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Gibbs was all for helping his agent to his car and taking him home (To his own though, he didn't want to stay at Tony's at all) but everyone else had other ideas. As soon as they'd gotten up to their office, Tony was aware of being surrounded by three people, and he was sure there was a smurf or two somewhere, his temperature peaking, making him hallucinate,

"Tony, are you ok? Where're you going?" Was that Kate or McGee? They sounded like they should be underwater. Maybe it was one of those darn smurfs, they were about the same height as his fellow agents, and sort of grouped together, it was hard to distinguish any of them,

"I'm fine Smurfette, I'm just gonna go home now. Hey, I've always wondered why you're the only girl smurf. Have they never tried to take advantage of you?" He babbled, actually talking to Kate, who backed away slightly, although not sure if he was being serious or not. She looked over to Gibbs for help, who looked rather amused at the proceedings,

"C'mon DiNozzo, you're burning up, wish Ducky could have given you antibiotics or something." Gibbs grumbled, hoisting his agent upright yet again as he slid down the older man's body.

"I gotcha Papa Smurf." Tony mumbled, gazing around, as if not sure where he was. Gibbs felt something in his chest as he heard Tony say that, but quickly shook it off as Abby came rushing up,

"OMG Gibbs, I..."

"OMG?" He asked, briefly distracted by the slipping man,

"It means 'Oh my God' Gibbs, have you never texted anyone? I once knew this guy, who hadn't texted anyone since he got his phone seven years before, but then..."

"Abbs, what was it you wanted? 'Cause I don't think it's fair on DiNozzo if you stop me taking him home." Abby's eyes widened,

"What happened Gibbs? Is he ok? Has Ducky seen him?" Gibbs smiled slightly at her attachment to her surrogate brother and said,

"Relax Abbs, Ducky said he has gastroenteritis, he's going home for the week." He directed the end bit of this sentence to his agent, who clearly wasn't listening, and was probably seeing yet more smurfs.

"Ouch, I had that once, not nice."

"Are there any antibiotics to help?" Gibbs asked, wanting to keep Tony out of as much discomfort as possible. To his dismay, Abby shook her head,

"Just Gaviscon, soothe the stomach, you really just have to wait for it to finish. Depends how early you caught it as well, might make it easier for him." She heard a small noise from Kate, who was beside her, and turned to look at her friend, head cocked slightly. Kate sighed and said, to Gibbs,

"I knew something was wrong with him. He looked really ill, and it never occurred to me it could be something serious, I just assumed it was a cold. I'm so sorry Gibbs, it could have been the plague again for all I knew and I didn't do anything..." She looked down, her face showing how upset she was. Abby looked up in surprise when she heard Gibbs respond softly,

"It's not your fault Kate, I knew he wasn't feeling well, I just put it all down to that crap that he eats," He said this with a slight twitch in his jaw, trying to make light of the situation, "I'm to blame." He was gobsmacked and actually stunned into silence when he received a smack on the back of his head, not unlike the ones he gave out to his team. He looked round to see Abby glaring at both him and Kate, and from what he saw, she'd been smacked as well,

"Stop blaming yourself Gibbs! It won't do any good, so just forget it! And didn't you say you were going to take him home? Why haven't you gone yet? Mush!" Abby said this all rather quickly, possibly still afraid she'd be hit for it, but her concern for Tony took priority and she just kept waving her hands in an attempt to make Gibbs go home.

It worked. Amazingly, Gibbs smiled at her and quickly kissed her cheek before assisting Tony to the lifts, who was now slightly more articulate and could distinguish real from fake. Meanwhile, Kate and McGee gazed at Abby, their mouths open.

"How do you manage that? If I ever tried to do that to him he'd fire me!" Kate exclaimed, although not altogether surprised at the fact that the young scientist was let off. She was, after all, Gibbs' favourite. Apart from Tony, who she was sure was getting more preferential treatment as time went on.

"I heard that once, someone tried to do it to him, and no one ever heard from them again," McGee said, in a chilling voice. However, this effect was ruined when he added, in his usual voice, "But I think they moved. I think they went to work in Iraq..." Kate shook her head, leaving Abby to reply,

"I'm not surprised Timmy, if anyone but me tried to do that, he'd have them shipped out to some war ridden country." She sighed as she began to walk back to her lab. However, she paused, and turned back,

"Hey Kate? Tony'll be alright won't he?"

"He should be fine, he's just got that infection. But living with Gibbs for a week..." Abby shook her head, disagreeing with Kate's answer,

"I don't think so, I think a week with Gibbs looking after him is exactly what Tony needs." With that she left, leaving Kate and McGee to try and work out in what universe anyone would benefit having to be ill and live with Gibbs for a week.

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Gibbs had managed to get Tony into his house without too much of a problem. He now needed to maintain the amount of managing he was doing by getting the young man into bed so that he could rest, but he was just so damn stubborn,

"DiNozzo, I swear, we don't have that much work to do on this case, and Kate and McGee can manage it, just get in that bed and go to sleep!" Tony mumbled something that sounded incredibly childish, such as,

"Don't want to..." Gibbs pinched the bridge of his nose in frustration. He really didn't want to go all 'marine' on his young charge, especially in the state he was in, but Tony wasn't listening,

"DiNozzo!" He barked, making the ill man jump and turn an odd shde of green. He swore, and quickly got next to him, wrapping an arm round his waist,

"Bathroom's this way Tony." He led his agent down a corridor and to a spacey bathroom. Tony immediately fell to his knees and started to heave into the toilet. It seemed like ages, and Gibbs couldn't bear watching Tony cough so painfully, spitting when he thought he was done but choking once again. All he could do was rub the younger man's back and mumble comforting things to him. Fair enough, it was when Tony was coughing his loudest, but it was the thought that counted.

"It's ok kid, you'll be fine, come on now..." Eventually, the young agent stopped, and allowed Gibbs to help him pull him up, so that he was leaning against his Boss once again,

"I'm fine now Boss, I just need..."

"To lie down." Gibbs interrupted, changing the sentence, as he was sure that wasn't what Tony was going to say. However, Tony had heard the softness in Gibbs' voice and simply nodded, following him slowly to a guest bedroom which was, thankfully, on the ground floor.

After turning his back while Tony was getting changed, Gibbs turned back, hearing a shaky 'Done'. He smiled slightly as he saw Tony sat on the edge of the bed, looking very pale and fragile, in a white top that was too baggy and his boxers. The ex-marine's eyebrows furrowed as he saw how thin Tony had gotten. The boy really hadn't been looking after himself very well.

After making sure Tony was definitely tucked under, and there was no chance of him trying to escape to go back to his flat, Gibbs bid him goodnight, after leaving a glass of water and some painkillers on the bedside table.

"Wait..." Came a small voice, weak with lack of sleep and illness, his hand latching onto Gibbs' trouser leg to stop him going, "Hey Boss?"

"Yeah Tony?" A whispered response came back, the room already in darkness,

"It's too quiet in here, I can't sleep when it's too quiet." Raising an eyebrow at his peculiar agent, Gibbs waited for him to suggest something, and it was obvious he was going to, the way his voice sounded,

"Well, would you, I mean, d'you think you could... sing something?" The embarrassment was only too clear in his voice, and Gibbs could tell Tony already regretted saying it,

"What do you want me to sing DiNozzo?" He asked softly,

"I don't know... something... nice, soft..." Gibbs thought for a moment, before using an old favourite he used to sing to Kelly, when she couldn't sleep and wasn't very well,

"Underneath the moon,
Underneath the stars,
Here's a little heart,
For you,
Up above the world,
Up above it all,
Here's a hand to hold on to..."

He didn't even need to sing more than one verse, as Tony had sighed contentedly on the first line, and let go of his hold on Gibbs' trouser leg, relaxing. Gibbs smiled fondly and ran his fingers through Tony's hair, before silently creeping out the room.

Ok, I don't think the song was perfect, but it's all I can think of at the moment :P In case anyone wants to hear the rest of it, it's called 'Don't let me fall' by Lenka. That's enough out of me :) Review? xx