An Agent's Weakness
It had only lasted a week. Gibbs grimaced as he entered the classroom where Sarah McGee had been lecturing while Tobias Fornell had supervised from behind her. He looked down at the bodies. Three were dead, Sarah, Fornell and the teacher, a man named Dravid, who'd interfered with the gunman.
Witnesses said a masked man burst into the classroom and fired at Sarah, then Fornell before shooting Dravid as he tried to wrestle the gun away.
Sarah lay in the centre of the floor, blood poured from the four massive holes in her side. Fornell was slumped in his chair. The bullet had hit him between the eyes. He didn't have time to draw his weapon. David's body lay by the door, a single bullet in his throat.
There was so much blood that they had to watch their step coming in so as not to fall over.
"Tim will be heart broken," Ziva sighed, looking at Sarah.
"That is if we find him," Tony replied darkly.
"When we find him, when," Gibbs said determinedly.
NCIS
"Sorry Miss Sciuto," Holly's doctor said. Abby slurped Caf-Pow as she listened to the doctor speak. "I had to alert you. The operation is in half an hour."
"Half an hour!" Abby gasped. "I've got to tell her dad."
"Don't worry about the bill, a woman who works with him paid it off," the doctor explained.
"Was her name Ziva?" Abby asked.
"No, Sophie," replied the doctor. "Why?"
"Did you see her?" Abby asked urgently.
"Yes, she's here right now," the doctor said. Abby didn't wait for her to finish.
She whipped out her phone and began to dial and within seconds, Tony picked up.
"What is it Abs?" Tony said.
"Sophie's at the hospital!" Abby screamed. "Run!"
"Shit! Ziva!" Tony yelled, hanging up.
NCIS
Sophie almost laughed as Tony and Ziva burst into the room as she watched over Holly. But the smile was wiped from her face as Ziva struck her with a crippling stomach kick, sending her keeling into the bed, hitting her head in the process.
"Where is he?" Ziva had a gun aimed at Sophie's head, ready to shoot.
"What, Tim?" Sophie laughed. "He's a bit tied up at the moment."
Ziva launched a kick at her butt, causing her to slide into the wall. She grabbed the wretched woman and slammed her head thrice into the wall.
"No why don't you tell me? Huh!" Ziva yelled.
Sophie's nose was bleeding and she had a developing black eye but she still managed to smile.
"With my friends by the sea, but hurry, the tide's coming in fast," Sophie cackled.
Ziva angrily punched Sophie in the face before turning to Tony.
"Watch her, I'm off to find Tim," Ziva replied icily.
NCIS
"Abby, why did half my time leave during the case?" Gibbs walked into the lab and slammed a Caf-Pow on the desk, almost spilling it.
"Sophie, at the hospital, Tony's with her right now," explained Abby.
Gibbs turned around and moved to head out, drawing the gun from his holster.
"Gibbs! Ziva's found Timmy!" Abby said. "He's in a shack by the beach being guarded by three men."
"Three men? Why hasn't Ziva moved in yet?" Gibbs asked, knowing the Israeli could easily take up to six opponents.
"They have Sten guns," explained Abby. "She goes in and she gets destroyed, literally."
"Damn," cursed Gibbs. "Can't she shoot them from outside?"
"No, one gunshot would alert them," explained Abby. "However, I've been studying Ziva's description of it and I think if she went round back, she could probably get them all in the back of the head. She's need a silencer though."
"She has a silencer," replied Gibbs. "She keeps it taped to the inside of her NCIS cap. Tell her that, I'll go and pay Sophie a visit."
NCIS
"Reckon anyone will come to try and help him?" One of McGee's captors asked. "Or leave him to squrim."
"Sophie said no one will miss him," the second man replied. "What do you think José?"
José was slumped in his seat, eyes open but still. A bullet had entered the curve of his neck and severed his spine. He had been killed almost instantly.
The next two shots were fired in quick succession and both the other guards slumped over, dead.
"McGee!" Ziva ran in and saw McGee, taped to a chair and struggling against the duct tape by which he was bound. "McGee, are you alright?"
"Yeah, yeah, where's Sarah, they threatened to hurt her!" gasped McGee.
"Tim, she was shot dead this morning," Ziva said. "As was Fornell."
"Oh My God," McGee was close to tears. "You see it on the news, innocents caught in the line of fire, I never dreamed it would be Sarah. Never in a million years."
Ziva watched her distraught co worker as she remembered her own 'I never dreamed it moment' on July 23rd 2001, when Tali died.
NCIS
"Gibbs!" yelled Tony from the top of the hospital stairs. He dragged a handcuffed, beaten Sophie by her arms and finally stopped just at the top of the stairs.
"Tony, thanks," Gibbs smiled. He smiled at Sophie as well before punching her hard in the gut. "I don't like to hit women," he dropped his voice. "But you drove me to this."
"See, he didn't notice either," Sophie laughed.
"Boss, she's been trying to get me to figure this out for ages," Tony sighed.
"Figure out what?" Gibbs turned to Sophie.
"You drove me to this, Jethro," Sophie whispered in Gibbs' ear.
With that, she drop kicked him down the stairs as she revealed her handcuffs hadn't been on for a while. Tony turned to her but she hit him over the side of the head and he crumpled like Gibbs.
"See ya!" Sophie ran.
"Next time Sophie," Gibbs groaned, feeling a bleeding wound on his head. "Next time, I will get you."
The End.
Next Time: the operation, the make up/reconciliation between Holly and Darren and then a flash forward to January 2014 to see what will happen...
P.S This story will or will not, depending on what you class as one, have a happy ending because I love Holly and I don't want her to die a harsh, unnecessary death.
