Hey guys, sorry, I had French orals this week, so I've been learning that =/ All done now though, so I never have to speak it again!!! =D Not that I hate French, I wish I could speak it, but I'm not very good =$ Lol! Thanks to everyone who commented on the last chapter!

"Oh my God." Cassie gasped when she saw Ziva fall. She ran towards Tony and fell to her knees when she reached Ziva's unconscious body.

"What can I do?" She asked. Tony ignored her and carried on rocking Ziva.

"She will die if you don't do something!" Cassie yelled as she grabbed his face. "Let me help."

"Get my phone. Phone Gibbs. Tell him. Then, an.... an ambulance." He choked. Cassie nodded and took the phone.

"Hang in there." Cassie whispered as she put her hand on Tony's shoulder. Tony nodded and turned to Ziva as Cassie flipped the phone open and started to pace as she walked.

"Ziva. Look at me! Come on. Please, wake up!" He slapped her face a little and kissed her forehead. She murmured a little and opened her eyes.

"T...Tony?" She whispered hoarsely.

"Come on! Stay awake! Look at me! Ziva!" He shouted as she slipped away again. She jolted awake again and she blinked several times.

"What happened? Where's Jane?" She tried to pull herself up, but Tony gently pushed her down.

"Ziva, you've been shot. You need to rest; you're losing too much blood." He spoke calmly and rationally, as if he was merely telling her about the weather.

"Oh." She gasped. She tried to remember pain, but only blackness appeared in her memories. She remembered Jane shouting and a beautiful girl. Where was she? She searched for her in her mind and in the ware house, but she only meet blurred pictures of her past. Ehud, Ari, Gibbs, Tony, Jane, Charley, Zara. Zara. Ziva clung onto the last picture of her daughter, but she was brought back to reality by Tony talking to her and slapping her face lightly. However, this time when she came round Gibbs was there.

"Gibbs? How long..." She stopped to gasp, because then the excruciating pain from her stomach hit her. She held her breath and arched her back as she rode out the pain.

"Ziva." Gibbs knelt on the floor next to her. "Calm down." He grabbed her hand and held in as she gripped it to help ease the agony.

"Gibbs. I'm sorry... about... me and Tony." She relaxed again as the pain subsided.

"That is not important. Do you hear me? Stay awake." Ziva nodded gently. She gasped again as another wave of pain hit her.

"Get... Tony... out of... here." She gasped through gritted teeth." It...will...kill...him..to...see...me...like...this." Gibbs chuckled.

"He's not gonna leave you Ziva, no matter how much pain you're in, and I wouldn't dare tell him otherwise." He smiled.

"That's right. I'm here, I'm not going." Tony pushed her hair back from her face. Ziva attempted to smile, but it came out as a grimace because of the pain she was fighting. Tears began to fall from her face as the pain reached the unbearable limit. She moaned and writhed on the floor as the stabbing pain spread through her body. Her breathing became laboured and speed up as she closed her eyes, trying to imagine the pain away.

"Ziva. Hang on. The ambulance is nearly here." Tony whispered. She nodded again and she gripped Gibbs' hand tightly.

"Tony." Ziva whispered.

"I'm here. I'm not going." He stroked her face and wiped her tears away.

"I don't want to see Zara yet. I'm not ready for that. I'm... I'm happy." She raised her hand to Tony's face and she went wide eyed as pain hit her again. She felt like she couldn't fight anymore and she let the mist that was currently hazing her vision, slowly cloud around her and take her.

"Come on! Stay awake Ziva!" Tony shouted. She looked at him, her eyes pleading with him.

"Don't let me die, Tony. I don't want to die." She choked. The blood from her stomach was all over her hands and she was in unbearable pain.

"I won't. You just have to stay awake for me. Can you do that?" He whispered. She nodded slowly and coughed.

"Boss! I don't think she has much time." Tony called to Gibbs.

"The ambulance is on its way Tony. Try to stop the bleeding. Use your jacket or something."

Tony removed his Versace jacket and put it on Ziva's stomach to try to stop the overwhelming blood flow.

"Cost me a tonne this did. You'd better survive." He mumbled. Ziva attempted a smile, but her energy was fading fast and her eyelids began to droop.

"No Ziva!" Tony shouted at her. "No! Come on, you can't do this to me. Or Gibbs. He will be so pissed if you die; only he'll take it out on me." He tried to laugh, but it wouldn't come. "And Probie Ziva. Think of him. He's already lost Kate, I don't think he..." He paused and looked into her eyes. "I don't think any of us, including me could suffer another loss like that. Please, stay awake."

"I'm sorry." She managed to whisper, as her eyes closed...

"No. No!" Tony whimpered. "You will not leave me!" He yelled. He started CPR furiously and tears blinded him. "Don't you dare leave me!"

Gibbs watched on in agony as Tony beat Ziva's chest again, and again and again. "Breathe." He muttered. "Breathe Ziva Goddamit!"

"Don't you dare give up. You hear, David. You can't." He whispered in her ear.

The ambulance pulled into the warehouse and paramedics rushed out and pushed Tony away.

"She doesn't have a pulse. We need to shock her now." The paramedic in his twenties pulled the portable defibs out and set it up.

"Clear." Ziva's body jolted as the current hit her heart. Tony ran his hand down his face.

"Gibbs..." He started.

"No DiNozzo. She won't die." Ziva's body jolted again as her heart was shocked again. Tony felt as if it was his heart being shocked. Every time he watched her lifeless body spasm, his spine went cold. It sounded cliché, but she was him. Her pain was his. Every time her back had arched in pain before, his heart had skipped a beat.

Then, the most beautiful sound came to Tony's ears. The weak, but steady beep that told him that Ziva's heart was beating. Relief hit him and he felt as if he were about to collapse. He laughed and grabbed Cassie into a hug.

"She's alive!" He smiled.

"We have to take her to hospital." The paramedic said. "She's unable to breathe on her own and she's unstable. She's not out of the woods, yet I'm afraid" He nodded at Gibbs and climbed into ambulance and was about to close the doors, when Tony appeared.

"I'm coming." He demanded.

"Sir I don't know if...." But he stopped hen he saw Tony's face ad the fear and pain that it held.

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"McGee!" Abby cried as she leapt into his arms in the waiting room. "Oh my God how is she? Ziva won't die, she just can't! She's Ziva, Mossad assassin and kick ass chick. She's so powerful and she just.... she can't!" Abby wailed as she burst into tears and fell to the floor.

"Promise me she won't become like Kate, Tim. Please." She mumbled as McGee held her to his chest.

"I..." He stammered.

"Tim? She will be fine right?" Abby looked at him and she pulled back at the sight of his face.

"Abby, I don't know how to say this, but Ziva's in a coma. Her body has completely shut down. The doctors say that next 36 hours are crucial." His voice broke at the last word and he held Abby as they both cried.

"She's like a sister to me, McGee."

"I know Abs. I know, me too." They sat there, holding each other whilst they thought about how much of a family member Ziva had become, and the hole she had helped to repair in all of them.

"Where's Tony and Gibbs?" Abby sniffled.

"I don't know where Gibbs is, but Tony hasn't left her side. He just sits there, holding her hand, watching her. I'm getting worried, he won't even eat or drink." Abby just nodded as she buried her head into his chest.

Cassie stood outside the waiting room and watched McGee and Abby comfort each other and she felt a stabbing pain in her heart.

"I'm sorry Ziva." She whispered when she walked over to ICU and saw Tony sleeping with his head on the bed and Ziva's cold, pale body with tubes covering every visible part of skin.

"This is my fault." She muttered. "My fault.

I know! Very cheesy and cliché and what have you! I was listening to this amazing song (Pieces by Red- check it out, seriously, it's amazing) and my imagination just completely ran away! I hope you liked it, and Cassie will come back! She's not as innocent as you think!! I'll try to update soon!

Annie