A/N: All I can say is WOW!! The reviews I have gotten for this story have been awesome! I have had a couple people ask if you can have a relapse. There was an esp where Tony was going to go to the doc when he was doing that undercover mission for Jenny and had a brown bag that he told Ziva was a stool sample. Later she was doing research and told Gibbs that you can have a relapse so that is where I got this story from.
Abby
Abby walked quietly into the room and sat down on the chair next to Tony. When he first had the plague she just couldn't bring herself to visit till he had been in his own private room and even then Kate had come with her.
Now she was here, alone.
She took at look at Tony. Even on the respirator he just about came off the bed when his right lung filled with air. She took his hand and just held it for a while not saying anything.
"You can talk to him. I'll turn off the mic." Nurse Emma said over the intercom.
Abby jumped a little forgetting there was someone else in the room. She looked at Emma and nodded. She saw Emma turn a switch and looked back at Tony.
"Hey, Tony, not really sure what to say so I'm probably going to end up babbling" she took a deep breath. "You have to get through this Tony. Remember the first time we met. The look on your face was priceless." She laughed at the memory. "I was always an only child till you came into my life. I have always wanted an older brother that looked out for me and to get into trouble with. I found that in you, Tony." The tears had started to fall and it was a good thing she didn't have her make-up on. "Well, I have to get back to work. I love you Tony"
She got up, pulled the mask down and gave Tony a kiss on the forehead and left.
I love you too Abby Tony thought.
Tim
It had taken Tim a couple days to get up the courage to come down and see Tony. He wasn't sure what to do. He had talked to Abby which got him a punch in the arm.
"Just talk to him Timmy, he can hear, so don't say anything mean"
Tim walked into the inner room and sat down next to Tony. He sat here for Lord only knows how long. Finally the silence got too much for him. Tony should be making jokes at him and calling him Probie.
"Hey Tony; its Tim umm not really sure what to tell you. Gibbs is going to be taking some time off. Yeah, can you believe it? You won't believe who they are putting in charge. You guessed it me. I'm not sure if I can do it Tony. This is supposed to be you not me." Tim looked down at Tony wanting some kind of response anything would be good, but Tony just laid there. "I know I'm senior with both of you out, but I just don't know." From somewhere in Tim's mind a voice that sounded a lot like Tony said.
"Come ON Probie, you can do this. You think all the harassment was for nothing?"
Then he felt the mental head slap. "Your right Tony, I can do this. I'll do it for you"
With that he stood up cupped Tony's shoulder and left with his steps just a little lighter.
Good for you Probie, Good for you.
Ducky
Ducky had been coming in to see Tony everyday. Some days he would just check on the progress and other time he would sit with Tony and tell him stories that otherwise the young man would have cut him off from finishing.
Today was one of those days where he sat with Tony.
"Well, my dear, it seems you are doing better. Your left lung is healing, slowly, but healing. I must say the office is quite dull without you there. Though after Tim's visit he had really taken to listening to Gibbs and seems quite ready to take over when Gibbs takes his leave. Abby's music is not playing that loud and she is missing her pigtails. Mother is doing fine; the home has their hands full with her. She tried to go to the store in one of the golf charts." Ducky laughed at that. Then he got serious. "Tony, I need you to listen. You have got to fight. I have never seen Jethro so focused on someone before now. If you don't fight and make it through I'm not sure we will be able to pull Jethro form the depths he could fall."
Ducky looked down at this watch and got up to leave.
"I'm fighting Ducky; I'm fighting for all of you"
Jenny
Director Jenny Shepard took a seat in the chair that some many had sat in before her. She looked at Tony and thought that if this was a moderate case she was glad she missed the full effect years before.
"Tony, I'm sorry I'm doing this when you are out of it and may not remember, but I wanted to tell you that I'm sorry I dragged you into the La Grenouille mess. I should have seen you falling for Jeanne but was too focused on getting him that I didn't pay attention. I never meant for you get hurt."
Jenny took a deep breath and feeling pretty bad that she could only bring herself to do this with him in a coma.
"I also wanted to tell you that I've found myself looking at you like a son. I'm sure that doesn't mean as much if it came from Gibbs, but I wanted to let you know. Also no matter what happens Tony I will find you a place at NCIS"
Just like Abby, Jenny pulled the mask down and kissed Tony on the forehead.
"Thanks, Mom"
Ziva
Ziva took Tony's hand. "Hey my Hairy Butt, you know I am no good at these types of thing and if Tim corrects me one more time I shall kill him with a paperclip so you need to get better so Tim will not fear for his life." Ziva smiled as she remembered the look of shear fear on Tim's face after she told him how many ways she could kill him with a simple paperclip.
"Gibbs is not letting us take any new cases till next week when he starts his leave." Ziva took a seat on the bed careful of all the tubes. "I really do miss you Tony. You have become my best friend and confident. You also know I do not have the patience to break out a new partner." Ziva thought for a moment. "Sorry break in a new partner. See I do you need you here. Tony please get better I do not think I can stand to bury another family member"
Ziva go off the bed. Squeezed his hand hard to let him know she was there and leaving.
"Wouldn't think to leave Ziva, wouldn't dream of it"
Surprise Visit
Tony was enjoying his little vacation. He had been sitting on a bench in the middle of a field; for how long he wasn't sure. He was looking around for what he didn't know; when he felt the weight on the bench change.
"Kate?"
"Nope just your imagination; you wanted me here so poof here I am" Kate said. She looks beautiful as always.
"I'm sick again" Tony said looking up at the sky.
"Yeah I know. I've been keeping tabs on the group"
They stopped talking when they heard Abby speaking between the tears.
"I love you too Abby" Tony said
"She hasn't changed much has she?" Kate said as she thought back on Abby.
Tony smiled "Nope hasn't changed a bit"
They talked for a while about what had been going on in Tony's life when they heard Tim
"Good for you Probie, good for you"
"You still call him that?" Kate said with a smile.
"Of course you don't think I would let him get a big head now would you?" Tony said with a laugh.
Next came in Ducky. Tony almost started to cry when he spoke of Gibbs. Kate pulled Tony into a hug.
"I'm fighting Ducky; I'm fighting for all of you"
Jenny surprised Tony. When she told him about think of him as a son he started to cry. Kate listened to what Jenny said about Jeanne.
"Thanks, Mom" Tony said looking up into the sky knowing that was where they were.
"So tell me about Jeanne. You left that part out" Kate said with a smirk.
Tony was to the part where the car blew up when they heard Ziva.
"Wouldn't think to leave Ziva, wouldn't dream of it"
"So she is the one that took over for me?" Kate asked. "Tell me about her."
They sat and talked for what seemed like years when Kate stood up. "Looks like they are going to wake up you soon and by the way I heard what you said to Ziva about refusing to fight if this happens again. I will always be here for you Tony, but if there is a next time and you don't fight I will make your after life a living hell!"
"Wouldn't have it any other way Kate" Tony said as she started to fade.
A/N: Okay that is it for this chapter. I just couldn't have Tony just laying there so I threw a little Kate in there. The next chapter goes back to Gibbs, but you could think of the next chapter as when Kate and Tony sat and talked for what seemed like years. I think I may wake him up in the next chapter or two. Let me know what ya think! Again I hope I did Ziva right.
