Chapter 1
Abby walked
into NCIS that morning, very happy. She went into her lab and started
her equipment up and turned her music on. She smiled as Tony
walked through the door. Her smile faded as she saw his grim
face. "Uh oh! I've seen that face only twice.
Once when Gibbs was caught in the bomb and the other was when…"
She gulped, "Kate was killed. I wonder what happened." Tony looked Abby in the face and Abby's breath
quickened as she got nervous. "Abby, something's happened…."
He stopped talking. Abby started to get impatient with all of
the suspense, "Tony! Just tell me!" Tony exhaled
deeply, "Something bad has happened." Abby bit her lip and
asked in a small voice, "What? What's wrong?!" "There
was a covert operation last night, as you probably know. Ziva,
McGee and Gibbs were undercover for it. Do you remember?"
Abby nodded, "Yeah, Gibbs needed me to set up the microphones and
cameras. Why?" Tony took another deep breath and said,
"Something went horribly wrong…" "What?" "Abby, I'm
sorry." "Tony! Just tell me!"
Tony put his arm on Abby's shoulder and gently squeezed, "Abby, a
bomb went off and…" Tony choked on his words, "…and Gibbs,
Ziva and McGee…were in the room…when it detonated." Abby
gasped, "What?!? McGee and Gibbs… Ziva…!" Abby
stuttered, "Where are they now?" Tony sighed deeply, "Well,
Gibbs is at Bethesda, they're not sure if he will make it, while
Ziva and McGee are downstairs," Tony paused. "In
autopsy…" "WHAT!?! NO!!! THIS CAN'T BE
HAPENNING! WHY THEM!?!" Abby yelled in anger. Tony's pager went
off. He hugged Abby saying, "I'm sorry Abs. I have to go."
He left and Abby just stood there, a mixture of shock, anger, and
sadness covering her face.
"This can't
be happening! Why did it have to be them? Couldn't it have been
some FBI agent instead? That would have still been terrible, but at
least it wouldn't be anyone I loved!" Abby was startled by her
phone suddenly ringing. She picked it up; it was the hospital calling
about Gibbs, "Hello?" "Miss Scuito?" "Yes...." "We were
told by a Doctor Mallard to call you if anything happened. We are
very sorry miss, but Mr. Gibbs didn't make it. He died about 15
minutes ago…" Abby hung up before the woman
was finished talking. Her chest felt heavy with emotion. The world
became fuzzy through her eyes while the air seemed to become thick as
molasses. After that, there was only
darkness.
On The Plane
Abby sat bolt upright in her seat and took a deep breath of cool air. She looked around the small private aircraft. Gibbs and Ducky were sitting in front of her while Tony and McGee were sitting on the couch, and Ziva was sitting beside her. Gibbs and Ducky were immersed in their conversation on the case. Tony was reading a GSN magazine, McGee was listening to a MIT lecture on his MP3 player, and Ziva was reading a novel.
Abby exhaled deeply. Ziva looked over to Abby, "Abby, are you OK?" "Yeah, I'm fine. Really bad dream. Really, REALLY bad dream." Ziva put her finger on her page, "Want to talk about it?" Abby nodded and said, "Surprisingly, I do." Ziva put up her finger as if to say one second. She grabbed her bookmark and putting her book away, she turned towards Abby, "Go ahead, I'm listening."
Abby took another deep breath and started to tell Ziva about her dream. As Abby finished, she said, "I don't know why, but I have a feeling that something bad is going to happen." Ziva bit her lip, "Same here. I keep having one of those, as Gibbs would call it, 'A gut feeling', that something bad is going to happen."
Abby turned towards the window and looked out. Grey clouds sparked with lightning while thunder cracked around their plane. Abby quickly turned towards Ziva as Ziva turned towards Abby. Their eyes widened and they both were thinking the same thing, "Uh oh! Something bad IS going to happen. I can feel it…!"
Tony put away his magazine and buckled his seat belt while McGee tightened his. Gibbs and Ducky had ceased their conversation. The whole plane was silent except for the frequent cracks of thunder. Everyone became tense.
Abby started to shake because she was so nervous. Ziva reached over and gently patted her hand as if to say "Do not worry." Abby looked into Ziva's eyes and although her body language showed no signs of nervousness, her eyes showed that she was full of fear. Abby moved her hand and said, "Ziva, are you alright?" Ziva shrugged, "Yes, I am fine. Why do you ask?"
"You look scared." "You do too," Ziva said. "Not what I mean Ziva. You never show your emotions, because that's what you do. But you look scared, and I've never seen that before." Ziva sighed, "I was taught to not show my emotions. But I am scared."
All of a sudden a bolt of lighting burst out of a cloud. It hit the left side of the plane and part of the left wing broke off. Abby gasped as the wing dropped downwards into the dark abyss. The whole plane started to shake. Abby whimpered in fear.
The plane dropped a couple hundred feet and Tony screamed, "Boss! I'm sorry for everything that I've ever did wrong!" Gibbs yelled back, "Tony! Never apologize!" "Well, I thought that if I'm going to die, I may as well apologize for all my doings and get it off my chest before…" "DiNozzo!" Gibbs interrupted, "We're not going to die!" "But Boss!" "DINOZZO! WE ARE NOT GOING TO DIE!"
The winds picked up, rain had started and it was pounding on the metal sides of the plane. All of a sudden the plane started an even more rapid decent. Ziva put her arms on the back of Gibbs' seat. Crossing them, she put her head where they met. Abby looked over and saw what Ziva was doing. She realized that Ziva had put herself into a brace position. Abby copied what Ziva had done and got ready.
The plane descended further. Other than the sound of rain, winds, and Abby's whimpers of fear, there was one last sound that rang through out the cabin. It was Gibbs' voice yelling as loud as he could, "Everyone! Brace positions! We're going to crash!" After that there was only silence...
