Callen looked at Anna, her posture was off. He then noticed the glint of gunmetal in her side.

His heart dropped they had been made.

"You know." Marco said as he walked out into the Sunshine looking for all the world like he was chatting with a friend, "I had hoped Jethro would be chasing you for a little longer. Imagine his surprise when he found out you really were a part of this little family of ours."

"I never lied to him." Callen snapped, "I didn't pretend to be someone I'm not."

Marco laughed, "You've always been someone you're not, you don't even know who you are?"

"I know exactly who I am. I have never pretended to be anything other than that to my team, my family."

Marco laughed, "Yeah, because you were so weak at it… Get in." He said as they got to the car.

Callen climbed in and grasped Anna's hand in support as she moved over to allow Marco to slip in with them.

"You know your team hates you, don't you. They think you're the traitor." Marco smirked as Callen looked away angrily. "They will never trust you again, even if this was fake; which I believe it is, you LIED to them."

They drove around in circles for about twenty minutes, "I don't think we are being followed." Roberto said from the front seat as he pulled up to the unit he was renting.

"Inside." He snarled as he opened the door pointing a gun at Anna.

Anna slipped out of the car and moved forward as Callen got out behind her. Any thought of escape went out of the window as Roberto moved his gun to her temple.

"Don't even try it Agent Callen."

Callen sighed and walked into the building. "You know Jethro will be hurt that you betrayed him."

"He'll never find out; Now…. Sit down!" Marco snapped as he pushed him into a chair.

Callen smirked, "Feeling guilty?"

He spat blood as Marco backhanded him around the face.


"I know what I am doing is right, YOU betrayed your family. I found you… I believed you were still a part of The Calling."

"You came to OSP, you worked with my team and you didn't call me out. Why not?" Callen asked.

"Because until you showed up at the Spa, I wasn't sure that you weren't a member of The Calling. Still, you didn't tell your boss who I was when I came to your office. You even helped me get my package back. Well, Deeks and Kensi helped more… But at no time did you call me Marco, or question me on my name."

Callen shrugged, "No. I didn't, so what makes you think I'm betraying you now?"

"You're here." Marco said simply. "Gibbs would never let you get away from him and that little boss of yours… She's just scary."

Callen couldn't help but smile at that, he wasn't wrong.

"Maybe I'm better than you think, maybe I convinced them that I was innocent, playing both sides of the fence?"

Marco shook his head as he wrapped Callen's wrists to the chair with duct tape. He took off his suit jacket and hung it on a nail in the wall and rolling his sleeves turned back to Callen.

"No… Gibbs' gut is too good. Either you killed him, or he let you go, and from the way he's talked about you in the past, you didn't kill him. He's like a father to you."

"I have a father." Callen replied flatly.

"Yeah, you had your Father, and you betrayed him. Alexei is a good man, you were helped, fed, clothed, educated, you threw it all away!" Marco snapped. "We were all abused and abandoned until The Calling took you in and gave you a safe home, cared for you and loved you. How could you betray that?"

"I was brainwashed, like I assume you were." Callen argued, "Alexei never loved any of us, all he cared about was getting foot soldiers for your terrorist group."

Marco looked over to where his father was tying up Anna, "My father took me in, gave me his name, I am his heir, you should have been Alexei's."

Callen shook his head. "DiNozzo…" He sighed, "You were Gibbs' senior field agent, his best friend."

Marco laughed, "I was never his best friend, Tony DiNozzo was. Only problem….? I was a plant. The Captain at the Baltimore Precinct was paid to place me on the squad. Gibbs was just a way into NCIS. Took on the poor little probie whose partner was dirty. It was always a long term assignment. Gibbs was always the weak link in NCIS and he never knew it."

Marco stood and walked around the chair taunting Callen. "Gibbs was a sap, always worried about the kid with daddy issues, that's why he was friends with you. It was never about you, it was about him wanting to be a father again."

Callen shook his head, "Gibbs was never my father, just my friend, he never tried to be. He trusted you!"

"Well, he was wrong, unlike you traitor, I have always been Father's son. I never betrayed my family."

"And I didn't mine." Callen snapped.

"THE CALLING WAS YOUR FAMILY!" Marco shouted and hit him again.

Callen grinned and spat blood from the cut on his lip onto the floor. "My team is my family, they are worth me dying for. This isn't, you were used Marco."

"No, I wasn't." Marco laughed, "You are under the mistaken impression that I didn't know exactly what I was doing when I took on the role of Anthony DiNozzo Jr." He smirked, "I knew. When Roberto stole the identities of Senior and Junior and picked me to be his 'son' I was honored. I studied hard for the role. It helps that we look so much alike."

Marco smiled, but for once it wasn't cocky it was actually sinister. "There was a real Tony DiNozzo you know, there wasa Anthony DiNozzo Senior too. You know his father was an abusive son of a bitch, he did leave his fourteen year old kid in Hawaii, beaten to a pulp and dead at the back of a hotel in a dumpster. When Father took him out back and stole his identity, he saw a picture of the son." He laughed sourly, "We could have been twins. You should have seen the look of fear on the real Senior's face when his 'dead' son showed up and shot him between the eyes. At least that kid got justice." Marco rolled down his sleeves and put his suit jacket on, becoming Tony again, "Well, time for me to show up and help pretend to look for you."


"I don't think so." Gibbs growled, stepping out from the shadows.

"Uh?" Marco said, surprised. "Thought I would have known you were there Boss."

"Not as good as you think you are hey, Marco." Gibbs looked furious.

He had listened as his senior field agent had bragged about how he had killed a man and taken the identity of a dead child. All in the hopes of serving The Calling.

Tony turned and looked at his boss, "Your great gut fail you Gibbs, you can't believe what you heard, you know me Boss. You know I'm your faithful Saint Bernard, I've been working with you for years. You'd know if I was a traitor boss. I followed Agent Callen and saw him meeting with someone. I figured I'd follow and see what I got." Marco tried weaseling out of the situation.

"Can it DiNozzo," Gibbs snapped as Sam walked around the corner gun raised and trained on DiNozzo.

"You ok G?" Sam asked, glancing in his direction.

"I'm good, but his father has Anna." Callen said pulling at his bonds. "Get me out of this."

"Where's senior?" Gibbs asked.

Marco smiled and at that moment Gibbs gut crashed, "Probably meeting the same fate as the real Tony DiNozzo."