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Tony goes to the hospital after hurting himself and Gibbs is there to help him afterwards. Non sexual spanking pre-queal to both Runaway and Control .

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This story is a pre-queal to both Runaway and Control because in both I talked about Tony being sent to the hospital and I thought it would be a filler for a background, but I got asked if there was a story I wrote for that so that is why I'm writing this, so enjoy.

P.S. I'm not a medical expert, so it can be made clear beforehand.

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Tony sat at his desk rubbing the side of his head with one hand and the other one was opening a bottle of aspirin. Ziva stared at him as he pop a few pills.

"You look hung over." She final said. Tony glared at her.

"Maybe that is because I was drinking last night." He answered in a bitter tone. She shot him a dirty look and was about to speak when Gibbs walk in with his morning coffee.

"Gear up people. We have a crime scene on Oak Dale Apartments." Everyone stood up grabbing their bags. Gibbs went to Tony's desk.

"Are you feeling ok?" He asked.

"Yes Boss, why do you ask?" Gibbs looked him over.

"You look like shit DiNozzo that is why." Not meeting his boss in the eyes Tony threw his bag over his shoulder.

"I'm fine boss." With that he walked off to join the others. Gibbs had a feeling he needed to keep an eye on his senior agent.

Oak Dale Apartments

They were on the second floor looking at the scene where a dead marine was found in his living room. McGee was taking pictures, Ziva was bagging evidence and Tony was suppose to be talking to witness, but he was standing by the open window. Slowly he stuck his head out side of it. The first thing he noticed was the warm breeze that hit his face and the sound of the world outside of work. Then there were the people themselves. Moving about with their daily lives, not knowing another human being died in here and no one out there knew it, nor did they care.

Taking a quick look behind him to make sure his Boss wasn't behind him, Tony climbed out the window and crawled on the ledge and sat down. It was only the second floor, but he was still up there and if he fell down then there could be broken bones. He also knew Gibbs would give him the mother of head slaps if he saw what he was doing. Sadly at that moment he didn't really care.

He could be fired, suspended or put on desk duty for a month. He needed a moment to relax. Plus it felt good with his hang over. He leaned his head against the wall and closed his eyes. Since he was a kid a light breeze during the warm seasons always felt good. It was a good escape from his home life. He was free from his father and out on his own. Then why did he still feel like a trapped rat?

A look down at the ground and he saw no body notice him at all. Not even the police and corner looked at him. Pulling out a half of pack of cigarettes, he lit one up and began to slowly smoke it. The phone in his pocket began to ring. He took it out to see who it was and wasn't surprised to see it was Gibbs. Instead of answering it he turned down the volume to silent. He just opened the gates of hell and now had the first foot inside for breaking another rule. Always be reachable.

With a heavy sigh he exhaled the smoke. Five minutes later he heard Gibbs yelling for him in a louder tone then he thought a human could do. He quickly put out his smoke and stood up. Suddenly a hang over head ache took over and the last thing he remembered after that was the sound of wind and it was relaxing.

"Ow - my head hurts." Tony suddenly said as he sat up. A pain in his ribs sent him back on the bed.

"Hey, don't move you had a bad fall." It was at that point that he realized his eyes were closed.

Slowly he opened his eyes to see where he was. Within the first half of a second he realized he was in the hospital and his team was around him.

"Why am I here." Abby had a look of relief. She tried to run to him to give him a hug, but Gibbs had a firm hold on her.

"You suffered a fall." Ducky informed him. "You broke a rib and a few of them are bruised. Plus there are a few cuts on you, but the doctor say you need at least a few weeks of recovery time before you can go back to work." Tony gave a nod of his head.

"The good news is he said you can leave after they finish with the testing." Tony was relived, but it was short lived when Gibbs told everyone he needed to have a word with Tony.

He wanted to hide under his blankets and hide. The eyes he saw gave him a wordless warning not to. Once everyone was out Gibbs slap him on the side of the head. In effect causing Tony to go OUCH!

"They took a blood test earlier and found alcohol still in your system." Tony turn away from the boss man. Not giving the younger any chance not to break eye contact Gibbs turned his head to force him look at him.

"Words can't express how mad I'm at you right this second. You scared me and your team shitless when we saw you on the ground like that." Guilt was beginning to fill Tony's body. "I have to explain to Jenny why you're here and try to see what can be done not to get your ass canned." Tears were beginning to form in his eyes. Taking in a deep breath Gibbs went on.

"You will be staying with me with rules and you will be grounded the entire time. Do you understand me?" Tony gave a nod of his head.

"Good, now you will need to get some rest." Gibbs went to walk out, but Tony yelled.

"Just like that you decided I should move into your house." Gibbs turned around to look at the senior agent.

"Yes I did and you will have a few bags packed and there when you get out of the hospital." Tony glared at him. How dare he think he could just do that to him without asking him. He had every right to choose where he went and all of that jazz. He could refuse, but Gibbs isn't one to argue with.

It was about seven o' clock at night when Gibbs and Tony arrived at his home. Tony walked slowly inside still feeling pain, but not so much since the medicine kicked in.

"Sit at the table and don't worry, your bags are in the guess room." Dinner was a takeout chicken dinner. Gibbs had made Mashed potatoes and chicken gravy with it. They ate in silence the whole time.

Gibbs was annoyed at what his agent did and Tony for being forced to stay here without asking him first. When the food and dishes were cleared up Gibbs began to talk.

"There will be rules here while you stay with me." Tony didn't care, but kept eye contact to show the boss he was listening. "No swearing, being rude, nor will you mouth off, bed time is at ten and that will not be up for debate."

Tony eyes widen in surprise. Gibbs ignored this and went on. "While your grounded you will not be going out, dating, TV is limited to two hours a day, one movie per night, and bed time will be at nine."

Tony went to open his mouth but Gibbs stopped him with a hand. "If you break any of these rules you will have your mouth washed out with soap, put in the corner for a period of time and for big things or other things I feel need adjusting you will be spanked." At this last statement Tony stood up as fast as he could.

"Are you fucking serious?" He yelled at the older man. Gibbs gave him his famous warning look, but Tony ignored it. "I'm not a fucking 10 year old."

"Watch yourself or else you will be given a spanking and I don't care if your hurt or not." Not able to form any words to snap back with Tony turned around and walked away. This being a bad move because he was moving slowly and Gibbs had it with his agent grabbed his arm and landed six very hard hits on his butt.

"That is enough Anthony DiNozzo." He hit him four more times to make his point. Tony stood there in shock for a few minutes unable to believe his boss did that to him. Tears started to fall from his eyes.

"You spanked me?" He asked as his voice began to crack. "No one ever spanked me before."

Gibbs was stunned with the reaction to the spanking. He wasn't sure how would react, but not like this. He carefully embraced Tony so he wouldn't hurt him. To his relief he accepted the hug. He placed his head on Gibbs chest. He let the agent cry as long as he needed too.

"Tony why were on the ledge today?"

"I don't really remember why." Tony explained as Gibbs led him out the kitchen and up stairs.

"I just had a feeling that I needed to get away. I saw the open window and climb out." They took the stairs slowly as Gibbs asked him the next question.

"Were suffering from a hang over?"

"Yes," Tony admitted. "I had a bottle of bourbon last night."

"Why did you do that?"

"Don't remember after the first five minutes. Well….I remember drinking the first two glass and sitting down to watch "To Kill A Mocking Bird" when I blacked out."

Gibbs placed a arm around Tony's shoulder. "No more drinking while you're here. I will not let alcohol take over your life ok."

"Ok." Tony agreed.

"Go take a shower and get into bed. I will check in on you after a little while," Another nod of his head.

Gibbs watch Tony walk away and thought to himself there was some work that needed to be done to help this boy.

The next day was Saturday. Tony was woken up by a breeze from the window. His eyes slowly opened and looked out the window. The sun was out and the air was warm. Carefully he got out of bed and went to the window. He pulled it open and stuck his hand outside to feel the outside world. He thought about sticking his head out the window to get a better feel, but with his dumb luck Gibbs would find him and make him unable to sit for a good long time. A pain in his ribs told him it was time for his medicine. Several minutes later he was in the kitchen and saw Gibbs drinking his coffee and reading the paper.

"Morning," He greeted.

"Morning Boss," He went to the counter and took the pills.

"Eat Breakfast then get dressed. We have a meeting with the director this morning." Tony rolled his eyes and walked to the fridge.

The last thing he wanted to do was go into work and try to explain his actions. He grabbed some eggs, bacon and butter for his meal. It took a few moments, but his eggs and bacon with toast was gone. Pouring himself a large cup of coffee he figured he needed to be fully awake for the next couple of hours. Once he was done he placed his plates in the sink. Slowly he made his way back to his room to shower and change.

The meeting itself took two hours. Jenny talked with Tony alone to get why he did what he did Gibbs sat outside waiting as he read a book. When the doors final opened, Tony walked out looking pale.

"Jethro can I see you for a second." Tony Took Gibbs now empty seat. He was only in there for five minutes and he could hear what was being said. Gibbs walked out and gave the younger man the sign to follow him.

"What did she say to you? Gibbs asked once they were on the road.

"Didn't she tell you?" Tony answered with a tone that didn't sit well with Gibbs.

"Watch the tone and she did, but I wanted to hear it from you." Tony rolled his eyes and began to talk.

"To make a long story short I was told I was lucky I wasn't being fired and I am getting two weeks of suspension for my little stunt. Then she said she will leave the rest for you to decide."

There was a long moment of silence before Gibbs spoke. "Good because you will be staying in bed as the doctor order and after you're healed you will be doing yard work and cleaning the house from top to bottom. Do you got it?"

Not trusting himself to speak Tony gave a nod of his head. Gibbs turned into a parking lot of a local restaurant. This threw Tony for a loop.

"Come on Tony let's get something to eat." They got out of the car, but Tony walk away as fast as he could.

"Where are you going?" Gibbs demanded walking after. Tony didn't say a word, but kept walking.

"Anthony DiNozzo I said stop." For the first time in his life Tony didn't obey a direct order.

Wanting to get to the bottom of this Gibbs ran up to him and grabbed his arm then pulled him into an alley.

"What are you thinking?" Gibbs demanded in a low voice.

Tony looked him dead in the eyes and asked. "Why are you being nice to me?"

"What do you mean by that?" Tony turned his eyes away from his Boss before he went on.

"You punish me then you buy me lunch like there's nothing weird about it." Gibbs look at him not sure what was going on in his head.

"Why is that weird?"

"You grounded me yesterday and today you inform me I will do hard labor on my two forced weeks off and now your bring me here to eat lunch."

"Yeah."

"Why, I don't understand." Gibbs put his hand on the younger man's shoulder.

"Tony, a punishment is to punish you for what you did wrong and it makes you learn from that to become a better person. It doesn't mean once in a while I won't let you and I go out to eat."

Tony gave a nod of his head. He was still confused, but it made a little sense.

"Come on let's get something to eat." Tony had a smile on his face and walk off then suddenly he felt two sharp smacks on his backside.

"Ouch what was that for?'

"Making me come after you." Tony followed Gibbs into the restaurant and knew it was going to be a long time before he understood this side of his boss.

TBC