This is a story I've been working on for awhile. I keep going over it to make it perfect. Something I normally don't do. Anyway, a few warnings...

THERE WILL BE SEX BETWEEN TWO MALES IN THIS STORY! I would like to say thank you. This story is now my most reviewed and longest story. Let me know what you guys think please? I really really need to know before I just GIVE UP on this story all together. Please?

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Darren turned a little whiny in this chapter. I didn't mean to do that, but...That happens. Oh well. Please, tell me what you think of him and how you think the story should end!

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"It was horrible, Sarah," Darren muttered his tears soaking into my bed.

Sighing I sat next to him rubbing his back gently. Darren had been at my dorm for half an hour and that was actually the first time he spoke to me. He had literally been lying face down on my bed crying.

Every part of me wanted to get up and go yell at everyone that had hurt the man. The only thing keeping me here was one…He needed someone right now…Two…He really wouldn't want me to do that.

I loved Darren with all my heart. He was like my other big brother and it hurt me to see him like this. It was so wrong to see someone that loved to smile crying his eyes out.

The first time I had met the man I hadn't known what to expect. Darren had been sitting at his normal table, wearing his normal clothing, headphones in his ear blasting 'The Turtles', chewing on his lip ring, and putting his notes on his laptop.

He looked up and I thought he was going to tell me off for interrupting me, but he simply grinned handed me the book I had asked for. It could have ended there, but as I was leaving Darren took my arm and drug me to get a drink.

I could still remember asking him what he was doing. He simply smiled said it was time for tea and that I was his new friend. I asked if I had a say in it and he ended up laughing at me.

Darren was a hard person not to love. He was always smiling and saying something witty and sarcastic. It really didn't take all that long before he was my best friend.

In the end I found myself loving Darren. No, not like that. I have only ever loved Darren as a brother, though I had to admit that he was a good-looking man. Still, he was gay and with my brother.

Now he was hurt and that did not sit well with me. No one hurt my family and got away with it. If it had been anyone besides Tim's team and Darren's Father I would have been telling each and every last one of them off.

How anyone could not want Darren as part of their family was beyond me. Anyway, hadn't the team already brought him into their little family? He was hanging out with them and dating Tim. Was being Gibbs son that different?

"Darren," I shook my head sadly, "You just have to wait awhile. They'll come around."

"Them?" Darren asked confused.

"Aren't you upset because of how the team reacted to knowing that you're Gibbs son?"

"Well, yeah. It sucks, but I was sort of expecting that to happen. I know it will take a little time for them to get over it."

"Then what's going on?"

Darren slowly sat up and turned around while wiping the tears from his eyes. My heart clenched angrily at that and while I wanted to be able to continue to blame someone I knew that wasn't the case.

Yeah, I wasn't a huge fan of Abby right now, I never have been. She had reacted out of emotion without thinking and it blew up in her face. Darren had been defending himself. And everything got out of hand.

"I don't remember much about the Hotchner's," Darren shrugged, "In the end the only thing I do is how I felt. It was the first time I felt like I was safe, peaceful. I hadn't known them for very long, but they were my family and I loved them. Still I was so young, I never really got in trouble. I never had to see that look on their faces when I did something wrong."

"Like you did with Gibbs," I nodded in understanding while pulling him into a hug, "Darren…"

"He hates me now," Darren muttered so softly I barely heard him.

"No, he doesn't. Darren, that's the thing about parents. They love you no matter what. Gibbs might be a little upset with you right now, but that doesn't mean that he doesn't love you."

"Maybe he never did."

"Hey…"

"Sarah, Gibbs just met me. He barely knows me."

"You've known each other half a year, Darren, and based off what Tim says I know that Gibbs does love you. It might be a little difficult because you just met him, but I know that you love him too. I promise you Gibbs loves you. Nothing will change that. Just talk to him. Everything will be fine."

Darren let out another sigh and pulled back from me. He had a small smile on his face and I couldn't stop myself from smiling back. He might not feel one hundred percent, but he did feel better.

Cocking my head to the side I stared at Darren before an idea came to me. Quickly grabbing a tissue I cleaned Darren's face and pulled him up and off the bed then tugged him out of the room.

He opened his mouth to say something, but one look had him laughing softly as I led him to the café. I was just glad that he wasn't so depressed that he wasn't letting me take him out.

"Here," I said offering him a muffin and coffee that I bought him, "Want to keep talking about this or are you going to tell me about that thing?"

"What thing?" Darren asked confused.

"The thing that you got mad at me for bringing up before? You know the one that Tim talked to you about? The one that's going to happen in the future?"

"What are you talking…Wait, are you asking if Timothy and I are going to get engaged?"

"Only if you're not going to get made at me again."

Darren looked down at his drink in silence. He seemed to be trapped in his thoughts before finally looking back at me with a slight smile as he nodded his head a few times.

"Ask," Darren whispered.

"Are you and my brother engaged yet?" I questioned excitedly.

"No. Timothy says that he's going to leave the when up to me."

"But you're thinking of a when now?"

"Maybe. Timothy and I were talking about marriage and he said that he'd wait for me. He wanted more, but he was willing to wait. And he described the ring that he had picked out for me and I couldn't get it out of my mind. It was so beautiful."

"I know. I was there when he saw that link. I told him to go with platinum instead of silver. If it was anyone else I'd wonder how they'd feel about having a girls ring, but I knew you'd love it."

"I do. Then Gibbs and I were out and he noticed that I was messing with my ring finger because I was thinking of how a ring would feel on it. He told me that I deserved it. Deserved that happiness."

"Which he's right about. You and my brother are in love and I know it's just your own fear that's making you not already be engaged to him. Which is completely stupid on your part."

"That and we've only been together for a year and a half."

"So? People get engaged really early a lot of the time."

"We're not most people, Sarah. And I don't rush."

"Darren, do you want to marry Timothy?"

"I kind of…"

"Darren."

A blush came to the mans face as he slowly started to chew on his lip ring. He opened and closed his mouth a few times before he nodded his head a smile coming to his lips.

"I do," Darren sighed happily.

"Then ask!" I exclaimed loudly.

"It's not that easy!"

"What's standing in your way?"

"What about…What about kids?"

"Do you want kids?"

"I don't know! Ziva said that Timothy and I would make good parents and…This is all just going too fast."

"That's stupid, Darren."

Shaking my head at the older man I realized that this was exactly what Tim was trying to avoid. Darren knew what he wanted. He wanted to be married and to have kids. He just needed to do it in his time. Still, a little push never hurt anyone.

"But, Sarah…" Darren whined.

"No, buts," I said rolling my eyes, "I don't see the big deal. Just get married and adopt some kids."

"You don't…"

"Or you can get a bunch of snakes and call them your babies. Kids will run! Run from the crazy snake man!"

"Haha, Chandler."

"I don't know what you're worried about."

"Sarah, you know me."

"Exactly, so let's make it official. Darren Hotchner, I, Sarah McGee, give you permission to marry my brother, Timothy McGee."

"Great, thanks for the permission. Just need to have Timothy ask Gibbs for my hand."

"I can arrange that."

"Smartass."