Gibbs enjoyed the feel of the sandpaper gliding over the wood and even more so the smoothness it left in its wake when he ran his fingers over it.

He moved away from the beam of wood to his work bench, blew the sawdust out of the glass sitting there and poured from the bottle of bourbon that sat on the shelf. He had three days of this to look forward to. Three days of sanding and silence – until he decided to switch on the small TV on the wall anyway.

Three glorious days.

The sound of his cell phone ringing had his hand, complete with glass, pausing halfway to his lips.

He glared at the small device on the table but picked it up all the same.

"Gibbs," he barked, putting the glass back down.

The phone number had been unidentified on the screen so there was still hope of this being a sales call.

"I think we have one of your people here Mr Gibbs,"

Gibbs' heart turned to lead in his chest for a moment before it lurched painfully back to life.

"One of my people?" he queried, "Just who is this?"

"I'm sorry sir, this is Officer Thomas. I'm with the Police Department,"

"And what makes you think you have one of my people?"

Gibbs was already heading up the stairs and grabbing his jacket from the back of the living room sofa.

"Well sir, we can't get near to her but we found her phone, your number was the most rang,"

Was it Ziva? Had she got into trouble again? No. It couldn't be.

Abby? That was more likely. She had probably headed straight for a club after work tonight.

"You were under 'Boss',"

Abby wouldn't have him under-

His fingers froze on the handle of his front door.

"Where are you?"

Gibbs drove madly to the scene – a park – in record time and pulling up on the pavement at the entrance he easily found where he needed to go. Uniformed bodies swarmed along a path.

"Hey, you can't come in here," a young officer told him as he ducked with practised ease under the police tape.

More from reflex than necessity he pulled out his badge and flicked it open.

"I'm Gibbs. I was called," he told the officer, daring him with his eyes to kick him to the other side of the tape.

"Mr Gibbs!" a familiar voice called, "Bill, let him through," the officer stood aside and Gibbs jogged towards the waving figure.

"Officer Thomas?"

"Yeah, that's me, boy am I glad you're here," Gibbs followed the other man further down the path.

"We can't get closer to her. The only reason we could call you was because her phone had been stolen, we got your details from there,"

"Just what happened?"

Thomas didn't even get the chance to start answering when Gibbs froze at the sight that met his eyes.

A German Shepherd was standing protectively in front of a park bench that was placed in a small alcove to the side of the path. At first Gibbs couldn't make out just what the dog was being so fierce in defending until he spotted a light blue leg underneath the bench.

He crouched down low enough to get a clear view of exactly what was beneath the bench and saw that a body was connected to the leg beneath it. They were pressed up against the stone wall at the back of the bench.

"Tim," he called and the dog began to growl in reaction to this interference on his part.

"We think she might have a concussion. We haven't been able to get much sense out of her since we arrived. We're just waiting on the vet to arrive to put the dog under,"

The dog in question bared its teeth and barked in warning.

"How did she get a concussion? How did she gets messed up in this?" Gibbs was getting more annoyed at being so obviously out of the loop where one of his people were concerned. Tim was not one to get into trouble and to have her so suddenly in danger outside of NCIS business troubled him.

"Narcotics has had their eye on a group for a while now. A big bust was to go down tonight. The detective-" Thomas jerked his thumb behind him, his face showing just what his opinion of this detective was, "says that your girl's dog took an interest in the deal and they pursued her,"

Suddenly it all clicked into place for Gibbs as he remembered just where this particular German Shepherd had come from.

"He's an ex-drug dog," he mumbled, squinting to take in what he could of his agent's form in the shadows of the wall and bench.

"That explains his interest," nodded the officer.

"What about this concussion,"

"We don't know. She was pursued out of sight of the detectives…" Gibbs knew what that meant. They were here to observe a deal, not catch petty muggers, "I was on patrol and heard her screams – at least I thought they were hers,"

"Was someone else hurt?" Gibbs burst in.

"You could say that," Thomas smiled viciously, "One of the perps had a knife sticking out of his arm,"

That's my girl.

"We don't know for sure that she is injured sir," Thomas continued apologetically, "It's just that we found her hoodie and there was blood on the hood. Her phone was in her pocket. Even if she isn't hurt, this cold won't be doing her any good,"

Gibbs nodded his head in understanding and the two men waited in silence for the vet to arrive with the tranquiliser. Gibbs hated the waiting but put it to use by pulling out his phone and calling the one person he knew would be good in such a situation.

"Hey Duck, we've got a situation,"

The dog was finally sedated after putting up quite a savage fight to remain with his mistress and Tim had been carefully moved from beneath the bench by the paramedics.

Gibbs felt sick as he watched one of the men feel around her head and his gloved hand came away bloody.

"Miss, can you hear me?" he called to her and all she did was moan as she was placed gently on a board, her head immobilised, and her body wrapped up against the cold.

"Her names Tim," Gibbs supplied, from his hovering position.

"Tim, Tim, can you hear me?" the paramedic tried again, a groan the only answer.

Gibbs felt a chill that had nothing to do with the weather.

Tada.

I honestly know nothing about drugs busts etc so…yeah…I got the stinky Detective behaviour from watching a few Blue Bloods episodes. Most of the detectives seem to be utter prats at first to Jamie and his partner – and then Jamie and partner go and solve the case (haha serves them right). I now realise this will make no sense to anyone who doesn't watch that show so I will shut up now.

Ps but it is REALLY good though and for Magnum PI fans it has Tom Selleck in it ;)

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