AN: Thanks for all the reviews! So I know that this is a short chapter, but I wanted to post so fast as possibly. I can say that this chapter were pretty hard to writebut I hope you like it anyways. Thanks again for the reviews!
Chapter 2
Tony was fighting for his life and he was starting to get tired, he had tried every trick in the book but it was not easy to fight man twice as wide as yourself. But the man had at least stopped smiling and that had to count for something.
A hard punch hitting his ribs, making him to lose his breath but at the same time it tells him that he need to focus if he would want to make it alive from this house.
Another hard punch sends him into the wall, next to a picture of two kids: a boy with blue eyes and a girl with long dark hair. The picture makes him to think about Gibbs and Kate.
What if Gibbs send Kate into the house to help him and this big guy jumps her? Tony knows that Kate is a tough lady, beautiful, but this man is probably to much even for her. Gibbs is already thinking of fire him, so if he make it alive but the guy gets away and hurts Kate, Tony knows that he would be fired and probably he would never see the sun again.
With these thoughts in his head, Tony takes a deep breath and fights back with a little more strength. The burguler pushes him backwards and suddenly they both tumbles down the stair.
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Gibbs and Kate could only stand and watch as the two men falls down the stairs, it is over in a couple of seconds.
Somehow the big man hits the floor first, his back smashing into the floor, with Tony on top of him, almost face to face. But then he slides down on to the floor left side first.
At first Gibbs and Kate stands frozen in their spots, then they hears McGee's low voice: "oh, my God." And that seems to awaken them. Kate runs over to the unconscious Tony checking for a pulse.
"McGee, call the ambulance!" Gibbs yells moving towards Kate and Tony, McGee nods and makes the call.
"He's alive." Kate says with relief, she looks at Gibbs tears in her eyes. "Shall we we flip him to his back?"
"No, we have to wait for the medics." Gibbs answers her with a calm voice, on the outside he seems calm almost emotionless. But inside, he is still yelling no.
Kate odds, sits down on the floor next to Tony, grabs one of Tony's hands in hers and start to caress it as she watches his face.
Gibbs kneels beside Tony, he needs to check his pulse for himself so he knows that he is really alive. Tony is so still and he is never this still. When Gibbs feels the pulse, he lets out a breath he didn't know he was holding. He brushes some few stray hairs from Tony's face and feels a invisible hand taking hold of his heart almost crushing it.
"Don't you dare die on me, Anthony." He says in a low voice, Kate looks up at him and their eyes meets. Something passes between them and McGee stands watching feeling that he missed something important. But before he could say anything, two MP:s came into the house stopping abruptly when they sees the two men on the floor.
"You told me you searched the house!" Gibbs stood up, walked over to the two MP:s with a murderous face expression.
"We did..." one of them stutters.
"Not good enough! If you two knuckleheads had worked for me, you two would never work or walk straight again!" Gibbs stood in front of them, yelling. He was so angry that he could kill somebody. "Check the burguler and if he is alive, I want someone watching him 24 hours!"
"Yes, Sir!" The two MP:s saluted Gibbs and went over to check on the man lying on the floor. "He's alive, Sir."
"A 24/7 watch." Gibbs said with a blank expression, dismissing them. He turns back to the still form of Tony, he tries not to look at the MP:s and the burguler afraid that his anger will overpower him. If it did that, he would probably shoot all three of them and when he looks at Kate, he sees that she shares his feelings.
Two medics teams comes bursting thru the front door, one team walks over to Tony and the other team to the other man on the floor.
"What happened?" One of them asks.
Gibbs was the one who answered and told them about the fight and the fall while the medics starts to work. They put a stiff neck collar on Tony, then they carefully flips him on to his back, making Tony groan a little but not waking up.
Kate and Gibbs back away a little, McGee walks up behind them as the medics continues their exam and soon they lifts Tony onto a stretcher, carrying him out to the ambulance.
"I'm sorry, but only one of you can ride in the ambulance with him." The medics says when the rest of the NCIS team follows them out.
Kate and Gibbs looked at each other, then Kate made a small nod and Gibbs climbs into the ambulance. Kate and McGee walks over to the truck and drives away.
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The drive to the hospital takes about twenty minutes, Tony's eyelids flutters and he makes a little groan as the medic examen his left hand but then falls into unconsciousness again. As they pulls up to the emergency entrance, hospital staffs rushes out to meet them and wheels Tony in.
Gibbs follows, intending not to leave the injured agents side but he is asked nicely to wait outside the trauma room. He was just about to start to argue, when the doctor says to him that he would only be in the way.
Gibbs nods and accepts it, he starts to pace outside in the waiting room until Kate and McGee arrives with coffee. Then they sits down and start to the only thing they could do: wait.
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Kate sat sipping her coffee, her thoughts were on Tony. She was really scared when she watched him fall down the stairs, what would she do without Tony? The relief she felt as she saw him breathing and felt his pulse was so strong that she had to sit down next to him.
Kate was not a mushy feeling human, but this was almost to much for even her and when she takes his hands, looks over to Gibbs she knows she isn't the only one worried. Gibbs kneels beside Tony, brushes a few hairs from his forehead and she hears him say: "Don't you dare die on me, Anthony." She agrees with him and the words echoes in her mind and when her eyes meets Gibbs she sees the same love for Tony in his eyes that she knows is in hers. And she accepts it, she has come to the conclusion that Tony is undeniable.
Back at the waiting room, she looks up when she sees the doors open and the doctor walks out.,
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Gibbs sat staring at his hands lost in his own thoughts. As he closes his eyes, he sees Tony tumbling down the stairs. How could he let this happen? He ask himself. He felt the invisible hand squesing his heart again, he send Tony alone into that house so it was his fault.
After he told Tony not to die, he looked at Kate who was looking with him and he saw the love in her eyes for Tony. He knew that she saw the same thing in his eyes and that she accepted this.
Gibbs shook his head, how could he had been so reckless? He looks up as he hears the doors open and the doctor walks out.
TBC