If it hadn’t have been for Vanessa it might have ended different, a war of words turned physical but he wasnt about to do that when Vanessa was in the way. He knew it was bad enough that he was yelling but really, the guy had hurt her. He had seen that with his own eyes. “You rubbed your arm, he hurt you.” Mark stated as he resisted her push back for a moment before he gave in to her. “Enough... okay.” He said as he glared at the agent before turning his attention to Vanessa.

None of this was fair, none of it. How could he be an agent with a shadow and do his job while letting someone walk all over his wife unchecked. This had happened before when Vanessa was his boss but not anymore. No NCIS had to learn there was a right and wrong way, this idiot agent was taking the wrong road. Mark took a few breaths when he felt Vanessa’s hand on his bicep happy that she was out of reach of the other agent.

Mark turned away deciding to talk the lead from his wife, better to walk away and still have a job rather than fight it out right there and likely get suspended. Mark still felt he was entirely correct but then Vanessa was family and no one got to annoy or harm his family. He caught up with Vanessa as he glanced at her phone. “Many calls to make?” He asked not sure where she would start with it as he knew he would call his boss. "Sorry I just... it's not fair on you any of this." Mark stated.

Once he had a more level head on him rather than rant down the phone as to how unfair the system was. “You sure he didnt hurt you?” Mark asked her as he glanced over her, “Are you hurt?” Mark knew it wasnt the greatest day and that his maybe going off on one hadn’t helped but he couldnt just stand and do nothing about it. Maybe hurling Russian insults and death threats was a little far but then he wasnt going to let that stand from NCIS. The entire reason he joined was because he needed to make a difference to what had happened last time.

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Vanessa shook her head this was not the way to handle things. “I’m not going to be around to keep you out of trouble.” There was a slight pause. “Honestly, I’d rather come home to my husband not visiting the prison.” Vanessa elicited a small sigh. Mark was all Bryce and Nina had at this point when Vanessa was deployed. That wasn’t to say that they both didn’t get deployed at times but why would Mark jeopardize things? Vanessa didn’t understand. Granted she had her dad who was very helpful, but three year olds were a handful for him and she tried not to leave him with them for too long. He was getting older.

Mark was also a handful, as much as the children. “It is what it is.” Vanessa decided outloud. Vanessa had always been someone who handled things as they came. Dwelling on anything, never helped. She took the phone down from her ear when Mark started to pester her about being hurt. Hadn’t they just gone over this? She signed finally hanging up on a contact who didn’t answer the phone.

“It takes more than being restrained to hurt me Mark.” She knew that restraining injuries were proportional to how much you resisted. If you didn’t resist then you didn’t get injured. She pinched the bridge of her nose after dragging her fingers across her eyes. Vanessa was stressed out. “Can I please just do my job?” For like too seconds it would be nice to not have a million questions from him. Vanessa headed back to the car and got comfortable in the passenger seat.

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Mark wanted to argue the fact that he didnt need to be kept out of trouble but then, yeah he couldnt gloss over the last five minutes. He tried to find anything to back it up but he couldnt as he heard her mention visiting prison. “I don’t want to be in prison either but...” Mark shook his head, yes he had screwed up and he knew it but he wasnt about to just be okay with another agent man handling his wife. Prison however meant no Vanessa and no Bryce and Nina which in that thought he realised how stupid he had been.

Mark wondered how Vanessa could be that way about things, he was angry and annoyed then stick some idiot agent man handling her. His day had gone badly so far, after all thinking that a hotel room, an adventure and case would ever go well together. Mark had to wonder what he had even been thinking as he considered taking himself off the case but then who would stick up for Vanessa? He had a unique perspective of both sides of the line but right now he wasnt even sure he was on side, it was more a case of a grey blurred area.

“I don’t want you hurt Vanessa. You shouldn’t have been restrained.” Mark said though he knew the agent was doing his job, it was a different thing when it was your wife that was on the receiving end of things. Mark should have known to leave things as they were when she pinked the bridge of her nose and dragged her fingers across her eyes. Stressed, those were the signs and then he got those words. Mark stood for a moment trying not to argue. “Of course.” He simply stated as he watched her head back to the car.

It wasnt often Mark would say sorry to another agent but today, given Vanessa’s prison comment he decided to be the bigger person and apologise. He took a moment to do just that in an attempt to smooth things over, the one thing he didnt apologise for was defending Vanessa. It seemed to be okay as he headed back to the car and got into the driver’s seat. Mark didn’t say a word as he started the car and began the drive back to the hotel.

His eyes were focused on the road though his mind was turning with what had been said and the calls he had to make himself. His boss for one to explain what he had done and then he needed to figure out if this was just some random act of stupidity or if it was sabotage and why. It was a headache but he figured if he let Vanessa do her job as she had asked, it was a start without asking her ten questions every minute.

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