Please remember this is a fictional book.

His ears were ringing. He opened his eyes and slowly stood up, groaning in the process. Tony looked around. The air was filled with dust. The glass of the windows were all broken. He immediately started looking for the rest of his team. Ziva was fiund on the other side of the wall behind her desk. She had a head wound from hitting her head on a desk.

He approached her.

"Ziva?" He questioned.

There was no answer.

"Ziva!" He shouted.

She opened her eyes and looked around her location. Her head hurt. Finally, her eyes moved over to Tony's.

"What happened?" She asked.

"An explosion. Are you hurt?"

"I-I don't think so. Help me up."

He grabbed a hold of her hand and yanked her up, making her head hurt worse. She put her hand to her head. It was bleeding. "Where is everyone else?"

Tony coughed. "I don't know."

Gibbs had been near the windows when the explosion happened. He was slammed against the glass but was not outside. He got up slowly and made his way to McGee, who had still been at his desk.

"McGee? " He called out.

Tim slowly went into a crouchig position and looked over at Gibbs.

"Boss..." He couldn't stop coughing.

"You hurt?"

"McGee did a quick assessment of himself before answering. "Negative, sir." He tried to get up. "How's everyone else?"

""Don't know." Gibbs said as he helped him up. "Ow." McGee mumbled as he stood up.

"You alright? And dont lie to me."

He nodded. I slammed my back against the wall. But I'll be fine."

"You're going to Bethesda just to be safe. Might have broken something."

"If i did, I would feel it, right?"

"Not if your still running on adrenaline."

"There they are." McGee said as he saw both Tony and Ziva in the distance.

They approached the other two.

"You both okay?" Gibbs asked.

"Fine. Ziva needs to get her head checked."

McGee and Ziva got checked out at the hospital. Ziva had a concussion while Tim had bruised his back pretty good. But they were both eager to get back to work.

McGee had an icepack on his back as he sat down at his desk again. He looked at his surroundings. New glass was being put in. Gibbs was talking with Director Vance while Tony and Ziva were fixing their desks. He heard them arguing a little but his ears were still ringing so he couldnt make out what they were saying.

Gibbs came down the steps and to his team. "Someone's trying to kill us. We need to fiind out who."