A/N: This is my very first fanfic please R&R.
Disclaimer: I do not own NCIS.
The Earthquake
Ziva walked into the office and noticed that Tony was already there. "What are you doing here this early?"
"I woke up early and had nothing else to do. You?" Tony replied.
"It is Friday Tony if I get here early then I can leave earlier." Ziva sighed and walked over to her desk to sit down.
"I think that I finished most of my paper work yesterday." Tony said under his breath. "I'm bored."
Ziva, unable to listen to his whining decided to give him idea. "Then why don't you just go see Abby, she said she wanted to talk to you about the case we had last week."
"You know that's actually a good idea," Tony got up and started toward the elevator, Ziva noticed that he was jumpy.
"Do you have spiders in your pants, Tony?"
"It's ants Ziva and no I don't"
As Ziva opened her mouth to say something she stopped as she watched the silver elevator doors close. She sat there for about ten minutes when none other than Timothy McGee walked in.
"You're later than normal, McGee, Tony is alre-"Ziva was suddenly interrupted by a slight shaking as she ducked under her desk. No sooner had she sat down did the ground start to shake at least twice as hard as it had before. After about twenty seconds the shaking stopped.
She sat there for another minute before she gathered the nerve to get back up. When she did she gasped, she was looking up at the stairs leading to the director's office. They had collapsed and were now lying crumbled on the ground. She jumped again as she saw Gibbs and McGee rounding everybody up.
"Are you okay Ziva?" Gibbs asked her running up to her.
"Yeah I'm okay. Where's Tony? Is he okay? What about Abby and Jenny? And" she was stopped by Gibbs who was trying to calm her down.
"Jenny is fine; we haven't found Abby and DiNozzo yet. When is the last time you saw him?"
"This morning he went down to Abby's lab." Ziva had barley finished her sentences when Gibbs was halfway down the stairs, having to jump a few at some point due to the damage.
When he got down the stairs he rounded the corner and gasped. There was Abby and Tony unconscious under her collapsed desk with two computers off to the side. He didn't even hesitate as he called the paramedics and told them the location. They told him to stay put and they would be there ASAP. He quickly called McGee and told him that he found Abby and Tony and told him to take Ziva outside and lead the paramedics downstairs to Abby's lab.
"Are they okay? Are they alive? Are they unconscious?" All these questions came out of Ziva's mouth as McGee led her outside.
"Gibbs said for me to bring you out here and that they are both alive but unconscious and in critical condition. Now go see Ducky and have him check you out to make sure that you're okay," he finished and walked back out toward the road to wait for the paramedics.
Ziva walked over to Ducky who already had a truck set up for examining people. When he saw her he called to her, "Come here Ziva I need to look at you."
"I'm fine Ducky, really." Ziva said trying to brush him off.
"No you need to come here. I have to have everybody checked out to see how many need to go to the hospital."
Ziva looked at him, she knew that he had won, with her thoughts still on Tony she walked absentmindedly over to where Ducky was. "Where is Palmer?" She asked. He was the only one she hadn't seen or heard about.
"Oh." Ducky said with a rather odd look on his face."Mr. Palmer is tending to the people that aren't severely injured."
Suddenly Ziva turned her head and looked at the road where she could see two ambulances turning into the parking lot. As soon as they stopped Ziva jumped off the table and rushed to the paramedics. She tried to follow them but halfway down the stairs they made her go back up.
"But" Ziva tried to say.
"Sorry Miss but you can't come down here." One paramedic told her before hurrying down the rest of the stairs.
After about twenty minutes Ziva was sitting down beside McGee when she saw two stretchers emerge from the door of the building. She gasped and ran toward the door; sure enough she saw exactly what she had feared. Tony was lying on the first stretcher and Abby was lying on the second one. Even though she didn't realize it she had started to cry. McGee came up beside her and started running along Abby's stretcher and followed her into the ambulance.
"Are you going to ride with ?" One of the paramedics asked taking out of her trance.
"Uh…..Yes I am." Ziva said but before she could get in Gibbs stopped her and turned her around.
"What the hell do you think you're doing?" He asked.
"I'm riding with Tony to the hospital." She said and with that the doors were closed and they were off to the hospital.
Sitting in the ambulance Ziva looked up at the paramedic that was hooking Tony up to tons of different machines. "What is wrong with him exactly?"
"He is unconscious and is in a coma, and will be taken straight to ICU when we get to the hospital." The paramedic told Ziva.
She looked up at him then back down at Tony. He looked so pale, so lifeless. She couldn't help but give a small smile at remembering a movie Tony had forced her to watch on one of their movie nights. She looked down at him again and the smile quickly fell from her face. She reached down and grabbed his hand, tears falling from her eyes rapidly.
Meanwhile in Abby's Ambulance
McGee could barely hold himself together as he looked down at Abby; she looked like she might as well be dead. She looked like the woman he was supposed to pick up from her apartment but found her freshly murdered on her floor. She, like Tony, looked very pale and lifeless. After about three or four minutes the paramedic walked up to the front to get something Tim couldn't hold it in any longer. He grabbed her hand and placed a small kiss on it. After he looked back at her closed eyes the tears fell out of his eyes just like they had Ziva's. When the paramedic walked back in he couldn't stop crying, no he wasn't crying, he was sobbing.
"Would you like me to leave you guys alone, sir?" The paramedic asked.
"No, no. First you need to finish whatever you need to do to get her better." McGee replied.
"Already done sir."
"Then yes please leave us alone."
"Just holler if something seems suspicious."
"Thank you." McGee said and as the paramedic left he left the tears started to fall just like they were before.
