NCIS:

MISTLETOE...

DISCLAIMER: NCIS and characters do not belong to me.

SUMMARY:

Abby climbed the ladder and hung the misteltoe in the doorway between her office and her lab. Just as she was starting back down the ladder, her foot slipped and she fell. The next thing she knew is she landed in someone's arms, she opened her eyes and...

CHAPTER 3: CHRISTMAS & ONE WEEK LATER...

CHRISTMAS DAY...

The next day when McGee showed up at Abby's, the door was open just a little bit.

"Abby?" McGee called.

He pushed the door open with his elbow gun in hand. After searching the apartment and seeing no sign of Abby, McGee called Gibbs, Tony and Ziva.

It didn't take long for them to arrive.

"Abby, invited me over and when I got here there was no sign of her. I brought her home last night." McGee explained.

"Was there..." Gibbs began.

"I didn't see anyone or anything when I left." McGee told him.

"Why was that McKisser? Were you thinking of the kiss you and Abby shared?" Tony asked and McGee wanted to shoot him.

"I to..." McGee began.

"What kiss?" Gibbs asked.

"The kiss Abby and McGee shared under the mistletoe in Abby's lab." Tony said making sure to stay as far from McGee as he could.

"What's rule 12?" Gibbs asked looking at McGee.

"N-never date a co-worker." McGee replied.

"I don't think it was just any kiss under the misle...shutting up, boss." Tony said when Gibbs turned and glared at him.

"I don't see how interrogating me about a kiss is going to help us find, Abby." McGee said and they all looked at him.

An hour later, they were back in the squad room and began to search for Abby. McGee sat at his desk going through his computer to see if there was anything to find about why Abby had disappeared.

He feared he would never see her again.

"McGee, wake up!" Gibbs yelled and McGee jumped.

"I can't find anything. Who could've taken her?" McGee asked.

"Go down to her lab and see if there's anything there that might help us." said Gibbs.

"Right." McGee said getting up and taking the familiar path down to Abby's lab.

When McGee reached Abby's lab he began to search her computers, but got distracted when he looked over at the mistletoe.

Just a little less then twenty-four hours ago he and Abby had kissed right there.

"We'll find you." McGee vowed and went back to searching her computer.

A couple of hours later he still hadn't come up with anything.

There was nothing in his computer or hers to tell who had kidnapped her and for what reason. Though he had already gone through everything, he began to search again, willing the computer to show him something.

Finally, after another hour he came across an e-mail. He took the stairs instead of the elevator and was out of breath when he reached the bullpen.

"I've f-found some-something!" He said once he reached the squad room and put it up for Gibbs, Tony and Ziva to see.

It read:

I know where you live and I'm coming for you, but you will not know when. Once I have you, no one will find you and I will chop you up into little bits.

It was dated the night before, the same time Abby had been hanging the mistletoe.

"That's around the time Tony and I walked in on you two kissing." Ziva said looking at the e-mail.

"Why would someone send it at that time, knowing we were getting ready to leave?" McGee asked.

"That's what we're going to find out." Gibbs told the team.

"And soon..." McGee said as fear gripped him again.

"We'll find her." Ziva told McGee seeing the look on his face.

"I know, but what if we're to late?" McGee asked.

"Abby's gone missing before and we've found her. We will find her this time too." Gibbs said looking over at McGee and wondered what was running through the agents mind.

A week passed with no results and everyone began to lose hope of finding, Abby.

Then McGee got an e-mail in his box that read:

We have Abby Sciuto and we're not letting her go, unless you bring us 50,000 dollars. Once we have the money, we will give you the location where to find her.

If you do not give us the money in the next six hours, she will DIE and you will never find her.

At the end of the e-mail, they gave a location of where to drop the money.

"What do we do? If we don't give them the money, they will kill her...but if we give them the money there is no way of knowing if they will let her go." McGee said and left the squad room.

A few minutes later Ziva found him in Abby's lab.

"We'll find her." Ziva told him again.

"I ho..." McGee began.

"Are you in love with, Abby?" Ziva asked and he looked at her in surprise.

"Yes, that's what we were talking about at the cafe and after we left." McGee said deciding to tell her the truth.

"Does she feel the same way?" Ziva asked.

"Yes, what if I never see her again?" McGee asked.

"You will see her..." Ziva began as the doors to the lab opened showing Gibbs and Tony in the doorway.

"We may have a lead grab your gear." Gibbs said looking at Ziva and McGee started to get up.

"No, I want you to stay here." Gibbs told McGee as then turned to leave with Ziva and Tony.

McGee waited for Gibbs, Ziva and Tony to leave and followed them at a distance. If they knew that he was following them, they did not give him any clue.

Soon McGee pulled up next to the car, as Tony, Ziva and Gibbs were getting out of it.

"I thought I told you to stay behind." Gibbs said walking over to McGee.

"Mr. no rule breaker, doesn't lis...Ow!" Tony said as Ziva smacked him in the back of the head.

"Boss, I couldn't." McGee said as they heard a sound from inside the warehouse and all arguments were silenced.

Gibbs, McGee, Tony and Ziva headed inside after calling for back up.

They split up Tony and Ziva going one way, while Gibbs and McGee went the other. They began to search the building.

Finally, in the last room Gibbs and McGee looked there sat Abby in a chair tied and gagged. She tried to tell them something, but couldn't get it out with the gag in her mouth.

"Are you all right?" McGee asked as he raced over and took the gag out of her mouth.

"It's a trap!" Abby said as Gibbs and McGee turned around, they were both hit over the head with baseball bats knocking them out.

"McGee! Gibbs!" Abby called still tied up and helpless, but neither one responded.

Hearing Abby yell Tony and Ziva entered the room and looked around. They ducked as the baseball bats came at them. Ziva kicked one of the captors and was able to handcuff him, as Tony took care of the other one.

Once the two were in handcuffs, Tony untied Abby. As soon as she was free, Abby raced over to McGee and then Gibbs.

Two ambulances arrived to take Gibbs and McGee to the hospital. Not knowing which to ride with, Ziva gave her a ride to the hospital.

Tony took the other car back to NCIS to start interrogating the two captors.

"Call us when you know something! Tony, Ducky, Jimmy and I will be by later!" Ziva called as Abby got out of the car.

"All right..." Was all Abby could manage to say as she got out of the car.