Well, this chapter is short but in contrary to that, Chapter 9 will be a monster chapter because I couldn't decide where to cut it...

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Chapter 8

"Are you sure?" Caroline asked when Tony entered the black car.

"Absolutely. This is the only possibility this war will end. And without an exaggerated death toll…just drive."

"You sure you can trust them?"

"I have to go to CIA headquarters. Only with my help they can discuss that my reaction was justified. I killed Eli in self-defense. It is Israel who started this war and we have to make clear that we have nothing to do with this."

"And then? Do you think the other nations will comment on United States' side?"

"They have the choice to either stay out of this at all, or tell Israel that they'll support us. But we haven't done everything wrong, it will be clear that they only searched for an excuse to start war on us. Peace treaty has never been that safe."

Caroline just sighed as an answer and drove through the crowded traffic of the freeway. "And 5-0 will bring you to Washington?"

"They promised to watch for my safety," Tony answered. He had called from phone box McGarrett's office and explained the situation.

They arrived at the huge statue of Kamehameha and parked in front of HPD headquarter building. "I can't go in," Caroline explained.

"They won't arrest you, you helped me!"

"Tony! I'm a criminal, I work for the Mafia, I'm a contract killer and in Mexico I'm wanted for arms trade."

"You never told me that one."

"Must have forgotten it…"

"Really?"

"It was long time ago."

"Tell me," he ordered and leaned back. He sensed that there was something more, the same tone in her voice he had noticed back in the plane.

She smiled: "There are some things, Tony, you don't need to know about me."

"I can find out."

"Certain things, yes. But for other things I kill…and I don't stop just because I like you."

"What happened back there in Mexico?"

"Good bye, Tony."

"What does it have to do with Big Island? ...I saw there is something, back on the plane you-"

"I wish you the best of luck during your journey, Tony, now, get out!"

He hesitated shortly but then stepped out of the car. He shut the doors and walked over to the building. Caroline waited until he passed the doors, then she drove away. She caught Katarina at the beach who was just talking to Kamekona, an old friend of them and a very good informant of 5-0.

Tony entered the HPD HQ and walked up the stairs like Steve had told him to. He entered the long corridor and saw the tall and muscular man standing next to a computer table. He turned around, "Agent DiNozzo!"

"Ya, that's me," Tony answered relieved. They shook hands and McGarrett introduced Danny, Chin and Kono, the other officers of 5-0.

"Hey, ah, we need to act fast. You'll come down with us but we think Israel has sent its spies to America. I know, sounds like paranoia but after the attack on the Naval Base we're not allowed to take any risks. Chin, Danny and I will drive with different cars, you'll be in Danny's rear trunk, just to be sure. Kono coordinates us, which means in case somebody broke into the connection she'll sent wrong hints, okay?" Steve explained.

"Wow, you really well organized," the special agent said surprised.

It didn't take five minutes until he was in the rear trunk of Danny, it was dark around him and he just heard the noise of the motor of the car. "Was this really necessary?" he asked through the cell phone connection, GPS was of course disabled.

"Yep, we don't want anybody to know where you are," Danny muttered, concentrating on the road.

It took them about fifty-minutes, with indirections, to arrive at Honolulu airport. Danny let Tony out of the rear trunk who stood up with about every muscle in his body hurting.

"I'm far too old for this," he commented when they together entered the airport building. "We're flying together. Our friend Kamekona got us two new passports, I hope they work out. He said he knew the best faker," Danny explained and gave Tony the card.

"Keith Shawn?" he asked surprised and received a nod. They passed security check without problems and waited forty minutes for boarding time. Finally, it has already become evening, they could enter the plane to San Francisco and New York and hoped that it would start soon.

"Hey, isn't that…?" Danny asked surprised and pointed forward.

"Typical," Tony said laughing when he recognized Caroline sitting a few seats behind them.

"I wonder where Katarina is," Danny mentioned but Tony shrugged his shoulders.

"I bet she has some job to do or takes another flight," he said and they both sat down.

The plane started and twenty minutes later Tony was looking down on the blue waves of the big ocean. There were nearly no clouds and he had full view although he could barely see anything from the height of the plane.

"What is planned when we arrive in New York?" Tony asked.

"Well, someone from CIA will await us," Danny explained. "He'll bring us to headquarters. Don't worry, Agent DiNozzo, it will all turn out well."

"I hope so," Tony muttered. He wanted to see his wife again.

It was the day McGee came out of hospital and he was so glad not to see the white walls anymore. They were so clean and sterile and immediately reminded him on illness, being sick and death. He remembered being a visitor too often and finally stepped out on the street. Gibbs waited for him at the car, leaning against the door, a coffee cup in his right hand, slowly sipping the dark brown liquor.

"All right, McGee?" he asked and threw the paper cup into the bin. McGee nodded.

"Then let's go," the boss proposed and walked over to the side of the driver.

Suddenly, he hesitated and asked: "Do you smell that?"

"Smell what?" McGee asked but now he did, too. "Is it gas?" he asked surprised and slowly turned to the crowded hospital which was filled with patients of the attack at the Naval Base.

In the following moment, the only thing he could think about was being glad that he was on the other side of the street. But it was just natural, after the attack at Second 9/11 last year, Scorpia has made the hospital collapse to rise the death toll, after such an attack, most people were brought to hospital, an overcrowded place where a second attack was just too easy and made death toll rise again, because already ill and injured men wouldn't survive a second explosion or any kind of attack.

This was exactly what our probie was thinking when he was thrown behind the car by the impact of the huge expanding fireball rising up in the sky, but not expanding on the street. Somehow it stayed on the area of the hospital building and just wiped everything away which was standing close. McGee felt his body hitting the floor five meters away from where he had left it.

He was behind the car now, protected against the warmth and the heat of the fire now playing in the ground where once has stood the proud hospital of Washington.

"McGee!" he heard a shout and turned around. The boss was lying next to him, blood dropping from the front of his face and running down around the eye.

"I'm okay," McGee answered, still surprised and shocked although the destruction of the hospital was just something logical to do when trying to hurt the American. A hospital contained defenseless people who couldn't even run if they saw something like that coming and therefore,

in the news it was told about as a "very pathetic and coward act", something "that should have been expected by the government of Israel", not knowing that they provoked them even more with such a choice of words.

However, McGee and Gibbs stood up, with minor injuries, McGee only noticed far later that he had some bruises from hitting the floor, and so they were watching now the hospital burn, falling into ruins and they could do nothing for the people inside.

They saw the bodies on the floor, people screaming and running in fear, and tears running down skins, not because of grief yet, but because of shock and so they yelled. McGee and Gibbs were walking through debris and rubble, finally police and fire brigade arriving and taking over all that, it was undeniable that Israel had started war on the US.

Prepare for a monster chapter (which is, by the way, better written than this one...)