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True crime stories are the only thing that I've watched lately. Sorry if this is a little dark.
Gibbs was still seething even hours later. DiNozzo had explained most of everything to him. But Gibbs could tell he was still hiding something else. When he asked Tony if the other man was her other father, the man clammed up. That told him all he needed to know. He didn't care who the young man was, he was not getting Anna.
She had been his since the day she was born. He was the one that got up every two hours. He was the one that had to deal with colic. He had loved that little girl even before he laid eyes on her. His whole life revolved around her.
He even put up with Rosalynn, the babysitter, for her. The woman wouldn't take no for an answer. She had been trying to become the next Mrs. Gibbs since day one. She wasn't even a redhead.
The party had quickly broke up after the incident. The only one left was DiNozzo, who was watching some movie with Anna. Because of DiNozzo, she had an unnatural love of movies. Movies that were much beyond her age level.
Gibbs was down in his basement working on Anna's Christmas present. She had begged for a princess bed. She had saw it on a movie, and that was that. There would be no other bed that would do. She didn't cry and throw a fit for one. No, what she did was worse. She talked about it. She talked about it all the freaking time.
But that wasn't why he was hiding in the basement. No, he just had to get away from Tony and Anna. Tony didn't understand why he refused to call Tim. Anna didn't understand why he had thrown Tim against a wall. Tony may have known the man for five years but he didn't. And he will be damned if he would allow a stranger, who just happens to be her biological parent, near her. It was too big of a risk. The man could be waiting for Gibbs to drop his guard and take off with her. No. He couldn't give the man a chance to do it.
"Hey, boss," DiNozzo called from the top of the stairs.
"What?"
"I need to leave. Tim just called, he said Ryan left him. I'm glad but Tim is all messed up right now."
Ryan. That was the name of the other one. He hadn't said anything while they were there. But Gibbs didn't like the way he sneered at everything. Especially when he was looking at Anna, it was like the man hated the little girl.
Tim waited for Tony in front of the hotel. Ryan had turned in the keycard and given Tim the choice: Leave now with him and never see her again, or stay and lose him. Even with what he told himself he couldn't leave. He would chose Anna over anyone, alive or dead. She was the one thing that kept him going. He may not have seen her, or knew where she was. But her just being alive and out there made him want to make the world better for her.
Ryan had caused a big scene and threw Tim's stuff outside. He was used to Ryan's temper, it was getting worse. What was odd was that before Ryan found out about Brandon Stacks, he wanted nothing to do with Tim. Then, just like magic, he started flirting with him.
Three years ago, when the flirting started, he was suspicious. Ryan had never shown any interest. But Tim was lonely and shy with new people. He could be friends with them, but having a sexual relationship was different. Ryan was the second person he was ever with. The first one he chose to be with. But it always seemed that Ryan wasn't there for a relationship. It was more like he was waiting for something… something that only he knew about.
"Daddy, can you read me my new story?" Anna asked as he stepped into the living room.
"Sure," he answered.
Anna ran into her bedroom to get her book. She was excited to hear her favorite book again. The books that everyone else had gotten her were about dolls or animals. She liked animals but only the ones that looked like real animals. When they looked like cartoons she thought they were too silly.
Tim, the man who brought her the book, understood. He told her that he didn't like books like that, either. When he started to read the new book to her, she loved it. She felt sad for the little boy in the story. His dad wasn't very nice. Her dad was very nice. At least to her. He could be a little mean to others, but never to her, unless she was being a brat. Jeffery, her babysitter's son, always called her a brat. But she didn't think she was. Sometimes she just knew better than everyone else.
She ran back downstairs with her book in her hand. Once she got to the bottom step, she stopped. The man from earlier was back, standing in the doorway. She turned and ran back upstairs. She didn't like him. She knew he didn't like her because he looked at her with a mean face.
Ryan looked at the man who was raising Tim's daughter. This was going to be good, he thought. After he left the hotel, he realized he had the perfect way to keep Tim away from his daughter. Jethro Gibbs was obviously very protective of her. All he had to do was tell the truth… bent just a little.
"What do you what?" Gibbs asked the man. He thought his name was Randy or something like that.
"I just wanted to warn you about Tim." The man's face was hard to read, even for Gibbs.
"What about him?" he asked curiously.
"Tim didn't want to give her up for adoption in the first place. It was after his parents basically forced him into it that he did. He had the choice; college and support or the baby, with no help from them or college to get somewhere in life. I wouldn't trust him around her. He'll grab her and run the first chance he gets."
The man was saying everything that Gibbs had thought. But the feeling was back but this time it felt wrong. There was something about the man the led him to believe he was lying.
"What about you? Are you going to try and take her from me?" Gibbs asked.
It took a minute for Ryan to realize what he meant. "I'm not the other father. I didn't get with Tim until three years ago. I do know who the other father is, though."
Gibbs didn't know what to make of the sinister smile the man had. He decided he didn't want to know from him.
"I don't really-
"Brandon Stacks," the man cut him off.
Gibbs only knew about one Brandon Stacks. He couldn't mean the same one. There was no way his daughter was the child of a rapist and serial killer.
"Yep, almost six years ago, a sixteen year old Tim walked into the Dynamo Club. Turned out he was just what Brandon was looking for. How do you think Tony knows Tim. He was a victim."
The man was practically laughing when he finished talking. Gibbs was using all the restraint he possessed not to hurt the man. Finally, he just slammed the door in his face.
Lola Stacks watched the agent slamming the door from afar. When Ryan told her where Brandon's daughter was she came right away. It had been three years since they found out about the child. Brandon was very displeased when he found out his child was given up for adoption. Perhaps displeased is an understatement. He was also pissed off at Ryan for not telling them about the baby.
Years ago, when she was a senior in high school and Ryan was a freshman, she had made a mistake. She had already started dating Brandon. But Ryan was always tagging along after her. Brandon traveled a lot with his job but visited her because of the subdivision they were building.
When Brandon first saw Ryan, he wanted him. There was just one thing he didn't count on. Ryan was a sneaky devil. He was able to protect himself from Brandon for years. But Brandon was becoming more obsessive with Brandon. He had expressed interest in experimenting with Ryan. By that time Ryan was a freshman in college. By then he had someone else to give to Brandon. Poor Timothy never saw it coming. How would he have known that it was all a set up?
Ryan's stupid sister had told him where the boy would be. They never told Ryan what exactly had happened. He actually he thought they had just got the boy a little drunk, and he was a willing participant. He had told them everything he knew about the boy. Mostly how the boy froze up when he was terrified. He didn't find out until three years ago that he inadvertently helped start it all. It wasn't until then he found out that Tim was victim number one. Timothy McGee's attack in the parking lot was the first of many. That led to Brandon's addiction with his new favorite thing. Because he was taking his aggression out on the boys, it wasn't being taken out on her anymore.
She started her car and started to drive. Soon she would have Brandon's daughter, her new daughter. Whether he liked it or not, Ryan was going to help her. She quickly followed behind his rental car.
