Chapter 3 is up!! I know I kept all of you on the edges of your chairs, waiting for me to update after that cliff-hanger (melodramatic, I know, but that's me!) so here is the chapter! I can't really give you a summary, because the title of this chapter says it all! ENJOY!!!

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"Abby!" Gibbs shouted, jolted awake by the shot. He saw Abby's prone figure, and he shoved her behind a table that he flipped over, to try and protect them both while he grabbed his already-loaded gun.

Carefully, he peeked over the top of the table and shot off a few rounds, all the while shouting, "Abby! Abbs, you okay? Abbs! Answer me, dammit!" When Abby didn't answer, Gibbs dared to stop shooting and turn to her, and even in the glow of the moonlight, he saw the red reflection of blood spreading on her shoulder.

"Get me a medic down here now!" Gibbs shouted, nearly screaming, and turned Abby on her back, though he kept his gun in his hand, though the shots had stopped coming. He heard a car squeal away, and he knew that whoever had shot Abby was gone.

"Agent Gibbs?" Someone's voice said, and Gibbs looked up to see a frightened janitor.

"Get me a medic down here now! I've got one of my people down! She's going to die if you don't get me that medic!" Gibbs shouted, and the janitor scurried off.

"Don't scare the poor fellow, Gibbs." Abby's voice said weakly, and Gibbs took his hand and placed it on her cheek, saying,

"Don't talk, Abbs. I'm gonna get you outta here, you're gonna be okay."

"Trying to convince me, or yourself?"

"Both would be nice." Gibbs muttered as he grabbed his jacket and placed it over Abby's gunshot wound, trying to stop the bleeding.

"Gibbs, if I don't make it…" Abby started to say, coughing. Gibbs looked at her in alarm, and was even more alarmed to see blood coming up from Abby's coughs.

"Don't even think like that, Abby, please." Gibbs pleaded, and Abby closed her eyes tightly, but then snapped them back open and gripped Gibbs's shirt, saying urgently,

"Please, Gibbs, if I don't make it, just know that I love you. I always have, I always will. I truly, honestly love you."

With that, she thudded down to the floor, her eyes shutting and her wound bleeding profusely. Gibbs heard medics running down the stairs, but he was too stunned to say anything.

"Don't leave me, Abby, please." He whispered, but there wasn't an answer from Abby. He bent and said in her ear as the medic's came rushing in, "I love you too, Abbs. Truly, honestly love you too."

With that he was shoved away, and the medics loaded Abby up on a stretcher, trying to stabilize her. Gibbs couldn't move for the longest moment, and then fury began cursing through him like fire. Without a word he followed the medics out, and since it was the dead of night, there was no one else at NCIS just yet.

"I'm going with her." He said to the medic in charge, and the medic didn't dispute that fact. Gibbs jumped in beside Abby and barely listened to he medics chatter about what kind of medicine to give her, it was all he could do not to grab her and just hug her tightly, hoping that it was all just a bad, bad dream.

Of course, it wasn't, and Abby's heart stopping told him that it wasn't a dream. "She's crashing!" One of the medics yelled, and Gibbs couldn't help but think, way to state the obvious.

The ambulance squealed up at the hospital, and Abby was wheeled into the ER. Gibbs ran alongside her, but when she got to the doors of the operating room, one of the doctors stopped him and said, "End of the line for you, sir."

"Special Agent Gibbs, NCIS." Gibbs said, flashing his badge, but the doctor held firm.

"I'm sorry sir, but you cannot go in there. Go sit down, have some coffee, and I'll come out with an update as soon as I can. We won't lose her, I promise." The doctor said firmly, and Gibbs looked in the doctor, whose name was Dr. Evan Kartright, and nodded.

Gibbs sat down in the waiting room, not intending to budge until he was told he could see Abby. The next thing he knew, his phone was ringing, and he opened it, putting it to his ear and saying, "Yeah. Gibbs."

"Jethro, just what in the hell happened over here?" Ducky's voice cried out, and Gibbs sighed, saying,

"Where are you, Duck?"

"At NCIS. None of us are allowed down into Abby's lab, now why is that?" Ducky said, and Gibbs could hear McGee, Tony, Ziva and Palmer in the background.

"Go tell Jenny to let you down there. Tell her that if she has any problems with that, to call me." Gibbs said, and hung up.

"I need to go see the Director." Ducky said to the others, and walked up to her office to see her just getting in.

"Ducky! You're here early."

"Yes Director, but I'm afraid we have a situation."

"What kind of situation?"

"No one will let any of us down to Abby's lab." Ducky said nervously, and without another word Jenny strode out of her office, with Ducky at her heels. She strode down to Abby's lab, but an FBI agent tried to stop her.

"I'm sorry, ma'am, no one is allowed in here."

"This is my agency, let me in or I'll have your badge." Jenny said, a deadly-like tone to her voice. The agent stepped aside, recognizing the director, and Jenny strode inside, followed by Ducky, Tony, Ziva, McGee and Palmer. They saw the pool of blood on the ground, and saw some blood spread around the room, in a spray and in a contact smudge.

"Oh my God. What the hell happened here?" Jenny demanded, while the others could just stare at the blood, knowing that it was Abby's blood, since it couldn't be Gibbs, because he was the one who had talked to Ducky.

"We don't know, ma'am, all we know is that in the middle of the night, Special Agent Gibbs called for an ambulance that took Ms. Sciuto to the hospital." The agent said, and Jenny whipped out her cell, dialing Gibbs.

"Yeah, Gibbs." Gibbs's voice said, and Jenny snapped,

"Jethro, what on earth happened to Abby?"

"Remember that psycho that ran her off the road yesterday?" Gibbs questioned, and Jenny nodded, saying,

"Yes, why?"

"Abby wanted to stay at NCIS to feel safer, and I stayed with her. The guy came back, and shot her through the window. And we don't even know his damned name." Gibbs growled, but Jenny heard the hurt in his voice.

"We'll find out, Jethro," Jenny said, and hung up the same time Gibbs did.

"Tony, Ziva, McGee, let's get to processing this. I want to know who tried to kill Abby last night, and I want to know why."

"Yes ma'am." Tony said, and silently the three agents got to processing the scene, all of their thoughts on the life of their forensic scientist that currently hung in the balance.

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End of this chapter! I hope you liked this addition to the story, and the next chapter will have Tony, Ziva, McGee, Palmer, Ducky, Jenny and Gibbs thinking about Abby and just what in the world they would do without her! Thanks for reading, and adios for now!!!