Part Of The Job
What good is love and peace on earth?
-Troubled Times, Green Day
I'm not sure how I feel about this chapter. Do you have any ideas on what you want to happen in this story? Let me know please!
"You know, that was one of the greatest nights of my life. I got to see my favourite band and meet the most beautiful woman in the world." Harry said as he ran his hand down Abby's cheek. She scoffed at how cringy he sounded. Abby had met Harry at a concert. They'd started talking before the show had begun and continued until the end of the night. Harry was in his early 20's and had quite a shy personality.
"You realise how screwed you are when they find out I'm missing?!" Abby was surprised at how confident she sounded considering she was tied to a chair in some random building.
"You're just a forensic scientist, they won't investigate it. I know who you work with." Harry replied, waving the team's personal files at her.
"Are you that young that your under-developed brain doesn't realise the consequences of kidnapping someone who works for a federal agency?" Abby couldn't believe how naïve he was. Did he not realise they would come looking for her? She could see the panic setting in his eyes.
"Oh Abby, you're so cute when you get angry!" He gave her a sickly smile.
"They'll be here soon, you realise. McGee's probably traced my phone!" Abby was trying to make him realise the stupidity of what he was doing.
"He's the reason you're in this situation right now!" Harry started walking around the room.
"What?! What's McGee got to do with this?" Abby yelled.
"He just had to have you as his girlfriend, didn't he?" Abby could hear the tone of jealousy in his voice.
"That's what this is about?" Abby genuinely couldn't believe what she was hearing.
"I could deal with not having you. Seeing you everyday was enough for me." Abby cut him off before he could say anything else.
"Seeing me everyday? What are you on about? I haven't seen you since the concert." Abby's expression turned to realisation – he'd been stalking her.
"You might not have seen me, but I've certainly been seeing you." Harry walked over to the table where the files were. He skimmed through them until he found what he wanted. "Ziva, isn't it? Your friend? How was your lunch with her on Saturday?" Abby felt the colour drain out of her face at the thought that she'd been getting stalked.
He walked over to Abby, cut the ties from around her ankles and pushed her towards the stairs leading to the car outside.
It had been three hours since McGee had come rushing in and they'd discovered Abby had gone missing. They were now searching all the derelict buildings and warehouses in the area where Abby's phone was last on. Vance had managed to pull some strings and get 40 extra agents to help search the area for Abby.
"It's no use, she's not in any of them." McGee's voice sounded drained.
"We still have a few left, she could be in one of them." DiNozzo tried to keep a positive approach about the current situation they were dealing with, but it was becoming increasingly harder with McGee's negative attitude.
It had been about half an hour, and the team were searching the last building in the area.
"Gibbs, you're going to want to come and see this." DiNozzo shouted to the other room. The whole team regrouped and couldn't understand what they'd found.
"How did he get those?" Ziva questioned to the team's personal files on a table. Lying next to it was a scrunched up piece of paper with something scrawled on it. Gibbs straightened the paper out.
Nobody had her, did they?
There was nothing to be bothered about or jealous of.
But then HE came along. Swept her off her feet. She was no longer free.
I couldn't let it happen, so I had to do this to get to HIM.
"Abby was here..." McGee stated as he put some latex gloves on and picked up the cable ties that were near a chair. Everyone looked over to where McGee was crouched down.
"Ziva, photos. DiNozzo, dust for any prints." Gibbs ordered.
"On it, Boss." They replied in unison and got to work.
"Boss, what about me?" McGee walked over to the table where Gibbs was.
"You sure you're up for this?" Gibbs was extremely concerned for his team, especially McGee.
"I have to do this for Abby. I failed at protecting her, it's the least I can do." Tim thought back to the night they'd watched horrors when she'd asked how he could protect her if he couldn't watch a scary film. McGee put on a brave face and tried to start being positive.
"See if there's any cameras in the area." McGee nodded and headed back to the Navy Yard to get to work.
Gibbs looked at the files again. There were two piles. On the left there was McGee, Abby, DiNozzo and Ziva. To the right there was Palmer, Vance, Ducky and himself.
Gibbs stormed into Vance's office without knocking. He threw the teams files on his desk.
"How did someone manage to get all of these?" Gibbs yelled, pointing at the files. Vance didn't say anything but looked at the files on his desk.
"Where did you find these?" Vance questioned.
"At our crime scene!" Gibbs shouted.
"Crime scene? Did you find Abby?" Vance's stayed expressionless the whole time.
"We found where she was being held. These were on a table along with a note. How the hell did someone get their hands on my team's personal files, Leon?!" Gibbs started to lose his patience.
"Agent Gibbs, I suggest you calm down." Vance stared Gibbs straight in the eye.
"Ziva, DiNozzo, Palmer, McGee, Ducky, Vance and my files are on your desk right now, collected from where one of our own was being held by her kidnapper and you're telling me to calm down?" Gibbs almost shouted at the top of his voice, before storming out and into the bullpen.
"McGee, have you found anything?" Gibbs asked as he stormed over to his desk.
"I've checked the traffic camera's starting at my apartment to the warehouse district where Abby's phone was last on and traced every single route that could've been taken. So far, one of the routes has the same car travelling along it that I first spotted from the camera over the road from my apartment complex. It's a black Chevrolet Cruze." McGee was glad that he'd found something that could potentially help find Abby.
"Good work, McGee. Have we got a licence plate?" Gibbs walked down and sat his desk.
"Unfortunately, the plates are blacked out. But, I'm tracing the registered owners of that make of car right now." McGee looked up for a brief second before getting back to typing.
"Keep me updated." Gibbs nodded and started typing at his computer as Tony and Ziva entered the bullpen.
"Boss, we have two partials prints." Tony stated as he threw his gear down.
"Right, get them to-" Gibbs stopped mid-sentence when he realised that Abby wasn't in her lab. "Go to Vance, tell him we need a temporary forensic specialist right now." Gibbs ordered.
"On it, Boss." Tony jogged up the stairs two by two to Vance's office and knocked on the door.
"Come in." He heard a mumbled reply from behind the door and headed in. "Agent DiNozzo, how can I help?" Vance crossed his arms and leaned them on the desk.
"We need a forensic specialist straight way seen as our has been kidnapped..." Tony smiled sarcastically at how unhelpful Vance was being.
"I'll have one with you in the next half an hour." Vance picked up his phone to make the arrangements.
"Half an hour? That's not fast enough! Anything could happen to Abby within the next half an hour!" DiNozzo started raising his voice at Vance, not caring about the consequences.
"Agent DiNozzo, remember who you're talking to." Vance gave him a glare full of warning.
"Right now I'm talking to someone who doesn't seem to care that one of our own has been kidnapped!" Tony yelled as he walked out of the office. He stopped at the door and turned around to finish the conversation. "Any longer than half an hour, and anything that happens is on you, Leon." Tony emphasised his name as the paced down the stairs. As he entered the bullpen, he realised how he'd just spoken to the Director of NCIS. He glanced over to Gibbs in worry.
"Forget him." Gibbs voiced, knowing exactly what had just happened. "Ziva, it's most likely this creep has been stalking Abby, probably even us. Head down to the lobby and see if there's been any suspicious visitors recently." Ziva nodded and ran to the lift.
Ziva walked over the front desk and placed her arms on the counter.
"Hello, I was wondering if there's been any visitors recently that you might have had to turn away?" Ziva smiled to Stan. He'd been working security on the lobby since she'd joined NCIS.
"Officer David, good to see you!" Stan smiled.
"You too!" Ziva smiled back.
"Anyway, back to your question. Yeah, we've had some guy who kept insisting we let him in. He's about 5'9', light brown hair, kind of shy. He seemed quiet on edge, wouldn't keep eye contact with me. The guy comes in every few days to see if we'll change our minds."
"How long has he been coming in for?"
"About two or three weeks actually. We thought he'd give up after few days but they guys pretty insistent. Is everything ok?" Stan's face turned slightly worried.
"That definitely is insistent. We suspect that he may be involved in a case we're investigating."
"Please don't tell me it has anything to do with Abby going missing? Did that bastard take her?" Ziva could see the anger in Stan's eyes.
"How do you know about Abby going missing? Do you even have the clearance for that?"
"The whole building knows! It's Abby! We're all really worried about her. I can't believe I've spoken to that guy for the past few weeks and he's the one who tried to hurt her!" Stan's fists clenched at the thought.
"Firstly, calm down! He's not worth it, Stan. And secondly, we cannot confirm that he's involved but it's most likely he is."
"I'll get the lobby's footage sent to McGee straight away. You need to catch that guy! Abby doesn't deserve this." Stan started typing on the computer in front of him to locate the footage.
"Thank you, Stan. I hope we catch him because Abby definitely doesn't deserve this – you're right. But thank you, you've been a huge help!" Ziva headed back over the elevator.
"No problem, anything to help!" Stan shouted over to the lift as Ziva got in.
I know the last part of the chapter probably wouldn't happen but oh well - it's fiction after all. I'm not sure I like this chapter. Leave a review and let me know what you think!?