BROTHER GIBBS
SUMMARY: 'Prompt' from Sparx: A team member's family comes to visit and embarrasses the team member.
BETA: Eagle Eyes
SPECIAL THANKS: To Sparx for the wonderful 'prompt' and my wonderful beta who helped me end this story!
A/N: I hope you all like! My beta helped me end this story so please be kind cuz without her there would be no story!
Tony DiNozzo had just thrown himself on the couch, ready to start watching one of his James Bond movies when the doorbell rang. He sighed and waited, there was no need to get up as his dad usually answered the door and phone. It wasn't to be this time.
"Tony, Answer the door!" The older man yelled up from the basement.
"On it dad," his son called back.
Tony was just about to open the door when the older man's voice rang out again, "Check to see who it is first."
The young man rolled his eyes and muttered to himself, "What am I, five?"
Tony took a peak out of the side window but didn't recognize the man standing outside. He slipped his hand into the side desk drawer, pulling out the gun his dad kept there.
He opened the door a crack, "Can I help you?"
"I'm looking for Leroy," The man announced.
Tony looked the man up and down. Something about the man seemed so familiar but he just couldn't place it.
He was just about to tell the man that no Leroy lived there when the man added, "…Gibbs. Leroy Gibbs."
Tony bit the inside of his cheek and motioned for the man to wait. He locked the door before running to the basement door. "Hey dad, someone's asking for Leroy Gibbs."
There was a clashing sound before one, Leroy Jethro Gibbs, came running up the stairs. Tony took a step back looking at his dad with wide eyes. He'd never seen the older man look so…disheveled before.
Gibbs washed his hands quickly before smoothing out his clothes and hair causing his son to laugh. Gibbs shot the boy his famous glare and quickly walked to the door. He paused by the still opened desk drawer and gave his son a questioning look.
Tony blushed as he put the gun away. "I don't know who it is."
Gibbs gave him a reassuring smile when the man outside pounded on the door. "Leroy you have three seconds to open this door! Don't think I don't know you're standing next to the door! Let me in or so help me…"
Gibbs grinned as he looked at the door fondly. Tony seemed to shrink back away. Gibbs once again gave him a reassuring smile before opening the door wide. The man had just gotten to two in his counting.
"You do realize you don't intimidate me any more." Gibbs ground out as if angry. It was clear though to both the man and Tony that Gibbs was more amused then anything.
"Obviously you're wrong or else you wouldn't have opened the door." The man teased.
Gibbs rolled his eyes, causing Tony's eyes to go wide, before teasing back, "I didn't want you to embarrass yourself when you realized you didn't know what came after two."
The man raised an eyebrow in an eerily similar manner of Gibbs himself. Seeing the gesture Tony's confusion stopped and realization entered. He couldn't stop the gasp that slipped from his lips.
Gibbs didn't seem to hear him as he stepped forward and allowed the man to embrace him into a tight hug. Gibbs hugged him back before stepping away and looking back at his son who was still standing with his mouth gaping.
Gibbs laughed, "Come here Tony."
Tony walked over to his dad's side. He gave the man a wary look. He knew that if Gibbs trusted the man then he should too but trust did not come easy to the NCIS senior agent.
"Tony, I'd like you to meet my brother, you're Uncle Dennis James," Gibbs introduced. "Denny, I'd like you to meet my son, your nephew Tony."
Tony and Dennis both stared at Gibbs with wide eyes. Gibbs didn't say anything he just threw one arm around Tony's shoulders and put his other hand on Dennis's arm and guided the three of them into the living room.
'This could take awhile,' Gibbs mused to himself as he settled down on the couch to explain.
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The explanations themselves didn't take long and Gibbs was grateful to note that Tony hadn't seem disturbed by the fact that Gibbs hadn't told him about his brother…older brother to be exact.
As for the said older brother…he was a different story. Gibbs expected him to be upset over not knowing about the adoption but he wasn't. Dennis James Gibbs was happy and he didn't want to cause his younger brother any grief.
"So what's it like kid?" Dennis questioned Tony.
Gibbs looked at his brother confused but Tony smiled as he understood what the question meant.
"It's nice," Tony answered.
"Any complaints or anything I should know?" Dennis inquired with a fake serious face.
"Well…" Tony dragged out. "He does have this annoying habit of hitting me over the head for things that I didn't do."
"You mean like this?" Dennis smacked his younger brother upside the head causing Gibbs to scowl.
Tony nodded, "Just like that." He turned to Gibbs, "Now I know where you get it from boss."
Gibbs leaned forward and gave Tony a light tap to his head. Dennis waited until Gibbs sat back in his seat before flicking Gibbs on his head. Tony fell back laughing while Gibbs scowl deepened.
Seeing his dad sitting on the couch looking more like a pouting teen then an NCIS agent in charge caused Tony to laugh even harder. He rolled onto his side, tears streaming out of his eyes, causing the two other men to laugh with him.
When they'd calmed down Gibbs looked down at his watch with a little frown, "I better go get dinner started."
"What are we having?" Tony asked, sitting up straight.
"I'll grill some stakes," Gibbs said more to himself then to his son. He got up mumbling about the rest of the menu.
Laughter filtered to Gibbs ears as he made his way to the kitchen. He stopped and looked back as his brother took his son into a warm embrace.
In the kitchen Gibbs started preparing the food thinking back to his childhood. People often wondered what had drawn the frat boy to the Marine. Truth of the matter was Tony reminded Gibbs of Dennis.
Dennis was four years older then his younger brother. Though the two had led similar lives the experiences they went through changed them differently. Much like Tony, Dennis handled hurt and sadness with jokes.
The Gibbs brothers had lost both their parents when they were 16 and 20. Dennis had gotten custody of his younger brother and raised him. When Gibbs was 18, he and Dennis had gotten into an argument that caused Gibbs to leave.
Through letters they had reconciled their differences though Gibbs didn't go back to see his brother for a number of weeks. When he did finally go back home it was as a member of the United States Marine Corp.
In the course of the years Gibbs turned to his brother. Dennis was there the first time Gibbs came back from combat, a broken man who had lost men in his unit. He was there when Gibbs lost Shannon and Kelly. He was even there when Gibbs got revenge for their murder.
It was sometime after Gibbs had married for the third time that the brothers' relationship changed. Dennis had kept his joking ways and Gibbs had become, for lack of a better term, stern. Gibbs stayed at NCIS while Dennis, had moved overseas.
The two didn't have much contact but when they did…it was always as if nothing had changed between them.
TBC…