The Hardest Part

by My Whole Life Is Thunder

It started out as a normal day but as one Very Special Agent knows all too well. For our favorite team normal days are the worst sense of false security. So when what was supposed to be an average case turns into tragedy for one of their own. It isn't a shock. Now Team Gibbs must rally to support their friend in his time of need.

1. Prologue: Tragedy Coming

Tony sat at his desk and stared blankly ahead. It was a normal day. Too normal one of those days that all Tony's life seemed to lure him into a false sense of security then. BOOM! It all went wrong, The day his mom died, the day Kate died, Jenny and the day Gibbs was blown up. He prayed he was wrong but something inside him told him that something bad was about to go wrong. He knew it was his gut and that Gibbs always told him to trust his gut and so he did. He just kept his mouth shut so that McGee and Ziva wouldn't accuse him of acting like Gibbs. Yes it was a normal day.

McGee was playing a game on his computer with Ziva keeping lookout for Gibbs.

Ziva had her feet propped on her desk polishing he knife.

Abby was down in her lab blaring music and drinking too many Caf-Pows.

Gibbs was down with Ducky.

As for Tony he was lost in thought.

Suddenly the elevator dinged. Ziva continued polishing her knife but swung her legs down to the ground and McGee shut off the computer game and pretended to be doing paperwork.

"LOOK SHARP!" Gibbs barked.

Tony sprang to attention.

"Gear up two dead bodies off the bike path at Rock Creek one Petty Officer one civilian!" Gibbs called.

Tony was on edge the whole drive and when they arrived. His gut screamed when they got to the bike path and he recognized the bike of one of the victims.

"No it's just a coincidence." He told himself.

"McGee bag and tag! David with me! DiNozzo point and shoot!" Gibbs called.

The team jumped on Gibbs's orders. Tony bent down beside the bodies and carefully pulled the sheet back on the Marine she had been identified be her dog tags as Petty Officer First Class Kristine Monique. Then he pulled back the sheet on the civilian. He gasped in horror and dropped the camera.

"Please God no." Tony whispered.

"Something wrong DiNozzo?" Gibbs asked.

"Yeah Boss something is wrong very wrong." Tony replied.

A/N: Cliffhanger! Who is the civilian and why did it upset Tony so much? This is going to be a relatively short story only about five chapters and will be updated sporadically. Please review and thanks for reading. Oh and I have a poll on my profile and votes would be appreciated.