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25th January
What's the correct response when your girlfriend, who is also a federal agent, an ex-Mossad officer, and your partner in the team, announces she's pregnant? Are you supposed to leap up in the air and cry "Fabulous!" or "Amazing!" or "Stupendous!" or some other crap like that? Are you supposed to grab her and give her a massive kiss? Are you supposed to say, like I would imagine legions of fathers have, say "Are you sure?" I'm pretty sure that saying "Is it mine?" isn't in the top ten ways to take the news. Then again, I could be wrong. I guess I earned that slap.
I don't really know why I'm doing this. God knows I'm no writer. It took me five attempts to make my first report acceptable, and it would have been more if Gibbs hadn't felt sorry for me. And I don't have an alter ego called Thom E Gemcity.
But, I guess it's so there will always be a piece of me for you to hang on to. Because being an NCIS agent isn't like being a secretary or something, where the biggest danger is getting a papercut. We get shot at, like, daily. This way, even if I'm not around, I can still talk to you.
So, hi. I'm your father. God. That looks even stupider on paper than it sounded in my head. I'm not thinking straight. Because, the thing is baby, I'm scared. Because I'm not very grown up and being a father means being grown up. A friend of mine once said I was like an X rated Peter Pan. I'll explain that when you're older. Much older.
We'll watch all the Peter Pan films. All of them. And I'll teach you all the quotes. I'll hold you when the crocodile or the pirates scares you, or the mermaids in the 2003 version. (And despite what your mother will tell you, they do not scare me!)
I have to go. Your mother will yell at me in a minute in a minute. I promised to cook dinner. And she's not in the mood for arguing. So if I want to live and see you- which I do- I have to go.
Anthony (Tony) DiNozzo
(Dad)