It Happened: NCIS

Chapter 35

Tony's POV:

"I still think it's a bad idea. There's nothing you can do to change my mind."

We're down in Gibbs basement again and Tim is on the couch as usual while Gibbs and I stand like we're his parents lecturing him.

"We'll we're doing it." Gibbs tells me.

I roll my eyes and can't even stand next to him anymore. "Do you even want to know why I don't think it's a good idea?"

"Not really." Well I'm going to say it any way because I kept my mouth shut when we were at Abby's lab that I deserve for my voice to be heard even if it's just in his basement with him and Probie.

"We've done this before. People were heart the first time, lucky not too bad, but they were hurt, and we had no idea where the bullets were coming from." I walk over to Tim to point at him and for Gibbs to see that I mean what I say. "The second time we do it, Melissa almost got shot and Tim actually got shot and people think that he's dead!" Does he really not see the flaw in his plan? Does he not understand that history tends to repeat itself?

He sighs. "Look. I know what you're saying, but what choice do we have?"

"I know I don't have a say," Tim finally speaks up. "but I don't think it's a good idea either."

"What?" Gibbs and I ask simultaneously.

This is his chance to be free. As much as I don't like Gibbs plan, it's weird for me to hear Tim say this. With this plan, he can be back with her any day now, but he's going against the orders of the boss. Things are getting more interesting than I thought they would.

"You're right." Gibbs says to him. "You don't have a say."

"I know I shouldn't say anything." He stands up and I'm still in shock that this is happening. "I've been grateful towards you this whole time Gibbs. I will owe you my life when this is over. Even if some things aren't going the way I would like them to, I still owe you."

I wonder who that's about.

"But Tony has a point. With plans like this people always get hurt. Someone could actually die this time and it will be on us."

"It doesn't matter." Gibbs says. Tim and I look at each other because we can't believe what he just said.

"Doesn't matter?" I feel like I could strangle him for saying that, but he says something that makes me shut up.

"Yeah, it doesn't because I already put the call in; they were more than happy to agree to do it, and it's happening sooner than you think."

Of course, it is. He always does things without telling us, but it's because he doesn't have to. He's the boss.

"On that note the other plan is in motion because of this."

Tim looks at me because I should know what he's talking about, but I don't have a clue.

He gets annoyed with me for only the second time today. Believe it or not that's a record. "We'll be taking shifts being here with Tim. I'll be tonight into tomorrow. DiNozzo, you take tomorrow night into the next morning."

"What?" I don't mean to say out loud. "Tomorrow?"

"Yeah, is there a problem?" He stares at me and knows what the answer is. If there was a problem every time, I had plans, I wouldn't be doing this job now would I?

He takes my silence as agreement. On that note, he pull a Gibbs and leaves the room so there can be no more arguing.

I hear that he's made it upstairs and turn back to Tim. "Well, I guess there's no fighting that one."

"I mean did we really think we stood a chance against him in general?"

I chuckle even though it's hard. "I don't like it for many reasons, but there's no calling it off now."

The room fills with silence.

I decide I don't want to stand here awkwardly. Before I can tell him, I'm leaving, he speaks. "Plans with her tomorrow?"

She wasn't what I want to talk about with him, but it's nice to have her on my mind again. Except, now that he's in the room, I feel like I should be thinking about her.

"Kind of."

"Don't worry." He says without looking at me. "She always understands."

"I know." I say, but I shouldn't have. That just made it weirder in here and I didn't even mean it like that. I just meant that she's always been that way. I can't speak up now because that would just make everything more awkward than it already is.

He's looking at the ground, and this is the best time for me to go. "I'm going to leave before this gets more uncomfortable."

"Good idea." He says and we part our ways.

On the way home I wonder how Melissa is going to react to this plan. Gibbs didn't mention hiding it from her, and with this one there's no way he can be hidden.

I just hope she knows we're doing it for everyone's sake. If they agreed to it, there's no going back now.

What will this mean for us?

They belong together, but I haven't had her long enough. I wonder if she'll feel the same.