He walked in to the office and found that he was the only one there. It was weird that he was ever this early. He sat his stuff down while placing his backpack behind his desk. He then started on the pile of reports that he needed to catch up on. Booting up his computer he waited as he took a swig of his coffee. Once everything was ready he got to work on all of his paperwork it was something he hated more than anything.
But he knew he had to get it done especially since his boss has been in a real foul mood lately. He looked up at his boss's desk and smiled and wondered how much longer he could handle everything. It seemed that no matter how hard he tried all he could think about was him. But he knew he was that he could never tell him anything he loved his job way too much. He looked at the clock and seen it was four am and here he was at work when he should be home sleeping. But even sleeping now days was getting to be a pain for he was invading all his dreams now too.
Much to his dis-like he would come into work and do his paperwork and then just before everyone showed up he would head down to see Abby. Looking at the clock seeing it was now ten minutes to eight and everyone would be in soon he decided to hit the head. He walked into the bathroom and did his business when he was finished he looked in the mirror and seen the circles under his eyes. He began to wonder just how long it was going to take for everyone to notice he wasn't sleeping. Just as he turned the corner he noticed McGee and Ziva sitting at their desk.
"You in early again Tony?" Ziva asked as he took his seat at this desk.
"Yeah been here an hour or so couldn't sleep so I figured I get started on my reports. Where's Boss?" Tony asked
"Went up to the Vance's office already." McGee said as they all started on their work. It seemed like it was going to be a very slow day and it was the kind of day that Tony hated cause it gave the other more time to see he wasn't sleeping. Just at Tony opened a new case file to start on his report he heard footsteps coming down the steps suddenly there was Gibbs.
"Gear up! Dead petty officer." Gibbs said as he tossed McGee the keys to the truck. Tony grabbed his badge and weapon and then his backpack and followed the rest of the team. It was a quite ride to the crime scene in which he knew he would give him away at some point, he was never this quite. Once they arrived they all grabbed their equipment
"McGee bag and tag, Ziva photo and sketch, Tony talk with the Cop's." Gibbs said as he went to talk with the petty officer's next of kin. Tony walked over to where they stood doing their thing. Once Tony was done he found Gibbs and told him everything the cops told him.
"Ok DiNozzo go talk to the neighbor while I finish with the sister she said they were best friends." Gibbs said as he left and went off to his next task that Gibbs had assigned him. Tony knocked on the door and waited for an answer but there was nothing he knocked again.
"Hello anyone home." Tony said as he was about to walk away he heard a bang and drew his weapon when he turned back around there was this loud explosion. Tony couldn't turn fast enough as he was thrown a good five to ten feet away from the door. He tried to sit up but there was so much pain and he felt dizzy and everything started to go black on him the last thing he remembered was someone screaming his name.
"TONY!" Gibbs yelled as he ran to where his fallen agent was lying on the ground. Ziva and McGee came running after the loud explosion to see that the house next door was now in flames and Tony was lying unconscious in the front yard.
"Gibbs what happened?" McGee asked as Gibbs picked up Tony's badge and held it in his hand.
"An explosion Tony was hit full force by the blast call an Ambulance." Gibbs said as he bent down and whispered into Tony's ear. "I told you once DiNozzo you're not allowed to die."
Everything seemed to go in slow motion for everyone as they waited on the ambulance. Gibbs held his hand and refused to his hand go. After a few minutes the EMT's arrived they forced Gibbs to let go. They took their time and worked on Tony as they got him stable they then loaded Tony on the stretcher.
"Take him to Bethesda." Gibbs said
"Sir we have to take him to the local hospital." The EMT said
"No you don't he's a Federal Agent and he goes to Bethesda." Gibbs said again.
"Fine." He said as they loaded him into the ambulance and he was off. Gibbs looked at his team and knew where they wanted to be but they had to finish with the crime scene. Hell he wanted to be right there with his senior felid agent but he had to finish this first.
"OK you two get back to work I have to call Vance. Look you two I know you're worried about Tony and so am I, but we have to finish this." Gibbs said
"Ok Boss." McGee said as he and Ziva walked back to the crime scene to finish their jobs all the while their minds on Tony. Gibbs stood in the spot where Tony had been thrown from the house all he could think was how he wished that he could have told Tony just how important he was to him. Gibbs has been fighting it for well over two years ever since he came back from Mexico. He had been in his coma and remembered everything about Shannon and Kelly's death, it about killed him all over again.
Then he realized that after Shannon's death he tried to replace her and it's not really what he wanted or needed. What he needed was someone to love him for whom he really was. While in Mexico he did allot of soul searching and talking to Franks, and he of course picked up on it and told him to go after it. But Gibbs knew he couldn't do to the fact that Tony was a Lady's man and there was of course rule 12. Gibbs pulled out his phone hit speed dial 3 and it connected him to Vance.
"Hello Vance." He said
"It's Gibbs. Um... DiNozzo is in route to Bethesda…" Gibbs said as he was cut off
"What the hell happened?" Vance yelled
"He went next door to interview the best friend well while he went next door everything seemed to be ok till there was an explosion and he was thrown about ten feet from the door. He was unconscious when I got to him." Gibbs said
"How was he?" Vance asked
"Unconscious Leon you have to check on him." Gibbs said
"Ok I'll head over and see what I can find out? How is the rest of the team?" Vance asked
"Ok just worried about Tony." Gibbs said as he hung up and continued to try and finish his job hoping he could get something accomplished. Gibbs started toward his team when he stopped. Tony had been thrown ten feet and his badge was lying next to him where his gun was. He followed the course that Tony was thrown and there at the door he found his gun laying on the steps. It got him thinking about why he had it drawn in the first place. As he picked it up the local cop wondered up to him.
"Sir what are you doing?" He asked
"Trying to figure out why my agent had drew his weapon when it was to be a simple interview. His gun was laying here while he was thrown ten feet away from the door." Gibbs said
"Well when I have something, I'll let you know and I am sorry about your agent." He said as Gibbs left to go back to his crime scene. As he approached the house he was greeted by Ducky.
"Jethro I have heard about Anthony how is he?" Ducky asked
"Don't know he was unconscious when they took him in the ambulance." Gibbs said as he ran his hand across his head. He came to a stop as he was wondering what was going through his head and what he wanted more was to know Tony was ok.
"Jethro he is strong and he will pull through this." Ducky said
"I know um back to the case, you got TOD?" Gibbs asked
"Yeah between one and two am, but I'll know more when I get him home." Ducky said
"Ok see you back at the yard." Gibbs said as he went to check on his team. They were putting all the evidence into the truck.
"Boss were done everything is bagged and tagged and ready to go back to Abby." McGee said
"Ok then let's go Vance is going to the hospital to check on Tony the quicker we get this done the quicker we can go see him." Gibbs said as the three of them got into the truck to head to the navy yard.