Chapter 1.
"What do you mean you haven't told him yet?! God Kate, what are you gunna do? It's due in about a month!!" Abby yelled down the phone to Special Agent Todd.
"Oh that's great! I call you to tell you that I'm home and tell you my supposedly good news and here you are giving me a lecture! And come on Abs, Tony won't believe me! He hasn't seen me in 6 months! Besides he's most likely moved on!" Kate whined into the handset.
"Grow up Kate. He hasn't stopped talking about you. He still thinks your working in Bangladesh. He proposed to you and then without an answer or an explanation you move! He hasn't even dated yet!" Argued Abby.
"But-"
"Call him Kate. You owe him that much!"
Their phone conversation ended before Kate could even think of a response. That was it. She had to call him; it was after all his child too. She was sure he would be as scared, maybe even more as she is.
It took Kate a while to type in Dinozzo's mobile number, all the while praying that he wouldn't pick up. She waited for what seemed forever for him to pick up. It rang thrice before he answered.
Hs low casual voice told her he'd answered "Special Agent Dinozzo, NCIS?" This simple sentence sent shivers down Kate's back.
"My answer was a yes." She could manage a whisper nothing more. Nothing less.
"Excuse me?" His confusion made Kate laugh. Her laugh, as everyone who worked with her was a very distinctive laugh.
"Oh shit! Kate is that you?" The surprise in him voice made Kate laugh even harder.
"You'd be surprised Dinozzo. It's not only me here" Kate told Tony. Not sure if he would understand or not. Hell, she wasn't even sure she did.
"Kate..?"
Dinozzo now sounded worried or was that concern. She couldn't tell over the phone. What she was going to say could change his life. But Abs was right he deserved to know, she owed him that much.
"Tony. I'm pregnant. 8 months." Kate said, already guessing the outcome.
"But. But, you moved. Your back. A baby. O God!"
"I didn't know. Tony…?"
"Kate. I'm coming stay there."
Just before Tony hung up he heard a high pitch scream coming from Kate's end of the phone. "TONY!!"