Author's Note:
I apologise for the long delay in updating… Life has just been too hectic.
But here's the next chapter…
Enjoy and kindly let me know your thoughts.
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Eslam and Harry got off the elevator on the 2nd floor and raced to the service stairway. Eslam called Josh as he swore under his breath.
"We're coming out through the service stairwell on the east side. Meet us there."
"I'm on my way." Josh replied as he hung up.
Just as they reached the final flight of stairs, they saw two men enter the stairwell, "FBI" printed boldly on their life vests, weapons drawn.
"Shit!" Harry exclaimed as Eslam fired at the first agent, killing him instantly.
The second agent took cover as he fired three rounds, one getting Eslam in his right upper thigh.
"They're in the East service stairwell. Sent backup!" the Agent shouted into his comms.
"Get him!" Harry seemed frozen until Eslam shouted out.
Then Harry moved forward and fired at the agent. They seemed to shoot each other at the same time, Harry hitting the agent in the stomach below his life vest and the agent getting Harry between his eyes.
"No!" Eslam growled as Harry's dead eyes starred at him as his body slumped down onto the stairs.
"No!" Eslam exclaimed again as he pressed a hand to his thigh, looked at Harry one more time, before he pushed himself to his feet and hobbled down the remaining stairs, kicking the agent on the ground in the gut before putting a bullet between his eyes. Then he exited the hospital.
Josh pulled up seconds later. Eslam climbed in and ordered, "Drive!"
"Where's Harry?"
"Gone, now drive."
Josh swore in Arabic as he put the vehicle into gear and raced away from the hospital.
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Back on the road, Fakir hit his steering wheel repeatedly as he followed the two black SUV's.
"No... no… no…. what are they doing?" Fakir growled as the first SUV turned right and the second turned left. "Which one should I follow?!"
He turned right and looked around for the SUV. The road was busy, all 4 lanes moving fast. But the SUV was gone.
"No! Where is it?" he hit the steering wheel as he raced down the road, looking left and right down the various side streets for the SUV.
Eslam is going to kill me! He grumbled as he took a sharp U-turn. I have to find the other one.
He raced down the opposite way and searched for the second SUV. But it too was gone.
"Shit!" He growled as he pulled up into a parking bay slammed his hands on the steering wheel. "Shit!"
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Gibbs turned back and when he didn't see Zara's SUV, his heart skipped a beat.
"Where are they?" he demanded sitting forward.
"Relax, Gibbs." Vance warned. "They're safe."
"Where… are… they?" Gibbs asked pointedly, his ice blue eyes flashing like lightening.
"They are taking a different route to the safe house."
Gibbs processed this and then growled, "We picked up a tail?"
"Yes, we did. But we have lost it now."
"Because it is following Zara. Turn back. We have to get to her..."
"Boss it's okay."
"Ziva confirmed she lost the tail." Vance said.
"And McGee is running down the plates of the vehicle as we speak, Boss." Tony said.
"Damnit Leon. I don't like this."
"Everything is going to be okay, Gibbs." Abby stated as she took his hand into her and squeezed it gently.
Just than Tony's phone rang.
"DiNozzo." He answered and then he put his phone of speaker. Fornell filled everyone in on what had happened at the hospital. Gibbs swore under his breath before ordering Fornell to get the dead perp sent to NCIS for Palmer to start the autopsy. He also asked Fornell to send a photo of the perp to McGee so that he could work on identifying the man.
"Four guys, Boss." Tony commented. "McGee will be able to identify at least two of them now."
"I want them found, DiNozzo. They're not working alone." Gibbs stated.
"We'll get them. Now please sit back and calm down. We still have a way to go." Vance said.
"Give me my phone." Gibbs demanded. "I want to check in on Ziva and make sure they're okay."
Instead of a phone, Tony handed him an earpiece. Once Gibbs placed it into his ear he demanded, "Are you all okay?"
"We're okay Gibbs. We lost the gold Toyota sedan that was following us and McGee is tracing it now."
"Is Zara okay?" Gibbs demanded.
Ziva paused for a moment too long making Gibbs uneasy.
"Ziva!?"
"She's okay, just nauseous, Boss …" McGee replied.
"And?"
"And she's vomiting." McGee whispered.
Gibbs' breathe caught as he heard Zara gag in the background.
"Damnit. Tell Ducky to do something!"
"His doing everything he can Gibbs, but he is concerned." Ziva stated.
"The sooner we get her indoors and back onto an IV and some meds the better." McGee stated.
"Damnit." Gibbs growled as Vance and DiNozzo exchanged a worried look.
Zara hang on…
I forced you to leave the hospital...
Just hang on...
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Zara gagged again. There was nothing left to expel, but her stomach didn't seem to know that.
She felt cold and her head ached. The movement of the car seemed to be giving her motion sickness and her eyes kept tearing up.
Ducky sat next to her and placed his suit jacket over her in an effort to warm her. She hadn't realized that she was shivering until he took her hand and stoked it to keep it still.
"There, there now Zara. You will be okay." He stated. But he didn't sound convinced.
I can't die…
Not like this…
Not without finding out exactly what's happening…
Not without giving Gibbs as much information as I possibly can…
Not without knowing who I am…
Not without getting to know him…
Really know him…
Gibbs…
She closed her eyes as her headache intensified.
Ducky tapped her cheek to wake her, but the pain was just too piercing making her she slip into a dark, frozen abyss.
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Author's note
That's it for this chapter…
I will try to update sooner…