A/N: Man, I never really thought I'd make it all the way to the second to last chapter (I didn't really think I'd make it to chapter10 either), the last chapter is being written right now so hopefully I'll have that up by the 21st or 22nd. Please feel free to ask any questions if you don't understand, sometimes I really don't think about you poor readers who have no idea what's going on in my head. Again, thank you for all of your reviews, they really do make my day, so make sure you leave a review again or if you haven't reviewed before you can always review now. And on to the story…
Title: Aftershock
Disclaimer: All of that is in the first chapter.
Rating: PG-13 (Old enough to watch to the show and understand the concepts of the plot)
Summary: "I have a lighter!" the heard from the other side of the room, "I'm going to kill you all."
"Jessica?" Tony called out in surprise as Special Agent Jessica Events walked in through the basement door.
"Give the man a prize Johnny, he's learned how to use his eyes." Jessica said as she walked over to Jonathan and stood beside him.
She had changed out of her normal black dress pants, navy blue top and black jacket and was now wearing a pair of jeans and a dark red sweater.
"Jess, what's going on?" Gibbs asked as he denied all possibilities in his mind that the Agent he had worked and known so closely could be working with Williams.
"Don't you get it Gibbs?" she asked him as she walked away from Jonathan and towards him. "You broke my heart, ruined my carrier, and you think by chance I as just going to come back here and everything was going to be ok?" she was yelling by now.
"So what, you help Williams murder Navy Commanders and their daughters to get back at me?"
"We did it to mess with you," Jonathan had walked up to Jessica now and put his arm around her waist, it sickened Gibbs to see him so close to her," We knew you wouldn't turn a case like this down and you'd work it till you found the murderer."
"We set everything up." Jessica picked up the story, "planned out every murder, set it up so I would get the other cases, made sure you would get this one."
"Why wait so long?" Gibbs asked; the pain in his cheek was really starting to bother him, the feel of blood running down his face and the tingle of pain making itself present every time he inhaled, it was really making his head hurt which made it harder to concentrate on the people around him.
"I liked the game," he walked back to the desk and took the SIG Sauer off the top where he had set it a few minutes before, "Hiring someone to help me with the murders, watching Jess mess her team up just enough that they wouldn't be able to find out who killed them. Bet you never wondered about why my father and brother had the same MO, did you?"
"Your mother was murdered that way by a Petty Officer, when we cased your brother through the woods behind your house he told us that he had finally killed your mother's killer." Gibbs answered, Jonathan was starting to play with the gun in his hand, and he was getting very worried about him and his team.
"Bingo," he looked very cruelly at Gibbs then walked around to the back on his chair. "You don't know how long I've wanted to do this," he said as he leveled the gun to the back of the senior Agents head.
Gibbs felt the gun the second it touched the back of his head; then he felt the cuffs around his left hands slip from his hands for no less than ten seconds before it was slipped right back on, he could tell that the cuffs had been unwrapped from the bars of the chair he was sitting in and he could now move his hands more freely. The gun was now pulled away from his head and Jonathan walked around in front of him, the gun was then put to his forehead and Jonathan unlocked the cuffs around his feet just long enough to unwrap the length of the cuffs from the legs of the chair. He then moved around to back of the chair and put the gun to Gibbs' head again.
"Jess, get your gun out." Jonathan ordered Jessica.
"Johnny, you know what I said about..." she started, her voice slightly shaky.
"Now Jess!" Jonathan yelled at her and looked her strait in the eyes.
She slowly pulled her gun out of the holster at her hip, a SIG Sauer almost identical to the one being dug into the back of Gibbs' scull.
Jonathan pulled Gibbs from his chair and pushed him strait in front of Jessica a few yards away.
He pulled the gun from the back of Gibbs' head and pointed it at Jessica from where he stood, "Jess, shoot him."
Her eyes widened to at least twice there normal size, "John, I told you I didn't want to have to kill them, we agreed that we would just shake them up and a broken bone would be the worst they'd get."
"I lied, now if you plan on getting out of here alive, shoot him!" he yelled at her coldly.
"Jessica," Tony's voice came from the left of the room and I quickly looked from Jessica to him, "please don't do this, you don't have to kill him."
"Would you shut up kid!" Jonathan yelled and turned back to Jessica, "Shoot him, now!"
"You don't have to do this, don't shoot him." Tony pleaded from the other side of the room.
"I told you to shut up!" Jonathan yelled again, this time firing his gun and hitting Tony in the leg.
Like the yell of Lilly screaming, Gibbs will never be able to get the scream of pain Tony yelled out as the bullet tore through his leg out of his mind, and the scream of terror that Kate let out as she watched from her partner be shot from her place just beside him. Gibbs tried to pull away from Jonathan to help his wounded Agent, but his grip just tightened as he pulled as hard as he could in his weakened state.
"Shot him Jessica, he's going to die even if you don't, because I will."
She pulled her gun up and aimed it at Gibbs, but dropped it back down to her side, "I can't kill him Johnny."
"To bad."
When she hit the ground everything seemed to get twice as loud. Jessica had been hit her in the right side of her chest, and she was bleeding very badly. Tony had been holding back his screams pretty well and now the biggest sound that filled the room was Jessica's slow moans of pain from the floor.
The gun was gruffly shoved back into the back of Gibbs' head as Jonathan whispered in his ear, "To bad I'm going to wait and let you watch her die."
Gibbs looked back to Jessica; she had managed to pull her gun up and was aiming it at Jonathan. He pulled himself as far as he could away from as he could as she fired three shots.
The echo of the those shots seemed to be much greater then that of the others, but Gibbs still wasted no time in getting to the floor and searching Jonathan for the keys to the cuffs the best he could with his arms behind him. Jonathan had been hit in the shoulder and in the side of the face and was still barley alive. The second he found them he fumbled around till he opened them then went to his feet to unlock the cuffs around his ankles.
He ran to Kate and was working on unlocking the cuffs around her wrists when he saw where the one missing bullet had hit, the gas pipe behind where he and Jonathan had been standing. As he ran to the front of Kate to undo the cuffs around her ankles he said, "Kate, one of the bullets hit a gas pipe, get Tony out of here and the second you get out of here you call an ambulance."
"Where are you going to be," she asked him as he finished unlocking the cuffs on her ankles.
"I have a lighter!" the heard from the other side of the room, "I'm going to kill you all." shouted Jonathan.
Gibbs started unlocking Tony's cuffs as quickly as he could then looked back to Kate, "Just get as far away from here as you can."
She held his eyes for a split second then quickly when to her task of getting her and Tony out of the building before the inevitable explosion.
Gibbs moved over to Jessica and carefully picked her up, "Jethro, put me down," she said weakly.
"I'm not leaving you here," he took one quick look at Jonathan struggling with getting the lighter in his hand.
"Your slowing yourself down, and putting false hope that I'll live after this."
"I will not leave you in here to die," Gibbs said as he ran as fast as he could with Jess in his arms out of the basement.
"Leave me," she managed to punch him very weakly in the chest before she passed out form the loss of blood.
Getting out of the house seemed to take much longer than he had thought it would take and the second he got out the front door he saw Kate and Tony on the other side of the street, Kate with her cell phone in hand.
For once he thought everything would be ok, and that they really were all going to come out of this ok.
That's when everything got very hot and he didn't really fell much after that, just that cold, dark place taking him over.
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