A/N: RATED M! Mentions of RAPE and BAD language! Please beware. / Skip to the end if you want a rated T recap!
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Tony silently walked towards Danielle's room. Ziva's hand in his, they walked in sync towards the bruised child.
Tony hesitated when he got to the door.
"Ready?" Tony asked turning to look at Ziva.
Ziva nodded. Tony lifted his hand to the door knob and slowly opened the door. They quietly walked in and were shocked at the girl in the bed.
She did look horrible. She had wires and tubes all over her body. A steady heart beat soon became a calming rhythm in the silent room. Tony pulled up to chairs and sat down taking Danielle's hand in his.
Her face had a few bruises on it and she had no hair. They had shaved it all off in surgery to get to her head wound better. She had a few ribs broken but Tony couldn't see the wraps because of the blanket laid over her broken body. Ziva grabbed Tony's hand and rested her head on his shoulder. They both sat in silence listening to the girl's heart beat.
LOBBY:
"Gibbs?" Alex asked, looking at a man sitting in a uncomfortable chair with a newspaper held at eye level.
"Room 47, Tony and Ziva just got there." Gibbs said not removing the paper from his eyes.
Alex turned and jogged towards room 47. Getting lost along the way he had to ask a nurse. 10 minutes later, he arrived at the room.
The door was closed. He stared at the numbers, somehow hoping they would change and that this wasn't really. That he was going to walk in and she was going to be fine, happy, cheerful. His thoughts were shattered when a hand landed on his shoulder.
"Are you going to go in?" Gibbs asked.
"Ya." Alex mumbled slowly opening the door.
Ziva and Tony didn't turn their heads to see who was coming in. They didn't notice. They were both stuck in a trance, trying to find the next step forward. The step that moved forward without leaving Danielle behind.
Alex closed his eyes when he looked at the foreign girl in the hospital bed. She looked in pain. He face was pale and even though it had no expression, she still looked distressed. There were bruises everywhere and she was clean cut. Alex wished that when he opened his eyes he could see her bright smile.
He moved closer to the bed. He stood on the opposite side of the bed where Tony and Ziva stood
"Why?" Alex whispered.
Ziva looked up at the boy and frowned. She understood the pain that this boy was going throw. Danielle being in a coma was worse than death because she is still hanging on but will never be her. She will never walk around and truly live another day.
"Alex, would you like a moment alone?" Ziva asked.
He nodded his head. Ziva stood slowly grabbing Tony's hand and leading him towards the door.
Once the coast was clear, Alex let the first tear slip.
DANIELLE'S POV! :
"Danielle." He whispered taking her head and bringing it to his lips.
"Please, come back to me," He begged. "please, please, please, I will get on my knees. Come back for me. I won't live without you. I chose not to, but I need you to come back to our world. Please.
"I want to come back. I miss you." She said in her mind, not finding the strength to make her dreams, words.
"I miss you so much. Kevin misses you, Abby misses you, McGee misses you, Vance even misses you… who is he supposed to kick out of the squad room when you aren't there?" Alex said.
Danielle laughed in her head. She wanted to speak, she just couldn't. She felt like she was invading their privacy by hearing these comments and not being able to say anything back.
"I miss everyone. A LOT!" She stressed.
"I love you." Alex said. He finally said it.
"I love you with all my heart and more." Danielle cried out. She longed to open her eyes and just look at him. She missed everything about him. He was sitting right beside her and yet he felt light years away.
"Please come back." He whispered in her ear. She felt his lips on her cheek.
She was pretty sure that tears were running down her cheeks.
Alex smiled at the tear that touched his lips. 'she heard me.' he thought.
"DANIELLE. You can hear me!" He said with excitement in his voice. "I love you. I love you so much. I can't stop telling you how much I love you."
"I love you too." She whispered in her head knowing he would never hear her response.
"You have to come back. It's like sleeping, please just wake up!" He pleaded.
"I don't know how!" Danielle cried in her head. Suddenly she was on a beach. She was blinded by the sunlight. There was a woman on the beach, sitting on a towel. Danielle walked towards her.
"I have been waiting." She said.
"Really. How long?" Danielle asked.
"8 years." The women replied.
"Name?"
"Well, don't we get straight down to business," the women said. "Defiantly DiNozzo's kid."
"Who are you?"
"My name is Cait. Caitlyn Todd." The women said turning around.
"What do you want with me?"
"I am here to bring you back to three people who have impacted you life, but are sadly gone." Cait said.
"Great, then I get to go home?"
"We'll see. You will be given that decision later."Cait said.
"Well, who is first on the list?" Danielle asked.
"Jennifer Sheppard."
The scene changed to Paris. The Eiffel tower.
"Danielle?" A women said from behind.
"JENNY!" Danielle screamed turning around running towards her.
"I missed you." She said hugging the girl.
"I missed you too, so does Gibbs." Danielle smiled.
"Yes, yes, I know."
"Do you know why I am here?"
"Yes, You get to visit three people who have impacted your life but are now gone. You tie up any lose ends and then at the end you will chose between staying here with them or going back." Jenny said.
"But I want to go back. Nothing will change my mind." Danielle said.
"I know that, but please take advantage of this." Jen said.
"How have things been here in heaven?" Danielle asked.
"Good, if you could say." She said." How is everyone on the team?"
"Great, Tony and Ziva finally got together, I am actually acknowledged as a daughter. Gibbs is adopting my best friend and his little brother after their father died. Umm…Abby is her usual self and McGee is still McGeek."
"I'm glad." Jen smiled.
"Why am I here?" Danielle asked. "Not like I didn't want to see you but, I thought that it would have been someone else."
"You have to figure that out for yourself."Jenny said.
"Great, it can't just be easy…" Danielle mumbled.
"Nope, sorry sweetie." Jenny laughed.
"Do you know?" Danielle asked.
Jenny nodded her head.
"Tell me…" Danielle pleaded.
"Tell me about your friend Alex." Jen said.
"Alex, why would you…" Danielle said before she got it. She was just like Jenny, she died before she got to tell the one she loved she loved him.
"I always knew you were smart." Jenny said. "Unlike your father."
"Hey, I must say, he has grown up… a little. But I have had to straighten him out every once in awhile."
"About Alex, why did it take you so long to realize he was there?" Jenny asked.
"I knew he was always there. He was always there for me. I never had to live without him. My life would fall apart and he would be there. It never happened where I was alone." Danielle said.
"I see."
"I want to go back." Danielle said whipping tears from her eyes. "I miss him and I want to go back."
"Soon enough you will have that choice." Jenny said pulling Danielle in for a hug. "You have to go now."
"What?" Danielle asked.
"You know the reason I was here. You miss him. You know inside your true feelings for him and now you are ready for someone else."
"Thank you, thank you so much." Danielle said hugging Jenny closer.
Danielle opened her eyes and was standing on the top of a building in New York.
"Hello?" Danielle said whipping the tears from her eyes.
"Who's there?" A man asked. He was sitting in a lawn chair.
"Um.. Danielle." She responded.
"Danielle? I don't know a Danielle. I think you have the wrong roof top." He said.
"No, I don't think so. I was sent here. I am dying but I am getting the chance to go back and live but first I need three people to see and you mr. are my second." She said.
"What's your name?"
"Danielle DiNozzo." She said.
"DiNozzo? Where have I heard that name before?"
"Um… Maybe you know my dad? Anthony DiNozzo." She said.
"Anthony…. TONY" The man said standing up. "Your dad is Tony D!"
"Ya," Danielle said curiously. "You know him?"
"Know him… He was gonna be my future son in law."
"He was marrying your daughter?" Danielle screamed.
"Ya. My baby Sophia. She was my only little girl. Lord knows what happened to her." He said.
"Sophia Manicotti?"
"That's her."
"She is my mother." Danielle said in a low voice.
"Mother? So that makes you my… my… granddaughter?" He said.
"Ya, I guess." Danielle said.
"dang Dippy. Come on o'ver here and give me a hug." He said opening his arms.
Danielle walked over hesitantly and was stiff in his embrace.
"Do you know why I am here? He first person did."
"Yes I do, now that I think about it." He said.
"And…"
"Ever since you were little you wanna meet me." He said.
"How do you know that?" She asked all defensive.
"I know things." He said. "Now how has my wonderful daughter been treating you?"
Danielle thought about what she could say. She couldn't break this mans heart.
"Great. She died a couple years back though. When I was 14."
"O. I am sorry. How is Gibbs treating ya'll?"
"Gibbs?"
"YA, I told him to take care of ya'll mama back awhile ago. You see, we were friends back in the war. I can only assume he is in your life. He never breaks a promise."
"Ya, he is good. He has always been there." Danielle said.
"Good."
"Ya."
"So." He said.
"Wait, this is it? Danielle said.
"Huh?" he responded
"That's it?"
"Well, there is not a lot to me."
"Your Gibbs's friend, what should I have expected." Danielle laughed.
"See ya around."
"See ya." Danielle said before her vision became blurry and she was on a beach again.
"Hi, I don't know who you are but, I am Danielle DiNozzo. You must have been expecting my?" She said starring at the hammock.
"Danielle?" A familiar voice said.
"Mom?"
"Yes." The women said emerging from the hammock and walking towards her daughter.
"Why am I here to see you?"
"I am your mother. You must miss me terribly, come here." She said pulling Danielle into a hug.
Danielle pushed her way out of it. "No, I don't miss you at all. I never even think about you."
"Danielle! Do you really speak that way? To your dead mother."
"You have been dead to me since the day I was born. I was always in the way. I was never good enough. I was never your perfect princess." Danielle said.
"That's not true."
"That's a lie!" Danielle screamed.
"I sent you to that boarding school for your own good. It was a great school." She said.
"Bull SHIT! You sent me there because I wouldn't be a responsibility to you anymore! I was in London, miles way, you didn't give a flying shit about me." Danielle screamed in her face.
"I cared enough to pay for your education." She shouted back.
"EDUCATION! YOU SENT ME TO A FUCKING ASSASSIN SCHOOL! WHAT THE HELL IS WITH THAT?" Danielle screamed even louder.
"You learned how to fight. You could take care of yourself. It is a cruel world out their Dani and you need the proper tools to live in it. I gave you everything you needed."
"NO! All I wanted was a mom and dad who loved me. All I wanted was for you to read my fucking bed time stories. ALL I WANTED WAS TO SEE YOUR FUCKING FACE MORE THAN TO MINUTES A FUCKING DAY!" Danielle screamed. "Don't you dare tell me what I wanted. You had no clue."
"Danielle,"
"Hell no. and to think. I just covered for you, like always. I clean up you mess. I just met my grandfather. He asked if you were good to me. I LIED!"
"You saw my dad?"
"Yes! I saw your dad. Who would have thought that you were southern. His accent was really thick!
"Danielle, listen to me," she said
"No. I am finished listening to you. You listen to me. I am finally happy. I have a family who cares for me. Right now they think I'm dead and they are crying. Remember when you thought I was dead…. Your called our life insurance agent! My dad actually gives a crap what I want to do with my life! And to think, he is my real dad. My fucking blood isn't as mess up as I thought it was. I mean, I thought I was doomed from the start, sex addict mother, drop dead father. Hey, why don't you throw in raped and beat to near death and hey it's a movie, o wait… never mind that was my life!"
"Tony," Sophia whispered.
"Yes, my real fucking father stepped up and helped me. A lot. Not as evil as you made him out to be!"
"Raped, beaten…"
"Let's not go there, mom. That's not something I wanna talk about with you since you sent me there! Or maybe I should. " Danielle screamed tears running down her face. "Maybe I should tell you of the countless times a knife was stuck up there. Maybe I should tell you that my own child was killed in front of me. MAYBE I SHOULD TELL YOU THAT I STILL HAVE NIGHTMARES EVEN THOUGH THE MAN WHO DID IT IS DEAD!"
"maybe I should tell you that I cried out your name. I called you for help. 'mommy please save me.' And yet no one came. I begged to be let go and yet it only led to another beating. I screamed 'mommy why?' millions of times as they left me on the floor to tired to try to escape. Maybe I should tell you how many times I cried myself to sleep with my dead baby in my arms." Danielle said softly
"Danielle, I am sorry." Sophia said wiping the tears from her eyes.
"Never say you're sorry." Danielle said.
Sophia walked up to her daughter and tried to hug her but Danielle stepped out of the way.
"Your too late." Danielle said. "I don't need to be saved by you. I don't need you anymore. I have everything I ever wanted back on earth and that is where I plan to go. HOME." Danielle said.
She turned around and walked away from her mother. She kept walking till she met up with Cait.
"I am ready to go home." Danielle told Cait.
"Let's go." Cait said holding out her hand.
Danielle opened her eyes and she was in a hospital room. She could see herself on the bed and Alex holding her hand, tears on his face.
"Danielle," he said, "I would do anything to bring you back. I love you with all my heart. I am willing to go to the end of the earth, find a hay strand in a needle stack and come all the way back and give it to you. Dani, you changed me and, I want what's best for you. I want to make your dreams come true and follow your heart, and if I am not part of that plan. I am willing to let you go, as long as you are truly happy. I just want you to know that I will always love you, nothing will ever change that and no matter what you chose, you will always be my beautiful Danielle."
"I want to leave! Right now! Put me back in my body! Send me home!" Danielle said tears streaming down her face.
"I will, but you won't remember what he said." Cait said. "You won't remember what that boy just said. Yes you will remember me and everyone else, but you won't remember those words."
"Are you serious. That boy just gave me a reason to live and you are telling me I won't remember it!"
"You could, if you come back with me, and leave forever!" Cait said.
"What!"
"You could remember everything he said, but you are going to have to die." Cait reminded her.
"Send me back." Danielle said. "I can't leave him."
"Very Well," Cait said and clapped her fingers and Danielle saw black.
RECAP! Danielle is in a coma and everyone goes to see her. Alex finally tells her he loves her but she cannot respond. Danielle has been given a gift that she gets to meet 3 people and then chose if she wants to live or die...
1. Jenny Shepard
2. Her Grandfather... (moms dad)
3. Her mother... (most of the bad stuff is there!)
She goes back to the hospital room and heards Alex confess his undying love and decides to go back and live!
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