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Title : Can't Stand the Thought

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Thank you Aeria for beta-ing my story, it means a lot (thank you, thank you, thank you)

On to the story...

Gibbs and his team were investigating the murder of Captain Scott Lankford, the captain of the U.S.S. Saratoga.

He was shoot in the head in his carders.

There were no fingerprints on the gun, so Kate was looking through any complaints that had involved the Captain.

They had been on the carrier for twelve hours now and they had a Lieutenant in a small meeting room they were using as an interrogation room waiting to be questioned.

Gibbs and Tony were on their way to there interrogation room when Gibbs phone rang.

"Gibbs." he answered.

"Good afternoon, this is the DC hospital's emergency room, were calling to let you know that your daughter is in our care at the moment."

He froze as he listened to what the nurse was saying.

"Is she ok.?" he asked, fear creeping into his deep blue eyes.

"We just brought her in, there was car wreck on Fifth Street, she was hit by one of the cars in the wreck. All the information we have is that she has a severe concussion, at the least."

"Is there any way you could call me when you get anything else. I'm in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean right now -" he was cut of by the nurse.

"That's no problem, when I get anything on how she's doing I'll call you."

"Thank you very much." he said as he hung-up.

"Hey boss, who was that?" asked Tony as they started to walk toward the interrogation room.

"None of your buisiness, DiNozzo." he said as he opened the door to the room.

"Good afternoon lutenint, I'm Special Agent Jethro Gibbs, this is Special Agent Anthony DiNozzo." he said, pointing to Tony.

"I'd like to know why you called me here?" the young man asked.

"Just trying to find out who killed Captain Lankford."

The two men quizzed the Lieutenant for a half-hour. Getting nothing they wanted out of him, they let him go back to his station.

Kate had met back up with them after their interrogation.

She had a hunch on who the killer was, a Lieutenant Jeremy Baker. Gibbs was about to interview the man when he thought about the nurse that had called earlier.

"Tony, take a message if anyone calls." he says, throwing him the phone.

"Don't you have voice mail?" he asks, almost dropping the phone.

Gibbs just shot him a do-it-or-I'll-fire-you look and walked into the interrogation room.

It was about three minutes before the cell phone started to ring.

Tony answered the phone.

"Hello."

"Hi, is this Mr. Gibbs?" the woman asked.

"No, he's in an interrogation at the moment, but I'll take a message." he said as Kate started to snicker, he sounded just like a secretary.

"All right, tell him that Ariona has three broken ribs, a fractured lung, a broken right ankle, a severe concussion, which looks to be developing into a coma. There isn't much hope that she'll make it through the night." the woman said, Tony could tell the woman was saddened by what she had said.

"Alright, I'll tell him when he gets out, bye."

With that he hung up and walked over to Kate "Hey Kate, do you know a Ariona?" he asked her.

"I've heard Gibbs talk about an Arin, why?" she asked as she took the paper Tony had just written the message on.

"Cause who ever she is, she must have gotten into a car wreck or something, I mean look at the injures." he said pointing to a couple of the injures on the list.

"Wow, wonder if she's one of his ex-wife's or something."

"Or that red-head that comes and picks him up all the time."

Just as Tony said that Gibbs opened the door "He's not our killer."

"But he fits the description perfectly, how do you know he didn't do it?" Kate asked him.

"He's got an alibi, he was working on the deck at the time Ducky estimated Lankford's death."

"Boss, someone called, she said to tell you that Ariona has three broken ribs, a fractured lung, a broken right ankle, a severe concussion, and is slowly moving into a coma the woman said that there's not a lot of hope she'll make it through the night." Tony said as he handed Gibbs the phone and piece of paper he had written the information on.

Gibbs took a deep breath, he wasn't sure what to do, but he did know he wanted to be there for his daughter.

He walked out of the room and dialed a number on his phone.

"NCIS head quarters, how may I help you?" the secretary asked.

"Could you connect me to Tom Morrow please?" he asked politely.

"Hold on just a second."

"Morrow here."

"Tom, I need to get back to DC ASAP."

"You're in the middle of a case, you know I can't do that."

"I really need to get back to DC, Arin got in a car wreck, there not sure if she'll live through the night..." he was interrupted by Tom.

"I'll get you on a plane back to DC as fast I can, tell your team I'll send McGee out in your place."

"Thanks, bye." with that he hung up, and went back into the room were Tony and Kate were looking over all the evidence.

"I have to leave, McGee will take my place." he said as pulled all of his things together.

"But boss, without you we'll never figure this one out, why do you have to leave?" asked Tony as walked over to were Gibbs was standing.

"Tony, I don' have to answer to you, McGee will be here, you'll figure it out." he said as he zipped up his bag.

"So, you're just going to leave us here to figure it out ourselves?" he was quickly getting on Gibbs' nerves.

"Tony, my daughter is in the hospital, and they don't even think she'll live through the night, is it ok if I go see her before she..." he stopped there, he couldn't finish his the sentence, he walked out of the room, no good bye or anything.

"Kate, did you know he had a daughter?" Tony asked after a long moment of silence.

"No, I didn't know he had any kids at all."

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