Chapter four.
Leroy Jethro Gibbs was sitting in the waiting room at Bathesda with his head in his hands. The same thought keeps running through his head.
'what has happened to my team?'
He keeps thinking over the last four hours trying to figure out exactly where everything went belly up and went to hell. For the life of him he can't figure it out.
'Tony was in the field. Ziva and Tim weren't backing him up. Tony got kidnapped. Ziva broke Tim's fingers. Tim's in the hospital.' Gibbs just shakes his head and drops it back into his hands.
Suddenly Abby races into the waiting room and to the reception desk.
"I need to see Tim McGee." She says. "I need to see him right now, he needs me!"
The receptionist looks flustered as she tries to plactate a very concerned gothic women.
"I'm sorry ma'am you can't see him right now. I'll have to speak with the doc..."
"I'm Tim McGee's medical power of attorney and if you look in his file you will see a clause stating that I am to be permitted to see him at any time. I need to see him now"
The receptionist types something on her computer and then reads something on it. Her eyes widen and she stands up abruptly,
"Quick follow me, I'll take you to him."
Gibbs stands up when he hears this.
"Hey Abs what's going on?" He calls out.
Abby spins around suddenly and her pigtails flick her in the face.
"Sorry Gibbs I've gotta be with Tim" us all she says as she rushes through the hospital door that admits her to the wards. Gibbs goes to rush after her but is stopped by security who inform him that he 'does not have the clearance to go back there.'
Gibbs stalks back to his chair in the waiting room and throws himself into it. He once again drops his head into his hands and just as he starts pondering the new development with Abby and Tim his phone rings.
"What?!" He shouts down the phone.
"Gibbs it's Balboa we've got Tonys location."
"Send me the coordinates. I'm on my way."
Gibbs hangs up and is already halfway out the hospital door thinking, 'I hope we're not too late.'
When Gibbs arrives at the coordinates a plethora of cars and agents are already waiting there as well as the kanine units. Gibbs spots Balboa and runs his way over.
"Balboa fill me in"
"Ok here's what we know so far. We caught the community terrorists and we finally managed to get out of them that they had been the ones to kidnap Agent DiNozzo. They saw him talking to everyone and thought he was a pervert or a serial killer trying to move in to the area and they decided to take matters into their own hands. The guy who shot the Navy Commander and Gator also shot DiNozzo and they loaded him into the postie's van. They claim they searched him and when they found the wire and credentials is when they panicked. They drove him out to the hunters cabin and that's when they claim Arthur Haskell snapped. Apparently he beat DiNozzo with a bat because he hates cops after what happened to his wife. She was killed by a drug addict who had just escaped police custody. So after they pulled this guy off DiNozzo they decide to dump his body in the woods. This is the area where they claimed we'd find him."
Gibbs nods, "alright let's go then"
The kanine teams lead the way as the large group of agents follow behind searching for any clue of DiNozzo with Gibbs heading the pack silently praying that they're not too late.
The search had been going for forty-five minutes and Gibbs was starting to get panicky. Suddenly a shout went up from one of the agents on the kanine team.
"We've got something"
Gibbs ran as fast as his feet could carry him and arrived on a scene he hoped he'd never have to see. DiNozzo is lying prone underneath some bushes and the ground surrounding him was soaked red with his blood. Gibbs rushes over and drops to his knees beside the prone body that was his senior field agent. He drops his head into his hands shaking as he did.
"NO NO NO! TONY NO!" He screams out to the universe. Gibbs leans forward and holds Tony up in his arms. He bows his head and the agents surrounding him avert their eyes as they see tears slipping down his face.
Suddenly Tony lets out a cough and a splutter.
"He's alive! Call a medic!" Someone shouts.
Everyone cheers as they hear the news and then they rush to call the helicopter ambulance that's on standby to pick him up. It only takes minutes for it to arrive and as Gibbs climbs into the helicopter next to Tony he turns back to face the large group of agents that had helped to find Tony.
"THANKYOU!" He shouts out over the noise of the helicopter as it takes off. The agents begin to cheer again, all of them so thrilled to have found one of their own and to find him alive.
