Chapter 3
Gibbs, Kate and Tony did not noticethat there was someone on the building next to them with a sniper. The mysterious figure was going to shoot Gibbs but he relised that if he shot one of gibbs' team that it would cause him more pain. He carefully aimed his sniper at Kate knowing that she was so precious to Gibbs and shot her not wanting to kill her but to hurt her and The restof Gibbs' team."Sorry Caitlin, it had to happen to someone and you mean the most to them so it hurts them" he stated with his cold voice.
The bullet hit Kate in the shoulder making her fall to the ground for a second time that day from a bullet. It missed the vest and blood dripped from her shoulder to the concrete floor Tony took his jacket off and began wrapping it around her wound while applying pressure. He heard his boss yelling on the phone at McGee telling him to get air supportonce he finneshed yelling at McGee he began yelling at 911 telling themthat one of his agents had been shot and was loosing lots of blood.
"Tony" Kate was barely able to whisper and her eyes were slowlly closeing. She kept trying to keep them open as she was fully aware of what might happen if she did not stay awake. she was trying to move her arm but ended up in more pain then before. Tony was still applying pressure to her shoulder while Gibbs was impatiently waiting for an ambulance to arrive to take one of his best agent to get sorted and helped.
"Stay with us Katie, we will kill who ever it was who hurt you" Tony's voice had gone from his normal happy joking self to a serious and sad Tony. Now Gibbs was not the only one being impatient while waiting for the ambulance to arrive to help his best friend. All he could think about was all of the times he had teased and tormented Kate about things and now he was not sure if he would ever do that again. Tony was not aperson to regret things but now he was regretting somany thing he has done to Kate.
The only thing Tony could think about was that itwas all his fault, he thought that if he had of done one thing different then his best friend would not be laying on the floor potentially dieing. The ambulance finally arrived after what felt like hours of waiting when in reality the had only been waiting for about 10 minutes. Tony held onto Kate's hand hoping that she would tighten her grip on his hand to let him know that she was still alive. The paramedics made their way over to where Tony was kneeling next to Kate, he was still trying to convince himsel that everything will be ok and that she will survive.
"Boss, please tell me she will survive I don't think that I will be able to manage not getting to see her smile at my childishness. She must come out of this alive, it is my fault that she might die all my fault." Gibbs went to headslap him for thinking that it his fault when it is not but his agents have already been through enough. "boss please let me go if the paramedics will let me I need to know that she will be ok." all Gibbs could do was nodd in agreement all he wanted to do was kill whoever it was that tried to kill his agent and hurt his team so much. The paramedics very generously agreed to Tony coming mainly because he told them that he was her emergancy contact. They all got off of the roof of the building and Gibbs goton the phone with Director Morrow to explain what happened and about how Tony was going to Bethesda with Kate.
The drive back to HQ was quiet McGee was thinking about how if he had done one think different how Kate would not be in hospital right now, while Gibbs was blaming himself for what happend to one of his best agents and how she could of lost her life today. Gibbs and McGee arrived back at HQ and went straight to the bullpen to find Abby who was smiling at first then relised that Tony and Kate was not there. She began to worry that they both died, she went over to Gibbs and gave him a hug. "Gibbs where are Tony and Kate, what happened to them, are they ok?" she just asked questions and began to cry she told her best friend that she thought that her best friend was going to die. Kate didnot think anything about it when Abby told her.
"Kate got shot her and Tony are at the hospital,she will probably have to have surgery to remove the bullet fromher shoulder." Gibbs had only just relised who it as who shot his agent in an attempt to hurt him and his team. "McGee trace Ari's phone I have a gut feeling that he is the one trying to kill Kate" McGee gave Gibbs a strange look while trying to think of why it would be Ari then he remembered that Ari had a thing for Kate, but then why would he want to kill her if he had a thing for her.
