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 needs to rely on his family for support.
Notes: Tony's back at work. Kind of put my own feelings about going back to work after being in the hospital in this one. I was ready to go back like a week after I was home, but the docs kept me off about three months more. I discovered I am a work-a-holic when people ask me how I'm doing I always respond "Great! I'm back at work!" and go from there. So I wanted to channel some of that into Tony. Let me know what you think... rounding the bend, so sad...
DiNozzo had finally been cleared to go back to work. He thought he'd been ready for months now but the doctors wanted him to take enough time off to heal from what he had gone through. He knew going back would be bittersweet for everyone because it meant that Ziva was really going to stop working for NCIS, while they were still going to see her it was going to be different. He smiled as he parked his car, he wanted to be back into his normal routines. By the time he got off the elevator he was grinning thrilled to be going back to his desk he didn't realise just how much he'd missed work until he was going up to the floor.
As he got in he noticed there were balloons at his desk, he wasn't sure if Abby or Bishop had done it, or if the two had worked together. He was happy to see that his work family had missed him as much as he'd missed them. He couldn't wait to get his feet wet with their first case. He didn't realise until he got sick how much he loved his job. He was glad that he was so close to his co-workers and still go to see them through everything that had happened.
He had only gotten half way to his desk when Abby came flying, seemingly from nowhere, toward him and hugged him tightly. He smiled glad for the hug, it was just what he needed. He wrapped his arms around her as well, and she smiled at him. McGee and Bishop hadn't arrived yet, and he wondered how early Abby had come in to do this for him. He was lucky to have someone like her in his life on top of everything else he felt so blessed about at home with Ziva.
"I missed you too much," she sighed.
"I missed you too Abs," he assured her. "I'm so ready to be back."
"Good. I'm sure that you won't be disappointed in whatever the first case will be."
He laughed. "I guess I'll find out when everyone else arrives."
Gibbs came in next, holding an extra coffee cup, one which he handed to DiNozzo who nodded as a thank you. McGee and Bishop were not far behind him. He went to his desk and adjusted his chair back to how he liked it and then he began to open the drawers to make sure everything was still where he'd left it. He opened the last one and was thrilled to find the picture of Ziva in the bikini was in there. He thought she'd finally destroyed it after he had been in the hospital; there was a small post it note on it and in her writing it read "for your eyes only." He smiled and put it back where she'd left it for him. He loved that photo of her.
"What's that smirk about?" McGee asked.
"Just a little something Ziva left for me," he replied.
"I don't want to know."
DiNozzo couldn't help but chuckle at that, his co-worker probably thought there was something inappropriate in that drawer, not a simple picture he'd taken out of boredom but always made him smile when he saw it. He then went through his bag, taking a few new pictures out one that Abby had snapped in his hospital room when he was putting Ziva's ring on her finger. There was also one of them in New York where his hair was grown back and they were smiling at each other happily at a small restaurant they'd gone to while they were there, taken by this father. He then began to move small things around to where he felt they went.
"Really Tony?" asked Bishop watching him obsessively switching around objects.
"Like you can talk the way you sort your paperwork," he retorted.
"Fine, whatever, it's good to have you back."
Gibbs' phone began to ring, and the team all looked in that direction, until he hung up. "Grab your gear!" he told them.
Tony couldn't help but smile, he'd been waiting to hear those words for so long. He was still smiling as he picked up his bag, it felt so good to be back to his usual routine, being back at work made it feel all the more real that he was in remission. The past months had been an emotional roller coaster, he had found happiness with Ziva but he had also had to fight to keep that harder than he'd had to fight for anything before which made him realise just how fortunate he was and he was never going to take anything for granted again. He hoped he would never have to live through anything like that again. He was even more aware now how important it was for him along with his co-workers to find out what happened to the victims they were investigating. He knew that what had happened could only make him better at his job, just like it had made him a better man for Ziva. He couldn't wait to wrap his brain around the new case and prove that he could still do his job after so much time off.
Notes: Hope you enjoyed Tony's return to work. Let me know what you're thinking.. only a couple more and it's over kids. Let me know what you think.