Title: My Heart Cries for you
Author: Trista Groulx aka dustytiger
ating: T (same as the show)
Disclaimer: I am remain poor and don't own NCIS it belongs to it's creator, network, writers, actors and actresses who bring it to life weekly.
Summary: Tony is diagnosed with leukemia and has to rely on his family for support.
Notes: This .part is about Bishop I don't mind her, it's the only part where she's featured so heavily, I wanted at least one part with every part of the team. Thank you for the support on this one keep the kind words coming.

Bishop knocked on the door of Tony's hospital room softly. She heard him call her inside. She smiled when she saw him, she could tell the treatments weren't easy on him but he smiled at her. She had a bag with her, and took out a game of Scrabble, it had been her favourite game for a long time, and hoped that he would want to play with her. She'd read that it was important to keep person's brain sharp when they were sick, and hoped she'd be able to do that with him.

"I thought a board game might be nice," she told him. "I hope you like Scrabble."

"I have a feeling you're gonna kick my ass, but yeah I like it."

"Good, I want to keep your brain sharp while you're in here. I know that Gibbs gave you a DVD player I don't want you to rot your brain."

"What I watch isn't brain rot Bishop, you'd know that if you'd take my movie suggestions once in a while. I watch classics that are well written and have stood up to the test of time."

"Whatever, but I still don't really watch movies, I like to read to wind down."

"Come on you and your husband don't curl up under a big blanket and watch movies?"

She laughed. "No! Come on really?"

"I've curled up with a beautiful woman to just have a movie night before, it's romantic."

"I think we have a very different view of romance, Tony. When I want to do something with my husband I cook him a nice meal we eat by candlelight and we talk."

"Sometimes talking doesn't feel right."

"You're right, and in that case we usually just read books he doesn't really watch a lot of TV or movies. We watch documentaries sometimes, those are always interesting."

"You're an odd duck Bishop, but it sounds like you found the right guy for you."

"I'm really lucky, I usually don't pick on men flirting with me," she told him.

He laughed. "Bishop you're something else you really are."

"I'm glad we're getting to know each other outside of work."

"Me too."

She started to set up the game for them, and before long they were playing and still chatting about things they've never really talked about before. They had never spent a lot of time outside of work together, and she was happy she was getting to know the real him. She already thought of him as a big brother but now that they were really talking she felt a closer connection with him, and hoped they could continue to work on their budding friendship.

"Tony?" she asked. "Have you ever been serious with anyone?"

"There's been a few women, my ex-fiancée Wendy who decided to change her mind at the last minute that changed me for a long time."

"That's something hard to bounce back from, I'm so sorry."

"It's water under the bridge now. There was Jeanne who I knew I shouldn't have fallen for because she was part of a case I was working for the director before Vance, that ended as you would expect when you find out the person you've been dating has been lying about who he is. The writing was on the wall but I guess I hoped it could end differently somehow. And then there's Ziva. I want her happy and she seems happy in Israel so I'm dealing with that."

"You deserve to be happy too Tony."

"Like Abby says sometimes you just need to sit back and let the universe do its thing."

"I guess you're right but I want to see you happy," she looked at her tiles then the board. "You're better at this then you let on."

"I think I'm just getting lucky, you can't argue that I don't need as much luck as I can get right now."

She smiled at him. "Fair enough," she agreed.

They continued their game she was sitting cross legged on his hospital bed across from him. She was glad she was getting some one-on-one time with him. Gibbs didn't want overwhelm him with visitors so when she had said she was planning on stopping by for the evening he decided to go home to get a jump on a new project he had in mind.

"Tony do you know what Gibbs does in his basement?" she asked.

"Builds things and drinks bourbon, he's made a boat down there before."

"A boat? Like a boat boat?"

"Yeah."

"How did he get it out?"

"I'm pretty sure that when we figure that one out we'll also find the answer to life Bishop."

She laughed. "Your sense of humour certainly hasn't been affected."

He shrugged. "They say humour is good for you. This might change a lot of things, but at the heart of it I'm still me and I'm not about to change now, maybe just improve with age, like fine wine."

"You're too much."

He shrugged. They played a little while longer, chatting about whatever came to mind until a nurse came in to inform them that visiting hours were over. Despite the fact she was sure he would cheat, she kept the boards game and moved it to a small table so they could play again when she came back and see who won the third game and break their tie.

Notes: Well that was that, it wasn't so bad was it? Let me know what you think I always love to hear from people. Heart.