Our Life, Our Family

Chapter 3

Once Tony had made the connection, Abby had processed the evidence and confirmed that the killer was indeed the escaped prisoner. Gibbs had sent Ziva and McGee to the prison to investigate.

Ziva was speaking with one of the guards, when her cell phone rang. She looked at the caller id and saw that it was Gibbs. "Hello." She answered.

"We have another victim." Gibbs said. "I need you and McGee at Quantico, now."

"We'll be right there, Gibbs." She replied and then hung up the phone. She looked at the guard. "We have to go, if we have anymore questions we will call you." She said.

Once they left the prison, McGee looked over at Ziva. "What's going on?"

"We have another victim." She answered.

They soon arrived at the crime scene. The woman was once again a redhead, her body posed in the same way as before. When they had processed the scene, they headed back to NCIS. When Duckie had the woman on the table, he had determined that she had died the same way and had the arrow carved in her back.

The team began contacting Jason's family and friends, trying to find out if anyone knew where he was. Tony was wracking his brain trying to think of a way to find this guy again. A call came in, there was yet a third victim was found.

The team once again headed out to investigate the crime scene. When they arrived, they began to process the scene. While searching for evidence, McGee found a DVD in a jewel CD case. "Hey, Tony, you'll wanna see this." He called.

Tony walked over to McGee. "What is it?" Tony asked.

McGee held up the DVD.

Tony examined it. On the DVD was written Anthony DiNozzo. Once this piece of evidence was found, they quickly finished getting things together and headed back to the Navy Yard. Tony headed down to Abby's lab with the DVD.

"I need to watch this." Tony said, handing it to her and placing a cafpow on her desk.

"On it." Abby said, placing the DVD in her computer.

On the screen, popped up a video of Jason's face. "Hello Detective DiNozzo, well I guess now it's Special Agent DiNozzo." He greeted. "You know, when you sent me to prison, my wife left me and she told me I wasn't allowed to see my son either. I haven't seen them since. It's all your fault. Do you know what it feels like to have the woman you love tell you she can't stand to look at you? To have her tell you that you will never see your son again?"

A look of anger crossed his face. He looked even mentally deranged. He took a deep breath to calm himself so he could finish what he was wanting to say. "Because of you, I lost my family. I want you to know what that feels like." Then the camera moved to show Charity and AJ playing in the backyard. "You will feel my pain." And then the screen went blank.

Tony was heading to the elevator, before the video could end. Just as he was pulling out his cell phone to call Charity, it began to ring. The caller id showed Charity's number. "Hello honey."

"AJ and I are on our way to NCIS. And when we get there you or my father have some explaining to do." She said and then hung up the phone.

Tony got off the elevator and headed over to Gibbs. Before he could say anything, Gibbs looked at him and spoke, "Abby already told me."

"Charity just called. She's on her way here with AJ, now." Tony replied. "She said either you or I had some explaining to do."

After about ten minutes, the elevator doors opened and Charity stpped off, holding AJ in her arms. Her clothes had a few rips in them. There was a cut on her forehead and a few more over the rest of her body. She was rubbing soothing circles in AJ's back and telling him that everything was going to be okay.

"What happened? Are you both okay?" Tony asked, walking over to his wife and son.

"We are fine." She said. "He's just scared now."

Tony opened his arms for Charity to hand over AJ. "Hey, buddy. Come here to Daddy."

AJ let go of his mom and went over to his dad. AJ wiped at the tears falling down his face. "A scarry man was in our house, Daddy." AJ told his father.

"Well, Mommy and Daddy aren't going to let anything happen to you, okay buddy." Tony said.

Gibbs walked over. "Hey buddy, why don't you come here and see Grandpa. Let your Mommy and Daddy talk. Okay?"

"Otay." AJ said leaning over to let his grnadpa take him.

Once Gibbs had AJ, Tony was directing Charity towards the elevator. They hopped on and headed to see Duckie, so he could examine Charity. "What happened?" Tony asked.

"I was baking cookies in the kitchen while AJ was upstairs in his room taking a nap." Charity began. "I hear something moving around upstairs and once I get up the steps I hear AJ scream. I run in and there's this phsyco in his room with a camera and a knife. I don't think, I just act and go all Mama Bear on him. Then I get AJ and hop in the car and we head hear."

"What did the guy look like?" Tony asked.

"He had dark hair and looked like he hadn't shaved in a while. His eyes were green and he kept saying that he would get his revenge." Charity answered.

"His name is Jason Wilkins." Tony said with a sigh. "I put him away for serial murders. He was given life, but he escaped. Now he's out and killing again. He's also made it clear that his wife left him and won't let him see their son either."

"So, he's coming after your wife and son, now." Charity stated.

"Yeah." Tony answered anyway. "I'm so sorry that this is happening." He then pulled Charity into his arms.

Charity leaned her head against his chest. "It's not your fault. You were just doing your job. You didn't know that someday he would escape and came after your family."

Tony kissed the top of her head. "I promise, I will keep you and AJ safe. I will protect our family."

"I know, Tony." Charity said, snuggling closer to Tony.