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: Tony has something important to ask Ziva, what will she say? Thank you so much for all the reviews guys every one really does make me happy, it's like a non-illegal non-life threatening drug hehe...

Ziva was sitting at the edge of DiNozzo's hospital bed, holding his hand as she waited for him to wake up. It was always nerve wracking after he would have a treatment. Thankfully Gibbs had assured her she could take a few hours off that day to sit with him. After what felt like a lifetime he began to stir, and groaned softly as he woke up.

"Zi?" he asked, still groggy.

"I am right here Tony," she assured him.

"You sure you're not my guardian angel?"

She shook her head. "You are too much sometimes."

"But you still love me."

"I do."

He sat up in the hospital bed slowly. She moved to help him, but he shook his head and did it himself. He hated how weak he could feel when he first woke up, and understood that was why he was in the hospital instead of at home with the woman he loved. The doctors were optimistic that his treatment would soon be over, and that he would go into remission. He knew it was time to tell her just how much he needed her, so that she wouldn't leave again.

"Ziva," he told her taking her hand. "I know that this isn't how we thought you might come home, but we both knew you'd eventually come back. I love you more than I have ever loved anyone before, and I want you to know just how much you mean to me." He kissed her cheek softly then whispered into her ear. "Ziva David, will you marry me?"

She gasped, not believing her ears, Anthony DiNozzo Junior was proposing to her. Her eyes grew wide when she saw the ring he as presenting her with. It was white gold with an emerald set in it wasn't traditional and she loved it.

"Yes," she whispered.

He took the ring from the box it was in and placed it on her finger. She smiled at him, then kissed him softly on the lips. She melted into the kiss for a long moment, her heart racing she was so happy they were at that point in their relationship. She finally pulled away, curiosity getting the better of her, needing to see what the ring he'd chosen looked like. She also wondered how he had gotten ring since he had not been out of the hospital in weeks.

"I love you so much, where did you get this?" she asked.

"From Senior, it was my mother's."

There were tears in her eyes. "Tony, are you sure?"

"Positive I can't imagine anyone else wearing that ring, and my father agrees."

"All right," she assured him curling up into him as best she could on the small hospital bed.

"I can't wait til I go home, we need to break in that new bed you bought."

She laughed. "There's something to look forward to. This ring is amazing your mother must have been a very unique woman."

"She was, she told my dad that if he thought about buying her a diamond she'd leave him."

"Really?"

He nodded. "She was the only person who was able nail my father's feet to the floor. She said she knew that eventually he'd ask, what she didn't know is he'd already bought her this. He said he saw in the store and something about it made him think of her.

"You have never talked about her much before, she sounds amazing. "

"I couldn't find the words before. She was she used to make up my bedtime stories for me off the top of her head. Even when she was in the hospital she'd call me to tell me a story. I hadn't thought about that in a long time."

"I am happy you told me. I wish I could have met her."

"She would have loved you, and she would have been thrilled you were the person I gave the ring to."

"Really, but were you not engaged before?"

"I was but she wanted something traditional, maybe that's why it didn't work out."

She kissed his cheek softly. "I think this ring is beautiful perfect even, and it is even more special to me now that I know it belonged to your mother. I cannot wait to tell everyone."

"It's gonna be great to see their reaction to this."

"I agree I think we both needed something good right now."

He ran his fingers along her cheek. "You're right, and for now we can focus on the future."

She kissed him softly. "I would like that. I cannot wait to tell everyone. Now I have even more reason to stay."

He smiled. "I figured if we're engaged if things get hinky when we're at home together there's more reason for us to fight.'

"Tony I should have fought for what we shared a long time ago, and I am not going to let you go again."

"Good, cause I don't know what I'd do without you."

She ran her fingers along his cheeks then kissed him softly, but more intimately than she had while he'd been in the hospital. Both of them wished they could do more to celebrate their engagement but knew they couldn't. They also knew that visiting hours would soon be over, and it would mean they would once again be in separate beds, on opposite sides of the city when they both wanted nothing more than to be able to curl up together and let the world melt away even if only for a moment.

Notes: Of course she said yes! Would you expect anything less? Let me know what you think :D I guess are nearing the half way part of this fic... reviews are good for the soul heart