Tony and Dan were sitting at their favorite donut shop once again, after having solved their latest case. "Are you ever going to tell me who the woman is that's putting a little extra spring in your step?" Dan asked.

Tony smiled. "Not just yet." He answered.

"Keeping secrets from your partner isn't a good thing." Dan replied.

Before Tony could say anything else, his cell phone began to ring. He pulled it out and looked at the screen. It was Charity. He picked up his phone and answered, "Hey, is everything okay?"

"Yes...no...I...I don't know..." She answered having a hard time getting out what she really wanted to say. Then at the end she finally admitted it. "I need you."

Tony felt slightly shocked. Charity was a strong woman, but here she was sounding so weak...so uncertain...and she needed him. "Where are you?" He asked.

"Home."

"I'll be right there. Do you want me to bring anything?"

"Just you." She answered.

"I'm on my way." He told her.

"Thank you." Then the line went dead.

Tony hung up his phone and looked at his partner. Before he could say anything Dan was speaking. "Let me guess, it's your mystery woman and you're going to leave me and see her."

"She said she needs me." Tony replied. He figured that it had something to do with her father.

"Oh, a damsal in distress. Go." Dan replied. "Go take the car. I'll take a cab."

"You sure?" Tony asked.

"Yes, now go."

Tony headed out to the car and hopped in the driver's side. He soon arrived at Charity's home. He parked the car and headed inside. When he walked in, he found Charity pacing in the living room.

"What happened?" Tony asked, standing in the doorway.

Charity stopped her pacing for a moment and turned to face him. "Well, for starters that picture is real and just after I'd spoke with Abby about it, Director Morrow calls me up to his office to tell me that he's not Director Morrow anymore and we have a new director. Her name is Jenny Shepard. So now, I have to be extra careful since I have no idea about her and how she is."

Charity then resumed her pacing and then she continued speaking about her day. "Then Ducky calls me down to autopsy and there's some stranger there holding Ducky by gun point. He had made Ducky call me. When everyone else realizes that something is wrong, they come down with our new director. This guy holds me to him and holds the gun to my head and sends Ducky out. Then I get free of him and I've got the upper hand and he tells me if I kill him, then I'll never find my father. He gives me an envelope with a lock of hair in it and then knocks me out. The director then gives me the rest of the day off. I had Abby analyze the hairs and they really are my father's. This bastard has my father and I let him get away."

Tony walked over to Charity. He gently grabbed her by her shoulders and stopped her pacing. She looked up at him. "We will figure everything out." He told her, reaching a hand up to stroke her cheek. Then he pulled her into his arms and stroked her hair. "I will help you figure all of this out. He took you by surprise, there was no way you could have known what was going to happen."

Charity pulled back slightly and looked up at him, fighting back tears. "How is it that you know exactly what I need to hear?" She asked.

Tony grinned at her. "I'm a detective and you've seen first hand my work." He answered.

Charity stretched up and kissed him softly on the lips. "You have no idea how much this means to me."

Tony gently rested a hand on the side of her neck. "I told you I was going to help you with this. You're not alone anymore."

The wave of emotion that swept through her, took Charity by surprise. This man honestly cared for her and she cared for him, too. Charity stretched up and kissed him again. This time she wrapped her arms around his neck and pressed her body to his. Tony's arms wrapped around her waist and he deepened the kiss.

Back at NCIS...

Abby paced back and forth in her lab. After a few more moments, Burley, McGee, and even Ducky walked in the door. "What's going on, Abby?" Burley asked.

"Yeah, why'd you call us all down here?" McGee agreed.

"Does this have something to do with Charity?" Ducky asked.

"Yes." Abby answered. "I think she's in some kind of trouble."

"Does this have something to do with the man that held us hostage today?" Ducky asked.

"I can't be sure, but I think so." Abby answered. "Earlier today, she brought me this DVD and had me make sure the picture that pops up wasn't photoshopped."

"Let's see this DVD." McGee said.

Abby knew that they would want to see it. So she turned around and hit play. Once the video stopped playing, Abby continued in her explanation. "After she had woken up and everything she brought me this envelope. It had a lock of hair in it. She had me analyze the hair."

"What about the hair?" McGee asked.

"To see if the person the hair came from is alive or dead. He's alive and I ran the DNA, also at her request." Abby then pulled up here search results.

"Gunery Sergeant Leroy Jethro Gibbs." Burley read.

"Charity's father." Abby said. "He's been MIA and presumed dead since Charity was fourteen."

"Woa." Burley said.

"We have to help her. We have to let her know that she can count on us." Abby announced. "I'm going to go over to her house when I leave here. Are you guys with me?"

"We're a team, of course." Burley agreed.

"I'm in." McGee replied.

"A bit of excitement. You can count me in as well." Ducky agreed.

A few hours later, everyone was leaving. They all hopped in their respective cars and drove to Charity's house. They had no idea what was waiting for them inside.

Tony and Charity...

Tony and Charity's kiss had intensified as their passion increased. They had moved over to the couch. As they kissed Charity's fingers moved down the front of Tony's shirt and undid the buttons. Once she had every button undone, she reached her hand inside and slipped the shirt from his shoulders. She ran her fingers through his chest hair.

Tony undid the buttons of Charity's shirt and slid it off. His hands moved over Charity's curves, giving her thrills and leaving trails of fire across her naked flesh all at the same time. After a few more seconds, Tony's mind caught up with his body. He pulled away slightly.

"Why did you stop?" Charity asked breathlessly.

"Are you sure you want to do this right now?" He asked, not wanting to take advantage of her vulnerable state.

Charity nodded. "I need you, Tony." She told him. "I need you worse than I've ever needed anybody." She was then pulling herself to him.

"I just wanted to make sure." He replied.

Charity wrapped her arms around his neck and pressed her body to his. She then pressed her lips to his. Tony slid his hands up and down her back, as they kissed.

"Oh my...Charity!" a familiar feminine voice interupted their moment.

"What in the world is going on?" came the familiar English accent.

"Woa."

"Oh...uhm..."

Tony and Charity instantly broke apart and Charity looked up to see Abby, Ducky, Burley, and McGee all standing in the doorway. Charity instainctively wrapped her arms around herself, to cover her nakedness.

Tony turned to see the group, but he wasn't quite sure what to say or do. He all of a sudden felt like he was a teenager again being caught by his girlfriend's parents.