A/N: Chapter 9. Probably not my best work but its still good I hope. I was up till 6:00 am writing this chapter. I could have really used a Caff-pow, but the closest thing I had was a 2-liter of Pepsi. Oh well, chapter 9 is done and chapter 10 (the last chapter) is almost done. Like I said before it should be done and posted before this Friday (I hope). Anyways I hope you enjoy this chapter. It begins where chapter 8 left off. It contains spoilers for "Hiatus" so unless u missed it, it shouldn't be a problem, but I just thought I should let you know just in case. I haven't seen the episode in a while so I hope I didn't get any info wrong. Sorry if I did. So just Read, Review and Enjoy.

Previously from chapter 8…

"Look man, I'll give ya' anything. I pay ya' a lot of money. I know a lot of people man. I can get you connected."

"I just want you dead. You hear me, dead. Dead!"

"McGee!"

McGee looked up to see Gibbs, Ziva, and Tony coming out of the woods with their guns drawn.

"Gibbs."

And now without further ado… Chapter Nine

Making a Choice

Gibbs, Tony and Ziva surrounded McGee and Red stopping a short distance away from them. The ground started to get muddy from the rain still coming down.

"Come on Tim, you don't want to do this. Just drop the gun." Gibbs said while signaling to Ziva and Tony to stay back with one hand and keeping his gun up with the other.

"He's crazy man," Red exclaimed.

"Shut up," McGee ordered keeping his gun on Red, "I came this far to kill him Gibbs, I'm not just gonna let him go."

"Don't do anything your gonna regret," Gibbs said stepping closer.

"S-stay back," McGee pleaded, "It's too late for me. After all the things I did, it's too late."

"No it's not Tim," Gibbs said getting closer, "You can still end this right now"

"I said stay back!"

"Tim please," Gibbs said as he continued stepping closer.

"I mean it!"

"Let me help you."

"Don't get any closer!"

"Tim-"

"I said stay back," McGee yelled pulling out his sig and aiming it at Gibbs.

"Alright, I'm stepping back," Gibbs said as he stopped, "I just wanna talk ok?"

Breathing heavily, McGee looked at Gibbs as he kept his sig aimed at him and the 9mm aimed at Red's head.

"We don't want to hurt you Tim," Gibbs said lowering his gun, "We just wanna help you."

"He deserves pay to for all the things he did."

"I know he does, but not like this alright. Just put down the guns and we'll arrest him."

"I don't think so. I am not putting them down. When this over one of us is gonna be dead."

"It doesn't have to be like this," Gibbs said as he stepped closer again, "Don't throw your life away."

"I said stay back," McGee said as his hand with the sig started to shake.

"I know you don't wanna shoot me," Gibbs said as he continued getting nearer to McGee.

"Your right," McGee said smiling, "I won't shoot you. I would never shoot you. Which is why I'm gonna do this…"

As he said this, McGee raised his gun and aimed to his own temple, which made Gibbs, Ziva, and Tony quickly step forward.

"Stay back," McGee yelled, "I'll do it. I mean it. Take another step and I'll kill us both!"

"This isn't you, McGee, it's the pills. They're making you like this. They're making you do this," Gibbs said trying to reason with McGee.

"No. They're helping me focus," McGee said, "I can focus better. Think better. I have become stronger since I started taking them."

"You've also become delusional. You're not thinking straight. You only think you're focusing better, but that's because the pills are like cocaine or heroine. You only gotten stronger and angrier because the pills are also laced with steroids."

"Well, it doesn't matter. I'm getting my revenge and I'm not gonna fail."

"He gonna rot in prison, alright. Don't do this."

"That's not enough. This son of a bitch deserves to die for killing Abby!"

"Wait, what?"

"You heard me. I said this son of a bitch killed Abby, so now I'm gonna blow his fucking brains."

"You don't understand. She alive. Abby's alive. She's not dead."

"What are you talking about? I saw this fucker shoot her."

"I'm serious. She's alive. She's recovering in the hospital right now. I talked to her earlier, just before coming here."

"No, you're lying!"

"Tim, have you ever known for me to lie to you? Believe me, she's alive."

"S-she is?"

"Yes, she fine. Now lets put a stop to this, ok," Gibbs said as he started getting closer again."

"It's t-too late for me. After w-what I did, it's too late."

"No, you can still turn back. It's not too late for you. You still have a chance."

"Enough, I'm gonna finish this now," McGee yelled looking at Red, who was now crying, "I'm gonna get my revenge! I am not gonna fail this time!"

Keeping his sig on his own temple, McGee jammed the 9mm into Red's head.

"No ones gonna stop me," McGee yelled.

"McGee, wait, it doesn't have to be like this. I know what you're going through."

"How could you possibly know what going through?"

"Believe me, I do. Back when I was young. Before I joined NCIS, back when I was still in the marines, I had a daughter with my first wife, Shannon. Her name was Kelly. She was very beautiful. She was 9 when I sent to Kuwait. While I was gone she and my wife witnessed a murder. So they went under witness protection. While being escorted by an NCIS agent in a car, a sniper killed the agent who was driving and the crash killed both Kelly and Shannon.

When I came back and heard of this, I became depressed and angry. I felt like killing my self and I almost did. I wanted to get the guy who killed them. So when I found out who did it and where he was I went after him. I went to Mexico where he was hiding. I took a sniper rifle with me to get even. An eye for eye. I went to where he was staying and waited for him. As soon as I saw him, I took my chance. I waited till he got in his car. I had him in my scope the whole time. So as he was leaving I pulled the trigger and got him the head. When I came back to D.C. I joined NCIS. But the pain was still here. Killing Red will not help with the pain. Believe me. Just stop this."

"N-no I c-cant."

"Yes you can. You care about Abby right?"

Crying, McGee slowly nodded his head.

"How do you think she gonna feel about you doing this? She cares about you too. So come on Tim, put the guns down."

As he said this Gibbs slowly put his gun down on the ground and reached out with both hands.

"Lets end this," Gibbs continued.

As the rain slowly stopped, McGee stood there shaking with his guns still up. He looked at Gibbs with his arms out. The tears in his eyes started to feel warm as the sun slowly came out from the clouds. Finally he dropped sig and let it fall to the ground. He slowly walked towards Gibbs who also started walking towards him. He dropped the 9mm as walked before falling to his knees. Ziva and Tony walked up to Red as Gibbs knelt next to McGee and embraced him in his arm.

"I'm sorry Gibbs," McGee said as he cried on Gibbs shoulder, "I'm very sorry."

"It's ok, Tim. It's ok."

"I'm nothing but a big disappointment. I'm no agent"

"Don't say that. You're a great agent. Your one of my best agent."

"I should quit."

"No. Listen to me, when this is done, your gonna leave this whole thing behind you and come to work as usual and continue being one of the best agent in NCIS. Ok?

"Thanks boss."

Ziva and Tony lifted Red off the ground and on to his feet but he fell to one knee as he did. So they both holstered their guns and helped him up as Tony took out his handcuffs. As he did red suddenly jumped up, pushed Ziva back making her fall, and punched Tony in the face making him turn and fall on his face. As that happen red lunged forward to grabbed the sig McGee dropped.

"Look out," Ziva yelled.

Looking up McGee and Gibbs saw red pick up the sig and fire at them. Acting quickly, McGee pushed back Gibbs with surprising force making the bullet missed. Right away McGee jumped for the 9mm as Red fired again, but McGee rolled out of the way as he grabbed the 9mm and fired it hitting Red on the forehead.

McGee stood up and walked over to Gibbs and helped him on his feet.

"Nice shot," exclaimed Tony as he ran over to Reds fallen body.

"Yeah, thanks McGee," Gibbs said.

"Any time boss," McGee said.

"Pretty much dead center on the forehead," Ziva said as she examined the gunshot wound.

All of a sudden every started getting hazy for McGee. He was finding a little difficult to stand. He started to feel nauseous and his mind started to get cloudy.

"McGee, you ok," Gibbs asked as he noticed McGee starting to act weird.

But Gibbs voice seemed distance to McGee as he started to feel sleepy. Gibbs knew something was wrong when he saw McGee's eye were glassy. McGee started to stumble around before falling. Gibbs managed to catch him and lay him down on his back. The last image McGee saw looking up was of Gibbs, Tony and Ziva standing over him worried and the sun shinning off them before everything went black.

TBC in chapter 10…

A/N: well that's chapter 9. I hope you enjoyed it. Chapter 10 should be up real soon. So please be patience. By the way I just have to tell you this thing that happen two me. I was helping my aunt with her garage sell. This one guy comes up and says:

"Do you have any drapes? I don't see any drapes." I'm like "what you see is what you get?" he's like "are you sure? Can you check the back?" so I say sarcastically "oh yeah, let me take you to the back department. You can go to customer service by the shed and get some pretzel and a slushie." He's like no that's ok." Then he said, "What's your return policy" so I say, "Uh dude, if you come back, I'll stab you." True story. It was cool cuz the guy and me both knew where it was from. And bonus points to you if you know where it's from. This really has absolutely nothing to do with the story I just wanted to tell it. Anyways like I said chapter 10 should be up real soon. So just hang tight. And since your already here why don't you write a review or leave a comment or something. You know you wanna.