April Fool´s Day 4: Out for blood
Disclaimer: I don´t own any characters or anything!
Summary: Tony comes up with a very special prank for Gibbs and everyone seems to be in, but will they live long enough to have a good laugh?
Additional note: I came up with this around 2 am last night and it just wouldn´t go away, so I thought I´d just go ahead and share it with you.
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Three cars tore out of the street and down towards headquarters. They had prepared something special for their boss -partly to cheer him up after these events, but mainly to save their necks. They knew that they would probably need protection detail the coming morning for sure and hoped that Shepard would keep the ammo locked up for everyone´s safety. Since they hadn´t given him anything for his last birthday, they now had some electronicequipment for his boat sitting on his desk along with a $20 coupon from Starbucks.
They had blankets and changing clothes in their lockers because they knew it wouldn´t be safe for them to go home this night. They planned to camp in the gym, mainly because it was rather comfortable on those wrestling mats, but also because they could stay on the balcony which held some maintenance stuff. Itwas only accessible from the main gym by a ladder. They pulled the ladder up, just to make sure they were safe and let the events of the day pass by again.
Abby was sitting in the corner with McGee, who tried to stop her hands from bleeding. He had grabbed the first aid kit out of the locker room as they had gotten their clothes.Her left wrist was swelling and didn´t look too good. "We need to get Abby to a doctor, her wrist looks bad." Tony said after checking on her. Kate just nodded. She was worried too, but Abby had insisted on coming with them.
"Just a scratch -I´m not going out there again tonight. If Gibbs spots any of us, he´ll make sure our bodies are never found." Abby said and drew a sharp breath as Tim was putting some antibiotic ointment on her hands.
"I set the alarm on 5 o´clock. Plenty of time to..." Kate said and suddenly fell silent as she heard a sound outside the building.
The gym was closest to the parking lot, so it could be about anyone working at NCIS, but somehow all of them knew who was coming."We parked out front...we´re dead." Abby muttered and started to slide further into the corner. The balcony had a 4 ft high and 12 ft wide banner on the front which covered them from sight. All of them huddled together behind it and held their breath.
"DINOZZO! TODD! MCGEE! SCIUTO!" Gibbs´ voice boomed through the building and they swallowed hard. He hadn´t made it to the gym yet, but he would surely check there too.
"Cell phones off, everyone." McGee whispered and they shut the ringer off just a second before Kate´s phone started to jump to life. She shut it off completely, as did everyone else, because they feared that he might see the lights.
Kate felt awful all the sudden and when she looked around, the faces of her colleagues were equally ashen now. If he found them here now, they were screwed. "He´s going to kill us." She mouthed at Tony, who just nodded.
He got his cell out again and started typing a message while Kate covered him with her coat to shield the light. After a moment, he came up again. "I told Ducky to get the police." He whispered and a second later, the main lights in the gym went on. Steps echoed through the large room and they held their breath again. It was completely silent now and no one dared to move. Kate felt her leg cramping and bit her lip. She was not going to make a sound and her lip started bleeding because she bit down so hard on it.
The lights went off again and they heard his steps growing fainter, but they still didn´t move yet. He would go into the bullpen next -from the parking lot the lab, autopsy and the gym were easiest to access. There wasn´t another sound for at least an hour in the whole building. Kate felt tears streaming down her face from the pain in her leg. She finally dared to shift a bit and the pain got worse. Tony noticed and looked at her. "What´s wrong?" He mouthed and she just shook her head.
Another hour passed and they were getting restless by now, but they didn´t dare to move out yet. Their prank had gotten them into grave danger and Tony was ready to swear that he would never pull a prank on anyone ever again. Suddenly, there were steps coming closer to the gym and the light was turned on again. They held their breath and locked their hands, fearing that he might have heard them.
The door of the gym closed again, but there was still someone in the room. McGee looked through a small hole in the banner and spotted only one person down there. "Anthony? Caitlin? Abigail? Timothy? Are you here?" A voice asked which they recognized as Ducky. "Well, I am not sure where you went into hiding, so I guess I will tell it in this room again. Jethro is in the bullpen and would like to talk to all of you. I assure you he has no intention to kill you or something like that." Ducky said and walked out again. He turned off the light as well.