Secrets, Pain and Lies
Author's Note: Ok, if you have not figured out part of it, I will tell you that this will be wide AU. No plague for Tony, and also no actual college for him as well. Instead, he went another route, just because he wanted to see if he could. Even as he met Deeks in this direction, neither let this different direction stop them from more schooling. They also met many new friends, some of whom we may meet one day. Not to mention what the duo can do (not to mention their friends!). There will be Gibbs, Tim, and Kate, but a much more by the book Kate, one they met as an agent of another agency and not on the airplane. There is also Abby, Ducky, Gerald as the second ME, and Jimmy as their ME helper for either of them. Morrow is still Director, as he works with Tony and his other job. I hope that you all have as much fun reading as I am writing it!
Excerpt from first chapter: G heard a chuckle over the phone, "Oh, the stories the two of them could tell you are just as black op as most of mine, and not to mention yours, my boy. We will tell you what we can when you all get here." Hetty hung up and G continued to work his way across the city, toward the safe house.
"I'm not going to like it, am I?" G asked as he narrowed his gaze at the two behind him.
Tony chuckled thinly, "Oh, you'll like this one. You may not believe us, though."
G smirked, "Oh, with you two, I will believe just about anything with the crazy stunts you two have pulled under cover."
Two faces looked at him with almost identical innocent faces. Then the three smirked at each other.
Chapter 2 – It goes everywhere…
It had taken them a long time to get to the safe house, but they finally got there without hurting Tony too much. The garage door opened as they drove into the driveway, and G entered and they watched as the door closed. The door to the house opened and Hetty stepped into the garage with a man in a doctor's coat behind her, followed by a nurse.
"Ah, cavalry's here…" Tony sighed as he tried to shift, to which Deeks stopped him, and car doors were opened and both he and Deeks were helped gently out. Deeks' painkillers had dissipated long ago from his system, and he was gritting his teeth to hold back the symptoms. He grinned at Hetty even as he moved past her, and she frowned at him. "Deeks…"
Deeks sighed as she moved and picked up the brace for his shoulder that sat on the passenger seat in the car, handing it to him. Nodding to her, he followed the others, carefully putting it back on. As she did not lecture him on taking it off, he knew he was safe for doing it this one time.
When they entered the house, Tony was settled in a bedroom that was downstairs and already set up as a doctor's room. The nurse began to follow the doctor's orders as they got to work on repairing the damage as only they could.
Deeks had to ask, "Ok, I know you couldn't have set up this small doctor's office that quickly, right Hetty?" She just looked at him, that look that didn't show any indication of anything else.
He gulped; Deeks hated that look, and glimpsed over Hetty that G was frantically shaking his head.
Oh yeah, sometimes he just couldn't keep his mouth shut. Hetty just had that effect sometimes. Usually it happened more when he was in pain like right now, though, and decided he needed more pills fast, or his foot was going to come out of his mouth again soon.
Muttering about his brace being loose, Deeks moved away, and Hetty sighed, even though she was laughing internally. She loved it when Deeks did that, some days it was her highlight of the day. As skilled as he was, she enjoyed his sense of humor…but she wasn't going to tell him that.
As Deeks headed over toward the bathroom, G walked up behind Hetty and murmured, "You do that on purpose, don't you?" She relaxed, answering, "And you don't?" He had to chuckle quietly at this, and they both shared a small smile.
Tony fought to stay awake, not wanting to wake up fighting with anyone as he was wont to do when dreams took over at times when he was unconscious. He had already almost choked G, and didn't want to do that to the nurse or doctor.
He had refused to be put under as they worked, knowing he had stitched up worse before while awake. He had also noticed the nurses shocked gaze at the scars he already had that were old across his back and chest. Many were old, and he was used to the looks he got for them.
He still remembered Ducky's gaze the first time he saw them, and when Tony had muttered, "Classified," to him. Ducky had smiled. "I thought as much, my dear boy. Some of them look like, well, unfortunately as I have seen them before; they are familiar forms of torture, I must tell you."
That was the first and last times they had spoken of them. Deeks had much the same across his body, but he luckily had his shirt on.
Deeks had found a bottle of pain killers, and checking the dosage and strength, he decided to take three. Putting the container in his pocket for use later, he began to explore the house. It always paid to know the layout.
He met G a while later in the kitchen, making coffee, and grinned. Checking to see the fridge was fully stocked, he decided to make himself a sandwich. He made one for Tony as well, a smaller one, as he was not sure how hungry he would be, but knew his friend and had noticed how much weight he had lost. Tony tended to do that when undercover. He was good at pretending to eat, and now that he was here, well; Deeks was going to remedy that.
"Deeks, when did you and Dinozzo meet?" G asked, really wanting to know. He too had recognized the scars on Tony, and many of them looked just like ones that Deeks had. Deeks grinned over his sandwich as G handed him a cup, and just smiled. "Well, that part is not really a secret. We met our first day of BDU's."
G stared at Deeks, his mouth still halfway open and ready to take a sip of the strong coffee. He shook himself to snap out of the shock, and he took a larger gulp of the hot coffee than he had wanted, and burned his tongue. Deeks just grinned, realizing what had happened, and took a bite of his sandwich.
Hetty entered, and G pointed to a second pot, one which held only hot water. She nodded approvingly, and opened a cupboard which held some of her favorite teas. Deeks smirked around his chewing; yep, Hetty without her tea was like Kensi without her snacks.
G finally had settled his pained mouth as his mind frantically ran through what he thought he had known of the two men. "So, wait a minute…I thought you were a lawyer before you joined the LAPD." Deeks grinned at that, but Hetty answered, "Due to his schooling, yes, he is a lawyer, as he took the test and passed. He just didn't stop there, and went on to go to learn more about the law in different areas…like the police force."
G turned to her, confused now. "But, when did…" G stopped, unsure about the timing.
A second chuckle from behind made them turn and they saw a much bandaged Tony limp into the kitchen, wearing a pair of loose yet clean faded jeans, his bare chest showing starkly the nasty bruises.. Deeks slid the sandwich he had made for him and Tony grabbed at it and took a bite.
Hetty frowned, "You should be resting," and he nodded at that.
"I will, after I eat something. Thanks, Deeks."
Tony sat gingerly on the stool next to Deeks, and took a larger bite, and the sandwich disappeared quickly. Deeks, only half done with his, switched the other half to Tony's plate, glad he was hungry, and headed back to the refrigerator. He would make a couple more, just in case.
As Tony ate, Deeks continued, "While we were in BDU's, we were all tested in various ways. They moved us to a different unit about halfway through. It was fun, really, learning about covert ops, and for the two of us, it was easy. Tony also learned more languages easily; as did I some he could not. They kept us together as partners for a long time, seeing our working together complemented each other. It was a year later when they sent us out to work with other branches of the military."
G frowned again as he took all this in, and then he remembered when Sam had met Deeks, and some months later Dinozzo. That look Sam got when he was controlling a reaction to someone…damn, he had thought wrong back then. He thought he hadn't liked Deeks!
"Sam knew you from before," he said aloud, amazed.
Dinozzo smirked, "Got it in one, but as it is one of those none of us can talk about, and Sam had to make sure no one knew. Even you," he added.
Deeks allowed, "We actually realized you may be the only one who might figure it out, but Hetty told me to see how long it took," turning to Hetty, he asked, "Who won the bet?"
G had to lean on the counter behind him to keep himself up right as Hetty laughed; she actually laughed! "I do believe as it has been this long, I will have to check the book to see, but I do believe it is Tony."
"You bet on me?"
"Aw man, and here I thought I had won," Deeks complained even as he grinned, watching G's face and its whirlwind of shocked stare at Hetty.
Hetty frowned as she seemed to think, and she added as if she had not stopped speaking, "Or was it Sam?"
"Sam bet too?"
A phone rang, and Hetty pulled her cell out of her pocket, "Yes, Eric?" She listened as she quickly walked out of the room, already preparing what she would tell him in her mind. She knew the rest of the team would be ready to help by Monday, and she had already sent a code word to Gibbs to let him know that he needed to contact her. She really wanted to know why he had not told her Dinozzo was gone.
Deeks, preparing some more sandwiches still, handed one to G, who had decided to just wait until they were ready to tell him more. The three men ate in comfortable silence, except for the glances of complete shock still there. They knew G would calm down soon, but it really was amusing to the two friends and really, brothers, at his reaction.
Tony decided to let him in on another's reaction, "You should have seen Gibbs' face when he found out." Deeks guffawed at this, remembering when Tony had emailed him a copied picture of the cropped NCIS still from the cameras in the bullpen when he had realized.
G couldn't take it anymore, "Who else knows?"
Deeks ticked off his fingers, answering him, "Well, not taking into account our superiors, not to mention the bastard, well, we'll get to him later. Anyhow, Gibbs, Morrow, Ducky kind of by default due our injuries from torture; Kate kind of knows, due her psych degree. She recognized signs of well, some stuff when Tony would come back from an Op. Abby, by accident of a dream, who has practically sworn in blood to never ever tell a soul, or she said she would become a nun and never listen to her music and only the music the nuns listen to." Tony was silent about the last one, as he had hurt Abby. He had been sorry about that, the others could see.
G stared as this last part was spoken, then smirked to alleviate Tony's mood, "Honestly, I would love to see if she could actually do that," and Deeks chuckled, "Me too."
AN: Well, I hope this put some fun as well as some background in the story for a bit. I hope to add one more chapter this weekend, so here's hoping! I want to get to the main story soon, as well as more characters as well…Reviews, as always, are greatly appreciated…that supremely beautiful button below! T
