Sonny, Brad and Tony waited in room 412 for the results of Ton's x-rays. Each one worried about the results. Sonny is scared that if the results are bad, and he expects them to be based on how pale Tony is, that Tony is going to die. Tony worries about the one thing that he always worries about when he has these check-ups, if he will still be able to remain a field agent. Brad always hates to be the bearer of bad news, especially when it comes to Tony. So much of Tony's life is wrapped up in being a Field Agent. It is a joke between them now, but neither will ever forget how Brad was responsible for breaking Tony's leg during a football game; costing him his chance to play pro ball.

A small woman knocked on the door of the hospital room while Tony was using the room's bathroom.

"Hi Robin." Sonny acknowledged.

"Dr. Pitt, the test results are in. I will take you to the doctor's lounge."

Just after Brad left with Robin Tony came out of the bathroom. He looked around the room and only saw Sonny. "Where did Brad go?"

"Your test results came in, he left with Robin."

Tony seemed disappointed that he didn't get to see Robin. "You mean I missed her."

"You're here for a week, I'm sure you will see her at some point."

"How is she doing?"

"Robin is married and has a gorgeous little girl." Sonny informed him. "Why don't you lie down for a while, you look exhausted."

Tony did sit on the bed, but he is determined not to fall asleep.

"You know what saying I really hate." Tony began with a yawn. "'Easy as breathing', whoever coined that term obviously never had pneumonic plague. Breathing was one of the hardest things I had to do while I was in the isolation chamber. I wasn't sick when I was first brought there, but I had already been exposed to it. When I was taken to Bethesda, we didn't know what the white powder I had inhaled was."

Tony rambled before falling asleep.

Brad stood alone in the doctor's lounge viewing the result. He turned his head when he heard the door open. Steve, Robin and Patrick walked into the room. Steve was curious about the patient. Robin didn't know who the patient was but knew he had some type of link to Sonny as she had seen him in the room when she went to get Brad. Patrick was curious about what was going on and also being supportive of his wife. All 3 General Hospital doctors got a look at the x-ray of probably the worst lungs that they had ever seen.

"Smoker?" Patrick asked.

"Actually no. Funny though I have seen chain smokers with better lungs than this guy.

"I can see why you wanted the x-ray magnified to 200 percent, with all the scar tissue on the lungs it would be hard to see what was going on." Steve commented still staring at the x-ray.

"If you don't mind me asking, what happened to his lungs?" Patrick asked.

"Y-pestis." Brad answered.

"Pneumonic Plague." Robin gasped.

Steve and Patrick couldn't believe it either. How does someone end up with a disease that really hasn't been seen since the Dark Ages?

"Worse actually, genetically altered pneumonic plague. This version of plague was resistant to any and all antibiotics. On the upside, it had been created with a suicide chain. The virus dies after 32 hours, but"

"By then the damage had been done."

"My patient developed pneumonia as a result of the damage done by the plague. He was given a 15 percent chance of survival, but he pulled through. He is one hell of a fighter."

"Looks like fluid is already building in his lungs." Steve pointed out.

"It also looks as if the lungs are having trouble receiving oxygen." Patrick brought up. "The lungs can't function like they use to."

"Yeah, I am just trying to tell him what the problem is and how I am going to fix it. In a language that he is willing to understand."

"Which is?" Steve asked.

"How it will affect his job. He is a Federal Agent, a Field Agent." Brad answered hoping that 4 heads could come up with a way to fix the situation and allow Tony to do what he does best.

At the word "Federal Agent" Robin had an idea as to who the patient was. "Are you talking about Tony DiNozzo? Tony had pneumonic plague."

"You know him?" Patrick asked his wife.

"For years, he is Sonny's nephew and a friend, although we really haven't kept in touch. Last time Tony was here, I was in Paris." Robin explained. "Tony loves his job; no way is he going to give it up."

"Any ideas how to keep in the field with failing lungs."

"A daily antibiotic will help deal with the fluid that is building in his lungs. Since the lungs are failing, it is too easy for fluid to build in them. Especially as he sleeps." Robin tossed out.

"An oxygen mask at night will keep forcing oxygen into his lungs while he sleeps. If there is going to be a time when the lungs are going to fail, it will be at night." Patrick added.

"He will still need to be on oxygen 24/7 at least for few weeks; giving the antibiotic and mask at night time to work. But as for being a field agent, only time will tell." Steve advised.

"I just how wonder how Tony will handle this." Brad wondered sadly.

AN: Up next Tony learns the results. Gibbs, Abby and Ducky come to Port Charles