Thanks to Mark Harmon, Pauley Perrette, Michael Weatherly, Cote de Pablo, Sean Murray, David McCallum and all the other for giving life to the wonderful characters of NCIS
Everything belongs to CBS and Bellisarius Productions except for a few things like Shane Caulfield, Randall Hunter, and his son, Lee, Evan McIntire, Thomson Oliver are mine as well as Tanisha and Janet and their background.
For the purpose of the of the rest of the story, let's pretend that the episode "Baltimore" doesn't exist.
I also want to apologize for any spelling and or grammar mistakes.
And meet Luna Watson and Danielle Attersee two new creations of mine.
Previously on "Driving me Crazy"
Tony looked disappointed, "I would have hope you'd recognized my 007-Sean Connery imitation."
"Oh." Was all his friend answered.
"Oh come on! I wasn't that bad."
Abby laughed then. "No, of course not, you would have been an excellent James Bond, Tony, really."
"Don't mock me."
"I'm not mocking you, you definitely would have made a great 007!"
DiNozzo smiled then, a bright smile. "Thanks.'
"Now let's see if the contents of the box can tell us something about Randall Hunter or any if relatives, and who knows maybe it'll lead us to whom wants to get our boss out of his way." His said walking back to the chair he had vacated moments earlier.
"Aye, aye, sir!" Abby said as she looked at an old case Tony DiNozzo had worked on while he went through a few pictures.
TWELVE
In the car, on the road to the crime scene McGee was worried. Ziva was annoyed, pretty much so. "Ziva try to calm yourself down."
The answer he received told him, he shouldn't have said anything at all. Not a word had came out of her mouth, but her eyes flashed anger. Tim just turned his attention elsewhere.
There has to be something I have overlooked there just has to be, Ziva told herself over and over again. She couldn't explain why but she was certain she would find something there. No one does harm to the people she loved and Gibbs was one of the people she loved, she loved him as a father, a father who she knew took care of her and cared about her, which was so much more than what her real father did. Eli David was cool and heartless, but he's her father.
Ziva hoped that her instincts were right.
000
As he looked through the pictures he was holding Tony realized how rapidly time went by. One day you're a rookie at the academy and the next, you're a federal agent.
He'd been good as a cop in Baltimore, but he excepted more of his life and after Evan's death he needed to move. Too much memories. He knew he would never forget his friend, but he needed something else for his own sake. Tony hadn't been sure of what he wanted to do next, all he knew for sure was that he wanted to keep chasing the bad guys to lock them behind bars.
His journey had brought him to Washington, D.C. Where he'd met Gibbs and get himself hired at NCIS, there he's found a new family, a real one, the team he worked with cared about him, like no one before though he had to get used to Gibbs' methods, but he had loved being a part of the team from the start not to mention Abby. She'd made him feel at easy from the beginning and he'd always be grateful to her for that.
When he passed to the next picture he had, he stared at it as he had seen a ghost. Abigail Sciuto just looked up from one of the pages she was reading because she'd thought, she saw something strange.
"Tony, you alright?" She asked him.
DiNozzo didn't react he just kept starting at the picture in his hands.
"Tony?"
Still no reaction.
"DiNozzo!"
"Humhmm, what?"
"Is everything alright with you?"
No answer was given to her, instead, the man she consider as her big brother turned the picture he was still holding between the fingers of his right hand.
The page that Abby held in her hand dropped silently from her hands to fall deafly on the table. She couldn't believe what it showed. "It is who I think it is, isn't it?"
"Yep, Randall Hunter, Shane Caulfield, Janet and Gibbs. I can't believe I forgot all about this photo seeing am I the one who took it."
Janet was standing between Shane and Randall while Leroy Jethro Gibbs was standing on the other side of Randall Hunter, his right arm around his shoulders.
"No wonder reacted the way he did earlier. It also explains why his sleep seemed so restless."
"You should go and talk to Hunter's wife." Abby told him.
DiNozzo's eyes turned sad the moment her words were out. "I wish, I could but I can't... Janet's dead. She's been killed a few years ago..."
Everything came back in a flash, all the memories, the pain Hunter had felt when he had announced him that his wife died. He remembered the man's reaction vividly. He had told him that he couldn't be possible that she would come back home in a few minutes, he's been on the phone with her, she wanted to know if she could buy herself a dress she'd seen, it's beautiful but a little expensive.
And the next moment the doorbell rings and when he opens the door, his world collapses.
"What happened ?" Abby asked, wondering why Tony suddenly seemed to so sad.
"She got shot, when she came out of a dress shop."
"Did they ever found who was responsible?"
"No. The case still troubles me today."
Abby's green eyes became bigger when she suddenly realized the implication of DiNozzo's words.
"You were on the case."
He nodded his head affirmatively.
"Does this mean that you know Randall Hunter's story? How's linked to Gibbs?"
"Partially, I guess. Abbs, Gibbs and Randall go a long way back, they knew one another way before, I was even a cop in Baltimore. And I don't know this from the boss, I know this from Randall himself. You know how secretive Gibbs is about his private life..."
"Oh yeah." She confirmed, simply.
"Maybe if we could find a way to find their history, it would give a clearer picture on the case."
"Probably." Tony said.
"You could go back to your place and see if you can find some more stuff, while I'll go through these ones more thoroughly and while I'm at it, I'll see if I can find something on the Internet."
"That's an idea, but don't overdo it, Abbs, we don't need you to get yourself sick now."
She smiled at him and said: "I won't promise, now go."
"Okay. Okay, I'm going."
"Shoo, I've got work to do."
DiNozzo left the room with a smile on his face, yeah, Abby, was definitely back to her own self. He made a stop to the room where Gibbs lay and was pleased to see he was still sleeping, a nurse he hadn't seen before checked his boss's vital as smiled at him as he passed by. Sleep was a good thing for Gibbs his body needed it as well as his mind.
Sleep was one of the best ways to heal.
Once outside the hospital, he fished his cell phone out of his jacket pocket and called Ziva for and update. He told her what they'd been thinking about. She told him that she was back on the scene with McGee because she had a feeling they'd missed something. Tony told her to keep him up to date and if she was looking for him he would either be in his apartment or at the hospital.
They both chatter a little longer before ending the conversation. When he hang up, the nurse he had seen in Gibbs' hospital room flashed back into his mind. Who was she? And why hadn't he seen her before? He would have noticed her, he knew it for sure. Beautiful like she was, she was nothing like the other nurse, her place would rather be as a CEO in a company or something and definitely not in a hospital. Odd he thought, then he remembered something else: her shoes, she was wearing high heels when all the other nurses were wearing flat shoes, they had to for their job, it was one of the policies of the place.
He ran to his car, started the engine and was gone in a few seconds, he called Abby and told her to get in touch with Bratt immediately. She dropped everything and almost dropped her cell phone as well when Tony told him that he suspected, the nurse, he'd seen in Gibbs' room right before he left wasn't a real one. Abby did as she was told as fast as she could, she also call for Shirley one of the nurse that was assigned to check on Gibbs and herself.
Bratt and Shirley ran to the room, but there was no one to be seen, the patient was still sleeping, but then suddenly one of the monitors stared to bip when the man's heartbeat went in overdrive, his pulse had gone from seventy-two pulsation a minute to one hundred and thirty-five pulsation a minutes and it kept going. And then suddenly it stop and all the monitor connected to his heart showed was a flat line.
By the time, Abby managed to reach the room, the access to it was blocked, a couple of nurses rushed passed her, but she couldn't see what they were doing, suddenly all her surroundings seemed to blur and go in slow motion, she didn't know how or when he had had arrived, but Tony's arm were holding her tightly.
"What happened?" He asked her slowly as he caressed her hair and place a kiss atop her head.
"I don't know, it all happened so fast." Abby told him in a small voice, barely audible.
"He'll be okay, Abbs, he's strong and he's in good hands."
"I told you, they would try again."
"Don't think about it."
"How can I not? Gibbs is fighting for his life again, while the first attempt didn't happen so long ago..."
Tony sighed heavily as he knew she was right. They'd have to work fast to stop whoever was behind it.
000
A satisfied smiled appeared on Shane's face has he hung up the phone.
Perfect, if he dies now it's a victory for me, though it wouldn't be fun, cause I must admit, I'd love playing with him — them — a little longer.
Luna had been a good choice. She had been so easy to convince, he could do with her what he wanted all it had took was make her believe that he's got feelings for her. How gullible she was.
Shane's plan was working so perfectly well. A little too well. What women would do for love... Insane. As if he could ever fall in love with a woman like Lune Watson... She was everything he didn't like in woman. Rounded, funny, exuberant, colorful, who loved cuddling.
Personally Shane Caulfield preferred, reserved woman, how didn't really show their affection in public. Women who were docile, who had the shape of coat hook and not that of an hourglass.
Danielle Attersee, she was everything he loved in a woman, he knew she would be part and share his bed the moment he saw her. Danielle was just like him and had the same opinion on basically everything. A perfect match for him. He would have loved to get rid of Luna but he couldn't, he needed her, she worked at the hospital and she had access to more than one medicine, and he knew she had to go and check on Gibbs from time to time though he knew he couldn't ask her to poison or even kill the man, thanks to her, he knew everything he needed to know.
He had forged her key that opened the medicine cabinet and had given it to Danielle and she had done the dirty work. Now all they had to do was way and see what the result would be, if the dose, Danielle had administrated him would be lethal or not. And the best of all that plan?
He's hand were kept clean, no one would ever suspect him.
His plan was perfect.
TBC...
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