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I am shocked by how many of you alerted and reviewed this story so far just on one chapter. I am very thankful! Since I cannot reply to any anonymous reviews, I replied to everyone at the end of the chapter (it is not fair to shout out to certain reviewers and no one else).
This way you do not have to scroll forever to just read the story. I also did not know it is rare for it to snow in Virginia in mid-October. I apologize that I did not look into the weather more carefully before I typed the last chapter up. (In Japan, we often got snow at random times during the fall and winter time frame plus very BREEZY cold weather.)
Any towns that are mentioned most likely do not exist and if they do, please to do not take offense to them if I get any information that is wrong.
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Chapter Two- Tracked
-Beep!-
-Beep!-
'Odd…why is that alarm going off?' McGee thought.
-Beep!-
After several more sounds, McGee weakly turned and hit the off button the alarm. Opening his eyes, the young man felt his head pounding. He had gotten at least six hours of sleep but his head was pounding. The motel room was cold and McGee shivered even from underneath the blankets of the bed. Deciding he needed to get back on the road…slowly got up and got dressed.
As he was getting dressed, he heard another beep and he grimaced slightly. It was his pre-paid phone he had bought to stop the NCIS team from being able to track him (with the exception of Gibbs). Opening it, he saw the text message was from Sarah, his sister. He originally gave Sarah his new number in case the "thugs" went after Sarah. Since they had told him hits were out on the NCIS team, McGee had no doubts they would try to target his sister. He hit the 'read' button the cell phone and read the message:
"Tim, where are you? You haven't answered any of my texts or calls. Please text me back."
He let out a depressed sigh and knew his sister must be worried sick about him. Sighing, he knew she would eventually give his teammates his cell phone number if he did not answer back. Tim dialed in her phone number and called her.
'Okay, keep it under a minute,' he reminded himself. Though Ziva and Tony most likely lacked the ability to trace numbers as fast as he did, the young agent knew Abby did not. She was just as gifted as he was when it came to tracing anything (and he really meant anything). He rubbed his head as he heard the other line ringing. He really did not feel good and he needed to leave before Gibbs had any chance in trying to catch him.
"Tim, where are you?" Sarah's voice sounded from the other line. Her voice sounded wide awake. It was rather odd his sister was up at 5:30 in the morning.
"I am taking a bit of vacation time," McGee lied.
"You are a bad liar. Tim, Ziva and Tony have been by three times in the past two days asking if I have contacted you. Something is wrong," Sarah continued on.
McGee felt his eyes narrow. Sarah's voice sounded very edgy than her normal self…
"Keep him going," Tony whispered into Sarah's ear. Sarah nodded as Tony, Ducky, Vance, and Ziva watched Abby type rapidly on the computer.
DiNozzo watched Abby on worry, some part of his heart praying that McGee's location would be found. Ziva had stayed silent as she tried very hard to not let her emotions get a hold of her. Abby had been deprived of sleep as she also had only slept a few hours the previous night, though her face seemed determined. Ducky was really worried about Timothy and Gibbs and hoped they would get their teammate back home safely. Vance resided with the team only to make sure no laws were being broken from the rest of the team than necessary. Everyone was determined to get their teammate back home and safe.
Gibbs had told everyone to be into work at 5:00 AM that morning because he had located McGee's car the previous evening. The Senior Field Agent stated he would watch McGee's car until the young agent would try to leave. Vance had decided to show up because he knew something was very wrong with the young agent on Gibbs' team.
No one had been awake by the time Gibbs had pulled into a motel on the outside of the town. He managed to find an all night café where he managed to get himself some good coffee and a decent breakfast.
"I…look Sarah. I really need to go. I am just telling you that I am fine, so please quit trying to contact me," Tim stated through the line.
"No you are my brother, Timothy McGee! Tell me the truth!" Sarah yelled into the phone more anger than intended.
"Sorry Sarah. I can't," her brother answered as he was trying to cut the conversation short.
"No, you can! Ziva told me that there were hits out on them. Come on home, Tim, please! They found the guys that placed the hits on you!" Sarah pleaded once more. This part was very true. Ziva had noticed someone watching her house two days ago and when the man tried to fire a gun at her, she had easily managed to take the man down.
As she took him into custody, the man easily spilled his guts about why he was watching her house. It turned out to lead information about a man named James Robertson. He was a man that Gibbs had put away almost ten years ago; right after Tony had joined NCIS with Gibbs.
However, Gibbs had barely been reachable the entire time he was chasing after McGee. Gibbs had immediately put in comp time to chase after McGee and had left no notice for the team than besides a letter to Vance (which was slightly abnormal for the older man to do so in the first place).
"Goodbye Sarah, I have to go. I love you," McGee finished and hung up the phone. Sarah resisted the urge slam the phone onto the floor. Her brother was never that stubborn when they were younger! She had no doubt that Gibbs helped give him that stubborn attitude.
An awkward silence fell upon the people in Abby's lab as she continued to type, actually managing to get a location on McGee's phone. Sadly, with him using a pre-paid phone, the trace would only if McGee was on the phone.
"Okay so is going to tell the boss man?" Tony asked. He instantly regretted it as everyone in the lab stared at him and he gulped. Sighing, he pulled out his cell phone and called Gibbs. He would need to know about the information.
Gibbs set watching McGee's car, waiting for his agent to come to it. When he had finally called everyone back in DC to ask to get Sarah to help him find McGee's location, he was rather shocked to learn of James Robertson. A few minutes Tony called with more information and his oldest agent seemed on edge. It was understandable he guessed.
Tony and Gibbs had busted him for illegal human trafficking when a female Navy major was kidnapped. Luckily, they had managed to save almost 15 men, women, and children before they were gone. Robertson vowed he would settle the score with Gibbs and it appeared he had.
The criminal no longer had the contacts to put actual hits out on the team but he did have enough resources to trick McGee, but why did trick McGee and not come after Tony or himself? Gibbs had the wisdom to (not to mention the skills) to easily protect his team and Tony would have come straight to Gibbs.
Yet why did he target McGee? How was he contacting McGee? He took a sip of his coffee as he continued to stare out of the window. McGee had been clever the previous evening when he hid his car between semi vehicles. However, the young agent failed to notice he had parked his car at an all night café. By the time Gibbs had arrived in town, he had only been there five minutes when he spotted McGee's snow covered car by a semi truck.
Sighing, Gibbs threw his coffee away and walked out of the café quietly as he took out a lock and started to pick at McGee's car. Within several seconds, he managed to unlock the passenger door and slid into the back seat. Lying down, he was surprised to find the few bags McGee had. His laptop (which Gibbs wondered if any evidence could be taken off of it by Abby), his work bag, and what appeared to be a suitcase.
Fixing himself carefully between the bags to be hidden from vuew, Gibbs waited and whispered to himself, "Come on McGee."
McGee used cash to pay for his motel room and walked slowly out his car, as he watched the area for Gibbs. He rubbed his head and shrugged. He did not sleep good and his head felt like it was pounding. Not to mention he had tried eating breakfast but he started to cough when he was eating. His assumption that be had been getting sick was true.
Shivering, he looked around one more time to see if he saw Gibbs (you could never be too careful with a Marine following you) and he opened his car door with his keys, as he climbed in. Placing a small bag in the passenger seat, he noticed that there was some wet snow on the seat.
'Why would that be there?' He thought, though before he could think much further on the snow, he jumped when he heard an awful familiar voice.
"Hello McGee."
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