It was a dark evening at the office. It was quite quiet. The team had just wrapped up a big case or so they thought, until Gibbs was called up to M-TAC.
"Agent Gibbs, Upstairs. Now." Vance hollered from the hallway right outside from M-TAC.
Gibbs went upstairs to meet him. The two men entered the room and Abby was already inside. She was standing in the corner of the room with her arms crossed across her mid section. She looked concerned yet determined.
"Director? What is going on? Why is Abby in here?" Gibbs questioned Vance as he walked forward and plopped down into the seat in front of the screen.
"Eddie Franturo." Vance pointed to the big screen. "He is a Spanish operative that needs to be taken down. He has been collecting information on the US Navy for months and Secnav has reasons to believe the information is about to go viral across the seaboard. He needs to be tracked down and stopped."
Gibbs stood up, and pointed to the door, "Okay, so let me go get some of my agents, Ziva? Dinozzo? Tim?" He looked straight at Abby and slightly tilted his head in discomfort. He didn't know if he could do it. Just let Abby go somewhere again unprotected. He had a gut feeling that for whatever reason Vance was sending Abby, that something wasn't right. It could be a set up.
"I have asked Abby because of her forensic and tracking abilities. Plus, I have a new case coming in that I will need Agents David and Dinozzo for." Vance insisted.
Gibbs shook his head, "Leon, I don't like this. Not one bit."
"Gibbs, it is an order. I am taking Abby to Spain." Vance strictly motioned.
Gibbs quickly turned and looked at the door and then to back at Abby….he kissed her cheek and whispered in her ear, "I'll keep my eye on you in Spain." He turned around and strolled out of M-TAC.
Vance ushered Abby out of M-TAC and took a different hallway.
Abby was a little flustered. The last time she went somewhere, well for one she went to Mexico as herself and she was with McGee. But this time, this time, not only was she going undercover but she was going to be alone. Given she was going to be in the background of it all, she still knew she would miss her team, and she then began to think and pump herself up to find this bastard, so she could return to her team safe and sound very soon. "Sooner, rather than later…." She whispered as she quickly collected her things from the lab and left.