Warnings
"FAITH!" Joy screams into the phone, while she drives like Gibbs in DC's streets. "HE'S ATTACKING US!"
"I know, Hope was attacked on her way out of the building tonight. Imagine their guts, shooting a federal agent in the parking lot of the Hoover! They must be desperate!"
"The kids!"
"My kids are fine, Wilson took them out of the city until this nightmare is over. Have you spoken to Gibbs?"
"Not yet, I'm on my way to McGee's place, find Matthew, he left earlier," she says as she cuts off a slower car, and presses the gas pedal deeper. She can hear Faith shouting orders in the background, and Faith starts doing a head count in her head. She speaks again in the phone.
"Joy, have you heard from Temp?"
"No, why?"
"I can't reach her!"
"Find her, check with Jimmy Palmer, he's an M.E. assistant at NCIS and send reinforcements to McGee's place!" She disconnects, and Joy throws her phone to the passenger seat.
"Oh God, please," she changes lanes, overtaking two slower cars, and feels the tremors of terror she is trying to suppress, "please God, don't let them get hurt," she prays.
"We're doing our best, Joy" says a gentle voice.
She looks to the passenger seat, and sees the being from her visions sitting by her side.
"Please, warn them," she begs him, with tears in her voice.
He nods and disappears. She looks at the road ahead and speeds up towards Silver Springs.
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On the other side of the city, two young lovers were lazily in bed, after a hot lovemaking session. Jimmy was smiling at the ceiling, as his hand slides softly over Temp's naked back.
"Thanks for inviting me over," Temp murmurs against his chest, and leaves a kiss on his chest, over his heart.
"Thanks for accepting the invitation," Jimmy says, and Temp lifts her head to look at him and grins.
They kiss softly, and they lay down to sleep.
Meanwhile, a car stops downstairs, and a man leaves it running, and starts to climb the fire stairs towards the apartment on the second floor.
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"Oh dear, what is the meaning of this?" says Ducky, standing frightened and looking at Ziva, whose gun was smoking and pointing to something behind him.
She had a crazy eyed look, and she was visibly shaking, "Are you ok, Ducky?" she says in a trembling voice.
She lowers her gun a little and slowly approaches the hit man who was standing behind Ducky. He was definitely dead. Her aim had been true, the shot hit him in the forehead.
"Yes indeed, I am fine." Ducky looks at the stranger bleeding on his living room floor, "but this gentleman is not. What is the meaning of this?"
"We're under attack, Ducky, come on, we're leaving." She grabs his arm, and drags him out of the room.
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And, at the same time, three different cars, coming from different directions, speed through the empty streets of the early morning towards Silver Springs.
They were all praying for the best, but, unfortunately, expecting the worst.
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"Abby, where are you?" Tony shouts at the phone, but he can't hear Abby over the background noise.
"TONY, WHAT…%¨&¨&$ … tact%$¨& …. From?
"Abby, you are in danger, where are you? I'm on my way to your apartment." He incites the taxi driver to speed up, as he's still some blocks away.
"Tony, what … ruruuriwowo … can't … ***** hear !" shouts Abby back.
"WE ARE UNDER ATTACK, WHERE ARE YOU?"
The taxi turns the corner to Abby's apartment, and the driver brakes violently as the floor where her apartment is suddenly blows up, throwing glass, brick and wood flying far and away.
"ABBYYYYYYYYYY!"
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"Did you order the food yet?" asks Sarah, drying her hair as she leaves the bedroom, dressed in one of his MIT t-shirts and some soft gym slacks.
"Yes, I did, it must be here in a minute," says McGee, not looking up from his computer, where he had logged in for an online gaming session.
There is a knock on the door. Tim looks at Sarah and smiles.
"They must have read my mind," he goes to the door and checks who is outside, and indeed there it is, a man with the food bag and a hat from the delivery place covering his face.
He opens the door.
"You arrived just in time."
"I bet we did," the delivery man lifts his face and points a gun towards McGee.
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Temperance suddenly opens her eyes, as she feels goose bumps covering her body, even though there is no breeze in the room.
"What's wrong?" ask Jimmy, his voice laden with sleep.
"Shush," she whispers, she closes her eyes and listens.