AN: Teensy missing scene for SWAK.
He didn't used to mind blue. Shannon had loved him in it; said it brought out the color of his eyes. This blue was altogether different. It didn't evoke memories of warm days, clear skies, and happier times. It certainly wasn't the piercing shade that gazed back at him from mirrors.
Blue was tainted now. The blue of the lights signified someone he cared about balanced on a knife's edge between recovery or slipping away, and leaning the wrong direction. Now blue was ominous and cold; a harbinger of death. He hated it. Gibbs leaned down, desperate to tilt the balance back the other way.
He despaired for a moment when his first attempt to push back against the blue was ignored. He delivered a light smack to the top of Tony's head. When green eyes snapped open he leaned closer and spoke again. The soft, intense voice radiated confidence. "I said...you will not die."