An Agent's Weakness
"Why do we even have to go to school?" sighed Matt, glaring at the ground.
"Education?" Darren suggested.
"Knowledge?" Jared asked.
"Sports?" Nathan said.
"Boyfriends?" Tabby smiled. The other members of the group turned to look at her.
"Hands up who thinks Tabby will be a Milf when she's older?" Matt looked Tabby. Everyone except Tabby raised their hands.
"Matt! That's the NCIS Van!" Jared pointed at the van that was racing down the road.
"Not just the NCIS van! That's Gibbs and Ziva in the front!" Matt realised and watched as the van parked outside the abandoned warehouse down the road.
"That's got to be where Holly is," Darren gasped.
"You thinking what I'm thinking?" asked Matt, looking at Darren.
With that, Darren, Jared, Matt and Nathan ran down the road. Tabby lingered behind, looking rather nervous.
"Are you sure?" Tabby quivered.
"Hey pussy! Come on!" Matt tried to provoke Tabby.
"Oh I will bust you up!" Tabby charged after the others.
NCIS
Darren surveyed the warehouse, the front entrance looked far to risky, what with bullet holes riddling the door and the sound of gunshots from further in.
"Darren, those steps!" Matt pointed at a rickety looking metal staircase that led up to a door.
"Oh no! I am not climbing those!" Tabby shook her head. "I'll cut something."
"Good," Matt said icily. "Come on, Darren, you first, Jared, you next, then me then Nathan then Tabby."
As Darren took his first step onto the stairs he heard the whole staircase creak. He moved cautiously up another three steps before turning around and beckoned Jared and Matt.
"Come on it's safe," he nodded.
Holding hands, Jared and Matt stepped on the first step and then sighed with relief as it held their weight.
"Okay, hurry up!" Darren yelled from the top.
Once they were all up the stairs and through the door. Darren turned to them.
"I think it's fair that as Holly's boyfriend, I lead this," Darren said, talking more to Matt than anyone else.
"Deal, but if Holly dies, I will kill you," Matt said seriously.
The sound of gunfire increased as the group headed towards a flight of stairs. And there they saw their first villain. It was a tall burly man who was at least six feet tall and three feet wide. He looked like a huge barrel.
"Nice evil person," Matt squeaked. "RUN!" She grabbed Jared by the hand and led him forcably towards a forklift, parked by an empty elevator shaft.
"I have an idea," Jared grinned.
"There you are! You horrible lot, I outta..." With all his little skills, Jared put the forklift into gear and sent it moving forward, swiping up the man with a huge crack. He lay writhing in pain on the lifters, his right ankle bent backwards.
"Let's drive it into the elevator," suggested Matt. Jared jumped out and put the vehicle in reverse before helping Matt down.
"Bye bye!" Matt grinned and waved. She raced up the stairs to find herself on a landing with five doors, all closed.
"Jared! Darren! Nathan! Tabby! Here!" Matt hissed, not wanting to attract anymore henchmen. As the other four ran up the stairs she pointed them all towards doors. "One door each. I'll get this one. Ready, steady, GO!"
She opened her door and almost had a heart attack at what she saw. Holly lay, bleeding onto the sheets, while Alejandro Rivera stood over her.
"You! You killed my mum!" Matt snarled. Rivera took a step toward her and pulled out a bloody knife. Quick as a flash, Matt looked around for something to use to defend herself until she noticed a wooden pole.
"Come here Matilda," Rivera beckoned sinisterly.
"This is for my mother," Matt hit him hard over the head, sending him stumbling. "This is for my father!" She hit him again and he swayed. "This is for Holly!" She hit him again before straightening the stick like a javelin. "And this is for me!" She drove the stick into Rivera's chest and sent him falling, smashing through the glass window and landing on the grass below.
"Holly!" Matt ran over and crouched next to her adopted sister. "Are you okay?"
But Holly lay still and pale and unmoving.
"CPR! NOW" Matt sobbed, yelling to her friends as Darren and Jared ran in. Immediately the boys took to it pumping her chest and blowing air into her mouth.
"Wake up Holly," prayed Darren as he blew air into her mouth. "Just wake up."
And he felt her kiss him back.
"Darren, Matt, Jared," Holly coughed.
"Come on, let's get you out of her," Matt smiled. If they left the same way they came in, they were home free. "Come on, Nathan, Tabby."
"No, let's go that way," Darren pointed towards a passage that led towards a balcony. "Me, Jared and Matt will go and show Gibbs Holly."
"Yeah, Nathan, Tabby just get out okay?" Matt said kindly.
With Holly leaning on Darren and Jared for support, the group took close to a minute to reach the balcony but when they did they saw a spectacular sight. There were dead bodies everywhere and Gibbs and Ziva were crouched behind another forklift while Tony and McGee fired at the last few bad guys.
"Gibbs!" Matt hissed, Gibbs turned around.
"What the hell are you doing here?" Gibbs growled.
"Saving Holly and dealing with two of your dirt bags," Matt replied, moving with Darren, Jared and Holly to the edge of the balcony.
"Well you shouldn't have," Gibbs raised his voice. "We are professionals, you are kids. One of you could be seriously hurt of even killed."
"But no one was though!" Matt shouted. "I was just trying to help okay!"
"Well we didn't need your help!" Gibbs replied, just as loud.
"Fine!" Matt yelled in reply.
"Gibbs we were just trying to help," Jared said.
"Yeah we were," Darren nodded.
"When I tell your parents they are going to be so..." Gibbs never finished his sentence.
BANG! He never finished his sentence because at that precise moment, a single bullet smashed into Matt's nose, creating a small bullet sized red hole before splintering in her brain and bursting from the back of her skull, creating a hole the size of a phone. She bowed forward, toppling from the balcony and landing on the concrete, blood already pooling from the exit hole.
"Matt!" Holly screamed.
"No!" Jared fell to his knees.
"Sophie," Gibbs turned to face the other end of the warehouse in a way that echoed his reaction to Kate's death.
"Loud and clear Jethro," Sophie smiled from the other end.
END OF CHAPTER
NEXT TIME: Darren gets punched at Matt's funeral, Sophie spies on Holly's hospital bed, Gibbs questions his abilities as an agent.
I'd pretend you were surprised but I was setting her up to be the one who died since I first introduced her.