The elevator doors opened, and Tony rushed in, running straight into Gibbs and knocking his coffee back onto his clean shirt, staining it with a brown splotch. "DiNozzo, what the he-" "Abby. Gone. Letter to Ziva. Lab. Going. Now!" Tony gasped out, starting to bolt for the elevator again. Gibbs dropped the rest of the coffee, but was gone before the liquid could hit his shoes. "Stairs, DiNozzo!" "On it, Boss!" Tony yelled back, bolting after him.
Tony was speechless. Abby's lab was wrecked, but she wasn't in it. There were vials broken everywhere, and different chemicals covered the floor. It probably wasn't safe for them to be running through the destroyed lab, but the two agents barely noticed the wreckage. All they noticed were the pool of blood on the floor, and the writing on the wall. The letters painted there spelled out, 'Who is next, Ziva?". They were writted in blood.
The two men were still taking in the message a minute later when Ziva came crashing in. She took in the gorey mural and sank to her knees. "No, no, please, no..." Her voice terrified Tony more than any murder ever could. In her voice, he heard a woman who was going through the agony of one whose own family had gone missing. He heard sadness and pain beyong anything he had ever felt before. In her voice, he heard a woman who had been through everything finally crumbling down in front of him. And as he watched, a tear rolled down her cheek, and he felt his own heart tear in two. His ninja had broken.
