*There are some spoilers from the newest episode in the A/N at the bottom. You have been warned! :)*
"Help! Get us out! Help!" Abby yelled as she banged on the locked semi door, "Help!"
"Abby, stop. Just stop," Tim begged. She had been doing that on and off, mostly on, for six hours now.
"No. Someone might pass by right when I stop!"
Tim stood up and walked to the other end of the room, where Abby was, "No one's going to pass by, Abby! We're in the middle of nowhere!"
"Those other men were found eventually, Tim! That means that someone did pass by! It just took too long for them. Maybe if they would have yelled and banged on the door, they would still be alive!" She continued hitting the door, "Help!"
Tim took a hold of her arms and pulled them away, turning her to face him, "Abby, you have been doing that for hours! You need to rest for a while. You're going to rub your hands raw and make your throat sore. Not to mention, drain all the oxygen out of here. If you haven't noticed, we kind of need that oxygen!"
"Let go of me!" Abby exclaimed angrily through gritted teeth, "Now!"
"Not until you promise to stop the banging! It's the most annoying noise ever!"
Abby jerked away from Tim, "I will do what I want! If you don't like it, plug your ears!"
"This is insane! You're not even acting like yourself!"
"If you haven't noticed, we're not in our normal setting, McGee! Right now, I am trying to survive. I have been trying to call out for help, while you sit and do nothing!"
"I'm not doing nothing, I'm trying to conserve our oxygen, something you obviously don't care about! Would you like for us to die a few hours earlier?"
"No! I'd like to be at work, doing what I do best right now! But, instead I decide to go out with you, which leads me to this!" She yelled, throwing her arms up in the air.
"So now it's my fault?"
"You could have planned it for all I know!"
"Are you kidding me?" He laughed hysterically, "Yes, the night worked out great. Everything went perfectly! I got the drugs in ya, got us in the back of the semi, get you acting all hysterical thinking you're gonna die, and hope that you wanna do it one last time! Then, right after, I somehow figure out an ingenious way to get us out of here, and I save us. Me, becoming your hero in the process. That's exactly what I wanted!"
"I knew it!"
"Oh my God! I was being sarcastic, Abby!"
"Oh, you think now is a good time to make jokes?"
"Well, what else am I supposed to do? You've got the overreacting part taken care of."
"Oh shut up!"
"You!"
They both stood there, glaring at each other. Neither of them knew why they were so angry with one another. It wasn't like them to talk to each other that way, but they couldn't help it. They were angry, scared, thirsty, hungry, and sweaty.
Tim broke the glare and turned around. He began to unbutton his shirt.
"What are you doing?" Abby asked, placing a hand on her hip.
He turned back around to face her, "I'm taking off my shirt... but don't worry, I have an undershirt on, I'm not trying to seduce you," He said angrily, "I'm hot."
'Yes, you are,' She thought, then quickly wiped the thought away, remembering she was mad at him.
Tim took off the shirt and threw it across the room, then walked to the back of the truck, and sat down.
Abby turned back to the door, and after a moment of silence, began banging on it again.
Tim groaned and covered his ears with his hands.
"Agent David," A young man with dark brown hair, and eyes to match, said as he approached Ziva's desk.
"Oh, Williams, you have information on the videos I gave you, yes?"
"What took so long?" Gibbs asked, clearly frustrated, as he walked over to them. He had gotten back from his little drive a couple of hours before, knowing how pointless it was in the first place. There was no way to tell where the semi went after it left the view of the video cameras. There were tons of directions it could have gone. Needless to say, Gibbs returned in a worse mood than when he left.
"It actually took me less time than normal, sir," Williams replied, no fear in his voice. He wasn't cocky, but he wasn't intimidated by Gibbs either.
"Six hours is less time than normal?"
He nodded, "You don't understand technology, do you?"
Gibbs stared at him, "What did you find?"
"I'd explain how I did it, but you probably wouldn't get it, so I'll get right to the point. The people on the tape, that kidnapped your agents, are five foot five, and five foot seven."
Ziva's eyebrows furrowed, "That is small for men."
"Yeah, they probably weren't men," Williams replied, "Anyway, there's no license plate on the back of the truck. At least not while it was in the view of the cameras. I did get a name off of the truck though. On the bottom, left corner is Smith Renting. I looked them up and they're a DC based company that rents trucks out to people to move things or do whatever they need to do. Like U-haul, but smaller. You are only allowed to travel in Virginia or Maryland with the trucks, and there's tracking devices on all semi's to make sure no one goes out of that area."
Gibbs nodded, "That's really good work, Williams. Thanks."
Williams smiled, "No problem. Let me know if you need anything else."
"Yeah, I will."
Williams walked off, going back down to cyber-crimes.
"I will go down to Smith's and see how many semi's they have rented out in the past twenty four hours."
"Narrow it down to women, possibly a group of women, but don't count out the ones who came in alone."
"Gibbs, do you really think two, average sized women could take down, and carry, Tim and Abby? They are both tall and strong."
Gibbs shook his head, "Never underestimate the strength of a woman, Ziva… You should know that better than anyone."
Ziva nodded, then got her gear and began to head out.
"Wait for Tony," Gibbs said, "You two go together."
"Yes, Gibbs. Where is he?"
"Bathroom."
Ziva smiled slyly, walked over to his desk, and got his gun, badge, and ID out of his drawer. She looked over at Gibbs who eyed her suspiciously, "We need to hurry. I will take his things to him… Give him a little surprise."
"Mhm."
She began to walk off.
"Ziva," He called out as he sat down at his desk.
She turned, "Yes, Gibbs?"
"Twenty nine hours and eighteen minutes."
Ziva's smile faded, "Yes, Gibbs."
Gibbs sat back in his chair as he thought. He thought about two of his team members being stuck in the back of a semi, losing oxygen, not being able to breathe. Abby, his surrogate daughter, and Tim, his surrogate son, both trapped.
Gibbs was a confident man. Rarely did he show fear, and rarely did he get nervous. His palms didn't sweat, and he was always confident that his team would rescue the victim, if they were still alive, and catch the bad guys. But now, part of those people, those people who caught the bad guys and rescued the victims, were the victims.
Time was running out. Yes, they had had to work with less time on their hands before, but this… this was different.
His gut was yelling at him. Telling him that this would get worse, before it got better. Gibbs took a deep breath and wiped his sweating palms on his pants…
He was nervous…
He was scared.
What did you guys think of the new episode? I'm getting more and more annoyed with Ziva being so nosey. I also thought Gibbs acted a bit childish when Tony came to talk to him in his basement. Unless I missed something, Gibbs was out of line. I wish the actual case would have gotten more attention than it did. Everyone was so focused on Barrett and her name would come up and the most unnecessary times. I liked that McGee pretty much admitted his jealousy about Abby and Cade. When Abby said he was jealous, he didn't deny it like they usually do when the other one is going out with someone. The McGee and Abby scenes were cute. For some reason I do not get annoyed with them like I do the Tiva scenes. Those seem to be a bit forced to me nowadays.
Well, now that I've finished my unnecessary, and probably unwanted, rant: Thanks for reading and reviewing!
