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Summary: Tony's reaction to Kate's news...
Author's Note: Thank you all for your wonderful reviews! I hope this chapter is as good as the first...
Life (and love) Affermations
Tony DiNozzo was tired. It had been a day from hell at work and seeing Kate go home sick at lunch had only made things worse.
Tony had been secretly dating Kate for the past six months. Keeping this secret from those they worked with so far hadn't been the easiest thing in the world. Abby had them all figured out, she confronted them on a rare day off, and planned their entire wedding after Kate confirmed that she and Tony were in fact dating. Kate reigned her friend in though, and said that they wanted to take the relationship slow, and that if they needed a wedding planner Abby would be the first person they called. (If the forty-two others were too expensive)
To Tony, the fact that Abby had them all figured out meant that they were being obvious. Kate began to wonder who else knew. They decided to put their minds at ease and cornered McGee and tortured him into confessing that he too knew about their "secret" relationship. The only other people who didn't know were Ducky and Gibbs. Telling Ducky would be like telling your best friend. Telling Gibbs on the other hand invoked the thought of "suicide by cop" and made Tony nearly break out in hives. They decided that they needed to be a little more careful.
That's when Tony opened the envelope and sprayed Y.Pestis over everything and himself. Kate's heart nearly stopped when the tests came back and Tony was the only one who tested positive. She wasn't going to lose him. Five days after nearly dying, Kate took Tony home to her place. She nursed him through pneumonia, which was an effect of the Y.Pestis. Two weeks into her nursemaid attempt, she got shot and the tables were turned. Now it was Tony's turn to take care of Kate. For him, it sealed the deal on their relationship. He knew in his heart, that Kate was the girl he was going to spend the rest of his life with, she was the girl who was going to bear his children and she was the girl he'd grow old with. To say that Tony DiNozzo was in love with Kate Todd was true. To say that they had it all hidden from their boss, well that's another story altogether...
"Kate?" Tonycalled out as he locked the front door behind him. "Kate? Are you home?" He listened for his girlfriend, but didn't hear anything. It was odd, he thought, usually Kate would come over and kiss him, if she got home before he did. And he knew she was here.
Suddenly, he heard a man's voice followed by gunshots and a woman scream, then there was silence. Tony's hand instantly went for his Sig Sauer in his shoulder holster. His senses were on high alert as he went from the entry way to the living room then to the kitchen and bedroom he and Kate shared. After clearing those rooms, he checked the bathroom, nothing there. He was about to round the corner and go into the room they used as a t.v. room when he came face to face with someone.
"Freeze!" he yelled,
"Aaahhh!" Kate yelled back. The dog barked and Tony was so startled, that he fired his gun, narrowly missing Kate's head. The discharged bullett buried itself into the television screen sending glass flying in every direction. Tony stared at Kate and she stared at him, both of them to stunned to move.
"Jeez Kate, what are you trying to do give me a heartattack? You scared the crap out of me." Tony puffed.
"Me? I'm not the one still pointing the gun Tony." Kate pushed the barrel away from her face. Tony holstered his Sig and pulled Kate in for a hug. He kissed her head and then pulled her away from him, holding her at arms length and looking her in the eye. "Are you okay?" Kate asked, clearly perplexed as to why Tony was looking at her like that. Could he know? Quickly Kate decided he didn't know, unless of course he saw the discarded box and test stick in the bathroom garbage.
"Tony, say something, you're scaring me."
"You scared me." he whispered.
"How?"
"I came in here and called you, but there was no answer. Then I heard these gunshots and a woman screaming, I thought Ari was back and he kidnapped you again." Kate looked at him, he looked so cute when he was scared, (which was rare.)
"Tony, I'm glad to know you'd come in bursting in with guns blazing if something like that happened to me, but you needn't have worried because I just fell asleep in front of the t.v. The dog must have stepped on the remote and kicked the volume up. I'm sorry you worried, but I'm okay." Kate hugged him.
Tony wasn't convinced. It wasn't like Kate to fall asleep in front of the television, if anything it made her more awake than usual. Tony eyed her suspiciously. Hewanted to knowwhat she was hiding from him. In the back of his mind, hethought she could be pregnant, but they had been really careful. Right?
Kate sat down on the sofa and patted the seat next to her. She nervously chewed on her lower lip.
"Tony, there's something I have to tell you." she said softly. He just gave her a half smile and brushed away a stray lock of her dark chestnut hair. Kate began to feel the walls close in on her, she knew she had to tell him before she chickened out and before he found the test stick and doctor's notes in the bathroom. Gathering up her courage, Kate locked her gaze with Tony. "I'm pregnant." she stammered.
He wasn't expecting to hear that from Kate, even though in the back of his mind hethought this was what waswrong with her. He sat staring at her, to dumbfounded to speak. Raging thoughts were imploding in his brain. He had to get outof there and think for a while.
Tony DiNozzo did what he alwaysdid in stressful situations, he acted like a child. And, like a child does in times of fear, he ran.
A/N: Will Tony return? Will I get more reviews? Where does Tony go? Who will review? What does Kate do? Are you going to press that little purple button?
A/N2; Iknow it's short, more to come. I had to edit big time on the fly. Thanx NavyJax..