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Chapter 1: Death and Fear
Sera Knight had just had the best night of her life, the after school party that the school held just before spring break had just ended. Now she was on her way home, her parents had told her to have fun but to be back by 11 and now... She looked at her watch that her dad had gotten her while he had been stationed in Japan for 2 years coming home for a month only twice in those two years. It was 20:30 or 10:30 to those who did not know Military time. Her father was now officialy out and was going to be working in Washington D.C., with her uncle Gibbs at NCIS (Naval Criminal Investigative Services). He of course was not her real uncle, but he was her godfather and since her parents were only children and her only living grandparent was in a nursing facility in upstate Maryland she was the only other family she had. She opened the gate to her backyard and was just about to shut it when she looked up to her house.
She could into the living room and ducked behind some bushes when she saw her parents on their knees hands over thier heads and men with guns and masks. Her mothers blonde hair covered her face but she could tell by the way her shoulders shook that she was crying and her father looked furious, she could just imagine her fathers brown eyes burning with anger. One man stepped forward and what ever he said caused her mothers head to shoot up and her father yell in rage at men. The men laughed and the other 2 pulled the triggers making each of her parents fall, slumped to the floor.
"Mom, dad, no." she whispered tears running down.
She backed down and out of the yard but before she could leave she heard a voice from someone now in the yard.
"Yes sir, the captains dead and so is the wife... No sir... No sir... We will find her don't worry she wont make it to anyone that will help her... Sir, NCIS HQ is over 200 miles away no way will she make it thier without us catching her... Yes sir, I won't let you down."
Once the voice was silent she ran down the road she ran until she got to the edge of town and then made a last minute decesion she headed up toward the woods, she would stick to the woods, going through Savage River State Forest which she knew there was a cabin with supplies for hikers at a center point, just in case hiker or campers lost everything to animals or in the water. from there she could take the back roads through Keyser, Romney, Augusta, Gore, and that was the only towns she knew once she reached the visitors center of the state forest...
"What am I think all I have to do is call my uncle and have him meet me at the visitors center, I just have to say where I will be."
She pulled her phone out of her pocket and stopped, what if they had everything bugged what if they knew to call him, what if... No she had to keep focused if she paniced, no she would get a map of the state when she got to the visitors center and she would go from thereIt was safer she would call him once she reached Alexandria. Setting off she hoped she would make it on foot.
Meanwhile at the NCIS HQ
Speacial Agent Leroy Jethro Gibbs rubbed his eyes as he walked out of Abby's lab and back to the bullpen. The team had just ended a case of a Navy doctor and his mistress both killed by the angry wife, she put two bullets in there bodies, and almost succeding in framing a member of his company. He smiled at the look on her face when they had arrived at her house and told her she was under arrest for the murder of her husband and his mistress.
"Hey boss," said Tony DiNozzo his second as he sat at his desk.
"What DiNozzo?"
"Nancy the Receptionist told me to give you this," he said handing the folded note to him.
Taken he read it:
~A girl called said she was little Sera and that she needed help and would be at your home in a few days.~
Looking at the letter he thought a moment she hated being referred to as little Sera ever since she found out she was named after her aunt a woman who had killed Sera's birth father. Why a few days? It should only take a few hours, she knew if she was in trouble why wait so long. More than likely she was in a fight with her parents and intended to stay with him over the spring break.
"What's up boss?" asked McGee.
"My neice is coming, better get home and prepare the guest room for her," he said gathering his things and without another word walked out.
The drive home was when he started to get worried. What if she was in serious trouble, what if something was wrong. No, if something serious was going on Conner would have called him and told him. Of course, when ever they all had a fight and she came to stay with him, he or his wife Carol would call not Sera. So why was she calling, and why hadn't he heard from Conner or Caorl. He pulled out his cell phone and dialed thier home phone.
'Ring' Ring' Ring'... "Hello you have reached the Knight residence we are unable to come to the phone right now please leave your message after the beep." 'Beep'.
"Yeah Conner, it's Jethro I got a call from Sera saying she would be here in a few days what's going on? Is everything all right, call me back when you can, bye."
Gibbs hung the phone up, something was off, at night someone was always home and if not their message usualy said how they could be reached. Something was wrong he could feel it, but he had to wait and ask Sera when she arrived in a few days.
2 days and 4 hours later Alexandria VA
Sera couldn't believe how tired she was, her feet felt like they were about break in two, and legs especially her knees felt like they were almost non-existent. She was cut up from walking in the woods, her who body was banged from the constant falling she had done whn she was in the woods and when she thought she was being followed. Now she stood in the city of Alexandria and her uncle was still at least 2 hours away and she was tired, sore, and hungry she didn't know how much farther she could go. She walked down the street, it was pretty empty and the only other people there was an elderly couple walking toward her, 2 kids probably meeting friends and a man taking his dog out. Her eyes began to droop and her body began to sway, she felt herself hit something and two arms come around her.
A voice that sounded distant and muffled said, "child are you alright, stay with me we will get you help, Martha call an ambulance get help."
She knew she needed to say something, "Agent Gibbs, NCI...S," and she promptly blacked out.