Disclaimer: see part one

This couldn't be happening. He'd lost Kate a couple of months ago, and now he was losing Abby? No, this couldn't be. He wouldn't allow her to leave him or Gibbs. Tony was looking at the 'mistress of darkness' he liked so much… she looked as if she was a porcelain doll right now – so fragile.

His white shirt was turning red as he was holding her tightly against him, but Tony didn't give a damn. He was not going to let her slip away from life. Tony felt a wave of sadness and pure anger building within him.

It was then that he saw Abby's eyelids slowly open. She looked at Tony with glassy green eyes, and he felt his heart break slowly bit by bit. Abby was struggling to find some energy to say something. "Tell… Gibbs… I… I'll… never… forget… him…" Abby murmured weakly.

Tony could see that she clearly fought to find her breath, and he felt tears wetting his eyes. Abby added in a voice that was barely above a whisper, "Tell… Gibbs… I… I… lo…ve… him…" Then Abby's eyes slowly closed and her heart stopped beating.

"Abbyyyyyy, NOOOOO! Stay with me! Stay with us!"

Hearing Tony's plea. Gibbs turned around and got up quickly, rushing to Tony and Abby. Ziva did the same. Gibbs's body shivered with fear. He looked at Tony, then shifted his gaze to Abby, and suddenly realization flooded him.

"NO, NO, NO… she's not gonna die on me!" Gibbs stated.

Gibbs slowly took her from Tony, laid her gently on the cool floor, and started CPR on her. Ziva was now crying silently.

She and Abby hadn't been good friends at first because Abbs had seen her a bit like an intruder – like an enemy – maybe because she wasn't the only one to get attention anymore. But then after a while, things had changed, and Abby had started to accept her… and now…

Gibbs was still practicing CPR on his lab tech with the energy of desperation. "Abby, come on, honey, don't do this to me, don't die on me. Come back to me. I need you!" he said forcefully as tears started to roll down his cheeks.

Nor Tony nor Ziva spoke or moved. They just stared at him, paralyzed, petrified.

"Tony, go get the car!" Gibbs ordered, his tone of voice leaving no place for protest as he lifted his eyes up to him. "We're taking her to the hospital ourselves!"

Suddenly shaken out of his paralyzed state, Tony nodded quickly and hurried out of the lab, to the elevator. Stopping at his desk to grab the car keys, he finally ran out of the building to the parking lot.

Ziva David was still standing there as stiff as a statue, watching Gibbs trying to bring life back into Abby's fragile, pale frame.

"Ziva?" Gibbs called.

No reaction.

"Ziva!" Gibbs tried again in a stronger tone.

At last, NCIS Special Agent David reacted. Kneeling down next to her boss, she looked at him, wordlessly asking what she needed to do.

"Go find McGee and tell him that Tony and I are taking Abby to Bethesda. I refuse to let her go without a fight, Ziva. I've lost too many people I cared about. I'm not gonna lose her too, no way!"

Ziva looked at Gibbs and nodded. Standing up, she went in search of McGee. Jethro watched her leave the lab and waited a few seconds to make sure she was really gone to let his pain come out.

TBC…