Title: Pack up we're leaving.
Rating: K+
Jenny hanged up the phone with Agent Danville. She got the instructions about the new location they were going to spent the next 26 days in Germany trying to locate La Grenouille and the next 4 in Russia trying to locate the woman. They still had no name for her but something was telling Jenny that she knew her. she was secretly praying to any God she knew to help her so the woman she was after won't be Svetlana, but something was clearly telling her that the past, her past wasn't going to be buried that easily. Over the last week she started to think about Kate's suggestion more and more, maybe she was right, maybe there was a mole inside the agencies… if that was true though they had to find which agencies had leaked and how bad it was. She was determinate, she wasn't going to lose any of her team members, these people were her family, the only she has left, they were her dysfunctional family and she couldn't love them any less.
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Gibbs was sitting again on the stool in the same ratty bar he was few weeks back, Abby was making some drinks, tonight she was wearing a short tight red dress with a thin black lace covering it. She had worn her black hair in a ponytail and Gibbs had to admit that now she did look like a woman… not like the child she looked when he woke up in her apartment. Abby noticed him on the other side of the bar, he was sitting watching her, and for the first time after her father died she felt safe, she remembered how he used to watch her the same way.
"Hey Gibbs you didn't left for Moscow yet?" she asked purring him his usual Bourbon.
"Not yet, I'm leaving next week, but I was wondering did you go to college?" he asked, he was pretty sure he saw a degree in forensic scientology in her bedroom when he went to make the call.
"I did, actually I am a forensic scientist it's just that no one hires me and here I am, serving drinks." She said, her voice was heard kind of sad and Gibbs had to admit that he was feeling sad for her too.
"Well there is an opening at the NCIS crime lab if you want."
"Are you kidding? Of course I want! But… well I don't think that the other agents will warm up to me easily… being a Goth and staff…" she said, she looked like a child that someone took its favorite toy away.
"What a coincidence they don't like me either." Gibbs said smiling
"When do I start?"
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Paula, Ziva and Kelly were sitting on the front porch watching the blue see ahead of them. It was a nice view.
"Hey" Kate said. Kelly turned and saw Ari walking down the stairs just a few steps after Kate. "Hey lovebird number 1" she said smiling. Ari whom was now standing next to Kate seemed to enjoy the comment and smiled.
"Oh my god this whole thing is sickening." Paula said and stood up from her chair.
"Not to mention disturbing." Ziva added and put on her glasses.
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Mike was in New York, he had a meeting with two NYPD officers which were going to join the team, to say that he was uncomfortable working undercover when he was already retired was going to be the understatement of the year, especially if he was thinking that the rest of his team mates were lying on the beach in Crete. He took another ship of his coffee and looked outside, he was waiting for over an hour for the officers but they seemed to have taken their sweet time today, he was being stood up.
"Hey sir, are you looking for somebody?" a young woman asked his, she seemed to be not older than twenty five and she was dressed in a NYPD uniform.
"Do you happen to know Officer Angell?" he asked her, secretly he was hopping she was Officer Angell, because truthfully she was a goody in two shoes…
"You are agent Franks?" she whispered next to his ear.
"Yes" he answered.
"Ok sir, well I guess we can drop you off, me and my partner are heading the same way." She said smiling.
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Jenny walked down the stairs and saw her team fooling around the living room; Ziva was trying to read a book while Ari, Paula and Kate were playing Scrabble. She guessed that Kelly was being the referee between them. She smiled that picture in front of her was almost perfect… almost.
"Guys you have to stop your game for a little while, we need to talk." She said to them.
"We are leaving aren't we?" Kelly asked.
"Sadly, pack your trash people we are going to Germany." Jenny said.
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"Officers Angell and Burn I am here to inform you about the new mission your police department wanted you to participate in and then get you to Germany to meet the rest of the team." Mike said. He looked at the other woman, officer Burn she had long brown hair, big brown eyes and full red lips. She looked like a model not like a police officers. Still here she was caring a badge and a gun.
"Your name again?" Officer Burn asked him, this was probably the first time Mike heard her voice.
"I am Special Agent Mike Franks." he said.
"Special Agent huh?" she said smiling a bit, "From which agency" she asked. Aiden leaned her head to the left side and looked straight into his eyes
"NCIS" he said. Mike could feel the voice being caught to his throat and he wished he could be back to his house in the beach in Baja.
"Naval Criminal Investigative Service... Well, well..." she said smiling widely.
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Horatio was sitting in his office, in front of his was a huge pile of applications from young people who wanted to work at the crime lab. He wanted to find the right one but still after three days of reading CV's he was still not sure if any of these people was the right one.
He picked the last file for tonight from his desk and opened it, he was facing the file of a young man. He seemed to be young, from the photo, he was also pretty smart, judging by his degree. Before Horatio even read his CV he was sure that this man might be exactly what he was looking for his team.
"Well Mr. Delko I think you just got yourself a job..." he said.
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Title: At the blink of an eye
Rating: T (actually is more of an T+ because it has some cursing, not too much."
11/09/2001
New York
Derek woke up and went to the widow it seemed to be a good day, the sun was shining outside. It was a great day to go for a walk, if you are not working and of course Derek is working... again... like always. He loved his job... he really did. He wasn't going to change his job with nothing in the world but he wanted so much to just be able to have a day off, to take a walk at the park without being worried that one of his patients might crush and he will be needed back at the hospital. He wanted to act like a normal human being.
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Aiden was packing her things, she was ready to leave for Germany along with Jessica next week, she informed Mac telling his that she will need to leave town for personal business, she packed her clothes and now she was sitting in the middle of her almost empty living room waiting for another day at the crime lab to start and end just as boring as the previous was,,,
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Jessica woke up and rubbed her eyes, 'this was going to be a very difficult day' something told her and for a strange reason she believed it. The last week she has a strange feeling that things will go bad... really bad...
She got up from bed and went to the window, the sun was shining outside 'Just another day in paradise Angell' she thought and turned her back to the shiny landscape...
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"Oh my!" Jo said when she saw the airplane crushing onto the World's Trade Center. The smoke seemed to be too thick to see,
"Crazy Bastards!" Fornell said from the desk across her own. "Fucking Bastard!" he cursed again and left the room it was probably the first time that Jo agreed completely with him... these people who did this were really crazy bastards...
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Jenny was sitting in the living room she had the TV turn on but she wasn't really paying any attention to the speaker. She was thankful they had cable TV and they could watch channels from USA because otherwise she might have gone mental... she got bored listening German all around her. La Grenouille had to go to the only country which language she doesn't know!
Kelly walked into the room "Mom put CNN on" she said. Jenny raised her head from the book she was reading and looked at her daughter
"Why what happened?" She asked worried, her daughter had proved to be a much kept together person, she was never in this kind of shock… always kept together…
"Just see" Paula who was sitting right next to her said. Jenny took the remote from the coffee table in front of her and turned to CNN. The remote left from her hand and fall on the floor. 'Breaking news Second plane crashed into world trade center'
"Second!" Jenny gasped "Oh my God!"
"At 8:45 the first plane hit the north tower" Kelly said, she was standing behind Jenny finally having regained her self-control.
"Now its 9 "Jenny stopped, she froze when she remembered that Mike was in New York today. "Where are the officers Mike went to inform stationed? "She asked hoping that they weren't anywhere close there.
"The one is a homicide detective and the other in a patrol officer." Jenny left a deep breath, relaxed and turned her head to the screen "A fire is burning in the South tower from where the plane hit and… oh my God there are people jumping from the windows!" the reporter's voice was heard and made Paula and Kelly turn their eyes to the TV. Hoping that the reporter was wrong but she wasn't… the camera zoomed and the small shadow looked more like a person.
"They are jumping of the buildings!" Paula said, she was in clear shock her brother works in WTC and she couldn't contact him, she hoped that he wasn't one of these people which were jumping off the window she hoped that he had called in sick today… she hoped he hadn't gone in the twin towers today…
"We have to call Mike… see how he is" Kelly said. She was still in shock…
"Oh my Derek!" Jenny said, the hospital Derek was working in Manhattan. Kelly sat down next to her "Mom, uncle Derek's work and house are far away from the WTC. He'll be fine." She was trying to make her mother see reason but she knew that it was lost cause, until she was able to contact every single one member of her family she was going to be in that state of panic…
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Mike just woke up from the sound of the sirens. His instincts took over and he grabbed his gun, he walked slowly to the window and saw the north tower in fire, slowly he moved his head and saw that the south tower was in fire as well.
"Holly Crap!" he said and grabbed his suitcase. He was supposed to leave from the hotel at 12, find the officers and leave for Germany but this changed everything. He couldn't just leave like that. He had to leave form the hotel thought because the north tower didn't look so well…
He took everything and checked the room one last time before he closed the door behind him…
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Jenny, Kelly and Paula were sitting in the leaving room waiting for news any news in the matter. They waited and prayed that everything will be fine
"A third plane crashed into Pentagon!" the reporter said
"In D.C.!" Paula was nervous she wanted to leave run away from this… her whole family was in danger. Her brother who was working in the WTC and her father who was stationed in the pentagon. She had gone at least two shades paler than usual.
"Are you ok Paula?" Jenny asked the younger woman and touched softly her shoulder.
"No… I am not…" she said.
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Derek walked out of the OR and saw Mark standing there, he seemed to be sad (?) Derek wasn't sure he had seen this expression on his face before.
"What happened?" he asked as he took off his scrub cap.
"Terrorist attacks, two airplanes crashed into the twin towers." He said
"Damn!"
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Jenny turned to CBS and saw the news there the subways were closed and the president had called this a terrorist attack, all the planes aren't allowed to take off. For the rest of the day all the flights were canceled. The reporter was speaking when the smoke from the south tower was heavier, the hostess stopped the reporter and the three women turned to the TV waiting to hear what happened.
"It seems like the top part of the building has collapsed to the streets bellow." A man said. The smoke was covering the entire portion of lower Manhattan
"Wasn't Mike's hotel near the WTC complex?" Jenny asked.
"I have no idea, we have to ask Ari, he booked the hotel." Kelly said.
"Where is he?" Jenny asked.
"He and Kate are in Berlin, they are trying to gather info from Ari's informant there." Ziva said as she walked into the room, "What is happening there? I heard it on the radio on my way here." She said as she left the bags from the supermarket on the kitchen's countertop.
"The south tower collapsed entirely." Kelly said to her.
"Oh…"
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Kate and Ari were lying on their hotel bed they were hugging each other closely.
"Let's turn the TV on." Kate said and took the remote from the side table. She turned the TV on to ABC and saw the news.
"What the…" she said.
"Turn the sound on" Ari said, Kate did so. "All federal offices are requested to evacuate. All federal buildings in Washington are evacuated. And all the planes flying at the moment are required, are ordered to land immediately, all the flights are canceled for at least the rest of the day."
"Thank you Don" the woman said "Julia you are at the pentagon, tell us what the situation is around there?"
"Well from where I stand it seemed as a part of the pentagon collapsed from the plane crash. I… I can't tell for sure there is a lot of smoke around here… I."
"Are you in a safe place?" the woman from the studio asked
"I'm in my apartment, so I thing yes, yes you could say I'm in a safe place…"
"Turn it off please" Ari said, after his mother was killed from a suicide attach in Gaza even the thought of terrorist attacks and suicide missions like these made him sick. Kate turned the sound off but left the TV on, she tried to press the off button she really did, her finger thought wasn't cooperating…
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Jo and Fornell were standing outside the FBI H.Q. after the attach at the pentagon all federal buildings were ordered to evacuate. It was almost 10 and thy got the word that the north tower had just collapsed.
"The north tower just collapsed" Jo said to Fornell, "Any news from the pentagon?"
"No, nothing new, the fire is going on like it was in the beginning." He said, at first he seemed like he hadn't heard what she said and he turned around but then he stopped "What you said about the north tower Agent Danville?" he asked.
"It collapsed sir"
"Oh crap!"
"Call agent Franks and tell him to drive here with Officer's Angell and Burn immediately." He said and turned to look for agent Langer, he was a newbie who had resigned from NCIS and latterly crawled over to the FBI, he worked under Leroy Jethro Gibbs the other bastard as many agents were calling him. Fornell got married to Gibbs' ex-wife, the second if she wasn't mistaken, and the rumors were reporting to her that he was just as bad as Fornell if not worse…
She wasn't blaming Langer for wanting a way out of the "protective wing" of his boss.
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Horatio was sitting staring at the news, he and Calleigh had just came back from a crime scene and he had no idea what was going on today but when they entered the building they knew that something was wrong… clearly wrong…
So here he was sitting in his office chair staring at the TV in front of him in pure shock. Smoke was covering almost all the lower Manhattan, the north tower of the WTC nowhere to be found, the only thing to indicate that a building was there before is the smoke, the dust and the pieced of steel, glass, plastic and paper. The other tower had a fire going on but at least was still standing. Horatio could still clearly remember the last attach in the WTC garage, he was working with the NYPD back then… they said that it was a disaster… well he was sure that this was a bigger one.
"The pentagon is hit as well" A soft feminine voice was heard from behind him, Horatio turned his head and saw Calleigh standing there, her light blonde hair were pulled back tightly into a ponytail.
"We came back together how did you manage to know that?" he asked, in fact he wasn't confused at all, he knew that Calleigh was better informed than him, actually she had more "contacts" in the lab than he did
"It's written there" she said showing at the breaking news on the TV
"Oh, yeah you are right" he said smiling embraced, it was strange but he was a grown man and he was still turning red like a rose every time she was smiling at him or sometimes even talking at him.
"I suggest you turn the sound on, that way you will learn more." She said and left the room. Horatio smiled and turned the sound on
"Billy sorry to interrupt you but it's being reported that the south tower is leaning to the right as you see it in the camera, its leaning dangerously and many are talking about fears to collapse." A man said, Horatio felt the breath being caught in his throat. This was a disaster.
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Jenny and Kelly were sitting in the living room, mother and daughter were holding hands praying for those who were in the collapsed tower, in the airplanes, in pentagon… praying that the second tower will hold, that it won't crumple down like its "twin"
Their prayers had been dashed… the south tower collapsed…
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a/n: I hope you all enjoyed the new chapter, I decided not to pass this day in my fic in fast forward but to show their emotions, I wasn't there, I am not even an American citizen but my uncle lives in New York and his job was close by, whatever I know about the attach is through him and the news.
Anyway, for all the innocent victims of that day Rest In Peace.
END OF CHAPTER 10