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: I had to write so Abbyness hehe... Thank you as always for the support on this one. We get back to Tony in the next part.

Abby had come up from her lab looking for Gibbs, she had something for him, and he needed to know about it as soon as possible. When she got up to the bullpen and noticed everyone was working away at their computers, but Gibbs was not there. Bishop was sitting on the floor behind her desk, headphones in, clearly working on something. McGee looked up and smiled at her, and Ziva looked quite at home working from Tony's desk.

"Trippy," Abby muttered under her breath.

"Sorry, what was that Abby?" Ziva asked.

"You working at Tony's desk and Bishop working at yours it's just like uber hinky. I thought Tony had totally marked his territory and would never leave."

Abby had worked with Tony the whole time she'd been with NCIS and it was odd not to have her work big brother there. She had been trying to visit with him regularly but sometimes it was hard, and a lot of the time she liked to give Ziva time alone with him. She knew that there was more between them now and she wanted to give them the space they needed to work on their relationship. As much as she was happy that Ziva was home she wasn't sure what would happen when Tony got better.

"This is only until he comes back, and it will be his desk again," Ziva assured the goth.

"Won't you miss us?" asked Abby.

"I will still see you, just not daily Abby."

"You're really gonna stay?"

"Yes, I am. We will talk more about it later?"

Abby went over and hugged her. "I'm so happy!"

"I am too Abby."

Gibbs came back from what had clearly been a coffee run and Abby practically dragged him toward the elevator to show him what she'd found. By the end of the day they had gotten the case under control, and Ziva was glad she was going to be able to make visiting hours with DiNozzo, but first she knew she had to go talk to Abby. She went down to her lab, not surprised to see her dancing to the music she was playing.

"Abby?" Ziva called over the music.

"Hey Ziva, I thought you'd be racing off to see Tony," she told her.

"I said we would talk."

"So you're really going to stay?"

She nodded, "yes, so long as I do not overstay my welcome with Tony."

"Wait, you're gonna stay at Tony's after he's better?"

"I want to."

"Wow, when did you, you know figure out you were more than friends?"

"When he was in Israel, nothing happened while we worked together we had too much respect for Gibbs to do that."

"So you're saying there was something there before?"

"Of course there was I was and still am closer to Tony than I have been with anyone in my life. When he found me in Israel I realised I had been lying to myself for a long time and it was time to stop."

"Then why'd you stay?"

She shrugged. "There was something in me I thought I needed to find and could only find it in Israel. It stopped being important when I heard about Tony being sick. All I kept thinking after Gibbs told me was I could have had another year with him and I knew where I needed to be. I finally decided that I want a real future with him, and I keep praying I will get that chance."

Abby hugged her tightly. "I'm so glad you're home. Tony just has to be okay, he's finally found someone who loves him, the universe can't take that away he's done too much good for that."

Ziva nodded, smiling. "This is my home now I never should have questioned where that was. I want you to be right, but honestly I'm scared."

"You're home now and that's what matters. I didn't know you got scared."

"When it's something that matters to me I do, thank you for listening Abby."

"I'm here no matter what, go on see Tony, I'm sure he misses you."

"Come with me I know it's been a week since you've seen him."

"We're trying to give you your space."

"We appreciate that, but I can't hog all of his time, please Abby let's pick him up some pizza and see if we can get him to eat."

"All right."

The of them left getting into Abby's car and they went toward the hospital. They stopped at his favourite pizza place, and picked up a small meat lover's pizza for him, and a slightly larger vegetarian pizza for them on their way. When they arrived he seemed very happy to see the two of them and happy they had still warm pizza for him. They both knew that being in the hospital was hard for him, and they were glad that they had been able to take full advantage of visiting hours that day, he was alert and had an appetite it's all they could ask for. He looked like he needed the time with his friends that day more so than most and they were going to take full advantage of the time they got that day.

Notes: I wish someone had brought me pizza in the hospital lol... actually most of the time all I wanted was real coffee! Anyway lemme know what you think heart thank you for the kind words it means a lot.