Full Summary:
Tony's high school sweetheart had joined the Air Force when she was only seventeen and had gone through boot camp the summer before their senior year. During Prom, they had one night of passion and then she was gone, with orders to another country. What happens when he finds out he's got a daughter? Will he travel to Atlantis when he learns where she's been living this whole time and where her mother was really stationed?
A Child He Didn't Know About:
DC:
He had shown up earlier then the others, even a little earlier then Gibbs himself. He had gotten a strange phone call the night before saying that members of the Air Force would be showing up at his work in the morning, to explain some things. As far as he knew the only person he knew that was in the Air Force had been killed nearly two months ago. So why were they coming to talk to him now? Had his sweetheart not really been killed like they had been told?
He had gone to her funeral, had taken a personal day so that he could go to her funeral and then had gone by her folks house to tell them how sorry he was. They had loved having him around the house when he was in school. In fact, he had been over at there house more times than he was at his own house. He sometimes stayed over at the house just so he would not have to face his father when he came home. He and his father never really had a stable relationship and even when they did try to get along, it had never worked out. His father still blamed him for the death of his younger sister who had died when she was two from falling into the pool and drowning. He knew not to get his father involved in something like this.
So as he began his work day early, and the rest of the team started showing up, he knew that this was going to be like a day he probably wouldn't forget. He could still remember there last night together, could still remember that she had left with her orders in hand all smiles. It wasn't like they hadn't kept in touch. She would send him an email every now and then, but keeping up with each others lives wasn't really in each others vocabulary. So he went about his day and just as Gibbs got a call that they had a case and were heading out, the Air Force decided to arrive. Great, like they really had perfect timing or something like that.
The two officers seemed to be a little uncomfortable in the presence of the team but soon got over it, asking Tony if there was a place that they could talk in private. Gibbs told Ziva and McGee to head to the crime scene and that they would follow shortly. He wasn't going to leave Tony alone with two officers from the Air Force who were trying to talk to him in Private, away from everyone else that cared about him. He would be there for Tony knowing that he would never call his dad in for something as small as talking to two Air Force Officers.
Tony showed the two officers into the conference room, while Ziva and McGee headed to the crime scene to start processing it. They knew that whatever was about to be said would most likely be shared between the team and friends once the two officers left. Both officers sat down in the conference room and as soon as the door was shut and Gibbs and Tony were sitting, they started in on why they were really here and what the matter at hand was.
Being Told:
"I know you probably have a lot of questions for us and I'm sure your wondering why it took us two months to finally come and see you and I… we apologize for being so late in coming to see you, but we have been very busy and we hadn't yet found out that Tamatra had been keeping in contact with you. Once we found out from her parents where to find you, it was just a matter of figuring out if you had the right Security Clearance and if not then would it be given to you and your team. But you're probably wondering who we are and by the look on your bosses face, it is so." Colonel Carter said.
"Well I already know who you are. You introduced yourselves last night when you called. You are General Jack O'Neil and you are Colonel Carter. But what does my Security Clearance have anything to do with Tamatra? She was killed in Iraq nearly two months ago. I went to her funeral and everything. Her parents didn't say anything then."
"That's because they didn't know. Tamatra didn't know how to tell them where she was or what she was doing and quiet frankly, she didn't have the clearance to do so. But we are allowing you to know what she did and allow you to tell your team as well. Tamatra wanted you to know before she died that she never stopped thinking of you the whole time she was away. She wanted you to know that so that when we told you the real reason we are here, you wouldn't get too mad at her or stay mad at her." General O'Neil said.
"So what's all the hubbub about that Tamatra couldn't tell me before she died?"
"And why all the secrecy now? Why not tell him when she left where she was going?"
"Agent Gibbs, there were protocols that we had to adhere by. We couldn't just blurt out to anybody what we do for a living. Tamatra knew that more than anything that she wasn't going to be able to live long enough for us to get her back here and to see Mr. DiNozzo. What we are trying to say, is that Tamatra worked in a classified section of the military, which involves nearly every country in the world. Mr. DiNozzo, your girlfriend was stationed in a whole different galaxy these past few years. The night of your prom was when she conceived your daughter Abigail. She gave her your last name so that she would always know that she had a father here on Earth. We want you and your team to come with us, back to Colorado and back to where Abigail is. Our base is in Cheyenne Mountain and with the help of you and your team, we believe that Abigail will have a better sense of moving back to Earth. The whole trip will take a maximum of two months since it takes nearly a month to get to the Pegasus from here. Are you willing to go? Are you willing to meet your daughter? She has been told her whole life about you, has seen photographs of you and knows what you do for a living. But the real questions still lie in her head as she did not come back to Earth for her mother's funeral because she could not get back."
"I'm…I need time to think this through, if you don't mind. I'll let you know what my decision is as soon as I think about it."
"That is understandable. We will be in DC for the next week if you wish to talk to us at any time. This was a stopover mission, so to speak, as we are mainly here to talk to a Section of the government that helps us with our funding and everything else. Please, don't hesitate to call if you have any questions. And I was asked to give this to you." Colonel Carter gave her his card and then a packet of photos as well.
"Thanks."
"Your welcome; Now, if you'll excuse us, we are running a little late for our meeting. I really do hope that you decide to go. She is a wonderful young woman and has hoped to meet you for a few years now."
"I'll…we'll be in contact. I'll escort you out."
Gibbs left the room with the two Officers and let Tony think for awhile. He knew that he was going to have to talk this over with not only Gibbs but also the team. And whatever case it was that they had just been handed, it would have to be handed to another team for, if they decided to go, it was going to be a long haul from here on out. Tony sat in the chair and looked at the card the Colonel had just given him before composing himself. He left the conference room and headed back down to his desk, where he could see Ziva and McGee had returned from the crime scene. They looked at him and sitting down at his desk, ignored them before pulling out his cell and texting Tamatra's mother who was the only one that had a cell as her father didn't think one was necessary to have in this day and age. He asked if they could meet and then when she answered back yes, he asked if she would meet him at the small diner that he and Tamatra used to frequent when they were young. She told him she would be there in an hour.
Tony got up from his desk, grabbed his gear and keys and left the office right as Gibbs came back up using Ducky's elevator. He saw Tony duck into the elevator and figured he was going to clear his head. He walked to his desk and told the team that the case was being handed over and that they were taking a two month sabbatical to help the military out with some kind of project and that Abby would be coming with and Ducky would be coming with. Gibbs had already gotten ahold of Colonel Carter and told her that they were willing to go to wherever Abigail was and get her to move back to Earth. He told her that Tony was still thinking it over but if he had to, he would force him to go as well. She thanked him for his answer and told them that they would leave that Friday, after all of there meetings were over.
Meanwhile… Tony had met up with Tamatra's mom at the diner twenty minutes later. The diner was no loner in operation but because he had bought the land it was sitting on so to always remember everything that had happened when he was in high school, the building was still standing. And it was also a good place to go and think for a while when he didn't want anyone to know where he was going. They talked about Tamatra and then Tony asked if she had told them anything pertaining to a child. Tamatra's mother was taken aback by the fact that her daughter might have had a child, but then realized that after a minute that Tony had just also found out about the child.
She told him that no, she didn't know about the child, and even though she loved her daughter, she didn't want anything to do with the child. Her daughter had apparently disgraced the family by joining the military and she wished nothing to do with the child. They left it at that and parted ways. Now, Tony knew that he had to go and see Abigail and meet her for the first time, but would she warm up to his ways and allow him to bring her home and away from whatever it was that she grew up with. He had yet to even look at the pictures that were still sitting on his desk.
Would Tony and Abigail get along? And how will the team react to seeing where Abigail has been living nearly half her life? Will she leave once she knows that she has a father that wants her?
More to come in next chapter…
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