A step away

Blood

It was almost 4 a.m. and Jack started yelling, she was having another nightmare, Ellie heard her and went in her room, when she opened the door, she saw Jack standing in front of the window and looking out of it "Jack are you ok?...Wait why I'm asking this, it's obvious that you aren't ok" said Ellie, she went near Jack and hugged her "What happened?" Ellie asked "I...I had a nightmare..." Jack said and went to sit on the side of the bed, Ellie sat near her "Do you want to talk about it?" Ellie asked "Gibbs...was dying...and...I couldn't do nothing to stop that..." Jack said "Jack, when we'll find him he'll still be alive, trust me..." Ellie said, actually the only problem was to find him, they didn't have no clue of where he was and what was happening to him "Anyway now try to sleep again...you need to sleep..." Ellie said, Jack looked around "If you need me you know where you can find me.." Ellie said, she hugged Jack and then went in the living room and laid on the couch.
The sound of the key and then the door slowly opened...some light came in and Gibbs opened his eyes, he was laying on the floor and he was still bleeding, the man came in and turned on the light and threw some food on the floor "Look at me." the man said "Look at me." he repeated and kicked Gibbs in the stomach and made a weird smile "You still don't want to look at me eh? Well...I don't care anyway your friends will know that you're completely fine" he said and kicked Gibbs again in the stomach then he turned off the light, went out and closed the door, Gibbs was in pain, it wasn't the first time that he was hit that night but he couldn't do nothing about it otherwise something would've happened to Jack and that wasn't what he wanted. He still didn't know why he was there and what that man wanted from him, probably he wouldn't find out that soon...
Jack and Ellie came out of the elevator and went in the bullpen, Nick and McGee were looking at Gibbs' desk "What are you looking at?" Ellie asked, McGee and Nick moved away from the desk, there was a box on the desk with a note on it, Ellie and Jack went near the desk "Who brought this here?" Ellie asked and looked at Nick and McGee "When we arrived it was already here..." Nick said "𝘠𝘰𝘶𝘳 𝘧𝘳𝘪𝘦𝘯𝘥 𝘪𝘴 𝘴𝘵𝘪𝘭𝘭 𝘢𝘭𝘪𝘷𝘦, 𝘥𝘰𝘯'𝘵 𝘸𝘰𝘳𝘳𝘺" this was what was written on the note, Ellie slowly opened the box and then she took a few steps back and looked around, Jack looked at what there was in the box and looked at Ellie...in the box there was a towel full of blood "Is that...is that Gibbs' blood..?" Jack asked and looked at Ellie "Probably...but we can't be sure..." Ellie said, Jack went in her office and closed the door, she sat at her desk and some tears started running on her face, she put her face in her hands.
Ellie, McGee and Nick looked at each other "We should bring this to Kasie...after I'll go to check how Jack is..." Ellie said, they went in Kasie's lab and gave the box to Kasie.