Fallen angel on the ground [lift me up and kick me down]

[agent_italia]

"DiNozzo. Morasca. Go talk to the neighbors, see what they can tell you about Lieutenant Parker."

Nodding, Anna packed up her things, pausing when her partner hesitated. His date..."It's dinner time, Boss... maybe now's not the best time to bug the neighbors..." All Gibbs had to do was stare and DiNozzo rushed off to meet her at the elevator with

Comments

[agent_t_dinozzo]

"Are you okay?" He felt a substance as he held her that he knew he shouldn't be feeling and that worried him. "Can you walk?" Tony asked, anxious to get them both to a safer location and get Anna medical attention.

[agent_italia]

"C-Can't... move..." She rasped weakly, eyes beginning to droop shut as her hand fell from his cheek and she coughed. Blood trickled from her mouth as she started bleeding more from her neck, the blade having just knicked her right carotid artery.

"T-Tony..."

[agent_t_dinozzo]

"Okay," he nodded, taking a deep breath, "Okay. I'll get you help. Everything's going to be okay. I promise. You stay with me, Anna!"

Tony lifted her into his arms. "Stay with me!"

[agent_italia]

"On... your s-six... DiNozzo..." She sputtered, her voice dying at the end of his name as she fought to keep her eyes open.

[agent_t_dinozzo]

Gibbs nodded understandingly as Anna signed and he studied McGee, still amazed by the interactions of his team after all these years.

"We'll figure things out," he assured her. "Keep still. Don't need ya makin' yourself any worse."

Seeing McGee choking up, he decided he needed to step in and make him focus... by getting a status on DiNozzo.

"McGee," he paused, allowing the younger agent time to look up, making eye contact with him, "go check on DiNozzo. Should be loading him up now." Gibbs cocked his head slightly. "Need you with me, Tim," Gibbs tapped his own head, encouraging McGee to not allow his emotions to take control.

[agent_italia]

"O-On it, boss." McGee nodded and rushed off to check on Tony.

Anna choked out Gibbs' name and finger spelled out the rest so as not to disturb the IVs in her arm.

Down fire escape -- check alley for stray rounds. Tony saw car... And with that, her hand fell to her side and she grew still.

"She stopped breathing."

"I don't have a pulse." The medics gently pushed Gibbs away to take care of the dying agent.

[agent_t_dinozzo]

Gibbs suppressed a frown and watched as the younger man hurried outside.

"We'll worry about that later. I've got a team en route. Just relax, Morasca." Gibbs softly stroked her hair and his heart sank as the medics spoke.

Gibbs' brow furrowed and he looked down at Anna. This couldn't be happening!

"Morasca!" He yelled as if to stimluate her. This wasn't looking good at all.

[agent_italia]

Shifting around Anna, one of the medics put a bag valve in place over her face while his partner began performing CPR on Anna. After five minutes without any success, they switched places and began going on another cycle of compressions and ventilations to revive the fallen agent.

[agent_t_dinozzo]

"Tony's up in surgery. He'll be fine." Gibbs wasn't so sure, but Anna didn't need to be worrying about him right now. "You rest. Tony would want that."

[agent_italia]

"Surgery?" She rasped, before beginning to sign. Where did he get shot?

[agent_t_dinozzo]

"Shh," Gibbs soothed, gently stroking her hair as he nodded in response to her question. "Don't know details yet. Tony's a strong, stubborn man." Gibbs grinned inwardly just thinking about that. Tony reminded him a lot of himself. "He's going to pull through this," he assured her, partially for his own sanity, "and so will you, but you need to rest. Okay?"

[agent_italia]

I need to see him. She signed, eyes meeting Gibbs' with a look pleading for him to get her on her feet and down to Tony's room as soon as word got in that he was out of surgery. This is all my fault.

[agent_t_dinozzo]

"He's not going anywhere," Gibbs assured her, softly rubbing her back as he tried caressing her into a sleep. "Not goin' anywhere," he whispered, his own eyes fixated on Tony with concern for both of his team members.

[agent_italia]

[OOC: Skipping ahead to Tony's discharge]

Pacing back and forth in the waiting room, Anna kept checking the clock and jumping when the door from the ER opened each time. But it wasn't him either time and she was getting ready to be disappointed again when this time the doors opened to reveal Tony.

The bruising around her throat was fading, barely peeking out from under the bandage protecting her stitches. She was dressed in low-rise jeans and her fitted black NYPD t-shirt, hair down around her shoulders.

"Tony..." She breathed out in surprise, tears welling in her eyes as she saw that he was okay. All those nights of worrying by his bedside while she could be there. With Gibbs and the team at MTAC working on finding their perps, she got to spend a lot of time alone reflecting. And right now? All she wanted to do was kiss and hold Tony - just to know he's okay.

[agent_t_dinozzo]

Tony was still in a lot of pain. He knew Gibbs knew it (Gibbs could read him like a book after his run-in with the plague), but he wasn't about to let Anna see it. Besides, he needed to make a speedy recovery- He couldn't wait to get back in the field.

"Hey," he smiled, voice still raspy. He slowly made his way closer to her, cautiously wrapping his arms around her. "I'm okay," he assured her softly. Tony gently rested his head on her shoulder, inhaling the scent of her hair as he ran his hand through it. "How are you feeling?"

[agent_italia]

"I'll be fine. I... won't be singing again anytime soon." She rasped, the damage to her voice becoming more and more apparent as she spoke. Carefully, she slipped her arms around Tony's waist and nuzzled his head.

"Tony, I was so scared... I thought I lost you."