Jimmy let the door to his daughter's room close behind him. So far Lizzie was responding well to the chemo and had been sent home. She would have her next chemo session on Friday and they would be Monday's, Wednesday's, and Friday's after that. As to be expected she was sick and weak but thankfully she had not spiked a fever or suffered seizures.

"How is she?" Breena asked coming up the stairs.

"She's thrown-up a couple times and is pretty listless but she's OK." Jimmy explained.

"Think she will feel up to dinner?" Breena asked.

"Dr. McGuire told us just to give her soup for now. If she wants something else she can ask but we don't want to make her nausea any worse." Jimmy explained.

"We only have french onion and tomato soups. I don't think either would be good for her. Do you want to run to the store or should I?" Breena asked.

"I'll go." Jimmy replied.

During her lunch break Abby rode the elevator up to the bullpen. McGee was sitting at his desk eating a tuna sandwich and Bishop was leaning against his desk finishing off a slice of pizza. Whens she finished the piece she reached down and picked up another one.

"Hey guys" Abby greeted.

"Oh hi Abby." McGee replied

"How's it going Abby?" Bishop asked.

"I'm OK" Abby replied.

"That's good" McGee replied.

"So what's going on?" Abby asked.

"Gibbs has been riding are asses all day." McGee grunted.

"Why?" Abby asked.

"Because apparently we hurt his precious Tony's feelings yesterday by not approving of him not wanting to help Lizzie yesterday." McGee explained.

"You know if McGee or I had refused to get tested to marrow donors he would have ripped us several new ones by now." Bishop replied.

"I can't believe he can show favoritism like that. Our relationship is one thing because he is not my boss but he is Tony's and that is just semiprofessional." Abby explained.

"Really I mean Gibbs has buried a child and then Tony just goes and refused to help somebody else's and he is still the golden child. It's not fair!" McGee snapped.

"It is completely unfair that Lizzie is sick! She is just a child! It should be Tony!" Bishop snapped.

"Normally I am against wishing cancer on people but Tony does deserve it." McGee replied.

"I'm with you Timmy." Abby replied.

"Hey lets make a pact if Tony ever has a child and he or she gets cancer we won't offer to be marrow donors or do any fund-raising work. We will just let them suffer." McGee suggested.

"Agreed" Bishop replied.

"That would be fair but we shouldn't be taking it out on Tony's child. He or she wouldn't be able to help who their father is. We should take it out on Tony." Abby added.

"True" Bishop agreed.

"That is right." McGee added.

"Good" Abby replied.

"Well hopefully Tony will get cancer one day and if there is any justice in the world at all. He will die alone and with no help." McGee spat.

"THAT IS IT! ALL THREE OF YOU MY OFFICE NOW!" Vance barked from the catwalk over the bullpen.

McGee, Bishop, and Abby nervously climbed into the elevator. They could not believe that Vance had just snapped at them like that. McGee could not recall any of the directors he had worked under yelling at him like that. Even Jenny was softer on him when he was accused of murder, Bishop had always been a goody two-shoes and never got in trouble, and Abby was well Abby. Everybody loved her and defended her. Now all of the sudden Vance was calling them up to their office and was furious with them. They stepped out of the elevator and stumbled into the director's office.

"Sit down!" Vance ordered.

"What's this about director?" McGee asked.

"I cannot believe what I heard you three were saying about your co-worker Anthony DiNozzo it is absolutely disgusting. Wishing cancer on somebody?! That is absolutely despicable and to wish it on a child. Even if that child is not yet conceived is probably the worst thing I have ever heard in my life. All agent DiNozzo said was that he could not donate bone-marrow." Vance explained.

"Maybe we did go too far but Tony was being a jerk." Abby commented.

"All he did was say that he couldn't donate bone-marrow. It's not like he said that it would be funny if Lizzie died." Vance replied.

"So now you favor Tony too?" McGee asked standing and leaning across the director's desk.

"Sit down agent McGee and if you so much as twitch and accidentally strike me. I will see to it that you can't even get a job as a security guard at a truck stop." Vance warned.

"Wasn't going to hit you." McGee scoffed as he fell back into his chair.

"All McGee did was ask if you favored Tony. He was not going to strike you. You had no right to treat him that way." Bishop remarked.

"Really, how can you be taking Tony's side. I mean yeah Gibbs and him are friends but you don't even like him that much." Abby questioned.

"My opinions of my agents are in no way your business Miss. Scuito and Agent Bishop when somebody leans over a table at me. I am well within my right to assume that they are going to strike me. Now maybe you would like to know why Gibbs and I are being so defensive of Tony and why he isn't here today." Vance replied.

"Because he is a coward?" Abby asked.

"I agree with Abby but give us your two cents." Bishop replied.

"Go ahead try." McGee dared.

"Tony is not here today and will not be back for a long time. If he ever can come back that is. Not because he is a coward but because he does have cancer. He has leukemia too but unlike Lizzie Palmer his cancer is advanced as well as rare and deadly." Vance explained.

"Yeah right!" Abby snapped.

"Convenient he gets cancer the day after refusing to help Lizzie." Bishop remarked.

"No guys he was sick. That's why he couldn't help Lizzie." McGee replied his face had drained of all color and he was shaking.

"If Tony really has cancer than why didn't Gibbs tell us?" Abby asked.

"Yeah all he did was ride our asses all day and treat us like crap." Bishop added.

"Maybe because instead of letting Tony explain himself we attacked him and vilified him and then wished cancer on him." McGee replied cupping his hand over his mouth. He was going to be sick.

Ziva felt tears falling from her eyes. They would land on her phone and splash up on to her shirt. Gibbs's words were bouncing around in her head. She had a bruise on her arm from pinching herself to try and awaken from what she prayed was a nightmare. Tony couldn't have cancer. She had just seen him a couple of weeks ago and he was fine. He had aged a bit from last time she had seen him and he had tired easier too but she was sure that was just his job wearing on him or maybe a bad cold but not cancer. She remembered sitting with him at Dr. Pitt's and then when he saw the optometrist. No it wasn't an optometrist. He was an oncologist a cancer doctor. There were no posters of eyes or tacky over-sized glasses. There were just poster of bald people in scarves and advertisements for charities and support-lines. How could she have been so stupid? She should have never gone back to Israel. She should have stayed with him and held his hand through this whole ordeal. How long had he been sick? How bad off was he? Gibbs had said that he suspected that Tony was going to die. He couldn't die but if Gibbs was suspecting that he was sick enough to die. He probably would. She had to get back to him. She had to be there for him. She was in love with him and leaving was the stupidest decision she had ever made. Now he was lying in a hospital bed fighting an illness that could kill him and she needed to be there. She had to help him fight so that they could get married and have a family one day. She stood up and began tossing her things into her suitcases. She tossed her phone and phone charger in her purse, made sure she had enough money on her credit-card for an international flight and walked out the door. Texting her friend Esther to come and clear out her fridge and informing her landlord that she was moving out indefinitely. Before hoping into her car and speeding to the air-port.

"Hang on Tony I am coming!" Ziva cried as she jumped out of the car.

A/N: At least McGee believes that Tony is sick and is sorry for his behavior. What will it take to bring Bishop and Abby around? New chapter will be up soon. Please review and thanks for reading.