Gibbs has a secret?
Back at NCIS headquarters hours after Tony and Kate got back from the crime scene McGee was still sleeping behind his desk. Tony and Kate were working hard when Abby came in. "Hey Kate, where's McGee?" Abby asked. "You're back early." Kate replied. "Yeah the forensics conference was boring; I wanted to get back home to Addison. I just had this hinky feeling the whole time that something wasn't quite right." Abby replied. "McGee is sleeping behind his desk and Addison is with Gibbs." Kate said. "He left Addison with Gibbs?" Abby asked a little upset. "Actually it was my idea." Kate admitted. "Let me get this straight, you left my daughter with Gibbs?" Abby asked again in disbelief. "Yeah, you see Addison was crying and apparently she had been crying since you left and when Gibbs came over she stopped crying so I sent him away again and she started crying again and when he came back she stopped." Kate explained. "Poor Gibbs." Abby said. "What do you mean poor Gibbs?" Tony asked. "You guys don't know?" Abby asked. "Know what?" Kate asked her. "Gibbs had a daughter; I can't believe you didn't know that." Abby replied. "Well you know he is just so open with his personal life." Tony said sarcastically. "What happened to her?" Kate asked. "When his wife left him she took her and she forced him to give up his rights, he hasn't seen her in almost ten years." Abby told them. "Poor Gibbs, I guess that explains why he is the way he is." Kate said. "Yeah and that is why he makes sure you two have plenty of family time with Aidan, and that is also why he rescued your son. He wanted to spare you the pain of losing a child. He wasn't even assigned to go down there he went for you." Abby said. "I guess we owe him a lot. Because had we lost Aidan I don't know what we would have done." Tony said as he put his arm around Kate.
At that moment Gibbs walked in holding Addison. "Why the long faces? Look Addison your Mommy's back." Gibbs said as he gave Addison to Abby. "Oh we were just going over some details of the case." Tony said but Gibbs could tell that he was lying. "You told them, didn't you Abby?" Gibbs asked. "Yeah, sorry Gibbs." Abby said. "It's okay Abs, after spending the day with Addison I realized something. I realized it's time for me to stop living in the past and move on once and for all. When my daughter is older I'll find her and hopefully she will want to see me but for now I've got to start living again." Gibbs said. "Good for you Gibbs." Abby said. "Now what's everyone standing around for? Get back to work." Gibbs ordered. That day Tony and Kate saw a side of Gibbs they had never seen before they saw that he was human just like them and they saw he was hurting. They hoped that he could move on for his own sake.