This took forever to write. I hope you enjoy every word of it or at least half.

"See the couple sitting on Adrianna's left, that is Michael, his wife Janice, and little Mikey their only child." Tony whispered quietly in Kate's ear. He smiled as he watched her face light up. He loved the way she looked when she was amused. It was like the whole world had just taken on a new glow.

Kate sat there for a second with her mouth wide open and then whispered quietly. "Oh my gosh I get why she wanted to sleep with you."

Tony looked at her confused. "Why?"

"Your cousin is cute, really cute. Still he's only cute until a person sees you. He's nowhere as good as looking as you are. You and your sister got the best genes of the group." Kate explained. So far Tony had a very attractive family. The guys were all handsome and in shape. The girls were all cute, not so much gorgeous but cute. All of his family members, at least the younger ones that is, had this quality that made you want to either be best friends with them or date them. She completely understood why a girl like Adrianna fit in so well with the DiNozzos. She looked the like the kind of girl who would be able to complete his family. "Where are your sister, mother, and niece?"

"They are preparing to bring out the food." Tony whispered in her ear. "There are the only three people missing from the dinner table."

Kate nodded. Kate counted twenty four people. That included two uncles, two aunts, his mother, his father, four cousins, one gay boyfriend, two spouses of his cousin's, a brother in law, one niece, one nephew, Adrianna and three second cousins. She couldn't fathom having a family this big. "I bet you can't name all of them."

"What do I get if I do?" Tony loved when Kate challenged him. He almost always won. Actually the only time he ever lost it was in a competition to see who could eat a slice of key lime pie the fastest. She only won because she proceeded to shove the last bit of it in her mouth. She was pretty cute when she was eating like an obnoxious pig.

Kate pursed her lips. "I'll kiss you again if you can do it."

"Who says I want another one of your kisses." Tony pretended to offended by her proposition.

"Go ahead try and name them all. I want you to start with your father and name them from his left." Kate instructed.

"Okay well my father is Anthony DiNozzo Sr., the empty chair between my father and the other man is for my mother Caprice DiNozzo, Uncle Saul Pirelli, Aunt Rosa Pirelli, Uncle Lorenzo Barony, Aunt Rosa Barony, my nephew Robbie DiNozzo, my gay cousin Johnny Pirelli, his boyfriend Douglas O'Brien, Sylvia, yourself, myself, two empty chairs are for my niece Mimi Capriccio and my sister Angela Capriccio, then it's my brother in law Giovanni Capriccio, then it's Adrianna Luciano, Michael Pirelli, Janice Pirelli, Mikey Pirelli, Alana Barony-Michaela, her husband Joseph Michaela, their daughter Maria and their son Joseph and finally sitting in the worst spot possible is none other than the only other single straight guy over twenty five left in my family my cousin Carlo Barony. So I think you owe me that kiss now." Tony couldn't believe he could actually name every last member of his family. It was hard.

Kate nodded. She licked her lips and then slowly kissed him on the lips. They tasted a little bit like butterscotch. She loved the taste of butterscotch.

"Tony could you please cut down on the PDA at the dinner table. I mean seriously first we have food in the mix and then we have children. I mean if we wanted to watch you make out with your girlfriend then we would just watch Alana's wedding video." Michael joked. He groaned as he felt his wife stomp on his foot. He looked up and remembered that Adrianna was sitting at the table. He looked away quickly before making eye contact with her. She had some nerve showing up her tonight.

Tony blushed and cleared his throat. Everyone at the table knew what Michael was alluding to. Back when he was still with Adrianna the two of them had quite the make out session at his cousin's wedding. It was so hot and heavy that the man they paid to make the wedding video got better shots of that than he did anything else.

Janice laughed awkwardly. "Kate please excuse the retard I call my husband he has a tendency to speak without thinking. So Angela told me that you and Tony worked together. We all know the interesting path Tony took to becoming an NCIS agent. What was your route?"

"Actually I was a Secret Service agent for nearly four years I had the honor of working for John McCain. After four years of traveling everywhere with Senator McCain I decided that I was done with Secret Service. That's how I ended up here with Tony. NCIS just sounded good." Kate didn't know what else to say. She knew everyone at the table was listening to her. They wanted the gritty details. They wanted more but there wasn't anything else. She just got tired.

No one had a chance to say anything because as soon as Kate finished the door to the kitchen opened and out came Mimi, Angela, and his mother carrying dishes filled with food. The dining room was filled with an amazing aroma that often made him think of Sicily when he got a whiff of it. It took the three women five total trips to get all of the food out there.

"Do they really expect all of this food to be gone?" Kate asked Tony quietly. She had never seen this many carbs in her entire life. She had a feeling she would be doing cardio for the rest of her life just trying to work off one of the dishes.

Tony laughed. "Of course, this is actually smaller than last years."

Caprice took her seat next to her husband and then sighed. "Tony say grace." She instructed her husband. He always said grace at meals. It was his job as head of the family.

"Lord Jesus Christ, as you blessed many with the five loaves and the two fishes, may we too, know your blessing as we share this food, your peace in our hearts, and your love in our lives. Amen." Anthony DiNozzo Sr. had a deep voice. H rarely talked. When he did talk all of his family paid attention because they figured whatever he was going to say had to be of some importance.

"Just let me do the serving for you okay. I figure some of this stuff is going to seem really strange to you so I'll just serve both of us. Is that okay? Please don't go all Jessie Spano on me." Tony joked. He grabbed the dish sitting in front of him and scooped some of the seafood primavera on both of their plates before passing the dish to his left to his niece Mimi.

Kate didn't bother to protest Tony's offer to serve her. He was right when he said that she wouldn't really recognize most of the dishes. They all looked delicious.

"Michael you better not get anymore Capunidde ch'u Baccalà remember what happened last Christmas Eve. You almost got us thrown out of midnight mass last year!" Alana joked. She loved reminding her older cousin of the most embarrassing evening of his life. If he was going to constantly bring up her ruined wedding video then it was the least she could do to repay the favor.

The whole table erupted with laughter. "At least I didn't almost get us kicked out of the church for good. I think we can all thank Tony for almost getting us ex-communicated." Michael shot back. Eight years ago if anyone brought up Tony and Vanessa hooking up it would send Michael into a rage but now he was able to find humor in the awkward situation.

"Let me guess for the incident with Vanessa right?" Kate guessed. She couldn't help but laugh. Tony was once again turning red. His family had a knack for making him feel awkward.

"Oh I may have almost got our family ex-communicated for sleeping with Vanessa but at least I didn't cause our family to have to pay for the church to buy a new rug because I barfed while in lie to receive the body of Christ!" Tony grinned. He knew that the only reason the church didn't refuse the DiNozzos entrance is because they put hundreds in the basket.

Johnny tossed his napkin down and shook his finger. "I was suffering from a stomach virus but didn't want to skip out on midnight mass. It probably didn't help that you all spiked the cider that year with cheap Puerto Rican rum that year. Let us not forget that Adrianna also threw up in the bushes before we were leaving."

"That is still not as bad as throwing up on the priest's shoes." Adrianna defended. She remembered that Christmas like it was yesterday. That was the last Christmas she ever spent with the DiNozzos. They were so much younger then but still for the most part they were all the same.

Caprice laughed. "Enough, enough we all know that at one point or the other you have all somehow embarrassed us while at church. My son slept with his cousin's fiancé. My son's ex-girlfriend threw up in the church bushes. My nephew barfed on a padre's shoes. My other nephew had such bad gas that there wasn't a seat in the cathedral that could avoid the heinous smell. Still must we bring all of these flaws to the attention of our new and very special guest Kate Todd. Seriously how are we ever going to get this girl to join our family if we make her think that we are all total kooks." Caprice smiled at the younger girl. She was too cute for words. There was this innocent twinkle in her eye. "Kate please tell me that your family is as crazy as we are."

Kate laughed. "Uh no where near as close but there is something extremely refreshing about all of this craziness."

Caprice laughed. "Refreshing huh? I like that. I hope the food isn't a bit too different for you. It's an Italian tradition to eat mostly fish based meals."

"I love it. I mean I've never had Italian that seemed so…realistic. It's all so different and vivid. Every bite seems to be filled with a distinct flavor." Kate assured Tony's mother. She had never tasted a fish sauce that was so delectable.

Caprice smiled at the young girl appreciatively. She loved Kate Todd. This was the first time since Tony was dating Adrianna that Caprice really found herself enjoying the company of one Tony's and she said this word lightly girlfriends. Later on after everyone else was helping to clear the table she pulled her young son aside and whispered every so quietly in his ear. "You better not let her get away Tony."

Tony smiled at his mother and kissed her cheek. "I'll try and stop that from happening."

"I think your sister will kill you if you to ever breakup. Make sure she knows that she seems to be a hit with the family."

Kate was touching up her makeup in the mirror when she heard Tony quietly make his way into the room. She turned around and smiled at him. "Your family is amazing. I don't understand why you keep them hidden from everyone at work."

"Some people don't find our obnoxious humor quite as funny as you do. Still my mother loves you Kate. She hasn't gushed about one of my girlfriends like that since well Adrianna. My mother used to be A's biggest fan." Tony replied as he sat down on the edge of the toilet. He took a moment to appreciate just how beautiful she looked with her hair pushed out of her face so she could fix her makeup properly.

"Tony what would you say if I told you that I might just be falling for you and your family?" Kate asked quietly. She couldn't believe she had actually let those words escape her lips.

Tony stared at her for a moment. Then he stood up and kissed her passionately on the lips. After kissing her for at least a minute he pulled back and stared into her eyes. "I would say that it's good because my family and I have fallen for you and we're not going to let you get away."

Okay so that took for ever to write. I want you to know that I was trying to write this for weeks now. This was the best I could do. I hope you like it. I hope you feel like I didn't skip too many moments. I hope you didn't hate the bet/challenge. I hope you liked this as much as I did. I hope you thought it made sense. I don't know when I'll be able to update again. Just please keep reviewing. I love to read them.