Chapter 33
(**Flashback**)
'He's infected with Y Pestis' Doctor said.
Emma looked at him shocked.
At the lab...
"You're analyzing lipstick instead of the letter?" Gibbs stood next to Abby. Ducky came back in the moment of Abby's speaking.
"I can identify the brand, Gibbs" Abby replied.
"GIBBS! You have to stay in Autopsy! You broke the protocol!" Ducky yelled, frustrated.
"Actually, he didn't break the protocol" Abby pointed to Gibbs who was on a giant plastic suit with a helmet on it.
"Oh, I see..." Ducky cooled off.
"Now, Gibbs. It's probably very rare, so I can easily fin who sold it" Abby said.
"Good thinking, Abs" Gibbs gives her a thumbs up.
"What? I can't hear you Gibbs" She joked, but he didn't get it.
"I said Good thinking, Abby!" Gibbs shouted.
"Gibbs, the helmet is preventing the sound" Abby tried not to giggle.
"AH! GOOD… THINK… GAH!" Gibbs yelled and hit the table angrily.
"Not nice Gibbs!" Abby finally let out a laugh. She stopped suddenly, when analyses results showed up.
"This is weird. All the basics have a very low level. Whoa!" Abby suddenly says.
"What?" Gibbs looks at the screen.
"The reason Y Pestis survived; The swak is full of lead" Abby explains.
"No, Abby, this is too easy. Everything is so traceable" Gibbs rips his suite off.
"Gibbs!" Abby exclaims.
"It's ok Abigail, only Tony is infected" Ducky showed up and sighed. Abby's pupils widened.
"What?" Abby said shocked.
"Let's finish this already, shall we?" Gibbs said angrily. He grabbed McGee's hand.
"Uh, boss?" McGee squealed.
"No time for talk, McGee, you're coming with me" Gibbs pulled his sleeve and they both stepped out of the lab.
Tony and Kate…
Doctor and Emma enter the room. Brad puts a big plaster thing on Tony's arm, and Emma takes a stethoscope.
"Bedtime snack, huh, Brad?" Tony jokes when spotting them.
"Oh, we're just putting you this on. It increases the efficacy of the medicine" Brad replies.
"In Harvard they teach you about efficacy?" Tony asks.
"Nah, Michigan" Brad waves off with his hand.
"No" Tony smiles.
"Yeah" Brad nods.
"Can't be. Just can't be" Tony laughs.
"Why?" Brad chuckles.
"Too weird" Tony says.
"Wait, you were a Wolverine too?" Brad steps forward.
"Hah. No. Buckeye…" Tony looks at the distance.
"That Dinozzo?" Brad seemed surprised.
"Uh, duh" Tony laughs.
"Columbus, ninety-two! Remember?" He says.
"Oh, yeah!" Tony says.
"It was tied. You broke your leg at the fourth quarter!" Brad laughs.
"No, no. You broke it, admit it!" Tony laughs with him. Emma goes to Kate. Kate groans and rolls her eyes.
"Next thing you know, they'll be watching a match and drinking beer like crazy" Kate says to Emma, joking.
"I don't think so" Emma was more than serious.
"Oh, come on. It's Dinozzo, I know him. He's the measure of sophomoric!" She laughs again.
"His test is positive" Emma quickly said. Kate froze. It hit her like a thunder. She looked at Emma.
"P… Positive?" She barely said. Emma nodded.
"Don't worry, you're not infected, only him" Emma tried to smile. She walked away.
How on the earth could I not worry? He's my partner, for God's sake! Kate thought. She was shocked by the news. She couldn't think right.
Kate looked at Tony. He didn't know yet. He was laughing there, smiling, and dying. Kate was very afraid of what could happen.
Oh God, we can't lose him now! I can't lose him now She thought. She could feel her eyes getting teary, but she couldn't even cry. She just looked at him.
"So, Doc. Tell me. What have I got?" Tony said to the doctor who was standing right next to him.
"Pneumonic plague" Doctor sighed. Tony didn't blink
Plague, Plague, Plague, Plague, Plague, Plague, Plague. Only thing he was hearing was the word Plague. It was ringing in his head.
"Plague" Tony repeated, out loud. He looked at Kate. She was already coming in his way.
"Yeah, Tony. PLAGUE! Because, only Anthony Dinozzo could get infected by a disease old eight hundred years!" She shouted more and more as she was getting closer. She wasn't angry. She was sad, and scared.
"well, I didn't put it in the letter and send it to myself, Kate!" Tony yelled back.
"But you had to open it! You had to blow off the powder!" She had risen her voice. Doctor was looking at her warningly.
"Well, I opened it. What are you so upset about? You're not lying…" He stopped, when seeing her there.
"You got it right. I'm infected too" She exclaimed angrily let out a heavy sigh. She looked back at him. His eyes were sparkling.
"Oh, God. Kate, I am so, so sorry" He looked her right in the eyes. Kate felt that he was really sorry, but was too fast with her words.
"Oh, I'm going to make your life a living HELL! Did you hear that?" She ran off to her bed and covered the blanket over her head.
"I'm going to tell Emma all of your dating tricks!" Kate jumped out of her bed and appeared in Tony's eye sight again.
"Hmmm, Flesh and Blood comes to my mind. Paul Verhoeven directed Rutger Hauer starred" Tony snaps at her quickly.
"Tony thinks that speaking Italian turns women on!" Kate says to Emma.
"Apparently, you've never seen Jamie Lee Curtis in A fish called Wanda!" Tony gets up.
"Kate…" Brad warned.
"Yes, Doctor. You probably want to give me IV" Kate nodded. She sneezed again.
"If I get your cold now, I'll be very pissed, ya know!" Tony yells to Kate, but she was already in her bed.
"She'll be okay, right?"
Tony asks the Doctor, truthfully.