Prologue
I was sitting at my desk leaning back with my eyes closed trying to ignore Tony's whining about how bad his life is. I was about to snap when Gibbs said "Gear up." I grabbed my bag and groaned when I saw Gibbs give the keys to Ziva; her driving reminded me of my step-father's. I hesitantly entered the car and buckled myself in and grabbed the handle my sister affectionately called the 'Oh Shit' handle. As Ziva started driving my grip tightened and my knuckles turned white. When we finally got to the crime scene, I jumped out and took a deep breath. I would have been kissing the lovely ground if I was with people who knew me well enough and I trusted with my very inner thoughts. We then started walking to the scene. Gibbs had told Tony to photograph the scene and to start bagging and tagging as Ziva and I checked the perimeter. Ziva and I went our separate ways around the tape. As I neared a dumpster I started to feel signals that I hadn't felt since I was 16 when my step-father was arrested. I edged around the dumpster before feeling a syringe in my leg. I gasped in surprise before grabbing the man and the syringe. I dragged him towards Tony and Gibbs as the familiar shakes were coming on. Just before I got to them I couldn't stand up any longer as the drug started to numb everything and my vision started to blacken at the edges. I dropped to the ground shaking harder as the shock of the drug in my system was so much harder after 15 years of being clean. Gibbs then grabbed the man and handed him to Tony, yelling at Ziva to do something but I couldn't make out what it was. He kneeled down next to me and said "What happened?"
"He was behind the dumpster…" I took a raspy breath before continuing "whatever is in that syringe is what is doing this to me."
"Do you need a hospital?"
I nodded when I realized that I couldn't get the words out. It seems it was doing the same it did to me as a kid. I started shaking harder and my vision started to blacken even more. Ziva then ran over with the EMT's. They got me on a stretcher and into the ambulance before I let myself fall into the blackness that was so harmful to me as a child.