Ziva sat up in her hospital bed and stretched her arms in the air. The ability to move her bones made her body creak and snap, but the feeling of movement made her smile. She saw the figure of Gibbs in the hall outside her room, speaking to a doctor. Memories of what happened during her darkened days came back to her. Gibbs almost confession of why there was a rule 12, Tony's million visits , and McGee's crazy love life, all happened to her seemingly lifeless body. What they didn't know was that she memorized every word they said. She knew things about people, good things, bad things, even weird things, that all clouded her brain. Ziva shook herself out of the past and looked past the shadow of Gibbs to the small stair case that was on the far side of the floor.
Was he coming? Did he even know I was awake?
Gibb's figure moved to her door after nodding the doctor a farewell and the door creaked open, the gray hair of her boss poked in.
"Ziva? You awake?" he whispered.
"You can come in. I'm awake. I have had enough to last a life time."
The door fully opened and her sleep deprived boss walked in, coffee in hand.
"How are you?" he asked.
"Okay, I guess."
"About what I said before…" he started, sitting down on the end of the bed.
"Let the sleeping frog lie." She answer, which gave him a smile.
"Dog."
"What dog?"
"Let the sleeping dog lie."
"Oh… Well, I really need you to know that even though you disagree about me and Tony's love, you can't stop it, or make us not feel what we feel. I don't need to know why you don't like it, that is your business. Keep what you need to yourself."
"Ziva, when you woke up it got me thinking about what I went though, and it is kind of what you are going through now, with Tony. You should know what happened so you don't make the mistakes me and…"
"You don't have to tell me Gibbs." Ziva said back, trying to stop him.
"And Jenny went through."
I knew it!
Suddenly yells of shock from the hall made both agents look up and out the window. A man pushed past people at top speed, weaving as best he could through the crowd.
Tony.
He skidded to a halt at the front of the nurse's office and rambled something; his mouth spoke the words Ziva could understand perfectly.
"Ziva David."
After a quick look at her computer, she pointed to room 128. He gave her a curt nod and bolted straight to Ziva's door. He pushed into the room and panted. After a few seconds with his head down, he lifted his head up slowly and locked eyes with Ziva. Tears streamed down both of the lovers faces. Finally his mouth formed into a smile and he jumped up.
"Ziva!"