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Chapter 3

Tony walked into the room where Katie lay in sleeping. He sank onto the chair by her bed and could not stop the tears that flowed at the sight of his child in such pain.

Her dark brown hair lay fanned out across the pillow and Abby gasped as she slipped in the door behind him.

Tony's head snapped around.

"What are you doing in here?" He hissed mindful of his sleeping child.

"I thought you would want someone with you," Abby whispered back.

"No, you thought you'd be the first one to get a sight of Katie, we don't need you, and I don't need you." Tony snapped.

"That's not it at all." Abby said tears forming in her eyes.

"Yeah so you still gonna tell me I'm not good enough and I'm not Gibbs so I can't do this. Get out!" He hissed

Abby teared up and left.

She burst into the waiting room and hugged Tim, "He was so mean." She cried.

"I'm sure he didn't mean it Abbs, he's just upset." Tim consoled her.

Abby wiped her eyes, "She is beautiful though, he called her Katie." She said.

Tim started to piece things together.

'Na.' He thought, there was no way DiNozzo had married Caitlin Todd, All three of them had worked together closely he would have known if they were involved.

Tony walked out his head hung.

"Abby, I'm sorry." He said and hugged the Goth,

"No you're right I shouldn't have barged in, she is beautiful though." Abby smiled at him.

Tony gave a small grin.

"She's definitely stubborn like her mother." He smiled.


Gibbs walked in the room, "Rachel's out of surgery." He said putting his arm on Tony's shoulder.

"Have you called…?" Tony started to ask as the doors opened again and a large man strode across the room grabbed Tony by the collar and slammed him into the wall.

"How many of my children are you trying to kill?" He yelled oblivious to the fact that both Ziva and McGee had drawn their weapons on the man to protect Tony.

"Sam, it wasn't my fault," Tony protested ignoring his team and concentrating on the man in front of him.

"Get the hell off him!" Gibbs growled pulling Sam off his son.

Sam collapsed into a chair and put his head in his hands.

"Caitlin died because she jumped in front of a bullet to protect you, and now Rachel is…is." Sam broke down as Tony looked to Rachel's mother.

"Ruth?" He asked fearfully.

Ruth's face was impassive, "Rachel has broken her back, and we don't know if she will ever walk again. Her life and career are in ruins because she chose to help look after your child."

"She's her niece and your granddaughter." Tony snapped, "Rachel loved spending time with her."

"Yes while you who are supposed to be the perfect parent left her for three months." Ruth snapped. "Her mother was dead and you left her to gallivant on that ship."

"I had no choice," Tony snapped.

"Why because you were too scared to tell anyone about her, you didn't want the stigma of being a single parent to cramp your party lifestyle." She snapped cruelly at him.

"ENOUGH!" Gibbs' voice echoed down the hall.

"Jethro I should have known you'd defend him." Sam growled.

"Of course I'll defend him," Gibbs growled, "Now back off and settle down," He said and Sam and Ruth Todd sat down holding hands.

"Rachel has broken her C5 and C6 vertebrae the doctors are doubtful she will walk." Ruth told Gibbs.

"Doctor Cranston?" Tim asked.

Sam nodded. "Yes she's our daughter do you know her?" He asked.

"Yes, I'm Tim McGee I used to work with Kate." He said.

Sam smiled "She spoke highly of you." He said, "Did she tell you when she married him?" He asked pointedly looking at Tony.

"I'm going to sit with Katie; do you want to see her?" Tony asked the Todds circumventing Tim's answer.

"I…." Ruth started.

"Yes Mrs. Todd, I know you hate me and I know it's my fault that Caitlin is dead and Rachel has been hurt, but your six year old granddaughter who loves you both very much despite the way you treat her is here, sick. Now, I do not trust you as much as I can throw you. But she may get better quicker if she hears your voice." Tony said.

"No it's not. Kate's death and Rachel's accident are not you're fault." Gibbs said, "But you are right about Katie seeing her grandparents.

"And we are here." Jackson said as he and Anthony DiNozzo Senior walked into the waiting room.

Tony smiled and hugged Jackson warmly. "Grandpa, Senior." He added turning to his stepfather.

"How is she Junior?" Senior asked him.

"She's still asleep; they are keeping her sedated for another 24 hours." Tony said with a shaky breath.

"Dad, you and A.D. wanna go sit with her while I talk to Sam and Ruth." Gibbs said.

Jackson took Senior's arm, "Come on A.D time to see our little one." They walked past the Todds and headed for Katie's room.

"Looks like you have a reprieve." Tony snarked. Gibbs laid a hand on his shoulder and steered him away from them.


Tony looked at Gibbs as soon as they had gone far enough from the others that they could not be heard.

"Dad, it's all falling down around my ears, they are gonna find out. What are we going to do?" he said desperately.

"It's time we told them the truth." Gibbs said. "Stay here."

Knowing Katie was with Jackson and Senior he sat down and waited as Gibbs came back with Ziva, Tim and Abby.

Gibbs sat them down and while Tony stared at the floor, Gibbs started to talk.

"We have something you guys need to know." Gibbs told them.

"We've already figured it out Boss, Tony and Kate broke rule 12." Tim said.

Gibbs sighed, "Yeah there is that….but that's not it."

Tony looked up at his father, "please?" He asked quietly but Gibbs shook his head.

The others looked confused what could be more important than the fact Tony and Kate had been married and they had a daughter, although the information was shocking it should not affect Tony this much.

Abby crouched down to Tony, "Oh Tony is it worse, is she dying?" Abby asked.

Tony shook his head.

"Tony is my son." Gibbs said straight out.

"We know you think of him as a son, why is that now a need to know?" Ziva asked.

"No, Tony is my biological son, I am his father." Gibbs said, "We didn't tell anyone as I want him on my team."

Abby looked hurt, she had thought of herself as Gibbs' daughter and thought maybe that he would act differently with her now. Tim and Ziva were shocked. "Why did you hide this?" Tim asked, "I thought we were a team and yet you've both been lying to us. If anything happened in the field would you have our backs?"

Tony stood up and looked distraught, "See this is why I didn't tell them!" He laughed sourly "And yet they still would say I'm not a Gibbs."

"Sit." Gibbs said putting his hand on his sons shoulder and pushing him gently into his seat.

"How is he your son, Senior is here he call's him dad?" Ziva asked confused.

"That my beautiful Ziva is because I am his stepfather, he is named after me as I was married to his mother but Jethro here is Anthony's father." Senior said coming up behind them.

"Dad? Is Katie ok?" Tony asked.

"She's still sleeping Junior, your grandfather is with her, and I thought I would let the Todd's go in while he's there." Senior said kindly.

"Excuse me, but Anthony how does your son, have your name?" Ziva asked.

"It's a long story." Senior began.


"I met Elizabeth, Tony's mom my last year in high school," Gibbs said quietly "I was on a trip to New York, She was with her parents visiting the DiNozzo's and she had grown tired of the parties and gone to The Empire state building to sight see, I met her there and ditched my group."

Gibbs sat down as he reminisced about his meeting with Elizabeth Paddington, "I loved her accent, she was British and I thought it was cool. My friends covered for me on the trip as we dated, when I left to go back to Stillwater I didn't know she was pregnant," He said and stepped back as Senior took up the story.

"I didn't know either; our marriage was arranged as is the custom amongst wealthy people sometimes. I was pleased when Elizabeth told me she was expecting so soon after our marriage and for years, we both thought Anthony was my child. Until she got ill when Junior was seven."

"I'm going for coffee." Tony announced and stood up and left.

"This is hard for him to hear, but you need to hear it, go on A.D." Gibbs said.

"Elizabeth started to get ill, forgetful and her personality changed, she stopped spending time with Tony and started to drink more and more, it wasn't until I got back from a business trip to be informed that Anthony had broken his wrist. I arrived at the hospital to find he had been there for three days, his mother had forgotten he was there. That was when I knew something was wrong. We had her checked out and found out that she had a brain tumor, unfortunately by the time we caught it, it was inoperable." Senior took a deep breath and sighed.

"When she died I didn't take it well, I….I had a small alcohol problem." Senior stopped as Gibbs snorted.

"Little!" Gibbs interjected.

"Fine I had a big problem, At this point I still thought that Junior was my biological child and I was a terrible father, I didn't hit him, but he was so much like my Elizabeth that I withdrew from him. I sent him away to school and tried to avoid spending any time with him…While he was away I found letters my wife had written to Jethro saying he was Anthony's father but that she wasn't ready to let her son go. She had it in her head that I would send him away."

"So how did you find out?" Abby asked Gibbs.

"He found out when I was taken into foster care." Tony said walking in with a coffee for Gibbs.