McGee sat with Kate in the back of the ambulance. His opinion toward her uncertain, so many questions circled his mind as to why she did what she did. Kate was unconscious, had been since the car had hit the building. She was oblivious to all that was around her. Kate felt no pain, but on the other hand she was unable to tell her part of the story therefore allowing her collegues to form their own theories about what had happened, and about her.

"This doesn't seem real" He uttered under his breath.

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"How's he doing Ducky?" Asked Gibbs while they waited for the second ambulance to arrive.

"He'd have been better if someone hadn't run him over"

"That didn't answer my question, Duck!" Said Gibbs with a raised voice.

Gibbs crouched down at Tony's side. He briefly opened his eyes and looked directly up at Gibbs.

"Tell me where it hurts most Tony, its important" Asked Gibbs taking full advantage of the couple of seconds he was conscious.

"My legs...I can't move them"

Gibbs rolled up his jacket and placed it under Tony's head.

"Careful Jethro, he may have a neck injury" Said Ducky.

"Damn you Kate, what the hell posessed you to do this?" Gibbs asked.

It was only then that the acrid smoke smell reached them. The car was nearly engulfed in flames, the heat of the damaged engine had ignited the fuel feeding it.

"Jethro, if that hits the fuel tank..."

"Then we are mega screwed. We need to get some distance"

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The paramedic looked at his collegue and laughed.

"Some of the things we see in this job never stop surprising me" He said.

"Like what?" His partner said puzzled.

"Well, how unlucky have you got to be to get hit by a car in the middle of a field?" He continued to laugh.

"Did you're mother never tell you not to laugh at another's misfortune?" Said the older man.

The ambulance was quarter of a mile out and still heard the crack of the car explosion from there.

"What the hell?" They said together.

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The paramedics reached the field and saw that there was only debris where the car used to be, they felt a sick feeling to pits of their stomachs.

"I think we're too late" He said, and then noticed Ducky's flailing arms from the long yellow grass, and rushed over.

"I didn't expect it to be this bad" Said the youngest.

"That's why you're still learning, kid" Said his superior.

"Whats the story?" Asked the young paramedic.

Jethro opened his mouth and took a breath to give a potted history of what had happened, but found himself cut off by Ducky.

"The 'story', young sir, is that he's got open fractures of both legs and is in shock due to heavy internal bleeding" The doctor had spoken.

Without chatter and unnecessary niceties they got Dinozzo quickly able to be moved and into the ambulance in record time.

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McGee was waiting out by the ambulance bay for Gibbs to arrive. He had already be physically sick after replaying the nightmare. It stuck in his head like a song he couldn't stop singing. He watched Gibbs' face as he stepped out of the ambulance, it spoke a thousand words, that Tony's fate was no longer something he could control, but it was in the hands of complete strangers.

"How's Kate doing?" Was the first thing his boss asked him.

"They said she's stable but there appears to be a head injury, a bad one, she's in a room in the ICU" McGee replied "Is Tony going to be OK".

"He's losing too much blood too fast. His heart stopped on the way here, they had to restart it." Said Ducky.

McGee didn't answer simply because there was nothing t say.

"Kate had better wake up soon, she's got some explaining to do" Said Gibbs and proceeded to stalk inside the hospital building.

"Jethro, please don't judge the girl before you know the whole story" Warned the wise words of Ducky.

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The young paramedic stepped back inside the ambulance he'd been driving. He'd stood within earshot to hear the conversation Gibbs had just had with McGee and Ducky. He wiped the symapthetic, professional paramedics look off of his face and instead it transformed into a grin from ear to ear. Kate's demise was what he had intended, and he knew he wanted revenge on Dinozzo too eventually, but had always thought that would have to be a whole separate mission. For it to have played out like this was something he could only have dreamed of. He had killed two birds with one stone. To say mission acomplished' would be an understatement.