Dreams and Blood Brother's
As McGee laid in his bed that night he felt a pain in his heart due to the absence of his Abby. He had only spent two intimate nights and days with her but already he was head over heels in love with her. He missed her even though it was just a night he had to spend without her till he could see her again. He got out of bed and began doing what he always did when he was bored or lonely, free typing.
That night Abby lay in her bed snuggled up to Burt, however it just wasn't the same as her Timmy. Although Burt was great and could never be replaced he just wasn't as warm and comforting as McGee was. She missed having his soft hands run through her silky hair or his finger or hand gently rub and massage her back. She turned her face into the pillow and breathed deeply through her nose. She had put the MIT shirt she had taken from Tim's over the pillow as a pillow case so she could smell his scent and pretend he was laying there next to her.
Tim finished his free typing and got back into bed. Now both Abby and Tim were laying in their beds thinking the same thing 'I miss Timmy, Abby'. As they slipped off into sleep they still could not push the image of each other from their minds. Tim's dreams were full of him and Abby dancing together around a huge bonfire as fireworks erupted around them casting them in flashes of blue, red and green light. Whereas Abby's dreams contained her and McGee rolling around on the floor teasing and wrestling with each other.
There it was again as he talked to Abby that annoying beeping sound attacked his ear drums, only this time it was getting louder and louder and Abby started getting blurrier and blurrier finally everything turned pitch black and only the sound could be heard, god it was so annoying. He just wanted to turn the sound off.
He jumped back to reality and found himself in his bed with his alarm going off. He rolled his eyes and got out of bed heading for his shower.
Abby was on top of McGee now panting heavily she had won and they had ended up changing their style of wrestling. But now she was thirsty and in desperate need of caffeine she got up and walked towards her kitchen, she had just walked through the door frame when.
Her eyes wrenched open and she sat bolt upright knocking Burt flying. She threw the covers off and cart wheeled out of bed, heading straight for her Caff Pow filled fridge taking a cup she walked to the bathroom and began to get showered and ready for the day ahead.
'WMA-12L' Tim had just finished typing the letters in when Abby walked in.
"Hey Abs Caff Pow?" he said looking up, producing a cup and single black rose from under his desk.
"Aww Timmy that's so sweet" She said bending over his desk and giving Tim a kiss. "I can see you looking down my top McGee" she whispered "don't worry we can play later" she winked and walked to the elevator. Tim grinned as he watched her bounce towards the elevator before turning back to his screen.
"Oh score one McGee, Dinozzo zero ha" he had just looked and seen that the car was a rental from an airport company. McGee quickly phoned the company to see if they had flown Mossell Faied into America and if they knew where he was staying.
Tony and Ziva walked in together when all of a sudden Tony stopped threw his head back and burst out laughing.
"Whow! McGoth nice hair, hey Zee I think McGeek's been promoted to the dark elf lord" Ziva to was now trying to fight back laughter and failing miserably all of a sudden both their head jolted forwards.
"Leave the dark elf lord alone and gear up" Gibbs said slapping the back of their heads and hurriedly walking to his desk to grab his gear.
"Where we going boss?"
"To get Faied Dinozzo! McGee found his whereabouts this morning whilst you two took your sweet ass time coming in." McGee smirked and held up his left index finger and right hand curled in to a ball
"one-nil Tony one-nil" McGee whispered so only tony could hear. As soon as Gibbs
Left the bull pen Tony Slapped McGee's head.
"Get in the car McGoth"
"I can live with beating you and getting a head slap" Tim smirked as he jogged to
the elevator, which Tony missed running into the closed doors and having to sprint down the stairs.
As they pulled out of the navy yard it began to rain and with Gibbs at the wheel it made a hair raising drive.
"Boss do you reckon we should take it sloweeeeeeer, ah, seeing as the roads almost flooded?" Tony asked as they slid round the fifth corner and he smashed his head on the window.
"No Dinozzo! I want this guy so we can move on to another case that's more exciting" Gibbs said slamming his foot on the break as a car cut him up "god damn idiot" he said punching the horn before putting his foot through the peddle.
They screeched to a halt outside the house and got out pulling out their pistols. Gibbs kicked the door in and they burst in; Gibbs took the study, Ziva the dining room, Tony the living room and McGee the kitchen.
"Clear!" came Gibbs voice
"Clear!" Ziva
"Clear!" Tony
"Halt federal agents put the weapon down! Drop it or I wi-"
Two gunshots ripped through the building. Time seemed to slow down like in one of those action movies when the hero dives in front of a bullet. Tony turned just in time to see McGee fall back through the door frame blood spraying the wall behind him as he let off a shot. Ziva's eye's widened and her mouth fell open as she ran and caught the site of McGee on the floor in a pool of blood as Tony ran to the kitchen door. Gibbs stomach clenched and his heart shot into his throat as he to ran into the room. Tony ran into the kitchen and shot Faied in the chest twice and head once. Time had suddenly seemed to return to normal and the scene became more severe. Tony rushed to McGee and held him in his arms. Tim's head and shirt was dripping with blood, his eyes were flickering and through the blood soaked face he looked extremely pale.
"McGee! McGee listen to me, stay with me probie come on don't close your eye's" Tony said shaking him.
His words were extremely forced and slured "Toe-ney I 'dish summ-n stup-erd didn't 'Ish"
"Dinozzo stem the bleeding and keep talking! Ziva call an ambulance! I'll call Abby" Ziva stood rooted to the spot for a moment even her tough Mossad mind could not comprehend what had happened "David!" she snapped out of it and pulled out her phone at the sound of Gibb's voice.
Tony grabbed a towel off the side and compressed it on the wound just above McGee temple.
"Come on buddy stay with it" he said tears forming in his eyes as blood dribbled from McGee's wound and nose down his face and into his mouth.
"Toe-ney I'm nert go-ing to maksh it tell….Abby 'Ish l...l...Lovm 'er" he stumbled over the last words as his eyes rolled up and his lids closed. Tony's lip began to quiver and he began to lose all hope. When to his relife he noticed Tim's chest gently rise and fall, thinking he could have imagined it he placed his hand in front of Tim's mouth and nose and felt the shallow breath against his hand. He was alive.
Meanwhile in Abby's lab she was looking through her microscope when a sudden chill went through her. She looked up to see where the draft could be coming from noticing all the doors and windows were closed she began pacing her lab 'I never had a chill go through me like that before well not since Kat- Timmy' she thought to herself she rushed to the phone and picked it up to hear Gibb's on the other end, the phone hadn't even rung.
"Gibbs, Abby" they gasped together
"Abby its Tim he's been….he's been shot"
"Wh-what no he can't but…we...no" there was nothing but silence as Abby's eyes glazed over with tears then Gibb's heard the thing that broke his heart. Abby was sobbing heavily. The phone hung up. Abby grabbed hold of Burt and ran up to the bullpen and dived into Tim's chair, black mascara tracks running down her face. Other agents looked up from their desks at the sound of the sobs and farting noises from Burt and Abby, but none had the guts to see what was wrong. It was then that Abby noticed the picture on McGee's desk whereas Gibbs had a picture of his family, Ziva had one of her at her passing out ceremony from Mossad with her family and Tony had a picture of his family McGee simply had a picture of his and Abby's first date, when they had gone to the Movies and jumped into the photo booth, Abby had her arm around Tim and Tim was kissing her cheek whilst facing the camera they were both giggling and Tim had the twinkle in his eye that had made Abby fall for him in the first place. She knew from that twinkle in his eye that he truly loved her.
The ambulance arrived and the medics rushed to Tim laying in Tony's arms, drenched in a torrent of his own blood.
"What we got?" they asked Tony
"Gunshot wound to the head above the temple, massive loss of blood, he's barely alive and is unconscious" Tony finished placing Tim back down so the medics could treat him. He stepped away looking down at himself he was covered in Tim's blood.
"What about that guy there?" one of the medics asked pointing to the slumped body against the cupboard.
"Leave him he's dead. My team will take care of him." Gibbs said walking over "how's my agent?"
"He's lucky to be alive. He's extremely unstable and could crash at any minutes he'll be taken to Bethesda immediately and put straight into intensive care."
"Dinozzo you go with him, keep me updated we've got to sort this scene out, as soon as we're done we'll be at the hospital."
Tony climbed in the ambulance and sat opposite Tim staring down at his blood soaked body whilst the medic tried to stabilise him as best he could until they got to Bethesda. He grabbed hold of Tim's hand.
"Come on probie fight this. You can do this McGee just hang in there" he whispered under his breath.
He was sitting at his desk going through cold case evidence when Tony walked in, Tony was still jealous that he had found Faied and arrested him then teased him saying 'two-nil' and how he the probie appeared to be out doing his teacher. Tony walked over to his desk and stole his picture of him and Abby on their first date. He got up.
"Hey Tony…Tony give that back" he lunged for it when Tony head locked him and they began wrestling Tim put up a good fight and began winning when he ended up back in the head lock.
"Come on dark elf lord use your powers. Come on probie fight this. You can do it McGeek just hang in there." Tony teased.
Tony paced around the waiting room every now and then looking up at the clock; two o'clock, half three, four o'clock still no Gibbs still no word about Tim. The last Tony saw of Tim was him laying in a hospital bed being wheeled into intensive care, surgery. That had been four hours ago and yet every doctor and nurse he had asked about Tim just looked sympathetic at him and told him he was in surgery. He had reported that to Gibbs when they first got there it was old news he needed to know what the hell was going on. He stormed up to a doctor to get answers.
"Hello I'm here with special agent Timothy McGee. Can you tell me anything about his condition?" he decided to start off with the polite approach. The doctor looked up from his clip board and Tony was met with the same sympathetic look all the other staff had given him when he asked about Tim.
"I'm sorry sir he's in surgery"
That was it Tony had had enough of this crap. He grabbed the collar of the doctor's coat and began to yell.
"LISTEN I HEARD THAT WHEN WE FIRST GOT HERE NOW ANSAWER MY QUESTION!" the doctor's face turned to one of terror and staff and patients in the waiting room became silent and started to stare at the two of them.
"He-he went into surgery an-and….I'm sorry but he appears to be in a coma I don't think he'll make it" tony simply let go of the doctor and stared into the space in front of him.
"Oh god Timmy"
Gibbs was going through the last of his notes when the phone rang he looked at the caller I.D seeing the flashing 'Dinozzo' he snatched the phone up. He let Tony's words sink in as he put the phone down and placed his head into his hands. Now he had the job of telling McGee's family what had happened. That wasn't so hard seeing as he could do it over the phone but the most difficult bit would be telling Abby what state McGee was now in. He knew from his surprise visit they had got back together and now had to brace himself for Abby's sorrow.
Abby was sitting in her chair staring blankly at the computer screen not really paying attention to what was on it. When she heard the slow tapping of feet in the corridor she stood up and made to look as if she was busy and was unconcerned with the recent events even though her smudged mascara said different. Gibbs walked in eyes slightly glazed holding a large Caff Pow. Abby spun around.
"Hey Gibbs what you got for me" she said with a slightly watery, forced voice
"Abs-"
"I know Timmy's fine if he wasn't fine I would have felt something so don't tell me otherwise because Timmy's fine I know…I mean how could you lie to me about something like th-"
"Abs McGee's in a coma and appears to be in pretty bad shape…they don't think he'll make it" Gibbs cut across with a struggled whisper tears were now begging to be released but he refused to let them go. Abby however collapsed in to Gibbs arms knocking her Caff Pow to the floor howling with pained sobs, Gibb pulled her in tight as a single tear leaked from his hold.
"We'll go down there straight away. Get your stuff and I'll take you" he said gently stroking the back of her head.
Back at the hospital Tony was sitting blankly in the waiting room like a statue, when the doctor he grabbed early shuffled towards him.
"Special agent Dinozzo. I have some news on special agent McGee….he's out of surgery, is still in a coma and is verging on stability he could still crash at any minute for this reason we have decided that he will not be able to have visitors."
"WHAT!" Gibbs shouted behind the doctor making him jump.
"Boss what are you doing here? Where's the rest of the team?" Tony asked confused
"What do you mean we cannot see him! If he could die at any minute I demand we see him!" at the word die Abby stepped from behind Gibbs wringing her hands, her face soaked with tears.
"Well I…I can't allow anyone in. He…he may become stressed an-"
"He's in a coma how will he become stressed!" Gibbs bellowed causing nearby patients to stare at him.
"Well he-" Gibbs began to give the doctor his atomic glare, his fists curling and uncurling.
"Well maybe I can allow family and close friends in" the doctor whimpered
Gibbs turned to the tear soaked Abby.
"Do you want to see him now?" Abby silently nodded and hugged Gibbs.
She followed the doctor down the corridor, the smell of industrial bleach stinging her nose. She passed ward after ward before finally reaching where Tim lay. The first room had a desk with a doctor and nurse sitting on duty in case he crashed, there was a glass window looking into Tim's room not much of Tim could be seen due to all the machines around him. She walked towards the door reading the sign on it as she got closer.
Timothy McGee
Gunshot Wound To The Head
Critical
Comatose
O Positive
Blinking back the tears and taking a gulp she gently pushed the door open. There were tubes and needles dug in all over his body she sat in the chair next to his bed.
"Hey Tim….How you doing? Just resetting that computerised brain of yours hey." She whispered taking hold of his hand and stroking it with her thumb. His mouth twitched ever so slightly, however Abby hadn't caught the movement she had stared at him for so long that he had become out of focus.
"You know I really enjoyed this weekend, I was kind of hoping that we could do something like it again next weekend just us two and no uninvited visits from Gibbs." She chuckled to herself.
"Listen Timmy you've got to pull through this. I…I don't know what I'll do if you leave like…like Kate. You're the best thing that's happened to me an…and I know when we were together la…last time I broke it off but this times diff…different. Even though I did break it off with you I…I never stopped loving you. Every Gina Maria you met I broke a little inside, and now we're back together you can't just leave me." She sobbed.
He and Abby walked into his apartment, it had been a whole year since they had got back together due to the party they had just been to and now tonight was the night he would pluck up the courage to ask her.
"Hey Abs wait here whilst I make some food okay." he said kissing her forehead.
"Sure Timmy no problem." She said settling down on the couch and flicking on the T.V
He walked into the kitchen he had the table ready all he needed to do was finish cooking the meal.
"Hey Tim. How you doing?" Abby asked from the living room
"Fine just waiting's all"
"Just resetting that computerised brain of yours to cook mode" she smirked
"Yer, it takes a while for the hard drive to be found" he laughed
"You know what I really enjoyed this weekend; I loved Smithy's Addition of a skull made up of Catherin wheels to his display this year. I can't believe he added it just for me."
He crept in and placed his hands over Abby's eyes.
"McGee what are you doing"
"You'll see" he said steering her towards the now darkened kitchen. He removed his hands and Abby gasped. He had placed candles around the room which were providing the soft glowing light that lit up the table in the middle of the room which was covered in black and red rose petals and had a small vase with one black, one white and one red rose init. Abby turned to him and flew into his arms.
"Timmy this is the nicest thing anyone's ever done for me" she said kissing him on the lips. He held her hand and led her to her seat pulling it out and tucking her in like a true gentleman. He served the food and Caff Pow, knowing Abby would rather drink it than beer.
After they had finished eating he cleared the table and helped Abby to her feet he pulled her to the side of the table before getting down on one knee and pulling out a black velvet case.
"Abigail Scuito will you do me the honour of becoming my wife?" there was a long silence before Abby replied.
"Yes"
Suddenly the candles were extinguished and a pearly white light surrounded him and Abby. There was no longer a room and they were both floating. But then he noticed Abby was sobbing and fading she became more and more see through when all of a sudden she disappeared and he was thrown into pitch blackness no light except a small pin prick of light that shone in front of him as if he was in a tunnel, he began to move towards the light.
Abby was sobbing into her hands when all of a sudden Tim's heart monitor struck the long beep indicating his heart had stopped and he was dead. The room filled with the sound of alarms as doctors and nurses rushed in. Abby leapt back out of their way, her hands covering her mouth in shocked. Her Timmy was dead.
"No! No! He can't, please no" she begged sobbing uncontrollably as a doctor began CPR. Tim's lifeless body jolted up and down as he pumped his chest but still the long beep on the monitor continued.
"Come on Timmy don't leave us now!" the doctor breathed heavily. "It's no use he's gone." He said three minutes later. Turning and noticing the heart broken Abby left standing in the corner he reconsidered "Wait bring the defibrillator" a nurse wheeled it in and the doctor began.
"Charging two fifty! Clear!" Tim's body jolted but still nothing
"Charging three hundred! Clear!" Still nothing
"Charging three fifty! Clear!"
Oooo that was nasty wasn't it; sorry to cut short but hey you'll find out what happened next time. First off if some of you are unsure on some of McGee's slurred words here they are; Toe-ney=Tony, 'dish=did, sum-n=something, stup-erd=stupid, 'Ish=I, nert=not, go-ing=going, maksh=make, lovm=love and 'er=her.
Again sorry for the wait but you know school and story writing don't mix. Please keep reviewing I love knowing what you think and it gives me ideas for lines or events in the next chapter.