Tony sat up most of the night watching the tape. It just felt so amazing to see Kate again. He had her picture all over the house. In fact her face was the first thing he saw in the morning and the last thing he saw at night but it had been so long since he heard her voice and saw her move. The last time was those final moments on the rooftop. Mr. Todd dad had given him a box of their old home movies about a year after Kate was killed but they stopped when she was seventeen and none of them had any sound. Seeing grown-up Kate and hearing her voice. More importantly witnessing her being Kate, was a major rush. He could imagine what the videos for the twins must be like but those were meant to be private between Kate and the twins. He couldn't watch them. Not unless Holly or Noah allowed him too. He wondered if Gibbs had helped with the twin's videos. He knew that his boss had been thrilled to find out that Kate was having twins. Gibbs and Kate had bonded early on, even before Kate joined NCIS. Hence Gibbs being in the video made when Kate was six months pregnant. When he finally did go to bed he ended up falling asleep on the couch.
"Dad" Holly called shaking him awake.
"On it Boss!" Tony cried jumping up.
"No it's me, Holly." Holly replied.
"Holly? What are you doing down here?" Tony asked.
"It's seven and Noah won't get out of bed." Holly explained.
"I'll deal with him and then get breakfast started." Tony replied.
"I will get breakfast ready. If you try to make breakfast and wake Noah all of us will be late." Holly explained.
"Thanks Holly but you really don't have to do that." Tony explained.
"No it's fine." Holly assured.
"What do you want?" Tony asked suspiciously.
"To know why you are sleeping on the couch and got out the old TV last night." Holly explained.
"I was watching a tape your mom made and it was on VHS." Tony explained.
"Mom?" Holly asked.
"Yeah she made tapes for all of us." Tony explained.
"Oh cool where's mine?" Holly asked.
"The tapes for you and Noah are by the front door but I am going to get them converted to DVD's first." Tony explained.
"Why didn't you get yours converted to DVD format first?" Holly asked.
"I needed to see it right away." Tony replied.
"Why?" Holly asked.
"I just did." Tony replied.
Holly waited until her dad went upstairs to attempt to get Noah out of bed with more then fifteen minutes to spare before the bus came. She grabbed some bacon out of the fridge, tossed a handful in the pan, and turned on the stove. She grabbed three glasses and three plates. She got orange juice out of the fridge. Tossed three pieces of toast in the toaster and grabbed three bananas out of the fruit bowl. When everything was done she put the bacon, toast, and fruit on the plates and poured juice into the glasses. Her dad still hadn't gotten Noah out of bed when she was finishing her breakfast but she heard her dad getting increasingly more frustrated. She looked at her dad's empty spot at the table. She was worried about him. He had been acting pretty weird lately and now he was watching videos of her mom and wanting to give Noah and her videos she had made for them. All this after he rarely spoke her name for ten years. What if something was wrong with him? What if he was sick? She didn't know what she would do if he died. Of course Gibbs would let Noah and her stay with him but she would still be an orphan. She didn't want to be orphaned at thirteen. Even worse what if it was something related to the plague and Noah was sick and dying too? She didn't want to be the only member of her family left. She couldn't help but let a single tear fall.
"Are you alright Holly?" Tony asked.
"Just worried" Holly admitted.
"About what?" Tony asked.
"Just things, high school and stuff." Holly lied.
"Don't worry you will do great." Tony assured.
After school let out, Ziva was alone in her classroom. Her mind went straight to Tony. She had checked with the Principal and it was OK to date a students parent just as long as she didn't let it be a conflict of interest. Holly and Noah had been among her favorite students since day one. Before she had met their dad or knew he was single and she would never let students get away with ill behavior or raise a students grade on anything less than merit. She had permission and Tony seemed to like her. Now all she had to do was make a move or wait for him to make a move.
Gibbs studied the empty spot on his basement shelf. It was weird to see it gone. It had sat there for ten years and the video for Tony had been around much longer. It's first home was on his entertainment center among his woodworking shows and westerns. Kate had always know that she was going to die before Tony. Hence the tape being made when she was pregnant. She had made the tapes for the twins and put the box together not long before she died. Less than a week in fact. Most people would think it was some kind of eerie premonition and he would give anything for that to be a fact and if Tony ever asked about the box. He would damn sure lie and tell him that it was just a coincidence. Even though he had never believed in that. It was among the many things he had promised to Kate when she got the news. That he would never tell Tony the truth. He knew it was wrong and sometimes he wondered if Jenny's similar fate was a sick karma for that lie. All he could do was thank God that neither Kate nor Jenny got too sick and maybe the bullets were a blessing in disguise. Both would have been miserable if they got too sick.
A/N: What was wring with Kate and why didn't she want Tony to know? New chapter will be up soon. Please review and thanks for reading.