By Kalnaman
A/N: Here's finally part 6 where the secret will be revealed. I don't hope you get disappointed. Thank you all for your great reviews. Yeah, yeah I know about the incompetency thing, it was my intention to get you all out of your seats and be angry and say something like this 'this can't be happening. How can he do that to his own son?' Kind of like Gibbs reaction. But still, remember this is fiction. Thanks for those who still keep reading my story.
Warnings: AU. Mention of abuse. You may need some tissues for this chapter.
They all arrived at a fancy hotel. DiNozzo Senior had the penthouse suit. They were in the study. "Okay you can go to the living area," Mr. DiNozzo said to the FBI agents and his lawyer. "Agent Gibbs you can stay."
"I strongly advise you to let us stay. At least me your lawyer."
"Thanks, but no. Leave now."
As they left Mr. DiNozzo went his attention to Tony. "I'm really sorry I had to use this method, to get you here and make you listen to me. You got to believe me, Tony. I never abused you—"
"I'm out a here! I'm not going to listen to more of your lies!"
"No wait, please! I don't mean that you weren't abused. But you got to believe me it wasn't me—"
"If you're going to pull the 'it was my split personality' then forget it! I'm not buying it!"
"And neither am I," Gibbs said.
"I don't suffer from split personality. I wasn't the one that abused you it was my brother. My identical brother while pretending to be me."
Both Gibbs and Tony looked shocked at Mr. DiNozzo. Then Tony shook his head, not believing one single word. "I don't believe you. It's just one of your schemes."
"You got to believe me. My brother kidnapped me when you were about eight. Ever since that day he held me prisoner. While he kept me as his prisoner he pretended to be me for all those years."
"If he really took over your life. Why didn't he kill you? And how are you here now and in freedom I might add."
"He kept me alive to torture me. A few months ago I was finally able to escape."
"How could he be able to impersonate you for all those years, without anyone noticing it? And how was he able to get into your accounts?"
"I gave him all my passwords. I had to or he would kill you and your mother. I couldn't risk that. You are my life. Without you my life would be over."
Tony was speechless.
"Please, son. You have to believe me. I love you so much. I loved you since the day you were born. You are my pride and my joy."
"You… y-you w-what?"
"I love you son. Can't you remember me reading you bedtime stories? Bandages your scraped knees? Telling you over and over again, that you are my pride and my joy? You have to remember, please!" Mr. DiNozzo said while his eyes started to water.
"I-I d-don't k-know what to believe anymore. You can't be telling the truth. This sounds more of a soap opera then real life,"
"I know, son. If I haven't lived the life I would have thought so too." Mr. DiNozzo went to his son and was about to give him a hug. Though Tony stepped back. "Please, son. I haven't held you since you were eight. I promise I won't hurt you."
Tony studied his father's eyes. He was surprised when he couldn't see the cold eyes he'd gotten to know very well. Only warmness and love. Did he really tell him the truth? Was it his uncle? And not his father, that abused him for all those years? The warm and loving eyes looked very familiar. Where had he seen them before? Could it really be the man he remembered who told him bedtime stories? Tony's eyes started to water.
Mr. DiNozzo wrapped his arms around Tony and hugged him for dear life. "I'm so proud of you, son. You've become a good man. Even though you had a lousy childhood. You defied my brother and became a cop and later a NCIS agent. I couldn't be more proud of you. You are really my pride and my joy. I would never be able to abuse you; I love you too much for that. You are my first born son."
Tony finally returned the hug. "I'm your only son."
"No son. You aren't. You had a little brother and sister, they were twins. But they sadly died."
Tony broke the hug. "What? I can't remember having siblings. What happened to them?"
"You were only three when they died Tony. I wouldn't expect you to remember them. They were born premature. They were too weak. It broke your mother's heart and after their deaths she went poorly. She went in and out of sanitariums. Every time she was home she was too weak to take care of you. I did everything I could to be there for you when your mother couldn't. So I ordered your nannies to inform me when you were hurt or sick, so I could be there for you when ever I was able to between taking care of my company. It tore my heart when my brother kidnapped me and I had to face that I never would be able to see you, hold you, taking care of you and reading you bedtime stories ever again. My heart broke into pieces when he forced me to watch videos of him abusing you—"
"What?! He taped the abuse?"
"Yes. I'm so sorry, son. So sorry that I couldn't protect you from him. He didn't abuse you because he hated you. You were only a tool to him to get to me. He did it because he hated me and wanted to torture me with it. I hope you can forgive me for not protecting you better."
Tony couldn't hold back his tears any longer. "It's not your fault. He held you prisoner. You weren't the one doing the awful things to me. I know that now."
"My brother hated me ever since we've been kids. If I'd told our parents what he did to me, he could have been helped and maybe this would never have happened. When I met your mother I hadn't seen my brother for years and I thought that I finally would be safe from him. I never in my wildest dreams thought that he would be a danger to you or your mother. If only I had known or told my security staff about my evil twin. Maybe I could then have prevented it from happening."
"Who would think that your own twin brother could do this to you? You couldn't have known."
Mr. DiNozzo hugged his son again. "Thank you, son. You can never know how much this means to me. I promise I will protect you from now on. And I'm going to make up for all those years we've been separated."
Tony thought about that there must be some movies or shows this reminded him of, but he couldn't because this was too personal. This was about his life.
oOo
Gibbs eyes was watering too. Not only because of what he witnessed. The reunion of a father and a son, but also that he knew that he would lose his surrogate son. That broke his heart into pieces. He was about to lose yet another child.
TBC
A/N: So did you get disappointed? If you did I'm sorry.
In about 2 hours I'm watching the new Star Trek movie in the cinema, cool!
