L'amore vale Sempre la pena 8/??
L’amore vale Sempre la pena
Author: Sinopa Ariyana
Co-Author: DragonHeart25
Rating: NC-17
Pairing: Gibbs/DiNozzo
Beta: DragonHeart25
Warnings: Slash, Romance, Angst, OOC-ness, Smut, AT/AU, Language, Spoileriness,
Disclaimer: I don’t own NCIS
AN: Sorry for the long wait RL has been very much like Hell...for reasons why see here
Previously on L’amore vale Sempre la pena…
Tony was released from the hospital and spent time recovering. Met with Kelly’s principal and saw Dr. Brad Pitt. Going back to work a full week earlier the team gets a call out to a crime scene. There’s a bomb under the car and Tony makes Kate and McGee run while he deals with it.
“It’s the car!” Kate yelled.
“It’s wired to…!” McGee shouted.
*KA-BOOM!*
An explosion from the area of the car has everyone ducking for cover. Kate turns around when she realizes there is a member missing.
“TONY!!!!!” Kate’s shout had his blood turning to ice in his veins as he looked for any sign of his senior field agent and lover.
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Chapter Eight
His blood ran cold at the thought of losing Tony. They had only been together for a few short months but he knew that if he lost Tony now, after everything they had been through, his heart would not survive. He would become closed off again. Yes, Kelly would be there but raising her alone in the house that held so many memories bad and good would be hard on both of them. He could only speculate at what Kelly would be like if her Papà died. He waited with bated breath for Tony to appear over the bank.
Tony had just reached the top of the hill; winded but alive. He managed to get partially over the yellow crime scene tape and say “Boss? Remember when I said I never felt better? I lied” before collapsing into the dirt from over-exertion.
‘Thank God. He’s alive. A little worse for wear but alive.’ Gibbs thought when he saw Tony appear over the top of the embankment. If it weren’t for the fact the now was certainly not the time he would have laughed when Tony told him he’d lied. He’d known that but he also knew that Tony would go crazy of left at home any longer. He had hoped that they wouldn’t get a case but there was nothing he could do about it when they did get one. He knew Tony wouldn’t like having to ride a desk when he had been cleared for light field duty.
Shaking his head he stood up and helped Kate and Ducky to awaken Tony and get him into the truck so he could rest. Once the bodies had been bagged and the evidence collected they headed back to the Navy Yard where he immediately sent Tony to Ducky to be checked out properly.
Kate had been sent with Tony while He and McGee got to work on the evidence. He went down to see how Tony was doing and stood outside of Autopsy listening to the conversation going on inside.
“I’m telling you, I’m fine” Tony mumbled around the thermometer Ducky had shoved in his mouth before wrapping the Pressure cuff around his bicep.
“136 over 84 in not fine for you Tony. Your blood-pressure is high.” Ducky stated whilst removing the cuff and jotting down the notes on the file that belonged to Tony. He had one on all of the members of the MCRT; mainly because most of them refused to go to hospitals.
“Almost getting blown up tends to do that to me. Not to mention, hanging around Kate when she’s in one of her moods” Tony retorted giving Kate a look when he said this.
Tony jumped down off the autopsy table had had been sitting on and almost fell over because of the sudden pain all over. Muscle soreness was just one of the side-effects he would be dealing with because of the explosion and the y-pestis remnants.
“At least your temperature is normal.” Ducky told him.
“Yeah, I’m good to go.” Tony said while buttoning his shirt back up and putting the sleeves back to where they should be.
Ducky’s comment about him not having fully recovered from the y-pestis had Tony grinding his teeth slightly. He didn’t need to rest he needed to get back to work Damnit!
When Kate butted in and agreed with Ducky then told him she should just take him home and get him into bed both he and Ducky looked at her. It wasn’t everyday that Kate said something that even Ducky could turn into an innuendo. Of course if either of them knew about his relationship with Gibbs they probably wouldn’t have seen the innuendo. Kate’s stuttering that she hadn’t meant to say it like that was hilarious.
Gibbs, who was outside, decided this was a perfect opportunity to interrupt and have Kate a little nervous. It was a rare occurrence where he could have Kate getting flustered.
Walking in he asked Kate about what hadn’t come out right and just got a mumbled answer before she turned away and headed up to the bullpen to get to work on trying to identify what they could about the murdered sailors.
He asked Ducky about Tony and got the information before telling Tony he should lay down. Tony’s retort had him giving the man a look that he knew Tony would understand. He spoke quickly to Ducky before heading to the elevators and holding the doors as Tony rushed to catch up to him.
Once in the elevator and on their way up he hit the switch plunging it into semi-darkness. Turning towards Tony he silenced the man with a kiss. Backing Tony up against the far wall of the elevator he broke the kiss before speaking.
“Don’t ever scare me like that again DiNozzo. You should know better than to do something so idiotic as trying to outrun a damn bomb.”
“Sorry, Boss. I thought I could outrun it. I am normally faster than the others at running. I keep forgetting about my lungs though.” Tony said looking down briefly before wrapping his arms around Gibbs.
“Thought you said we were gonna keep it out of the office, Jethro?” Tony whispered into Gibbs ear before nipping it lightly.
Groaning Gibbs pulled away from him before leaning in and giving him a quick kiss then saying “We will be. This is not something that is going to happen every damn case, Understand Tony?”
“Yes Boss” Tony said before leaning in and stealing one last kiss before letting Gibbs hit the emergency switch and the elevator continued heading up to their floor.
Getting off he noticed Kate and McGee were not around and headed to his desk to lay down behind it while Gibbs headed to the Director’s Office.
~Abby’s Lab~
Abby was going over the material from the evidence and wasn't having much luck finding out where it was from. She had looked for any fingerprints, hairs, fibers and any other small particles that were foreign to the original piece of evidence and hadn’t found anything. She moved ont o try and piece the bomb together…or what was left of it and wasn’t having much luck.
She had begun running some samples of things that she had found and was seated at her computer when Tony came in and asked to use the futon. She pointed towards her office and told him where it was. He thanked her and said to wake him up shortly.
When Gibbs came down to see how Abby was going on the evidence and surreptitiously check on Tony he had a soft smile on his face seeing Tony asleep. He definitely needed it.
Eventually they figured out what was going on. Ari Haswari was back in the states. No-one was at all happy to learn that he was back. Even Fornell wasn’t happy, especially since he hadn’t been informed until briefly before Gibbs’ team was.
Finding out that Ari was there as part of a terrorist organization, supposedly to stop them from making an attack on US soil but Gibbs and the team all believed differently even though there wasn’t really anything they could do.
Finally they found out why the Naval Officers hand’s had been cut off. The group needed them to get in to a secure base that housed some very dangerous weaponry. The FBI had checked and the new technology was there but the old prototype was gone, something the FBI overlooked but Gibbs and the team caught.
McGee eventually tracked down the target of the attack; A Navy ship full of returning sailors. McGee said that he could disarm it with a certain device. Abby managed to find where they planned to set the attack off from; one of the warehouses near the docks.
Once they arrived they split up to search out the terrorists in the cell. Kate had made Gibbs wear a vest because they had at first thought that Ari was after Gibbs for the payback of having him sent back to the Middle East and for shooting him in the shoulder. Though Ari had started that particular conflict by shooting first Gerald and then Gibbs later on.
Tony, Kate, and Gibbs met on the roof and killed all of the members of the terrorist cell that were there while McGee stayed with the car and began to track down the frequency that the cell was using to guide the missile. He had managed to negate one and had started on the second when shots rang out towards him. He shot back at the terrorist that was shooting at him.
Up on the roof Kate had just taken a hit to the chest to protect Gibbs even though he had his own vest on. She took her protection detail very seriously.
Tony and Gibbs killed the terrorist and then checked on Kate. Thankfully she was alive and the flak jacket had caught the bullet. It hurt like hell but she was alive and so was Gibbs.
As they helped her stand the wind began to suddenly pick up and then a loud bang sounded before Tony groaned.
“Shit! Kate, Gibbs Down!” Tony yelled dragging Kate down as another bang rang out in the air.
Kate’s yelp of pain registered in Tony and Gibbs and they made sure to stay down while checking where Tony and Kate had been hit.
Tony had a non-lethal through and through to his left Bicep. It hurt like hell but Gibbs wrapped it in a field dressing while Tony check Kate over.
Kate had taken a hit through the vest in the shoulder. It was painful and bloody. Tony could tell she was losing blood fast. The bullet must have nicked an artery when it penetrated.
Gibbs made the call out for back-up and an ambulance while Tony applied pressure to Kate’s wound to stem the bleeding. Now all they had to do was get out of firing range and hope that Kate would make it to the hospital. With the amount of Blood she was losing and how fast she might not make it. All Tony and Gibbs could do was try and stem the bleeding by applying pressure to her wound.
Meanwhile on the rooftop Ari smiled thinking he had dealt Kate an immediately fatal wound from the amount of blood he had seen fly. He didn’t realize that someone had messed with the sights of his scope.
“Sorry Caitlin.” He said to himself with a wide smile on his face as he began to pack up his sniper equipment and head down to his getaway vehicle that waited in the alley next to the building he was perched atop.
He caught sight of Dr. Mallard’s van pulling up to the crime scene and couldn’t help but be glad. Now he had to find a fall guy and let his handlers know that he had nothing to do with Special Agent Caitlin Todd’s death. His father would be none the wiser as to what was really happening right under his own nose.
TBC…..
AN: Okay as I said things will be AU from last chapter on out. Things are going to heat up even more and will diverge and yet not diverge from the original episodes. Now to leave you all to wonder what will happen next and hopefully the next chapter will be much better and easier to write. This chapter gave me fits the whole way through. It was worse than pulling teeth; or making my niece and nephew clean their bedrooms which is practically impossible *sighs*
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