Chapter 18

I'm sorry for leaving you guys hanging on this story, to be honest my inspiration for NCIS has been lacking lately plus I've had the feeling that there wasn't much interest in this story anymore but lately I've been getting PM's about continuing so here is the next chapter, thank you all for inspiring me to go on with this story!

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Tony had decided to move in with the Gibbs family and he found himself liking the atmosphere hanging in the house.

Shannon made sure he ate healthy ('You can't just live on pizza, even if you're Italian you big idiot!').

Made sure he went to bed on time ('If you don't go to bed now I swear I'll replace all you movies for romantic chick flics Kelly enjoys so much!').

Gibbs made sure that he didn't do anything stupid like contacting his father or quitting NCIS.

And Kelly, Kelly's been great in this all.

She moved back in as well supporting him all the way.

'Hey there Tony, want to hold a movie night tonight?'

Kelly's voice penetrated his mind and he looked up,

'I think your dad might kill us if we hold another movie night Kells.'

'Don't worry, leave my father to me', she says with a huge smile.

Tony can't help but laugh.

'Alright, I'm in let me take care of the paper work real quick and I'll come with you.'

'No movie night DiNozzo, we've got a visitor.'

He jumps up just as Gibbs strolls into the bullpen with a tall man behind him, and two other agents.

The man behind Gibbs looks up and Tony can feel his body go weak.

His legs no longer capable to hold him up he sinks back into his chair.

'Kelly go wait with Abby until we come to get you', commands Gibbs.

'Why is he here Gibbs', Tony manages to bring out weakly.

'Why did you bring him here!?'

'I didn't, he came himself, as to why…'

'I came here to explain', the man says.

'You think that with an explanation all will be forgiven and forgotten?'

'No, not by a long shot, but with an explanation thing may clear up a little.'

'I'll leave you guys too it then, please be careful.'

Kelly kisses both Tony and her father on their cheeks and leaves for Abby's lab.

Gibbs,Tony and the stranger head for the interrogation rooms.

'Sit down', Gibbs says calmly.

How he can sound as calm as he does Tony will never know, he himself sure as hell isn't feeling calm.

'When you came here, you told me you have answers I'm looking for, so talk.'

'I do have answers, I'm not sure where to start…'

Tony stares at the man with a frown, not entirely trusting him.

The man sitting in front of Gibbs right now staring at his hands resembles the man he once a long time ago used to be, but whom is to say that it's not a trick?

'It started when my wife died,' he begins.

Gibbs narrows his eyes and tilts his head.

'What has that to do with anything?

'My wife was sick and her medicine cost a lot of money then she died and I had to also pay for her funeral and I was over my head in debts.'

'What has all that to do with this', Tony asks coldly.

He remembers his mother getting sick and he remembers the funeral, he does not remember any financial difficulties.

'That's where it all begins for us, Anthony.'

Tony looks at his father and has to admit that he is right, that's when his father started to change!

'On her funeral my brother came to me, I tried to keep Anthony away from him but he still caught my brother's eye.' Anthony DiNozzo senior looks at his son with a lost look in his eyes.

'I had no money, no way of providing for you and my brother came telling me he would pay for all the bills, he would sure I had nothing to worry about.'

Tony's father takes a sip of water and sighs.

'All he wanted in return was for me to provide a successor to the "family company" I thought it would solve all our problems, I would give him a successor and we could go on with our lives.'

'So you gave him a successor?', Tony asks.

'I thought I got to choose one but he chose for himself, he took you to Italy to prepare you as his successor but you turned out to be a disappointment, that time he almost killed you and you ran away he called me, he would ship you back and I had to get rid of you, he meant for me to kill you but I convinced him that you would keep silent and to let me sent you away to RIMA.'

'You mean that…'

'I made sure to sent someone to keep tabs on you, once every so often he would show himself so that you knew you were being watched, he would then sent a photo to scare you, to make sure you would not talk until there was someone that would and could stand with you, I told myself that once you found such people I would come and tell all I know to bring my brother down.'

'Why?', Tony asks.

'Why wait until then?'

'Had I come while you worked in Baltimore nobody would have been able to do a thing, we both know that, I won't even waste my breath on the other precincts you worked.'

'So now because I work for the fed's you decided to come, because you think they can help?'

'No, not because of that, sure that's a bonus but you now have people that have not ran once they learned about your past, they took you in, that's why I came now.'

'What do you want in return DiNozzo?', Gibbs aks.

'Nothing, I just want to be able to be free from the trouble Vincent causes.'

'Alright then, you tell us all that you know about Vincent's plans', Gibbs says, preparing himself for a long night.