Chapter 6: See You Again

They had been processing the scene for about an hour when Abby called to tell Gibbs that the blood on the director's driveway came from two sources, one matching Jenny's blood type and the other presumable Martinez. Gibbs remembered Jenny had her knife on her. Good, hopefully Martinez was injured.

They were packing up to go back to NCIS when the FBI called. They had a trace on Tanner's cell phone. "Where" shouted Gibbs as he was already on his way to the car, his team piling into the second vehicle. The cell phone was traced to an abandon warehouse about 45 minutes away. Ziva took the wheel and no one said a word, with Gibbs and Ziva driving, they could get there in 20 minutes.

Meanwhile Jenny watched Martinez as he set up a trip wire explosive on the door. She was confused as to why he would try to blow them up. This was a new MO for him and she needed to dig for more information to try and figure out Martinez's plan.

"You know Daniel, if the FBI or NCIS break down that door you are going to blow up with them" He looked over at her, "I appreciate your concern, sweetheart, but the blast radius will keep me safe. You, on the other hand, I'm not so sure of"

"What's your end game, Daniel, why kidnap me to simply blow me up? What is it you want?" she asked. He stopped his preparations and walked over to her. He ran his tongue along her cheek and lips saying "don't worry, I'll make sure I get what I want"

Jenny recoiled from his touch. She wanted to bite his tongue in retaliation but then he might just shoot her. She was going to have to stall him the best she could until they found her. She knew they would find her, she just hoped she was still alive when they did.

After licking her face, Martinez flicked open his blade and used his knife to cut open the buttons on her blouse, one by one. He ran the blade along the outline of her bra and over her nipples. When she shuddered, he backhanded her across the face. She whimpered in pain as he made contact with her already abused nose. He started to run the blade down her belly when they heard the tire squeals outside. "I guess they found you quicker than you thought?" she said.

He ran to the window and flicked open the blinds. Gibbs, McGee, David, and DiNozzo emerged with guns drawn. 'Looks like your boyfriend is here to rescue you" Martinez cursed and went back to check on his C4. Then he moved her chair to just in front of the door and he took his position in the back of the room, peaking through the small window pane. Jenny had to find a way to warn Gibbs and his team, but she only had one shot. She knew if she yelled too much than Martinez would just shoot her. She had to be creative.

Gibbs held up two fingers and pointed them around back. Gibbs and Tony took the front door. They didn't have time to get ear whigs or vests so they were communicating via cell phone. "In position, Boss, but there is no back entrance" said DiNozzo into his phone. "Stay in position, there might be a way out we don't see" said Gibbs.

He was about to blow through the door when he heard Jenny shout "Positano is that you!"

Gibbs held up the stop sign to McGee. She was sending him a sign. He sat thinking for a few moments. When they were undercover in Positano he took a shot to the chest. Was she trying to tell him she was shot? He heard Dinozzo's voice in his ear saying "Boss, you going in?"

"Stand down, Tony, meet back at the car" he had to figure this out.

Martinez was enraged at her outburst and stood up and put his gun to Jenny's temple. "Another outburst and I pull the trigger. Which will be a shame, because I still haven't gotten what I came here for" he said. That gave him an idea. He put his gun in the waist band of his pants and grabbed her neck with both hands. He squeezed hard as he whispered in her ear, "that should keep you quiet."

For insurance he grabbed the pink scarf from her neck and gagged her with it so she couldn't speak. Looking down at her with her shirt open, blood on her face, and a large bruise forming on her neck turned the sick bastard on, it was making him want her more. He moved her chair a little further back from the door saying "I think I want you intact when the blast goes off, I am going to enjoy you before this is through" He bent down to whisper in her ear "I think you're going to be the best yet. I like a woman with a little fight in her" and then he stuck his tongue in her ear. Jenny had to do everything she could to not puke into her scarf.

Jethro thought back to Positano mission. They had intel that a major drug deal was going to go down but when they broke down the door at the meeting place, it was a set up. Jethro took a shot to the chest. Was she trying to warm him that Martinez knew they were coming? That made no sense, of course he knew they were coming, he kidnapped the damn director of NCIS.

"Boss, what's going on" Tony asked as he jogged up to their car. Gibbs briefed Tony and Ziva and they started shouting out ideas. "Gibbs, what else happened in Positano?'

Well, he couldn't really tell them that story, but as he thought back to his recovery and the fond moments they shared in an Italian hotel room he remembered it. A few days after the Positano blunder the real drug deal went down and it didn't' go smoothly. Jethro and Jenny were replaced by another team that acted as buyers, when the team entered the meeting area they set off a detonator and got blown to pieces.

"The door is rigged to explode" he whispered. He took a couple of deep breathes. What the hell were they going to do now?

They scanned the area and the only window was in the back corner and it was about a inch window pain. Gibbs didn't have his sharpshooter.

"How is he planning on getting out?" asked McGee. That was a good point. "There has to be another exit, your three, find it!" he shouted. Then he grabbed his binoculars and got into the car and rolled down the window. He positioned the binoculars on the ledge of the window, the car keeping his body mostly hidden. He had one shot and it had to be perfect.

The team returned with bad news, there was no other entrances to the warehouse. Jenny was losing time, he had to take the shot. Tony and Ziva moved about 50 feet behind the car and were instructed to make a distraction, something that would make Martinez look out the window. McGee was calling the bomb squad and EMTs to have everyone en route. Gibbs gave the go sign and Tony and Ziva started shooting the tires of the director's car that Martinez drove to the warehouse. As predicted, Martinez looked out to see what the commotion was. Thankfully he paused for a second trying to figure out why they were shooting his tires when…his whole world went blank. Gibbs hit him with a single shot to the temple.

Jenny shrieked into the scarf thinking the sound was from Martinez blowing her brains out. She turned her head to the side and saw him lying dead on the floor. About a minute later Gibbs was at the window. "Jenny, you okay?"

She turned her head and nodded to him. He took one look at her and his knees almost buckled. She was beaten and bruised, tied up, and gagged. Gibbs broke out the rest of the glass with the butt of his gun and stuck his head all the way inside. "Bomb squads on its way." There were multiple bricks of C4 against the entrance. Thank god she warned him or the whole team would have gone up in smoke.

It took the bomb squad considerable time to get safely in the room and diffuse the bomb. They undid Jenny's gag and ties but she didn't move. She waited for Jethro.

He crouched down in front of her, afraid to touch her not knowing how badly she was hurt. Her nose was bleeding and her eyes had started to blacken, probably from the shots to the nose. Then he saw the large bruises on her neck, covering the mark he left on her the night before. He felt sick to his stomach.

"Jenny, look at me" he asked more than commanded

She opened her eyes and slowly brought them up to his face. "I'm so sorry" he said. She opened her mouth to speak, to scold him for apologizing but no words came out.

"Don't try to talk, your throat needs to heal" he said to her gently.

The EMTs were behind him now with a stretcher and that seem to bring back Jenny's moxie. At the sight of the stretcher, she stood up on her feet. Her ankle buckled and she fell into Jethro. He supported her weight and the two of them walked out the front door of the warehouse. She leaned heavily on him but she walked out with her head held high.

Tobias, Tony, Ziva, and McGee were leaning against their cars watching from a distance. They all respected the privacy of the moment. Gibbs led her to the ambulance entrance and she shook her head no

He sat her on the bumper and put his hands on her shoulders facing her. "Jen, you have too, they need to check out your throat." She nodded to assent and Gibbs sat next to her on the bumper. She shivered from the cool air and Jethro threw his coat over her shoulders. They were looking straight at Gibb's team and she was able to give them a little smile of thanks. They returned her smile and piled into the car to head back to the Navy Yard.