Hi - As promised here is the sequel to Little J. I hope to update at least twice a week. Hope you enjoy.

AN: All disclaimers aply!!!

Chapter 1

Gibbs watched his team interact as they made their way to Los Angeles. It was a tiring flight and to make it even worse was the fact that they had no idea what was waiting for them in LA. All Gibbs was told by Director Vance was that the Team Lead for the MRT/MCU was shot while working on a case in which the Director of the LA branch was kidnapped. The SecNav had immediately summoned Gibbs' team on a priority flight and get to LA asap and take over the case.

Gibbs however had no idea what the case was that they were working on, nor why their Director would have been involved. And it frustrated him that no one seemed willing to give him any answers. The only response he received was that the team working the case will read them in as soon as they arrived. He knew that it had to be serious because not only was his team summoned but Abby and Ducky as well. He had worked with the team from LA before and knew that they were well capable to handle anything just as well as Abby and Ducky and that in itself did not bode well with him.

His team now consisted of his Senior Field Agent, Special Agent Tim McGee and Agent Ziva David. At the moment they did not have another team member as it seemed most of the Probies that joined their team only lasted for a few month, the record at the moment standing on 5 months and 10 days.

McGee had a hard time filling the boots of his predecessor, especially after said predecessor had left DC for good. Gibbs knew he was a bastard to work for during the first year, but McGee and David had stuck it out, although they had gone through about a dozen of Probies in that year alone. McGee and David knew the reason behind all the anger and frustration and refused to be pushed away by his behaviour. They would rally together with Abby and Ducky and soon they had him back to his normal bastardy self. And since becoming a dad Tim had grown a lot of confidence in himself and his abilities as Senior Field Agent. Gibbs knew that if given a choice there would be only three people he would trust to have his back, and Tim was one of them.

Ziva was one of the other. She in particular had gone through a lot and they had almost lost her to her dad's innuendoes, but they had managed to save her from the clutches of her kidnappers and brought her back to the US. Three years ago she had cut all ties with her father and Mosaad and had become a citizen of the US and had been appointed as a full time Special Agent. She was currently involved with a doctor at Bethesda Hospital and was starting to talk about getting married. Gibbs was pleased that she had found someone that was able to break the "tough act" and get through to the feminine side of Ziva David and especially someone that would be able to get her to settle down.

Ducky was his own self, although it had taken a bit of time for him to warm up to Gibbs again after Tony left. He took a deep breath, it had been hell on all of them, and he was the person responsible for that. In the beginning Ducky had questioned him about the fact that he could not tell Tony he loved him. Then after he reunited with Kelly's childhood friend, Madie, Ducky had brought the bourbon and the two of them sat and drank while he told Ducky about Shannon and Kelly. That night a lot of things had been cleared up. Ducky for one was more sympathetic towards his reason behind his struggle to accept the new addition to his life, although he still did not excuse him for being stupid in letting Tony leave. The second realization was one of his own, there would have been no way that anyone could be able to take the place of Kelly in his heart. But that said, there was also so much more place in his heart for love and to not allow anyone in was even worse than letting the memory of his daughter go. He remembered the words Madie spoke to him when they reburied the box of memories, "Kelly would have wanted you to love again, she always told me that she felt privileged that you loved her that much and she would have hated that that love died with her." Yes that night just three months after Tony left was the first night he longed to love his new child, but it was too late Tony was long gone and did not want to be found.

He remembered walking into the lab about two months after Tony had left and found Abby in tears in front of her computer, frantically searching for something, he fingers flying over the keyboard.

Flashback:

"No, no, no, how could you do that!" She exclaimed as it seemed she hit another firewall or something, hitting the keyboard with such a force that it actually broke.

"Abs, hey calm down," Gibbs placed a hand on her shoulder while, McGee and Ziva came rushing in. Gibbs was not sure what would have upset her so much, they were not working on any active cases, unless she was doing something for one of the other teams.

"How could he fool me!" Abby turned around in frustration, "He should not be able to get the better of me."

"Hey, calm down and tell me who you are talking about." Gibbs spoke firmly trying to get Abby's attention.

She turned to him and then took a deep breath, "Tony," she let the breath out with his name, "he mailed me, just said he and the 'baby' was fine." She looked at up at him expectantly, "Did he say anything to you yet." Gibbs was a little shocked by the news, but managed to shake his head. "Ducky!" Abby called out as she jumped of the chair, "Ducky would know."

Without waiting for any of them she ran towards the stairs, not willing to wait to get to Ducky. They all followed, knowing that maybe Ducky would be able to give some more light on the matter.

"Ducky, Ducky tell me you know something," Abby all but yelled as she entered the doors of Autopsy.

Ducky turned around, the phone still in his hand making Abby stop, "Thank you again, Bradley, and yes I'll tell them, they actually just walked in this very moment." After he greeted he placed the phone down and turned to look at the five expectant faces. "So I assume you also got the e-mail from our dear Anthony."

"Yes," Abby spoke first, "although I don't thing they had looked at their e-mails yet."

"Anything more that Brad could tell you Duck," Gibbs asked, needing to know if Tony was ok.

"Not really, the few words he gave in his e-mail were basically what Brad could give me." Ducky shook his head, "Tony went through the c-section just fine, and he and the little one is healthy."

"Where are they?" Abby asked almost jumping up and down, "When I got the mail I hacked into the Registration Database but found no births under Tony's name in DC. I haven't checked any other state yet but that will take a bit longer. And I could not trace his e-mail." She turned to look at McGee, "You know he actually blocked me, or maybe he got someone to do it, but he blocked me McGee. Maybe you could help get through, or maybe we could just trace…"

"He does not want to be found Abby," Gibbs voice was filled with so much emotion. He felt anger towards Tony for not wanting to be found, but mostly he felt regret for the way he let things slip away from him, sadness that he would not be a part of the new life that was created. He turned defeated and left his family saddened by the knowledge that there was nothing that they could do for him, knowing that the only person that could help was long gone.

END OF FLASHBACK

Gibbs sighed again, how he wished that he could turn back time, things might have turned out so much different. He turned back to the group again, seeing Abby showing off the new photo's she had taken of her little boy. Looking at Abby he could not help but smile, although she had become a mother she had not changed in any way. She was still the old Abby, Goth extraordinaire, but was the perfect mother for her little baby boy. Tim was sitting next to her chatting happily with Ziva about something little Tony had done. Yes, that was right, Abby refused to call her baby boy anything other than Anthony McGee. She knew that it might be a bitter pill to swallow for most of them, having that constant reminder of someone who they dearly loved, but she still refused to believe that she would not see him again and knew he would get a kick out of hearing that her and Tim's baby was named after him. Little Tony was turning three in a few months and he was every bit as hyper as his name sake. He had Abby's black hair and her green eyes but other than that he looked like McGee. He gave a fond smile, there was not a day that went by that he regretted what he had done to Tony, but when he spent time with little Tony, those were the days that it would hit him the hardest. Not being able to see his own little boy, not knowing if he reminded Tony of him or whether he looked like Tony was the things that made the decision he took those years ago, a bitter pill to swallow.

It had been a long six years of regret. What he would not give to take back those few months. Knowing that he had thrown away his second chance of really being happy again, having a family that was his. Regret, though always comes too late. There were days when he was ready to quite and start looking for Tony, but then he would recall the plea from Tony not to look for him. He knew that he could not blame Tony, it was his decision to cut all ties with Tony and he had left Tony long before Tony had left him.

"Jethro," Ducky's voice broke his train of thoughts, "It seems we are starting to get ready for the landing, you might want to fasten your seatbelt."

"Thanks Duck," Gibbs smiled and then turned to look out over the City below them wondering what this case will hold for them.

TBC...