Tony stared at his coworkers and they stared right back in total shock. He put his hands over his eyes to try and stop the tears but he wasn't very successful. When he looked back up he saw Gibbs begin to slowly walk to him. "Please, please don't… don't come near me." Tony whispered.

"Tony," Gibbs said walking over to his frightened agent. "Calm down, everything's going to be okay."

"Okay? Okay? How can you think that, Boss?" Tony asked removing his hands from his eyes. "Look at me, I'm a freak…"

"No, Tony, you're not." Gibbs said trying to calm him.

Tony shook his head and looked down, this situation was only making his temperature rise now his tears couldn't even leave his eyes without evaporating and rising up in the form of steam from his face. With one last moan from him Tony collapsed to the ground unconscious.

"Gibbs?" Abby said in a small voice. "Sh – should we call an ambulance?"

"No, just get him to Ducky's lab."

"Um, how, Boss?" McGee asked. "We can't touch him."

"I have some fire blankets in my lab Jethro we can use them." Ducky said and walked to the elevator to bring them back as fast as he could.

Kate leaned down next tot Tony and she could feel the heat radiating off him. "Why didn't he ever tell us?" She asked no one in particular as she looked down at him in pure sympathy.

Gibbs shook his head speechless, nothing like this had ever happened before and he was never expecting anything like it to ever happen. Gibbs let out a long breath and began to pace the garage, people saw what happened, people will start to talk. He didn't want Tony's secret completely exposed like that but as much as Gibbs wanted to he couldn't control gossip. Dammit DiNozzo, why does he have to hide everything, he's open about all the wrong things.

McGee looked at Tony with a terrified look on; he had heard nothing but bad things about these mutants or whatever they were called. He didn't want to believe Tony was a bad guy, he really didn't. And even if Tony wasn't a bad guy this could still bring nothing but bad. All mutants were looked down on, he understood why Gibbs didn't want to take him to the hospital they would probably treat him poorly. McGee wrung his hands together looked down at the ground for a second and then back at Tony, he could help but think of all the 'what if's'.

Kate bit her bottom lip, she wanted to hold Tony and tell him everything was going to be alright but she couldn't be a foot away from him without feeling the intense heat. She looked at him and could feel tears beginning to form in her own eyes but she quickly bought her had up and whipped them away before anyone saw. How could this happen to Tony? How long had this been going on? This wasn't something new, she could tell. He knew about everything before they went down to the lab. She looked at Tony's form and his steady breathing silently praying for him.

Abby let the tears pour freely down her face letting her eyeliner and mascara run. Why do all the bad things have to happen to Tony? What did he ever do? Not that this was a bad thing but poor Tony! With all those mutant haters out there, she of course was completely fine with mutants and has even protested with them a few times. They were nice people just wanting respect. But this can't happen to Tony, she thought she knew him. Shouldn't they have noticed this sooner? What if they were just bad friends and there was something wrong for a while now and they just never noticed?

Soon Ducky came back with the fire blankets. "Okay Jethro take his head and Timothy take his feet." He said handing them each a fire blanket. Lifting him up the girls supported him using the third blanket under his back and legs. They all carried him down to the lab threw the stairs; they didn't want to walk back through the offices. Luckily there was a door that attacked the two stair wells and they bought him down and placed him on a table.

They took they blankets off and Ducky began setting up equipment around him. "Now this should tell us his body heat." He said setting something up and placing it on his arm. A number flashed on the screen they began to change rapidly, finally after only a few seconds it settled at 367.

"His temperature went down." Kate observed looking at the screen.

"Yes, it's probably from the state of rest he is in right now, no stress no worrying equals a cooler body temperature apparently." Ducky explained. "Now Jethero come here, those burns have to be treated."

"No, Ducky I'm fine." Gibbs said not talking his eyes off Tony.

"Jethro," he said sternly. "Come let me at least look at them."

"Ducky." Gibbs as he reluctantly walked over to the M.E. "I'm fine, they're not that bad I've had worse."

"I'm sure you have but even a small burn can lead to an infection; I once had this friend in Africa…" Ducky went on to talk about his friend but no one was really listening, even Abby wasn't. They were to busy worrying about Tony.

After several minutes Ducky finished bandaging Gibbs chest and shoulder and Gibbs went off to go get a new shirt. A few minutes later he came back wearing an NCIS t-shirt. He sat down in a chair by the table and waited with the rest of the team.

Almost three hours had passed and Tony still had yet to wake up. None the less the team never left, but his temperature had gone down and settled at 205 degrees and Ducky said that since it hadn't changed in almost an hour that's what it was likely to say at. Despite the still high temperature they were now able to touch him and he felt just a little hot but nothing that you would get burned by.

"Gibbs, is he ever gonna wake up?" Abby asked quietly looking up to Gibbs as she stroked Tony's hair.

Without hesitating for a second he answered her. "Of course he is."

Abby nodded and continued to stroke his hair.

Almost an hour later Tony moved slightly while giving out a low moan, getting everyone's attention, he slowly opened his eyes. Things were blurry at first so his vision scanned the area look for something familair, but soon his eyes did clear. As soon as he saw the people crowded around him he flinched back and gasped slightly.

"Tony, Tony, it's just us." Kate said placing her hand on his.

Tony smiled at Kate and looked down at her hand holding his. "Having fun, Kate?" He asked.

She quickly pulled her hand away. "No."

"Oh Tony!" Abby squealed and hugged him. "I'm so glad to see you're awake!"

"Yes, it is good to see you up and well." Ducky said walking over to the group smiling down at them.

"If you guys could leave us alone for a few minutes, DiNozzo and I have a few things to discus." Gibbs said with a blank look on staring at Tony.

The team nodded and said their goodbyes before leaving the room. Tony looked up at his boss but quickly averted his eyes, the cold stare Gibbs was giving him was too much. Tony waited for the first question to come up, but he already knew what it was. He just wanted to here it from Gibbs.

"So DiNozzo, when the hell did this happen and how long have you been lying?" He asked and Tony bit his bottom lip before giving his answer.

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AN: Oooo that's a bad place to leave off. But I did it anyway MUHAHAHAHA. Okay I'm sorry, wow, I got a lot of reviews for this! Thanks guys! I usually put up all the people who review but I got a lot and I'm just to high on soda and candy to do that right now. My sisters graduation party hehe, it was fun. But once again thanks for the reviews I'll probably do the name off thing next chapter if it's not to late when I post it. Okay I'll do a quick little disclaimer now I own nothing if I owned stuff I can guarantee you I would be living in this crappy ass state or in this crappy ass house, some say its vintage I say it's old.