The next morning Gibbs woke up and found Margret with the kids eating breakfast. Abby and Ziva were laughing at some inside joke and Timmy was playing with a handheld video game. He heard Tony awkwardly manuevering out of his room with his crutches. Gibbs smiled as the newest member of their little family climbed onto his chair and dropped his crutches down beside him. Tony looked his new father in the eyes and nervously smiled at him. Gibbs touseled the boys hair.
"How did everybody sleep?" Gibbs asked.
"Fine Jethro." Margret replied.
"Really well." Abby replied.
"Pretty good." Ziva replied.
"Good" Timmy replied.
"Okay" Tony replied.
"I'm glad to hear that." Gibbs replied.
"Oh yeah Maddie got us three tickets to the water park for Abby's birthday. We will go next Saturday." Margret said.
"Only three?" Gibbs asked.
"It was a few months ago but I was able to get an extra ticket. I tried to get another but they are really expensive and hard to get durning the season." Margret explained.
"So who gets to go then?" Abby asked.
"Well you, me, dad, and Ziva. We can leave Tony and Timmy with a sitter." Margret explained.
"Timmy can have my ticket I will stay home with Tony." Gibbs replied.
"I have never been to a water park before." Ziva replied.
"You will love it Ziva." Margret replied.
"Yeah you will it is going to be so awesome and cool! I can't wait! It is going to be the best day ever!" Abby cried.
"Yeah Zi you will love it." Timmy added.
"I am sure you will all have fun." Gibbs replied.
"Yeah we will!" Abby replied.
"It does sound pretty cool." Ziva replied.
"Yeah we are all going to have fun. Well except for Tony that is." McGee replied.
Gibbs finished his breakfast and left for work leaving Margret with the kids. Much to Margret's chagrin Tony was pretty unbearable the whole day. She asked him to brush his teeth and he snapped at he didn't have to and then stormed off to his room. Well anytime she asked him to do anything or any of the kids tried to talk or play with him he would snap at them and storm off. It was the last straw when Tony started a fight with Timmy for no reason. It was actually more of a verbal attach of Timmy by Tony.
"Hey Tony my friend Bobby's mom is going to take us to the library do you want to come?" Timmy asked.
"No I don't cause I'm not a geeky loser like you!" Tony cried,
"Anthony! Get over here! NOW!" Margret called.
"What is it?" Tony asked.
"You are being a little jerk and I am sick of it! Bend over!" Margret yelled.
"Why?" Tony asked nervously.
"I don't care if you are hurt I am giving you a spanking and then you are gronded! Don't leave your room except to use the bathroom until Gibbs gets home! He will decide what to do with you!" Margret angerly chided while she smacked Tony's bottom.
"I'm sorry!" Tony cried,
"ROOM! NOW!" Margret yelled.
"OK" Tony replied
Tony shuffled off to his room. When he got there he picked up the baseball he had found on the floor. It was about the only toy he owned. Not just at the Gibbs's though in his whole life. Gibbs and Margret said they would take him shopping for his room when he felt a little better but now he doubted that would happen. He lay on the bottom bunk and tossed his ball from hand to hand. After about an hour he really had to pee. So he climbed off the bed and shuffled out of his room towards the bathroom. On the way back he peaked in the living room. The other kids must have gone to the library with Timmy and his friend. Margret was sitting on the couch talking on the phone.
"I don't know Maddie if he is going to be a bully like his father. Me and Jethro are just going to have to have him placed in another foster home." Margret said into the phone.
Tony felt his heart stop. He had just been angry before he actually did really want to go to the library but Timmy had really hurt his feelings earlier. It had caused him to fall into what his nannies called one of his "moods" and now he was probably going to go to another foster home and since nobody else would defend and protect him the way the Gibbs's did. He would definitely get sent back to his father. He lifter his shirt and looked at the scars and bruises. He knew that if he went back to his father. Each time he got taken away his father. When he got back he beat him worse then the last. Last time he wound up in the hospital for almost a year. Of course his dad acted like he was a scared father who actually cared for his son. He said that he had accidentally hit Tony with the car when he rode his bike behind him. When he finally woke up the doctor actually lectured him about being more carefiul so he didn't scare his poor father anymore. Tony closed his eyes and drifted off to sleep. He wasn't sure how much time asked but he woke up when the sun was setting to the sound of Gibbs's door closing. He heard him come in and greet the family. A few minutes later his door open and Gibbs walked in he pulled the desk chair over to beside Tony's bed.
"I understand you weren't exactly on your best behavior today." Gibbs said.
"Yes sir" Tony replied.
"Would you like to tell me what happened?" Gibbs asked.
"I was disrespectful to Margret and mean to the others especially Timmy." Tony replied.
"That's right would you like to tell me why exactly you acted that way?" Gibbs asked.
"Because of the water park." Tony replied.
"Oh you feel bed that you don't get to go and everybody else does." Gibbs replied.
"Yes sir" Tony replied.
"Oh I understand believe me but you have to be nicer to people. You are going to have to apologize to the others. Got that?" Gibbs asked.
"Yes sir but Timmy really really hurt my feelings when he said everybody was going to have fun except me." Tony replied.
"Oh I can understand how that would be hurtful but from now on just come to me or Margret instead of taking your anger out on others." Gibbs replied.
"Y...You're not going to send me back?" Tony asked.
"Of course not son. Where would you get an idea like that?" Gibbs asked.
"Margret told Maddie that she may send me to another foster home since I am a bully and anybody else would give me right back to my father for the right amount of money." Tony explained.
"Oh you heard that?" Margret asked.
"Yes mam." Tony replied.
"I am sorry Tony sometimes when people are mad they say stuff they don't mean." Margret explained.
"Kind of like how you called Timmy a geek earlier." Gibbs added.
"So you aren't really sending me back?" Tony asked.
"No we are not we never will." Margret replied.
"Yeah Tony you are ours forever. I promise." Gibbs replied.
"Cross your heart?" Tony asked.
"Of course now I want you to apologize to the other kids okay?" Margret replied.
"Yes mam and I am sorry for being so rude before." Tony replied.
"Apology accepted." Margret replied.
Margret and Gibbs went into the kitchen to finish preparing dinner and Tony went to apologize to his siblings. He found them in the living room sitting on the floor playing "Candy Land".
"Hi guys" Tony replied awkwardly.
"Hi Tony!" Abby cried.
"Hello Tony." Ziva said.
"Hey Tony." Timmy added.
"Listen I am sorry about earlier. I was in a bad mood and I took it out on you guys and I shouldn't have." Tony said.
"Aw Tony we forgive you! Everybody has bad days sometimes even me." Abby assured.
"Yeah no sense crying over old milk." Ziva added.
"It's spilled milk Ziva and Timmy I understand if you don't forgive me. Name calling is not nice." Tony replied.
"No Tony it's okay I have been called a lot worse. My nickname is actually McGeek and my Step-Dad calls me Probie cause he works at NCIS like Gibbs and that's what they call new people." Timmy explained.
"Thank you Probie!" Tony teased.
"What did I get myself into?" Timmy asked.
A/N: Hope you enjoyed it I meant to to post last Friday but I had a little bit of writers block for it. Anyway please review and thanks for reading.