DISCLAIMER: No, I don't own anything yet..
A/N: I really don't have enough words to express how grateful I am with all the wonderful people who don't matter my lack of updates and compromise, keep loyal to this story.
New years brought to me a lot of things: a lot of work, new cases, new patients, Im single (again) Oh! And a new guest: Migraine, which make my doctor take the decision to don't allow me to be near a computer more that a couple hours per day. But, Did you know what? I just have two days making this "A.M.A" and my brain is still in his place. So I hope to update soon again. Thanks again and please, excuse me!. Love Rossy.
FAMILY SECRETS
BEAUTIFUL BOY
Close your eyes, Beautiful, Before you go to sleep, Beautiful,
Have no fear,
The monsters gone,
He's on the run and your daddy's here,
Beautiful, beautiful,
Beautiful Boy,
Say a little prayer,
Every day in every way,
It's getting better and better,
Beautiful, beautiful,
Beautiful Boy,
"..Beautiful boy.... Tony was hunched in the far corner of the dark and smelly little room, humming the song that his dad and Shannon used to sang him at nights or after a bad dream, THIS had to be a bad dream and he was pretty sure that his Dad will come for him, soon, he will be again with his family, in his house , with..." The sight of a very big rat running in front of him pulled the boy of his dream like state, - " God! He really hates rats and bugs, his only partners since two days ago,after his father beated him to a pulp and throwed him in this scary basement after his confrontation with him for Miguel. "Daddy please! Hurry" Tony started again the lyrics of the beloved song, his only link to sanity.
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The things just happened so fast that Benjamin had problems to react immediately, but the little conmotion that created his son trying to extract the life of the poor lawyer, pull him of his startled state.
"Leroy! Leroy son, stop!" Jethro wasn't listening, and Ben feared that all the stress of the last months was at least catching his son. "Leroy, enough" - Still no reaction, and Ortiz was just turning a shade of blue, so he needs to do something that he don't like at all, use his son's military training against himself : " GUNNY; STOP" . - That make the trick, his son released immediatly the lawyer, who just crumpled in the floor like a rag doll, gasping for air.
"WHY?, Why did you make me this? He tooks Tony, he just took my son away!" Ben was blocking the small distance between his enragered son and Ortiz, whose eyes were open wide with fear.
"He said that he can help us, Leroy, he wants to help us, please son, just listen to him"
Jethro turned redened eyes to the scared man and take a step toward him, invading his personal space." You have two minutes to talk, and better be good, because I'll going to kill you if its just BS.
"Th-thank you sir" Said a very shaken Miguel Ortiz "As I told you before, I just want to help, I know where your son is, I can take you there.."
"Why ? You are just their pawn! Why I will believe in you now?"
" I-I know , I made a big mistake before, I admit that at first , the DiNozzo's money bought my ethics, but with time I just discovered how bad its everything around them, so now I want to help you"
"And how we know that you're telling us the truth, this can be just a set up" -No matter how desperate Benjamin was for a miracle, he don't want to lose his son too.-
"I couldn't live.. I couldn't live with the things I did, the decisions I made..That-that man is sick, really sick and he is doing horrible things to that boy. Tony, he , he asked me, he begged me to found you, to help him. He is a very strong boy, you know. When I discovered what Fabio really does, I confronted him - and believe me , that guy can be scary- but when Fabio tried to hit me for disobey him, Tony, your son, - because now Im sure that he is your son- went in the middle and interfered with Fabio, no matter what I did to him before... I just – I just hope that God will forgive me someday for my sins" Miguel was sobbing quietly now, obviously in deep regret.
"Where is my son?" That is the only concern of Jethro for now.
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Angelo DiNozzo spent all his life building a fortune and a name, he sacrifices a lot of things in the process, even his family – specially his family- his first wife died when his son Fabio, was just a kid and then he started to jump for one to another relationship,no one successful. He was a very proud man and he likes the people to fear and respect him,and he will do everything in order to keep his good name and prestige. Even putting his son in a psychiatric ward if it is requiered.
Fabio is now his problem at hand , he was spiraling out of control, he always was a very impulsive man, but now he was crossing the line and putting at risk the family's good name, that little Annie's bastard is causing a lot of troubles so he needs to made something and make it quick.
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"Are you completly sure this is the place?" Jethro Gibbs asked to Ortiz, taking a look at his surroundings at the extensive and beautiful land " La Solitudine" could be read on top of the gate, the big camp's house caused in him a very weird and bad feeling.
"Yes, sir. "La Solitudine" belonged to an old and nice woman, but "we" find the way to "bought it"a couple of months ago, Fabio said this was the perfect place to raise a kid.
"I'm sure of that, isolate, no one around to ask for help. No eyes, no ears..! Boondocks! Added Benjamin , with a hint of fear, rage and distate in his voice.
Jethro passed a callous hand over his head, fearing the worst for his son, he just pried God that his son was alive,every other thing he can fix it, he just needs Tony to be alive- "And now what? We were supossed to knock at the door and said: Good morning?
Miguel took a bunch of keys from his pocket- "No, He gave me the keys" feelings both Gibbs staring at him , he feels the need to explain. " He don't like to leave the house, he is squizofrenic, he feels that everyone is looking at him which make him nervous, so is part of my job to bring food and supplies".
Seeing the marine checking his gun, scared the young lawyer" I don't think you'll need that" Said Miguel pointing to the gun that Gibbs was carrying,there are just two persons in that house, Fabio fired all the staff.That gun will be not neccessary"
The youngest Gibbs ignored Miguel's words, almost running towards the house's gate in a desperate need to see his son again.
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Tony was trying to pick up at the door's look with an old nail he found in a corner, maybe if he could open that door he can run and find his family again- when the nail fall with a cluttering noise away of his reach he pouded the door with his fist, frustrated for no being able to escape. When his father..-No, Fabio, his real father is Gibbs no one else- When Fabio was in one of this moods was very difficult to escape unharmed , he remembered the many times he used the big tree behind his mansion as a safe house from that man, even his Mom called the firefighters ones after he climbed the tree afraid of Fabio. Shamessly the tree wasn't at reach.
Suddenly he heard angry footsteps coming for the front of the door and run away to the far corner of the room wishing to be invisible...
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"Listen to me Fabio, this is the best for all, you will be raid off that boy and that stubborn marine leaves us alone." Angelo was trying to follow the quick steps of his enraregered son, who was taking the stair's steps two at time.
"And then what, let him win, let the two of them laugh at me again. NO, you hear me NO!. That bitch cheat on me with that prick and she make me raise their little bastard, give him our name. I own that boy life, I will be the one who take it away".
"That boy had caused enough problems and I don't will allow you to risk our name for a worthless kid, this end today, did you hear me, I will take that boy and dump him somewhere in the city and then you wil make a healing trip to Europe, end of discussion".
Fabio stared at his father full of rage, knowing that the old man wasn't used to a negative.
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Tony crounched in the far corner of the smelly room, trying to avoid the fury of Fabio, he promised himself to survive one day at time, waiting for his dad to come and rescue him. When the door opens he was surprised to see his grandfather – Angelo- standing on the threshold, he was always a scary old man, sometimes scarier that Fabio, because Tony had saw the ice in the eyes of the italian patriarch.
" Nonno!... ,s..sorry, A-Angelo.." Tony stuttered the words, Fabio's father dislike being called grandfather, because, like he said aloud, Tony was just a nameless bastard, not his own blood.
"Antonio!.." the old man, shake his head at Tony's sight, -" Are you aware of the big and annoying problem that you represent?. First , your mother, turn my son in an insane and crazy man and now you , her little worthless bastard ...you are trying to finish the work, turning Fabio in an irrational animal, make him believe that you were his legacy and then calling another man: father, you- you mio picolo bastardo...are the big sinner in this tale, you and your mother turned my son sick, all the things that happened to you were your mother and your own fault..."said the old man taking a couple of steps closer to Tony with hate in the eyes.
Tony flinched at the nearness of the big man, replaying in his childlish mind the venom words that Angelo Dinnozzo just said..."My fault?"- he tough- "all this is my fault?"
"Your fault, my little piece of crap" - Angelo seemed to read Tony's mind – and now I going to end this for the good of all, you are going to go and never come back, nothing, listen to me , NOTHING of all the things that happened inside my family are going to be know by someone else, If you dare to open your mouth and tell one of your lies, you will regret it, because I'll going to make your little life and the life of the people that now you called family a living hell, and above all, the people will know who you and your mother really are, the way you tried to ruin my family and my son, the way your mother cheat on my son, all the people will know that you are nothing , that you are just a nameless bastard, worthless and undesirable.." Angelo was shaking the frigthened Tony by the shoulders, seeing with distate the tear-stained face of the shocked boy.
"NOOO!" ,"Thats not enough, he need to pay, is his fault, he destroyed my life, he needs to pay" Angelo saw his son walking in long strides to the small child, with his leather belt in hand and the eyes inyected with hatred and fury. "You stupid bastard. You and your mother destroyed my life" - Fabio screamed and started to hit the poor boy with the belt over and over. No matter how smaller Tony tried to be , the leather smacked painfully his skin every time -"Father,please!" - Beg the frightened boy, that seems to angered the old man -"Don't call me that! Don't call me that ! You filthly bastard ! I'm not your father...!
Angelo just take a look at the gross scene unfolding in front of him and took a couple of steps back, not wanting to being part of the dirty job, he heard the sickening sound of leather hitting flesh and the sobs and pleas of the boy, but anyway, they need to finish this and maybe a couple of more hits is what his son need and then he can get raid of the boy.
Just in that moment the basement's door flew open with a crash and three very angered men entered the room, all was so quick that the DiNozzos never have a chance to defense themselves, suddenly Angelo was pinned to the wall with a gun on his face for a man just like his age and his son was on the floor with someone that look more like a fiercy animal that a man; pummeling his face.
Jethro voice isn't more like a roar, when they were approaching the basement he heard his son's sobs and the sound of something hitting flesh, when he opens the door, suddenly all around turned red, all that he can see was his little boy, showered in blood in a corner of the room and a man hitting his son, all other things erased of Gibb's head, he need to kill, to punish, he need revenge for all their pain. " You sick bastard, you'll never going to hurt my son again, I'm going to pull your eyes of his sockets, You are going to die tonight" - Jethro hissed at the frigtened man before him, squezzing Fabio's neck with his hands.
Seeing his son being strangled on the floor for the other man, snapped something inside Angelo's head, deep in his heart he understand the man fury, but his son was being killed if front of his eyes and he can't allow that. "P-Please. Don't kill him..Please!" He said seeing the older Gibbs in the eye.
" Please, he is my son..he is my son"
Benjamin Gibbs faced along his life very faces of death and fear, he learn to "read" other people eyes and words and no matter what all his instincts was screaming at him, he recognized the panic and fear in Angelo's eyes, fair and panic for loosing a beloved one, no matter if this beloved one was a monster. He put his gun in Miguel's hands still pointing to Angelo's head and turned around to face his son .Jethro was over the sprauled form of Fabio DiNozzo with a look of hatred in his blue eyes, squezzing hard the other man neck and enjoying the process , Fabio have his eyes wide open, plagued with fear and hate, but the person who caugh his eyes in all the room was the little and bloody form of his grandson, looking with vacant eyes the people around him;that make him react, he knows in that moment that if he let his son kill Fabio, that will destroy in the near future his small family, so he make a decision for the good of all.
"Leroy, Leroy come on, please son ! Release this man, he isn't worth it. " -Benjamin tried to pull away his son of DiNozzo without success, his son isn't even hearing him - "Leroy , please, Tony needs you, Leroy , please, son" . His son's name put Jethro on his feet, remembering suddenly his main goal in this mission; with a final and vicious kick to the head of Fabio, Jethro spat the man on the floor, promising him to come back latter.
Benjamin saw his son's eyes snap to sanity and start seeking for his boy. Tony was crunched in a far corner of the room,hunched in a thig ball, balancing himself back and front, whimpering in fear and pain. Jethro spot his son and feels his heart shattering in million pieces,his handsome and strong boy was turned in a frightened creature for this monster, he approaches slowly his little boy, struggling with his desires to just run and hug him. -"Tony,it's over Tony, I'm here, come on little one.." When he tried to take Tony's hand , the kid scrambbled away, terrified of being punishmed again, what the boy cry next, brough tears to Jethro, Ben and Miguel eyes "P-please,n-n-no more, pl-please, no!" .
Jethro falls to his knees in front of his son and using the sweeter and tender voice he have, called his son to reality. "Come on, it's me. Daddy is here, is over. Please son come with me.."
Tony extended a dirt and trembling hand toward his father's face, wanting to be sure that this time for real he have his father in front of himself. "..D-dad?..D.daddy?. It's really you?" The touch of his little hand in the older man face caused something like an electric shock in the boys mind , who throws himself with fiercely need and love at his dad 's arms. "Daddy, daddy you come for me! Daddy don't leave me again please!" Tony was patting Jethro face with his little hands jiggling and sobbing at the same time and hugging his father with a force hard to believe in such a little body. "Don't ever leave me again, please Dad!"
"Never sweetheart, I 'll never leave you again. I promise"
Fabio used the distraction trying to escape, but the sharp eyes of Jethro saw the move and passing his son to Benjamin punched the man in the face and pulling his gun , release the safety and put the barrel in Fabio's temple. "Now it's payback time bastard..."
"No, please,no!" Yelled Angelo, who has still a gun pointed to his head from Miguel's hands."Don't kill him" "Please Benjamin, this is in part my fault, I ruined my own son's life... I never teach him to fight for something. I used my money to buy him success and happiness , I even bought his wife. In order to make him happy, I destroyed other people life. But he is sick, insane and he needs help. Please , I promise, as long as I live he never will come near of your boy, just let him live.Please!"
"No, he needs to pay, all my son's pain, he is going to die now.." Said Jethro ramming the gun in Fabio's head.
"Leroy, please. Think in the kid!"
"Daddy" Tony was extending his arms toward his father.
"I'll give you the kid, without troubles, I-I even going to give the boy his mother's money, just.." Angelo was sweating inside his expensive suit, unable for the first time in his life to take control of the situation.
"We don't need your money" Jethro raise his gun again, pulling the trigger a little.
"I-I have the papers in here.. I mean the parental right's papers" said Miguel, pulling a bunch of folded papers for his jacket's pocket.
"Death isn't enought for you.." Hissed Jethro in Fabio's face, hitting the man with the gun in the head. Fabio just falls to the floor like a rag doll."If he ever come near to my son again, I'll put a bullet between his eyes without a doubt"
"Never, I promised you, as long as I live he 'll never come near of Antonio" Angelo released the breath he didn't know was holding.
"His name is Tony" pointed Benjamin, " Now sign the papers"...
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Benjamin, Jethro, Miguel and Tony climbed into their cars, leaving behind "La Solitudine" and the horrible events that happened in there and also leaving Angelo to attend his insane and unconscious son. This time love was the power who wins the battle.
Jethro was riding in the back seat of the car while Benjamin drives. He feels Tony snuggle closer to him and suddenly he starts to whisper in his son's ears, the loved song that he and Shannon choose to his broken boy...
Beautiful, Out on the ocean sailing away, Before you cross the street, Beautiful,
Beautiful, beautiful,
Beautiful Boy,
I can hardly wait,
To see you to come of age,
But I guess we'll both,
Just have to be patient,
Yes it's a long way to go,
But in the meantime,
Take my hand,
Life is just what happens to you,
While your busy making other plans,
Beautiful, beautiful,
Beautiful Boy
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COPYRIGHT: The beautiful song belongs to John Lennon and was writed for his beloved son Sean. Thanks Lennon for the legacy
Okay! That 's all. I'm sorry but I don't want to loose another day and I post this unbetaed, but i 'll send the next part tomorrow for a beta read.
So , please, Tell me what you think.
Thanks!
