NCIS:
TONY, YOU HAVE TO DECIDE...
DISCLAIMER: NCIS and characters do not belong to me.
SUMMARY:
SOMETHING HAPPENS...NOW TONY IS IN A COMA.
Will he survive? Some of the chapters will be told from the members of the Gibbs team as they worry about Tony and ask him to come back.
The other chapters are Tony in a sort of dream while he is in a coma and receives a visitor.
A little different from what Gibbs went through...Tony will not be seeing what might have been, but will have a visitor helping him.
CHAPTER 2: TONY TALKS TO SOMEONE FROM THE PAST...
TONY'S COMA/DREAM *
When Tony opened his eyes...he realized he was in the Squad Room and was confused.
The team had been at a crime scene so:
'Why was he here and where was everyone?'
Tony looked over at McGoo's desk expecting him to be there because he was never late, and then over at Gibbs' desk...probably a coffee run.
Finally turning his eyes to Ziva's desk and then he saw someone sitting there, it could not be true and she could not be sitting there...
She had been dead for over six almost seven years now...Caitlyn Todd.
"Great, the juvenile is back." Kate said dryly.
"Kate?" Tony asked.
"Do I look like someone else?" Kate asked.
"What are you doing here? Where is everyone?" Tony asked the questions he needed answers to.
"What do you remember?" Kate countered.
"Gibbs got a call we left and got to a crime scene, that doesn't explain how I got here...where ever here is." Tony told her.
"You're in the NCIS Squad Room and I'm here to help you. You have to decide, Tony." Kate told him.
"Decide what?" Tony asked in confusion.
"You're in a coma and you have to decide if you want to live or if you want to die." Kate told him.
"I'm in a coma, but..." Tony began.
"There was an explosion at the crime scene and you were the only one who got hurt." Kate said.
Tony thought about what everything Kate told him and looked around the Squad Room.
Everything looked the same, except him and Kate were the only two there.
"If I'm in a coma why would I be in the Squad Room at NCIS?" Tony asked.
"You tell me, you brought yourself here." Kate replied and after thinking a moment, Tony knew the reason.
"It was the first place I felt like I had a family; My mom died when I was eight, My dad was never there for me, My ex-Fiancée, Wendy, left me the night before we were going to be married and NCIS was the first place where I felt like part of a family." Tony said looking at her and she just nodded.
"Everyone is worried about you and afraid you won't go back."
"I miss you Kate. I want..." Tony began.
"What, Tony?" Kate asked and seemed curious.
"It wouldn't have worked though rule 12." Tony said more to himself as he looked away from her.
"Okay, DiNozzo, time to make sense." Kate said and he looked back at her.
"McGee thought of you like a sister and so did Abby, Ducky thought of you I guess as a granddaughter and Gibbs...thought of you like a daughter. Everyone took it hard when you died. I didn't think of you like that though." Tony admitted looking down at his desk.
"Well, when you get shot the way I did...you don't get a choice. How did you think of me, Tony?" Kate asked, though she was sure she knew the answer.
"It would have involved rule 12 and breaking it. I-I..." Tony couldn't say it.
"Rule 12...Never date a co-worker," Kate said after thinking a minute.
"Yeah, I loved you." Tony said quietly and once again he was not able to look into her eyes.
"Is that why you always picked on me?" Kate asked.
"I wasn't the only one and I wasn't the one that got a peek up your skirt." Tony said with a huge grin.
"You haven't changed one bit. Why didn't you ever tell me when I was alive? We could have talked to, Gibbs." Kate told him.
"I don't know..." Tony began.
"Yes, you do. You just don't want to admit it." Kate stated and Tony knew even though she was dead, he had to tell her what he never had a chance to tell her when she was alive.
"I was afraid...after everyone in my life it seemed if I ever got close to someone, that person would leave or something else would happen." Tony said.
"I never thought I would see the serious side of, Anthony DiNozzo Jr. I thought there wasn't one." Kate said and Tony gave her a small smile.
"I've always had a serious side." Tony protested it.
"I can't think of many times you showed it." Kate said.
"I already told you why. I had to protect myself to survive." Tony said.
"If you would have let your guard down once in a while, things could have been different...they still can if you choose to go back. Tony, you have a reason to go back." Kate said.
"The team...I know, but it's been hard without you." Tony told her and looked at her this time.
"I've been dead almost seven years...it's time to move on. You have already started to, but you need to tell her and if you talked to Gibbs. That would change, I've been watching all of you since I died and I can already see things changing between McGee and Abby." Kate told him and this got Tony's attention.
"What do you mean? There just best friends and Abby has said..." Tony began.
"I know what Abby has said in the past about getting married and getting having kids. I talked to her one night, but because of what happened to you. She has not been leaning on Gibbs this time. She got to the hospital and after Gibbs told her about you...
She sat down in a chair and McGee wrapped his arm about her. She is leaning on McGee right now and not Gibbs. I know you can see how much they love each other, but she's scared...just like you are of getting hurt." Kate said.
"McGoo would never hurt her. Because if he did he..." Tony started to say.
"I know that he would never hurt her, but when she broke up with him. She hurt him and has now been realizing that, how much she really does love him. Tony, listen to me…I already told you that I am dead and you have to move on. I know for a fact that you've been hiding and protecting yourself for so long, but it's time to tell Ziva how you feel." Kate replied.
"What...?" Tony began and Kate guessed what he was going to say.
"She loves you and it's just as hard for her to admit it as it is for you. She is afraid of the same things you are. Because of everything she has been through...Think, Tony! She has told you how she feels, but the things you have seen in life have blinded you both. She might not have come right out and say it, but there have been a few times you would notice...Just read between the lines." Kate said.
"I can't tell her, because what if I tell her and she runs back to Israel? Then I would never see her or talk to her again. Just like if I wake up...I'll never see you again," Tony said.
"I never thought of you as a coward, but that is what you are right now. You are so scared of getting hurt...that you are not willing to take a chance at happiness." Kate said and Tony started to get a little mad.
"I am not a coward, Kate. I already told you my reasons and then you put rule 12 in there too...there is no chance!" Tony yelled.
"There is a chance, Tony! You just have to forget about rule 12 and take it! Tell Gibbs how you feel and convince him that he was wrong about rule 12. Abby and McGee broke it years ago when he first met her. You tried to convince McGee they wouldn't make it...because he wasn't her type. If he would have listened to you and taken a chance, they would not have met or maybe they would have eventually. You were the one that helped them, telling McGee about how she was into guys with tattoos." Kate argued.
"Speaking of tattoos, Kate..." Tony said with a grin.
"Don't try to change the subject, because I'm not telling if I have one or where. We went through that when I was alive. You watched McGee take a chance to meet Abby...now you have to take that chance." Kate said and he looked at her sadness in his eyes.
"How, Kate? I'm so confused." Tony said.