Vulnerable
Chapter 2
A/N: I realize now that not everyone is in the loop to the sad news that we fans have received this month. For those of you that don't know, Cote de Pablo is leaving the show. Regardless what CBS says, my sources say that she chose to leave over pay equity. What she was ultimately offered was still far below Sean Murray's pay scale and she is our Leading Lady. I applaud her guts to stand up to the chauvinistic CBS.
Many plot lines have revolved around how she will leave. I'd like this one (mine, totally mine and not to be seen as anything CBS has released), since the scuttlebut is that they are, apparently,giving her an open door policy: Vance pulls Ziva into his office and offers her a job she, as an NCIS Agent with her particular skills, is uniquely qualified for. She is to be the Director of the new Field Office in Tel Aviv. She wants to turn it down, but realities that he is right and accepts the offer. See? Open door policy and Tony doesn't have to live without her, because we all know that he can't.
However, in this story, Ziva is still shiny penny new (not too far off of asking Tony if he was having phone sex) and only came to be the Mossad Liaison a few months ago.
I hope you enjoy. It's really short, but I wanted to leave you with a pfoof!
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Ziva arched her back and alarm bells went off.
"Doctor, her fever is spiking dangerously high!" a nurse informed.
Doctor Webber cursed under her breath. Her patient was at 105 and no indication that it would break. She, herself, was the daughter of an Admiral after all and her patient was the daughter of the Director of Israeli Mossad. "Stop that seizure right now! Chlorazapam! Let's get that cooling tub ready for her. There's no external injuries that we need to take account of. We need to cool her down before brain damage happens. We have to take in account that she grew up in a region of Israel that has no winter like we know and this is her first year here. She has pneumonia and has nothing to fight it with right now. Let's help her fight this thing."
Gibbs stood back, watching helplessly, as the medical staff continued in a flurry of activity around Ziva. His poor dear Ziva. He dialed Jenny. "Jen, Ziva is in the hospital. She collapsed at the scene. Doc says she has pneumonia and bad. I think you may need to call Deputy Director David. She's bad, Jen."
Jenny Shepherd took in what Gibbs told her, knowing that his fears were the truth. She had worked anti-terrorism ops with Ziva since 9/11 and had come to know her as a very capable, strong and nearly invincible woman. To be hospitalized and not fight it...Jenny was worried. This impossibly young woman used her smarts and Mossad training to save Jenny's life in Cairo. Now, this. Illness. Bullet wounds were easier. "How bad, Jethro?"
"She's seizing, Jen. Her fever is too high. The docs are doing all they can. She's unconscious and on oxygen and wheezing something terrible. She sounds awful, Jen. Get...Down...Here," Gibbs told her, his eloquence gave bare his concern for this young Mossad Officer.
NCIS Director, Jenny Shepherd, snapped to. Her Liaison Officer, and her friend, was in serious trouble. "Be there in 30, Jethro."