FF: Cross Roads 9
Title: Cross Roads
Chapter: 9
Summary: Life is never easy and is forever tossing curve balls. Gibbs has been caught in the explosion, but what is happening with everyone else. This is a SlashMPreg story, nothing to graphic but rating may change as the story continues.
TV Show: NCIS
Characters: DiNozzo/Gibbs, Ducky, Ziva, McGee, Abby, Jen
Disclaimer: I don't own them, only wish that I did.
A/N: This is a work in progress, not sure how far it will go, but hopefully it's worth the ride!
Chapter Nine.
Ducky looked at his watch again, they’d been waiting for over an hour and a half now, with no word. He knew that Tony’s doctors would come and talk to him an Abby as soon as they could, but this was frustrating. He’d never been good at waiting, of waiting and not being able to do anything. He’d let Abby travel in the ambulance with Tony, knowing that he was in good hands, and Jimmy had driven him to the hospital while he spoke with Tony’s doctors. Abby hadn’t stopped pacing since they’d arrived, only stopping when the doors opened or when she got a call.
Jimmy appeared in front of him bearing drinks for all of them, a cup of tea for him, a caff-pow for Abby and a hot chocolate for himself.
“No news I take it then?” Jimmy asked as he handed out the drinks.
“No my dear boy, no news yet.”
“What can be taking so long, this can’t be good Ducky, if he was all right they’d have told us already!” Abby paced agitatedly around the small waiting room. “Maybe they forgot that we are here, maybe one of us should go back to the front desk and remind them that we are here!”
Ducky sighed, they’d been through this before, several times, but he knew that she was worried, he was worried, but he also knew that harassing the poor hospital staff would not get them answers any quicker.
He looked up as there was movement at the door, but sat back when he realised that it was Jenny along with McGee. Still no sign of Ziva then, he sighed again, another thing to worry about. He knew whatever the reason that Ziva had apparently gone missing was serious, otherwise Gibbs would not have been back.
“Any word?” Jenny asked looking from Abby to Ducky.
“Ducky, Abby?”
All conversation stopped as Dr. Pitt entered the small waiting room. He looked around the small group and again he was reminded how close this group of people were, but was also quick to notice that they were two members down, Gibbs he knew about but he’d thought that Ziva would have been there. He shrugged it off, if there was a reason that she wasn’t there then he knew that it would be a good one.
He moved further into the room and greeted them all, then indicated that they should sit. When they were all seated, apart from Abby, he started.
“All right, Tony has given me permission to discuss his condition with you all.”
“Is he ok, is the baby ok?” Abby asked, too impatient to wait for him to tell them the details, she needed the facts and she needed them now.
“Baby?” Jenny asked more than a little shocked. She looked around at the others and was glad to see that she wasn’t the only one who hadn’t known. “What baby?”
Dr Pitt held up his hand to get everyone attention again and shook his head, he should have known that Tony wouldn’t have made this easy. On anyone it seemed.
“OK, first of all Tony will be all right, as will the baby.” He gave them a moment for that to sink in and sat down so that he was facing them all. “For those of you who didn’t know Tony is pregnant.”
“Why didn’t he tell us?” McGee asked.
“My dear boy I thought that would be obvious!” Ducky replied.
Dr Pitt took the opportunity to sit back and watch this amazing group of people interacting. It was a rare and unusual treat for him, one that he’d come to appreciate since he had first crossed paths with Tony.
“Obvious?” Jenny turned to Ducky. “Why is it obvious? This is important! It’s not something he should have kept hidden from us.”
“He had his reasons.” Abby defended.
“You knew? You knew and you didn’t tell me?” McGee turned on Abby, “Why didn’t you tell me, how could you keep this a secret?”
“That’s enough.” Ducky said quietly as he saw Jenny start to say something else.
It had always amazed Brad how much control Ducky had over all of them, control that they were apparently unaware of. It was obvious that they all looked up to the elderly doctor for more than just professional reasons.
“Stop and think about it for a moment. Think of everything that we have all been through in the past few months, everything that has happened. Now put yourself in young Anthony’s shoes for a moment. After everything that he’s just lost, he’s found out he’s pregnant.” He waited a beat as they each did just as he instructed. “Now we all know that male pregnancies are dangerous for both the father and the child, only one in three pregnancies go to term, most men miscarry within the first trimester. After Gibbs leaving us the way that he did, the last thing young Tony wanted was for all of you to get excited about a baby that he might not even be able to carry to term. A baby that was a part of him and a part of Gibbs. Now tell me why you think it was so wrong of him to keep this from you until he was ready, until he was sure that he wasn’t going to loose the baby.”
Brad looked around the quiet room and was again amazed at this group of people. At the strength of each of them, and the depth of feeling that they each held for each other.
“I’m sorry Brad, please continue.” Ducky said once he was sure that the others were ready to listen without judgement.
“Ok, as I said, Tony will be all right, he collapsed due to a combination of things, any of which on their own would have been cause to worry, but together were simply to much for his body to cope with at the moment. I know you have both been worried about him working to hard recently,” Brad said to Ducky and Abby, “and you were right too. He hasn’t been getting enough rest, his stress levels are through the roof, as is his blood pressure, the morning sickness which he’s still suffering from has made him a little dehydrated and to top all of that off he was suffering from the early stages of a migraine.”
“So what happens now?” Jenny asked having finally gotten her head around the fact that Tony was pregnant.
“We’ll be keeping him in for three or four days, just so that we can keep an eye on him and the baby, then if nothing else happens we’ll release him, but he’ll be on medical leave for a week. I’d prefer if it was two or more, but I know what Tony’s like so I’ll settle for a week, barring no further complications.”
“So he’s going to be all right?” Abby asked, she needed to hear it again.
Brad nodded, “He’s going to be all right, he just needs to take things a little easier.”
McGee snorted, “This is Tony your talking about right?”
“Yeah well, he’s going to need all of your help with that. This was a warning, and it’s not something that we can ignore. Tony was lucky today, this could have been much more serious.”
“Thank you Dr. Pitt.” Jenny said quietly.
“Can we see him?” Ducky asked.
“Sure we’ve just transferred him to his room, 304, he may be a little drowsy from the medications that we’ve given him, but I’m sure he’d love a visit from you all, just try and let him get some rest.”
“Thanks Brad!” Abby engulfed him in a hug before she scampered off towards the lifts that would take her to Tony’s room.
Brad chuckled, he never knew what to expect from an encounter with Abby.
“Now go and see Tony, I’ll catch up with you later Ducky.”
****
He heard them well before they arrived in his room. Hospitals were never quiet, but there was something about the footsteps that were echoing down the corridor that told him his friends were on their way. Maybe it was the fact that there were so many all heading in the same direction, or the fact that he’d learned a long time ago to distinguish Abby’s footsteps from others. Whatever it was he knew that he was about to be hit with Cyclone Abby, and he couldn’t stop the smile that spread across his face.
He took one more quick look at the picture from his ultrasound before he tucked it under his pillow. He knew that Brad would have told the others by now, but he wasn’t ready to share the picture just yet. Maybe with Ducky and Abby later when they were alone, but not all of them, not yet. He’d been lucky today, very lucky. Brad had laid it out for him, and with what Brad had told him, and his own research he knew it, he could have lost his baby, or worse, he could have lost his own life.
He wasn’t surprised when Abby was first through the door, he was surprised that she didn’t immediately launch herself at his bed like she usually did. Instead she slowed down, giving the others time to catch up to her before she entered and then sat in the chair next to his bed.
“Abbs?”
“Hey Tony, how are you feeling?” McGee asked from the other side of the bed.
“Hey McGee, I’m fine.”
“No you’re not Tony! If you were fine you wouldn’t be here now!” Abby almost sobbed.
“It’s all right Abby, Tony’s fine and so is the baby, and now we’re all going to make sure that they both stay that way.” Jenny laid a comforting hand on Abby shoulder, and looked at Tony. For the first time she saw how tired he looked, and that it looked as if he had also lost a little weight. This was partly her fault, and from now on she was going to do all that she could to make things right, to make sure that Tony looked after himself.
“I’m sorry Abbs, I didn’t mean to scare you like that, honestly.”
Abby launched herself at Tony, she’d never been able to stay mad at him or Gibbs for long, but for this she was willing to try and stay mad at Gibbs for as long as she could.
Tony cuddled Abby and yawned, he couldn’t believe how tired he was, but at least the headache was down to a bearable dull roar. He would have been happy to just drift off to sleep, but there was something he needed to find out. Then he remembered what it was.
“Has anyone heard from Ziva yet?”
The room was quiet for a moment, no one wanting to answer Tony’s question.
“Ah no, I spoke to Gibbs a little while ago, he’s following up on something and said he was sending some stuff back to Abby’s lab.” McGee said when it was clear that no one else was going to say anything.
Tony sighed and rubbed his free hand over his face before he pulled Abby away from him so he could look her in the face.
“Abbs, I need you to go back to your lab and help Gibbs.”
“But Tony…”
“No, listen Abbs, we need to find Ziva and Gibbs needs our help to help her. Please, for me?”
Abby sighed and hugged him before getting off the bed. She wanted to stay, but knew that he would worry till they found Ziva.
“Ok.”
“You to McGee, help Abbs.”
McGee nodded.
“Thanks guys.” Tony said around another yawn.
The door opened and Jimmy stuck his head in.
“Ah, sorry to interrupt, but we need to get back to headquarters Dr. Mallard, there’s a body on it’s way, apparently it has something to do with Ziva.”
“Ziva?” Tony asked trying to get out of his bed.
“Oh no you don’t my dear boy. You are staying right here and doing exactly what you are told. And at the moment you need to get some sleep. We’ll take care of this.” Ducky said stepping up to Tony’s bed and easing him back down onto his bed.
“But…”
”No Tony, Ducky’s right, your staying here. Your health comes first from now on.” Jenny said.
“I’m sorry Tony,” Jimmy stuttered. “ It’s not Ziva, it’s an unidentified male.”
Chapter: 9
Summary: Life is never easy and is forever tossing curve balls. Gibbs has been caught in the explosion, but what is happening with everyone else. This is a SlashMPreg story, nothing to graphic but rating may change as the story continues.
TV Show: NCIS
Characters: DiNozzo/Gibbs, Ducky, Ziva, McGee, Abby, Jen
Disclaimer: I don't own them, only wish that I did.
A/N: This is a work in progress, not sure how far it will go, but hopefully it's worth the ride!
Chapter Nine.
Ducky looked at his watch again, they’d been waiting for over an hour and a half now, with no word. He knew that Tony’s doctors would come and talk to him an Abby as soon as they could, but this was frustrating. He’d never been good at waiting, of waiting and not being able to do anything. He’d let Abby travel in the ambulance with Tony, knowing that he was in good hands, and Jimmy had driven him to the hospital while he spoke with Tony’s doctors. Abby hadn’t stopped pacing since they’d arrived, only stopping when the doors opened or when she got a call.
Jimmy appeared in front of him bearing drinks for all of them, a cup of tea for him, a caff-pow for Abby and a hot chocolate for himself.
“No news I take it then?” Jimmy asked as he handed out the drinks.
“No my dear boy, no news yet.”
“What can be taking so long, this can’t be good Ducky, if he was all right they’d have told us already!” Abby paced agitatedly around the small waiting room. “Maybe they forgot that we are here, maybe one of us should go back to the front desk and remind them that we are here!”
Ducky sighed, they’d been through this before, several times, but he knew that she was worried, he was worried, but he also knew that harassing the poor hospital staff would not get them answers any quicker.
He looked up as there was movement at the door, but sat back when he realised that it was Jenny along with McGee. Still no sign of Ziva then, he sighed again, another thing to worry about. He knew whatever the reason that Ziva had apparently gone missing was serious, otherwise Gibbs would not have been back.
“Any word?” Jenny asked looking from Abby to Ducky.
“Ducky, Abby?”
All conversation stopped as Dr. Pitt entered the small waiting room. He looked around the small group and again he was reminded how close this group of people were, but was also quick to notice that they were two members down, Gibbs he knew about but he’d thought that Ziva would have been there. He shrugged it off, if there was a reason that she wasn’t there then he knew that it would be a good one.
He moved further into the room and greeted them all, then indicated that they should sit. When they were all seated, apart from Abby, he started.
“All right, Tony has given me permission to discuss his condition with you all.”
“Is he ok, is the baby ok?” Abby asked, too impatient to wait for him to tell them the details, she needed the facts and she needed them now.
“Baby?” Jenny asked more than a little shocked. She looked around at the others and was glad to see that she wasn’t the only one who hadn’t known. “What baby?”
Dr Pitt held up his hand to get everyone attention again and shook his head, he should have known that Tony wouldn’t have made this easy. On anyone it seemed.
“OK, first of all Tony will be all right, as will the baby.” He gave them a moment for that to sink in and sat down so that he was facing them all. “For those of you who didn’t know Tony is pregnant.”
“Why didn’t he tell us?” McGee asked.
“My dear boy I thought that would be obvious!” Ducky replied.
Dr Pitt took the opportunity to sit back and watch this amazing group of people interacting. It was a rare and unusual treat for him, one that he’d come to appreciate since he had first crossed paths with Tony.
“Obvious?” Jenny turned to Ducky. “Why is it obvious? This is important! It’s not something he should have kept hidden from us.”
“He had his reasons.” Abby defended.
“You knew? You knew and you didn’t tell me?” McGee turned on Abby, “Why didn’t you tell me, how could you keep this a secret?”
“That’s enough.” Ducky said quietly as he saw Jenny start to say something else.
It had always amazed Brad how much control Ducky had over all of them, control that they were apparently unaware of. It was obvious that they all looked up to the elderly doctor for more than just professional reasons.
“Stop and think about it for a moment. Think of everything that we have all been through in the past few months, everything that has happened. Now put yourself in young Anthony’s shoes for a moment. After everything that he’s just lost, he’s found out he’s pregnant.” He waited a beat as they each did just as he instructed. “Now we all know that male pregnancies are dangerous for both the father and the child, only one in three pregnancies go to term, most men miscarry within the first trimester. After Gibbs leaving us the way that he did, the last thing young Tony wanted was for all of you to get excited about a baby that he might not even be able to carry to term. A baby that was a part of him and a part of Gibbs. Now tell me why you think it was so wrong of him to keep this from you until he was ready, until he was sure that he wasn’t going to loose the baby.”
Brad looked around the quiet room and was again amazed at this group of people. At the strength of each of them, and the depth of feeling that they each held for each other.
“I’m sorry Brad, please continue.” Ducky said once he was sure that the others were ready to listen without judgement.
“Ok, as I said, Tony will be all right, he collapsed due to a combination of things, any of which on their own would have been cause to worry, but together were simply to much for his body to cope with at the moment. I know you have both been worried about him working to hard recently,” Brad said to Ducky and Abby, “and you were right too. He hasn’t been getting enough rest, his stress levels are through the roof, as is his blood pressure, the morning sickness which he’s still suffering from has made him a little dehydrated and to top all of that off he was suffering from the early stages of a migraine.”
“So what happens now?” Jenny asked having finally gotten her head around the fact that Tony was pregnant.
“We’ll be keeping him in for three or four days, just so that we can keep an eye on him and the baby, then if nothing else happens we’ll release him, but he’ll be on medical leave for a week. I’d prefer if it was two or more, but I know what Tony’s like so I’ll settle for a week, barring no further complications.”
“So he’s going to be all right?” Abby asked, she needed to hear it again.
Brad nodded, “He’s going to be all right, he just needs to take things a little easier.”
McGee snorted, “This is Tony your talking about right?”
“Yeah well, he’s going to need all of your help with that. This was a warning, and it’s not something that we can ignore. Tony was lucky today, this could have been much more serious.”
“Thank you Dr. Pitt.” Jenny said quietly.
“Can we see him?” Ducky asked.
“Sure we’ve just transferred him to his room, 304, he may be a little drowsy from the medications that we’ve given him, but I’m sure he’d love a visit from you all, just try and let him get some rest.”
“Thanks Brad!” Abby engulfed him in a hug before she scampered off towards the lifts that would take her to Tony’s room.
Brad chuckled, he never knew what to expect from an encounter with Abby.
“Now go and see Tony, I’ll catch up with you later Ducky.”
****
He heard them well before they arrived in his room. Hospitals were never quiet, but there was something about the footsteps that were echoing down the corridor that told him his friends were on their way. Maybe it was the fact that there were so many all heading in the same direction, or the fact that he’d learned a long time ago to distinguish Abby’s footsteps from others. Whatever it was he knew that he was about to be hit with Cyclone Abby, and he couldn’t stop the smile that spread across his face.
He took one more quick look at the picture from his ultrasound before he tucked it under his pillow. He knew that Brad would have told the others by now, but he wasn’t ready to share the picture just yet. Maybe with Ducky and Abby later when they were alone, but not all of them, not yet. He’d been lucky today, very lucky. Brad had laid it out for him, and with what Brad had told him, and his own research he knew it, he could have lost his baby, or worse, he could have lost his own life.
He wasn’t surprised when Abby was first through the door, he was surprised that she didn’t immediately launch herself at his bed like she usually did. Instead she slowed down, giving the others time to catch up to her before she entered and then sat in the chair next to his bed.
“Abbs?”
“Hey Tony, how are you feeling?” McGee asked from the other side of the bed.
“Hey McGee, I’m fine.”
“No you’re not Tony! If you were fine you wouldn’t be here now!” Abby almost sobbed.
“It’s all right Abby, Tony’s fine and so is the baby, and now we’re all going to make sure that they both stay that way.” Jenny laid a comforting hand on Abby shoulder, and looked at Tony. For the first time she saw how tired he looked, and that it looked as if he had also lost a little weight. This was partly her fault, and from now on she was going to do all that she could to make things right, to make sure that Tony looked after himself.
“I’m sorry Abbs, I didn’t mean to scare you like that, honestly.”
Abby launched herself at Tony, she’d never been able to stay mad at him or Gibbs for long, but for this she was willing to try and stay mad at Gibbs for as long as she could.
Tony cuddled Abby and yawned, he couldn’t believe how tired he was, but at least the headache was down to a bearable dull roar. He would have been happy to just drift off to sleep, but there was something he needed to find out. Then he remembered what it was.
“Has anyone heard from Ziva yet?”
The room was quiet for a moment, no one wanting to answer Tony’s question.
“Ah no, I spoke to Gibbs a little while ago, he’s following up on something and said he was sending some stuff back to Abby’s lab.” McGee said when it was clear that no one else was going to say anything.
Tony sighed and rubbed his free hand over his face before he pulled Abby away from him so he could look her in the face.
“Abbs, I need you to go back to your lab and help Gibbs.”
“But Tony…”
“No, listen Abbs, we need to find Ziva and Gibbs needs our help to help her. Please, for me?”
Abby sighed and hugged him before getting off the bed. She wanted to stay, but knew that he would worry till they found Ziva.
“Ok.”
“You to McGee, help Abbs.”
McGee nodded.
“Thanks guys.” Tony said around another yawn.
The door opened and Jimmy stuck his head in.
“Ah, sorry to interrupt, but we need to get back to headquarters Dr. Mallard, there’s a body on it’s way, apparently it has something to do with Ziva.”
“Ziva?” Tony asked trying to get out of his bed.
“Oh no you don’t my dear boy. You are staying right here and doing exactly what you are told. And at the moment you need to get some sleep. We’ll take care of this.” Ducky said stepping up to Tony’s bed and easing him back down onto his bed.
“But…”
”No Tony, Ducky’s right, your staying here. Your health comes first from now on.” Jenny said.
“I’m sorry Tony,” Jimmy stuttered. “ It’s not Ziva, it’s an unidentified male.”