The Torture of Timothy McGee

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Summary: When the unthinkable happens will McGee be able to survive the night of hellish torture or will it be too much for the probie to handle? Short drabble set sometime in season 2 (only due to a minor mention of Kate)

Spoilers: None that I can think of.

Warnings: again none I can think of. Actually maybe one or two minor bad words

A/N: Something that came to me at 4am when the internet was down on my phone AGAIN! Seriously 3 get with the program! Some of us have insomnia! *rant over*

The Torture of Timothy McGee

He felt trapped, completely isolated.

There was no doubt about it, Timothy McGee was well and truly screwed this time.

There he was, alone in the dark, with no connection to the outside world, no way to call for help, unable to even see his own hand an inch in front of his face.

He would never admit it, least of all to his still new team members, but he was scared shitless and he wasn't sure how much longer he could survive in these conditions.

There was no doubt in Tim's mind that the three 'stronger' members of team Gibbs could survive this hell; his boss and senior field agent would both probably thrive what he was failing to cope even five minutes of. Kate would probably do just as well as Gibbs or DiNozzo, what with all the training she would have had to undergone to protect the President of the United States, the Secret Service trained for these kind of situations didn't they?

McGee was almost positive Ducky and Abby would cope better than him too... well maybe not Abby, but the ME definitely would, not only would he find this a walk in the park but he would also have some long winded story to go along with the moment.

Running a hand through his hair, McGee noticed for the first time that his hand had begun to tremor, if the others saw him reacting like this DiNozzo and Todd would never let him hear the end of it, that is unless Gibbs kicked him off the team so fast he got whiplash... which seemed very likely at this point.

He couldn't believe how weak he was, on top of the shakiness of his hands, McGee's breath was beginning to hitch unnaturally.

What the fuck? Was he really having a panic attack over this? This had to be some sort of sick joke right? Was DiNozzo hiding around the corner with a video camera somewhere? He deserved Gibbs firing his worthless ass if this was his reaction.

How the hell was he meant to stand up to terrorists and murderers, bad-ass Marines and drugged up sailors, if he couldn't even survive an hour without the internet in a black out?

A/N: Now I know Tony was having just a hard a time of things in Power Down but he hasn't had to depend on technology the way our boy Timmy has.

This was originally set in present day NCIS world with Ziva instead of Kate however, I thought it suited newly minted MCRT Probie better... and now I didn't have a panic attack last night! Lol ironically the net came back up just after I finished typing this... but went down not even half an hour later :(

Thoughts?