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Chapter 14

Tony shut the door quickly, ducking the bedpan and trying to figure out what on earth had upset his friend so much.

"Jimmy!" Tony called through the door, "It's me Tony!"

"Just leave me alone!" Jimmy said not looking at him, "It's safer that way."

"What?" Tony braved the onslaught of bedpans he figured his next action would bring and walked into the room again.

"Did they send you to arrest me?" Jimmy asked sounding utterly defeated.

"What the heck for?" Tony was very confused, He knew Jimmy had been through a lot but why would he think he needed to be arrested. "For crying out loud Jimmy you're the victim!"

"But they're all dead because of me….mom, dad, Leroy…" Jimmy burst into tears.

"What! Who told you that?"

"The nurse that was here earlier told me they were all dead, if I hadn't been high they wouldn't have died." Jimmy said turning away. "She said it was because I was on drugs that they had died."

Tony stormed out of the room and walked straight into Susan who was checking Jimmy's chart, "Morning." She said he smile slipping as she saw the look on Tony's face. "Tony, what's wrong?"

"What did you say to Jimmy?" He yelled maneuvering her into a corner.

Susan looked confused and more than a little scared as Gibbs came around the corner and saw them nose to nose. Tony looking more angry than he had ever seen him in the past.

"What the hell is going on?" Gibbs growled.

"That's what I want to know, Jimmy thinks you're dead and apparently a nurse told him his whole family had died!" Tony snarled looking angrily at the nurse, "You know what he's been through why did you tell him that?"

Susan looked confused…."Oh Hell!" she said annoyed, "We have a nurse on staff she's on probation for jumping to conclusions about patients and her unorthodox manner. I found her in Jimmy's room this morning she got him mixed up with Jimmy Parker; the Meth addict down the hall who drove his parent's car into a wall killed his whole family outright."

"I wanna see your supervisor now!" Gibbs ordered. He wanted to walk straight into Jimmy's room and tell him he was ok, but it was close to shift change and there was no way he was letting this other nurse leave before he could make her wish she had never messed with his little brother.

"Is there a problem here?" Dr Stoker asked seeing his nurse crowded by two men.

"Yes, I think we have a problem with Nurse Jonson. She went into James Palmers room instead of her assigned room which is Jimmy Parker's room and told him his family was dead." Susan said outraged one of her nurses had done this.

Dr. Stoker stood aghast he knew there had been complaints about the nurse before, but he had hope she had changed her ways. He turned to Susan, "Bring Helen to my office, then I want you to go and sit with Mr. Palmer and inform him of her mistake. Oh and make no mistake, Sister or not she is fired." Susan Stoker looked at her husband and nodded, "I know Dave, I know."

Gibbs looked at the man, "The nurse is your sister in law?" he asked

"Yes I am sorry this should never have happened I think I just gave her too many chances, her boyfriend died a few years ago of a heroin overdose, she's young and rather…er…free with her mouth, but this was the last straw she's been warned before." He explained.

For a second Gibbs felt sorry for the woman, but his anger at the extra suffering the nurse had put his brother through won the war with his emotions.

He leant against the wall as Helen opened the door, not seeing Gibbs she walked in, "Dave…?" She started and stopped at the look of disappointment on his face.

"What did you say to the Palmer kid?" he asked.

"Me! Nothing. Why what did he say, I sat there and monitored his vitals, it wasn't until Susan came in that I found out I was in the wrong room, then I just left and went to Jimmy Parkers room."

"So, Helen, if you didn't say anything to Jimmy Palmer, how did he come to think that all his family had been killed by him?" Dave asked carefully.

"Well, come on Dave he's a meth head, who knows what he'll come up with." She said trying to justify herself.

"Jimmy is NOT a meth-head!" Gibbs growled moving himself off the wall behind her. "He was a victim of a crime, who was given Meth. You have no right to judge him."

"Who are you?" Helen said instantly on the defensive.

"I'm his DEAD BROTHER!" Gibbs growled his face so close to hers she started to shake. "You have no idea what that boy's been through and you have the audacity to call yourself a caregiver."

"I….." Helen knew she was in trouble.

"Helen, gather your things, you're fired!" Dr. Stoker told her his face impassive.

"Dave! NO… What! It was a mistake, come on!" she begged.

Dave turned to his sister in law; "Helen get the hell out of my hospital!" he said flatly and watched impassively as she fled from the room.

Dave sagged as he watched her go, "I am so sorry Mr. Gibbs, and your brother should never have had that happen to him."

"It's Agent Gibbs and don't apologize, it's a sign of weakness." He turned and walked down the hall.

Dr. Stoker followed him, "I'm coming to see your brother as well Agent Gibbs. You may see apologies as a sign of weakness, but I don't and I for one fully intend to apologize to your brother for my nurse's actions."

Gibbs nodded as Dr. Stoker followed him down the hall.

Jimmy sat in his room, he had refused point-blank to talk to anyone and yet they kept sticking their heads around the door to talk to him.

So in desperation he had moved his bed and barricaded himself inside his room.

"Jimmy please; I just want to talk, honest everything is ok." Tony said from the other side of the door.

"Nothing is ok Tony; it never will be again….I can't do this, not now….just leave me alone!" Jimmy yelled. Even through the door, his sobs could be heard as he curled himself in a corner and cried for the family he had been so optimistic for.

Jimmy could see the 'dead' corpses of his family looking at him accusingly, 'you killed us Jimmy, it's all your fault!' the voice of his dead father said to him. "Leave me alone!" He yelled balling up his fists and rubbing at his eyes.

Tony looked around and let out a sigh of relief as Gibbs walked around the corner.

"Boss, he's locked himself in, I think he's moved the bed behind the door, he won't believe me; I've told him your fine." Tony told him.

"Jimmy?" Gibbs' voice cut over all the other voices in the hallway.

"Leroy? Oh God, I'm still hallucinating." Jimmy said.

"JAMES ALVIN GIBBS, OPEN THE DAMN DOOR!" Gibbs barked.

Instinctively Jimmy jumped and moved the bed, "Good." Gibbs said gruffly as he entered the room, "Do I look like a damned hallucination to you?"

"Leroy!" Jimmy's smile swept across his face as he ran and hugged his brother, "You survived, I'm so sorry…." Jimmy took a step back, "I…Dad….is he…I mean…did I?"

Gibbs moved his brother back onto the bed.

"Dad's fine, the nurse lied, she got you mixed up with another patient, your mom's in a good rehab, I checked on her myself, that's where I've been, she's going to be ok."

Jimmy held onto Gibbs needing the physical contact that came with it to realize that he was real.

Dr. Stoker checked him over, "Are you still having hallucinations son?" he asked kindly.

Jimmy looked at the corner of the room where his 'dead' family were slowly fading out of existence. "Noooo." He said, it sounded false even to his ears but he hoped they wouldn't call him on it.

Dr. Stoker smiled, he knew Jimmy was still hallucinating, the meth wouldn't immediately leave his system, "I want to keep you here for another 24 hours for observation."

"I'll stay with him." Gibbs said leaving no room for argument.

Dr. Stoker nodded "I think that would be good." He said as Susan helped Jimmy back into bed.

"DiNozzo, go to my house, pick up my father and Ducky. I think they both would like to see Jimmy and then head back to the yard and get on the interrogation of Bruce and John Palmer, I want you and Ziva to handle it personally, Kate and Tim can work on getting this case fast tracked, by the time Jimmy's out I want the Palmer boys on trial."