Chapter 9 is up!!! Only one more chapter to go after this!!! ENJOY!!!
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He hung up on his agent and quickly pulled his work clothes on, going to the hosptail where he knew Gibbs was still at. As he strode into the hospital, he found Gibbs' room and walked in to see him fully awake and watching the news.
"Hey Tobias." Gibbs said, raising an eyebrow at him.
"Jethro. I've got bad news."
"About Abby?" Gibbs demanded, flipping the TV off immediately as he looked at Fornell.
"Yeah. She gave my men the slip."
"What?" Gibbs thundered, and before Fornell could defend himself Gibbs continued, "How did she give them the 'slip', Tobias? Protection detail means to keep an eye on her!"
"She flickered her lights, climbed out her window and took her car. They don't know where she went."
Gibbs swung his legs over the edge of the bed to get up and started breathing heavily. "Whoa, Jethro, we've got this. We lost her, we'll find her."
"You're damn right you're gonna find her!" Gibbs threatened, and then his doctor, Dr. Michael Willows came in and said,
"Agent Gibbs, if you attempt to leave, I'm afraid I'll have to restrain you."
"Like hell." Gibbs growled, and Dr. Willows glared at him, and Gibbs knew he would give him enough painkillers to knock him out for a few days, and he wouldn't hesitate. "Fine. But I want hourly updates, you got that Tobias?"
"Got it." Fornell said just as Tony and Ziva appeared in the doorway.
"What're you two doing out of bed?" Gibbs demanded of his two agents, still pissed that Abby had given the FBI detail the slip.
"We've been released." Tony said, a smirk coming over his face. Ziva couldn't hide a smile and Gibbs said,
"Wipe that smile off both your faces. Abby gave her protection detail the slip, and you two are going to help Tobias and his team find her."
"Got it boss." Tony said, his smile slipping off his face instantly.
"We'll get right on it." Ziva said, her smile also gone as they both followed Fornell out. Tobias has his team track Abby's cell phone, and discovers that she went to a warehouse, and the cell is still there.
When Tony saw the address, he was shocked. "What is it, Tony?" Ziva questioned, and Tony replied,
"This is where I saved the boss and that girl Gibbs was trying to help. Kelly's best friend." Ziva's breath caught in her throat as she pulls out her cell and calls for a SWAT team's assistance.
They pulled up to the fishery warehouse and saw Abby's car sitting in the lot. Tony and Ziva pulled their guns and advanced on the car as Fornell and the SWAT team broke into warehouse. Tony opened the driver's side door, which was unlocked and saw Abby's cell phone sitting on the seat.
"DiNutso! David! Get in here!" Fornell called, edginess in his voice. Tony and Ziva jogged into the warehouse and spotted one of Abby's collars lying in a pool of blood.
"Oh my God…" Tony breathed, hoping against hope that it wasn't Abby's blood. Ziva pulled out her cell in shaking hands and dialed Ducky. She told him to come to the warehouse and then hung up. She couldn't talk much more without showing her emotions, something a Mossad assassin wasn't trained to do.
Ducky arrived a half hour later with Palmer, and as soon as they both saw the pool of blood, both of them stopped in their tracks. "Whoever lost this blood, is barely surviving." Ducky said quietly, and that's all Tony needed to hear. He strode out and called back, "Catch a ride with Ducky and Palmer, Ziva. I gotta talk to McGee and Gibbs."
Ziva looked at Ducky, who nodded. "There's not much we can do here, Mr. Palmer. Get a sample of that and I'll see if I can run it. See who's it is." Ducky said with a sigh and Palmer nodded, getting to work. Ziva and Ducky stood silently, wondering what went on in that warehouse.
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Tony drove back to the hospital and pulled up, slamming his hands down onto the steering wheel. When he pulled up, Gibbs was walking out under his own power. "Boss," Tony said in shock as Gibbs walked up to his car and got in the passenger seat.
"McGee's on his way. We convinced Dr. Willows to let us out early so we can find Abby." Gibbs said shortly as McGee started to walk out of the hospital.
"All we found was Abby's dog collar and a pool of blood at the warehouse, Boss." Tony said quietly, and Gibbs nodded, his jaw tightening with anger.
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Meanwhile, Abby was just coming to, having been knocked out by someone she knew. When she walked into the warehouse, ready to fight, she felt someone hit her from behind and that knocked her to the ground, where she was a little woozy. Then, she watched as some guy dragged in a body and left a pool of blood on the ground.
Abby managed to roll over on her back and when the guy came back to her, she saw his face and knew who he was: her crazy ex-assistant Chip, AKA Charles. "You bastard…" Abby mumbled before Chip grinned and said,
"Hello Abby. Or should I say ma'am?" Then he put someone over her mouth and nose and Abby drifted off.
Now she was coming to, and was in the strangest place: the back of a warehouse. She looked around and thought the place looked familiar. She had been here before, but just couldn't put her finger on it…
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Tony took Gibbs and McGee to the squad room where they saw Jenny and Ziva standing in front of the plasma. "What've we got?" Gibbs demanded, and neither Jenny nor Ziva looked surprised to see him or McGee.
"We're working on finding out where Abby is. I found a hair at the scene, and guess who it belongs to?" Ziva said, her voice hard.
"I don't play guessing games, Ziva." Gibbs growled, and Jenny said,
"Abby's ex-assistant, Chip."
Gibbs stared into the picture of Chip they had up on the plasma, and fury flared inside of him. "Where is he?"
"We're tracking his cell right now." Ziva said, and McGee sat down at his computer and typed in a few numbers and suddenly an address popped up.
"That bastard." Gibbs muttered. It was the address in Stillwater, of his father's store. "He's got Abby and Jackson."
"Let's roll." Gibbs said loudly and grabbed his gun from his desk drawer, as did Ziva, Tony and McGee. Jenny did too, and Gibbs just looked at her.
"I'm coming, Jethro. Abby's my friend too." Jenny said quietly, and Gibbs just nodded. They all walked out and piled into two cars. Gibbs got into one with Tony, while McGee and Ziva got into the other one with Jenny. Suddenly Fornell ran up, and got in the backseat of Gibbs and Tony's car.
The three hour drive to Stillwater was as silent as a graveyard, with the occasional blast of music from Tony's earbuds connected to his iPod and then there was Fornell who was almost constantly on his phone, getting a medical helicopter ready to transport Abby or anyone else, just in case.
Gibbs made the four hour drive to Stillwater in a little under three hours, with Ziva right behind him, as she was the one driving Jenny and McGee's car. It was a good thing that Gibbs had given McGee his motion sickness pills, because he'd probably need them.
Just as they pulled into Stillwater, Gibbs knew that there was something wrong. A crowd was gathered around Jackson's store, and the sheriff was outside on the phone, obviously not doing a thing.
"Hey!" Gibbs called out, and the sheriff turned to face him, and an ugly grimace twisted on the sheriff's face.
"Oh no, you ain't taking this from me, Leroy." The sheriff growled, and Gibbs grabbed his phone and chucked it down the street.
"Oh yes I am. My father is in there, along with one of my people."
"You mean that Goth forensics chick?" The sheriff said dismissively, and Gibbs grabbed his collar, shoving him against the car and said,
"She's not a 'chick'; she's more educated than you are."
"She's still a woman. My opinion, they should stay at home, keep their mouths shut and be there for our every need." The sheriff said with a slight smile, and Gibbs barely restrained himself from shooting the piece of garbage.
Jenny walked up and said, "Go, Jethro. I'll handle this piece of crap." Gibbs huffed out a breath and walked towards the front of the store, with McGee, Ziva and Tony following him. Jenny smiled dangerously sweetly at the sheriff and kneed him where it really hurts.
"All right, we all want Abby out of there alive, so let's play it safe." Gibbs said quietly to his team and got to the front of the crowd. They were able to see the situation through the window, and saw Chip with a knife against Abby's throat and Jackson with his hands up, a few feet away from Jackson.
"God, Abbs, what've you gotten yourself into?" He whispered, filled with fear for his Abby, his love, with a knife to her neck.
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Well, I think I'm getting better with those cliff-hangers, don't you agree? Anyway, I hope you enjoyed this chapter, and remember, the next chapter is the last one! How many of you guessed that Chip was the guy? Since I don't know his last name, I'll just call him Chip! Thanks so much for reading, and adios for now!!!