Time heals all wounds

Chapter Eight

Special Agent Leroy Jethro Gibbs was barely hanging on while Marcie was trying to talk to him. However, he had passed out while the ambulance was on the scene and with backing up in order to pick up their patient.

Doctor Cyril Taft having to be on the scene. He had been monitoring his heart rate, blood pressure, and oxygen levels. One of the medical technicians was on the radio with Bethesda hospital and Doctor Gilbert working the emergency room this time around having too short personnel ever since the coronavirus hit the entire united states.

Doctor Taft was able to give his vitals to them along with a face mask to breathe better even though shadow.

Director Leon Vance had told Marcie Warren to please head back to Gibbs's house with him handing her the key that he keeps for occasions like these.

"Why? I want to be by his side once Doctor Taft is able to save his life. I can't be seeing him like this after that bastard shooting him." she cried out with the response with Vance telling McGee and Nick to meet him at the hospital.

He watched them see the stretcher being lifted into the ambulance with Doctor Taft pissed off that this had to happen to his friend once again.

"What is going to happen to Dan after being arrested?" Marcie asked with the importance of the question and signing for the most part.

"Since he was behind in the plan in order to get Gibbs here to the harbor along with working for the Cartel and bribery. There are going to be other charges as an accessory depending on whether Gibbs makes it through the surgery." Vance didn't bother to hold back.

"Jesus! I should of know something that those three stories we were working on were too good to be true!" she was extremely angry as the ambulance begin to move out with Gibbs inside to all types of wires coming out of his body.

If anything this was his way to leave NCIS and his friends. "I will follow your orders Director Vance along with taking care of Lucy alone right now." she was holding the key in her hand as she went to get into Gibbs's truck since he had left it inside to be really stupid in her mind.

She moved inside by stepping up. It's been a long time that she had driven a truck when she was in her late teens and when she was in her early twenties. She was really worried for him since she's not been with any man romantically for almost ten years ever since her husband Jake working for the Navy as a diver with a team of four with their commander David Baskins as well married to a woman name Loreile. The entire team was killed during a diving accident trying to repair an old submarine. When they were overwhelmed by pieces of the submarine for the Navy breaking away.

There was an investigation for where the case was closed with no fraud or any reason other than the fact that the four-team members weren't aware of what was going to happen to them. Currently, the wife of Commander David Baskins is working at the Evergreen safe house on the outskirts of Alexandra, Virginia.

SOMETIMES LATER...

Doctor Taft had asked for the paddles in order to zap his chest. He was losing ground if they can't get his heart started. "250 MAGAOULES TO BEGIN WITH?" HE ADVISED WITH THE TECHNICIAN SETTING THE EQUIPMENT BEFORE ZAPPING HIM.

"Again!" this time his heart started again to have everyone breathing easier for now."He's back for now gentlemen. We need to hurry to get there before he's lost!

The driver was able to get through the traffic on the major highway before reaching the hospital with Taft's team waiting out for them in order to get him into the operating room.

"Doctor Gilbert is everything all set upstairs?" Taft asked with the order angry as hell...

"Yes, doctor," he said with the technicians moving out the NCIS agent inside with everyone standing around saw the blood-soaked through the pressure bandage and the hands of Taft.

Taking the freight elevator to be quicker for everyone involved while moving out to head for the prep room and into the operating theatre.

Doctor Gilbert, Taft, and another specialist were scrubbing with an x-ray tech having taken the films necessary for the operation. He was able to place the ready filmed onto the screen so that they could see the damage done by the bullet into his gut.

Taft came over to take a look noticing that there were five fragments that needed to be removed with some damage to the one small intestine. "Is everyone ready gentlemen?" he said not this time he wasn't in the mood to chat like his usual banter.

They moved inside to the packed theatre and including up in the observation nose watching the surgery on NCIS Special Agent Leroy Jethro Gibbs.

They had placed Gibbs onto the table with the anesthesiologist placing the breathing mask over his face once again while checking his oxygen levels.

After 15 minutes of getting their patient ready. Doctor Gilbert will be working first to open up Gibbs's stomach with the location of the fragments. Meanwhile, Doctor Cyril Taft needed to be careful with his heart in case trouble begins again.

Up in the observation nose McGee, Torres, and Vance sat down to watch the operation. Director Vance had been still angry. When his phone started to ring on vibrate as it was Senator Jamieson of the D.O.D. calling for additional Information on Special Agent Gibbs.

"Leon any word on Gibbs?" he asked from his chambers in Washington, D.C.

"He's under the knife now Ted. I will call you with a voicemail on whether we know anything further," he said softly over the cell-phone.

"Understand Leon and good night," he says with hanging up the connection to head on home.