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Chapter 11
Ziva and McGee turned up at the hospital; they walked up to Gibbs, who was having an animated conversation with a doctor. He stopped as they walked up. "Go see him; I don't want him left alone." Gibbs told them.
"What do you mean I can't take him to see her?" Gibbs said to Dr. Marsters.
"I don't think moving him right now will aid in his recovery." Dr. Marsters said.
"Listen, I know Tony and right now he thinks he has nothing to live for, and I know that me telling him is daughter is alive won't cut it he's going to have to see her." Gibbs argued.
"Fine we'll give you a wheelchair, but a Nurse must be with you at all times," The doctor relented.
Gibbs nodded and went back to Tony's room.
Tony was still staring at the wall and not acknowledging Ziva or Tim in anyway.
Gibbs put the side of the bed down, "Come one Tony," he said slowly lifting him up, "Someone needs you."
"No one needs me, I'm worthless." Tony mumbled.
Gibbs lightly Headslapped him, "You are essential." He said cryptically pushing him to the room next door.
Tony sat in the wheelchair looking at his feet, "She needs you." Gibbs said quietly and he wheeled him up to Tonia's bed.
Tony slowly lifted his eyes and shakily reached out with his hand as if afraid that if he touched her she would disappear. "Gibbs is...is she real?" He asked haltingly. "She's alive?"He couldn't quite believe it.
"Yeah, She's healing well according to her doctors, she's in a medically induced coma because of the pain they should be waking her up later this week, but she needs her father Tony, she's gonna need you." Gibbs put his hand on Tony's shoulder and felt him pull himself up as small seeds of hope and determination started to blossom in his chest.
Tony looked Gibbs in the eye, "Boss... help me?" He whispered, "I need to be her father I can't lose her again."
"We will all be with you Tony." Gibbs promised. He turned and took Tony back to his room. "He'll cooperate with you know" He told the nurse as Tony sat there and allowed the nurse to reinstall his I.V.
Senior sat in his cell waiting to be taken to court for a bail hearing.
He was livid, His precious Vittoria was dead, the Feds had taken the boy and now because of him, the whole family empire would be taken down. He leaned over towards a guard and called him over.
Twenty minutes later his plan was complete, those who needed to be would be bribed, those who were not important would be 'taken care of' but most importantly, he had managed to make a phone call and his brother Vincent was in place to deal with the boy.
Senior sat back on his cot and smiled.
Half an hour later they sat in court and Senior looked at Gianni DiNozzo as they waited for the judge to come in. Senior Smiled at Fornell who sat two rows back behind the prosecutor.
Fornell shivered, He looked at the man who had fathered on of the best federal agents he'd ever worked with and yet again it stumped him as to how these two people shared the same gene pool.
As the judge heard the prosecutor's plea for keeping Senior in Jail, Fornell began to grow uneasy.
Senior was far too happy and didn't seem to be concerned at all about the upcoming trial.
"Bail is set at one million dollars." The judge said.
"But your Honor," The prosecutor tried to argue as the judge waved him away, Senior shot a smile at the judge and Fornell figured he was probably on Senior's payroll.
As Fornell turned to leave Senior's lawyer called him over. "Agent Fornell," He called.
"Mr. DiNozzo." Fornell said with a straight face giving away none of the anger he felt.
"My client, Mr. Colomba Sr, wanted to ask you if you could pass a message to his son." The ageing lawyer asked. "Just tell him, he'll see him soon."
More than anything else Fornell wanted to tell them both to go to hell and he was willing to help them get there, but not wanting to prejudice the case he merely nodded tight lipped and walked away.
By the time Fornell made it back to the hospital with four more agents Tony was asleep and even Gibbs was starting to doze off.
"Hey," Fornell said quietly as he stuck his head around the door and motioned for Gibbs to follow him outside.
"How did court go?" Gibbs asked, he had been concerned when Fornell hadn't called him after the hearing and now seeing the extra agents his gut started churning.
"Got bail at a million, he's out now."Fornell looked Gibbs right in the eye and mentally prepared himself for the backlash.
Gibbs took a deep breath and ran a hand over his face, "Fuck!" he said under his breath, "Tony's been through enough, Tobias. I take it that's why the extra agents are here?"
Fornell nodded, "Gotta keep our star witnesses alive."He sent Gibbs an apologetic smile. "You gonna tell your boy or shall I?"
"I'll tell him in the morning, Tobias. I'm gonna let him sleep now, he needs it." Gibbs looked at Fornell remembering something Tony had said. "You're going to have to talk to him to. Apparently Vittoria recorded the comment you made about Senior and played it to Tony saying I was dead and that's what you thought of him, you need to set him straight."
"God! No wonder he looked terrified when he saw me. I will Jethro don't worry," Fornell sat next to Gibbs on a waiting room chair. Gibbs watched the guilt cross the other mans' face.
"We will fix this Tobias." He told him as they both sat there drinking coffee and waiting for the morning.
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