Hi, everyone. Just to let you know that i haven't given up on my story and i am currently finishing off all my stories before i start a new one so this will be finished before any new ones start popping up.
Previously: Gibbs and Mel (mostly Mel) found the rest of the team tied up in the car and just as they were freed an ominous *click* was heard followed by everyone running. Luckily they all managed to get far enough away to avoid being incinerated. Unfortunately when the bomb went off the blast-wave forced everyone down hard and Mel actually hit her head on the pavement.
The dust and debris began to settle once more.
The first thing any of them began to hear was car alarms but they seemed muffled and far away.
Tim was still conscious and was trying to pick himself up off the floor without aggravating his arm.
Gibbs was the first one up and was asking if everyone was alright, but he couldn't hear himself, let alone anyone hear him at this very minute.
Gibbs saw Tim struggling so helped him up while Tony helped Ziva up.
Simultaneously they all seemed to notice that Melanie was no where in sight and their hearing started clearing up.
All their eyes where darting about looking for any signs of her.
Suddenly McGee saw her red shoes sticking out from round the corner, "Boss!", McGee yelled.
They all ran to her position, which actually wasn't that far away from them, but she had got forced apart from them in the shock-wave.
Her head was facing to the right, unconscious, or worse...
Tony got there first so checked her pulse. It was fast and strong. He let out a sigh, as everyone else let out a breath they didn't know they were holding in relief.
Tony turned her over so she was face up.
That small movement on his part, revealed a long gash across the upper-left side of her head and blood all over her face and hair. On her legs there were many minute cuts in her tights made from some of the glass that exploded, but they all had some of that to a degree.
The hospital heard the explosion and they sent all the paramedics they could spare.
They put Mel on the gurney, and they all followed the paramedics who where trying to treat them on route.
They all got split up and taken into separate cubicles, they tried to refuse but they knew that the glass embedded in their skin had to be taken out and the sooner the better.
One by one as they were done they all went into Mel's cubicle until they were all in there.
They all noticed the neat row of stitches running across her now clean forehead. The Nurse had also taken a few minutes to take out the glass, disinfect the cuts and wiped the blood out of her hair and off the rest of her face.
The Nurse came in briefly to tell them that she was just unconscious but they also took an MRI to be on the safe side and she is allowed to go.
A few moments after the team had assembled in her room silently, unsure of what to say, she began to stir.
"Melanie, can you hear me?" Gibbs said softly.
She replied with a quite raspy "yes sir". She slowly opened her eyes and sat up slowly.
As she took in more and more of her surroundings she began to feel the slight stinging sensation on her forehead. She carefully reached her hand up and touched her stitches. "What happened?" She said clearly.
"You hit your head on the way down and the doctor had to give you stitches" Tony said.
"Can we go now I'm awake?"
"The doctor said you can leave straight away, if you want to" Gibbs said.
"I want to get out of here, it's smells weird" after she said this they all had to crack a smile none of them liked hospitals.
*cut*car*scene*
They all got out of the car and walked back into HQ. As soon as McGee sat down in his desk Abby walked in.
"McGee, are you alright" Abby said hugging him in her usual death grip
"Yeah, just shot in the shoulder" he wheezed out.
"Oh sorry Tim" She said letting go.
"No problem Abby" he whispered.
"Abby" Gibbs said.
"Sorry, I'll go back to the lab".
"You can take Melanie with you" Gibbs said "If that's OK with you Mel"
"OK" Melanie said.
If her dad taught her one thing (well he taught her a hell of a lot actually), it was that arguing was pointless with a marine. She had figured out ages ago that Gibbs was a marine so decided to take what he said like she would have from her dad. Abby and Melanie got into the elevator and headed down to her lab.
"Boss, you should have seen her, for a seven year old she can sure put up a good fight" said Tony.
"Well next time they'll expect that from her, so she won't have the element of surprise to help her" Gibbs said.
"Next time?" Ziva said.
"They obviously are after Mel or she has something she has got and they must really want it since they went after her with all of us there" Gibbs replied.
Tried my best not to leave it on too much of a cliff hanger. This was written today as i randomly thought of the explosion and i forgot to write it into my existing story line, but that's done now.
My medical expertise is not up to scratch but should be fine to the untrained eye as this is what they do on TV (pm me if you have found something horrifically wrong with it).
Review alot please as i wrote this in 1hr 30min and hope it isn't too rushed.
Hannahxx