Five days had passed since Tony's attack and four since his operation. He still hadn't woken up but he was responsive. Gibbs, his team, Abby, Ducky, Jimmy, and even Vance had all come to see him. The trauma ward had similar restrictions to the ICU and nobody under sixteen was allowed. So Holly and Noah were unable to visit. Ziva had called several times and spoken to Gibbs but between Eliana's illness and her work. It was impossible for her to to get to the hospital. Holly and Noah were still staying with Jimmy and Breena. Gibbs wasn't wanting to leave the hospital until Tony was awake and stabilized. Since it was Friday Jimmy and Breena had offered to let the McGee children stay over for the night. So that the McGee's could go out for a date.

"Are you sure that you want all of us over tonight? Wouldn't you rather go out tonight? McGee and Delilah go out every week and it's been months since you guys did anything." Holly asked.

"Jimmy and I are not going out on dates anymore. At least not anything where you have to spend any money. We are saving money to finally go on our honeymoon this summer." Breena explained.

"Where are you going?" Noah asked.

"Maybe Hawaii, maybe somewhere in Europe depending on how much we have saved up." Breena explained.

"Cool" Holly replied.

"What are you guys doing this summer?" Breena asked.

"Probably just going up to Indiana again." Noah sighed.

"You guys really hate Indiana, huh? Why my college roommate is from there. It's a pretty cool place if you know somebody from there." Breena asked.

"We always just spend it with our mom's family. Her dad blames my dad for our mom's death and her mom just cries. When her brothers are around they always act so weird and Rachel just tries to analyze us." Holly explained.

"Have you told your dad this?" Breena asked.

"He won't listen." Noah sighed.

"He just wants a good relationship with them." Holly clarified.

Holly regretted saying such unkind things to Breena about her dad. He was lying in the hospital fighting for his life and she was complaining about him. The past five days had been really rough on her. She hated not knowing what was going to happen. She hated feeling alone and helpless. It was just before seventh period and Holly was standing outside of Miss. David's room with Julia.

"You still want to come over tonight?" Holly asked.

"Are you sure it's OK with the Palmer's?" Julia asked.

"Breena said it was OK." Holly assured.

"Yeah is it OK if we come over at seven?" Julia asked.

"That would be perfect." Holly replied.

Noah struggled to stay awake during his history lecture. He hated school and wished that he could keep playing the his dad was in the hospital card to get out of school but the day after his surgery. Jimmy and Breena had decided that he needed to get back to normal. He couldn't understand why Holly, Julia, and Chris loved school so much. To him it was stupid and painful. At long last the bell rang and he was the first person out of the room. He met Chris out by the bus ramp.

"Hey Noah, going to the hospital again this afternoon?" Chris asked.

"Maybe later but Breena still has to work." Noah replied.

"Cool, can we still come over?" Chris asked.

"Of course" Noah replied.

"Great can I bring nutter butters?" Chris asked.

"You know Holly and I are allergic." Noah reminded.

"Ugh" Chris sighed.

The twins got home from school and did their homework. The Palmer's were enforcing Tony's rule that if you wanted friends over, you had to finish your homework first. After finishing their homework Holly and Noah walked out to the backyard and sat on the picnic table that Gibbs had built for the Palmer's when they moved in. Holly sprawled out on the grass and Noah sat cross-legged on the top of the table. Holly picked grass out of the ground and set it beside her and Noah tapped his fingers on his shoes. Suddenly the backdoor swung open and Jimmy came flying out.

"Holly! Noah! We need to get to the hospital!" Jimmy called.

"Is everything OK?" Holly asked.

"I just got a call from Gibbs! Your dad is waking up!" Jimmy called.

"He is?" Noah asked.

"Are you sure?" Holly questioned.

"That's what Gibbs said! Come on let's go!" Jimmy called.

Ziva looked up nervously at the door, outside Tony's room. After five long days Tony was finally waking up. She had rushed to the hospital as soon as she got the news and now she was getting nervous. She checked the room number for the umpteenth time. It was the right room and she knew that but she was still afraid to go in. She could not believe that they had let her go into to Tony's room first. Holly and Noah were too young to be in the trauma and everybody else in his family had agreed that she should go first. Still she hadn't been at the hospital at all but everybody else had been there every day as much as they possibly could. She still didn't feel that she deserved to be the first one to go in when he was waking up. At least Ray was in jail and couldn't hurt her or Tony anymore. Finally she took a deep breath and opened the door. She stepped inside and saw a bed in the middle of the room surrounded by machines. He looked so bad. What would she do if he died? Because of her? She slowly made her way over to the bed and picked up Tony's hand. His head turned, he shifted slightly, and then his eyes opened. He looked around the room and then turned his head back towards her. Now his eyes were filled with confusion and fear. He tried to sit up but his machines kept him tethered to the bed. Defeated he lifted his head as much as he could, looked past her towards the door, and then started to panic.

"Tony are you OK?" Ziva asked.

"Kate? Where's Noah?" Tony rasped.

A/N: Poor Tony finally awake but thinking it's 2005. New chapter will be up soon. Please review and thanks for reading.