Amelia was tired and so over bring pregnant already and she wasn't even at the twelve week mark. The constant nausea was the real thing that was bothering her, she could barely keep anything down yet she had already gained four pounds. Amelia couldn't believe that she had another six and a half months of this to look forward, just thinking of that made her blanch as it sounded like something her mother Cynthia would say. Amelia literally had to shake that horrendous comparison out of her head before stuffing another cracker into her mouth. Currently Amelia was at the navy yard, sitting in the ball pen waiting for Tony to hurry up and finish already. She needed to go back to New York for the weekend to deal with some matters that Amelia would prefer to do in person and Tony insisted on coming along with her. Amelia would have preferred if he didn't but the two of them had managed to go almost a week without there being some kind of major incident between then and she would like to keep it like knew that Tony could have turned his back on her and made her trying to deal with this on her own but he hadn't. Tony had offered his help when it came to the baby and getting her life back together whilst she dealt with her divorce. Amelia really appreciated it as she knew that she had put her brother through an awful lot of crap when she was younger. Amelia wasn't proud of a lot of the stunts that she had pulled but she knew that Tony was the best person she needed at the moment, so she wanted to keep things on a civil level for as long as possible. Not to mention Tony promised not to tell that their dad that the two of them would both be in New York so Amelia found herself allowing Tony to come with her as the last thing Amelia needed in her life was their father to make a reappearance and attempt to playing the doting father and soon to be grandfather.
"Seriously Tony? If I had known that you were going to take so long I would have got on an earlier flight and you really need to do something about that aftershave of yours. It's making my gag reflex ten times worse than it already is." Amelia stated with a small frown.
"Your meaner when you're pregnant." Tony retorted
"And your getting slower as you get older, you said five minutes and I've been here for at least twenty." Amelia said narrowing her eyes at Tony before sticking her tongue out at her brother.
"Well not everyone's job involves sitting down all day reading manuscripts, deciding whether your going to publish them into a book, approving advances and writing cheques. Some of us have jobs that are physically demanding and require a lot of paperwork otherwise a killer might be set free." Tony explained and Amelia just chose to yawn, she wasn't in the mood to have a pissing match with her bother about whose job was more important.
"And how is that my problem? It was your choice to become a cop not mine but my problem will be us missing our flights and the fact that we have to pick up more crackers on the way to the airport. If you hadn't noticed I'm kind of running low here."
"Okay, I get your point! Pregnant lady in a rush." Tony said as he hurriedly finished a report, placing it on Gibbs desk before returning to his desk to grab his jacket ignoring the amused looks that both McGee and Ziva were giving him. He used to think his sister used to be a complete hard ass but it seemed like that was nothing compared to Amelia being pregnant. He was supposed to be the older sibling here but yet she was bossing him around. Normally Tony wouldn't have stood for that but Amelia was pregnant which made her more than moody than usual not to mention that she was eating more than usual and if he made her angry enough she may just eat him. Sort of like Godzilla. As Tony slid on his jacket he saw Gibbs coming down the stairs and making his way into the bull pen and he wearily looked at his sister briefly. He still hadn't got round to mentioning to Gibbs that that he had a sister. "Hey Boss… Remember how I told you that I was an only–"
"–Hey Mia." Gibbs greeted as he made his way over to the youngest DiNozzo and placed a kiss on her cheek.
"Hello Jethro." Amelia replied much to the shock of Tony, Ziva and McGee and all three looked at them in shock, they had no idea that Gibbs and Amelia knew each other and judging by how they greeted each other they seemed to be on rather good terms given that Amelia had called Gibbs Jethro and Gibbs had called her Mia. Nobody called her Mia except for Tony or so that was what Tony had always thought but apparently not.
"I hear congratulations are in order."
"Depends, you talking about the divorce or the baby?" Amelia questioned and Tony was even more surprised when Gibbs actually laughed, he was clearly missing some big picture here.
"Both, how you doing?" Gibbs questioned.
"Morning sickness is a bitch, I'm nauseas all the time and stuffing these crackers down my mouth all the time to keep it at bay." Amelia quipped in amusement giving the box of crackers that she was holding a quick shake. "They never tell you that growing a human is so much hard work, they think that by just saying at the end of nine months you'll have a baby is enough to make all the problems worth it. I'm not even sure if the world is ready for another DiNozzo…"
"–Wait just one second and let's go back, you two know each other?" Tony demanded as none of this made any sense. In the three weeks that his sister had been here not once had she come across Gibbs and yet they knew each other enough that they were on first name basis and Gibbs was asking about her pregnancy and knew that she was divorced. Something did not add up here and Tony wanted to know what it was.
"Yes we do." Amelia replied as she took a bite of another cracker and Tony just rolled his eyes, he didn't need his sister to point out the obvious. He needed them to expand on that.
"But how do you know each other? No one knew that I had a sister up until three weeks ago."
"DiNozzo I've always known that you had a sister, it's in your personnel file and Amelia is listed as your next of kin." Gibbs explained and Tony probably should have realized that, but that didn't explain the whole Jethro and Mia thing. He had been working with Gibbs for several years and he wasn't allowed to call him Jethro, yet his little sister was able to call him that.
"Oh, right. That makes sense… Although that doesn't explain how you know each other as not once since I joined NCIS has my sister come down to the base once and yet the two of you know each other."
"You didn't tell him." Gibbs said to Amelia who just shook her head which just confused Tony even more, now he definitely knew that Gibbs and his sister knew something that he didn't know.
"Tell me what?" Tony demanded.
"Just over two and half years ago I was in a meeting at work when I got a phone call from a number that I didn't recognize although I did recognize the D.C area code. The person on the other end of the phone was some guy who claimed to work with you, a special agent Gibbs. This man told me that two officers would be outside my office and taking me to the airport because it was imperative that I get to D.C. as fast I could because it was about you and it was a matter of life and death. I had no idea who this man was at the time but I did what he told me to do and once I arrived in D.C I was taken to Gibbs, where he explained to me that you had caught the plague and things weren't looking too good." Amelia admitted with a sigh before taking a bite of another cracker.
"You were here?"
"Yeah…" Amelia said offhandedly as she waved her hand in a nonchalant manner. "By the way nice going Anthony, if anyone had to go and get the plague in this time and age it had to be you."
"Mia…" Tony slowly began not really sure how to begin or even what to say, he couldn't actually believe that she had come because she thought he was dying. And Tony had to admit that he had come pretty close to it that day. But Amelia had never mentioned it nor did Gibbs, in fact the two of them pretended like it had never happened. Tony couldn't believe that his sister had actually done that.
"It's no big deal Tony." Amelia said awkwardly. "Look can we get a move on please? We still need to get to the airport and check in not to mention I'm running low on crackers…"
Tony didn't want to drop it but his sister would go all pregnant Godzilla on his ass if they didn't get a move on. So the two of them left the navy yard and they sat in his car in a very awkward not to mention silence as he drove them to the airport until Tony finally had enough. He needed to ask Amelia about the whole thing, Tony couldn't just leave it. He needed to understand.
"You came all the way here when you found out I was dying…" Tony began.
"It's not you live on the opposite side of the world Tony, we only live a few hours away from each other and whilst you were dying at the time, you are in fact not dead." Amelia curtly replied.
"Why didn't you ever tell me?"
"I don't want to talk about it Anthony."
"Well I do Amelia." Tony demanded as he wasn't going to let his sister just idly dismiss this whole thing. "So why'd you come? We weren't exactly on good terms back then and yet you came."
"I got a call saying that you had caught the plague and could possibly die in the next few hours. Yes, the last few years we haven't exactly gotten along but you're my big brother and there was a good chance that you were going to die so of course I was going to come. How could I not come Tony? I know that I messed up a lot, I was off the rails for a while and things between us haven't been the same ever since I tried to kill myself. But I still cared. I have always cared Tony and I always will. I just never know how to really show it as apparently when two people who don't care about anyone about themselves like our father and my mother mate they produce a child that actually cares but who finds it hard to display any actual feelings." Amelia stated beginning in a rather annoyed tone of voice but changing to a softer tone of voice half way through her little speech.
"Why didn't you ever tell me this? Or come and see me when I was in the hospital?"
"I came down because I thought you were dying, I thought that my big brother was going to die but in the end you didn't die and so I thought it was best that I leave as I'm always the last person you ever want to see and if you did want to see me then you'd call. So I asked Jethro not to tell you that I was here, I stuck around for a few days whilst you were in the hospital and then I went back to New York when you had been discharged. I couldn't leave without knowing that you were okay." Amelia explained.
"That's how you and Gibbs are so friendly with each other, hence the whole Jethro and Mia name calling thing you two seem to have going on." Tony noted and Amelia smiled.
"Kind of. That's how we met but we got to talking when I'd come to the hospital. I'd never go into your room but I'd be on your floor and everyday Jethro would give me an update on how you were doing. Then it moved on from that, I knew you had been keeping a distant eye on me for the last few years so I asked Jethro if he could do the same for me. So every six months I would call Jethro and see how you were doing to make sure you weren't getting into anymore trouble that you couldn't handle like that time when you were framed for murder." Amelia quipped and Tony grimaced, he had kind of forgotten about that.
"Oh yeah… About that Mia, it was nothing…"
"Didn't sound like it at the time, it took Gibbs about twenty minutes to convince me that he was taking care of it and I didn't need to send down a good lawyer and some bail money."
