Author's Note: Okay, so like I've only been watching NCIS for like two and a half years but I do love it and I have seen most of the episodes but not all of them so sorry if I screw anything up like majorly or anything like that.

Disclaimer: Yeah right, like I could even imagine owning NCIS or any of the characters.

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The sniper lay perched on the roof of the warehouse and watched as the bullet whizzed through the air heading towards the three NCIS special agents who stood laughing on the roof across from him.

He resist whispering, "Sorry Caitlin," as the bullet approached its target.

Unfortunately for him and Special Agent Anthony DiNozzo the wind shifted at the last possible second and lodged itself into DiNozzo's shoulder.

Special Agents Leroy Jethro Gibbs and Caitlin Todd spun around to face the direction the bullet had come from and started to shot in his general direction as DiNozzo fell to his knees screaming in pain.

Ari Haswari swore under his breath as he quickly let off a second round and the made his escape.

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Gibbs was pissed, no he was beyond pissed. Someone had taken shots at his people and even managed to injure DiNozzo, and Gibbs would have bet his boat that the shooter was none other than that bastard Ari Haswari.

He couldn't prove it yet but there was no way in hell Gibbs was gonna let that terrorist bastard get away. Again.

For the moment though he had to concentrate at the problem at hand. DiNozzo was lying face down in a pool of his own blood barely conscious and Kate was kneeling over him trying to stop the bleeding while at the same time shouting into her phone for an ambulance.

It was a rare occurrence when Gibbs didn't know what to do and he tended not to show it, but for the first time in a very long time the man was powerless. He couldn't move, he could think straight and he sure as hell could do much more than stare helplessly at DiNozzo's frail, blood soaked body.

By the time the ambulance had arrived DiNozzo had already lost consciousness and a whole lot of blood.

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Kate couldn't believe what had just happened. One minute she was standing talking to Gibbs and Tony, the next minute she was on her knees trying to stop Tony's bleeding just enough to buy some time for the ambulance to get there.

Kate wanted to ride in the ambulance with her injured partner but was prevent from doing so by one of the EMTs.

She watched as the ambulance disappeared with DiNozzo and turned to see Gibbs storming off in the direction of the Warehouse where the shooter was.

"Where are you going Gibbs?" she asked.

"To look for evidence Kate," Gibbs said without looking back, "so we can get that bastard Haswari for good."

Kate didn't need an invitation or an order to head after him and she couldn't help thinking that she could have ended this a long time ago if she had only just stabbed Ari in Autopsy.

She should have let his eyes stop her, after all eyes do lie. Sometimes.

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Special Agent Timothy McGee heard Kate ask Gibbs where he was going, he heard Gibbs answer and somewhere in the back of his mind he registered Kate walking after Gibbs, but for the life of him, McGee couldn't figure out why he was still standing by the car watching after the ambulance even though it was long gone.

He had only caught a slight glimpse of Tony as the EMTs carried him to the ambulance but it was enough. Tony was covered in blood and lying motionlessly as he was quickly being pushed into the back of the ambulance.

He was being forever taunted, teased and annoyed by DiNozzo but seeing the man like that struck something inside him he couldn't quiet place.

"McGee get your ass up here!" he heard Gibbs yell from the roof of the warehouse.

"On it Boss!" McGee responded in a shout before taking off in the direction Kate and Gibbs had taken.

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It was so dark and it hurt so badly.

Tony was lost, he couldn't understand.

What happened?

Where was he?

Why couldn't he move?

He tried to speak. Call out for Gibbs, Kate or even McGee, but he couldn't.

Why couldn't he do anything?

The darkness around him cleared to a thick fogginess and Tony heard someone who sounded eerily like a doctor order someone to prep the patient for surgery.

In the brief moment before unconsciousness overtook him again, Tony was gripped by an awful sense of panic.

Who was the patient?

Was it Gibbs?

Kate?

McGee?

Then he remembered the pain, the warm wetness of his of his blood against his skin, Kate calling out to him telling him to stay with her and then nothing.

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Ari Haswari sat on a plane heading for Paris, a smug smile resting on his lips.

The incident on the warehouse roof didn't go as planned, but he did leave his mark and he was alive.

There was always next time.

Author's Note: Okay tell me, tell me please what do you think. Review me please, please, pleeeeease!