Kate had taken off her blood stained clothes and thrown them into the bag along with her gun. She shoke her head before leaning against the wall outside of Dinozzo's room as the other team hurriedly collected evidence. Since both Gibbs and Dinozzo was down Kate was now acting senior member, she couldn't believe it as she leaned there. Her thoughts were so intense about the situation she was now placed in that she could not hear McGee's worried tone echoing through the hall at her.

"Kate?"

"Sorry McGee." She hung her head gently. "What is it?"

"Gibbs? How is he?"

"Still in surgery I am afraid, did you get those clothes I asked for?"

"Yes here they are Kate." He held out a small duffel bag.

"Thanks, let me change real quick and I will take you downstairs and we shall find out together." She smiled half heartidly before moving to the restroom.

NCISNCIS

Kate and McGee were downstairs, Kate's hues gazing through the darkened doorway as she watched the emergancy procedure on her boss conclude. She took one deep breath, stood and composed herself as she awaited the doctor's verdict.

The doctor's head was low as he walked out the surgery had been a hard one, shaking his head lightly he gazed into her eyes.

"Well, the surgery is as you can guess complete. Though not without its problems. Your agent suffered from some major arterial wounds, all of course were patched. Now he just has to make it through the night really, the only concern however would be his age. He is an older man, or at least his body responds to injury as an older man would. The shot itself was clean, through and through. Bullet is probably lodged in a wall in your other agent's room. Anyway, it damaged some organs but we patched them up the best we could. His biggest problem is blood loss, if he can survive tonight he is out of the woods but at the moment it doesn't look good."

"Thank you doctor, do you mind giving me the medical records on Agent Gibbs, Agent Dinozzo, and Wolfe the shooter?"

"Not at all, I shall have a nurse run them up to you."

"Thank you that is all." Kate sighed, she was trying to be Gibbs not herself and that was so easy to see. "Come on McGee we need to get back to work. Get something done at least."

"Yes we do Kate..."