Cutting off the head of the snake
Chapter 37 Chapter Text
The emergency room crews were waiting for the ambulance to arrive with the patient coming from the casino. Doctor Jerome Dens age 52 specialist for the cardiac unit and two others had the operating toom team on standby.
He was near the radio listening to the call from the driver telling the doctor had to stop once to revive Special Agent Gibbs with his heart had given out and they had to zap his heart three times before he was able to come back.
"How soon before you arrive at the medical center?" he asked the driver.
"Ten minutes Doctor Dens. The technicians have their hands full for the moment." he will tell the doctor with making the turn coming off the major highway to be reaching the hospital soon.
"Everything is ready here. Over and out!" he said with a deep breath looking out the double doors for when the ambulance will be arriving.
AMBULANCE
Special Agent Gibbs once again had been inside the white tunnel once again. However this time with a woman he has no idea who she is at the moment.
"Daddy, you need to relax and take it easy. You're going to survive the latest injury to your heart," she said standing behind him sitting at the table."
"Do you mind telling me who you are?" he asked...
"Don't you know Daddy? I am Kelly 34 years older. We need you to stay healthy daddy." she responded with her father catching the phrase "WE".
"Whose we Kelly?" he had to know the answer.
"Shannon, Alex her husband, myself and James as well as my husband for the Witness Protection Program."
"Why now show up after all this time Kelly?" he was going to be angry about whether he will be able to get a proper answer.
"Mother had heard about the Cell regeneration program from her doctor in California. Mother is dying from phase four breast cancer and blood poisoning in her bone marrow for both of her legs. Her doctors thought it was a good idea to make contact with those same doctors that had saved your life with the same program just after you were rescued in Paraguay." she said to have her father shaking his head.
"How in the world did you find out about it since it was highly classified?"
"My husband and Alex have the highest security clearance for the Navy as with myself. I will need to leave you now and will be back when you're able to wake after the surgery." she disappeared as he heading back to his own body.
He heard someone calling out to him telling him to hang on. For a moment he had thought it was Loreile for a moment waking from having been zapped with the paddles to bring him back from the dead.
"We have him back!" the medical technician needed to say to the driver to begin driving once again. While Loreile was never so scared for her life and Jethro.
Moments later they had reached the Catskills medical center having to be a huge hospital. She had heard stories that this particular hospital had done wonders for this particular region. Doctor Dens and his team had been ready to bring their patient up to the operating room.
Moving the stretcher out of the ambulance with Loreile. They followed inside to have the doctor issuing orders to bring him up to the tenth floor.
She was told to come to the admission office in order to give them the insurance information along with his work address, supervisor and etc. She needed to call Director Leon Vance and let him know what has happened to Gibbs.
Once she was done talking with the personnel clerk. She was escorted up to the tenth floor waiting area.
She had no choice but to wait on the doctors working on Gibb's wound. She didn't know how bad it was this time with all of the others he had obtained from over the years.
Inside the operating room
Doctor Dens and two other specialists were assisting with the doctor having been called in to help.
Gibbs's chest had been cracked opened with blood being pumped into his arm with the already loss of blood at the time of the shooting into the casino floor.
"Jesus what a mess!" Doctor Dens needed to say with the nurse wiping his sweat from his brow. "I am going to do what is necessary to save his life," he states with the assistant Doctor James handing him an instrument to remove some of the bullet fragments.
This continued for the next two hours as the doctor continued to work on Gibbs with repairing the damage done from the shooting. They had taken out a total of 11 fragments with his heart had stopped again with Dens asking for the paddles again at 350 megajoules. "AGAIN!" He watched the screen changed to have the heart begin beating again with everyone breathing after holding their breaths.
"Let's finish this up quickly and get him into recovery. He's going to be watched around the clock until we know for sure he's going to be alright."
They closed him up with the team getting him ready after the pressure bandage was placed over the wound. Meanwhile, Doctor Dens needed to speak with Loreile about his condition.
After washing up and changing quickly. He headed for the waiting room with Loreile talking to Director Leon Vance in regard to what had happened at the casino.
"Listen, Leon, Doctor Dens is here now with an update. I will call you back," she said with hanging up. "How is he doctor?"
"We almost lost him twice on the table. Otherwise, we were to repair the damage to his chest cavity. We are going to be moving him to recovery and then ICU with around-the-clock staff to keep an eye out on him. You're going to be needing to be staying elsewhere. No one is to see him until tomorrow. Understand? If you like I can have one of the empty doctor's quarters to sleep until you're able to see him."
"Thank you. I have calls to make right now about Jethro's condition. Please let me know when it's ready?" she begged with her response.
Director Leon Vance sitting home on his couch watching TV. While his girlfriend and future wife Melissa had to leave for work at the Pentagon. He had a pile of files sitting on the couch that he needed to read and sign off. While his cell-phone was sitting on the marble coffee table.
He was beginning to get bored while placing his glasses on top of one of the files. Then all of a sudden his cell was going off. Noticing it was his friend Loreile calling. He answered it right away.
"Loreile how's the vacation going?" he asked with a light tone in his demeanor.
"I am sorry Leon there has been a shooting at the Apollo casino while Jethro was playing cards at Blackjack. One of the patrons. He was shot in the chest and is now in surgery at the Catskills medical center." she cried out with her response.
"My god that's horrible. I am going to be coming there with flying in by helicopter. Have you contacted the others?" he said with his heart in his throat."
"Not yet Leon." she had to say on the subject.