Gibbs unlocked the door and held it open for Jenny, Tony and Ziva. His wife and two oldest children trailed into the house. Gibbs felt awful leaving his baby in that hospital while the rest of the family were at home but it was late and Ziva needed to rest. Gibbs gently took Ziva's hand and lead the sleepy child up to her room.

"Daddy?" Ziva mumbled as they reached the top of the stairs

"Yeah, Ladybug?" Gibbs sounded tired even to his own ears

"Can you stay with me until I fall asleep?" She whimpered slightly

"You don't even have to ask" Gibbs scooped her up in his arms not caring that she was 12 and didn't need help to her room any more but he knew she needed the comfort.

Gibbs gently through Ziva onto the bed causing her to giggle.

He pulled her duvet over her shoulders and settle on the bed next to her, pulling her into his arms.

"Daddy, Abby gonna be ok, isn't she?" Ziva snuggled into Gibbs

"Yeah, she's going to be fine"

"Promise?"

"Promise" Gibbs lay with Ziva for about 20 minutes even though she'd been asleep for at least 15 but he wanted to make sure she didn't wake up. He uncurled himself from his daughter, he left the night light on which he hadn't done in years but closed the door as he always did.

He made his way downstairs to made him, his wife and his son some coffee.

He glanced at Jen and Tony as they sat at the kitchen table. Jenny kept running her fingers through her son's hair.

"What happened to her, Dad?" Tony asked looking up at his dad

"Tony, it doesn't matter now, she's ok" Jenny softly told her son while kissing his temple

"I wanna know, Mum, please just tell me" Tony pleaded

"Tony, your sister's heart stopped, their keeping her on some sort of breathing machine for the time being and it's not because she can't breathe, it's because they don't want too much strain on her heart" Gibbs explained passing out the coffee and sitting on the other side of Tony

"Abby's heart gave out?" Tony looked like someone had just stabbed him

"Yeah, but the main thing is that she's alright and she'll be home in no time" Jenny smiled reassuringly at Tony even though it was breaking her heart

"I'm gonna go to bed" Tony muttered after finishing his coffee trying his best to not let things get to him. He washed his mug and shuffled up to his room.

He shut the door and leant back against it his eyes rapidly filling with tears. He was aching any fool could see that but he had about 50 different emotions flowing through him and he couldn't stand it. He cried out as he slammed his head back against the door but then took to trashing things in his room and throwing things around in pure agony and anger before slinking to the ground, tears freely dripping from his cheek.

"Tony" Jenny slowly opened the door to find the room trashed and her son curled up in the corner

"Oh, sweetheart" Jenny's heart broke at the sight of him, she hurried over to him and sunk down next to him pulling him close to her

"Why?" Tony tried to hold back the sob in front of his Mum.

Jenny held him, rocking him slightly for a while

"C'mon let's get this room sorted out" Jenny whispered kissing Tony's head

"Ok...but Mum?"

"Yeah?"

"Can you not tell Dad about this...or Kate...or anyone else for that matter"

"Wouldn't dream of it, baby" Jenny chuckled

Once the room was tidy and Tony was settled Jenny made her way to her own room to find Gibbs already in bed

"You ok?"

"Yeah, just tired" She yawned and cuddled into her husband.

The next day Gibbs and Jenny were heading back to the hospital since they had the last few weeks off to take care of Abby when she was released from the hospital.

After dropping Ziva and Tony at Ducky, Jenny and Gibbs made their way to see Abby.

They been their for about an hour before either uttered an word

"Jen, why don't you go to back and get Ziva and Tony and take them to a movie or something to cheer them up"

"But..."

"I'll stay here with Abby"

"I guess I could" Jenny nodded and gathered her belonging, kissed her daughter and left with out another word knowing Gibbs just wanted to make sure Ziva and Tony were alright as well.

It was twenty minutes later that Abby's eyes slowly opened

Gibbs smiled at his little girl "Hey, baby girl"

Abby smiled at her daddy

"Doc said you're a little stronger, today and he said if you keep improving then you'll be able to come off all these machines" Gibbs explained

In a normal situation the room with be filled with his daughter's rambling and laughter and he'd be the listener but this wasn't a normal situation and his daughter's laughter would not fill the room because she was ill, very ill.

Tony curled up with his girlfriend on her bed. When he'd arrived at 8 in the morning she'd still been asleep and as soon as he saw her, he'd kicked off his shoes

"Kate" He mumbled as he absent-mindedly ran his fingers up and down her side

"Hmm" She said still half taken over with sleep

"Just cause Abbs still isn't well, please don't stop eating and sleeping again"

"I won't"

"I...I just can't face the possibility of losing you too"

"You're not gonna" She smiled leaning up and kissing his lips gently all he could do was smile at her and hope nothing else threw itself in his family's face.