"Agent Gibbs?" A female voice asked. Gibbs blinked. He had eventually drifted off to sleep. Gibbs jumped up. "Easy, I'm only here to let you know you can see him" the woman smiled. Gibbs nodded and got up, not even looking around him to check if Ducky were there. He'd understand. Gibbs followed the woman into the ICU and bit back a gasp at what he saw. Tony looked so fragile, like a little child, if it hadn't been for the ventilator artificially raising his chest and deflating it again, the IV drip going into Tony's left hand, the heartmonitor beeping happily along, and the catheter. "We're monitoring his intercranial preassure" the nurse said. Gibbs raised an eybrow. "Swelling inside his head" the nurse said after a while. Gibbs nodded. "Over there's a chair, you just press that button and I'll be right here" the woman said and disappeared. Gibbs walked over to the white, uncomfertable, plastic chair, and sat down with a grunt.
"You're aging me Tony, more than you know" Gibbs sighed as he watched Tony's face, then he chuckled, "you're going to kill me for this, but I let them shave off a lot of your hair, but to my defence, it WAS to save your life" Gibbs chuckled, then turned serious again as he grabbed Tony's lax hand in his own. "Tony, I really need you to wake up and be okay.. if you dare to.. if you have braindamage.. if I ruined you.. I couldn't. can't live with myself if I cause you misery and pain" Gibbs whispered. No reply, and Gibbs pressed on Tony's ring - finger, watching it limply hanging, Gibbs's hands making it move. Gibbs sighed and put Tony's limp hand back on the bed again before he sat back in the chair and proceeded to stare at Tony.
Light was filtering through the curtains of the hospitalroom as Gibbs blinked. And suddenly the world exploded in sounds and movements. Tony's body arched up from the bed, the heartmonitor announced that Tony's heart was in serious distress, and two nurses and a doctor came running in. The woman he had seen earlier detatched Tony from the ventilator as more nurses came along. Gibbs pressed himself up against the wall as the medical team struggled to save Tony's life. Everything went hazy and Gibbs could only stare at the doctors and nurses worked on Tony. Suddenly, it was over. Tony was hooked back on the ventilator and he was limp again. Gibbs swallowed.
"What.." Gibbs couldn't manage to say the rest. Fifteen percent.
"It was a seizure, it's fairly common in coma patients, but we'll have to do a CT scan of his head" the doctor informed him.
"Is.. is this a sign of braindamage?" Gibbs asked.
"What? No, not really, but it's a sign that his intrcranial preassure has gone up again" the doctor said.
"In other words, his brain is trying to push it's way out?" Gibbs asked.
"uh.. yes.. well.. sort of" the doctor said, "I'm sorry, I have to go order the tests" the doctor said and left with a worried glance in Gibbs's direction. Gibbs sat down in the chair again, grabbed Tony's limp hand and sighed.
"You're cold Tony, you always get cold when you're sick, never fails" Gibbs said and encased Tony's hand in both of his own hands. "We're going to find those people who did this to you" Gibbs whispered, "I mean it Tony, no matter how hard it gets, we're not going to back off or give up, we're going to do this for you, because you're our friend, you're MY friend, and I hoped.. I hope, that som day, maybe we could be more than that, but of course, that'd be up to you, not me, I mean, I DID hit you with my car" Gibbs said and chuckled, before he shook his head and continued, "I'm sorry Tony, I really am" Gibbs whispered. He reached out one of his arms, his hand landed on th nearly bald head of his senior field agent, and he ran a hand through it. "Marine hair cut, I like it" Gibbs whispered.
"Agent Gibbs? We're ready for the CT scan now" the woman he'd met earlier said. Gibbs turned around.
"What's your name?" Gibbs asked.
"You can call me Nana, excuse me agent Gibbs" Nana said and walked over to the bed where Tony was laying, detatched him from the ventilator and proceeded to bag Tony while two other orderlies pushed the bed, "He'll be back in no time" Nana reassured Gibbs. Gibbs sighed, got up, and walked into the waitingroom where Ziva, McGee, Abby and Ducky were sitting.
"How is he?" Abby asked worriedly.
"He had a seizure, they're taking him up for a cat scan" Gibbs said.
"How can a cat scan Tony?" Ziva asked McGee.
"It's a CT scan Ziva, sort of like an x-ray machine but with live images instead" McGee said. Ziva looked embarassed.
"Right" she mumbled and looked at something very interressting about the interior of the hospital.
"Seizure?" Abby asked, dumbfounded.
"He's in a coma" Gibbs said, "they say there'll be braindamage" Gibbs said, "if he wakes up" Gibbs added as a whisper.
"He'll wake up!" Abby said, "Gibbs you can't give up like this! If you do, I'll hate you forever! He'll wake up!" Abby was bordering on hysteria, and Gibbs just embraced her, holding her tight as sobs ran through her body. "He'll be fine.." she kept repating to herself.
"He will be Abs" Gibbs soothed, running a hand up and down her back, "he'll be fine" Gibbs breathed.
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