A/N-Here's another chapter for you guys, and I hope you like it! I've introduced the bad guys in this chapter and in two or three I will completely explain Jaclyn's past. This is my longest chapter yet and it actually took the shortest amount of time to write so I hope you all enjoy! Don't forget to review! And thank you to those that reviewed on my last chapter! You are all awesome!

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Chapter 4: Traps

At the Abandoned Haunted House...

Gibbs arrived at the warehouse in record time and everyone climbed out of the car.

"Jaclyn, I want you to stay here until we make sure its clear."

"No, I'm coming. I know how to handle a gun, I can take care of myself. You might not realize it, but I have been on my own for a while."

"Okay. Here you can use my spare."

"Thanks," she said, taking the gun and checking it over.

"Good, Everyone, Kevlar vests on and guns ready. Good lets go. Abby is there a back way in?"

"No, boss," came Abby's voice over the com,"it been blocked off for years and there is no way in. Even the maintenance door is inaccessible."

"Okay we all go in the front door. DiNozzo, you and Ziva clear the doors to the right, McGee, you and I check the rooms to the left. Jaclyn, while we're clearing rooms you be look out. On my count. One-two-three-Go!" Gibbs said as they burst in and ran to check the rooms. Shouts of clear echoed through the deserted building. Once everyone had come back from checking the hallways, they started on their way again, Jaclyn slightly ahead of the rest. As she was walking the floor underneath her began to cave in and she fell barely managing to grasp the edges of the hole, cutting her hands and wrists in the process.

"Jaclyn!" Gibbs yelled hurrying to the hole.

"I'm okay, I caught myself, be careful or you might fall too."

Gibbs slowly inched forward and looked down when he got to the opening. At the bottom of the hole were sharp looking spears with barbed tips. The hole itself appeared almost perfectly round, as if it were made there on purpose.

"Ya, I think it was on purpose, too. But would you help me up?"

"Sure. DiNozzo help me." The two men leaned down and grasped Jackie's forearms and pulled. Once they had her up, Gibbs started looking at the cuts she had acquired.

"I'm fine, they're only scratches."

"They don't look to deep, but you need to have them cleaned when we get out of here. Who knows what got in there. Come on lets keep on moving. Everyone be on high alert, there may be more traps."

So they continued on being careful to avoid any traps. Twice McGee was almost crushed by brass trunks and twice he jumped out of the way with seconds to spare. As they were nearing the end of the maze, Jaclyn was standing underneath a chandelier that began to fall. Tony noticed this and ran for her. As soon as he got there, he football tackled her and she landed heavily on the ground with Tony landing on top of her. It wasn't a moment to soon for as soon as they landed the chandelier crashed right next to them. Slowly Tony picked himself up and noticed that Jaclyn was still laying on the ground, struggling to breathe. Gibbs must have noticed this too, for he came over and knelt next to her.

"Hey, are you okay?"

"I'm fine. Just got the breath knocked out of me," she said as she slowly sat up.

"Anything broken?"

"Just bruised, I think"

"Sorry about the hard landing, Jacks," Tony said.

"Its not your fault, don't worry about it," she said, getting up.

Once Gibbs was sure Jackie was fine they moved on and, besides Tony almost falling into a boiling pit and Ziva and Gibbs nearly being crushed by a piano, they encountered no more traps. They finally came to the last door and they slowly opened it. Inside they saw a pit of water about thirty feet deep and hanging above it was Gwen. Her arms and legs were tied up so she couldn't move them, she had a gag in her mouth that stopped her from speaking, and she had rocks tied around one foot. She was hanging on a rope above the water and above her a huge double-bladed ax was swinging, slowly cutting more and more of the rope. When she saw them she started shaking her head violently and tried to speak through her gag.

"Mmmnpphh! Mphphnnmmt!"

"Gwen, its okay! Its me, Jackie. Do you remember me? We're her to help you." As she was saying this she slowly started to walk forward. Before she got far though, someone started shooting at them.

"Take cover!" Gibbs yelled as he ducked behind a bin. He saw the others doing the same and soon they started returning fire."Does anyone have a visual?"

"No, boss. None from over here."

"I'm blind!"

"I saw him duck behind those shelves over there," Jaclyn quietly said. Using hand motions he ordered Tony to go around to the left and Ziva to go to the right.

"Gibbs, I need to go save Gwen, she's going to fall!" Jackie whispered.

"Okay, but be careful and stay hidden until we get this guy. Everyone ready. On my count...one -two -three...NCIS, put your hands in the air and drop the weapon!" Gibbs shouted moving in with McGee. Seeing them coming the man started to run backwards but was stopped by Ziva.

"Federal agents, going somewhere."

The man knew he was cornered with nowhere to go, but he had orders to not let the police capture him so he raised his gun and was about to start firing when Four shots rang out and the man fell to the floor, dead.

"Ziva, make sure he's dead. We need to get to Gwen and Jaclyn, come on!"

The men ran for the pit with Ziva close behind after checking to make sure that he was dead. When they got there, they saw Jaclyn trying to get to Gwen by climbing some twenty feet above the water to the rope which suspended Gwen. As soon as she got there the ax cut through the ropes and Gwen, with a muffled scream, fell into the water below.

~~~ncis~~~

Some unknown location...

"How are they doing? Have they reached my traps yet?" a voice hissed.

"Yes, sir. They are almost to the room with the girl."

"Good, good. And what of Martin, does he know what to do?

"Yes, he knows not to kill any of them and to not get captured. He is ready."

"Excellent!"

With that the second man started to leave."And Peter."

"Yes?"

"Keep me informed. And send in my lunch."

"Of course."

A few minutes later a maid walked in carrying a tray."Your lunch, sir," she said meekly.

'Ah...a new girl," he hissed, stepping into the light. The maid audibly gasped and took an involuntary step back from the gruesome sight before her.

"What? Can't stand the sight of my face? Come here girl," he said, grabbing her by the neck and pulling her close forcing her to look at him. The sight before her was a horrible one. The left side of the man's face had been destroyed by fire or a bomb, leaving a mess of melted, burnt flesh. On the right side, a scar ran from right above his temple to the corner of his mouth, crossing his eye. Another scar ran from his ear and down to his neck then up and over his mouth.

"I-I'm sorry, sir," the maid stuttered,"I wasn't meaning anything, its just that I didn't know and I was surprised."

"Get out of here, you worthless woman. There was only one person who could stand the sight of me and she died. It doesn't matter if I got this serving my country. If I was saving my commander and then got blown up. No! They forget about me! And now nobody can stand the sight of me. Get out of here! Now!" he shouted throwing the tray to the ground.

~~~ncis~~~

Gibbs and the others got there just as Gwen hit the water and she immediately started to sink. Gibbs looked up and saw Jaclyn standing on the two inch pole getting ready to dive in.

"Jaclyn, no! You won't be able to save her!"
'I have to try." And with that she dived in, flipping twice before she hit sliced through the water. Jaclyn opened her eyes and saw Gwen a few feet below her so she started swimming down. She reached her when they were at about twenty-five feet. She then reached into her pocket and pulled out her Swiss army knife and started to cut Gwen free. She started with the rocks and after they were gone she took the gag out. Then she wrapped one of her arms and started swimming up, dragging the almost unconscious Gwen with her. Just as Jaclyn thought her lungs were about to burst, she broke the surface and willing hands pulled her and Gwen to safety. As soon as they touched the ground, Ziva started to perform CPR on the young girl. Gibbs ran to Jaclyn and helped her sit up.

"Are you okay? Why would you do that? You could've died!"

"I-I'm fine," she said, gasping for breath."How's-how is Gwen?"

Together they walked over to where Ziva continued to do CPR. A second later, Gwen began to cough up water. When she stopped, she shakily sat up and looked around a little disorientated.

"Hey, Gwen, are you okay?"

"Ya, I thi-th-think so," she said, shivering."Thanks, Jackie, fo-for coming after m-me."

"No thanks needed. Come on, lets get out of here," Jaclyn said as she saw the EMTs arriving. They lifted Gwen up onto the gurney and started to wheel her out, Jaclyn walking next to her holding her hand.

When they got outside Jaclyn went in the ambulance with Gwen and the others followed behind.

~~~ncis~~~

Hospital Waiting Room...9:30 pm

Jaclyn was sitting in one of the hard plastic chairs in the waiting room. Gwen had been back there about five minutes when Gibbs and the rest of the team arrived.

"How is she?" he asked.

"She seems fine, but they want to be sure. They also need to know what happened to her while she was in captivity to make sure nothing is wrong. They shouldn't be long now. Listen, I want to thank all of you for helping, but your job is done. You can go home now."

"She's right guys. We don't have any more leads on either of the cases and you all need some rest. I have another team going over the scene at the haunted house. You guys go home and get some rest, I'll see you tomorrow."

"But, boss. We still have a Petty officer and his wife missing and another Petty officer's killer on the loose. We can't go home now."

"You won't be any good to me if you can't think because your tired. Go home for a few hours. Eat something, take a shower, sleep. Then go back to NCIS and start working on the case."

"And what about you, boss?'

"I'll stay here until Jackie's ready to go home."

"No, Gibbs, its okay. You go home to. I'm staying here all night."

"Then I'm at least waiting until I find out how Gwen is. The rest of you go."

"Okay, boss. See you later," Tony said and then left with the other two following behind. The two left sat there quietly for a few minutes before Gibbs glanced down.

"Jaclyn, your bleeding!"

Jackie looked down and saw that her hands and wrists were bleeding again. Now they she saw them they started stinging a little."Oh! I didn't realize it,"she said.

"Come on, let's go have someone take care of it. Excuse me nurse. Her hands and wrists are bleeding and they may have dirt and the like in them. Could you get someone to clean them up a bit?"

"Sure, follow me."

So Jaclyn followed the nurse to a side room and sat on the bed. The nurse started cleaning the fresh and dried blood off of her arms. Once it was gone she poured antiseptic over the wounds causing them to sting. Upon closer examination of one of them she saw a few splinters of wood in it so she grabbed twesers and pulled them out. After that she bandaged the cuts and helped Jaclyn off of the table.

"There. Change the bandages at least three time a day for the next week and you should heal nicely."

"Thank you."

As they walked back into the waiting room, Jaclyn saw Gibbs talking to Gwen's doctor.

"Excuse me, Doctor, but how is Gwen?"

"As I was telling Gibbs here, Gwen is doing just fine. She's a bit dehydrated, but besides that everything seems fine. I want to keep her here until morning just to be sure."

"Can I see her?"

"She's sleeping right now, but sure. If you'll follow me?"

They followed the doctor to the children's section and stopped in front of a door. Inside they could see Gwen sleeping.

"I'll leave you here."

"Thank you," Jackie said as she walked in.

~~~ncis~~~

In the hospital room...03:30 am...

Jaclyn dragged Gwen over the edge of the pit. She layed her on the ground and started CPR. After five minutes, Jaclyn accepted defeat.

"I'm so sorry, Gwen! I'm so so sorry!" She began crying and closed Gwen's lifeless eyes. Then she stood up and went to find the others.

"Gibbs, here are you?" She turned the corner and saw the bodies of Gibbs, Tony, McGee, and Ziva. They were all shot with blood pooling around their heads. All of a sudden they all stood up and started towards her. She turned around and ran into Gwen.

"It's all your fault. It's all your fault," they began chanting.

"No, no, no. This can't be. I'm sorry. Please stop. No!" She ran away from them and start into the body of Ryan. Behind him was Sam, Brianna, Ellie, and her family. They were all chanting the same thing over and over.

"No! No no no!"

Jaclyn sat upright and looked wildly around her. She was in Gwen's hospital room and must have dosed off. She shuddered as she thought about her dream. Then Gibbs came in with two steaming cups of cofee, handing her one before sitting down with his own.

"Can't sleep?" he asked.

"Don't want to," she replied. fter that they fell into a comfortable silence, each absorbed in their own thoughts.

~~~ncis~~~

At NCIS...06:00...

Gibbs, Jaclyn, and Gwen walked out of the elevator and saw Tony and Ziva talking quietly to one another. As soon as they walked in, the two of them immediately stopped their conversation.

"This is Agents Ziva and Tony. They helped rescue you," Jaclyn said, talking to Gwen.

"Thank you," Gwen said to the two Agents.

"Where's McGee?" Gibbs asked. Right at that moment Gibbs phone rang. "Gibbs...Okay, McGee, we'll be right there. That was McGee. He and Abby found something.

They all walked into Abby's lab and came to a stop before her.

"What do got, Abbs?"

"Gibbs!" she squealed and ran over to hug him. "So glad you could make it. And you must be Gwen. I'm extra glad you are here! So anyway, Gibbs, do you remember that weird substance Ducky found around our vic's mouth?" At his nod she continued. "Well, we identified it! It comes from a glove that's not very rare."

"And how does this help us?"

"Because," McGee said,"Its not very rare if we were living in 1987. These kind of gloves stopped being made because they caused rashes."

"So we searched for warehouses where these used to be made. There is only one in the D.C. area. The address is in your phones."

"Good work, Abs. Would you mind taking care of Gwen while we go?"

"No problemo, bossman! Hey, Gwen, want to meet Bert?"

~~~ncis~~~

At the warehouse...

The cars pulled up and everyone got out, already geared up.

"McGee, Ziva you take the back door. Tony, take the side door. Jackie, your with me." Everyone went to there assigned positions and on the count of three went in. Inside was pitch black and their flashlight only illuminated so much. There was only one spot where the sun shined through a hole in the roof in the middle of the empty warehouse. They all met there and looked around.

"Nothing here boss," Tony said."Where's Jaclyn?"

"Behind you," a voice said and they all turned around and saw a man holding a gun at Jaclyn's head.

"NCIS, put the gun down or we will shoot!"Gibbs shouted.

"Here's a better idea. You put your gun down and I want shoot little Jaclyn here in the head."

They agents started lowering their guns, but before they were all of the way down Jaclyn kicked behind her and hit the man's leg. The pain made him loosen his grip and she twisted out of his grasp. Then she grabbed his hand that was holing the gun and twisted it until she heard it snap. After that she kicked him in the stomach, knocking his breath out, and then hit him on the collarbone with her elbow so that he couldn't raise his arms. she then grabbed his non-broken wrist and twisted it behind him grabbing her. She kicked his knee forcing him to kneel down. Then she held her slim arm knife at his throat.

"Don't move," she hissed.

"McGee cuff him and take him outside. Lets get him back to NCIS for interrogation." McGee cuffed him and started walking him to the door with Ziva's help.

"That was awesome, Jacks! Where did you learn to fight like that?"

"You pick up a few things here and there. And my dad was in the military, so was Sam. They taught me some things," she said in response to Tony's question, re-sheathing her knife under her sleeve and watching as the man was taken out. As she was watching, she saw him press his watch on his wrist as they were going outside.

"Bomb!" she yelled."He set off a bomb! Run!" And she ran, pushing the two agents in front of her. As she was running past a table, she grabbed whatever she could. She was the last to get out of the door, and as she jumped down the stairs they were all thrown forward into the ground as the building exploded behind them.

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