Coming Back and In Death We Part

"Charging two fifty! Clear!" Tim's body jolted but still nothing

"Charging three hundred! Clear!" Still nothing

"Charging three fifty! Clear!" a small blip appeared on the monitor followed by yet another long bleep. "Miss Scuito you may wish to leave." He said quickly looking up at Abby. Her eyes were wide with fear that she could lose her Timmy but she refused to abandon him no matter how distressing things became. She silently shook her head like an upset child does after they've been told off.

"Very Well. Last one. Charging four hundred! Clear!" Tim's body jolted violently and stuck to the pads for a while before falling back on the bed. This time the charge was so great it singed the unprotected hair and left rectangular burn marks on his skin. However the monitor jumped back to life and began to beep in intervals like it had done previously. Abby smiled tears rolling freely down her pale face she could always count on McGee's strong dependable heart to keep pumping, keeping him attached to the world she shared with him.

The light was growing closer and closer it was so bright it was blinding him but he didn't shy away he just kept drifting towards It, as he got closer he could feel its warmth the same warmth he experienced when he lay in bed with Abby it soothed his now aching body a few feet closer he could now smell the gunpowder scent that was most definitely Abby and hear her soft voice calling him the tunnel was now filled with light and the sounds and smell of Abby but then Abby's voice became upset and he could hear sobbing. He stopped and tried to call to her saying it would be okay and he was coming for her but the words would not leave his throat. The light began to dim and the sobs began to get louder.

"No McGee you can't leave me. Please don't leave me"

It was no use as much as he tried to fight the force now pulling him back through the tunnel he could not get to the light and get to what he fought was Abby. He was now falling faster and faster the light now becoming smaller until suddenly the tunnel exploded with light and he found himself in bed next to Abby. He sat up and noticed Abby had an engagement ring on then it all flooded back to him he had proposed last night she had agreed but then it went black and now he was in bed with her. Where had the events between Abby becoming his fiancée and him waking up now gone he certainly didn't remember getting into bed, becoming worried he woke Abby.

"Abs…Abs…ABBY!" he said shaking her

"Huh wuh five more minutes" she mumbled sleepily

"Abby what happened last night after I proposed to you?"

"Do we have to do it now? I'm still worn out from last night so put 'Big T' away" she mumbled eyes still closed. He guessed what had happened but why couldn't he remember it. He put it down to just being extremely tired and turned to cuddle up to Abby and fell back asleep.

Abby sat in the waiting room with Ziva and Tony. Gibbs was currently in with McGee the doctors and nurse had to practically drag Abby away to allow the others to see Tim.

Gibbs stared down at McGee his head heavily wrapped in a white bandage stained with blood.

"You'd better wake up from this coma McGee or I will slap you upside your head so hard your children will feel It." he sighed "if you can hear me what I say you better not tell Dinozzo or David either or I will personally kill you and leave no trace, Abby's not the only one who can do it." Gibbs said smirking to himself "McGee when I first met you I didn't trust you with my team but since then you've proved me wrong, I pre-judged you and I'm sorry you were becoming a great agent just wake up soon okay. Wake up not just for me but for Abby she loves you, you know even after she broke it off with you she'd come running to me every time you got a new girlfriend all angry and teary eyed. But now your together again you've got a chance, she's changed you know. So don't screw up" Gibbs looked down at the young agent and smiled then walked out and call Tony in.

"Hey probie how you holding up? Gave us a scare when you walked to far towards the light" Tony's boyish smile disappeared after he had realised just how close he had come to loosing his probie "listen Tim although I tease you, pull pranks on you and okay yer I told everyone in admin you're gay. I think of you as a little bother man an….an if you don't make it out of this I-I don't know what I'll do, it'll be like I'm missing my right arm" Tony's eyes glossed over with tears and he grabbed hold of McGee's hand and patted it "just don't leave us things would be a lot darker with out our McProbias. Wake up soon okay" Tony walked out into the waiting room and took over from Ziva hugging Abby so she could have her turn seeing McGee.

Tuesday morning began to dawn Gibbs, as always didn't sleep a wink in the waiting room whilst Ziva and Tony slept slumped against each other and Abby was in with McGee asleep in the chair holding his hand. He had been blaming himself, tearing himself apart inside that he had let one of his team members come to harm. As the sun hit his eyes he snapped out of it 'Time to wake the kids' he thought to himself. he stood up making a slight noise to which both Ziva and Tony shot up.

"How is he?" they said in unison

"Same as he was when you fell asleep" they looked at the floor "we got to get back to the office there's stuff to be done"

"But boss can't we leave it till McGee's awake" whined Tony

Gibbs head slapped him "no Dinozzo now gas the car"

"But…."

"What part of 'no' and 'gas the car' did you not understand?" Tony reluctantly left before Gibbs could head slap him again dragging Ziva with him.

Gibbs gently pushed McGee's door open trying not to wake Abby he crept over to her and shook her gently "Abs….Abs….come on Abs time to wake up" her eyes sleepily opened to meet Gibbs stare "come on Abs we've got to get to the office"

She shot bolt upright and stared defiantly at Gibbs "you expect me to go back to work a day after my boyfr…" she cut herself short not being familiar with using the word and connecting it with McGee at the same time "after my boyfriend has been shot and is now in a coma" Gibbs looked back at her with sympathy she reminded him so much of Kelly. She even glared the same way she did and so he caved for her one more time.

"Okay you stay here. Let us know if anything happens okay" he kissed her on the forehead and left.

Had this just happened 'I must be dreaming' McGee thought to himself 'surly that had not just happened' McGee had chased a gun wheedling suspect four blocks and arrested him single handed, then when they got back to NCIS Gibbs had come to his desk and in front of the whole team told him that when they first met he didn't trust Tim with his team but now he was wrong. He even said sorry for pre-judging Tim and said he was becoming a good agent. Then Dinozzo had come up ten minutes later and told Tim he thought of him as a little brother and wouldn't know what to do without him. Although both had said the same thing and Tim was puzzled by it both had said 'wake up soon okay'. Hell he was awake he couldn't have been more awake. He felt pain when Gibbs had head slapped him earlier for sneaking off to see Abs so they could talk about the wedding and he could hardly breathe after he chased the suspect that must have meant he was awake. But yet he felt things were to fake, to perfect and what was more worrying to him was there were parts in time were he just seemed to skip ahead to another event without recollection of the time that had passed like last week after he proposed to Abby then skipped to waking up next to her not remembering having sex with her. "Maybe I'm just working to hard" he mumbled to himself taking a sip of Caff Pow.

Abby sat staring at McGee she'd gotten two hours sleep before Gibbs woke her. She opened the window in an attempt to keep herself awake, but the soft sounds of the early morning birds were gently drawing her back to sleep. But she had to fight it to see her Timmy, to make sure he didn't slip from his grip on life again. She stroked the back of his hand with her thumb.

"Timmy, Tim wake up Tim come on Gibbs will kill you if you're late" she tried hoping he could hear and he'd wake up but still nothing. She tried a different approach and lent forward and whispered in his ear "you know if you wake up maybe a game of Sciuto dress up will be in order" the heart monitor beeped a little faster so she knew he must of heard her and for the first time since McGee had been shot she smiled and knew he was hanging in there.

"Timmy, Tim wake up Tim come on Gibbs will kill you if you're late"

"Ah just a few more minutes Abs come on" McGee replied sleepily

"you know if you wake up maybe a game of Sciuto dress up will be in order" Abby whispered back seductively. Tim's eyes shot open and he bolted out of bed and scooped Abby up and carried her to the bathroom.

"Well that was a….dirty shower maybe we should do that more often first thing in the morning" Abby giggled pulling her top over her head.

"I'll bare that in mind after you've become Mrs McGee" Tim replied pulling on his jacket. He pulled Abby towards him and they walked out the door together. Then just like all the over times before everything went pitch black and McGee was on his own floating in nothingness.

Abby had just closed her eyes when her ears were pierced by the ringing of an alarm. She opened her eyes to see McGee's heart rate monitor beating faster and faster. He began convulsing but still his eyes remained closed. Doctors and nurses came bursting in.

"Nurse we're going to lose him if you don't hurry up with that hypodermic!"

Abby's eyes welled up and huge tears began spilling from her eyes running down her cheeks further smudging make up.

"No Tim! Come on! You got to wake up honey come on!" she shouted in panic "you…you just can't leave me not now…Tim Wake up I love you please"

The black nothingness melted away and he was now standing facing a huge stain glass window with a picture of Jesus on the cross. An organ began to play the Bridal Chorus and McGee turned to see the most beautiful thing he had ever seen a woman with black hair drawn into pig tails, wearing a traditional white wedding dress with the exception of a black sash walking elegantly with bunch of black roses towards him. She came level with him and he stared deeply into her eyes.

"Do you Timothy McGee take Abigail Sciuto to be your lawfully wedded wife to have and to hold, from this day forward, for better for worse, for richer for poorer, in sickness and in health, to love and to cherish, till death do you part"

Tim's answer was on its way to his lips when he noticed that all the guests had blurred and that Abby's face had black tear tracks down each side and she was whispering to him.

"No. No. Tim you can't, don't leave me please I need you I love you Tim come back!"

"Abby. Abby I'm here I'm not going anywhere I'm marrying you I'll never leav-"

"Come back Tim! Wake up don't leave me forever" Abby cut over him as if he hadn't said anything Tim was getting more and more frustrated.

"Why does everyone keep telling me to wake up? I am awake!"

The guests that had become blurry were now fading and turning black. All that Tim could see now was Abby he tried to hug her to comfort her but his limbs wouldn't move and words dissolved in his mouth. His eye lids became heavy and droopy he tried to fight to keep them open. Finally his right arm moved he stretched out and touched Abby's cheek but instead of feeling warm wet skin he felt nothing but air before he could think any more his eyes closed fully. Again he was floating in black nothingness, he couldn't feel any part of his body and yet again there was a bright light he began to slowly drift towards it. He reached it then saw that this time there were two balls of light each like a television showing moving pictures. The ball on the left felt warm and Tim could smell freshly mown grass and J-Lo Glow. The ball showed Abby chasing after a toddler who was running towards McGee giggling with arms outstretched for a hug. However the ball on the right felt cold and smelt of industrial strength bleach the kind hospitals use and showed a man in a hospital bed with tubes and wires stuck on and in him. Doctors were desperately performing CPR on him but Tim knew he was dead and gone. He turned to the light on the left and was about to step into it when he herd a muffled voice from the ball on the right. He turned back to it and saw Abby unlike the ball on the left she was not happy her face was a mess of smudged black make up, tears and snot. Her hair was tangled and straw like, she was sobbing uncontrollably and begging the man to wake up. McGee couldn't bare to see Abby upset and had to comfort her, but if he stepped into the ball on the right would he be able to go back and stay with his child and Abby. He came to a decision, to sacrifice his chance with a toddler and a happy Abby to comfort a distressed Abby in an unkind world. He stepped into the light.

The heart monitor carried on with its long drawn out beep, Tim had stopped convulsing and Abby feared the worse. Then Tim's lifeless body jolted, he gasped for air, sitting bolt upright he tried pulling the tube from his mouth.

"Abbhee…wherb's Abbhee?" he mumbled still pulling at the tube and looking wide eyed round the room. The doctor's pinned him back to the bed and removed the tube.

"Where's Abby?" Tim tried to shout through a whisper, the tube they had removed had made his throat sore and he could barely talk.

"Tim!" Abby shouted as she rushed to his side and threw her arms around him he returned the hug wincing slightly as he pulled at the I.V needles and he rested his head against Abby's.

"I thought you had gone, never leave me Timmy……don't leave me" she whispered through her tears. Tim knew at that moment he had chose the right light and he began comforting her. He gently rocked her back and forth whispering to her.

"It's ok Abs I'm here now. I'll never leave you. I'll always be here for you. Shhhhh its ok" he stroked her gently as he soothed her with whispered words.

"You know I kept talking to you whilst you were out, I thought maybe if you heard a familiar voice you'd wake up soon" she pulled back and looked deeply into his eyes. He struggled to move but cupped her face in his hands and whispered.

"It got through Abs. It got through" she so desperately wanted to kiss him but the doctors pulled her away and told her he needed to have a full check up before she could see him again. She desperately refused to leave his side and McGee protested against her leaving but in vain security was called and Abby was dragged kicking and screaming into the waiting room where she was forced to sit looking like an extremely pissed gothic child she glared at the guard standing over her.

"You know I am one of the few people in the world who can kill you and leave no forensic evidence" she stated bitterly giving him a death glare. The guard shifted uncomfortably and gulped.

Author's Note: Hey sorry for the long update writers block and other stuff. Now I'm not sure if to squeeze one last chapter in, review even if you haven't got an account and let me know what you think and maybe I'll try for another chapter otherwise I'll leave it here. Hope you all enjoyed it and thank you to one of you who spotted a few spelling mistakes if anyone spots anymore just tell me on the reviews and I'll change them. Oh and to those you didn't quit get the title of this chapter 'Coming Back' obviously refers to McGee coming back and 'In Death We Part' is referring to the fact that in his coma he was getting married but by waking up he was dyeing in his coma therefore he was parting with his dream fiancée Abby. If that makes any sense that and I thought it would scare some of you that McGee could still die.