Tony's eyes blinked open as he heard voices, "Boss?" he mumbled as he pushed himself into a sitting position. This caused great strain which could be seen in the way he was breathing, the hospital gown allowed his friends to see what they had not before. His body was basically nothing, his ribs were visible and the once quarterback look had left him. His eyes were dark and his skin pale but what stood out was the weakness in his voice.

"Welcome back Dinozzo, you had us worried there for a minute."

"Sorry guys, I...I guess I let personal get in the way of work..." he looked down now feeling bad for what he had done to them but as his head fell a soft hand lifted it up.

"No Tony don't , you haven't done anything wrong...you were scared I can see that now. But what was it you were afraid of?"

Eyes fell, "Nothing...I was just sick..." he was lying it was on his face and both of his friends knew it.

"Tony don't you dare lie to us!" Kate screamed slapping his cheek again "Damn it Tony! I thought you were dying!" tears fell down her face and she turned and stormed out her composure lost as well as the last bit of kindness she had...

As the door slammed a hot tear ran down Tony's cheek 'I didn't mean to hurt her...I would never mean to hurt her...'

"My god Dinozzo, she loves you, don't you know that. And you have thrown that love back in her face. She hurts now more than she has ever done because of you...and I thought that you knew your way around girls. Pha you don't know anything, as far as I am concerned you are a dumb ass for letting yourself get like this." He stood and walked out as well leaving Tony to the dark room and his empty thoughts.

"Why can't I just tell them the truth, that one of them is going to die and there is nothing I can do about it?" he spoke softly as he laid down again closing his eyes.

From outside Gibbs and Kate listened to him by the aid of a speaker.

"One of us is going to die? And there is nothing he can do about it? How would he know that Gibbs?" Kate spoke softly disbelief in her voice.

"Have I ever told you that one of Tony's gifts is foresight?"

"No I think you skipped that little detail..."

"Well, since he was a boy Tony could tell when bad things were going to happen, he hates it because this is what it does to him. Makes him go mad with fear, his body takes the brunt of it and he ends up here..."

"God...how does he live with it?"

"I don't know but I have never seen him this bad before...I am worried for his life Kate, as you are."

As Tony slept his mind was full of the dream, it was an old house that he could tell. As he began to search it, he found the stairs leading to a basement. Standing on the landing he looked down and saw Gibbs hands in the air, then the glint of a gun barrel and the cocking of the hammer caught his attention and he kicked off the stairs hard launching himself at Gibbs. Suddenly all went black as the sound of a gunshot could be heard, Tony jumped awake in bed his body coated in a cold sweat he was gasping for air. He felt so alone as he saw no one near and he sighed watching the walls looking for guidance in them.

In the office Gibbs sighed as he filled out Tony's file, he knew this could be a career-ending choice he would have to make...

"Gibbs, Tony is on his way in...he is coming to get his stuff." Kate spoke a somber look on her face.

"The hell he is." Gibbs said as he stood and sat in Tony's chair, "I am not letting him go that easily, he will have to move me out of this chair before he gets to go anywhere!"

Kate laughed but the laughter stopped when Tony began to walk into the bullpen, "Boss, please don't make this a harder decision than it already is. I can't continue putting your all's lives in danger because I have problems..." he was stopped short as Gibbs spoke.

"You think that you are putting our lives in danger? Have you ever stopped to think that you may actually be saving us, or that your gifts could be used to better us as a whole? Dinozzo the problem with you is that you don't think things threw enough."

He was awe stricken at first then he nodded, "Alright...what do you want me to do Boss?"

"First tell us what this dream is about so we can help you get through it."

"No...I won't burden you with my knowledge...its alright I can handle this on my own."

"Fine then start handling it, second get to work we are one man down and Cassidy isn't the brightest gal you've ever brought onto the job." With that he stood and walked to his desk grabbing his coffee, he was still worried about him but would say nothing.

Tony had gone back to the crime scene only to return with some paint shavings, walking to Abby's lab he thought what the girl would say about his recent occurrence with the paranormal.

"Hiya Dinozzo, got anything for me?"

"Some paint shavings, but that's about it."

"Aw, I was looking forward to some grunt work...grr...alright I'll have a peek." Grabbing the bag out of his hands she immediately began to run a trace analysis.

"I'll have something on this in about 20 minutes tops...but you don't have to wait I can send it to your desk if you would like."

"Thanks Abbs." He said as he walked out heading for the morgue.

"Why hello there Anthony, Jethro told me that you were ill. Are you better now?"

"Yeah I'm fine Doc, what you got for us?"

"Well the commander had recently become pregnant Abby should be running the blood tests now, as for the gunny, well he is an odd case indeed. The bullet when through and through as Special Agent Gibbs relayed to you, but there is more, in the wound there is some paint chips. Looks to be a pale pink? Not sure though, Abby just got them..."

"I pulled the same color chips from a bullet hole in the wall..."

"Wait a minute Anthony, I am talking now..."

"Alright Ducky..."

"As I was saying, he suffered a major coronary, and was dead long before the commander. I believe we have mysterious circumstance Anthony, you know this reminds me of one time in Africa..."

"Thanks Duck, I'll tell Gibbs."

"Alright, but it is a good story..."

"Sure Ducky..." he laughed as he walked out and stepped into the elevator...