Time Gone By ✡ NCIS TIVA Fanfiction

Chapter 8

DiNozzo still couldn't say how thankful he was that Gibbs didn't start asking.

His boss obviously noticed how upset he was about everything, but Tony knew that that couldn't stay like this forever.

Sooner or later, he'd have to answer questions to which he didn't even know the answers himself.

He heard a nurse walking in and listened to what she was telling Gibbs while he was still pretending to be asleep:

"We'll give Special Agent DiNozzo another dose of morphine to make sure he gets enough sound sleep to recover.

He's in a stable state, not so the other patient.

Ms David has still not woken up. We keep her in coma, but we wanted to ask you first, if there is something we should know about her, any medical information about her or something like that, before we drug her to be better able to find out what keeps her passed out for so long.

It can't just come from the fume poisoning and she couldn't have breathed that much smoke."

Tony wasn't sure if he was going to regret it, but he sat up straightly and said:

"You can't drug her."

The nurse turned around to him, a surprised look on her face. "How long exactly have you been awake?"

"A few hours" Gibbs replied for him, smiling. Tony would have laughed if his head didn't hurt so much.

"Good to know. But what do you mean, we can't drug her?"

"Because..."

It felt so uncomfortable to be forced to say this in front of his boss. He'd like to have told it to him in different circumstances, not in a hospital in front of a nurse.

"She's pregnant, okay?" After saying it, he noticed that it came out furiously, of course not on purpose. Until now, he somehow managed to cover all that anger he had inside him, but now it was too late.

He bit on his lips, forcing himself not to let it out.

The nurse simply said "Well that's good to know" and nodded before leaving the room again.

She maybe noticed the strange atmosphere and that these two definitely had to talk something out.

Gibbs took a deep breath. "So when were you going to tell me, Tony?" DiNozzo looked down, a sudden feeling of guilt crawling up in his stomach.

"I hadn't told anyone yet. I don't know how I should do that; I just found it out myself two days ago. Everything is just so confusing and ... I don't know."

Tony didn't want to look in the deep grey eyes of his boss.

He just hoped that Gibbs would understand him.

"When did she come back to Washington?" "I don't know. She showed up the day I got out of the hospital and I let her stay at my place."

Surprisingly, Gibbs smirked a little. "That's okay. Yeah, that's good." "What?" "Get some rest, Tony."

"Can you look after her? Wake me up if there's news about her?"

I don't want to lose her again.

These words left unsaid, he just couldn't get them out of his mouth.

She had left him already a few times, the time she stayed in Israel after Michael Rivkin had died and the time just a few months ago, but it would be a complete different thing if she died.

Tony couldn't imagine how it had to be living in the sure knowledge that she'd never come back.

He felt how the drugs were slowly dragging him back to sleep.

Please, let them not have given her these, too.

Please let the morphine not have negative effects the baby.

Tony tried to lift his arm to say something to make sure Gibbs understood what he meant, but he was too weak.

"I'm sure you'll be a great dad, Tony."

He heard his boss whispering before he passed out.