What They Say About Assuming

by asherxslasher

Tony over hears Gibbs in the bathroom. Listening could be the biggest mistake of his life. Happy ending. Be kind, this is my first story and yes it is slash. I've got a bucket of sand for the flames but I don't want to have to use it.

19. Chapter 19

CHPTR 19

AN: sorry about the stupidly long wait. I got some kind of tonsillitis, twice, and then had my tonsils removed and then thought I'd give NaNoWriMo a try. So now I have no tonsils, weigh 10 lbs less and have a 114 pages that need a lot of editing.

The black SUVs pulled up to an old styled farm house. It needed a coat of paint but everything else looked in good shape. Hotch separated them in to three groups.

"Rossi, JJ, Morgan, check out the barn. Reid, you're with detectives Lassiter. Check out the basement. Special Agent Gibbs, you're with me. We'll take the main floor." Everyone nodded and headed off. All in place they shouted out their warnings. No answer came. They busted down doors.

Rossi's group found an empty barn. They did a sweep to make sure they didn't miss anything. Hotch and Gibbs busted in to the living room. The elderly Mrs. Fort was resting in a rocking chair by the muted TV. She didn't move when they entered. Hotch stayed with the sleeping woman as Gibbs cleared the rest of the house. He knelt next to the chair to shake her awake only to see smoke drifting up through the floor boards.

"Agent Gibbs!" He called out. "We've got fire!"

Gibbs ran back in to the room. "Rest of the house is cleared." He assisted Hotch in getting Mrs. Fort out of the house.

Below them Lassiter and Reid broke through the locked basement door, letting out large amounts of smoke, to find Mitchel Fort on top of Shawn, choking the life out of him. Abby was hitting Mitchel with spare piece of wood. The man let go of Shawn and stood to face Abby. Lassiter and Reid shouted out for him to freeze. He didn't, instead he went after Abby. She stood her ground and when he got close enough she round house kicked him in the chest. Mitchel stumbled back and tripped over the upended couch to fall back in to the flaming room.

Lassiter rushed to Shawn's side and carried him out of the burning basement. Spencer assisted Abby up the steps and they all emerged, coughing, into the summer sun. The rest of the team came to their aid. No body attempted to enter the basement and retrieve Fort. Emergency services had been called. It took 15 minutes for the fire truck and the ambulance to arrive. The house was already a raging inferno.

Gibbs and Lassiter followed the ambulance to the hospital.