"Umm, are you alright, Tony? I know that it's a stupid question, because you wouldn't be here if you were alright, but relatively, do you feel OK?"

Tony remained silent and took a look around before his gaze fell on Abby again.

"Tony?"

When he finally opened his mouth, the answer was nothing like Abby needed to hear ever. "Where am I?"

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"Hospital, where do you think, silly?" Abby grinned lopsidedly, sounding a bit unsure.

Tony just frowned.

"You didn't thi-"

Tony cut her off. "Who are you?"

Abby's eyes widened before something clicked and then she grinned widely. "Oh, that was a good one. But come on, you just woke up; you shouldn't do that to me. It was almost scary."

Doctor Wilson chose that moment to enter the room. "So the rumors are true. You finally decided to spend some time awake. How are you feeling?"

"Confused." Tony answered honestly.

"About what?"

"About what she-" Tony slowly nodded towards Abby, "is talking about and why she acts that way."

"That's not nice, Tony." Abby feigned a pout.

"Lady, I really don't know you. I'm sorry if that hurts your feelings, but I don't." Tony tried to push himself up but the nurse who'd come to his room after Doctor Wilson stopped him.

The occupants of the room exchanged worried glances before Wilson looked back at Tony and asked, "What's your name?"

"Tony." He answered, but then paused and pondered. "According to her." he looked at Abby. "I... I don't know my last name." He then started to panic. "What the hell is going on here? Why can't I remember my own goddamn last name? I'm not even sure if my name is Tony. I wouldn't know if she hadn't used it a thousand times. I-"

"Hey, hey, calm down. We don't want you to hurt yourself anymore." The doctor tried to calm him. "Tony, I really don't want to sedate you; it's risky in your condition, but if you don't calm down then I'm not gonna have any other choice. Take a deep breath, OK?"

Tony tried to do as he was told and finally when he got his breathing under control, he asked, "What's going on?"

"You have one hell of a concussion; and since it's your second one in the past month, it's even more dangerous and tricky. But you don't need to worry, we'll run some more tests and hopefully we'll find out what's wrong. The facts that you woke up on your own and are finally fully alert are good signs."

"But he could remember everything last time he woke up. Why would he forget, now?" Abby spoke up for the first time after realizing that Tony wasn't kidding about not remembering her. She was shocked and scared.

"I... I could?" That added to Tony's fear.

"Hey hey, deep breaths, remember?" Wilson instructed again. "That's why we need to run some more tests, but as weird as it might look, it's not totally strange. That's why patients with concussion need to be monitored very closely; because these things have happened before. I guess there might be a blood clot that we've missed in the first scans." He then turned to the nurse and gave her the next orders.

When they left the room to prepare everything for Tony's test, Abby quietly walked to Tony's bed and grasped his hand. "It'll be OK." she said in a small voice.

Tony looked up and smiled sadly. "Sure." He might not remember her, but they obviously were close. She'd stayed with him while he was unconscious; the least he could do was being polite while trying to reassure her.

"I'm Abby." She introduced herself and suddenly grinned; she decided that Tony needed someone who could boost his spirit. "This is actually interesting. You know, we're kinda BFFs and it's funny that I have to introduce myself to you again and well, Gibbs once lost his memory, but I guess that was different, because although he couldn't remember us, he knew who he was and he'd lost just some years, not everything. Speaking of everything, your last name in DiNozzo. Does that ring any bells? Actually your full name is Anthony DiNozzo Junior, your father is Senior who is a real bastard and oh-" she clasped her hands over her mouth. "I shouldn't have said that."

"My father is a bastard?" Tony frowned. "How come?"

"He hit you last month. Shit-" She shook her head. "I shouldn't have said that either. What the hell is wrong with me? It's like I'm under the influence of truth serum. You should know what I mean, you've experienced it."

Momentary forgetting about what Abby had said about his father and the fact that he'd hit him, Tony looked puzzled for receiving that amount of information. "Just what the hell do I do for a living? And who's Gibbs? And how did he lose his memory and how did he regain it? And what the hell happened to me that had landed me here with no memory of my life?"

"Wow, you have so many questions." Abby smiled, but then it faded. "You gotta remember, Tony. I... I don't know what I would do if you don't remember. And not just me, we all will be devastated."

"Miss Scuito, we're ready to take agent DiNozzo for his tests." The nurse announced as she entered the room.

"I'll go and call Gibbs. Don't worry, Tony. Everything will be fine. I promise."

"You seem pretty sure." Tony sighed.

"I am. Because I know you; you're the strongest and most stubborn guy I've ever known; along with Gibbs, of course. And he's your Boss and your friend, to answer one of your other questions. I better let them take you, now. The sooner you go, the sooner they can find the problem and the sooner you'll be fixed." She said and stepped aside and closed her mouth, determined to stay silent.

"You talk fast." Tony gave her a grin before they wheeled him outside.

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Gibbs was sitting at his desk, when his phone rang; he answered it after the first ring. "He awake, Abby?"

"Yes." The reply was immediate, but Gibbs could say that she wasn't all excited and happy about it.

"What's it, Abs? What's wrong?"

"Gibbs, he can't remember anything. Not even his name."

"What?" Gibbs stood up from his desk, "How's that possible? He knew everything the last time he woke up."

"Yeah, I know; his doctor said that it might be a blood clot or something. They took him for more scans. I'm scared, Gibbs."

"I'll be right there, Abby. Don't be scared; he'll be fine."

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When they wheeled Tony back to his room, Gibbs was there with Abby, but Tony was already asleep.

"Agent Gibbs, didn't expect to see you." Wilson smiled.

"What's wrong with him, Doc?"

"I can't answer that now; we should wait for his test result and he still needs an MRI after this."

"When will you take him for that?"

"In two hours. I gotta say it's worrying me how he falls into a deep sleep so sudden."

"So, we should just wait?" Gibbs wasn't happy with the way things were going.

"Hopefully the MRI will show the problem and we can decide what to do from there. He might need another surgery or it could be fixed just by the proper medicine."

Gibbs nodded and looked at Tony's sleeping form. Wilson and the nurse left the room quietly, as Gibbs and Abby sat down and waited for Tony to wake up.

Hopefully he wouldn't take another 16 hours this time.

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... TBC ...

A/N: Tell me what you think? :)

Things will be clearer next time and hopefully I'll be able to post the next chapter soon.

As I've always said, I try to be as accurate as possible when it comes to medical or legal details, but I also had to take some liberties to write the story.

Sorry for any mistakes!

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