NCIS:
TONY AND ZIVA'S TURN...
DISCLAIMER:
NCIS and characters do not belong to me.
SUMMARY:
Sequel to:
TIMOTHY MCGEE, IF I HAVE TO TELL YOU AGAIN...
A couple of months ago Timothy McGee and Abby Sciuto got married; now it's time for Tony and Ziva to figure out what they want...
CHAPTER 8: WORRIED ABOUT, ZIVA...
A HOSPITAL ROOM...
When Gibbs reached the hospital room, he found Abby sitting in a chair.
Sarah on her left and Tim on his right, they were just talking and Tim was assuring them that other than a pulled muscle in his neck and that he was fine.
When Gibbs walked in the three looked toward the doorway.
"Hey, boss. The doctors said this is the room where Tony is going to be for the night. They're running some test on..." Tim began.
"Where's Ziva? She's not..." Abby couldn't finish and Tim grabbed her hand.
"Ziva's...in a coma, but she's stable." Gibbs told her and Abby started to cry.
"She can't die. We've already lost so many people...Mike, Kate, Director Shepard..." Abby began.
"Abby, no one said she is going to die and Ziva is a fighter. Just think of everything she's done and survived. I'll go see her later and tell her the same thing I told Tony when..." Gibbs began stepping further into the room.
"Talking about me? Where is, Ziva? She's missing..." Tony asked as he was brought into the room and settled in the bed.
"Ziva's in a coma in ICU." Tim said quietly.
"What?" Tony asked as his face paled and he tried to get out of the bed, but Gibbs put a firm hand on his shoulder.
"She's stable, but she's in a coma and you..." Gibbs began.
"I have to go see her, boss." Tony said trying to get up again.
"You need to stay here and rest." Gibbs told him and Tony glared at him, but after a few more minutes of fighting he gave up.
"I will go see her tomorrow." Tony muttered.
"What happened today?" Abby asked looking from Tony to Tim.
"We were on our way to the crime scene and Tony asked me..." Tim started.
"Can we leave what I asked you out of this?" Tony asked.
"What did you ask him, Tony?" Abby asked. "It's not important." Tony said. "Then why don't you want us to know what was said?" Abby asked.
"He asked,
'If you and I ever get any work done while'..." Tim began.
Tony reached out to smack Tim, but Tim was too far away.
"I remember Ziva screaming something and then everything went black." Tony said. "Ziva screamed your name right before the other car hit us in the passenger's side of the car." Tim told him.
"If we got hurt, how did you..." Tony started to ask.
"You got a concussion, Ziva hit her head pretty hard and I pulled a muscle in my neck." Tim told him.
"Lucky you weren't the one that was hurt as bad," Tony muttered.
"Lucky me…Tony, Ziva is in the ICU fighting for her..." Tim began.
"I know you don't have to tell me. What happened to the person in the other car?" Tony asked.
"He was killed and Duck should be doing the autopsy right now." Gibbs told him.
"Good, because I would have killed him myself," Tony said bitterly.
"You would have had to stand in line, because I was actually the first one to say that." Abby told him closing her eyes for a moment and looking tired.
"Are you all right, Abb?" Tim asked looking at her.
"I'm a little better now, than I was when I first heard about the accident. Ziva has to make it through this, she can't leave us." Abby said and started to cry again.
"Abby, look at me..."
Abby looked at Tim
"...she will make it and Gibbs has already said that he's not going to give her permission to die. She will have to come back to us." Tim said kneeling in front of her and pulling her into his arms.
"Why don't you two go on home?" Gibbs suggested.
"NO! I want to stay here for, Ziva." Abby said firmly pulling out of Tim's arms.
"Abs, you don't only have yourself to think of. You have a baby on the way and you look tired. If you go home, I'll call you if anything changes." Gibbs told her and Abby looked like she wanted to say something else, but Tim pulled her to her feet.
"I have to go see her, boss. I want her to know that she needs to come back." Tony insisted, once Sarah, Tim and Abby disappeared.
OUT IN THE HALLWAY...
Sarah, Tim and Abby were almost to the door…
When Abby turned around and started to head to the elevators.
"Abby!" Tim yelled and turned around to catch up with her.
"What? I'm going to see, Ziva and nothing is going to stop me." Abby declared.
"Abby, I can tell you're tired. Let's go home Gibbs said he would call us if anything changes." Tim reminded her.
"No, Tim. Ziva is up in ICU all alone, Tony is here and so is Gibbs. Everyone is here and I need to be here." Abby insisted as she got into the elevator, Tim jumped in right behind her.
"Abs..." Tim began.
"You're not going to change my mind on this." Abby said as a minute later the doors opened on the ICU ward.
ICU WARD...
With a sigh Tim followed her to the ICU Nurses station.
"...for, Ziva David." Abby was told the nurse with Tim right beside her.
After telling them they would only be able to stay for a few minutes, the nurse told them where Ziva was, Abby walked down the hall.
They heard footsteps behind them and turned around...
Sarah and Gibbs...
"I thought you went home..." Gibbs began.
"How did you know where we were?" Tim asked and looked at Sarah.
"He saw me walk past Tony's room on my way out. I'm going to catch a cab home." Sarah replied.
"Abs..." Gibbs began.
"I have to see her, Gibbs. I have to see for myself that she's still alive." Abby said and stopped in the doorway to Ziva's room.
The person did not look like, Ziva and was hooked up to machines.
Abby couldn't move and felt like she was going to be sick. She felt Tim's hand on her back, she turned and he wrapped his arms around her.
"Abby?" Tim asked as Abby began to cry.
"It's not Ziva...it can't be. Ziva is somewhere and we don't know where, but she is not hooked up to those machines. She can't be..." Abby said as Tim stood there holding her.
"Sarah!" Tim called, as he saw Sarah headed for the elevators, but the elevator doors closed behind Sarah and she was gone.
Gibbs made his way into Ziva's room and walked to the left side of her bed, then took her left hand.
"You have to wake up, Ziver. I'm not giving you permission to die and everyone is having a hard time trying to stop Tony from leaving his room to come see you. You have a lot of people who care, so you better come back to us." Gibbs said and then letting go of her hand, he made his way to just outside the door where Tim was still holding Abby.
"I had to see her, but it..." Abby was saying.
"Come on, I'm taking you two home. Abby you need to rest and get something to eat." Gibbs told them.
"Gibbs, I can't..." Abby began.
"Come on, Abs." Tim insisted with one arm around her, he began to lead her out of the hospital again.
The three soon left the hospital, but...
TONY'S HOSPITAL ROOM...
Tony was restless and couldn't stand being in the bed, he needed to go see Ziva and talk to her.
He wanted her to know he was there and would be not matter what.
Finally Tony couldn't stand it any longer and made way out of his room.
ICU WARD...
It took Tony a while and he couldn't believe that he made it to Ziva's room.
He had no idea how he didn't get caught and didn't care.
As long as he got to see Ziva for himself and talk to her, he knew he didn't have much time he had, before the nurses would be looking for him.
Tony didn't care though, because he had to see that Ziva was really alive.
"Hey, there is so much I want to tell you and I don't know where to begin..."
Tony began as he sat down in the chair beside Ziva's bed and took her hand in his own.
"...You have to wake up, Zi. We didn't start dating four months ago so that you could die now and you better know. I told you before I can't live without you and I don't know or think that I could live without. You have so much to live for. We have been through so much together and I can't lose you. I love you, Ziva." Tony his voice cracking and he just sat there.
After a while he was still sitting there, until he heard someone else enter the room.
"DiNozzo, what are you doing here? You're supposed to be in your room, they're looking for you." Gibbs said and Tony looked over at him.
"I had to talk to her and see her, boss...She has to know that I'm here." Tony told him.
"She knows that we're all here for..." Gibbs began.
"I'm not going to leave her. I was going crazy in my room just thinking about her in this room alone." Tony said.
Just then the monitors began to go off, nurses and doctors rushed in.
Tony was pushed out of the way he stood beside Gibbs and watched.
This couldn't be happening...