Tim was the first to go in and see Abby she looked so small lying there in that hospital bed he walked beside her and sat in the chair next to her he took one of her hands in his and began talking to her "Abbs I am so sorry that we even argued I hadn't meant to take this out on you nothing is your fault. You were right about Delilah she isn't the one for me she has been avoiding my calls and staying busy with her work we hardly see each other. I shouldn't have let you take off like that in a way this is my fault".
Abby continued lying there so small and fragile all of a sudden to him the only signs of life was the machines she was hooked up to and the rise and fall of her felt so awful about all of this why couldn't he have seen that Abby was the one for him all along? Maybe he was so scared of love that he was afraid of being rejected, afraid of ruining their friendship, or even worse afraid of hurting now her life was hanging in the balance and he had to tell her his true feelings and break it off with Delilah.
Tim sighed "I don't know if you can really hear me or not but what I have come to say is that I love you Abbs.I have loved you since the beginning I was just too afraid of love at first to admit it.I feared that if we dated I would hurt looking back on that now I know that is silly to think please don't die on me on us.I don't want the last conversation we had be the last. You have to wake up from this you have so much going for you and your not the type to just give up so please come back to me".
Outside the window, Jethro Gibbs was keeping an eye on the two and was really worried about Abby he looked at her like she was his own daughter even though she was not her and Mcgee has had a longer history than anyone else he's ever known besides Tony and had read that coma patients could often hear their loved ones speak to knew his turn was next and he didn't have a lot to say Jethro Gibbs was a man of very few words.
After everyone had their talks with Abby the ride back to Ncis was a very quiet things weren't the same they had a temporary intern taking Abby's place in her lab some redhead named Julie Templeton who was fresh out of college she wasn't staying there permanently unless the worst happened to Abby which Tim didn't want to think about.
Tim caught up on his paperwork and his report on the latest seemed to help pass time the end of his shift, Tony invited him to his apartment for dinner his girlfriend Zoe was fixing italian "Not good to be all alone like this Tim come on it will do you good to get out".Tony was right he couldn't stay here.
They had dinner and Zoe was a fantastic Tony challenged Tim to some video games on his X-Box but Tim's heart really wasn't in the video games so all three watcheda comedy tried everything he could to cheer Tim up when he got up to leave Tony said "She will pull through this Probie Abby is a fighter".