Tony's POV

Why wouldn't they let me see the pics? I needed… I needed revenge for whoever did this to my Zee. She looked so hurt. So broken, so unlike herself. Strong Ziva cowering inside the pale lifeless shell of a human.

"Well, Zee, hope you don't mind me calling you that. Makes you feel sort of like you're, well… like you're mine. I don't know what I'm thinking, but I think I at least know what I'm feeling. I think, I think…"

Maybe right now wasn't the best time to tell her.

"Well, you've been in here for…"

I looked at my watch, 12:01.

"For two days I guess, well, you've been in a coma and…"
It's breaking my heart.
"I can't do this, I can't. For so long I've been having this feeling, like Gibbs in his gut, except mine is in my heart.
I… I love you, Ziva."

She started to stir.

"Oh my God, Ziva, can you hear me?"
"Ziva?"
"Tony? Tony?"
"Nurse? Nurse!" I shouted out of the room.

A nurse came into the room.
"Yes, Mr. Dinozzo."
"She's up." I said, simply, yet urgently.

The nurse called in the doctor. They started working around her, taking the tube out of her throat, putting on the oxygen mask, checking her vitals. Finally they left.

"Well, Zee-vah, um… did you happen… to hear… what I said… before?"
She just looked at me, her eyes saying everything.
"I meant it, Zee, I did, really."
"Tony, I have to tell you something."
"Ziva, please don't. I don't care about everything that could go wrong. Every little thing, Gibbs, Mossad, your father, work. "
"Tony,-"
"Sorry, Ziva, you're right. I don't even know how you feel. I am such an idiot."
And with that I walk"

I turned back around, looking into her eyes.

I get lost in your eyes all the time
Is that a crime?
When you wipe away my tears
All my fears
Disappear

"I love you, Tony."
"You know that's good, because I think I can learn to live with that."

I leaned in and kissed her.

We broke apart, finally.

"So when do you get out of here?"

And we started laughing. And we were happy, and in love.

So... I know it feels like the ending, but it's not. We still have to find out who did this. :) R&R Pretty Please.