The team stayed the night out in the Burn ICU waiting room. Unknown to the team, Tony's condition took a turn for the worst over night. With being burned all over his body, the team knew he was at an exceptionally high risk for infection but they weren't expecting it. He was Tony DiNozzo, he can pull through anything. It wasn't until a doctor came to the ICU waiting room to tell them of Tony's condition that it was officially setting in they could still lose him.

"Are you guys the family of Tony DiNozzo?" the doctor asked.

The question woke the team from their sleep. Ziva unfolded her legs and jumped to her feet. She rubbed her eyes to wake up just a little bit more. She looked at her watch. It was only 2am. The rest of the team had also gotten up from their chairs and joined Ziva standing in front of the doctor. Palmer knew anytime a doctor came out at this time of the morning, it normally meant bad news. He put his arm around Ziva's shoulders and pulled her to him. She leaned against him afraid of what they might hear.

"We are here for Agent DiNozzo." Ziva said the words barely able to make their way out of her mouth.

"How is he doc?" Gibbs asked.

"Sadly he has taken a turn for the worst. With Tony being burned so bad, he has contracted an infection and has become septic." The doctor explained.

Gibbs knew that most septic patients didn't pull through especially when they were burn patients.

"What are his chances doc?" Gibbs asked on the verge of breaking down.

"25%" The doctor said sadly. "We will keep an eye on him. We are hoping that we can give him a blood transfusion and help save him since the blood is also septic."

Ziva walked to the window and looked upon the love of her life. He was still intubated and on a ventilator. She watched as nurses went in to check on him in the burn ICU. Each one would wear gowns, gloves, masks and shoe covers. She was ready for him to get stronger so she could go in and be by his side. Gibbs told his team to go home and get some rest since it had been a long 24 hours.

"If anything happens I will call you." Gibbs said.

"Gibbs, we can't leave him. He would never leave us!" Abby cried.

"You need your rest. You don't want Tony seeing you with mascara all over your face when he comes to." Gibbs said kissing her forehead.

Abby smiled as McGee took her hand and led her to the elevator.

"Jethro, this doesn't look good please call me if anything happens." Ducky said.

"You have my word Ducky." Gibbs said giving the older doctor a pat on the back. Palmer gave Gibbs a sheepish smile. They both knew the truth that the indestructible DiNozzo might have just met his match. After the team was gone, Ziva and Gibbs sat back down in the waiting room. Gibbs sat with his arm around Ziva as she slept soundly with her head laid against his shoulder. The poor thing had cried herself to sleep.

Around 5am, McGee got a phone call he was dreading. He didn't want to disturb Abby who was curled up next to him. When he seen on the caller ID it was Gibbs his heart dropped.

"Agent McGee…" Tim answered the phone.

"McGee, you and Abby need to get back down here. Tony's taken another turn. It doesn't look good Tim." Gibbs said. His voice cracking.

McGee jumped out of bed and pulled his pants and shirt on quickly. Abby patted the bed looking for her sweet little probie.

"Timmy, where are you?" Abby asked sitting up in bed.

"We got to go Abs, it's Tony!" McGee said putting on his shoes.

Those words awoke a sleepy Abby as she got up and put on a black shirt and black pants.

When the two got to the hospital they stepped on the elevator. As the elevator doors went to shut, Palmer yelled out.

"Wait for me!" Palmer said running for the elevator.

The ride to the burn unit was a quiet one. None of the team wanted to face the fact that their very special agent was probably never leaving this hospital, unless he was leaving in a body bag.

When the three made it to the waiting room they found Ziva in a corner crying, with Ducky trying to console her. Gibbs was standing at a window looking out at where the sun would soon be rising with a cup of coffee in hand.

"Boss how is he?" McGee asked.

Gibbs never turned around. He couldn't let his team see him cry. Instead Ducky approached the three.

"I think it is best if we sit down and talk." Ducky said. The three sat over near Ziva and waited for an explanation from the older doctor.

"Tony has taken another turn for the worst. The doctors have found he has pneumonia in both lungs. When he had the plague it did a lot of damage to his lungs, now pneumonia had attacked both of his scarred lungs. His chances in surviving this have dropped even lower sadly. Some of the doctors don't think he will make it through the next 12 hours." Ducky explained to the young team. He didn't want to believe the words that were coming out of his own mouth. As hard as the team had tried to be to stay strong, they broke down into tears.

Dr. Pitt who had taken care of Tony when he had the plague allowed two visitors in to see Tony and they could only stay in there for 5 minutes. The team agreed that it should be Ziva and Gibbs to go in. If anyone could talk some sense into Tony DiNozzo and convince him to survive it was those two. They donned the appropriate safety attire and headed in. Ziva tried to keep her tears from flowing as she entered into the room of the man she loved. The fear of losing him was almost unbearable. She sat down in a chair next to his bed and carefully placed her hand on top of his. His body jerked in pain from her touch. She desperately wanted him to know she was there, but knowing he couldn't hear her she didn't know what else to do. She leaned down to his forehead and kissed him.

"You've got to pull through this DiNozzo. I have to have my senior field agent back. We got your six buddy." Gibbs said.

"I hate to run you guys out but the time for visitors is over." Dr. Pitt explained.

"I love you Tony DiNozzo." Ziva whispered into his ear. She hoped by some miracle he could hear what she said and something wouldn't happen to him without him knowing that he was loved. Ziva and Gibbs returned to the rest of the team who was sitting in the waiting room. Ducky took Ziva into his arms and tried to comfort her. At this point the only thing that could really comfort her is if this was all just a bad dream.

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