Disclaimer: I do not own NCIS
Warnings: None in this one.
A/N: I've always loved NCIS, and now that found some courage I've posted this story. So be gentle, be burtal, read, whatever!
People Within The City of No Name
"Um Agent Gibbs, you might want to come look at this"
Usually when a statement like that is said, ninety-nine percent of the time it's another dead body, and with the way the young officer fidgeted Tim was positive, it wasn't a pretty sight. A loud boom of thunder from above had the young agent inwardly groaning and praying that they make it back to the Yard before the rain fell as he followed his Boss to the second body.
…Well there was a body.
In front of him Gibbs cursed.
"Oh dear" Ducky gasp, Palmer turned pale.
Behind him Tony and Ziva, who had followed stared shock, and he just looked at those blank eyes that stared back, familiar blank eyes.
"When we located the second body, my partner heard a noise coming from the storage, we thought it might have been a suspect trying to hide, so we had it open and….found them" the officer informed, he glanced nervously at the bodies huddled together in a single corner, their eyes now turned to curiosity, the officer then looked down, and paled when he saw the dozen of dead bodies, young and empty.
He looked away.
"Ziva ambulance, tell them to bring more than one truck. Tony pictures. McGee search the area for any more bodies" Gibbs ordered.
Ziva and Tony scrambled to do as they were told, though they did give glances at the storage, no one but Palmer seem to notice how quiet and blank Tim was, as he did what he was told.
The two dead bodies were Lt. Stan Lee-yes Tony, Stan Lee- and Capt. Johan.
Tim didn't care about that.
Of course he cared, but he was more worried about the children that were found and taken to the hospital.
"Dragged is more like" he thought, as he absent mindedly started going over Capt. Johan's financial records.
His ears still could hear the shrieks of panic, confusion, and fear. His eyes could still see the children, as Officers carried the bodies out the storage and into the ambulance truck, weak bodies struggling to be free.
And as much as he wanted to follow the blaring trucks as they took off, he didn't. For one thing, the Boss would kill him for just leaving the crime scene, the other was well….personal.
"McGee, go down to Abby, see what she found. Tony, Ziva, interview the wives"
The rest of the day, he was on auto-polite, his body doing as it was told, but his mind was on those children, and blocking memories that he prefer to remain blocked.
It was nearly midnight when Gibbs ordered them to go home, and he was surprised at how relieved he felt as he packed his things, and wasn't aware at the curious and slightly worried looks he received, nor how Ziva quickly shoved her things in her bag and all but ran to met him at the elevator.
"Are you alright McGee?" she asked as they rode down.
Tim briefly wondered if he should lie, but then remembered he couldn't lie worth a damn.
"No" he sighed, leaning his head back against the elevator wall.
"It's the children that we found, that's what has you bothered yes" it wasn't a question, and he didn't deny it.
"We are all shaken up by today's find" Ziva said.
Tim nodded, not trusting himself to speak.
"But they are safe now, the hospital will take excellent care of them"
The elevator was silent.
It didn't take long to find the hospital, he did feel guilty though for taking nearly a week to actually go through with the impulse he had since day one, that and for ditching work.
"Gibbs is going to murder me, then hang my body and let Tony, Ziva and Abby use it like a piñata" Tim thought with dread as he pulled up to the hospital, the image of him dangling from a tree branch, with Gibbs watching in the background as Tony, blindfolded took an aim at him with a broom stick. Abby and Ziva were cheering him on from behind him, oddly enough they were all wearing sombreros, even Gibbs.
"I've been hanging around Tony too much" he mumbled to himself as he got out the car, and headed to the front desk, pushing the thought out of his head.
All it took was a flash of his badge, and a nurse was leading him to the children's ward.
"They haven't spoken to anyone since they got here. We had to sedate them just to treat them, the poor things were terrified" the female nurse Jamie explained, "and that FBI Agent isn't making it any better, yelling and threatening about, scaring the poor dears"
She then gave him a hard look, to which Tim easily decoded and gave a reassuring smile.
"Don't worry Ma'am, I won't cause any trouble" he said, "I'm just here to help"
Jamie raised a curious brow, but said nothing else for they finally arrived at the room where the children were all staying in.
"You're not surprised?" Jamie asked, when she explained that the children refused to stay in their own rooms, and were often found all together in one room, the doctors and nurses quickly learned it was the best to leave them be for now.
"Like I said, I'm here to help" Tim said, not ready to go into full details, you can never be ready wwhen it comes to something like that.
"And how the hell are you going to do that?"
Jamie's annoyed sigh told Tim that the man behind him was the possibly the FBI Agent that was causing so much trouble.
"Agent McGee?"
"Hello Agent Fornell"
"You know this kid, Tobias?" asked the man standing next to Tobias.
"He's one of Gibbs's Agents" Tobias said, looking questioningly at McGee.
The man raised a brow, and looked around Tim as though expecting Gibbs to pop up out of thin air, and considering how many near hear-attacks he experienced, Tim also thought the same thing.
"What's NCIS want with these kids? They're our problem"
Tim frowned at the way the man's tone of voice and look when he referred to the kids, as though this whole thing was an unpleasant and unnecessary chore.
"Maybe it was a good thing that I called him"
Tim also thought that if the man knew what he did, he would be at the Yard banging on the Director's door, demanding that he be let in on their case of the two dead soldiers.
Because the children and the two dead soldiers were connected.
"Great now I sound like some cheesy fantasy movie, thank God Tony's not here"
"Actually Agent—?"
"Maxell"
"Agent Maxell, I'm here on my own time, I have….experience in this area and thought it would be good for both the children and the doctors if I helped" Tim said.
"Oh really?" Maxell said incredulously.
"Yes, now if you'll excuse me" Tim made a move for the door, but was stop by Maxell.
"You're not going anywhere, and exactly what kind of experience do you have?"
Neither men notice as Tobias quietly moved back, cell-phone in hand.
"DiNozzo! You got me those videos up yet!"
Tony flinched,
"Um well Boss, you see the uh screen is kind of well frozen" he said, and pressed another button on the keyboard, praying that it was the one that would save him from the Grim Reaper called Gibbs.
The Senior Agent let out a sound, that he will later admit in the privacy of his apartment, that was a squeak as he became nose to nose with Gibbs.
"Then. Unfreeze. It"
Tony nodded, deciding that non-verbal responses were safe at the moment.
"Ziva!"
Ziva, who had been looking-not hiding, Mossads do not hid from any danger, even the wrath that is Gibbs…at times - at her notes slowly looked up.
"Yes?"
"Did you get McGee?"
"No, but I le—"
"Try again! What!"
'You're in a good mood'
"What the hell do you want Tobias?"
'Just calling to let you know that your boy McGee is here at McArthur hospital'
Gibbs was at the garage, in the car and speeding down the road, before Tobias could even finish saying the word hospital.
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