A.N: I love everyone who reviewed, followed, and favorited! I want to give a shout out to two people LeaStar and shesstillwaitingtony that have reviewed and who made me want to keep writing this. You guys are awesome! So, hmm what will happen to the team? Without further rambling here is chapter seven, 'Stone Keepers'.
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Three hours after kidnapping
McGee awoke in dark surroundings. A small light bulb dangled above his head. He tried to get up but was secured to a solid wooden chair with black duck tape. In front of McGee was a table that was covered with what seemed like four individual pieces of cloth. His eye strained to see a camera that was slightly concealed, but not online. Suddenly a metal door swung open.
"Sorry for the rude entrance." The man said.
His voice was not concealed, but his head was masked. He wore all black, a gun holstered onto his belt. Along with that he seemed to have a few knifes and a silver scalpel. At this McGee thought the worst, he was going to die.
"Now before I get into formalities, do you know why you are here and what I want?"
McGee shook his head, 'No'.
"Well I guess I will have to explain it to you. You know the stone you own so I'll start with that." The man took a breath and seemed to be starting a long lecture.
"At the dawn of existence 10 stones were forged. Even I do not know how each got a specific power, but they did. There each stone was given to a stone protector. Their sole job was to guard the stone with their lives until it could be given to a stone keeper. The stone keeper obtained the stone and its powers. I figure you are following this?" The masked man said.
At this McGee gave a slight nod.
"Now there are four of the stone keepers are dead. You know each of them. I'll list them off along with their power. Special Agent Caitlin Todd or Kate as many knew her, see foresaw the future and controlled the element of fire. She died by a sniper name Ari. Her stone was liquid silver, after four years of searching I found it."
He said this revealing the stone concealed under a cloth on the table in front of McGee. Tim gave a slight smile in his mind Kate was clever.
"The next to die was Special Agent Lee as you knew her. She barely had her stone a day or two, and then your Special Agent Gibbs killed her. The stone granted her invisibility. Her stone was hidden in her apartment."
He said this revealing the faint grayish white stone on the table. At this silently gulped remembering the deaths and funerals of his friends and now their positions stolen by this, basted (as Gibbs would say).
"The next that died was your Director Jenny Shepard. She died by a hit, I did not really investigate that much." At this he gave a slight smirk. "She had Telekinesis as her power. It was strange, her stone was hidden in the desk at her home."
McGee had never been to the Director home, but he only imagine.
"The final stone keeper that is dead is Mike Franks, a friend to Special Agent Gibbs and his team. He controlled the earth; if it can from the Earth he could probably manipulate it. I never saw him in action; I just took his stone after his death. I had to go all the way to Mexico to find it." He gave a slight devilish smile.
McGee recalled the day of pouring rain on Mike's death; it was one of the darkest days in NCIS.
"Now you probably wonder who I am, no?" He asked like he was the king of the world, "I will just tell you I have a stone as well. I can biologically manipulate things. It is rather interesting; I can barely do it anymore. I used most of my precious energy on that boy, Adam Smith. Ah I forgot to tell you about some other things."
He took a breath and then continued.
"I only learned of one stone protector Adam Smith. His bloodline was that of a stone protector. The only special about stone protectors, at being near death they learn where their stone must be sent. He sent his stone to you!" The man said accusingly.
McGee gave a slight breath in his mind; he did not know about any of his other friends and team. McGee was the only one in danger.
"I have never found any other Stone Protectors. I only know the stone protectors are close and communicate secretly all of the time. I could not find anything that the boy sent to indicate anything." The man seemed to be getting frustrated with each word.
"Now a stone can only be taken when the Stone Keeper is dead, if a stone is taken by a stone protector the keeper can 'come back'. No one has taken these stones back so none of the dead have 'come back'." He then gave a slight laugh at the thought of his cleverness of hiding the stones.
"Also what many people do not know when all the Stone Keepers come together each Keeper is given the other Keeper's powers. I want all the stones to have the all the powers the stones give." The man laughed feeling cocky that he already would have half the stones he needed.
Three hours earlier at the bar
Tony and Abby each got a glass of water that took away a little bit of the alcohol's effect. The loud music kept on with people dancing to the music. A waitress came by with the tab at which Tony paid for with the cash on him. She left and Tony looked over to Abby.
"Abby I need to tell you something." Tony said with seriousness in his voice.
"What?" Abby asked with her usual smile and no giggling.
"I love her Abbs." He said stretching in the booth.
"Who?" Abby asked with curiosity.
"The ninja, the Mossad assassin, Ziva David." Tony said like his heart slightly skipped a beat.
"I knew it!" Abby said, "I knew you had an eye for her."
At that Tony grinned.
"We can probably catch up with them McGee was tripping over himself, I felt kinda bad for leaving Ziva to take him home." Abby said.
"Sure let's go." Tony said and they were off.
The music faded as they stepped out of the bar they were inside of. The sounds seemed completely silent outside the bar. A flickering street lamp provided barely any light. Tony looked in the distance and saw Ziva's car, but no Ziva or McGee. Tony turned immediately to Abby and pressed his pointer finger to his lips indicating needed silence. Tony took out his gun; he crouched behind the car that was closest.
He moved towards the break in the parked cars. His footsteps were silent as were Abby's who had a knife in her right hand. Rule 9. Never go anywhere without a knife. DiNozzo thought to himself. He proceeded and looked under the nearest car, he saw a man in front of the car. He looked unmoving, dead, or passed out from drink too much.
Tony moved closer and saw another body. He proceeded closer and stealthily went over. He crouched over the body with some of her hair covering her slightly bloodied face.
Ziva.
"Shit." Tony swore under his breath.
He took her pulse, she was alive, and Ziva was unconscious. Tony immediately called the one man he knew who would be the best, Leroy Jethro Gibbs.
"Boss we went out for drinks."
"Who is 'we' DiNozzo?" Gibbs asked.
"Abby, Ziva, Tim, and Myself."
"What happened?"
"One dead, Ziva unconscious, Tim nowhere to be seen." Tony said with urgency in his voice.
"I'll be right there DiNozzo, I will get Ducky. Call 911 an ambulance for Ziva." Gibbs hung up.
"Abby call an ambulance Gibb's got Ducky." Tony said, and Abby nodded calling the ambulance.
Gibbs arrived even faster than the ambulance, which was closely followed by the NCIS with Ducky and Jimmy. Gibbs came out first with a flashlight and saw Tony sitting on the pavement cradling Ziva, as if protecting her from further harm. Ducky came out next with Jimmy surveying the man that was dead next to Ziva.
Immediately Ziva began to stir. Her eyes felt someone holding her close her strength was slightly depleted, with her head slightly spinning. She felt someone holding her hand, she gripped the hand with the few ounces of energy she had, and she began hearing Tony's voice.
"Ziva your okay I got you." Tony must of said this a few times.
"Tony I am fine." Ziva said as Tony picked her up.
He carefully placed her sitting at the back of the EMT's vehicle. The EMTs began checking her out and cleaning away the dried blood.
"Male approximately 32 years of age, bullet shot straight through the heart. Instant kill Jethro." Ducky said to Gibbs as he examined the body.
"Boss I found Ziva's gun and a bullet fired from her gun." Tony said holding up two different evidence bags.
"Good shot in the dark." Gibbs replied and walked over to Ziva signaling for them to move away for a few minutes.
"What happened Ziva?" Gibbs asked with a slight urgency in his voice.
"McGee and I left the bar." Ziva said and then recalled McGee telling her, 'I like her I really do.' She decided to leave that out of the report. "We were walking when a, black van pulled up. No plates. Two masked men came out of the van and came out with automatic weapons. They grabbed McGee. I tried to fight back. I shot one in the dark, then I was butted in the head with a gun only to wake up to Tony." Ziva said finishing her report.
"Well you shot the masked man in the heart, a direct hit." Gibbs said at which Ziva seemed slightly surprised.
"Do you think this has anything to do with the stones we got?" Gibbs asked Ziva in her mind.
"I do not know Gibbs, it is what we can only assume." Ziva replied back in her mind.
Gibbs nodded and saw the EMTs slightly eager to finish tending to Ziva's wounds. He backed away and the EMT's began to finish their work. Gibbs walked back over to Ducky, DiNozzo, and Palmer.
"Mr. Palmer and I know." Ducky said at which Gibbs knew what he was talking about.
"Okay so I'll broadcast our thoughts like a group, so silent group discussion. You can send what thoughts you want to here." Gibbs finished saying to the others.
"Gibbs," Ziva began as she felt her pulled mind aside to talk to him, "I am fine, I am going back to NCIS to work on the investigation."
Gibbs gave a nod and looked at Jimmy, Ducky, and Tony.
"Ducky can you do the autopsy?" Gibbs asked mentally.
"Yes Jethro, anything to help bring Tim home. Mr. Palmer?" Ducky asked.
"Yes, I mean yes Doctor, still getting used to the mental thing." Jimmy finished with a smile, which then turned serious.
"Get the body on in the truck. We will be there soon Jethro." Ducky finished.
Back at the NCIS headquarters Tony and Ziva sat typing away a their computers and making a few phone calls. Tony came over and leaned on Ziva's desk.
"It's my fault." Tony said with some pain in his voice.
"Tony you could not have known." Ziva said getting up and leaning on her desk next to Tony.
"If I didn't want to go for drinks." Tony said looking and seemed to be feeling guilty.
"Tony," Ziva said putting her hands on his shoulders. "Stop beating yourself up I know you are probably not feeling orangey,"
"Peachy, Ziva, I am probably not feeling peachy." Tony said correcting her.
"Same difference." Ziva replied back taking her arms off his shoulders.
Suddenly the usually happy Goth from the forensic lab came in wearing all black with her happy smile dimmed to barely a small grin. She walked over to the two agents conversing.
"Where's Gibbs?" She asked with barely any joy in her voice, she missed Tim, a lot.
"What do you got Abbs?" Gibbs asked entering the bullpen.
"Gibbs it's McGee, I checked your e-mail. Someone sent you a link the servers are hiding the sender's location rather well." Abby said looking at Gibbs e-mail from McGee's desk. "It says:
Dear Gibbs,
I have one of your Agents as you know. Don't bother trying to find me. All I want is what your Agent owns. A particular item I want, a stone to be exact. I suggest you watch this live feed. "
Abby read it out loud.
"Everyone to MTAC, now!" Abby forwarded the link to MTAC as everyone raced upstairs to the secure area.
A/N: Everyone bolts to MTAC to watch the live feed. McGee said he saw a camera and the masked man was armed. What will happen next? Thanks for reading, if you like the story follow it/favorite it. Please review the reviews keep me going writing the story!
