………Later that day……..

"I'm not letting you go to talk to Gibbs again. Ducky warned us that he hasn't the best memories of New York because his ex-wife Sarah lives here and what you are doing is only associating more bad memories to this city. I'm sure you really don't want to do that!" Kate told him while she was dressing herself for the dinner with Tony's family.

"I don't but I don't want him to be mad at me."

"Why not?" she asked wondering if he wanted to talk to her about what happened today. Kate knew he had tried to avoid it but she hadn't so she was going to keep asking him until she got her answers.

"I know what you want. I don't know if I can give it to you. I don't have straight answers right now. Everything is just as mess." Tony said after he had taken on his shirt.

"Give me what you can. From what I understand, you are really close to your brother, are going to be an uncle for the first time, doesn't want to hurt Gibbs, me or your family and that's why you want to move to New York. I'm just wondering where I fit in this equation. Why start a relationship with me if you know it won't last?" Kate asked being quite hard at him. She had strong feelings for him and she needed to know how strong his were.

"Andy and I…We…I…Us…Would you believe me if I said I was scared? Andy is just like me and he and Max got married after being together for a year. Everybody said he wasn't the marrying type and suddenly Max showed up and changed his world. I didn't understand that until you showed up in my life. Never in a million years had I thought I would feel like this. How could I ever tell you about my family and especially Andy since we are so alike? The similarities are so many here. I didn't want any of us to jump to any conclusions and you can see that is what Andy and Max have done. Jumped to conclusions." Tony tried to explain but he didn't think he succeeded.

"It isn't easy taking it slow if you don't live in the same city as me." Kate said trying to get him to open up a bit more. She knew he had got a lot out already but the more the better.

"After April I knew being slow was the last thing I want in life. Missing so many things because I wanted to take the easy road wasn't going to be my path anymore. I followed a different path and it led to you. If it also leads to New York I don't know but here I am now. My parents got a divorce, Gibbs works a lot and you see how his marriages have been like…"

"And Andy has been married for two years and you don't see how happy he is. Gibbs got married because he loved those women and was happy. Just because the marriages didn't end well doesn't mean it isn't worth it. I'm not saying our relationship will last but at least for your next girlfriend I think being truthful to me will make you a better boyfriend to her. You learn a lot from experience." She said trying to not let him see the dark side of relationships.

"Please, can we just see how Gibbs is doing and then go to dinner?" He asked her just to get out of the room. The longer they stayed there the more they would have discussed and the harder it would be from stopping himself from telling her he loved her. The deeper they got the harder the final decision will be.

………….

"Gibbs, it is us Dinozzo and Todd." Tony said while knocking on the door.

"What are you doing here?" Gibbs answered after opening the door.

Both of them saw there was an unknown woman in his room.

"Why don't you come in!" Gibbs then told them. Talking in the hallway wasn't the best idea especially since Lauren was here.

Both of them went in.

"This is Lauren Wood. A friend." He introduced her to them.

"Nice to finally meet you. I've heard about you two. Great agents. I'm glad you both are doing well." She told them.

"We're just here to see how things are before we went out for dinner." Kate told them.

"Dinozzo…I'm fine with it. I don't want to hear any more about the subject. I understand you want to protect your family and not involve them in your work. I don't think that an FBI agent who searches for missing people and a CIA agent who works with economical crimes are so helpful to our kind of work anyway. Go and be with your family. Just tell me when another Dinozzo is being added to your family."

Just before Kate could ask him what he meant by that someone knocked on the door. Kate could sense Tony wondered what he meant too but maybe he meant when Andy and Max got their child.

"Tony, Kate…These are my children Thomas and Natalie. They live here in New York." Gibbs told them after he had let the persons in the room.

"Really nice to meet you." They both said to them. Tony wondered why he never knew he had kids and after Ducky and him had worked the longest time with Gibbs.

"We all have dinners to go to so let's go if we don't want to be late." Lauren then said.

……………..

"What do you think?" Max asked Kate when they were in the lady's room halfway through the dinner.

"Think about what?" Kate asked her.

"Us. I know you must have got some kind of impression by now."

"You are really nice. Andy is really nice and it is fun seeing Tony in a different light."

"Surely you must have some questions?" Max wondered.

"Not that I can think about now but maybe later."

"Then I have some…A fool can tell that you love him. Does he know that? I think he is making a big mistake by moving to New York. Baltimore was a great place for him and after hearing everything Andy said about him loving to work there I was wondering if he was really happy at NCIS but I can see he really is. He clicks with Gibbs, McGee, Abby and especially you. He is extremely lucky to be in a team like that. He is extremely lucky to have met you." Max explained to her.

"I guess we both agree about New York then but why don't you want Tony to be close to you. I thought you would love his idea." Kate asked her wondering what was going on.

"What happened in April changed him and I wouldn't want that to cloud his judgement. Andy is trying to talk him out of it as we speak. I just hope he is getting through to him." Max explained to Kate.

………..

"Listen to me again. They'll be out here soon and by then I want you to have changed your mind." Andy demanded.

"I can't believe you are doing this. It's not like I'm going to live with you guys. I don't want to talk about this. I haven't decided yet…I have listened to your arguments over and over again. I've read your e-mails where you stated you don't think it is a good idea but you should accept any decision I take just as I have accepted every decision you've taken."

"Are we talking again about me becoming a CIA agent? I know you hate it but I love this job. Sure it isn't a safe job but I love it. It is more likely you will wind up hurt in the line of duty than I will. The same with Max. Stop worrying about us and start worrying about the woman you love because you're driving her away if you keep on acting like this." Andy said not happy about how his brother was acting

Then they saw the two women coming back to the table.

"Want to dance Max?" Andy asked his wife.

"Kate, do you want to dance too?" Tony felt compelled to ask.

"I'd love to." Kate answered. This would actually be the first time they danced together.

…………….

"I had a nice time tonight Tony." Kate said while they were getting ready to go to bed.

"Me too. It seemed like yesterday she told me she was pregnant and now she is five months pregnant. Time goes so fast. I'm glad we got to see them today."

"Good that you are happy now." Kate said with relief.

"I love you Kate and if Gibbs doesn't mind I'll stay a bit longer on NCIS."

"I can't tell what in your statement was more important and how long a bit is. The first part or the last part! Kate asked hoping it would clarify some things.

"The first part about I love you was most important and a bit is as long as you and Gibbs want me there."

"I love you too Anthony Dinozzo."

"I love you Caitlin Todd." I said before kissing her.

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"Fornell, what is it?"

"Ari, didn't leave the country and we got this message from him today." Fornell handed him a paper with the letters CAANITTHLOINNYTDOIDNDOZZO.

"If you put the letters in the right way it will be…" Fornell said before being interrupted.

" Caitlin Todd and Anthony Dinozzo." Gibbs said with a bit of anger in his voice.

"We think they will do something to them in New York." Fornell continued.