The drove for about three hours before stoping at a cheap hotel, it was easier as the accepted cash and they wouldn't be put on any records, like they would if they stayed at a normal hotel. The three cars pulled up next to each other, the hacker and the terrorists in the other cars got out and went to reception. As Ellie could not be seen she waited in the car with Jason, who was becoming agitated for some reason.
"What is it?" Ellie asked sick of watching him squirm.
"Nothing," Jason responded.
"You're scared of Ari again?"
"I'm not scared of him," Jason explained, "just a little worried about how he'd react if he found out."
The others return interrupted their conversation, "lets go in."
They led the way to the rooms, Jason giving funny looks over his shoulder to Ellie, who simply winked at him.
Ellie asked everybody to leave her when they made it to her room, Jason soon entered once everybody had left and they resumed their conversation.
"So..?" Ellie asked.
"So nothing," Jason responded.
"I can tell you're scared of him, but you need not be, he trusts me," she explained, "He knows I do what it best."
"Well it can't happen again because I don't think Ari will agree with his wife when it comes to sleeping with other men," Jason explained sitting on a chair next to the small desk.
"Are you sure, keeping in mind the mission I just got back from, very successfully I might add. An American Petty Officer is dead, DiNozzo is going to jail, Gibbs' life is about to crumble down around him, the American Presidents daughter has been allegedly kidnapped by terrorists and Caitlin Todd will never be the same again, an excellent mission if you ask me."
"It's not the same he let you sleep with those men, I don't think he'd be to happy if he found out about.." he couldn't find the right word to fill the picture in his mind.
"Us," Ellie added usefully as she walked behind him.
"No there is no us," he informed her.
"Are you sure about that, not even a little bit of us?" She asked as she lightly kissed the back of his neck.
"We can't do this, we're gong to wait here like we were told until we get the all clear to move onto the next safe house," Jason told her as she moved her lips up to his ear and around to his chin.
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When the power came back on and they saw the two pictures, the secret service followed by the NCIS team ran down the stairs to autopsy, feeling it wasn't safe to use the elevator. Dr Felton rushed to the secret service mans aid; he was bleeding badly from where he was shot in the shoulder. Ducky examined McGee who didn't appear to be to injured but they rushed him to hospital to have his head checked out.
Tony was hugging a sobbing Kate in the back seat, as Gibbs drove furiously towards the hospital. Once the got there the Secret Service Agent was already under the knife and McGee was sedated, going in to get an x-ray.
The wait for the results of the x-ray seemed like forever. As every doctor walked past them, they jumped up, only to have to sit back down again.
"Jethro Gibbs?" A young nurse asked the room, Gibbs, Ziva, Kate and Tony all jumped up, "The doctor will see you know."
They followed the nurse until they ran into Tim's doctor, who led them into a consult room. He introduced himself and put up the x-ray in front of the light, "we have three small fracture, which look like he was hit with something and the three corners hit his skull."
"Is he going to be okay?" Gibbs asked, hiding his concern pretty well.
"He'll be in a lot of pain for the next few weeks, but nothing a bit of Morphine can't cure. When he's released he'll have to wear a specially designed helmet, just in case he falls over. If he falls before this wound has time to heal, there is no way of determining what kind of damage could be done," the doctor warned.
"And his ear?" Ziva asked, getting funny looks from the group, "what? I saw a piece of his ear missing."
"The lady is right, something with a circular shape took of a part of his ear. But it wasn't cut of, the edge isn't clean enough, also it's a little burnt."
"He was nearly shot in the head?" Tony shouted.
"I believe so," the doctor informed them, "your people can confirm that with tests I suppose?"
"Yes we can, when will he be awake?"
"We're hoping to keep him asleep for the rest of the week but we may be obliged by a higher authority to wake him up earlier for interrogation. I believe some pretty important badges were flashed around here," the doctor whispered as if it were a secret.
"Do you know how the other man is, the one that came in shot?" Kate asked concerning her colleague.
"He's in surgery, all the interns were fighting over that one but sorry I'm not sure what his condition is though."
"Do you reckon he'll be able to recover fully?"
"Again I don't know how he's doing, but in a field like yours you need a high standard of fitness and I doubt he'll be able to reach that in the next several years with an injury like that," the doctor sighed.
"Anthony DiNozzo," a voice came from behind him, "you're under arrest for inappropriate behaviour with a child in your care."
A secret service hand cuffed him, "are you aware of your rights?"
"Yes," Tony said as Gibbs assured him that they'd get him out of trouble, "not this time Jethro," one of the agents warned.
"Todd," one of the men shouted when she didn't follow them.
Kate felt like she had the secret service pulling one arm while NCIS was pulling the other. She wanted to stay with McGee, but she knew she had to go with her boss, which is what she did very reluctantly.
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Okay, maybe I'm going crazy a little. I'm very sorry for not updating, it's holidays Down Under and I've had work experience and I was camping at a horse show for three days!