Sarah lay in a pool of blood at the bottom of the stairs.
Tony ran after her, and almost fell over her, he pressed a hand to her wound, "Wake up Sarah, please wake up"
She opened her eyes slowly, and as he pressed a hand to her wound, she covered his hand with hers, covering both the wound and their unborn child.
She smiled faintly, and coughed, splattering blood onto her hand and the top of her shirt, as he held her close to him, "I love you", she whispered to him, smiling faintly.
He smiled back, "I love you too, Sarah" she took his hand and pressed a kiss to it.
He lifted her up carefully, and carried her upstairs to Ducky.
"It's going to be ok, I promise you", Tony assured her.
He got to the top of the stairs, and shouting could be heard.
Jethro was pulling Ziva away from the body, "What are you doing Zee? You're choosing your father over our daughter!"
Ziva cried, "He is my father"
He pulled her forcefully away, "And she is our daughter!"
Tony ran in with Sarah in his arms, "Ducky! She's slipping in and out of consciousness!"
Ducky moved forward, "Lay her down, and call an ambulance"
McGee called an ambulance, as Sarah looked up at Tony, who had his hands over her wound, "I need to see my little girl"
Gibbs moved forward, dragging Ziva with him, and kneeling at his daughter's side.
Abby brought Tali over and she knelt beside her mother, and hugged her tightly, "I love you mommy"
Sarah smiled, "I love you too, my princess"
She coughed violently, spilling more blood, as she held her child close, "Are you going to be an angel now mommy? Like Kate and Jenny?"
She nodded, as a tear slipped down her face, "Yeah baby"
She moved one hand and held onto Tony's tightly, as she looked at Abby, "Take her down stairs please, I don't want her to see me like this"
Abby nodded and carried the screaming child downstairs with the help of McGee.
Ziva realised what she'd done, and clutched her daughter's hand, with Jethro holding her from behind, "It's okay my princess, you'll make it, you'll be okay, you have to be" she whispered desperately.
Sarah shook her head, "Eva stopped moving" she cried, her whole body wracked with tears.
Tony cried and held her to him, as her eyes gently closed, and her body went limp.
Ziva moved forward, silently asking to take Sarah, Tony nodded and passed her body to him, and went down to see his daughter.
Ziva prayed for her daughter, with her hand over the unborn child.
"Jethro, it's my fault she died", Ziva sobbed, clutching her daughter close to her
He shook his head, "No, it's not"
She cried harder, "She took that bullet, saving me"
He frowned, "That's because she loves you, come on lets get her into the ambulance"
They got her into the ambulance, and tried CPR and shock pads.
It didn't work.
That day Sarah died.
The shock pads had brought the child back, and once at the hospital the decision had been made to keep Sarah on a ventilator.
Her heart was controlled by a machine, so was her breathing and blood flow.
The child was born later that year, named Eva Marie David DiNozzo, just like they had planned.
Sarah's machines were turned off a month later, she didn't make any recovery because she was already gone.
THE END