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Title: Accomplishment

They moved through the house quickly and efficiently, clearing the rooms as they went. There was a dead body in the kitchen, bullet wound to the head, his own weapon on the floor beside him and in the living room another dead body. But what they were interested in the most was their team member handcuffed to the leg of the TV stand, head resting against the TV eyes half open. His face was bruised with a few places of dried blood, and he looked miserable.

Gibbs stood over him, studied him with angry eyes. This case had made every one of his agents go against his orders, Tony’s being the worst. Yet as angry as he was at Tony, he couldn’t fault him since he himself would have done the same thing.

“McGee, make the arrangements for having this all transferred back to NCIS.” He ordered.

He heard McGee leave the room but didn’t pay him any attention. Tony was looking up at him now, defiant and apologetic. He didn’t say anything, waiting for Gibbs to either demand an answer or uncuff him. It didn’t seem to bother him that he was cuffed, and that didn’t sit well with Gibbs because any other time Tony would be whining, half begging to be let loose.

“What happened here?” Kate wondered.

“I’d like to know that myself,” Gibbs said with a quick glance at Jonathan.

He found it interesting that Jonathan had three bullets to the chest, where Samuel’s was one to the head. He would have assumed Jonathan would be shot execution style since he’d been the one to hurt Tony.

“When I entered David was waiting for me. He took me by surprise, disarmed me and cuffed me. He ranted a little bit, and then shot Jonathan before leaving.”

Gibbs scowled, knowing that that couldn’t be true. Tony rarely ever got surprised by a suspect, he wouldn’t have let his own brother get the upper hand. He was lying, but Gibbs guessed that if he told the truth it would cost him his job. He was willing to let it slide, until he got the full story.

He knelt down and uncuffed Tony then stepped back. “Why’d you come in the first place, and without any back up?”

Tony rubbed his wrists with a grimace, “I thought I could stop him, but he wouldn’t have listened to me if you’d been here.”

“We know he’s your brother,” Kate said. “You don’t have to avoid saying it.”

Tony looked at Gibbs surprised then betrayed, “You told them?”

Gibbs gave him a hard look, “They worked it out for themselves.”

Tony looked down and stood up, “Let me guess, McGeek. Wonderful.”

Gibbs sighed. There would be problems, he could tell. Tony would resent McGee for finding out his secret and telling the other two. He would tease him, relentlessly and would be like McGee had first started again. He would have to talk to Tony about it later.

“Why didn’t you tell us?” Kate demanded.

Tony glared at her, “It was none of you business, and it still isn’t.”

Gibbs stepped in before there was a pissing match, “Kate, Ziva, start getting everything ready for transfer. DiNozzo, stay outside, you can’t be in here.”

O.o.O.o.O.o.O.o.O.

On the flight back to D.C. Gibbs dragged Tony to the rear of the plane, flashing his badge at the flight attendants so that they wouldn’t bother them and stared him down until he told the true story. Tony told it quickly in his Agent voice with no emotion. Gibbs realized that the full weight of the day hadn’t yet settled in and that he was also holding it off until they returned to his place.

He wanted to say something comforting, something loving, but anything he tried to say sounded pathetic in his head. Instead he settled for giving Tony’s face an affectionate caress. Tony smiled at him in understanding and with a slight nod they went back to their seats.

He settled down and stared out the window, thinking over what Tony had told him. He had to admit, it was something he’d do if he had a younger brother who’d been abused by their father. Above all else he hated people who hurt children, but David had also killed two other people, one of them who’d been completely innocent.

He sighed quietly. He’d keep Tony’s secret, he would never think of doing otherwise but he’d have to ensure it never happened again. He couldn’t have any of his agents with dangerous secrets especially if, for some reason, they ended up under investigation. Secrets like those always came back to bite you in the ass.