Deanna sat in the ambulance and didn't say a word. All she did was hold on to Tony's lifeless hand. She knew that by time he made it to the hospital they wouldn't be able to save him. She looked at her husband on the gurney. He was covered in blood. He had stopped breathing on his own, so paramedics put a tube down his throat. His blood pressure was dangerously low. She prayed that if the bullet hit any organs that it didn't do damage. She looked at where the bullet wounds were. There was one on his side and one in his chest. There was so much blood at their house she didn't realize that it more than likely shredded his heart with the position it when in at. When the paramedics tried to clean Tony up and get a heart monitor on him she could see the bullet wound in his chest. This was going to be one more long night. She was still in shock when they got to the hospital and the paramedics rushed Tony inside. Gibbs ushered her to the waiting room. The poor thing had no shoes on and was in a blood covered nightgown. He sent a message to McGee to bring a fresh pair of clothes and shoes for Deanna up to the hospital. McGee was oblivious to what had happened. He called Gibbs concerned that something happened with one of the twins.

"Hey boss, why can't Tony go back to the house and get her some clean clothes?"

"Because Tony is the one in the hospital, he's been shot." Gibbs spat

"Shot? Is he ok? Is he going to make it?" McGee questioned.

"I don't know McGee just get the clothes and get your ass down here."

Gibbs hung up the phone and put an arm around a distraught Deanna.


McGee made it over to the DiNozzo's house. Kate was upstairs keeping an eye on the twins. He worked his way into the master bedroom. He stopped dead in his tracks. There was a huge pool of blood in the floor by the sliding glass door going out to the patio. Tony really was going to die, McGee thought. No one loses that much blood and lives. He tried to make his way around the puddle of blood to get to the closet. He couldn't help but cry. Tony had been such a mentor to him. Even if he did pick on him more times than not. Tony really was a good friend and didn't deserve to die. He gathered the clothes and headed to the hospital. By time McGee got to the hospital, Gibbs, Abby, Ducky and Palmer was all sitting in the waiting room with Deanna. She was rocking back and forth, had her arms folded and kept repeating something that McGee couldn't understand. As he got closer he could make it out, she was saying I could have saved him. It broke McGee's heart because he knew chances are there was nothing she could have done differently. Kate finally made it to the hospital. Breena Palmer agreed to watch the twins so she could be there for Deanna. Kate and Tony had a special relationship all their own. She almost lost him when he got the plague but now this was even more serious. She couldn't imagine losing her partner, the man that drove her nuts and the one that was a hell of an agent to something this petty. Deanna didn't want to leave the waiting room, she wanted to be there when the doctor told them about Tony. She was beating herself up for him getting shot. Kate finally convinced her to go get cleaned up. That when Tony opened his eyes that he would like to see her in clean clothes. Even though the chances of Tony actually waking up at all or even being alive were very slim. Reluctant, Deanna slipped off to the bathroom to change.

"I don't know what happened but we are going to get that scum bag." Gibbs said "I don't want anyone talking about the case around Deanna. She's been through enough already. We will get this person off the streets. She needs to take care and be there for the twins."

"Do you think he's going to live Gibbs?" Kate questioned.

"Based off of what I seen when I got to their house…."Gibbs answered but hushed when Deanna walked back into the room. He looked over at Kate and shook his head.

"Uh…I need to make a phone call." Abby said getting up and stepping outside.

She had wanted Deanna and Tony to hurt but not like this. Yes she was still upset with Deanna for taking Tony away from her and upset at Tony for marrying her but she didn't want him dead. She pulled her phone out of her pocket and dialed a familiar number.

"Hey so I thought I would give you a heads up. Tony was shot tonight. They don't know the extent of the damage as of yet but I thought you might want to know….Gibbs thinks Tony is going to die. I thought you guys might want to come out and say goodbye." Abby hung up the phone. If anyone knew she made that phone call, they would be pissed at her. But she felt they had a right to know.

The doctor came out with a somber look on his face, one that Gibbs knew oh too well.

"How is our dear Anthony doing Doc." Ducky asked.

"I'm afraid it doesn't look good. His left lung has collapsed but that's the good news. The bad news is the other bullet went through his heart and ripped it up pretty good. How he ever made it to the hospital is a miracle to me. He should have died before he ever hit the ground. We went in and tried to repair the heart, but it was so mangled and beyond repair." Doctor Pitt explained.

"Isn't there a way to do a heart transplant? I think we have someone right now in the morgue who had signed up to be a donor." Palmer exclaimed.

"I'm afraid that wouldn't help. We did several scans on his brain, Tony's brain dead."

Those words hit Deanna like a ton of bricks. How could this be?

"Right now we have him on life support. Tony was an organ donor and he still has several vital organs that can help save some others. Mrs. DiNozzo it will be your call on when you want to turn off the machine."

"Do I have to? There's no chance of him coming back from this?" Deanna questioned. She couldn't let him go not now.

"I'm afraid there's no hope for him. I am terribly sorry."

"Can we see him and spend some time with him first?" Gibbs asked.

"Of course. Will you all please follow me." Dr. Pitt said and had the team follow him to Tony's ICU room. Deanna could hardly walk her tears flowing so hard she couldn't speak. When they made it to Tony's room it was a hard sight for the team to see. Tony was hooked up to all kinds of machines that was forcing him to breathe and causing his damaged heart to beat what it could. Even though Tony couldn't speak he knew the team was there. He could hear them. He had always heard that the hearing was the last thing to go. He desperately wished he could say goodbye to the team or better yet just raise up off of this bed and hug and kiss his wife one more time. His poor kids, they were so young and didn't deserve to grow up without their father. His hope was that Gibbs would get the person that shot him, that would be at least a little bit of closure not only to him but also to the team and his family. A film came to mind. He thought about the movie Ghost with Patrick Swayze. Maybe he could help the team catch the killer, but would the team need a median to communicate back and forth for them?

"Do we really have to turn off the machines? You know we need him and he could come back from this." Abby said crying. She acted as though she was the only one in pain over Tony dying.

Deanna finally broke her silence "Do you really think you're the only one here who's in pain? Do you think I like being helpless as I watch Tony die in front of us? How about watching him get shot right in front of you and you're the one that tries to save him and tries to get the bleeding to stop. Don't act like the victim Abby. Unless you do something to try and save him don't speak to me."

Gibbs put an arm around Deanna. He knew she had to be in pain. He had seen people shot before but for it to be a close friend it really hurt. A nurse brought in enough chairs that the entire team could sit with Tony. He had lost all his color and didn't look like the Tony any of them remembered.

Ducky could only think within the next 24 hours he would be talking to Tony, but it would be with Tony lying on a metal slab in Ducky's autopsy. It would be one of the hardest autopsy's he would ever have to perform. He never wanted to do one on a friend.

Palmer went over and talked to Tony for a minute. The tall man leaned down to Tony's ear and whispered. "We need you Tony. Don't leave us." It broke Tony's heart. Palmer and Tony had a lot of good times together watching movies on the weekends while drinking beers.

Abby didn't want Tony to leave her, not this way. It would have been easier if he would have moved off somewhere, but for him to be dying was unfair. He couldn't leave without saying goodbye. They all needed him. She remembered after he returned to work from having the plague. His first day back he almost got himself killed when a car bomb went off. Gibbs had told him to rest so he made his way down to Abby's lab. She let him lay his head on Bert which now she couldn't help but laugh. Every time he moved his head, Bert would fart. Of course when Gibbs came down he thought it was Tony doing it. How Abby longed to have more fun memories with Tony, but that was all being stripped away.

McGee couldn't help but think there was so much more Tony could have taught him. Sure he still made fun of him but Tony really was a good teacher. McGee felt like it should have been him to get shot. He should have been over at the DiNozzo's that night to protect them. Tony had invited McGee over for dinner, but instead McGee opted not to go because he was still working on a few papers. If he would have been there would they of stayed up later? Could he of stopped the shooter? Would Tony still be alive?

Kate remembered when Tony had the plague and they were locked in isolation together. She tried to tell him she was stronger than him but to be honest he was the strong one for protecting his family. Her mind started to wander. What life would have been like if only Tony would have asked her out. Of course there was that rule of not dating co-workers. But she felt like that was kind of out the window. Tony had been with Ziva after all. She regretted being so rude to him and wished she could just hug his neck and tell him thank you for being a great friend.

Gibbs sat next to Tony and remembered all the head slaps that he had given him. Tony was the best agent he had and he truly was irreplaceable. In that moment, the man who seemed unbreakable broke down and cried.

Thoughts kept going through Deanna's head on finding a way to keep Tony. She couldn't just let him go. This felt like a bad dream like the one she had when she was pregnant with the twins. Could she be pregnant again because surely this couldn't be real.

Doctor Pitt came back into the room "It's time to let him go."

Each member of the team said their goodbyes. Hearing their goodbyes made Tony want to get better but there was no hope. He wanted to say goodbye to his team, to his wife and kids. Then a thought came to him. What will Deanna do if she finds out about Ziva and Tali? I should have told her. I meant to tell her but never seen the right opportunity. He wanted to say goodbye to them as well but they were halfway around the world. In typical Gibbs fashion, he had to give Tony one more slap on the head. But instead he patted his head.

"You done good son." Gibbs told him as he patted Tony's head.

Deanna had tears rolling down her cheeks. She touched Tony's face and rubbed his cheek just as he had done to her many times. He had saved her and made her a better person. Now her rock was about to be gone.

"Are you ready Mrs. DiNozzo?" Dr. Pitt asked

Deanna leaned down to Tony's ear and whispered "You go we will be fine here. The team will watch after the twins and me. I love you." She gave him a kiss on the cheek.

She looked up at the doctor and said "No but go ahead."

Dr. Pitt turned off the machine and took the tube out of Tony's throat. It was hard to watch him struggle for air. Deanna put her hand on his chest she wanted him to know she was there for him as he had been many times for her. Tony could see a bright light that begged him to come to it. It was like all his worries and pain was gone. In that moment Deanna felt Tony inhale one last time and his damaged heart stopped beating. The sound of the heart monitor flatlining startled Deanna. It meant Tony really was gone. When his heart stopped beating a piece of hers did too.

"I can't do this anymore. I can't live life without you Tony DiNozzo. I love you." Deanna said climbing in the bed with him and lying next to him one last time. "It's not fair Gibbs. Just a few hours ago he was holding me and now he's gone." Deanna laid her head on Tony's chest. She listened for a heartbeat refusing to believe he was actually dead. It took Gibbs, Palmer and McGee to pry Deanna off of Tony so that they could take him down to the morgue. When Ducky pulled the sheet over Tony's face, Deanna went hysterical. It finally set into her he really was gone and wasn't coming back.

With Tony dead now, how will it affect the team, Deanna, and will Ziva come back to say goodbye? Plus the investigation starts into who killed Tony, but will they catch the right person? New chapter up soon! Please review!