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Has anyone else noticed how people get over their girl/boyfriends/husbands/wives really quickly?? Like, i.e., Peter and Simone, Peter and Irish girl, Nathan and Heidi, Claire and flying guy, etc. As soon as they stop seeing each other (whether it be break up, death, or one of them getting stuck in a alternate future), they seem to forget each others existence. Just wanted to point that out.
"Where the hell is DiNozzo?" Gibbs asked as he walked quickly into Abby's lab.
"He's not here yet?" McGee asked worriedly.
"No."
"I know where he is," Nathan said as he walked in. He handed Abby a disk. "Play that."
She put it into her computer and it started playing.
It was a security camera video. It started showing a single car. Then a girl walked into the view, followed by three men, a woman, a child, and another man and woman just outside the frame. Then the first girl smashed the car window, in one, quick, sudden movement. The two outside the frame stepped in so you could see them.
"Tony! Ziva!" was Abby's delighted cry. "Except they're stealing a car..."
"It appears your Agent DiNozzo has joined the terrorists." Nathan said.
"Okay, I admit that the powers are real. I saw that Suresh guy. But these people aren't terrorists." Gibbs said bluntly.
"Really. You want to know what they did after they stole this car?" Nathan asked. "Play this." He handed Abby another disk. She put it in.
This one showed Adusia's dance of death.
As they watched, chills ran down all their spines.
"All of those Agents are dead." Nathan said. "They were good Agents, doing their job, and they died for it. These people... they're dangerous. You can't deny that."
"Gibbs... I have to agree. I identified one of the girls from the original crime scene. She's wanted for thirteen counts of auto theft, ten counts of assault, five accounts of assault with a deadly weapon, seven accounts of armed robbery... and two outstanding parking tickets. But those aren't all that important." Abby said.
Gibbs rubbed his eyes.
"I need to talk to the exploding girl." Gibbs told Nathan.
"I don't know..."
Gibbs glared.
"Fine."
Line. And ya, I know, Nathan is being really pushoverish and all, but I'm trying to get the story moving on. So, line.
"Danko. These people need to see The Bomb." Nathan said briskly.
"That could be a problem." Danko replied.
"Did she escape?" Nathan asked, annoyed that his prisoners kept managing to leave.
"No... But you might not want them to see it."
Nathan's eyes narrowed. "What did you do?" he asked.
"I didn't do anything. I told one of the Agents to find out everything it knew about Rebel, and he got... overzealous." Danko explained.
Nathan gritted his teeth and practically ran towards where she was being kept.
He threw open the door to see a bloody and bruised girl lying on the floor, the brain shunt still on.
Gibbs and McGee weren't far behind, and they rushed forward to help her as Nathan swore.
The girl sat up as they came to help her.
"You okay?" Gibbs asked quietly.
"Adepto mihi ex is locus," She told him quietly. "vel sulum mos intereo."
Gibbs looked up at McGee, then at Nathan.
"What the hell does that mean?" he asked.
"It sounds like Latin, boss." McGee said.
"And what is she saying? No. Why is she speaking it? No, wait, better question. Why the hell does she look like this?!?" Gibbs yelled at Nathan.
Nathan looked at Danko. "Those are all good questions. Now, Danko, tell me why. This girl is beaten. Is this what you would do to all the people we capture, if I wasn't around?"
"Not people. They're freaks! Animals! They deserve to rot!" Danko yelled.
"Danko. These. Are. People. I started this program because I saw how dangerous these powers could be. I wanted to put them somewhere they couldn't hurt people. But now? Now they're the ones being hurt. Jesus Christ. Look at her. Look! You know how her power developed? She was abducted by a pedophile when she was eight. He had strangled three other girls to death before she blew him up. I think this was a good thing, don't you? Or are murdering pedophiles worth more than people with genetic quirks?" Nathan asked.
"He doesn't care either way." Came a weak voice, no longer speaking Latin. "He doesn't care if I die, if you die, if his mother dies. He doesn't care." She said. Then all the lights went out.
When they came back on, she was gone.