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Chapter 3

FBI Agent Tobias Fornell along with a slew of his fellow agents arrived to the chaos that was the Navy Yard. He was in his office on the phone when the bomb went off. Within minutes after everyone heard the blast, Fornell had been informed that one: NCIS HQ was being evacuated, and two: they apparently had found a bomb. After that, all hell broke out at the Hoover building. The Director had ordered Fornell to take a team and head out there. To Tobias, it had seemed like an eternity by the time they had gathered everyone together and headed to the Yard. Despite the close proximity they had joined the procession of fire trucks, ambulances and other first responders in trying to get into the area. When they finally made their way to the area where NCIS HQ was located, it looked like a war zone. The building itself was a mess and a portion of the front had collapsed. Surrounding buildings had been damaged and a number of buildings in the surrounding area had windows blown out. "Holy Mother of God," spoke up one agent in the group while another made the sign of the cross. Fornell's mind was reeling. He couldn't believe what he was seeing in front of him. It took him several seconds to snap out of it and began issuing orders. "Simmons, find out where we can set up our mobile command center. Henderson, get together with the munitions techs and find out where that bomb was. The rest of you find out what you can. ATF and Homeland Security are supposed to be on their way if they aren't here already. Ron, you're with me, we've gotta find Vance and Gibbs."

They all split up into groups. Fornell and Sacks made their way towards the area where triage had been set up. Tobias spotted an NCIS agent he'd seen around whenever he was in the now destroyed building and headed over to him. The man was trying to comfort what appeared to be another agent throwing up in a bush. He walked over, "Carson is it," he spoke up.

Carson looked up to see Fornell approaching. "Yeah," he replied shakily. "Fornell, it's bad."

Looking at the other agent he asked. "He okay?"

Dorneget who had apparently finished emptying out the contents of his stomach stood up and looked at Fornell. He looked pale and a bit in shock.

Turning to Dorneget, he spoke, "Feel better now Dorneget?"

He nodded, "A little, but I can't get the images of the bodies out of my head."

"Dorneget is one of our probationary agents. Dorneget these are Agents Fornell and Sacks from FBI," he gave a nod to the two men and then continued. "We were in the rear stairwell helping people evacuate when the bomb went off," he was explaining. "We checked both the second and first floors and helped what few survivors we found out but a lot didn't make it out of there. We got out of there just as the front came down."

Fornell nodded. "I heard something about a bomb being found."

"Yeah, the sick bastard planted it in Vance's car. It was parked in front of the building."

"You mean Dearing."

Both Carson and Dorneget nodded. "By the time they found it, it was too late," Carson was explaining. "It went off while we were evacuating the building."

How the hell did no one catch it sooner! Tobias was asking himself with a shuddering thought. He brushed the thought aside for now, all those questions can be answered later. "Have you seen Gibbs or Vance?"

"Yeah, Gibbs was waiting to be checked out by medics. He's hurt but not badly." He said nodding in the direction of the main triage area. "Vance, he's okay maybe a few cuts and bruises. "

Fornell found himself breathing a sigh of relief. His friend was alive. "What about everyone else?"

"I lost two members of my team and another is missing," he spoke. Fornell listened as Carson gave him a rough rundown on what they knew so far. The dead not only included NCIS personnel but military personnel as well. "Once the order was given to evacuate NCIS, the whole yard was put on alert and surrounding buildings also ordered to clear out."

This was going to be a nightmare. Fornell looked around the area. Thousands of people worked in this one area alone and the bastard had struck where it really hurt. "I'm going to see if I can find Gibbs. Let anyone else you come across know that we're setting up a mobile command center."

Both Carson and Dorneget nodded, "Oh, and Fornell."

"Yeah, Carson."

"Just a warning, Gibbs is pretty pissed right now."

"Because of this," Fornell motioned to the whole area.

The two men shook their heads. "No, a member of his team is dead."

"Who," Fornell and Sacks practically yelled in unison.

"McGee," replied Dorneget in a quiet voice apparently still in shock over the news.

Ron and Tobias looked at each other in utter shock and disbelief.

The kid! OH MY GOD! Fornell couldn't believe it. The greenest and smartest member of Gibbs' team was gone. He liked the guy. In fact, he had so much respect for McGee. He had earned it.

"Are you sure that McGee's dead," asked Sacks in disbelief.

"Yeah, I heard that Vance told Gibbs," Dorneget was explaining. "And you could hear Abby screaming over the noise. Once she had calmed down a bit, she told me that Vance said something about finding his body on the third floor."

Fornell let out a huge sigh; this was going to be a very long tough day. "Thank you for telling us," Fornell said. "I'm sorry for the loss of your coworkers, I just wish it hadn't come to this."

"Thanks Fornell," replied Carson.

The two groups parted ways and Fornell and Sacks headed for the triage area. As they walked they scanned the area looking for familiar faces. Finally Sacks spotted Abby. The two walked over to her and Fornell knelt in front of her to get her attention. "Abby." She looked up at him the look in her eyes sent a shock through him. She had a haunted look of a lost scared child.

"F-F-Fornell," Abby said shakily.

"Yeah it's me," he spoke soothingly to her so as not to scare her even further. "Where's Gibbs?"

"H –H-Hospital," she spoke quietly. "He … he had a bad gash on his leg and maybe some other injuries I didn't see but the medics said it wasn't too bad."

"Do you know which hospital?"

"Th … the one in … Arlington."

At that moment Simmons one of Fornell's people came up to him. "Sir, mobile command is going to be set up in one of the parking lots that way," he pointed a particular direction. "I also ran into a neighbor of mine who's a paramedic. He gave me a rundown on which hospitals were taking the most seriously injured and which ones would be taking the rest. I have the list right here." Sacks looked over his shoulder and began reading. Simmons continued, "All the military hospitals and Washington Memorial are taking the trauma cases." Fornell listened as the list of the hospitals taking the least serious were rattled off. He nodded at least he knew where Gibbs was.

"Thanks Simmons."

"You're welcome. Oh, and Director Vance wants to speak with you."

Fornell nodded at the agent and then turned back to Abby. It was then he noticed she was holding her left arm against her. "Abby, you okay,"

"J … just my wrist," she said. Tears welling up in her eyes. "but … Timmy …he's …"

"I know. I'm sorry Abby," giving her a hug, Tobias could tell she was shaking. She was still in shock from what had happened and knew the Goth would never be the same after this. "Abby, have the medics checked you out yet?"

She nodded, "Yeah, I'm waiting for my ride to the hospital to get my wrist x-rayed."

"Okay, that's good. Listen, I'm going to go talk to Vance. Hopefully I'll see you and Gibbs later, Okay."

At this Abby began panicking. "No … no I don't want to be by myself. "

"It's okay Abby. Listen I'll have Sacks stay with you until they take you to the hospital is that okay with you"

For a moment, Fornell thought Abby had frozen up but she was taking her time processing the information and then nodded. "O … okay."

Getting up, he turned to Sacks, "Ron stay with her until she's transported out and ask which hospital they're taking her too."

"You got it." He replied moving to sit by Abby.

"I'm going to talk to Vance," he continued. "Simmons, where is he?"

"This way sir," as Fornell followed the other agent towards the area where the command center was being set up.

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