Hung Out to Dry
Part 9

Used to be, when Tony rode with his boss in a car, he would be tense and holding onto the “Oh Shit” bar over the door. He knew Gibbs took a sadistic sort of pleasure out of scaring those who rode with him when he drove. But now after riding on what passed for trails and not roads in Country while being shot at with automatics or artillery he just literally napped in the back seat and let Gibbs soon-to-be wife number 5 sit next to him holding the bar and yelling at her lover.

Her comments about Tony being relaxed enough while Gibbs drove hell for leather enough to pull his cap down over his eyes and start to snore were hilarious. Gibbs just tried to snark at him, which he snarked back and then the two of them would get into a snark war that would further drive Kate up the wall as she recuperated from the drive.

This time, however, Tony was sitting up front to navigate using his Blackberry’s GPS as Gibbs was in pursuit of an unsub he refused to allow to get away enough to call it off even though they were now in high traffic areas.
Tony had his Bluetooth in his ear as he worked both his phone and tablet to get the cops onsite to clear the streets as Gibbs acted as Moses using God to part the red cars before him. Traffic accidents going off all around them as he drove like a maniac to catch a man who he refused to let go.

Tony caught sight of a unique car almost missing them as they drove through a red light, sirens running high. An SUV literally ran up the car to hump it to produce babies and crush the driver in the car.
Giving a “FUCK!!!!!!!!!!!!”, he told dispatch that there was now a medical emergency accident and named the cross street, all the while his thumbs were going on the tablet like everyone’s life depended on them as they worked the machine. Quickly taking his left hand off the tablet, he pointed it at the engine as Gibbs never even slowed down and magically zapped it to stop the engine cold and get them to roll to a stop. Never stopping his talking…. Italian? On the phone.

Kate ranted loudly and Gibbs reached over to smack him for keeping him from his hunt only to get handed a live grenade instead with Tony telling him that if he wanted him dead to just release it, otherwise SHUT THE FUCK UP he was trying to keep himself and everyone at the agency alive because Gibbs just couldn’t leave well enough alone.
And went back to quickly and urgently speaking some sort of Italian on the phone while his left hand went back to typing things on the tablet. Gibbs just did a fast search of his mad partner -who the fuck keeps a GRENADE with them? – to find the key and put it back in, then sit there to wait for the cops and Morrow’s people to arrive.

%%%%%%%%

Turned out that the young man who had recently received the car from his uncle after getting accepted into Georgetown. The young man was from a “Well Connected Family,” who took a lot of convincing to keep from retaliating against those they saw as attacking Familia.

It took a new government contract with the “Company” the Family ran to get the support staff that ran the law enforcement federal agencies everything back to work from the strike the “Union” called against those agencies that would endanger them on purpose.
No staff, no janitors, no secretaries, no orders going through to have things stocked for the Agents on call to use. No one to man lockup and intake. No one to feed the agents or the prisoners. No ordered food for scab workers to feed people with and no orders taken as the “Businesses” supported the strikers. No laundry for the prisoners, no medical support for the prisoners. All set to get an injunction for each agency that had prisoners like NCIS to force them to comply with the laws pertaining torture against prisoners nationally and internationally – Seemed a squealer complained and each brig/jail was investigated.

From there the federal government capitulated and signed a new contract with the “Companies” to bring the support staff back to work. It only took Agent Gibbs to do the one thing he always swore was against his rules, in front of ZNN and the BBC, he had to be the witness to the contract signing. But before the Family Head signed, and in front of those national and international cameras and reports, he had to honestly plea forgiveness for his stupidity in breaking the law about suspending a high-speed chase in a high traffic area. Not only that but without complaint or biting his cheek or tongue, he had to apologize to each of the families his chase had caused injury too. Then hand over to each a signed government check to pay for the hospital bills and the damage it caused.

He spent the rest of the summer months starting a new boat before destroying it in anger.

8/25/2026