Disclaimer: I do not own NCIS or its characters.
Tim woke up slumped in a bed, handcuffed. This room looked suspiciously like a hospital room. Looking around much closer though showed that it wasn't. Leaning towards the wall, he watched as his captors came into the room. He kept watching as one of the guys slowly came up to him. He stood there for a few seconds, then SLAP!
Startled Tim looked up. "That was for what your partner did to me" Tim guessed that this was the guy that Tony had most likely tackled and handcuffed. This time though, none of the men were wearing masks and he could see their faces. The guy who had slapped him had what most likely had been a black eye. As the rest of the men circled around him Tim scooted towards the wall. He wasn't scared he told himself, he was apprehensive. After all look what they had done to him last time and who knows what they would do to him now.
Ring….Ring….Ring….
Gibbs quickly picked up the phone. It could be information on Tim.
"Hello? Agent Gibbs?" A female voice came through the line.
"Who is this," Gibbs did not recognize the voice at the other end.
"Sarah-Sarah McGee" Ah, now Gibbs recognized the voice. It was Tim's younger sister; he had met her that time she was framed for murder.
"Where's my brother, I've called him like twenty times and no one answers" Sarah sounded desperate and scared. Her brother always answered when she called. Always.
"He's not here right now," Gibbs really didn't know how to break it to her.
"What do you mean he's not here right now?" Hearing the panic in Sarah's voice Gibbs decided to tell her before she imagined the worst.
"He was taken yesterday and we are still trying to find him"
"Is he?" She couldn't even voice what she was thinking.
"No! He's alive and we'll get him back, I promise" Gibbs answered firmly.
"I'll be there tomorrow" Sarah answered with a note of finality heard in her voice.
"That fast" Gibbs was surprised.
"I had a feeling something was wrong, Goodbye agent Gibbs"
As soon as Sarah hung up Gibbs thought back to the promise he had made. He had made it to calm Sarah down, but it was a promise he would keep.
"Boss, we've got a letter" Gibbs quickly got up and took the letter from Tony. It was an ordinary letter that only had agent McGee written on the front in elegant writing. Opening the letter Gibbs pulled out a cd. The only other written piece of paper said insert into computer. Deciding that this most likely had something to do with Tim's disappearance, Gibbs went down to the lab to see just what was on the disk.
In the lab Abby was busy working and trying to find any evidence on who had taken Tim. Ziva was with her helping her sort through the little information that they had. Hearing the ding of the elevator, they turned to see Gibbs and Tony walk into the lab with Gibbs holding an envelope in his hands.
"Gibbs I don't have anything yet, is that more evidence?" Abby asked. Nodding Gibbs gave it to Abby who quickly inserted it into a computer and waited for it to load. Everybody crowded around eager to find out what was contained in the cd. As soon as it loaded they breathed a sigh of relief.
Sitting in what appeared to be a hospital bed was Tim. Apart from looking disoriented he seemed fine. He was looking around wide eyed all over the room before his gaze zeroed in. They watched as several men came into the room and seemed to observe Tim for a moment before one of the men came up to him. They jumped as a sudden slap was heard. Tony cringed at the sound. Ziva on the other hand felt a sudden fury rise up in her as she heard the reason for the slap. It was not Tim's fault that Tony had given the guy a black eye.
"How much do your friends know?" The sharpness in the man's tone was clearly heard. While a normal child would have answered immediately out of fear, Tim was no ordinary child. Having trained and worked as a field agent he knew that giving out information was never the answer. After several minutes of silence another slap came. The man with the bruise obviously had some type of grudge against Tim.
"I would answer if I were you"
"Well then thank God that I'm not you" Tim retorted. Good for you Tim, Gibbs thought. Just then they watched as Tim doubled over. The man had punched Tim in the stomach leaving him out of breath for a few minutes.
"Any more smart remarks"
"Yup, But I don't think that you'd understand them" Just as it appeared that he would punch Tim again, another one of the group came and seemed to say something and he backed off. After a few more whispers, everyone else walked away except one person who stayed in the room. He seemed to be the leader of the group.
Staring straight at Tim he icily stated. "We will come back later Timothy McGee and we will get answers."
Turning towards the camera the team heard as he talked directly into the camera. "Here is proof that he is alive" With that the video ended and the computer screen turned black.
Staring back at the screen the team had solemn expressions on their face as they thought back to the image of a terrified Tim handcuffed to the bed. Gibbs vowed that he would find them and then there would be hell to pay.
Tim was uncomfortable. His arms were taut from the handcuffs and his stomach hurt a bit from the punch. Not to mention the fact that his wrists were sore from trying to slip off the handcuffs. Once again he started twisting his arms and wrists in an effort to get free from his restraints. His reward was a bloody wrist.
Sighing Tim decided that it was futile. The handcuffs were new and probably wouldn't break or slip off. Slumping against the bed he tried to think on anything other than the upcoming discussion, which he was sure was going to be even more painful if the man's icy tone was any indication. He just hoped that Gibbs got there before he ended up dead.
I just had to torture Tim a bit, sorry.
Read and Review :)