Warning: This chapter contains content that might offend some readers.
Whilst Gibbs is attending to Abby upstairs in the squad room Tony is reading the following letter.
You will never be Gibbs so why don't you stop trying? He is not your father and you will never take the place of who is missing in his heart. Gibbs wants his family; his wife and daughter not a surrogate son. In fact he has already found a replacement though I'm not sure which one for. She's young enough to be his daughter but have you noticed how he looks at her? How he undresses her with his eyes every time they are in a room together? You haven't? And you call yourself a Special Agent Anthony DiNozzo! Haven't you wondered why she wears those short skirts? Why she keeps a futon in her office? I'll tell you Tony. Your precious Boss. Your idol. Your father figure. Your Special Agent Leroy Jethro Gibbs is screwing Miss Abigail Sciuto and it has been going on for years. Did you not wonder why he stayed late all those nights? Never notice as you left her car still in the lot? He doesn't need you Tony and never will. Maybe it's time to move on.
Horrified Tony looks up from the letter but Tim and Ziva are engrossed in their work and he doesn't know where Gibbs is. No! Not Gibbs. Not Gibbs and Abby it just wasn't possible. Surely he would've noticed something. Think DiNozzo think he chastises himself mentally. The letter writer had offered no evidence, no proof just supposition based on what appeared to be some inside knowledge of Gibbs personal life and Abby's habits. But why send the letter to me? To stir up trouble for Gibbs of course; like smashing up his boat and tipping off the press about the Paulson case and maybe there's other stuff too that Gibbs hadn't told them. Perhaps McGee's letter from the other day ties into this too DiNozzo ponders wishing he hadn't been so quick to agree with Ziva's dismissal of it. In his gut he knew there was nothing but friendship between Gibbs and Abby so clearly someone was trying to destablize the team. He wouldn't show the letter to Tim and Ziva but needed to find the Boss immediately.
As Tony rises from his desk Gibbs exits the elevator and crosses the squad room.
"Listen up. Abby's been taken to hospital. I found her in the lab not breathing. The paramedics weren't sure"
"Boss?" query his three distressed special agents.
"They are not sure if she'll live. Ducky landed half an hour ago and is on his way to the hospital. I think someone deliberately tried to hurt her. Tony and Ziva get down to the lab, talk to the bio-hazard people and see if you can find out what happened. Get Palmer standing by to take anything you find to the National Forensic Laboratory. McGee pull the surveillance footage covering all entrances for the last twenty-four hours. I want an id on and a reason for everyone entering the building. I need to inform the Director and call her mother." Ziva, Tony and McGee stare at him.
"Go, go, go!" Ziva and McGee leave but Tony stays behind.
"What is it DiNozzo?"
"After you make those calls there's something you need to see."
Gibbs nods and picks up his phone. "Cynthia I need to speak to the Director right now."