Urban Magic – Hung Out to Dry
Part 6

Tony felt his old jungle instinct rare up as the agency car came to a stop outside a dive of a bar. So much so, that he activated his recent present from his friends over at the FBI, his small video camera that recorded over to his phone from a small disk attached to his jacket that looked like a regular rivet. It recorded both sight and sound in its area, and Tony, unobtrusively angled himself to get everyone on the staff as he questioned them. Especially the waitress that gave him the jungle gee bees, that said NVA in front of him and he had to be aware to not get killed.

He’s already made sure to get a warrant for their onsite camera footage from the night their victim, Atlas, disappeared in the area, as well as another warrant for copies of the receipts from that night. Getting what he wanted from the night manager. Tagging and Bagging everything, even getting the fingerprints of the NVA waitress when she wasn’t looking. It wouldn’t hold up as evidence as there was no warrant for them, but he would add in his search for who the bloody fuck she was.

Out back, in the back parking lot, he ordered Kate to dumpster dive for more evidence that she argued he was being sexist about her doing. He got right into her face and space and let his old Sgt’s aura out and dared her to write him after she proved it, but until then, get booties on and FUCKING DO IT! Ending in a military bellow.
She got to it quickly with a little wet trail behind her.
Gibbs just nodded.

Between the three of them they found Atlas’ lighter and not much else, though on the way back to the yard, Kate tried to complain, only for NCO Tony to tell her to write him with proof if she still thought he had wronged her. Until then, shut the fuck up. Everyone in the car had done the job, she wasn’t special. However, through her comments she only wanted in on the glory parts of the job. If so, let him know and he’ll put a word into PR to allow her to transfer over there and be the new cute female no-brain face in front of the camera. She quickly shut up with a huff.

He was scanning through the video captured and sending captured takes over to immigration as well as those linked to those attached to Atlas and those others who had served with him.

Since Kate wasn’t qualified to sign for evidence, Tony dropped it off along with his fingerprints and a captured picture of the waitress to Abby.
Kate was doing the background check on Atlas as his own check on the NVA waitress hit paydirt with her being linked to Atlas’ old commander, Sacco. Who was even now in town stirring up trouble looking for Atlas.
Atlas’ old teammates were dead with the two of them found desiccated in an old sewer, as such he looked for the closest sewer entrance to the waitress’ work as the lighter was found dropped there.

Abby linked the fingerprints on the lighter to both Atlas and the waitress, with both her recent picture taken by Tony and her fingerprints as coming through naturalization and ICE. Her sponsor was Sacco. Her background through Sacco was that she was the only one left alive in cargo pod. Her sisters had all died of dehydration. Just like the two teammates of Atlas and Sacco.

He ordered a warrant for her arrest for questioning about the murder of the other two team members and the disappearance of Atlas. He also ordered the warrant for the same with Sacco, and a search warrant for the sewers nearest the dive the waitress worked in to find Atlas before it was too late. Then set the dog teams out to go through the sewers to find the missing marine.

Kate was still trying to get the background on the missing marine while Tony texted Gibbs that he had probable perps coming in to be questioned.
Sending that file via email to Gibbs to read over his own tablet as he raced back to get ready to question Sacco while Tony questioned the NVA waitress. Catching her flatfooted by insisting on speaking her native language when she suddenly couldn’t speak English and doing a hard-core interrogation of her to get her to break down, only stopping when he got the text that they found Atlas. Then breaking her when he showed her the picture of the dog handling marines carrying her recent victim and getting her to try and attack him in her rage. Allowing him to take her down and out as that was a what was going to convict her as a serial killer in the end.

Tony took the next few days off as vacation days while he got together with his cousin and Skinner. They sat at the Virginia Beach drinking rot gut and listening to old classic rock music while toasting those who were taken out by the enemy and never made it home again.

8/19/2026