check into Tim's grandparents. "How about between January 1960 and when he returned stateside in August of 1961?"
"As I'm sure you will find in the detailed notes you are looking at, I was not in England at that time. I returned stateside in November of 1959 and didn't return to England before my husband was reassigned."
"Yes, I see that now. It's at the same time that you dropped McGee from your name and returned to using your maiden name of Langston. Why was that?"
"It was a time of change and as an educated woman I was in the middle of that change. My work was not pro-military and my husband was an up and coming officer in the Navy, for the benefit of both of careers that it was the best option."
The hostility in the room had steadily been rising since Gibbs had entered and now it was at a fevered pitch. It was at this moment that Kort decided to drop his bombshell. He walked into the room.
"I see you gave us the carefully orchestrated cover story, now would you care to tell us the truth?"
Penny's eyes flared in anger as she turn to look at the intruder who had entered the room and dare to question her integrity but as soon as she laid eyes on the man all color drained for her face and her mouth opened and closed a few times with no words coming out. Finally she softly whispered.
"No this cannot be, we were told you were dead."
AN: So how does Penny know Kort? Please review with your thoughts and comments stray :)