Tony pulled into his driveway and saw that Noah was fast asleep in the backseat. Tony walked around, picked his son out of the backseat, and carried him inside. It felt weird for him to be carrying his son into the house. The last time he had carried Noah inside, was when he ten years old and fell asleep on the ride home from an all day field trip. His son was so much smaller back then. Noah had always been short. The doctors said that the plague had likely stunted his growth but Tony suspected that the twins just took after Kate because Holly was only slightly taller than her brother. He had hit a small growth spurt recently and the doctors suspected that was contributing to his heart giving out. That if he grew much more, even if he got a kidney transplant and managed to beat the cancer. His heart would still fail. He hated that his son was dying. He wanted to take Noah and run away. To one of the far off places that the twins used to talk about when they were growing up. One of the places where nobody ever got sick or died. Where their family could be whole. Like the families of the twins friends but those places were just in the imagination of his children, when they were just tiny. His children; one of whom would never grow-up, meanwhile the other was forced to grow-up way too fast. So instead he carried Noah upstairs and lowered him into the hospital bed. He changed his son into his pajamas and set a fresh pair on the dresser just in case. He had meant to swing by the drug store and pick up some adult diapers, at least for when Noah was sleeping but the boy was so weak and he could not justify leaving him in the car. He would have to ask Gibbs or Ziva to get some supplies for him and Noah. One of them would be bringing Holly home from school. He put Noah on the c-pap machine he had gotten from the hospital. This was going to kill him. He didn't want it to, because he did not want to leave poor Holly all alone. How selfish was that?

"Tony?!" Gibbs called from downstairs.

"I am in Noah's room!" Tony called down.

"I will be right up!" Gibbs called back up.

Tony gently stroked his son's hair. One advantage to Noah not getting chemo therapy for his cancer. Was the fact that he would not lose his hair. Noah loved his hair as much as he did and Holly found her brother's strong attachment to his hair. As Kate had found his attachment to his hair. He had a little him and a little Kate but he was going to lose his mini me. Not that losing Holly was any better or any worse. Losing either of his children would be hell. He thought that because he knew that Noah was sick and had been his entire life. It would be easier to face his demise but it was actually harder. Noah had beaten the plague and now he was dying. Because his body was crapping out on him. Tony had always worked so hard to be enough for the twins and to keep them as safe as possible. So that they would not suffer the same fate as Kelly Gibbs. Now his son's body was in a state of rapid decline and it was all his fault. He had opened that God Dammed. SWAK envelope. It should be him dying from effects of the plague. Not his sweet son, who was just an innocent victim.

"I got some supplies for Noah." Gibbs said handing Tony a bag.

"Thank you" Tony replied.

"There's groceries for you downstairs and some stuff for Holly on the doorknob to her bedroom. Just let me know if you need anything else." Gibbs explained.

"Thanks, uh this is probably going to be embarrassing for you but I needed to get some diapers for Noah. He is having issues with bed wetting and as he progresses. His incontinence will get worse. If you don't want to buy them. I will go grab some. Just stay with Noah, while I am gone." Tony replied.

"I've bought worse undercover and even worse on drunken dares in my Marine days but that is a story for another day." Gibbs replied.

"Thanks, dad" Tony replied.

"Oh before I forget, Ziver picked Holly up from school. She was really upset about something but Ziva could not get her to open up." Gibbs explained.

"I will talk to her." Tony sighed.

"Let me know if you need my help." Gibbs replied, before exiting the room.

Ziva studied Holly who sat beside her in the front of the Mini Cooper. She had been leaving Tony's house with Gibbs. When her phone rang. She saw that is Holly and immediately answered. She was greeted by the sound of Holly sobbing hysterically and begging her to come and get her.

"Do you want to talk about what happened?" Ziva asked.

"Julia betrayed me!" Holly snapped.

"Did she say something bad about you? Is something online? Do I need to take you to the resource office?" Ziva asked.

"It was about Noah." Holly sniffed.

"That is very serious! I am taking you back to the school and you are going to tell somebody what she said!" Ziva cried.

"It's nothing like that. She told her dad about Noah." Holly explained.

"Why is that a big deal?" Ziva asked.

"I told her it in confidence and she went behind my back." Holly explained.

"Maybe she just wanted to help you or maybe she needed to open up?" Ziva offered.

"It was still really mean and I am not her friend anymore. I don't need to be wasting time with her anyway. It is just time away from Noah. In fact I am going to beg dad to put me in online school. So that I can be with Noah all day and if he refuses. I will just be sick the rest of the year. I don't care if I fail. I just want to be with Noah. Because once he is gone. I will never see him again." Holly explained, tears pouring down her cheeks.

A/N: Poor Holly, really breaking down. New chapter will be up soon. Please review and thanks for reading.