NCIS:
TONY, I WOULD LIKE YOU TO MEET...
DISCLAIMBER:
NCIS and characters do not belong to me.
SUMMARY:
A few days after Kate Todd's funeral, Tony dose something and now it's been a little over seven years. What happened in the past comes back to him...with a shock! What did Tony do and why would it come back to him now? Little TIVA, MCABBY and maybe a love interest for Leroy Jethro Gibbs
CHAPTER 1: MEMORIES & TALKING TO SOMEONE...
A BAR...
It was Friday night and Tony was sitting at a bar.
He had slipped away to a bar he did not normally come to; he didn't want to see anyone he knew tonight.
He was alone, trying to forget a lot of what had happened. Drinking like he was now...it was not something he normally did.
Kate had died, but now he was thinking of something she had said.
It was only a few days before Ari had killed her. A bullet proof vest stopped one bullet, but couldn't stop the one she got to the head.
He remembered something she had said while they had been working a case, about a week before she was killed.
FLASHBACK
* Damn it, Tony. I should just take you home and get you into
bed. *
END FLASHBACK
He had made a joke about her saying that after she said:
FLASHBACK
* Okay, that did not come out the way I intended. *
END FLASHBACK
Gibbs had come into Autopsy at that point.
Tony couldn't help, but wonder if Kate had without thinking about it, let that slip because she had feelings for him.
He had loved her and he was pretty sure, if it weren't for Rule 12:
Never date a co-worker.
Without that rule, he and Kate could have gotten together eventually. Tony was not one to settle down, but once he met Kate...Well he didn't know what to think.
Now it was too late for Kate, too late for them to be together. If Tony could go back and change things, he would have worked up the courage to tell her and stop joking about his feelings.
Well, try a little harder to not joke his feelings away...Now when he looked over at Kate's desk, she was no longer sitting there.
It was now Ziva David and he wasn't too sure what to think about her yet.
McGoo had accepted her but Tony was having a hard time, because he wanted Kate to be there with them.
He noticed that Abby was not warming to her yet either.
"What's your story? Who did you lose?" A woman asked taking the stool next to looked at her; she had raven-black hair and ice-blue eyes.
"A fri-friend," Tony told her.
"She must have been special. I'm Keely Ann Doyle." Keely said.
"Tony DiNozzo; Yeah...she was." Tony replied sadly.
"What happened? If you don't mind my asking," Keely asked.
"I work at NCIS a..." Tony began.
"NCIS...What's that?" Keely asked.
"Naval Criminal Investigative Service," Tony said.
"So, what happened?" Keely inquired.
Tony wondered why he was telling a complete stranger all of this, but he had to tell someone.
"We were working a case and she was killed, when she got shot." Tony looked away.
"I'm sorry for your loss. You loved her, didn't you? Did you ever tell her?" Keely asked.
"Yeah, I loved her and even if I had wanted to tell her...it wouldn't have worked." Tony looked over at Keely.
"Why not," Keely asked curiously.
"Rule 12," Tony said simply.
"Rule 12... A rule against telling someone you love them?" Keely asked confused.
"No, our boss...has a list of rules and Rule 12 is Never date a co-worker." Tony stated and she looked at him.
"How many other rules are there?" Keely asked.
"Around fifty or more than likely more...Why do you want to know about me? What about you? Why are you here?" Tony questioned.
"It just looked like you needed someone to talk to. Two months ago my younger brother died, because of some idiot who was drinking and driving. My brother's friends took him out for his 18th birthday he died on the s-same day he was born...just eighteen years old." Keely said.
Tony and Keely just sat in silence for a moment.
"You sound like you were close to your brother." Tony said.
"He was one of my best friends, even if he was fourteen years younger than me. Do you have any other family?" Keely asked turning the subject back to Tony.
"My mom died when I was eight and then there's my dad, but we don't really talk...because DiNozzo's just don't communicate. There's the team and others at NCIS who have become my family. What about you?" Tony asked.
"My parents were killed in a plane crash five years ago, so I took in my brother. My mom and dad had no brothers or sisters, so I don't have any aunts or uncles. My grandparents died when I was a kid." Keely said tears filling her eyes. She grabbed a napkin and wiped them away. Tony had just finished his drink and knew he couldn't have another one.
"Do you want to get out of here?" Tony asked and didn't what he was thinking.
"Yeah, sounds great." Keely said taking some money out of her pocket, she put some money on the bar to pay for her drinks and Tony did the same for his drinks.
They tried to walk a little, but they were having a hard time walking straight.
So finally Tony called a cab and headed home...Keely still with him.
