Disclaimer: I don't own any characters that appear on the TV show they all belong to Belisarius Productions and CBS. The original characters are all mine, mine I tell you.
A/N: Enjoy, I look forward to your comments. Also I want to give a big thank you to Emypink for being my beta on this story.
Present Day
Anthony DiNozzo glanced around the wooden teak flooring of the lounge room on the ground floor of his two-story house in Georgetown; he stumbled and tripped over a baby toy lying on the floor near his feet. He righted himself and looked around. "Katie, babe," he shouted.
"I'm up here," Caitlin Todd-DiNozzo shouted from the second floor, "I'm changing Jason!"
"Daddy," a voice said behind him. Tony turned around to see his three-year-old daughter, Isabel, holding a bowl in her hand. Isabel had dark hair like Kate. She also bore a resemblance to her. Her eyes, however, had Tony's shape and colour.
"What's up sweetie?" Tony knelt down in front of her.
"Can you get me some brekky," Isabel said, looking up at him like butter wouldn't melt in her mouth, "Mummy's busy with Jas, and she's always busy with Jas."
Tony smiled, as he always did when he heard Isabel try and say Jason's name "Izzie gorgeous, mummy only…" He stopped, as Isabel's look tugged at his heartstrings.
"All right, let's go get some breakfast." Tony led his daughter by the hand into the kitchen. He lifted Isabel up onto the stool against the bench. "Ok, do you want cereal or toast, Izzie?"
Isabel screwed up her face, "I don't want cereal, daddy."
"Toast it is then." Tony walked around the bench as Izzie sat quietly watching everything he did. He pulled the toaster out from under the bench. Then he walked over to the freezer, pulling out the frozen multi-grain bread. He then pulled a piece of bread out of the bag and put it into the toaster. He looked at Isabel. "What do you want on it, Izzie?"
"Peanut butter and jelly, daddy," Isabel said, smiling at him. Tony nodded. He pulled out the peanut butter and jelly from the fridge, and then he turned around and pulled the toast out of the toaster. Tony placed the piece of toast on a plate. He opened up the jar of peanut butter. He dipped the knife into the jar and spread the paste across the toast. Then he did the same with the strawberry jelly. Tony cut the piece of toast into quarters and slid the plate across the kitchen top to where Izzie was sitting.
"Alright Izzie, I have to go talk to mummy before I go to work." Tony walked around the kitchen bench to his daughter and gave her a kiss on the forehead. "See you tonight, gorgeous."
Isabel hugged Tony tightly, and whispered, "Bye daddy, say hello to Uncle Gibbs and Uncle Tim for me."
Tony looked down at his daughter, running his hand through her hair. "I will. Love you, Izzie."
"Love you too daddy," Isabel said before she turned to her toast.
Tony turned and walked up the stairs, then down the hallway to Jason's room. Tony lent against the door lintel of his son's room. He grinned to himself as his eyes perused his wife's figure from behind. Kate was one remarkable woman. She went to Boxer-Size classes, as well as the jogging with friends almost on a daily basis and her figure had returned to the slimly shaped form she had, had before she was married. Well almost, Tony thought as he smiled, but I wouldn't have her any other way!
Kate had just finished changing their four-month-old son's diaper, when Tony entered. His right hand moved over Kate's backside before he wrapped his arms around Kate and looked over her shoulder at Jason. "Jase, your mum is so good to you."
Tony reached out a finger that Jason clutched at, all his fingers wrapping around Tony's index finger. "I am so envious of you."
Kate smiled as Tony held onto her tightly. "I'm sure your envious at this moment, I'm sure you really want to smell like Jason too." She pulled his arms away from her stomach. "But you have to be at work, handsome."
Tony pulled Kate around so that she pressed up against him, bending in to kiss her. "Well, Katie, maybe after work we can…"
Kate elbowed him in the stomach and Tony groaned. Kate still did it when he got to fresh with her, which didn't happen very often now. "Not tonight, or have you forgotten we're going to my parents' for dinner tonight."
Tony loved his in-laws as much as the next man. He got along with Jim Todd really well and enjoyed the older man's company. He was great to be around when Tony's Philadelphia Eagles and Jim's Seattle Seahawks played one another during the NFL season. He had reservations about Kate's mum, Alexandra, on the other hand. Tony felt it was better never to comment. His mother-in-law never really liked him for one reason or another, but she hadn't stood in Tony and Kate's way when the engagement was announced and when they were finally married. Now she had grandchildren so things were changing for the better.
"Sorry, babe," Tony said as he kissed her tenderly, "Forgive me."
Kate smiled as they broke their kiss. "Don't I always."
She pulled his arms from around her waist. "Now you need to get to work or Gibbs will skin you alive."
Tony stepped back. "Alright Beautiful, I'm going, have fun with my dad."
Kate smiled. Anthony DiNozzo senior was always an interesting man to spend time with, and he loved his grandchildren and doted on them. That was something Tony didn't like him doing much, but he wasn't going to stop his dad, not since they were now close once again. Since Tony and Kate's marriage three and a half years ago, Tony and his father had grown close. They spent more time together when he wasn't working and even did more things together, something Kate believed Tony had missed out on throughout his own childhood. Tony was always smiling now when he was with his Dad, which made Kate feel that her husband was now bridging the gap with his Dad, which had been there for so long. She heard him head downstairs and then call out as he opened the door. "See you all tonight, I love you all."
The door closed and Kate turned back to Jason. Their son reminded her of Tony. Jason had her raven hair and her eyes, but he had the looks of his father and that pleased Tony's dad, Anthony Senior.
Kate lifted Jason into her arms. "Let's go see what your sister is up to."
Kate descended the stairs slowly; she always took extra care whether it was Jason or even Isabel when she was younger. She walked through the lounge, pausing to look at her wedding photo. Then she glanced at the latest family photo taken only a few weeks ago. She walked into the kitchen. "Izzie, what did daddy make you?"
Izzie sat at the kitchen bench on a stool finishing her last quarter of toast. Kate groaned. She was only three and Tony had placed her on a stool. Tony you're being dangerous again, she sighed and walked over to Jason's high chair. She placed him carefully into the chair, buckled him in and turned to Isabel. "Daddy made me peanut butter and jelly on toast, mummy," Isabel answered.
Kate groaned again. Izzie had developed a bad habit of wrapping Tony around her little finger when it came to what she wanted.
"All right, Izzie." Kate lifted the three year old off the stool. "Do you want to watch the Wiggle again?"
Isabel beamed at Kate. "Can I mummy, really?"
Kate needed to have her out the way as while she prepared Jason's bottle to feed him, she finished breastfeeding two weeks ago. The bottle was a new thing to her son and she was finding it hard to feed him from the bottle every now and then. "Yes, which one to do you want," Kate asked quickly.
"Anyone, mummy," Izzie said jumping up and down. Isabel loved the Wiggles. Kate walked over to the TV, switched it on and turned the DVD player on. She waited a few seconds before she opened up the DVD tray and placed the DVD inside. She hit play and watched as Izzie sat on the carpet in front of the TV, mesmerized.
Kate returned to the kitchen just a Jason started to cry. Kate picked him up. "I'm not having that Jason James DiNozzo. You're not going to cry like your dad when he doesn't get his own way."
Kate smirked, invariably Tony did get his way and she had two kids to prove that he did. Kate jiggled Jason for a few moments before he settled down again, smiling away happily at her. She carefully placed him back in the high chair and began to get his bottle ready.
It was almost finished when the doorbell rang. Kate looked over at Jason sitting over in the high chair. "I wonder who that could be, Jase?" Jason smiled at her as she spoke to him in the playful voice she always did when she talked to him.
"Mummy, the door rang," Isabel said, her attention drawn away from the Wiggles for a moment.
"Okay, Izzie," Kate said, walking out of the kitchen, "mummy will get it." Kate walked over to the door, and opened it a smile across her face.
Kate's smile faded as she beheld the person standing on the porch. He wore a motorcycle jacket, trousers and gloves and carried a helmet under his arm "Hello Caitlin."
She reacted too late to the situation. The man's gloved hand held a piece of cloth drenched in an Anaesthetic, and it was forcibly clamped over her mouth. Even as her strength and eyes failed, Kate beheld more men behind him. She heard Isabel scream and Jason crying. All went black.
