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Connections in Interesting Places
After the cluster fuck of Gibbs walking out and Tony having to sooth tempers and hurt feelings in a diplomatic manner, when he really wanted to tell people what he thought of the whole political mess, Tony was finishing up his portion of the paperwork with Supervisory Supplementary Reports to cover those reports he knew the others on his team would never get around to write in a timely manner or properly, and sent them on their way upstairs.
Bach’s Toccata and Fugue in D Minor was playing on his system as it fit his mood, however he got a grinchy evil grin, and switched it over to play the soundtrack from Dr. No.
Temporary leader of the team or permanent, he was currently in charge with Gibbs gone and until someone Madam Director chose to bring one in instead.
To make things official, he accessed the proper paperwork and forms for a computer investigation on a member or members of his team from those outside the agency as it was going to IA.
Pulling everything he had thought might be going on and the things he had proof of; he put them in his report to the tech division of IA and sent it off. Getting a reply a moment later from the bored night shift that they were putting in a key logger on each of the computers for his team.
He wrote back to please add the lab tech Sciutto to the list and proof of his reasons why. Getting back capital letters stating WTF! Then on it.
Now just to wait for the flies to enter into the spider’s den. Mwahahaha. Ahem. Yeah, no more playing Mr. Burns on shift.
The team was officially on downtime due to their leader’s injury and leaving, but Madam Director, call me Jenny, asked Tony to come in while he was off to explain that he was now the SSA of the team with McGee as his 2iC.
He looked at her funny as he called up her boss’ boss to have her tell him who was going to be promoted to XO on the team and to explain to HIM just WHY a man who had just barely made Jr. Agent was now going to be a SFAC with no training or time in.
Her face was red from anger but not blushing at being caught out as she was reamed from one side and up the other for her stupidity and told to immediately report to him. And to make sure to clear her schedule for the rest of the day as they were about to have a…. Very…. Intense conversation as to whether she had just proven she wasn’t qualified to be in her position.
Until he was satisfied with her upcoming work which would be supervised now, all changes in teams would go through HIM and NOT her bed partner. The SecNav.
Tony was dismissed as he was no longer needed. Returning to find himself with a twenty-year veteran of the special forces who had retired to join the agency due to boredom, as his new 2iC. One who was spitting figurative bullets when no one else on the team showed up on time to work. One who was breathing fire over the fact that the ME wasn’t doing HIS job and reigning in the lab tech Sciutto who was annoying everyone with her “mourning” of the previous leader and refusing to work. Yet playing dirges so loud they could be heard through elevator up to their floor.
Security with headphones was called in to destroy the auditory terrorism going on and force her to undergo a real psych exam and not the teatime fake one via the ME who wasn’t doing his job with that either, as he should have ordered her to undergo one.
Her precious babies were shut down and recalibrated to factory settings, and every single lab test she had done on those machines was rerun under proper lab mandates since the last audit. Going back to before 9/11. It seemed she had been hacking the reports to show she and her lab had been gone over every six months.
Yet another failing of the blasted ME for NOT DOING HIS JOB and overseeing her and her lab properly.
Meanwhile the Office of Homeland sent their own security forces over who were specially trained special forces to arrest Dav’id who had finally arrived at work. With no paperwork she was willing to work on and no current case she was found by the techs to be using her log in given to her by “call me Jenny”, to “acquire” military secrets. Sending those over to her contact at the Israeli Consul for her father at Mossad.
Security was also up to arrest McGee for his hacking attempt at OIA to get his honey out of trouble by changing the paperwork that was against her.
Seemed as though Tony and his new XO were going to be looking at new teammates.
Oh well, Tony had worked as a two-man team before, he was sure he could do it again until they got new team members. Though he wondered if “Jenny” had injured herself as the ambulance crew just headed up to her office with the gurney.
He wondered who would take over now that she seemed to have a wee little break from reality……
Fini
1/19/2026