Chapter 4
On the drive back to NCIS, Tony, for once, was speechless. His face had paled even more since he saw the paramedics and Gibbs yelling at them to hurry. Ziva kept glancing at him with a concerned look on her face. Finally, she couldn't stand the silence and she said something.
" Hey, Tony. Are you alright?"
Silence.
"Tony!"
He finally glanced at her and then put his eyes back on the road. "Yeah I'm fine, I'm just...worried. Seeing McGee that way knocked the wind right out of me. I mean, it should have been me. Tim never gets hurt, it's either me, you, or Gibbs. If I would have bullied him into...into" He stopped to take a breath and he looked at Ziva again. She was concentrating hard on him, her eyes starting to get misty.
"All I'm saying, it shoulda been me, not McGee. He's been through enough already."
Ziva nodded and put a hand on his arm. Tony gave her a weak smile and kept driving until they reached the Yard and told Ducky and Abby the news.
"Oh my god, oh my god, oh my god!" cried Abby as she sank down into a chair.
"Abigail, please calm down. McGee will be alright." Ducky said calmly.
"How do you know? You haven't seen him! Timmy is hurt and we need to go see him right now!"
"We are, as soon as Tony and Ziva finish telling the director what happened." Ducky said as she squeezed Abby's arm gently.
Abby's watery eyes looked at Ducky and sighed as she nodded. Five minutes later, the team was on their way to the hospital. Everyone silent except for Abby's quiet sniffling.
Once they finally reached the hospital and got inside, they met Gibbs in the Emergency Waiting Room.
"Have you heard anything?" asked a very worried Abby.
"Not yet. I've only been here for about ten minutes, though." stated Gibbs as he hugged Abby.
"How did he look the last time you saw him?" Ducky asked
Gibbs motioned to Ducky, not wanting to tell Abby how bad the case was.
"The last time I saw him was in the ambulance, but when I saw him in the storage facility, injured on the ground... it was horrible. There was this...this metal shard sticking out from his side. I don't know how deep it was in, but it was deep enough to make him lose blood. His head was also bleeding, so we can expect a concussion, and I guess some smoke and dust got into his lungs, so he's having trouble breathing."
"I'm sure Timothy will be fine Jethro. He's tough." Ducky replied.
"Ducky, he died right in front of me. I know McGee is tough, because when he was getting loaded onto the gurney, I remembered the firewall program. I looked at the computers and I saw that there were bullet holes in them all of them. Then I realized why I heard gunshots over MTAC. McGee shot the computers to stop the program from starting. Even though he was hurt, he put his job before his welfare and save the Pentagon."
Ducky sighed and nodded, then they both made their way back to the group and waited for news. They just wish they would know sooner.
