Holly rested her head on the passenger door, window in Gibbs's car. Her surrogate grandfather's words replaying over and over in her head. "Unconscious, possible swelling in the brain, won't know until the scans are back." Swelling in the brain was really serious. When she was in the fifth grade the boy who sat two rows ahead of her, fell off the monkey bars over Christmas break. He had swelling in his brain. He was in a coma for months and missed the rest of that year. She saw around from time to time. He went to the special needs school and was mentally only three or four. What if the same thing happened to her dad? What if he was reduced to a forty three year old toddler? It was bad enough having to help her seven year old cousin change out of her wet Good-Nites. She could not imagine having to changer her dad's diapers. Who was she kidding social services would never let a teenager take care of a severely disabled adult and mildly disabled teenager. That only meant one thing. Moving to Indiana to live with her grandparents. They were nice enough and cared for her and Noah but they always cried when they saw her and her grandfather hated her dad. She dreaded even the idea of five years in the middle of that soap opera style drama.

"You OK, Holl?" Gibbs asked.

"I don't want to go to Indiana." Holly muttered.

"Okaay" Gibbs replied confused.

"If my dad is a brain-damaged, giant toddler who watches Sesame Street! I don't want to move to Indiana!" Holly cried.

"I'm still not following." Gibbs replied.

"This kid I knew in elementary school Travis hit his head really hard and he had swelling in his brain. When he woke up he was a giant toddler. If that happens to my dad. Noah and I are going to have to move to Indiana." Holly explained.

"I am sorry about your friend but your dad is strong. He will come through this just fine and if he doesn't than you and Noah can stay with me until you are grown." Gibbs explained.

"Where will my dad go if he can't take care of himself?" Holly asked.

"Most likely a home for people like him but Holly you are too young to worry about all of this. You are just a kid." Gibbs explained.

"But I have to be the woman of the house." Holly explained.

"Your old man really needs to get better so that he can give you a mom and you can enjoy your teenage years." Gibbs replied.

"I don't care about any of that I just want him to get better." Holly replied.

"Me too Holl. I love that crazy Italian like a son." Gibbs replied.

Noah tapped his fingers on the plastic arm of the chair. He didn't understand why this was such a big deal. His dad hit his head all the time and he had gotten a lot of concussions before. Why was everybody so upset? He would be fine. He always was. Noah didn't think that his dad getting hit on the head, was enough of a reason to be stuck in a hospital waiting room.

"I'm bored." Noah sighed.

"Shut-up!" Holly warned.

"What's the big deal? Dad gets hurt all the time." Noah commented.

"Didn't you hear Gibbs? He may have swelling in his brain." Holly explained.

"Yeah so?" Noah asked.

"It means that he may not be OK this time! God,! Why are you so stupid?!" Holly cried.

"I didn't know." Noah replied nervously.

"Holly, how about you go get a snack and take a little walk?" Gibbs suggested handing Holly a five dollar bill.

"Yeah OK" Holly sighed.

Noah got out of his chair and moved closer to Gibbs. He wasn't scared before but he really was now. It must be really bad if even Holly was scared. She was always the brave one of the twins. The brave and protective sister. If she was scared than their dad must be really hurt bad. If he died then they would be orphans. Where would they go? He knew a few kids who had been adopted and a couple others in foster-care. Was that the fate that him and Holly would have if they were left orphaned? Holly was so pretty and smart. Even though they were older she would get adopted right away but Noah, he was stupid and had so many health problems. Nobody wanted a kid like him.

"You OK?" Gibbs asked.

"Scared" Noah admitted.

"Don't be, everything will be OK. I promise." Gibbs assured.

"How can you be so sure?" Noah asked.

"I can't but your mom always said that you make your own fate and if you were afraid all the time. Bad things would happen." Gibbs explained.

"She must have been really smart." Noah commented.

"She was" Gibbs replied.

"Just like Holly." Noah sighed.

"And you too." Gibbs added.

"I'm not smart." Noah sighed.

"Of course you are. Just in your own way." Gibbs replied.

Gibbs managed to get Noah calmed down and then Holly came back into the room. She looked a little more relaxed. She slid back into her chair and whispered an apology to Noah. Who nodded and promised that he understood. Now that the twins were calmed down it was his turn to panic. Holly's concerns about brain-damage and Noah's about death were weighing heavily on his mind. He had told the twins that everything would be OK but he wasn't so sure.

"Agent Gibbs, may I speak with you?" Dr. Fowler called.

"Just a second." Gibbs replied.

Holly and Noah watched as Gibbs left the room with the doctor. This was the moment of truth. In a matter of minutes they would know just how much damage had been done to their dad and hopefully at least have an idea of if he would be OK or not. Five minutes later Gibbs returned with a nervous look on his face. He sat down in the seat between the twins and put his arms around their shoulders.

"How is he?" Holly asked.

"He does have swelling in his brain but it is not as bad as the doctors had predicted. They are cautiously optimistic that it will go completely down on it's own in the next twenty-four hours but if it doesn't they may have to do surgery to relieve the pressure." Gibbs explained.

"Is he awake? Can we see him? Noah asked.

"Here's the bad news. He is in a coma and they can't tell me exactly when he will wake up. The next twenty-four hours will also be very critical." Gibbs explained.

"What's going to happen to us, until he gets better?" Holly asked.

"I am going to stay here until your dad is awake just in case but Jimmy and Breena have agreed to let the two of you stay with them." Gibbs explained.

A/N: Good and bad news about Tony. The next few chapters will be from the POV of the twins, Gibbs and Ziva. New chapter will be up soon. Please review and thanks for reading.

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