Gibbs mind wandered back to the day he lost Kate. There was nothing he could do to help her. She was dead before she ever hit the ground. With Tony things were different. When he got down to him he was still alive, even if he did look like something from The Walking Dead or Night of the Living Dead. In fact, not much flesh was still attached to his body. As the flight crew came rushing towards the emergency room door it brought Gibbs out of his thoughts and back to the present. He watched as if it was in slow motion as the flight crew ran past him. He could see one of the flight crew members riding the gurney with Tony. She was on top of Tony pounding on his chest as another forced air into his lungs. The skin on his face looked like it had been melted off his lifeless body.

"Code Blue!" a hospital nurse yelled as she went out to help bring Tony into the hospital. A team of medical staff came rushing out with yellow precaution aprons on over their scrubs and masks over their faces.

Gibbs truly feared for his agent's life. He pulled Ziva in close to him as the young agent wailed with sorrow. The team waited in the hospital waiting room with other families. As nurses came out to get those families, Gibbs could only assume the worst as they hadn't heard anything. What seemed like hours hard only been mere minutes. Gibbs had had enough. He sneaked back into the emergency room to find his agent. He came to the trauma bay that held Tony. As he stood there and watched he almost regretted slipping back there. He watched as the nurses cleared away from Tony's body, charged up the paddles and tried to shock his heart. It was unnerving to see that flesh was on the paddles after shocking his lifeless body. Gibbs watched as they couldn't get a heart beat on the monitors and tried again to shock his heart. Poor Tony's body jerked off the table as they tried to restart his heart. A nurse finally noticed Gibbs and started out of the room pulling the curtain so no one else could see.

"Sir you can't be back here." The nurse told him.

"I am his medical proxy and he's like a son to me. Please let me stay. I have to be with him." Gibbs pleaded. "Please?"

The older agents piercing blue eyes filled with tears.

"Sir we are doing everything we can to save Agent DiNozzo. I promise you will be the first one we tell of his condition. He is in good hands." The nurse said trying to comfort Gibbs. She showed Gibbs back out to the waiting room where the rest of his team was. He took a deep breath and tried to hide his tears. He couldn't let them know that Tony was gone. He had to hold on to hope that Tony would pull through this. He wasn't Kate. There was at least some hope for his senior field agent.

"How is he Gibbs?" Ziva asked seeing the worry on her bosses face.

"They don't know much right now. But when they do, they will let us know."

Abby arrived at the hospital with a bag full of clothes for both Ziva and Tony. Ziva wanted to change out of her clothes that was soiled with mud and smelled of smoke. But she was afraid to, afraid that the doctor would come out and update them on Tony and she wouldn't be there. She desperately wanted to be back there with Tony even if the sight of him scared her at the moment.

"Ziva, it's ok to go change. We will be right here waiting on him." Gibbs said with sorrow in his voice.

Ziva slipped off to the bathroom and slipped into her yoga pants, tennis shoes and Tony's OSU shirt that was overly large on her. She pulled her hair up into a bun and headed back out to the waiting room. Just as Gibbs had said, no one had come out to update yet. Ziva curled her legs up under her and folded her arms. McGee sat with an arm around a crying Abby, her makeup smeared all over her face. Gibbs paced the floor, he was the only one who truly knew how Tony was. The normally talkative Ducky was quiet as he sat next to Palmer. Ziva had dozed off. She could see Tony telling her to run and the next thing he didn't even look human anymore. She woke up gasping for air as she remembered the events of the day. Gibbs put an arm around his crying agent. He knew that they had broken one of his rules, but they really did make a cute couple. He couldn't be too mad at them. Who knows they could have little ninja DiNozzo's running around the bullpen one day. Gibbs smiled at that thought, but then the smile faded as he thought of the condition of DiNozzo. A doctor walked out to the waiting room with a discouraged look on his face.

"I am looking for the family of an Anthony DiNozzo." The young doctor said.

The team hesitated but Gibbs spoke up.

"We are the family of Tony DiNozzo." Gibbs said standing.

"Please follow me, I need to speak with you guys in private." The young doctor said.

Ziva gave Gibbs a look. She had a gut feeling of what the doctor was about to tell him and she prayed she was wrong.

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