CHAPTER 15: THE CALL
Its around 3am and Tony is fast asleep on his settee, his stereo had been playing the same song for over an hour and the fire that was burning brightly
has now died and is only barely a warm glow. after a few minutes his cell begins to ring, he slowly wakes up grabbing his cell off of the coffee table
and looking at the caller display, it says unknown number, could be gibbs as he always seems to have a new number everytime one of his wives try to call
him.
"DiNozzo?" He says sleepily
"To...., it... e...!" He hears faintly, the static is really bad
"Who is this?" Tony asks squinting to see the time on the clock
"It.. m... To..., K..te" The caller says
"Kate! are you ok?" Tony asks jumping from his seat and standing in the middle of the room
"I ...pain.....escaped.....help!" She says
"Where are you?" Tony asks
"I...nt...now....trees.....road....house..." she says
"Stay where you are i am coming to get you!" Tony says grabbing his keys and heading for the door
"hurry....the.....come....ahhhhh!!" she said as one of the men grabbed her and put her in the white van
"Kate!" Tony said
"kate's dead!" The voice on the other end of the phone said and then the line went dead
Tony drove as fast as he could to Gibbs' house and knocked on the door, he waited for a few seconds and then knocked again, harder, still no answer so
he tried the door handle and it opened. Once inside he called out several times for Gibbs.
"Gibbs you here?" Tony said "Its me DiNozzo!"
He heard nothing, so he made his way to Gibb's basement where he assumed Gibbs would be building his boat. He reached the top of the stairs and looked down into the basement
he saw Gibbs lying down in ther middle of the boat asleep.
"Boss!" Tony shouted "Its me DiNozzo!"
Gibbs wakes up and sits up wondering where the voice came from and hits his head on the wood. Tony realises that Gibbs is gonna be really pissed at him for
doing that but he was more concerned about Kate.
"DiNozzo what the hell are you going here!" Gibbs asks angrily and holding his head
"I had a call from Kate, she is in trouble i think i know where she is! Tony said as gibbs looks at him rubbing his head
"Lets go to NCIS then!" Gibbs says and Tony offers to drive
"No i'll drive you want to be there as soon as possible, call everybody and tell them to get their asses down there!" He says
Gibbs and Tony arrive at the NCIS building and head towards the bullpit, they see McGee, Victoria, Ziva and Veron waiting at gibbs' desk.
"You should be in the hospital Ziva" Gibbs says walking to his desk
"I'd be of more use here boss" she says
"Fine but once your finished here you go straight back there, understood!" Gibbs says looking at the sheet of paper that has been put on his desk
"Whats this?" Gibbs asks looking at the paper
"Its a list of possible suspects that link to the capture of Kate based on phone records placed to Tony's home and cell numbers" Veron says
"Ziva, Smith i want you to check out the first two and Tony and McGee take the other two, me and Veron will be trying to find some backup" Gibbs says
"Yes boss" They all say
Gibbs and Veron head to MTAC while the other agents grab their sigs and head to check out the suspects. Meanwhile, Abby and Emma are in the lab running
evidence through various tests to try to find some information about where Kate could be being held and also the person or people that could have taken
her.
"I've got nothing on the broken glas in Tony's appartment" Emma says
"I think i have something on the window sill from Kates appartment" Abby says
"what is it?" Emma asks
"It seems like some kind of fine white powder" Abby says
"Let me see" Emma says and Abby moves aside from the microscope
"What do you think it is?" Abby asks
"I'm not sure, it seems to look like a type of explosive powder used in household bombs" Emma says
"But there was no signs of any other material in Kate's appartment that could be used to make a bomb" Abby said
"I still think we should get bomb squad to go there to check the place out" Emma says
"I'll cal Gibbs and let him know" Abby says dialing Gibbs' cell number and placing it on speaker phone
"Gibbs" He answers
"Gibbs it me" abby says
"What is it Abs?" he asks
"We have identified the white powder from Kate's flat to be a type of explosive powder and think that someone should check the place out" she says
"Good work Abs we will send someone over there now" Gibbs says putting down the phone
"Is he always that abrupt?" Emma asks
"Only when he is awake!" Abby says smiling
They continue to test evidence untill they both stop dead in their tracks and turn to look at each other, they can tell that something is wrong but they
don't know what.
"Can you hear that?" Emma says
"Yeah, what is it?" Abby says
They both walk to the other end of the lab where the plasma screen takes pride of place carefully stepping to make sure they don't cover the noise,
they reach the plasma screen adnnotice a small plastic container on a shelf to the left of the screen, Emma walks towards it and hears the noise getting
louder and louder untill it gets so loud she realises what it is.
"Its a bomb!" Emma screams "Run now Abby!"
Abby heads for the door and manages to turn the corner outiide the lab before it explodes in a huge bang. Flames and smoke billow out of the lab and the
smell of ammonia quickly engulfs the air.
"Emma!" Abby screams pressing the emergency button outside the lab to indicate a biohazzard
Abby turns around back to the lab but sees nothing but smoke, no sign of Emma and no sign of life. She suddenly is over come by fumes and struggles to
keep sight of anything, suddenly a hand covered in a tissue surrounds her mouth and weak from the explosion she struggles to avade her attacker, she
stumbles to the ground losing fight but still not giving up. Suddenly her movements are slow and sluggish as the fumes become too much for her and she
slowly closes her eyes and loses consiousness.
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