Convoy Nightmare
Tony's POV
It was zero five hundred and all I wanted to do was go back to bed. McGee and I were standing outside the Hummer that would take us out into the desert to the site where Ghalib had supposedly been. We each had our backpacks filled with water and we had each thrown in a sweatshirt in case we were out there after dark. If I had been paying attention, I would have noticed her, standing down the street, her eyes trained on the Hummer.
Ziva's POV
It was ten and I was struggling to sleep. I had had a bad feeling in the pit of my stomach since I had found out that Tony was going on that convoy. Jenny had done everything she could think of to try and reassure me that he would be fine, but ever since I had found out about the bombing, the baby would not stop kicking.
Jenny's POV
I listened to Ziva toss and turn in the room next to me. I knew that she was worried about Tony, especially after the news we had received today. Abby had confessed to me that she had found Ziva vomiting in the bathroom earlier and she should be over morning sickness by now, this had me extremely worried.
McGee's POV
We were waiting for Stein and Michaels to show up, they had told us to be here at zero five hundred, but they were nowhere to be found. Tony had his head resting on the side of the Hummer and he looked like he was falling asleep. I walked quietly towards him and tapped him on the shoulder, startling him.
"I'm in position, Boss," Tony yelled as he jumped away from the Hummer. I stifled a laugh.
"You okay there, Tony?" I asked as I tried to choke back my laughter. Tony glared at me and then I felt a sharp slap up alongside the head.
"Probie, don't you ever pull a Ziva again, you got that," Tony said, his eyes narrowing into a glare.
"Yeah," I said, a smile still stretched across my face.
Tony's POV
Half an hour after I slapped Probie, Stein and Michaels finally decided that they were going to grace us with their presence. Neither of them said a word to me or McGee, they just jumped into the Hummer. McGee and I looked at each other and shrugged. All in all, they hadn't been very hospitable during our stay, but then again, we weren't either when someone came to our office to work with us.
McGee's POV
Two hours later we were still in the Hummer driving to God knows where, and I had to go to the head. I leaned forward to where Stein was driving.
"Do you think we could stop?" I asked.
"Why?" Stein asked.
"I need to use the head," I said. Stein sighed audibly but moved to pull the car over. Tony and I both got out of the car and walked several feet away from the Hummer. All that we could see surrounding us was desert. Tony stood there until I looked at pointedly and he started slowly walking back to the Hummer. Two seconds after I had unzipped my zipper, I heard Michaels yelling at us to get back into the Hummer. I turned my head just in time to see him step out of the car and the whole things go up in flames.
Ziva's POV
I woke up suddenly at twelve thirty, my heart pounding and I was covered in sweat. The baby was kicking furiously and I sat up, clutching my stomach.
"Jenny," I called. I heard movement in the other room and then Jenny appeared in my doorway in a silk robe.
"Ziva, what's wrong?" Jenny asked as she hurriedly came into the room and knelt beside me.
"Check on the boys," I said, still clutching my stomach where the baby was kicking.
"Ziva, it's twelve thirty," Jenny said.
"Just do it," I said, gritting my teeth. "Earlier when that suicide bombing happened, the baby kicked. The baby won't stop kicking now." Jenny bit her lip but hurried out of the room and returned a few minutes later with her cell phone against her ear.
"Yea, I know that it's twelve thirty at night, Jethro," Jenny said. "Can't you just get Abby and meet us at NCIS?" Jenny paused for a second, presumably listening to Gibbs. "Yes, I already called John, he'll meet us there. Alright, good bye," Jenny said as she hung up the phone. "I called John, the MTAC operator; he's going to meet us at NCIS. Gibbs is going to get Abby and meet us there too." I pulled on sweatpants and a sweatshirt and grabbed my cell phone off of the bedside table and followed Jenny out the door.
McGee's POV
When the explosion happened, I immediately ducked down and protected my head and face. When I looked up again the Hummer was a mass of flames and Tony was lying on the ground.
"Tony," I yelled as I ran over to him. He had a cut in his forehead that looked to be about three inches long and there was blood all over his face. Further down I noticed that there was a piece of metal embedded in his leg right below his knee. I shook him gently.
"Tony," I said. "Come on, Tony, wake up. Ziva will kill me if anything happens to you." Just then, he began to moan.
"McGee," I said, his words slurred slightly. "What happened?"
"Michaels stepped on a land mine when he got out of the car, it blew up the Hummer," I told him.
"My leg hurts, McGee, what's wrong with it?"
"Tony, there's a piece of metal in your leg," I told him. "And you have a cut on your forehead."
"Do you still have your backpack?" Tony asked as he attempted to sit up. I helped him sit up and he moved his uninjured leg underneath him.
"No," I said. "I left it in the Hummer."
"Luck y for you, McGee," Tony said as he pointed a few feet over, "I brought mine out of the Hummer with me."
"Yeah, just one thing, Tony; how are we going to get back to Baghdad?" I said as I looked around at the barren desert spread out before us.
A/N: So, I typed this while watching the marathon on USA. Did anyone catch the reference in this chapter? No one got the two in Chapter 2. PLEASE REVIEW!! Please, it gives me good feedback and so far I haven't gotten nearly as many as I did for Emergency!, so please review!
