Author's Note: Just really quick. I wanted to let you guys know this will be the last official chapter of this story! But don't worry! I'll let you know what's coming up in the Author's Note at the end of this story! Enjoy!

Abby woke up to bright lights shining in her face. "Augh…" she moaned as she squinted, trying to remember where she was.

"Abby you're awake." Tim said softly as he moved from his spot on the couch across the room to her side and taking her hand.

Abby tried to pull her eyes open further, but the lights were too intense. "Lights…" She whispered pushing Tim's hand away from hers.

"Of course Abs." Tim said feeling a bit rejected but understanding nevertheless. As soon as he had turned off the lights he returned to her side. "How are you feeling Abs?"

Abby opened her eyes and assessed her surroundings. She was lying in a hospital bed, in a remarkably white room. "I feel like I got hit by a bus." She replied honestly as she started to shift her weight.

"Abby…" Tim started but he was too late.

"OUCH!" She yelled feeling a sharp pain rush through her back.

Tim carefully helped her back against the pillows. "You're in a pretty bad shape right now Abs." He said with a small supportive smile. "Ryan did a lot of damage in a short amount of time."

Abby took in a deep breath remembering everything that had happened. Without warning tears began to flood down her cheeks. "Tim I should have told you! I'm so sorry!" She sobbed.

Tim gently pressed his lips to her forehead. "Abby it's all right. I'm the one who's sorry. I never should have left you alone in the van…" He tried to console her, but it wasn't working.

"Tim! That's not the point! I put you through so much pain… because I never told you about baby Ryan…" Abby said through her tears.

"Abby, Abby, Abby." He whispered gently into her ear. "Nothing changed throughout all of this. I've always loved Caitlin, even if she was Ryan's daughter I'd still love her as my own. Just as much as I love you."

Abby was about to respond when Ducky came in carrying a very bright-eyed Anastasia. Mommy! She signed clearly to Abby's surprise.

"Oh baby…" She said new tears forming as Ducky tried to keep Anastasia from climbing out of his arms. "Can I hold her Timmy?"She asked hesitantly.

Tim hesitated. "Abs… you've got a lot of injuries. Stace is pretty active and she might… worsen your condition." He explained apologetically.

Abby sighed in defeat before smiling toward her still squirming daughter. Hello baby girl. She signed back blowing her a kiss. Then she turned to her husband. "When…?"

Tim smiled gently. "We've been working with her a lot while you've been at the hospital with Caitlin."

"Caitlin!" Abby shouted in realization. "She's all alone at the children's hospital?" she began to panic.

"No!" Tim interjected. "We had her transferred here to Bethesda for her recovery process so you could see her."

"She's very much acting anxious to see you Abigail." Ducky informed her.

Abby gasped in realization. "You mean she's awake?"

"And talking." Gibbs said with a smile as he pushed a wheelchair into the room.

"MOM!" Caitlin exclaimed, still rather quietly, from the chair.

The first thing Abby saw was the oxygen tube going into her nose, but then she saw the wide smile on her daughter's face. "Caitlin." Abby said softly realizing exactly what was sitting in front of her.

"How do you feel mommy?" Caitlin asked quietly, grabbing onto Gibbs's hand that was resting next to her.

Abby sighed in defeat. "Mom doesn't feel very good right now Katiebug."

"Are you sick?" Caitlin asked curiously.

"No honey… I'm…" Abby was unable to figure out just what she wanted to say.

"Caitlin mommy's hurt." Tim interjected. "It's going to be a long time before she gets better." He said before gently squeezing Abby's hand.

"Longer than me?" Caitlin asked curiously.

Tim smiled at his daughter. "It depends Katie…"

Gibbs finally opened his mouth. "Your mom is going to be fine." Gibbs said to Caitlin, though he was looking at Abby. "She's strong, and she'll make it through this."

Abby mouthed 'Thank You' before reaching out to take Caitlin's hand. "Caitlin there's something you need to know, and I don't expect you to understand it. But keeping it from you would be wrong."

Tim looked at her in surprise. "Abby are you sure…?"

She instantly cut him off. "She needs to know." She repeated. "Caitlin… There's a group of bad guys that are after our family."

Just then Tony and Ziva came in. "Why are they after us mommy?" Caitlin asked curiously.

"Because they're…" Tony began angrily before Ziva slapped a hand over his mouth.

"Because they don't know how to deal with anger right." Ziva said quickly.

"Well who are they angry at?" Caitlin inquired once again.

Tim bit his lip before chipping in. "They're mad at daddy sweetheart."

"Well why?" Caitlin asked bluntly. "How could anyone be mad at you?

Abby realized then that this was going to be more difficult than she thought. "You know how mommy loves daddy right Caitlin?"

"Yup."

"Well… I loved some other boys before I loved daddy. But they turned out to be bad guys. So now they want to get back at daddy by hurting our family." Abby said clutching onto Tim's hand.

Caitlin yawned before curling up into her chair. Gibbs noticed this and carefully shook her awake. "Abby, I should take Caitlin back to her room. She needs to have an oxygen mask on when she falls asleep, her lungs aren't quite… healed yet."

Abby nodded. "Thanks for watching her for me Gibbs." She said trying not to let the pain show through her eyes.

"We should go keep you company." Ziva said grabbing onto Tony's arm and dragging him out the door.

Ducky stood there awkwardly for a moment before he pulled Anastasia securely into his arms. "I'm sure I could find something that would better entertain Stacey." He said before quickly leaving the room.

Tim waited a moment before he turned back to Abby. "You didn't have to tell her…"

Abby shook her head. "Tim she needs to know. Our lives aren't anything like they should be, and if we're going to be in danger all the time Caitlin needs to be able to understand what's going on."

Tim looked at her in surprise. "Abby you know I'm going to protect you right?" He asked hesitantly.

Abby looked at him just as tentatively before she broke down. "No." She sobbed through her tears.

Tim looked at her; shocked to get the answer he was regretting getting. "Abby I'm always trying my best to protect you and our girls…"

"MAYBE YOUR BEST ISN'T GOOD ENOUGH!" Abby shouted at him suddenly.

"Abby…" He tried again.

"YOU LEFT ME AND I GOT ATTACKED AND ALL YOU CAN DO IS APOLOGIZE?"

"Abby I didn't want this…"

"Oh you didn't want this to happen! So what did you think was going to happen? You'd never find me? Never have to deal with me again?" Abby retorted.

Suddenly Gibbs ran into the room. "ABBY!" he interjected grabbing onto her hand. "You've got to snap out of this!"

"Gibbs what's going on?" Tim asked seeing the worry in his voice.

"The MCRT team that's interrogating Ryan just called. They know what happened while he had her. They didn't give me all the details because they couldn't over the phone… but they said it's important we get Abby out of the psychological position he put her in. He spent a lot of time trying to get her to think we didn't care about her… and that we weren't even looking for her." Gibbs explained.

"THAT'S BECAUSE YOU WEREN'T!" Abby interjected angrily.

"Abby!" Tim tried to grab her attention.

"DON'T TALK TO ME! YOU DON'T CARE!" She shouted.

By this point Abby had attracted the attention of several doctors, all of whom Gibbs continued to turn away, until Ducky arrived at the door.

"Jethro, what's going on?" He asked as Gibbs immediately let him through the door.

"NONE OF YOU CARE ABOUT ME!" Abby screamed at him. "GET OUT!"

Ducky quickly caught onto what must be going on. "Abigail." He said gently as he moved toward her. "Why do you think we don't care about you?"

"BECAUSE!" Abby screamed. "Ryan… he said… you weren't really looking for me! It shouldn't have taken you that long!"

"Why do you trust Ryan?" Ducky asked, still calmly.

"BECAUSE HE LOVED ME!" She shouted.

"Abby you've said it yourself. He loved you, he doesn't love you." Ducky told her calmly.

"HE JUST RESCUED ME FROM YOU!" She tried to reason again.

Ducky prepared retorted just as quickly. "Since when did rescuing involve seriously injuring the person you're rescuing?"

"IT JUST… It doesn't…" Abby realized. "He just wanted me to think…"

"That you love him." Tim finished for her.

Abby gulped in realization of what Tim was waiting for. "You want to know if I do… don't you?"

"If you don't want to tell me… I understand." Tim replied, too quickly.

"Tim… I don't… not anymore." Abby said unsurely. "When I found out I was going to have a baby Ryan… I was so excited, because… I loved him. And it hurt… it hurt so much when I lost our baby."

Tim nodded understanding. "It's okay for it to hurt Abs." He assured her as she gripped onto his hand.

"I'm not done…" Abby pouted causing a smile to come to the faces of the men in the room as her normal Abby attitude shone through. "Ryan never found out about the miscarriage because it happened the morning of the day I missed the lunch date with him."

"Abs…" Tim said in realization going back to the day Abby showed up at his front door a mess. "I knew something was wrong…"

"No you didn't Tim." Abby pointed out. "I intentionally didn't tell anyone because I didn't want any of this sympathy. I was going to tell Ryan because he knew about the baby… but when he left me… I just didn't think about it again… He didn't love me enough to stay with me when he thought I was having his baby, there's no way he would stay with me without our baby."

Gibbs looked furious across the room. "Abby you shouldn't have kept this inside…"

"I know… when he started coming back… I just didn't know what to do… So I just pushed it aside." Abby said sheepishly.

"THAT ALMOST GOT YOU KILLED!" Gibbs exclaimed angrily.

"Jethro!" Ducky exclaimed, shocked by his behavior.

Gibbs himself looked taken aback. "I'm sorry Abs… I didn't mean it like that…"

Abby shook her head. "This is all my fault." She agreed.

"No." Tim said sternly looking directly at Gibbs. "It's not."

"Tim…"

"Abigail Marie Sciuto Mcgee, I love you. I always have, and always will." Tim started to say before he wiped the tears away from her eyes. "And we're going to get through this… all of this. Together."

Author's Note: Awwwh. I'm so sad to end this story and I'm so thankful for all my readers! But don't worry, this isn't the end of this series. "What Are We Doing?" The next story in the series should be up soon along with the Epilogue for this story! Thanks so much for your reviews! Any input about the whole story overall would be great! Thanks! PLEASE REVIEW!