Kate's eyes opened slowly, her hands gripping at the bed rails. She didn't understand, where was she? What had happened? The last thing she remembered, Abby and Palmer. She tried to scream, but all that came out was a gargled "gaaaaaa." Her head suddenly hurt, and her hands slowly moved to trace the gauze.

'What happened to you Caitlyn? Where's everybody...why...why do I feel empty?'

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Tony sighed lightly as Gibbs helped him back into the wheelchair, this feeling of uselessness was killing him. His hands were numb, his arms were sore and everything below his waist might as well have been chopped off for all he knew. Except he could see his dead and useless limbs, his dark eyes shut as he considered the fact that he could have been a vegetable or worse. His hand involuntarily went to the healing line upon his forehead towards the back of his skull, he traced it with his fingers and sighed. Half his brain, that's what he had lost. Half his brain and Abby.

"Leave it Dinozzo." Gibbs smacked the back of his head as he began to lift the wheel chair up the steps of Rebecca Dinozzo's house.

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There they are, they are finally here. Together in one room, my son and his father. The man I loved and the boy that got the wrong hand, how could I have been such a fool? I knew deep down that Jethro was Anthony's father, but I could have sworn he was sterile. After all two years of marriage and no children produced? That would lead any one to think that one of them was unable to have children. Then came Tony, and I knew from the moment he entered this world that he was pure Jethro. But that bridge had been burned...

"Jethro, thank you so much for bringing my dear Anthony." She smiled and hugged him before leaning down to her son, she wanted so much to hold him but she saw it in his eyes that he wanted nothing to do with her.

"Becca, you look fantastic." He smiled gently before continuing, "And you are very welcome dear Becca." He rolled Tony into the small living room and left him next to the couch. He took his normal seat at the head of the semi-circle of couches. And Becca took her's across from her eldest son.

"You look much better than Jethro was describing Anthony, I'm so glad that you are alright..."

"Mother, me being in a wheel chair looks like I'm alright?"

"Anthony you know exactly what I meant..."

"Do I? Cause dying of heart disease keeps me from being alright just as well." He was being an ass, but he wished not to be there at the moment. He saw it in her eyes, she was back with him and he knew it. "How could you...how could you go back to him?"

Gibbs growled from where he was sitting, his arms pushing him up as he reached out and thwaped Dinozzo in the back of the head. "That's about enough abuse from you Tony, raise your voice like that to your mother again and I'll..."

"What? Act like the father I was supposed to have? Or beat me like the father that I was concieved by?" Tony kept his voice matched to Gibbs', which was hard for him considering all the injuries to his body.

"I'll be the father that concieved you Tony, because I am the father that concieved you!" Gibbs snorted his eyes leveling upon Tony's.

AUTHOR NOTEL:

OMG! That finale was...painful. I had no idea it was going to be Kate, I was thinking Gibbs or Tony because they showed the two of them in the same clothes all the time. sighs It'll be interesting to see who will join the cast next.