I am not stupid or a b as someone called me for explaining why people are in it. If Gibbs' cabin was a safe house Vance would know where it is and he does not... So therefore it is his own personally built property...
Tony heard his cell phone buzz from the coffee table and picked it up. "Dinozzo." Then his face looked surprised for a minute. "Hey Dad, what's up?" He muffled a cough into his upper arm for a minute.
"Oh so you and Linda are getting married officially. Two months, beach resort. I can do that. I may have someone to bring, hold on a second."
He put the phone down. "Zoe, want to go to my dad's wedding with me? Should be casual at the beach."
She said "Wow, sure I will. It sounds nice."
Tony picked up the phone again. "Plan on me plus one Dad. Ok I will wait to hear the details from you. "He coughed again then.
"No big deal just a cold, I'm in good hands. Well I'm glad you called. Tell Linda I said hello. Bye."
Tony hung up and sighed. "Can't believe my dad is getting remarried. Not the first time of course but I think Linda is the real deal. Let's see Karen and Phoebe were before that. They weren't my godmother though. Think my mom would somehow be ok with it but I don't know.
Then he was quiet and looked at the fire for a minute.
Gibbs said "He is going to need you there Zoe. That's not going to be easy. He still misses his mom. I'm going to go grab a shower so you two can talk for a bit. He needs you right now more than me."
She said "I'm here and I'm not going anywhere." She went over to Tony on the couch and touched his arm gently. "Hey spider talk to me." She rubbed his arm with her hand for a minute and sat by his feet.
He took a deep breath. "Thought I could deal with it, I mean I knew eventually he would find someone he wanted in his life. And who wanted him in hers. Linda is a good person and she was my mom's best friend. Is it unfair if I will always miss my mom and love her even if there is a good person there now?"
Zoe hugged him. "No it isn't. I don't think Linda would expect you to forget her or not love her. She wants to be there for you in a different way as your friend. You do want your dad to be happy right?"
He sniffed for a minute. "Yeah I do want him to be happy just like I am with you. I have two months to get my head around the situation. I wouldn't mind some time on the beach. Get to lay on the sand in the sun. Wonder if he is thinking Jamaica or somewhere else for this. Best part is I won't have to dress up. I can be casual and so can you."
Zoe smiled. "I might have a few ideas that you will like in the bikini department."
Tony said "Hmm I just might get excited about this wedding after all." He smiled at her and touched her hair gently. "Thank you."
She replied "For what?"
He said "Just being here and being you. I'm not great company when I don't feel well and you're here helping make it better for me. " "I love you Z."
She smiled. "I love you too Tony. Probably have since Philly and now it gets to be real for us."
He held her hand. "Well I did have this one brunette stuck in my head, who knew it was you?"
She said "Can I ask you something, what about Ziva? I know you must have cared about her if she was your partner."
He exhaled. "Ah yes the Israeli ninja from Mossad. Where do I begin? She came into my life and the teams after my first partner Kate Todd was killed. Now Kate would have liked you even if she would have had fun busting my balls for a while about being in love. Her half-brother Ari had caused Kate's death and she took him out when he was going to also kill Gibbs. Our previous director Shepard brought her in as a Mossad liaison to NCIS. They apparently worked some ops together in Europe before Jenny became director. So she vouched for her. Things were ok until I got sucked into a vendetta that said Director had with a French arms dealer Rene Benoit and had to date his daughter. Cost me my car at the time and almost my life. Gibbs retired for a short time to Mexico and I was in charge for that time. Ziva did not like that too much and neither did McGee honestly. I could have had both of their asses gone and should have left myself. Had a shot at Rota Spain and my own team back then but I didn't take it."
"Fast forward a while and I um had to kill Ziva's Israeli Ki Don Assassin boyfriend Michael Rivkin one night in her apartment. She left and went back to daddy because she couldn't work with or trust me at the time." He drank some water for a moment.
Zoe put her arms around him. "It's ok get it out Spider."
He said "She went to Somalia and ended up being captured by a terrorist named Saleem Ulman. We got her back and she became a full NCIS agent after a while. Stayed with us until after the time that her father was killed and Jackie Vance. She took out the man responsible but then had to leave for her sanity. We had a night in Israel when I went to try and bring her back to the team. Now where she is could be anyones guess. We have Bishop with us and things are a lot less intense at the office ." "We have our own new groove again."
Gibbs came back from the shower in a hooded sweatshirt that read NIS and some jeans. "Going down memory lane Dinozzo?"
Tony shrugged. "Zoe wanted to know about Ziva so I told her. "
Gibbs nodded. "She was something, if she hadn't been raised by Eli David I think she might have been a different person. She didn't know anything but killing until finally it just got to be too much for her. It's never easy to take lives I know I have done my share. You're not human if eventually it doesn't break a piece of you. I know that too."
