Rule 28: when you need help, ask.

ALEX'S POV

THURSDAY 16TH JULY 16:26 DC TIME

"Yeah that," I sighed and pointed to the guy on the screen "is Max Butler."
"How did they get in?" McGee asked
"I know." DiNozzo said standing on my other side after hanging up with the gate "They had been told to let anyone who was for the Major Case Response Team straight through due to the threat so when a black SUV drove up and said they had been asked to speak to the MCRT they let them straight through. They then parked in the evidence garage as they had been told, we tried to protect our families but all we allowed was our friends to be kidnapped." DiNozzo sounded mildly pissed as he said this. My phone buzzes on my desk I grab it seeing it's an email to my MI6 account I open it and it's a video. The email address was the first thing I noticed MaxButler.ComeAndGetMe-outlook.com
"McGee, trace it." I hand him my phone
"Don't you want to watch the video first?" He asks
"I want to know where he is more than I want to know whatever he threatening to do," I state leaning over McGee's shoulder as he hooked my phone up 
"Okay... he's hidden too well we can't track it," McGee said as CONNECTION LOST flashed across his screen in bright red
"Put the video up," I mutter as everyone gathers around to watch
The video came up, there was a line of 3 chairs with people tied up on them. They had bags over their heads and Butler stood behind grinning.
"Welcome NCIS, Alex Lopez, I hear you have been put on my case, so I decided to get friendly with some of your new colleagues." He ripped off the first 3 bags showing Abby, Dr Mallard, and Jimmy. "One will die every 2 hours, good luck." he teased, and the video ended
I felt sick
"I'm sorry it's my fault I shouldn't have accepted these orders and then your team wouldn't have been targeted," I mumbled before trying to leave the Bullpen.

"Rule 6 Alex." Gibbs rubbed his face worriedly
"It's my fault Gibbs let me apologise." I turned around to face him angry but not at him
"Process Autopsy and the lab like a crime scene we know if they may have left something we can use," Gibbs spoke to the whole team while still staring me down
"Come with me," Gibbs whispered to me before heading towards the elevator I followed reluctantly.
The doors opened and we entered before they clicked closed again.
"Gibbs we have-" I tried to tell him we had more important things to deal with, but he just shushed me and set the elevator to go down. It got a few floors down before Gibbs stopped it using the emergency stop switch.
"Are you okay?" he turned to me and asked honestly
"Gibbs we have more important things to deal with than my emotions," I stated going for the switch, Gibbs just grabbed my wrist over my bracer I flinched but tried to cover it.
"I asked if you were okay." He questioned in a whisper while turning to stand in between me and the switch.
"Yes, can we go look for Abby, Dr Mallard, and Jimmy please?" I asked growing tired of his questioning
"No, because you disappeared for 30 minutes," He barked growing angry and my aversion "look at me," he said gently I tried but couldn't "Alex look at me," Gibbs told me again
"I can't." I protested pulling away before going to punch the wall of the elevator, Gibbs caught my fist
"Hey hey hey!" Gibbs warned, "Don't do that you'll break the elevator."
"I needed to destress, so I went to the roof, not to do that," I said as I got a worried look from Gibbs "Look can we go to the roof so I can show you?" Gibbs looked worried but did as I asked.
The doors clicked open, and we stepped out onto the small landing, I picked up my quiver and bow from inside the door before I pushed open the door onto the roof where I had set up a target. there was a pile of splintered wood on the floor and some fletchings also on the pile.

"This is what I do to destress and process whatever I'm thinking or feeling," I said as I pulled on my quiver
"Show me what you got," Gibbs commanded I adjusted my stance and removed an arrow from my quiver, they were all wooden so I could fire one after another splitting the previous. I placed the arrow in the rest and knocked it before raising it to shoulder height and pulling back the bow string. I tucked my hand under my chin took a deep breath and released the arrow splitting the one already in the target. I repeated the process a few more times building my speed but trying to keep my accuracy. I stopped after a few minutes and looked at Gibbs who just smiled slightly and sipped his coffee.
"Let's get them back," he says and stands from the ledge he had been sitting on while I was firing
"I'm your boss you can tell me anything," he said softly as we walked
"You're not my boss and I can't tell you, it's private," I mutter as I take my quiver off and rest by bow against it
"Me and the team we're here for you, but we can't help you if you don't give us something to work with," Gibbs explained pressing the elevator button
"I had a brother," I admitted 
"I know it was in your file, he died." I sighed, why am I telling Gibbs this?
"There was more to it than that, he was walking home from having dinner with one of his mates from back in high school and he saw this group of guys ganging up on another guy, so he tried to help, but one of them pulled a knife. Paulo tried to talk him down, but he wasn't having any of it, Paulo was stabbed and left for dead with the other guy who had also been stabbed. Someone found him half an hour later and they managed to save the other guy but not Paulo. I was on assignment in Thailand, and they only told me when I got back, so I wasn't distracted, which was 4 weeks later when he was already buried. I didn't get a chance to say goodbye to my little brother, I broke my promise I couldn't protect him. I vowed to make sure no one else got caught in the crossfire of what I was doing." once I had finished my story the elevator doors ping open, and we enter Gibbs says "Abby, Ducky and Palmer were caught in the crossfire." as he presses the button for the Bullpen.
"Everyone has their story, don't be afraid to share yours," Gibbs said as the doors opened onto the Bullpen I smiled and followed him out.

5 minutes later, we gathered everyone around the most wanted wall the MCRT and I were standing at the front, ready to brief everyone on Max Butler. I looked up at Gibbs who just gestured for me to begin. I took a deep breath and began "Good Afternoon special agents, I'm MI6 Officer Lopez. My organization has been tracking Max Butler for a long time now and he's made it personal. He had kidnapped Abby Scuito, Dr Mallard, and Mr Palmer. We want him and we want him now, whatever you need to do, do it we need all hands on deck." I turned around and reached up with Max's picture in my hand, I stabbed my knife through the top growing annoyed now "You all have his file, let's get this guy." the agents left as did I leaving my knife buried in his head, where a bullet would sit hours later.

THURSDAY 16TH JULY 17:35 DC TIME