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Summary: Thea isn't the only Queen child Moira lied to about their true parentage and Oliver is about to find out that living up to the final wishes of Robert Queen isn't nearly as hard as balancing life as "The Hood" and being the son of Leroy Jethro Gibbs.
"Life as Gibbs"
The last few days had been, by all accounts, calm at NCIS headquarters for the MCRT. Having been pulled from rotation late last week to undergo mandatory annual training and evaluations, the team was spending their spare time working on cold cases. DiNozzo, McGee, and David were individually combing over a decades worth of unsolved cases in hopes that one of them could glean any information from the countless boxes of dusty paper files which were normally housed in the basement but currently stacked like a fortress around the bullpen. This would continue for another week and a half until they were deemed competent and another team was moved into training.
This meant that he would be stuck wasting his time scoring his agents in areas he knew they were already more than proficient in. After all, a team doesn't just stumble upon the highest solve rate in the agency unless all of it's members are damn good at their jobs. A sub-par agent wouldn't have made it as on his team as long as his current members anyway. He told Director Vance as much but the snide little weasel just shook his head, gave his tooth pick a good nash, and stated: "Policy Gibbs. SecNav wants all NCIS personnel up to par with current standards and without testing each individual team there is no way of know if anyone is falling behind. This way we have in writing that they are capable and competent so if something were to happen with your team SecNave can't question their capabilities. I'm really not trying to torture anyone Gibbs. I'm just trying to cover all of our asses".
He hadn't let the last few day go to waste though. He had finished his portion of the teams evaluations, completed back logged case reports, flung a stack of order forms at DiNozzo demanding he go over the status of office supplies needed, ordered McGee to clean up and run the necessary diagnostawatchamacallit on all the bullpen computers, and much to Ziva's amusement and Tim and Tony's charginpolitely asked her to clean up the teams weapons. With a grumble of "On it Boss!" from the guys and a "Yes Gibbs" from Ziva he's out of things to do. Maybe a trip to the lab to visit is favorite goth was in order. She'd been working at an A+ level for quite some time and she deserved to have a lunch break outside of the lab for once...his treat. On that note maybe he'll treat the whole team, that would keep them talking for awhile.
"Let's go get lunch. My treat" he tells the team as he rises from his chair
"Oh thank God" McGee whines
"What's a matter? Got to many paper cuts on your poor wittle fingers McTechy?" DiNozzo jokes only just barley keeping the astonishment of his bosses apparent meltdown from making him say something worthy of a head slap.
"Ignore him McGee. He is just yanking your chain. That was correct yes?" Ziva inputs. Her use of idioms had been improving lately.
"Bob's your uncle" Tony answers purposefully in an attempt to trip Ziva up. It works.
"No he's not. My uncle is Chadar" She responds in confusion
"It means your right Ziver" Gibbs tells her
"Well that doesn't make any sense! Who is this Bob and what does he have to do with being right? Was he an astronaut on all things right?!" she indigently sputters
"Pioneer Zi. Not astronaut" McGee inputs
"Whatever. The point I was trying to make McGee is that you should ignore Tony. I too am relieved to be getting a break from this tedious work. If I knew the person who was responsible for annual training I would take a paper clip to him!" She answers hotly. Gibbs agrees with the sentiment.
As they make their way to the elevator bank Tony stops dead in his tracks.
"Wait a minute" he asks as if something just occurred to him. "Did you say your uncle's name was Cheddar? You know...like the cheese?"
"She said Chadar Tony. It means honor in Hebrew. It the bible it wa..." McGee beings only to be cut off by Gibbs
"McGee no one wants a history lesson right now. If you want to bore someone to death I would be more than happy to drop you off in autopsy with Ducky and Palmer. Their patients are already dead and would probably be good company. Or you can zip the yabba and have lunch with us" Gibbs jokes
"Shutting up boss" McGee quickly responds
As the elevator dings to announce it's arrival Gibbs can't help but notice Tony looks quite like a mouse that's caught the canary. He'll let Tony have this win for now but later the kids in for it. As the elevator doors slide open he stops dead in his tracks at the sight that greats him. The beautiful blonde hair is cropped much shorter than the last time he saw her, but there is no mistaking the women standing in front of him. He may not have seen her in almost three decades but his heart does a flip flop when Moira Queen steps out of the elevator and back into his life.
Moira had been such a brief part of his life, but 28 years later a small part of him still longs for her. He remembers with clarity the night he met her in the smoky little dive just inside the DC borders. Her soft blonde hair and beautiful smile caught him off guard because it had been so out of place. He found himself revealing to her that night over drinks things he never could have imagined opening up about again. The few whirlwind weeks they had spent together were some of the best of his life but they had soon taken a dark turn. He can still remember the heartache he felt waking up that morning and waiting hours for her to show up before realizing that she never would. She had been the only women after Shannon that he truly saw a second chance at a happy life with. It had taken him months of fighting with himself not to go after her before he decided that he loved her enough to let her go. He'd met ex wife number one not long after.
"Moira, what are you doing here?" he asks in astonishment
"I need to talk to you" she answers nervously ringing her hands
"About what?" he counters
"I really think this is a conversation best had in private" she tells him while gesturing the unmoving and very curious members of his team that are standing behind him
He turns to his team but before he can get a word out Tony saves him the trouble.
"Oh would you look at that, lunch time already. Why don't the three of us go grab Abs, Ducky, and Black Lung then head on out to Mickey's for lunch" Tony doesn't wait for a response from his partners before grabbing a protesting McGee and Ziva by the collars and dragging them towards the stairs. Gibbs is grateful that Tony had the foresight to take Abby, Ducky, and Black Lung with him to lowering the chances of he and Moira being interrupted. Wait? Black Lung? Not important.
Moira looks more than nervous now so he places a hand at the small of her back and directs her to the nearest conference room. He gets her settled and comfortable before jogging back the way he came to get coffee from the lunch room. He doesn't know what Moira is going to tell him but his gut is screaming "YOU'RE GOING TO NEED COFFEE FOR THIS!". He grabs two cups and heads back to the women who broke his heart years ago. When he reaches the conference room again Moira is pacing back and forth along the far wall.
"What's this about Moira?" he asks her before taking a seat at the end of the table closest to the door
"Promise me you'll let me explain everything before you tell me to go to hell and walk back out that door" she begs
"Just tell me what's going on. What has you so worked up that you'd seek out a man you haven't seen or spoken to in nearly three decades? Are you in some kind of trouble?" he asks
"No, but I think my son might be in trouble" she tells him
"Your son?"
"No. Our son" she chokes out
"Excuse me?"
"I'm sorry I wanted to tell y..." she starts but he cuts her off
"What do you mean our son. We don't have a son Moira because you left me without a word and I haven't seen you since. How can we have a son?" he's confused and starting to get mad
"I got pregnant that last night we spent together" she answers
"No that can't be possible. That was 28 years ago and you never said anything to me! If this is true how the hell could you not find time to tell me sooner!?" he's yelling now
"I'm sorry. I know I should have told you, but I'd already made my choice and had been back in Starling for two months when I found out I was pregnant. Robert told me id didn't make a difference if the child wasn't his that he would love it all the same. I knew that you were in a bad place at the time and I didn't want you to have to face rasing another child so soon after losing one. I made a decision that at the time I thought was for the best and have wondered everyday if I did the right thing. Robert and I had planned on telling Oliver the truth when he turned 25 to give him a chance to get his life together before we shook everything up for him. Sadly, Robert died 7 years ago and until recently I had thought Oliver had perished too. Thankfully, my family was blessed with a miracle and he was returned to us. Jethro I tried so many times since Oliver got back to tell him the truth but every time I did it never seemed like the right time. I finally worked up the courage to do so a few months ago and he hasn't spoken to me since. He lost control of the family company recently and I'm afraid that he's going to do something reckless. I know that he doesn't know you and that you don't know him, but I was hoping that you could speak with him and get to know him. He was close to Robert and I think having a father figure in his life again might do him some good. I know I should have told you Jethro but I was worried that you would be angry about me choosing Robert and try to take Oliver away from us." she finishes with a sob
He's so angry, confused, and upset that he can't even form words. He gets up and begins to pace the length of the room much as she had been doing earlier. To think that this morning his biggest worry was the best way to evaluate DiNozzo in a positive way that wouldn't inflate his ego and now he's a father to a grown man that spent his whole life calling another man dad. This situation was so screwed up. Things like this weren't supposed to happen in real life, things like this happened in all those movies DiNozzo watched. How was this his life?
"Jethro, I know you're angry but please say something" Moira begs
"What's he like?" he asks. The situation is catching up with him and he has to sit down for fear that he'll fall down.
"He's amazing. Growing up he was this ball of energy and he loved to talk and play. He was always moving and it didn't matter to him if it was with his best friend Tommy or by himself. Once his sister was born things changed though. Thea brought out a protective quality in Oliver and though he still liked to talk and play he always had Thea with him. I've never seen a little boy so excited to have a sister. When he hit 15 things changed and my sweet little boy turned into the unruly and hard to manage teenager my parent's warned me about while Robert and I were busy doting on him as a child. He drank, partied, skipped school, and stole a cop car. When he graduated from high school I thought that he'd get better. We'd sent him halfway across the country for college in the hopes that separating him from Tommy would give him a chance to wise up and see that the way he was acting wasn't appropriate but he showed up back in Starling on our doorstep not 3 weeks later stating college wasn't for him. Robert and I didn't know what to do with him so we sent him to another college, and another, and another until finally Robert just got fed up. He decided that he was going to go for a trip on the yacht with Oliver and explain to him that if he didn't clean up his act that we were cutting him off and he was going to have to make his own way until he wised up. I made Robert promise before they left that he would call me everyday. He called once the day after they left to let me know that he hadn't spoken yet with Oliver but he was planning on spending the day fishing with him before breaking the news. He told me he would call me that night to let me know how things went. That call never came; not that night or the next and by the middle of the third day after trying multiple times to get a hold of both Robert and Oliver on their phones I got word back that they had run into a storm. I was devastated. The search and rescue crews spent three days combing the waters for any sign of life but gave up hope. They spent two days after that looking for wreckage. By the day seven I was having a funeral for my husband and son." at this point she has to stop because she is so choked up
"What happened?"
"I was messed up for a long time after that. Poor Thea pretty much lost her whole family that day and for weeks she walked around like a ghost because she didn't have anyone to help her move passed the tragedy that had befallen us because I couldn't get out of bed. If it wasn't for Robert's business partner Walter I don't know how Thea and I would have moved on. He came in one day and made me get dressed and leave the house for lunch. It took some time, but Thea and I began to pick up the pieces of our lives. We were never going to be who we once were but we were making strides. Walter and I married two years after the accident."
"When did you find out that Oliver was still alive" he's nauseated. Where had the kid been?
"Five years after the yacht sank I got a phone call from the American Embassy in China. They told me a man had been found by fishermen on a deserted island in the North China Sea a few days prior and he was claiming to be my dead son. They sent me a photo and five days later I was reuniting with my son at Starling General Hospital. He had scar tissue on 20 percent of his body which included second degree burns and 12 fractures that never healed properly. He doesn't talk about what happened to him while he was gone but he isn't the same boy that left. He's quite and when he walks into a room or situation I can see him asses everything before he says or does anything. Recently a man he met on the island caused some trouble and brought a few things to light but other then that much of his time away still remains a mystery. He grew up on that island and he's a good man. He even gets upset when someone mentions they way he acted before the accident. I'm so proud of him." she finishes
He wants to believe that a kid he's never met couldn't have this much of an effect on him, but having lost Kelly the way he did and to hear about the horrible crap this kid went through shakes him to the core. He has a son and the kid suffered god knows what for five years. He doesn't hold much stock in fate or miracles but he believes that something saved that kid and he is going to be damned if he misses out on anymore of his life. He'll give Oliver the option and if he doesn't want to meet with him he can't say be blames him, but he's certainly going to try. You don't walk away from you kids even if you don't know them.
"When can I meet him?" he asks
"How fast can you pack?" she replies
End Note: That is for sure the longest thing I've ever written.
