…….A month later ……
"Ok, I see that you haven't found them. I can't believe they didn't listen to me." Gibbs said quite upset.
"They are just two minutes late and if it helps I thought I saw a guy who looked like Dinozzo but he disappeared before I could get to him." McGee said reassuring.
"You better be right." Gibbs said while looking at the entrance to the conference hall.
Gibbs guessed he didn't know them. Dinozzo had stayed for the time being and he knew it was only for Kate. Personally they are happier but for the team he was still not sure they can separate work and personal life. He didn't want to be the boss who is too hard on them but we have a purpose here and he didn't want to jeopardize that. How many times did he need to explain that to them? All he know it wasn't enough times.
"Kate, hurry up now." Tony said while running to the conference hall. He held her hand so he wouldn't lose her in the crowd.
"It wasn't my idea to get an own room… Gibbs will never forgive us… He knows for sure about us because of all the speeches…" Kate said trying to catch her breath between the words.
"We're not so late." Tony said before stopping.
"What's wrong?" Kate asked worried.
"I'm still not 100 yet and there is another thing I need to tell you." Tony answered before he was interrupted.
"There you are. We've been looking for you." Abby told them with a strange look in her eyes.
"I'm sorry. It won't happen again." Tony apologized.
"IT better not!" Gibbs said not being in his best mood.
"Tony, is that you? You said you would call last night?" a woman suddenly said.
Tony hadn't expected or rather he hoped he wouldn't see her now. It was during lunch he was going to talk to her. He guessed unexpected things are apart of his life now.
"I know but I got distracted. How are you?" Tony asked her.
"No morning sickness any longer and I'm glad about that but Tony shouldn't you?." She asked him seeing everybody was probably wondering who she was.
"Everybody this is my sister-in-law Maxine Dinozzo, FBI agent here in New York."
"Call me Max…So I guess you all work in his team. I've heard so much about you. Who is Gibbs?" she asked straight forward.
"I'm their boss special agent Gibbs." He said to her.
"Really nice to meet you. I've heard you are really good." Max praised him.
"Tony, don't…" Max said but it was too late.
"Andy, you little." Tony said to the guy who had grabbed him from behind.
"Guys, this is my brother Andrew Dinozzo, CIA agent" Tony said after a while.
"It was you I saw earlier on. You look so alike" McGee then said.
"I'm one year and five days older." Tony said to them all to mark he was the eldest.
"Not that I see it." His brother said.
"Yes, you do but you can't admit it…Anyway this is my boss special agent Gibbs, then my team mates, McGee, Abby and agent Todd." Tony said introducing them to his family.
Kate was more shocked than surprised. She wished she could have said something more intelligent than hi and asking what his sister-in-law worked with. It was quite interesting to hear about how she worked with finding missing people. If she hadn't asked her that no one would have said anything. She wondered the whole time what went through Gibbs' head.
Right now she was more worried about Gibbs than what she was going to tell Tony when they were alone again.
This was a big disaster. Secrets are never good to have and exposing them like this is not good. Tony had tried so hard to separate his personal and work life but today he knew for sure it will from now on be impossible. The way Kate and Gibbs will handle it will change his future. If it goes the way he thought it will go, then unfortunately it has to be New York.
They all talked for a while before deciding they really couldn't be late for the meeting. Andy and Max talked a lot but Tony was more interested in trying to get Gibbs to understand why I hadn't told him all this earlier on. Kate talked with Max and Tony wondered how it would be if they became friends and maybe even related.
"Tony, why don't you join us for dinner tonight? Kate too of course." his brother asked him while they all were walking into the hall.
"Tony, have you told him about us?" Kate asked quite surprised and a bit angry. She hadn't told anybody except Abby who had guessed it already.
"He wrote in an e-mail that he is dating someone but I guessed it was you because the way he looks at you is the way I look at Maxine. The Dinozzo charm." His brother told Kate.
"Kate, I'll tell you everything you will need to know about being with a Dinozzo." Max then said to her.
"Mrs Dinozzo…" Kate said…
"Call me Max." she insisted.
"Ok, Max it has only been a month." Knowing that apparently they thought this relationship was way more serious than it was. It had only been a month and it was clear to her that New York is where his brother lives and she couldn't figure out how she fitted in the picture.
"I think I let you have your family reunion on your own because I have WORK to do." Gibbs emphasized before going to his seat.
"We'll talk more tonight." Max told her.