The following story is Part 2 of the story "A Link to the Past" and picks up where Part 1 left off. This part occurs a couple weeks later.
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Friday
Chapter 1
After getting out of a long hard day's work at NCIS Headquarters, Abby goes to a local restaurant to meet up with Jamie for dinner. Jamie is running a little late, but eventually gets to the restaurant and sits at the table with Abby. The two of them are sitting at a table by the huge front window.
"Sorry I'm late."
"That's no problem, Jamie."
"There was a huge accident that held me up. It's amazing how some people actually have a driver's licenses these days."
"I know what you mean." Abby agreed. "By the way, since you were running late I took the liberty of ordering you the lobster platter."
"Ah, my favorite. Thank you."
"Obviously it's your favorite since you order it every single time we're here."
"Do I really?"
"Yes."
"I didn't even notice. What can I say… I'm a lobster girl. Besides, I find lobsters to be tremendously sexy."
"Of course… How can anyone not find a lobster to be sexy?"
"For one thing, they're red."
"And they have claws. The claws are the sexiest part of a lobster."
"Got that right! But you know what they say about a lobster with big claws…"
Suddenly, the two girls hear the screeching of a fast-moving car. A car is now racing down the street.
"What in the world is going on out there?" Abby wondered.
"I have no idea. Probably bad driver's causing more accidents." Jamie stated.
The two girls now hear gun-fire as the car zooms in front of the restaurant. The window they're sitting next to begins to break as bullets fly through it. Abby and Jamie slip out of their chairs and lay on the floor. A body comes crashing through the window and lands on their table as bullets continue to fly through. The blood quickly drips off the table and onto the floor below, right in front of Abby and Jamie. The gun-fire stops as the car drives off into the night. The two girls stand up; Abby much slower than Jamie to stand. They look at the bullet-filled dead body on the table. Abby starts feeling lightheaded as she leans to the right. Abby has an agonizing facial expression. She glances down at her right side, the side of her body that was facing the window. She looks at Jamie. Abby is holding her right side.
"What's wrong, Abs?" Jamie asked in concern for her friend.
"Call 911." Abby said with an expression of pain on her face.
Abby falls to the floor and pumps out of her wound. Jamie immediately kneels right next to Abby and places her left hand on Abby's wound to apply pressure to it. With her right hand, Jamie takes the cell-phone from her purse and immediately calls 911. After calling the emergency help line, she then calls Gibbs. Once both phone-calls are made, she drops the cell-phone and places her right hand above her left, to apply even more pressure to Abby's wound. Abby starts coughing up blood at this point.
"Hold on, Abs. Help is on the way. Don't you die on me."
Within a couple minutes three ambulances arrive. Two paramedics immediately take care of Abby, who is the most severely wounded out of everybody. The other paramedics go around the restaurant to check on other people who have injuries.
Once the paramedics are Abby stabilized enough, they put her on a stretcher in order to rush her to the hospital. As they're rushing Abby to the ambulance, Gibbs and the team arrive. Gibbs immediately rushes to Abby's side.
"Abby, can you hear me?" Gibbs asked of Abby as he places his hand in hers.
Abby is unresponsive to Gibbs. She doesn't even move her eyes, as if she isn't conscious enough to realize Gibbs is there. Abby coughs up more blood. Gibbs looks to Jamie.
"What happened, Jamie?"
"We were having dinner and suddenly bullets started flying through the window."
"Sir, you're going have to either come with us, or stay behind." One of the paramedics said as the stretcher is being placed inside the ambulance.
Gibbs and Jamie hop into the ambulance. Before the door closes, he looks toward Tony and Ziva who are standing near the ambulance door.
"Find out what happened here! And why!"
The ambulance door closes. The siren blares. The ambulance speeds off down the street. Tony, Ziva and McGee are left at the restaurant in order to find out why the man on the table was being shot at and also to gather any evidence.
When the ambulance finally arrives at the hospital, Abby is rushed into the main area of emergency room, where the receptionist and waiting room are. Just before entering the actual emergency room itself, the doctor who will be taking care of Abby's wound comes out from an employee door.
"Doc, she's with NCIS." Gibbs said to the doctor.
"I take good care of agents. She's in good hands with me."
The doors of the actual emergency room open and Abby is rushed through. Gibbs and Jamie can't go any further than this point. The two of them watch as the doors close. Gibbs and Jamie feel so helpless.