Chapter 11
Gibbs sat in his chair staring at the Asian woman and her lawyer. He studied her face and saw that she was calm. Gibbs laid the pictures of the dead man in front of her. He saw her expression slightly change. "You are both lawyers so you two both know how this looks. You have no alibi. You admit it yourself that you hated the man for beating you. You also work with Baltimore polices and could have easily got the report on the Port to Port Killer."
"I can argue that same thing about Agent DiNozzo." Will retorted.
"Yeah but unlike your client, Tony actually feel some remorse over Danny's death."
"Because he doesn't know everything," Linda quickly snapped at Gibbs statement.
"What doesn't Tony know?"
"My client doesn't need to answer that."
"Do you think she did it?" McGee asked Ziva.
"The evidence doesn't look good for her." Ziva answered.
"Yeah, but do you think she killed him."
"No," Ziva finally answered after thinking about it for a while. She didn't know why she believed the Asian woman was innocent. She understood how anger drives a person to kill. "Do you think she killed him?"
"No, and I don't think that Gibb think she did either. Tony doesn't believe she killed him and Gibbs trust Tony."
"Then why—"
Tony walked into the room. "You shouldn't be here, Tony."
"McGee, I like you so I'm going to pretend you didn't say anything to me." Tony said never taking his eyes from Linda.
"You called him the night before he was murder. You said that he was harassing you so do you want to tell me why you called him?"
"I was out drinking that night. I must have drunk a little too much and called him by accident." Linda said quietly
"This call lasted five minute. So what did you talk to him about?"
"I want to talk to Tony." Linda said blinking back the tear.
"Ms. Kim, Agent DiNozzo is no longer apart of this investigation."
"I'll tell him everything. Just let me speak to him alone."
Before anyone could say anything on either side of the mirror, Tony walked into the interrogation home. Tony did not care if he broke Gibbs rule. Linda looked up at Tony with watery eyes and a sheepish smile.
Gibbs stood up and looked at his Senior Field Agent. He had been in his shoes before with his mother-in-law. Gibbs had bended the rules and taken the laws into his own hands a few times to get the justices that he thought was fit. DiNozzo had always had his six and he would do the same now. Gibbs left the room.
"Please, Will. I need to talk to Tony alone." Will hesitantly stood up. He gently kissed Linda on the forehead. He gave Tony a glare before leaving the two ex-lovers alone. "I didn't kill him."
"I know." Tony said as he sat down. He took Linda's hand in his and gently rubbed circle into the back of her hand. "I need to know, what did you talked to Danny about the night you called him."
"I honestly did not remember making that phone call that night until Gibbs told me about it. I was so drunk."
"Linda—"
"I'm not trying to be difficult. I barely remember making that call and I can just assume what I said to him." Linda took a deep breath. "Does May 14 mean anything to you?"
Tony recognized it as the date the phone called was mad but other than that the date was meaningless. "No, should it mean something."
"It should but I never got a chance to tell you." Linda said so lowly that the microphones could barely pick it up. "That was my due date."
"What?" Tony was confused.
"I was five weeks pregnant." Linda said as the tears leaked out. "I was going to tell you that night but…I had a miscarriage. After you arrested Danny, I knew you felt so guilty about what happened. You broke up with me because you blamed yourself for my attack. I saw how much everything was weighing on you and I could add more baggage. I made Ducky promise to never tell you." Tony slammed his fist down on the table and walk out.
Tony was fuming. He didn't know who he was more upset at: Danny for causing the whole miscarriage, Gibbs for suspecting Danny but never saying anything, Linda for never telling him, or Ducky who knew about it this whole time but never saying anything about it. Tony found himself in autopsy, in front of the man that man he had trusted with his fiancé.
"How could you not tell me?" Tony asked the older man. Ducky was sitting at his desk. He slowly turned in his chair to look at Tony.
Ducky slowly took off his glass and began cleaning it. He wasn't ready to look Tony in the eyes. "So she finally told you."
"You knew all these years and you never told me." Gibbs walked into the room, seeing Tony more anger than the time he confronted Danny. Tony turned to Gibbs. "Did you know about this too?"
"No, I did not."
"I guess that I wasn't the only one Ducky was keeping this from." Tony turned back to the elderly man. "In all the years we worked together, you told me hundreds of your stories and a ton of useless information, you didn't think about telling me this one fact that you knew I would care about."
"I wanted to. God, I want to tell you that you were making the biggest mistake of your life by leaving that woman in her time of need. I wanted to tell you about the lost child you never got a chance to know." Ducky got up and took a step towards Tony. "She was my patient. What happened is protected by doctor/patient confidentiality. I carried this secret with me all these years because if you had known then you would have put all the guilt on yourself."
"That was my burden to carry."
Ducky cut him off before he could say anymore. "No, it wasn't. Danny, Floyd and those other men were the guilty one. They were the one hurt Linda. Ari was the one who shot Kate in the head. It was the suicide bomber who killed Paula. Jenny manipulated you with Jeanne. Jenny ordered you to leave her. You couldn't have saved that little girl in Baltimore. Ziva being in Somalia wasn't your fault. Your mother was depressed. None of this was your fault but you would have put the blame on yourself. Linda knew this and that is why she made me promise to never tell you."
Tony finally looked pass his anger and finally saw the elderly man. He saw that Ducky looked much older than he was. He saw the man who had taken care of him whenever he had the simple cold to having the plague. This was the man who was the closest thing he had to a grandfather. Tony was lucky to have such a man in his life. "I'm sorry Ducky."
"When you first join NCIS, Linda called me and asked me to take care of you because you never know how to take care of yourself. I would have done so even if she didn't ask."
"Wait, Linda called you?" Tony asked.
"Yes," Ducky answered, totally confused. Tony had seemed to lost anger and was thinking about other things.
"There were three numbers when Tim pulled up Danny's phone records, one incoming call from Linda and one coming call to me." Tony turned to Gibbs. "Linda said she was drunk and the date had been important. What if Linda had told Danny about the miscarriage? Danny was trying to make amends. Danny said that there was more to what happened that night. We always said that Floyd couldn't have done it alone and we always just assumed that Danny was his partner. What if there was a third person?"
AN: I'm working on how to end this. Tell me what you want to see happen. Review!
