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Tony could feel it when Gibbs touched his shoulder the first time. He could feel it and he wanted to respond, but his body wouldn't do what his brain told it to. Everything hurt. He was numbed by pain. But then he felt Gibbs shake him, and the tension in his body let go, and he was able to move and turn towards Gibbs. As he did so the pain exploded in his body. He didn't know what to do. He opened his eyes.
"Hey, hey… It´s okay," He heard Gibbs say softly, his hand still on Tony's shoulder. But that wasn't true, not true at all. Nothing was okay. And Tony felt that he couldn't hold it in anymore. He couldn't stop himself.
"Please, Boss…make it stop… hurts," He begged. He just wanted it to stop. Then he felt tears filling his eyes. For a moment he thought of how embarrassing it was, crying in front of his team, but then it was gone, he couldn't hold the tears back from welling up, and he let them come. He felt Gibbs take his hand in his own.
"Hey, Tony… Tony… where does it hurt? Tell me where it hurts?" Gibbs asked him. Where it hurt? That was an easy question to answer. "Every… where." Then the pain increased and he turned his head away from Gibbs, and looked unseeingly up at the ceiling. He didn't bother to react when Gibbs told Ziva and McGee to call an ambulance.
McGee and Ziva looked terrified to Gibbs when he told them to make the call. Then they both got their phones out, looked at each other, and Ziva put her phone back in her pocket and let McGee call.
"Gibbs, can I do anything?" Ziva asked as she leaned forward. Gibbs just shook his head, all his attention on Tony.
"The ambulance is on it's way, but they said it'll take them a while to get here 'cause we're so far away from the city now. Maybe we should drive to meet them, Boss." McGee said after finishing the call.
"Good idea, Tim. Ziva, do you think you could drive?" Gibbs wanted to be able to be there for Tony, and if he was driving he couldn't do that. They quickly changed places and Ziva turned the car around and started to drive. Gibbs placed himself in the middle to be as close as possible to his suffering agent. Tony didn't seem aware of what was going on around him. He was still conscious, his eyes squeezed shut. He was trembling worse than ever and sometimes he let out a moan.
Gibbs leaned forward and placed a firm hand on DiNozzo's shoulder. As he did so, Tony twitched and made a movement as trying to get away, but relaxed a bit when Gibbs started to speak softly to comfort him.
"Tony, I want you to listen to me. We're getting you some help now. We're on our way to the hospital, and they're gonna help you there, okay?" Gibbs didn't get an answer, not that he expected one. He kept talking as they drove.
McGee sat perfectly still behind Tony, he listened to Gibbs comforting to him, speaking softly as if he were speaking to a child. Tim was scared. This was not supposed to happen. Not to Tony. Tony, who never showed any kind of weakness. It must be really bad for Tony to actually cry! Tony was crying, and that was what scared McGee the most.
Ziva also didn't say anything. She tried her best to go as fast as possible on the narrow road, and at the same time drive as carefully as possible, so as not to cause Tony more pain than he was already in. It was a difficult task, but she was glad that she was doing something to help her partner and friend. He really looked bad.
They had been driving for 15 minutes when they finally saw the ambulance coming towards them. Ziva stopped the car, and got out and signaled to it so they would know to stop. Two paramedics jumped out with a stretcher, and rushed towards their car. Ziva went around the car and opened Tony's door for them. A female paramedic leaned in, her eyes taking in everything as quickly as possible.
"Hi there, Sir." She said. "My name is Linda, and my partner Erik is here, too, and we're gonna help you now and take you to the hospital, okay? Sir, can you hear me?" she said, as she checked Tony's pulse.
Tony just moaned in reply.
The paramedics examined him quickly, and asked the team about his symptoms. Then with Ziva's help, they got Tony out of the car and onto the stretcher. Gibbs and McGee got out of the car and they all followed the paramedics and Tony, on their short way to the ambulance. They quickly got him in, and were about the close the door when Gibbs stopped them, and said that he was going to join Tony in the ambulance. He climbed in after Erik, and before closing the door he turned to McGee and Ziva, nodded to them and told them to follow.
He turned to face Tony, who now was very still on the stretcher. He took a deep breath, and let the air out with a sigh, his heart beating hard in his chest.
"Sir, I've already given him something for the pain, and started an IV. He's unconscious at the moment," The paramedic called Erik said when he saw the look on Gibbs' face.
"That's good," Gibbs said as he sat down by Tony's side. He looked down on him where he lay so still on the stretcher. "Do you know what might be wrong with him?" He asked quietly.
"I'm sorry, I don't, Sir. We have to wait with that until we get to the hospital and the doctors there can run some tests," Erik answered.
Gibbs nodded and took Tony's limp hand in his own. He leaned forward closer to Tony and whispered, "You're gonna be fine, DiNozzo."