Full Summary:
On the way back to his apartment from work, Tony is struck by a drunk semi-truck driver and thrown twenty feet into a telephone pole. Will he survive? And how do the others react to finding out that he's been in a car accident?
A Difficult Night:
Getting The Call:
Gibbs was still at the office when his cell rang. He picked it up and noticing he 'Unknown Caller' answered, most likely something referring to the case that they had just been handed. It had felt good to have Tony back at the office after his stay in the hospital. When he answered the phone, the realization that it had nothing to do with the case at hand at all hit him, hard.
"Agent Gibbs speaking."
"Agent Gibbs, this is Officer McCarty, I'm on the scene of a hit and run. I was told to call you. I suggest you and your team get down here."
"What's going on?"
"There's been an accident involving one of your team members. My senior officer must have worked with you guys before because he recognized our victim as one of your agents."
"We're on the way."
"We'll be here, we're still waiting for the ambulance to arrive, and they were coming from another scene so it might be a while."
Gibbs got off the phone and called all of his agents, when he couldn't get ahold of Tony, he prayed the agent was in his bed asleep and not the car that had gotten hit. The team met first back at the Navy Yard and then took their work vehicles to the crime scene. The paramedics had just pulled up and were getting everything they needed out of the back of the ambulance.
The Accident Scene:
"Agent Gibbs, I'm Officer McCarty, I'm the one that called."
"Where's my agent?"
"Medics are working on him now. Witnesses say the truck driver never saw his red light but that your agent's light was green. The truck hit the car and flung it into the telephone pole here. It took rescuers a while to get the car door open. I called you as soon as my senior officer saw who was in the car."
"The scene is ours. You guys can process all you want but we'll be doing the same as well."
"That won't be a problem Agent Gibbs. I'm Officer Jones; I helped you take those guys down at the Shipping Yard a few months ago."
"I remember you, you were very work oriented."
"That's what happens when your job is your family."
"I know what you mean. Do we know where the driver is?"
"No, and he could be home by now or in another county. It was a semi-truck driver. We put road blocks up almost immediately after we got the call. We had an off-duty officer on the scene when we got here; apparently he was headed home when the crash happened."
"We'll need to talk to him; after I make sure my agent is going to live."
"I'll give him your card so he can set up a time to come and talk to you."
"Thank you." Gibbs said handing over his card to the officer and then moving near the scene to see how Tony was doing. The others held back to give the medics room but Gibbs needed to see that Tony, for the time being, was still alive.
A Trip To The Hospital:
Gibbs rode with Tony in the ambulance so that the agent would know that he was not alone. He told the driver to head for Bethesda Naval Hospital, that he was a military cop and that his doctor was Dr. McCoy. The driver relayed the information over the radio and was told that Dr. McCoy would be in the ER when they got to the hospital.
Two minutes to the hospital, the medic in the back lost Tony's pulse and shouted that they needed to be at the hospital now. Gibbs looked back once and noticed the medic performing CPR. He prayed that Tony lived. When they got to the hospital, the medics yelled out a bunch of numbers on the way in and Gibbs saw Dr. McCoy standing in the background ready to jump in when they got into the hospital.
Dr. McCoy barely had time to nod to Gibbs before they raced Tony to the ER…
More to come in the next chapter…
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