Callens shadow

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Maya's pov:
I hear a lot of voices around me. Someone holds my cheeks, our forehead together as well. That's just how ziva always held me. Suddenly I hear the lullaby she always sang for me when I was afraid of missed Grisha to much. She is here!? My big sister is here! Hopefully she hasn't killed the rest of them, she can be a bit of a handful that's for sure! And then I hear the voice that makes my whole body warm up and my heart beat way faster! Grisha! He is here as well!! He got out of there alive as well. I honestly don't know what I would of done if I missed him once again. It hurt every day like crazy that I lost him. And when I finally found out that he wasn't dead like I always got told, ziva helped me immensely to find him. It also hurt a lot to see him living his life without any memory on me or what we had growing up. But something just made me watch him, keep him safe. At least as safe as you can get an NCIS agent. Ziva has told me a lot of what being an agent within the NCIS means. It's not only a job, but they all where like a family. I was happy for Grisha that he was happy again, but was he really. Whenever I watched him at home, his whole face fell and he seems really lonely. Lost even! The first time he had woken up in a panic and saw me standing there , there was a certain glint in his eyes. Like he was relieved that he wasn't alone. The time went by, and we even started to talk with one another. Since I didn't wanted him to find out about our past if he had buried that memory, it was hard to tell him about myself.  Whenever he would pull me close towards him, or the times he kissed me. I felt like a swarm of butterflies had gotten into my stomach. I felt so safe when he was holding me, and the one time i got into Sam's house. Gosh the thought alone let's me blush like nothing ever before. I had cuddled myself up into his chest, i just wanted to be close to him for once. What i didn't anticipate though, was for Grisha to pull me even closer into his way bigger body. He was laying slightly on me, like he was unconsciously trying to shield me away from everything that could hurt me. His nearly inaudible love you has melted my heart even more.
„When do you think she will wake up again?" I hear Grishas voice close by my side. His warm hand engulfed my left hand at the same time he asked that question. Feeling him so close to my makes my heartbeat pick up again, at the same time it soothes me to no end. Not only because I feel safe around him, but because this means he wasn't to badly injured. Otherwise Dom nor Stephen would of allowed him to leave his bed!
„Don't know. We have turned down the medication so it's on her now. We think she will wake up later today or early morning. It depends how fast the medication is out of her body." Dom answers him matter of factly. But I know that he himself is hoping that I wake up as soon as possible.
„just come back to me baba! I missed you since forever and I can't lose you again!" Grisha suddenly whispers into my ear softly. Wait, does he remember me? But why so suddenly? Did the guys tell him? No, they wouldn't! Maybe it's because I said his name in the basement? I heard he didn't know his real one, so maybe that has sparked a memory for him? That however also means that I am going to have to answer a lot of questions after I wake up. But right now, I just let myself enjoy his hand in mine. Feeling all my brothers and my sister around me makes my heart swell with love. They always had my back, even though we aren't blood relatives. Never have they let me feel like I didn't belong, quit the opposite to be honest. They just opened there arms and let me join their family without hesitation or second guessing.
„Did, did you feel that as well?" Grisha asks abruptly but happy non the less.
„Yeah! I did!" ziva says in astonishment.
„She is waking up! She just squeezed our hands!" ziva adds to the rest of them happily.
„That's awesome! Just make sure to call me if she seems to start to choke on the air tube down to her lungs." Dom instructs them sternly. Still I can hear how relieved he is that I might wake up sooner than he had hoped for.
And just as if his sentence register in my head that I definitely don't want a damn tube down my throat and into my lungs, I start to choke on it.
„Well, that was like on command." Dom says and tells Grisha to move back a bit. Slowly I feel something long and hard getting pulled out of my throat. Dom however pushes the smaller version into my nose. Just to make sure I get enough oxygen he tells the others in the room.
„Mister Callen, i am afraid you need to get back to your room now as well. You look exhausted, and you shouldn't push yourself to much so shortly after waking up as well!" Dom tells Grisha sternly. Guess I told him enough that he knows how stubborn Grisha can be if he wants to.
„I won't leave her side!" he tells him just like I thought he would to be honest.
„Well, I beg to differ! I have no intention to sew you back together just because you stubbornly refuse doctors order!" Dom answers him darkly. The warm hand on mine suddenly disappear from mine, they quickly come back on mine again, which makes me wonder what just had happened.
„Why don't we push in Callen's bed into this room as well? That way no one needs to get hurt!" Gibbs tells everyone in his usual stern voice. No one else seems to argue against this, so after some pushing the hand once again leaves mine. But I still can feel him really close by, his shallow breathing reaches my shoulder, which lets me shudder a bit.
„Can she get another blanket? She seems to be cold." a worried but tired sounding Grisha asks into the room. No answer was heard, however I can feel someone putting another blanket onto my freezing form.