NCIS - The next day. Abby's Birthday.
It is raining hard but as she drives into the car park Abby is smiling because today is her birthday and if she can't be with her family she does get to spend the day with people she loves; her NCIS family. Only Ducky would be missing as he was at a medical examiner's conference in Seattle and not back in the office until tomorrow. Gibbs had taken her out for dinner the previous evening but as per their tradition would give her a present today.
As she hangs up her coat and hat and begins turning on her machines to start the day she notices through the glass door a huge vase of black roses on her desk. Those must be from Ducky she thinks. It would be just like him to arrange with Jimmy for the flowers to be there when he wasn't. With a broad grin Abby enters her office and leaning over the vase inhales deeply. Her eyes blur as she staggers against the desk losing consciousness and slipping to the floor.
At that moment Gibbs arrives in the doorway. "Abs!" He drops the present and the Caf-Pow he is holding and rushes into her office. Realising she is not breathing he hits the auto dial on her phone for Autopsy. "Palm..." "Get an ambulance here STAT then come to the lab." Without waiting to hear a reply he commences CPR between breaths and compressions gasping "Stay with me Abs. Stay with me. Damn it I won't lose you too."
As Abby begins to breathe shallowly Palmer arrives. "The ambulance is pulling into the autopsy bay." "There's no time." Palmer follows him as Gibbs bundles Abby in his arms, carries her down to the ambulance and places her on the stretcher inside. The paramedics check her over. "Will she live?" "I don't know. We need to get her to the hospital right now." The ambulance screeches out of the bay leaving Gibbs and Jimmy in a sudden disquieting silence.
"Palmer get back to the lab. Call Security. I don't want anyone entering until it is cleared by the bio-hazard people and my team arrives." Jimmy leaves. Gibbs calls Ducky. He enters the elevator trying to find the words to tell the team the news and trying to figure out what the hell was going on.