Disclaimer: I do not own NCIS or its characters.
Chapter 1
"We're losing him!" The nurse watching the monitoring equipment warns
"Not on my watch, we're not!" Doctor Pitt replies, only just hearing the statement as he stepped through the door of the operating theatre, having been called to a patient that would need help with a breathing problems, he spoke directly to the emergency surgeon "What we got?"
"Male agent shot, twice, once in the abdomen and once in his upper back right….."
"How the hell did the shooter get him in the front and back?"
"…..We got extensive bleeding from the abdominal wound, the collapsed right lung's a problem, but that's not the worst part" the emergency doctor explained as he continued working.
"Do I want to know?" Brad queried as he looked into the open abdomen seeing the damage caused by one of the shots
"He's blood type is AC negative, we only had two pints, both donate by the man himself last week, we don't have any more spare and there's no record of familial match"
"Crap, how the hell are you keeping him alive"
"Suction, cleaning and transferring back in, it's our only option right now with no blood possible donor, but it's a slow process and he's bleeding out faster than we can get it back in"
"AC negative is less only found in less than a hundredth of the population, Doctor Woods, there's no way we're going to get a blood donor" Brad stated
"Tell me something I don't already know!" replied the other doctor just as the machines went haywire and the heart monitor flat-lined
"He's in v-fib." The monitoring nurse yelled
"Pressure?" Woods question
"Defibrillator" Brad yelled at one of the other nurses
"Can't get a reading." The monitoring nurse replied
"Charging." The second nurse informed as Brad rounded the surgical table and grabbed the panels "are both bullets out?"
"Yes - Epinephrine, 1mg." Woods ordered
"Epinephrine in."
"360, clear!" Brad barked
"No inversion. Again."
"Charging."
"360 joules. Clear!"
"Damn, still nothing, Push lidocaine, resume CPR."
"The last of the blood we've got is ready." Another nurse informed
"Inject it now, hit him again."
"Charging."
"Clear!"
"Damn it, he's still in v-fib. Resume CPR."
"Epinephrine, 1mg IV, again."
"Second dose, Epinephrine's in."
"Charging."
"Brad?"
"I'm not losing him." Brad stated before turning his attention to the man on the bed "Come on, kid fight this."
"Resuming CPR"
"Charging."
"360, clear!"
"Damn it, still nothing. Again."
"Doctor, maybe..."
"No. Again."
"Charging."
"360 joules. Clear."
"Yes! We've got a sinus rhythm, it's weak but it's there, let's get him closed up and make it fast, he can't go through that again!" The monitoring nurse stated.
NCIS
Twenty minutes earlier
Gibbs walked out of his favourite coffee shop, Agent Balboa was right next to him giving him an update on the overnight, protection detail for Vance and his family due to Lee Wuan Kai sudden appearance, but his attention is suddenly taken up at the sight of one of his own agents walking towards them, currently from the other side of the street nearly a block away, with a young girl.
"What the hell is he doing?" Gibbs queries, he had left all his agents at the office with plenty of work to be getting on with.
"Looks like he's taking a coffee break, with his new girlfriend" Balboa answered with a smile "about time the kid got some luck" the two men watched as the couple turn to face each other
"Okay that doesn't look so good" Balboa says, as it looks like the agent is seriously questioning the young woman over something.
"Damned right it doesn't" Gibbs states, seeing his agent suddenly stiffen holding his hands out low as in an act of someone surrendering, as he starts to pick up the pace to intercept and intervene if necessary, there nothing Gibbs can do at this distance but watch as everything goes into slow motion.
The pair are a little over ten metres away when the young girl suddenly falls into the agent's arms, the agent reacts like he's been punch in the gut as he looks down, supporting the fallen women, his knees begin buckle, just as he jerks head and shoulders backwards, send him head first back towards the pavement.
Time snaps back into place for Gibbs as he leaps into action, chucking his much needed coffee, as he runs to his agent, throwing himself on his knees just barely in time, as he catches his agent's head in his out stretched hands just before it would have hit the ground.
People are screaming and diving for cover, Balboa's at their side in an instant, crouching down to assist, already on the phone gun drawn as he sweeps the area "Agent down! Shot's fired! I repeat agent down!"
NCIS
"So he's got himself a girlfriend" The male agent smiles as he looks over his female colleague shoulder, having made his way round to her desk
"You already knew that" Ziva retorts as she looks up from the information she was trying to study
"Yes but he didn't give any details and then she just turns up out of the blue, like that, don't you think that's a little odd?"
"No I do not, should you not be working?"
"Excellent question David and the answer is yes you should all be working" Vance states from the balcony where he had been watch them, before making his way downstairs to join in the bullpen
"We are, Sir" The male agent informs as picks up the plasma's control and pull's up the latest information they have for the direct to see.
Agent Taylors phone rings in the bullpen adjacent to team Gibbs, he listens for a moment before slamming the phone down and shouting so that all the agents on the floor can hear him "Shot fired! Agent down!"
Chaos erupts across the floor, as the agent of Taylor's team grab their go bags
"You need us?" The male agent questions as both he and Ziva go to grab their bags
"It's your man that down" Taylor informs
As the pair hurry to meet up with the other team the throw each other concerned looks, both asking the same thing as all six agents enter the elevator "Gibbs?"
"Nope" is the only reply heard in the bullpen as the doors slam to a close.