A couple months later one night after work everyone went out for drinks, as they did from time to time though Riley decided to pass on the offer to join them.
Instead she headed home. Once there Riley paused at her apartment door. Something wasn't right, she felt like she was being watched. But she decided to ignore it and went inside where she was greeted by her little dog Chance. "Hey baby." She said lovingly, picking the terrier up as she slipped of her shoes. Riley played the message machine as she sunk into the couch.
Chance began to grow towards the back bedroom door. Riley looked at her dog. "What's wrong Chance?" she asked as she headed towards the bedroom, grabbing her gun on the way.
"Come out with your hands up!" She ordered her gun drawn and loaded, ready to fire if necessary.
Nothing happened, so Riley cautiously went in.
She flicked on the light and saw nothing out of place, the window was locked and nothing looked disturbed.
Riley froze, she knew she'd heard something behind her. She spun around to see a man in a horror movie mask coming at her. Riley screamed, as he tackled her. The intruder knocked the gun from her had as she fought to get him off her.
Riley began to panic when she saw the knife. For some reason a maneuver Tony had taught her a long time ago came to mind. She tried to knee him in the groin but he was too squishing her. She couldn't move, so she went to a the only alternativeā¦.She bit him.
The man cried out when Riley bit him, he rolled over just enough for Riley to manage to squeeze out. She ran into the living room and out the front door, Chance followed her. Outside, Riley only paused to pick her dog up. She then ran as fast as her legs would carry her. Everything was closed, and her assassin was gaining on her. Riley prayed for someone to help her, she then spotted a phone booth. She quickly rushed inside and locked the door behind her.
Her assassin pounded on the glass trying to break in. Riley grabbed the phone and dialed the police.
"Hello This is police dispatch."
Riley began to cry. "please someone help me, he's trying to kill me."
"calm down honey. Who's trying to kill you?" the dispatcher said calmly.
"I don't know but he's trying to break into the phone booth, he has a knife. Please help me." She sobbed as she sank to the floor.
"Stay on the line sweetheart, a squad car is only a block away. Stay with me." The woman said.
Riley could hear sirens, as could her killer. The man took off running into the dark shadows. Riley looked at the police officers who pulled up.
"Miss?" The officer asked knocking on the booth.
Riley unlocked the booth. The officer took the phone, he spoke to the dispatcher for a moment and then hung up the phone. "Miss, will you come with us please. We need to see your apartment and see what we can find.
Riley hugged her dog tightly and then got up. The officer escorted her to the car. They then headed to Riley's apartment.
Twenty minutes later a police officer asked there if she needed him to call anyone. Riley looked at him. "Tony." She replied.
"who's Tony, sweetheart?" the officer asked.
"My brother." Riley said softly. She then gave him Tony's cell number.
The officer nodded and then left.
Less than an hour later Riley sat in the passenger seat of a police car barefooted, a police jacket wrapped tightly around her small frame.
Tony, Gibbs, Kate, Abby, and Ducky walked up to her. Riley didn't even notice them walk up, she was in such shock. "Riles?" Tony asked touching Riley's shoulder, which resulted to Chance snapping at him. "whoa, cool it YoKo" he told the dog.
Riley didn't even turn her head. "Be nice to my dog Tony, if it weren't for himā¦" Riley didn't even finish her sentence; she'd begun to shake again. "He wanted to kill me." She said softly.
Tony looked at his friends grimly and then back to his sister. "I know Rye, I know. I'm sorry sweetheart." He said sitting down and pulling her into his lap.
An officer came up to her. "Miss?" he asked.
Riley looked at him.
"We could only find his mask, I'm sorry. We'll try to find him, but since you couldn't get that good of a description of him I'm afraid it's going to be very hard to find a suspect
Miss. Do you have a place you can stay at or someone I could call?" he asked.
Kate looked at the officer. "She'll stay with me."
The officer nodded and then left.
Riley looked at Tony who looked like he wanted to kill some one. "Tony?" she asked.
Tony continued to stare off into space.
