Yeah, done with the sappiness now!
Chapter 4: Balance of Life and Death...
Gibbs laid Tony down on the concrete floor of the cell they were in, and tilted Tony's head back. Just as he was about to give him mouth to mouth,Ziva walked in. He motioned for her to blow while he pumped. She plugged Tony's nose, and blew into his mouth. Gibbs waited a minute, and then pumped on Tony's chest.
Zivaput her ear up to Tony's mouth, but he still wasn't drawing in breath. She repeated the action of blowing into his mouth, and Gibbs pumped. They had done that five or six times when the Medics walked in, and took over, with a breath mask, and pumping.
"He's needs a tracheotomy." Gibbs nodded, and the Medics started a cut in Tony's throat. A tube was inserted, andZiva turned away, into Gibbs' waiting arms. He could feel her shake in his arms, and could feel the warm wetness of tears wetting the shoulder of his shirt. He rubbed her back, soothing her, and felt her calm down enough to let her go.
Tony was being loaded onto a stretcher, and then carried up the stairs, where Gibbs andZiva followed, his arm around her shoulders. When they got to the top of the stairs, the paramedics told Gibbs that only one person could ride with Tony in the ambulance, and he pushed Kate forward. She nodded her thanks, and got into the ambulance beside Tony, grabbing one of his limp hands.
The doors were closed, and the ambulance took off. Gibbs walked to the car, grabbing hold of McGee on the way, and pushed him into the passenger's seat. He walked to the driver's side, and before he was even buckled in, he was driving after the ambulance that held his fallen agent. He looked over at McGee, and almost laughed when he saw the agent had a white-knuckle grip on the seat and door, and looked as if he might be sick.
"Call Abby and Ducky." Gibbs said, and McGee immediately had his phone out, and was dialing the lab. "Tell them to meet us at the hospital." McGee nodded, and was talking to Abby and Ducky within a matter of seconds. He gave them the info about Tony, and where to meet them, and then hung up.
Ziva knew that Tony might not make it, and that fact was making her feel emotions that she had never thought she could have for her partner. She knew that she loved him, but she had always thought that she had loved him as an annoying brother. Her gut was now telling her different as she held his limp hand.
Monitors, and IV's were being put on him right and left, not to mention that there was already a tube down his throat to help him breathe. The paramedics thought that the reason Tony had stopped breathing was due to a punctured lung, from a broken rib. There was a major chance of internal bleeding, and Kate already knew that he had a broken leg. The Medics thought that an artery might have been hit in his thigh, and that was the reason for all the bleeding.
She started when the ambulance stopped, and Tony was whisked away down the hall of the hospital. Doctors were all over him, and she was led to sit down in the waiting room. Cops were starting to ask questions, and she was doing her best to answer them, but her mind was focused on Tony, and they were driving her to tears, making her think of what had happened to him.
All the sudden the cops were gone, and she felt a warm pair of arms surround her. She looked up, and saw McGee and Gibbs sitting on either side of her, glaring across the room at the pair of police officers that had been interrogating her, only seconds before.
She smiled up at them, and then laced her arms around McGee, and whispered in his ear, "I love him Tim, I just didn't think about it, until it was too late, and now I may never get the chance to tell him." She said, and he tightened his grip.
Sobs shookZiva's body, and Tim held her tighter, while Gibbs looked at the pair in sympathy. He had known that there was some kind of emotions for Tony fromZiva for a while, even if she hadn't, and the way that Tony had been when they had found him, had to have taken a toll on her.
Zivacried for Tony for a while, but Tim soon found her getting heavier in his arms, and she wasn't shaking as much. He looked down when the shaking stopped, and foundZiva asleep in his arms. Not wanting to disturb her, he shifted to get a little more comfortable, and closed his eyes, drifting into a light sleep.
Gibbs came out of the lobby to findZiva and McGee asleep in each other's arms, and smiled to himself. He looked up when he heard the doors open, and saw a doctor heading toward them. He walked over to the pair, and gently shook them awake.
Zivalooked blearily at him, and Tim looked as if he were not sleeping at all, just resting his eyes. WhenZiva saw the doctor, she straightened in her chair.
"Well I have good news, and I have bad news." The doctor said when he reached the group.
"Well." Gibbs said, and felt a hand on his arm. He looked over, and saw Abby and Ducky standing there, they must have just arrived.
"Tony sustaned many injuries. He had a punctured lung, which we repaired, but he is not breathing on his own. He had head tramma, and that caused a concussion, though it wasn't very serious. There were puncture wounds to his abdomen, back, and thigh, the last hitting an artery, so he lost a lot of blood. He has transfusions running through one of his IV's, and a lot of medication in another, for the pain, and to ward off infections. His leg is broken, and will need physical therapy, but other than that, he should be fine, that is..." The doctor cut himself off, and looked sorrowful at them.
"What else is wrong doctor?" Ducky asked, his voice soft, yet stern, and Gibbs saw fear there, as well as on everyone elses faces.
"Tony has slipped into a coma, and there is a chance that he won't wake from it." The doctor said, and then left; leaving five stunned people standing in the hall of the hospital.
Zivadropped to her knees, and sobbed. Abby went over and pulled her into her arms, as well as Ducky, and Tim. Gibbs just stood there dumbfounded. All were thinking the same thing.
...and there is a chance that he won't wake from it.
A/N: Thanks for all the reviews, and I know that some of you will hate me for this, but I hope that you liked the story so far.
Thanx for that, I didn't even catch that I had wrote Kate in, I was working on another Kate and Tony story... So sorry!