Just a little chapter that made me smile while I wrote it. Ya, it's sad but its happy. Does that make sence?
"Max, are you ready?" Logan called down the hall.
"Just a second, I'm just getting some last things." Max said coming down the hall and then pecked Logan on the lips. "Okay, now I'm ready." She smiled.
He smiled back. "Great! Alec's got the car."
"Logan…are you sure you can do this?" Max asked setting her stuff down and sitting down on his couch.
"What you mean?" He said acting like he didn't know what she meant. "C'mon get your stuff."
"Logan," Max chuckled, "don't act like you don't know what I'm talking about."
"I'm sure Max. I am 100% sure I can do this. You know why? Because I want to be where ever you are." But Max could sense his hesitation.
"Alright, if you say so."
"I say so. Now c'mon lets go." Logan grabbed her bags and led her down the stairs to the car where Alec was waiting.
"It's about time. What were you guys doing up there?" Alec winked at them.
"Oh shut up Alec, and get in the car." Max told him.
They all got in, Alec insisted he drive so Max and Logan can have some "quality time". They drove for about 20 minutes when they came to a stop.
"Why are we stopping?" Logan asked then he looked out the window. "No. No, I see what you guys are trying to do. No."
They were right outside NCIS Headquarters. "Logan. You have to say goodbye. They love you, and you love them. I know you won't be happy if you don't get to say goodbye." Max said.
"I can email them, it's no big deal. Plus they'll arrest me if I walk in there."
"So, you get arrested. We brake you out, no big deal." Alec said facing him.
"Tony or Logan. You are still the same person. And I know you. So get in there and say goodbye." Max pushed him toward the door.
Logan stared at them for a while. Then at the door handle. He finally opened the door and walked to the front gate. Max and Alec watched him as he talked to the guys at the front gate. They put him in handcuffs and escorted him to the NCIS building.
"Well, I guess that means we're breaking him out." Alec smiled at Max, but she just gave him the look of 'childish'.
Gibbs exited Autopsy in frustration. He turned toward the elevator but before he pressed the button to summon it he felt a presence. He turned around to see Ziva trying to quietly sneak out through the stairs.
"Ziva?" Gibbs said.
Ziva turned around still hunched over in her stealth position. She straightened up knowing she had been caught.
"What are you doing?"
"Well, I was just- I was…are you really going after Tony."
"Look, Ziva…I just want to talk to him, straighten him out."
"Straighten him out or straighten things out?" She asked innocently.
Gibbs didn't answer. He just turned back to the elevator and pressed the button. "You are welcome to join me or you can return the way you came."
Ziva smirked and entered the elevator with Gibbs. The entered the squad room and McGee shot up, "Boss, I got nothing on the car."
"Alright, I'll just have to go look for him." Gibbs didn't even stop walking he headed toward the opposite elevator and caught a glimpse of Abby coming up the stairs from her lab. Before he could press the button for the elevator it opened. Before him was Tony handcuffed behind the back with two security guards who escorted him. Gibbs never looks surprised but this one shocked him, he told the security guards that he would take him from there.
They returned to the squad room. Abby was now there with Tim and Ziva. They all stared at him in awe. Abby couldn't hold it; she yipped and ran toward him with a great huge hug. "I thought you had left!"
"Not yet." He said back. "Ziva, McGeek." He said with a slight smile. Tim smiled too, he had actually missed the name calling.
Gibbs took off his handcuffs, "Sit." Gibbs pointed to Tony's empty desk. Tony sat with no argument. "What are you doing here?"
"I just wanted to say goodbye." Tony answered softly.
"Good luck with that, I don't think you'll be leaving anytime soon now that you're here." McGee said to him.
Tony laughed, "Oh, Probie. You must have forgotten who my friends are."
"What are they going to do? Kill everyone but you?" Abby cut in.
"Abby they also were made to run black ops. They know how to get in and out without anyone ever knowing they were here."
"Tony." Tony jumped at the casualness in Gibbs voice as he said his first name.
"Yeah, Gibbs." Tony answered with a gulp.
"Tony, if this really is the last time we see each other call me Jethro."
"What the fu-" Mcgee started.
"SHH!" Abby hushed him with anticipation of what was going to happen next. To her this was like watching a live drama.
But Tony had almost said the same thing McGee did. "Er…Yeah, uh Jethro." He had said his name before but never to his face, it gave him an uneasy edge he didn't like.
"We're gonna miss you around here. But if you wanna get out of here without putting your girlfriend and your friend at risk of getting caught you're gonna have to make this goodbye fast." Gibbs whispered.
"Right." He stood up and headed to McGee. "Tim, Timmy." He put his hands on his shoulders but he ended up hugging him. "Awe man, I'm gonna miss ya!" A wave of emotion came upon him as he finally realized what he was doing. He was leaving his family. The family he had known for 8 years. "I love ya man."
"Uh…I love you too?" Tim answered a little shocked.
"Damn straight you do!" Tony whipped a tear from his cheek. Tony let go of him and went to Abby, who was next to Tim. "Abbs-"
But he was interrupted by a wailing, sobbing Abby who hugged Tony. "I love you so much Tony! I'm going to miss you sooooo much!"
"Me too Abby…me too." Tony said to her. She planted a kiss on his cheek that seemed eager and rushed.
She finally let go of him and he went to Ziva. She hadn't said much to him since she found out he was Logan Cale/Eyes Only. He didn't want that to be how it was going to be. He was defiantly going to keep in contact with Abby and McGee. He wanted to keep in contact with her too but the relationship they had right now didn't hold much promise to it.
"Ziva." He nodded to her.
"Tony." She said back with the same nod.
"I'm going to miss you, Sweet Cheeks." He said and opened his arms for a hug.
Ziva smiled at the joke, "I'll miss you too my little Hair Butt." And she entered his arms for a warm soft hug. When they parted Ziva gave him a soft kiss on the cheek, it was a lot different from Abby's kiss which seemed rushed. It felt soft and like she had a life time to do it. They smiled at each other, and then he turned to Gibbs.
"Jethro," Tony said with the goofiest smile.
"Logan," Tony's smile turned into Logan's fresh, smart smile. Gibbs held out his hand and Logan took it, they shook hands and then the team led him to the Autopsy exit where he said goodbye to Ducky and Palmer.
"I will be back." He said at the door.
"Terminator!" Ziva yelled and everyone stared at her. "That was a movie reference, no?" They all laughed, even Ziva. Logan gave his last goodbyes and left through the door.
He left the NCIS building knowing where he was going he would never be called Tony, knowing he might never seeing his NCIS family again, but he still had hope he would. But he was leaving for a reason, he was leaving for his true love; Max.
I only have a few more chapters left. So give me some feedback! And don't worry it's a happy ending for all. Thoughts?
