The storm was at it's peak, at least that was what Gibbs was hoping. After he and James had exchanged information (Well information from his side, he just knew that James had told him a bunch of lies), they started to look for Tony. To say that was difficult would be an understatement: the rain and wind made it almost impossible for the two men to see more then a few feet in front of them. James has been looking at him for the past ten minutes, and the look in the man eyes told Gibbs more then anything that the man thought the search for one person was ridiculous. But Gibbs knew that he couldn't give up the hope that Tony was alright, so ignoring the gaze of the other he searched further.

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Opening your eyes and seeing nothing but darkness was not the sort of thing that would calm a mans nerves, and Tony was no exception. The last thing he remembered was the thought that he would see Kate again... and he had not expected that she would be symbolised by total darkness, so that meant he was alive (well sort of, it felt more like he had been hid by a large truck and was only half alive)

Groaning he tried to raise himself, but had to give up when his insides felt like they were on fire. Shaking his head Tony tried to clear his vision, but the darkness remained... feeding Tony's fear: He was all alone, seriously hurt and unable to see in the middle of a storm! Things couldn't get much worse... no sooner had Tony thought that or he heard a noise that could be only described as rocks sliding down a mountain. Now more then ever convinced that he was going to die, DiNozzo forgot everything manly he ever learned in his life and did the only thing he could: he screamed for help.

"HELP... SOMEBODY PLEASE HELP ME..."

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"HELP...SOMEBODY PLEASE HELP ME..."

Normally those words would have scared the hell out of Gibbs, but right now? It was the most beautiful sound in the world: Screaming meant that the 'screamer' was awake which meant that Tony was alive and conscious... perhaps even unscratched (the scream was hard enough to suggest such a thing). Not even waiting to see if James had heard the scream too, Gibbs began to move towards the sound, only to stumble over something lying a couple feet in front of him. Briefly casting a glance down with the intention to climb over the offending rock or tree branch Gibbs was shocked to notice that it was Tony. Getting down on his knees next to him, he carefully assessed his agent state before he tapped Tony on his cheek, noticing that his agent had curled up and had his eyes closed:

"DiNozzo, It's Gibbs can you hear me? Come on Tony; open those eyes for me, I heard your call for help... your not alone Tony!"

Unfortunately it looked like Tony was unconscious. Trying to locate James, Gibbs carefully felt for broken bones in the other mans body, wincing when he discovered more damage then he had hoped for.

"Dammit Dinozzo, your not giving up: you hear me!."

James voice suddenly sounded in Gibbs ear,: "How is he? Has he already said anything."

Not even bothering to answer the man Gibbs once again tried to rouse Tony. This time he was successful as Tony's eyes fluttered before they opened.

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Tony could swear he heard a voice in the darkness, it spoke a tone that he knew so well and was impossible to ignore, forcing his eyes open he automatically responded.

"Boss, is that...?," a hackling cough interrupted anything else Tony wanted to say. Shutting his eyes again, he missed the growing panic on Gibbs face when his boss saw the trickle of blood that was sliding down the corner of his mouth. Using every bit of strength Tony opened his eyes again, only to realise that he still could see nothing, with a shot of energy he tried to grab Gibbs jacket. "Boss,...I...I can't see, I'm blind...I'm..."

For a second time Tony could not finish his sentence, when another cough made itself present, folding himself into a ball he was forced one more time to wait for the pain to pass, or to pass out again. Unfortunately the last one was no option, because Gibbs started talking again: forcing him to listen... ordering him to stay awake... and Tony was never one to ignore an order from Gibbs.

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Gibbs was worried, scrape that, he was downright terrified: not only was Tony unable to see, the blood indicated that there was some kind of internal injury and he was unable to help him.. but even worse then all that was the fact that he had no idea how this situation had occurred in the first place: had the dead guy had anything to do with it? Was it an accident, or not? Gibbs needed answers, he needed to know if there was any danger that was still threatening Tony. However before he could find the words to ask Tony about all those thoughts. James voice interrupted his musings,

"Well Agent Gibbs, is your guy alive and responsive, does he know what happened?"

The reaction this enquiry had on Tony was enough to answer Gibbs unspoken question about possible danger: Tony suddenly grasped his hand and squeezed it, while a look of extreme panic settled across his face.

Carefully Gibbs squeezed Tony's hand back, signalling the man that he understood: that somehow this man was responsible (partly or wholly) for Tony's condition. Turning away from Tony, and slowly getting up, Gibbs eyed the other one looking for any signals that James knew what had just transpired between the two man. Seeing no immediate alertness, but not wanting to risk further injury to DiNozzo, he reached for his gun while at the same time trying to come up with a response long enough to distract James.

TBC……….I'm abroad for a while so the next update will take some time (again sigh), I'm so sorry. Please don't hate me.