The Pain We Suffer Chapter 14, a ncis fanfic

The Pain We Suffer

AN/ Don't own NCIS.

Chapter 14

Not more than a few seconds after Ducky hung up with Tony, the house phone rang again. Ducky barely heard it over the blaring alarm.

"Hello!" Ducky yells into the phone and has his other ear covered, trying to drown out some of the noise.

"Hello, this is Acme Alarm company. Is there a problem?" A man's voice asks.

"Yes, someone is trying to break into the house." Ducky yells.

"You mean HAS broken in." The bedroom door busts open, taking Ducky by surprise. Before Ducky could even being to think, the unknown man hits Ducky over the head.

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Just as Tony and Ziva pull up to the house, Gibbs pulls up coming from the other direction. They all rush from the cars toward the house with their guns drawn. The front door was still locked. So Gibbs kicks the door open and they all cautiously head into the house. Gibbs motions for Tony to go towards the kitchen. Then motions for Ziva to take the living room. He headed upstairs. Being very alert, Gibbs notices that his bedroom door is ajar. Once e was clear, Gibbs slowly enters the room. He sees Abby asleep on the bed. She seems ok from that spot. He noticed a bleeding, unconscious Ducky at his feet. Gibbs feels for a pulse. Thankfully there was one, but it's pretty erratic.

Tony and Ziva show up not to much later. "Boss, the picture window in the dinning room is complete broke out. It looks as if that was the point of entry and exit." Tony gives the few facts.

"Ducky! How's he doing?" Ziva asks.

"Can one of you go to the hall linen closet ad get a few towels? We have to stop this bleeding. I know it's a head wound, so it looks worse then it might be. Can the other one check on Abby a little closer then I did? Try not to wake her." Gibbs says, still giving out orders. Tony went for the towels and Ziva went to check on Abby. She's shocked by what she finds. Abby is sleeping, but it's more from loss of blood, so she thought. She had been cut. Abby's forearms have been cut in one long line. Then her arms had been placed under a blanket to cover it up.

"Gibbs! Abby's hurt! BAD!" Ziva yells as she moves to take the sheets and apply pressure to the oozing wounds. Ziva can see the color draining for Abby's force Ziva's heart races with fear and adrenaline.

Tony rushes in with the towels. Gibbs takes one. "Take that one to Ziva! Help her Tony" as Tony rushes over, Gibbs hears the local police and the ambulance coming into the house. Then the alarm is shut off. Foot steps are heard climbing the stairs. "Up here! Turn left and the first room on the right! Two injured people. Head injury an cuts!" Gibbs yells, as he puts pressure on Ducky's head wound.

A couple medics walk in. "You take him. I'll take her." The African-American medic says to the white medic.

"Ok." The white medic responds. He looks at Ducky's head and the cut the blood was gushing out of. "Deek, man! This guys needs to go, NOW! The blood is a ark red, almost black. I think he's been poisoned."

Deek stops looking at Abby and approaches Ducky's limp, injured body. "Here, you use these strips. Get some of the blood and wait a couple of seconds for it to change color. If it comes out black, it's positive for poison. Any other color, just write it down in the chart. The ER staff know what color coincides with the ailment." Then Deek went back to Abby.

Abby slightly opened her eyes. She opened her mouth to say something, but it was to quiet. "Sat it again Abs." Tony says, leaning down real close to hear.

"He was here. He too…"Abby passes out.

"Man, this guys been poisoned! I found the puncture mark. I'm calling for a medi-vac. She can go in the rig. I think we're losing this one!" The young white medic yells.

"Matt! Calm down. Radio for the medi-vac. Set an IV while we wait. Miss, I need you to help me hold the wound closed and put pressure on it to stop the bleeding. Not too much pressure. You could actually cause the blood to stop flowing which would not be good." Deek says.

Over head they heard in the distance, the medi-vac. So Matt and Gibbs get Ducky on the gurney and get him outside.

Once Ducky was safely in the medi-vac, Gibbs rushed back upstairs to see to Abby. He gets close to Abby's head. He gently takes a finger and rubs Abby's off white cheek. "Abby, honey. Wake up and talk to me." Gibbs waits.

Abby slowly opens her eyes, enough to see Gibbs' face. "He…knows." Then she closed her eyes. Gibbs didn't like that statement. He figure she was referring to their bad guy. He had to assume the 'he …knows' must mean he know about the baby. This unsettles Gibbs.

Later that day, Abby came out of surgery ok. The cuts were deep enough they required surgery. She was fine and so was the baby. Although Abby had a slight infection, but was given anti-biotic and was resting peacefully.

Ducky was flown to another hospital that dealt with poisons. It was 45 miles away. So Gibbs sent Palmer to go be with Ducky for the time being. He wanted Tony and Ziva working to find this guy or at least who he is.

No one could find McGee. They all wanted to believe he was stocked away somewhere writing more of his novel. But they all quietly began to think Tim McGee was in the clutches of this mad man. And from the note Tony received, Tim wouldn't come back alive.

While Gibbs sat there waiting for Abby to wake up, he began to read her journal again. Thank god he found it and had the sense to bring it with him.

Entry 7

7/28/08

'Wait a minute, What happened to entry 6', Gibbs thought to himself. Then out of curiosity, Gibbs looked through the rest of the journal. Entry's number 10, 14, 25, 27 and 30 were all missing. 'It looks as if someone tore them out,' He could see a few tiny pieces of paper in the binding. 'Oh my dear sweet Abby. What did you write in your journal that this guy didn't want anyone else to know?' Gibbs investigative mind working at full force. He came to the conclusion that Abby had to have give clues to his identity. So when Abby wake up, he was going to have to confront Abby about reading her journal and find out what those entries had in them.

So Gibbs continued to read the entries.

Entry 7

7/28/08

I guess today I'm pretty numb. Not really feeling anything. With that, I almost think this was all a nightmare that I will wake up from. Not even any pain from my broken arm. They told me if everything goes right I'll have this cast off in four weeks. So it must not have been that bad. By the pain I was in, you would've thought my arm was fire and would fall off at any moment. Oh crap! The pans boiling over!! Bye!

Gibbs' idea is that maybe the next entry had something in it about something he said to her that would be easily tracked. This whole thing's getting too dangerous. He might need to call in for re-enforcements. Such as, one Mike Franks. He knew Mike was one that could cut corners, so to speak. And he had a soft spot for Abby. He might be the only one to keep Abby safe while he tracked down this monster.

Gibbs opens his cell phone and dials the number to reach Mike. "Hello, I need to speak to Mike Franks. Tell him it's Jethro."

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