Tony struggled to pull himself up out of the rubble. His leg was killing him but he couldn't let AJ die. He loved that kid almost more than he loved Ziva. Of course the loves were very different but the love he felt for AJ was the strongest he had felt since he lost his little girl. Now AJ was lying on the ground covered by a heavy beam. Tony felt his heart dropping. What if AJ was dead? He couldn't handle losing that boy. He yanked the beam off of AJ's limp body and to his relief the boy let out a small cough. AJ's face was bruised and cut to the point of being beyond recognition but he was alive, and Tony had to be get him out of there. He knew with the trauma's AJ's body had endured there was a good chance that moving him would leave him a quadriplegic but if he left him in there he would surely die. He balanced his body on his good leg and knelt down. He picked AJ up off the ground and draped him over his shoulder. He struggled to fight his way out of the rubble all on one leg, with AJ lying unconscious on his good shoulder. Eventually the pain got to be too much for him and he had to rest. He sank down into a near sitting position, cradling AJ in his arms. He heard noise above him and feared that the building was crashing down further around him. He heard a groan and braced for further impact, instead of rubble falling he saw the light and then a hand reaching out for him. He shifted and handed AJ's limp body to the hand. The person took AJ away and then rushed away. Tony returned to his uncomfortable position and wondered what the hell was going to happen. Mercifully AJ's savior returned. This time Tony gladly took the hand and breathed a sigh of relief as he was drug to safety.
The blast sent Gibbs backwards but other than a few minor cuts and bruises he walked away unscathed. He pulled himself up and raced towards the smoldering pile of rubble where the warehouse had once stood. He frantically dug through the ruble near where Tony and AJ should have been. At long last he felt the fabric of AJ's shirt. He yanked away the rubble and was relieved to see Tony crouched over holding AJ close to his chest. He reached for Tony's hand but Tony instead handed him AJ's body. He raced down the rubble with the child in his arms and lay him down on the ground. He then went back to the pile and found Tony again. This time Tony gratefully handed him his hand. He again raced down the rubble. This time with Tony in his arms. He lay Tony down beside AJ.
"I broke my leg." Tony groaned.
"I can see that DiNozzo." Gibbs replied.
"AJ is his spine hurt? Is he going to be OK?" Tony asked.
"I don't know that much but the ambulance is on it's way." Gibbs replied.
"Wake me when it gets here. Gonna get a little sleep." Tony yawned.
"You need to stay awake, you may have a concussion." Gibbs replied.
"Right" Tony replied.
"You've got an ambulance coming too but it's a bit behind AJ's." Gibbs explained.
"What about Adam? He dead yet?" Tony asked.
"He's alive and they are taking him away in a third ambulance but AJ and you come first." Gibbs explained.
"I was hoping he would be dead." Tony sighed.
"Me too" Gibbs agreed.
Ziva was waiting at the police station when she got the call. She could remember her heart breaking as she heard the worst news she had ever heard in her life. Her son and her boyfriend had been involved in a bombing and her ex husband was the culprit. She knew that Adam was a hurtful and abusive monster but she was not expecting him to pull a stunt like this. How could you expect something like this? Apparently he had done some truly awful things in the years that they were separated. Things that if she knew about. She never would have never gotten back together with him. The only good that Adam had ever done was give her AJ and now he may have taken him away just as quickly as he had given him to her.
Tony was drifting in and out of awareness as he was rushed to the hospital. The last thing he remembered clearly was watching AJ being loaded into his ambulance. After that it was a strange mixture of a blur and total clarity. He remembered being rushed back to X-Ray on a stretcher. He could remember the doctors shouting out his information. "He was a male, forty-five, NCIS Agent, he had been in an explosion, he had a broken leg and possible concussion. He was the man who had, had the plague years ago and Dr. Pitt would need to be called." He went back out after that and did not awaken until he was in an operating room. A man in a mask placed a plastic mask over his face. He was told to count back from a hundred. Apparently he needed an operation on his leg. Fantastic.
"Tony!" A voice called.
Tony was in a hazy white room. He looked around and spotted Becca standing in front of him. She wore a white dress with thin straps. It bore an uncanny resemblance to the dress she had wore on their wedding day. Standing beside her was a girl about sixteen. She looked just like Becca with her light brown skin and wavy black hair. The only thing she got from him were his emerald eyes. They popped and sparkled along with her Latina features. She was perfect in every way. She wore a pair of light jeans just like the ones Becca wore before she got sick the second time and her main fashion was hospital gowns and sweats. Her top was white with a Halo and "Daddy's Angel" printed in shiny pink and gold. It was the onesie she had been buried in.
"They said it was a simple broken leg but they needed to operate if I wanted to return to the field. How am I dead?" Tony asked.
"You are not dead Antonio. This is just an out of body experience." Becca explained.
"What?" Tony asked.
"We wanted to see you and knew this may be our last chance." Angela explained.
"Why?" Tony asked.
"You are getting more involved with Ziva and AJ is going to need a lot of care from now on. It is time for you to move on to your new family." Becca explained.
"No Becca I will never forget you guys." Tony corrected.
"Of course not but it is time for you to let us go and move on. We will always be with you but you deserve a family who is physically with you." Angela explained.
"So I won't see you guys again?" Tony asked.
"You will, we are always with you but we are not your only family anymore." Becca explained.
"I love you guys and I will miss you." Tony sobbed.
"You still have some time with us." Becca commented.
"Alright" Tony replied.
A/N: At least Tony is going to be OK but what about AJ? New chapter will be up soon. Please review and thanks for reading.
A/N 2: Just an FYI I am going out of town this Saturday and won't be back til the following Friday. As a result my active stories are on hiatus at least until next weekend (July 15th-17th). I will however be working on a short sequel to "Broken Hearts and Battle Scars". This story will be between two and three shots and will be the story of Tony's death. It should take place about eight years after the end of 'Broken Hearts and Battle Scars".