……………..Monday the 25th of August……………..

Emma strolled in like nothing had happened. She was glad she didn't work at the same office as her friends. Working upstairs felt for the first time calming. Yesterday had been just another day in her life. Her worst yet but still half normal. Emma knew she had to be used to it by now.

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Her friends watched her when she walked through the far end of the office.

"How is she holding up?" McGee wondered. Ever since he became a father in the beginning of the year he felt sorrier for Emma. He knew what she was missing out on. He could never live without his son.

"She has experience in the field of things going wrong so she is holding up better than I thought but not well either." Tony said not really wanting to speak about it. He had only heard what Kate had told him.

"We need to talk to him. Make him realise that we don't judge Emma through what happened to her but on how she is now." Tony continued

"Will it really work?" McGee wondered.

"She tried that before but his excuse was that we knew her before all this happened. From what I can see she has kept everything which was great with her throughout this whole ordeal and improved herself on the things which she wasn't so good on. It is sad this will haunt her for the rest of her life even though she has tried so hard to move on." Tony then said.

"I'll talk to Matthew if he doesn't come around later in the week. Let's just start to work." Gibbs said silencing everyone. No one knew if he was serious or not. Maybe he just wanted them to be quiet and start work. They had quite much to do especially since Kate was home with the baby and Becky was sick.

"Aren't you going upstairs now for the talk with the ones for the government?" Tony wondered.

"I know, it's today…I don't think what I will say will help them understand why we did as we did with Emma. It won't make her day better." Gibbs said not wanting to go up. He hated this part of his job. Explaining why he did as he did when everyone knows it was the best thing anyone could do at the time.

……………..Wednesday the 27th of August……………

"Do you guys know if Emma is allergic to something?" someone from the director's office came running down asking.

"No, why are you asking?"

"She is having a hard time to breathe. I don't think it's a panic attack and she just threw up in the toilet." He told them.

"I'll go and check on her." Gibbs said worried. He felt that he had to be there for her when Matthew wasn't. He quickly went upstairs.

Was this a physical manifestation of what she was going through? She hadn't been feeling quite well since she had moved in but she had gone to work everyday. Gibbs hadn't a slightest clue on what it could be but it seemed very severe.

Tony wondered if he should go too. He went up and was right behind Gibbs.

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"I've never felt this way before. The EU decided not to go on with my case but to observe what is going on with me. At least I know but I hate it. They are maybe seeing me as a traitor and I love my country. No matter how much I emphasized it they didn't seem to believe it. I think CIA could have done a much better of convincing them. I think they thought my story was too unbelievable." Emma said when Gibbs walked in the ladies room. He saw how she sat down besides a toilet in one of the stalls. Tony walked in too but Emma was too sick to notice.

"Are you alright?" Gibbs asked. She really didn't look so well.

"No but this is probably just temporary. My period is coming soon and I usually feel bad but it's worse this time. I know stress and bad things can do this to people. Just another thing I can put on my list on bad things happening to me." Emma said wiping away some of the things she had just thrown up.

"Considering being pregnant?" Gibbs asked her. He didn't want to be pushy but he had to ask. He wanted to rule that out.

"You're always trying to look for positive things. I hope not because I don't want to force him back. Anyway the chance of that is nil anyway. We used a condom the most of the times anyway and they said it is most likely impossible for me to get pregnant."

"How can they know if you haven't tried to get pregnant…So the times you didn't use a condom?" Gibbs wondered. If she wasn't pregnant then what was happening with her.

"Was because I knew I wouldn't get pregnant and he was so caught up in the moment and I couldn't bare to remind him." Emma said. It never entered her mind that it was something very personal she was talking about. She felt so bad like she could pass out any second now.

"I know you…You always think about others first…So how many times did that happen?" Gibbs asked her.

"I sort of implied I used the pill so he wouldn't feel guilty but I didn't actually say it. I still insisted on a condom every time." Emma defended herself while starting to feel dizzy.

"How many times?" Gibbs asked again. He knew she had sometimes trouble seeing the obvious things when it concerned herself and he wondered if that is why she decided to move in so quickly.

"I'm not pregnant! Today was just hard." Emma said while trying to get up. Then she fainted.

Gibbs said to Tony to call 911.

…………At the hospital………..

"I'm searching for Matthew Andersson." Gibbs asked worried. The doctors didn't know what was wrong with her and she had got worse. He put his last hope to Matthew. Gibbs hoped he would know something which could help her.

"He's with a patient. Who are you?" a nurse asked.

"His girlfriend is really sick and I need to talk to him." Gibbs told them.

"Is Emma sick? He's in room 312." The nurse said to him while showing him where to go.

Gibbs quickly went there. Just then Matthew exited the room with some other people.

"I'll have to go but I'll be back soon…What are you doing here?" Matthew first said to his colleagues and then to Gibbs.

"Let's go to my office. I've already made my decision so why are you here?" Matthew said to him. He knew it was about Emma but why had he come to his work just to make them get back together again.

"We don't have time. I don't care if you want to dump her but she is pretty sick now. The doctors don't know what's wrong with her. I thought she wouldn't keep her medical history a secret for you. Is she allergic to something?" Gibbs asked him.

"Nickel and the ordinary plastic gloves they use in hospital. She told me when we started to date that she took some prescribed pills to prevent a sickness. This weekend she told me she started with them after the kidnapping…I know the name of them but I can't remember…" Matthew said stressed. He wondered why it was so hard for him to come up with the name of the pills and sickness.

"Try to remember…Let's go and talk to her doctors." Gibbs said while they went to the elevator.

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Matthew talked with the doctors for a long time Gibbs thought when Matthew came to him. They stood outside her room.

"I told them what might be wrong with her. I really have to go back to work. It's really stressed up there." Matt told him.

Gibbs then understood what his decision was.

"I'll tell her you saved her life. I'm glad she at least told one person about her condition. We don't think less of you because of your decision." Gibbs told him. Despite everything Gibbs knew Matthew was a great person.

"Who said we've broken up? I missed her the second she left but she wanted me to be really sure before I asked her to move back so I knew she wouldn't want to talk to me the first few days. I didn't call because I knew it was what she wanted. The only mistake I did was to not stop her when she decided to leave. I'm only going up because you're here and there is many people I have to save upstairs…I know you think she's perfect but she isn't so good at remembering taking her pills. It is sort of my job to remind her and she forgot to take them with her when she left. I know that if it was the other way around she'll remember every pill I would have to take." Matthew told him.

"That's Emma for you…Then I'll have to say welcome to the family. Anyone who marries someone in NCIS becomes a member of the family." Gibbs said patting him on the back.

"So it's father-in-law then?" Matthew joked.

"Not really." Gibbs said serious but he knew Matthew was just kidding.

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