Gibbs slowly made his way into Emily's ICU cubicle. She looked bad, really bad and he was sure that he was going to lose another child. Emily had only legally been his daughter for around twenty-four hours and she had hated him for most of that time. Still he did not want to lose her. Maybe she would be better off if he let her go back to her parents but maybe she was better of here. She was on life-support but they had brain activity. The doctors had said that the best thing he could do was just wait and see. So that was what he was going to do. If she took a bad turn and it was clear that survival was impossible. He would let her go, as hard as it would be. For now he was just letting nature take it's course. He picked up her hand and really wished that Tobias and Diane were here. Maybe they would be able to convince her to pull through. Of course if they were alive Emily probably would not be in the hospital in the first place. She would have never run away, never been on that bus. Well maybe she would have been but it would have been a standard act of teenage rebellion instead of fueled by grief. The guilt he was feeling was unimaginable. If he had just handled things a little better, if he had convinced Tobias to tell her the night before. Maybe this never would have happened and they would be adjusting to being a family.

It had been decided that the team remain in DC until Emily stabilized. She could only have family visit anyway and besides Gibbs needed his privacy. They had however agreed to meet up at the DiNozzo's for coffee and an impromptu campfire. They had gathered around the dining table. Tony and Ziva on one side and the Palmer's on the other. Abby and Ducky sat on the ends and McGee had pulled up a bar stool. Delilah had a meeting to attend that evening so she had opted to just stay home.

"Has anyone spoken to Gibbs?" McGee asked.

"I have about an hour ago. They said that she has brain activity and it is fairly strong for her state. Still she is extremely fragile and it could go either way." Ducky explained.

"And if he opted to remove life-support would we all fly up?" Abby asked.

"If Jethro wants us up there. He is very shaken up right now." Ducky replied.

"Still I feel like we should do something." Ziva replied.

"When Ed was in the hospital a few years back people would send Breena and her sister's meal. There are a few websites but you can send it anywhere in the country." Jimmy explained.

"I got a few of those when Delilah was in the hospital. I think her mom set us up on MealsOnInerwebs." McGee replied.

"We could set up a Caring-bridge blog or a Facebook page." Abby suggested.

"I can set up and run both." McGee added.

"The meals are an excellent idea. Especially if Emily stabilizes enough for Lana to come up and join them. However I do not know how Jehtro would feel about blogs and Facebook pages. I would wait and speak with him before we start anything." Ducky replied.

"When Ed was in the hospital he wanted privacy but Breena's sisters had to get back to work before he was out. So they started a private email and texting chain." Jimmy explained.

"That is a good idea but can Gibbs text?" Tony asked.

"I can run it. I have been taking an intro to modern technology class at Georgetown." Ducky offered.

"Do you have all of our addresses?" Jimmy asked.

"If you could write them down for me that would be wonderful." Ducky replied.

"Do you have paper?" Tony asked.

"I have my address book." Ducky replied.

"Is there anybody outside of here that needs to know?" Ziva asked.

"No Tobias was the last of his family and Diane only had a sister who has no interest in her niece or anyone in her family for that matter." Ducky explained.

"Alright well what else can we do?" Tony asked.

"We could pray." Abby replied.

"Well of course but what physical thing could we do? I mean that would take planning?" Tony asked.

"It sounds like Emily is going to be in a wheelchair for sometime. We could get the den at Gibbs' house set up as a room for her." Jimmy suggested.

"Excellent!" Tony cried.

"We should keep up with his house as well. That way when he gets home he can just come inside and get Emily situated." McGee replied.

"We should send him money or gift-cards so he can buy food and clothes." Jimmy added.

"Yes that is perfect." Tony replied.

"We could organize a fundraiser since she is bound to have some steep bills." Abby offered.

"No online or public events until Jethro has confirmed that's what he wants." Ducky reminded.

"We could put a collection jar at NCIS and maybe do a few workplace fundraisers. Like the basketball tournament we had when Agent Feldman's son had cancer." McGee suggested.

"That is fine." Ducky replied.

"Great so is there anything else or can we adjourn?" Tony asked.

"We should pray." Abby replied.

"Alright" Tony replied.

Lana would be staying with the DiNozzo's. Until either she could join Jethro in Philadelphia or Jethro were able to return. She had already set up shop on the pullout couch in Mollie's room. The girls were both severely shaken to know their friend was in the hospital but had opted to treat their situation like a long slumber party. Still they could not ignore the elephant in the room. If Emily would live or not.

"Do you think she will be OK?" Mollie asked.

"I don't know I talked to Gibbs and he wouldn't tell me much. What he did was really bad though. She is hovering right now." Lana explained.

"This sucks first my dad gets sick, than Tobias dies, and now this. On top of what we have been through before." Mollie sighed.

"I was hoping things would calm down." Lana replied.

"What can we do?" Mollie asked.

"The adults were planning ways to help and we can always help them. Besides that I guess we could pray and find a way to show Emily how much she means to us when she wakes up." Lana explained.

"If she wakes up." Mollie sighed.

A/N: Will Gibbs accept support or will he be Gibbsish and try to go it alone? New chapter will be up soon. Please review and thanks for reading.