Tony didn't look at Gibbs, he kept his eyes on the stark white sheets that laid on top of him, or on the floor, or ceiling anywhere but on Gibbs. What was he supposed to say? He wanted to tell Gibbs the truth he really did but the truth didn't sound to good. Tony cursed himself, he would give anything to be able to go back in time and take a sick day. Why couldn't that be his power? It would make life so much easier. But then again life really did like to screw him over of course he would get a dangerous power that he couldn't control.

"Well?" Gibbs asked snapping Tony out of his thought and he looked up to his boss who was staring at him with no emotion.

"I – Gibbs… I – I can't…" Tony said shaking his head.

"Yes, DiNozzo, you can, I've known you a long time and you're not a guy to say you can't." Gibbs said his voice softening slightly giving Tony a bit more comfort. "Now, tell me when this happened. Why were you hiding it from us?"

"It happened when I was thirteen." Tony said and Gibbs eyes widened slightly. He knew it happened a while ago but he wasn't expecting Toy to be that young. "Um…" Tony said swallowing a lump in his throat. "I came home from school, I got a bad grade on my report card," he smirked and gave a humorless laugh. "I was trying to hide it from my father, I thought he wasn't home but turned out he was waiting for me, my teacher called." Tony's face began to grow blanker and his voice became lower. "My dad got really, really mad at me, he yelled at me not only for the grade but for trying to hide it as well. Gotta tell ya, these… powers just might have saved me from a beating that day, he was scared to come near me."

Gibbs winced at this, he suspecting abuse from some of the other things Tony had said about his father but this just confirmed it. But Gibbs stayed quiet and waited for Tony to continue not wanting to push him after a few seconds Tony began to speak again.

"Um… h – he grabbed my arm for about one second before letting go… I burned him he had a bad burn on his hand for a few days he had to tell everybody that he grabbed the handle of a hot frying pan. I don't think anyone believed him…" Tony trailed off with a slight smirk on his face staring down at the sheets. "But anyway," He said raising his voice and trying to sound more cheerful. "I think I did a damn good job at keeping it a secret don't 'cha think, Boss?"

"Tony," Gibbs stared sighing. "There in lies the problem, why you kept it a secret. You know you can trust us."

"Why do you think, Boss?" Tony asked his voice going quiet again and looking directly at Gibbs. "As much as I hate to admit it, I was afraid of your reaction. I'm still afraid of your reaction, I've seen how McGee looks at me now. He's scared and edgy around me. I don't like that."

"Well of course he is, DiNozzo!" Gibbs said loudly making Tony jump slightly. "He doesn't handle new things well, but you saw Kate, you saw Abby and Ducky. They don't care and you give McGee a day or two he'll come around, he always does."

"Yeah, I guess." Tony said, "How is this gonna effect everyone else?" Gibbs looked at him questioningly; he didn't entirely understand that question. "I mean with the media, I'm out now, everyone knows by now it's probably all over the news and I'm sure it's nothing good."

"DiNozzo, if you're getting at what I think you're getting are you can shut up right now. Screw the damn media, I don't care you're my senior field agent, my best agent, you're not going anywhere for a long time."

Tony smiled and his goofy attitude began to come back. "Really, I'm your best agent. Hehe, you like me."

"I wouldn't call it liking you; I'd call it more admiring you that such an intelligent brain can occupy someone so stupid."

"You called me smart, you do like me."

Gibbs slapped Tony on the back of the head and Tony pulled a face. "Was that really necessary?" Tony asked rubbing his head.

"Are you questioning me, DiNozzo?" Gibbs asked.

"No." Tony answered quickly.

The two sat in a long silence for several minutes until Tony spoke, his voice soft and almost a whisper. "Boss…?"

"Yeah?"

"Are things gonna change? I mean like, between us?" Tony asked.

"Absolutely not, what were we just talking about? Things are gonna stay exactly the way they are. You're my agent and I'm your boss that is never going to change. You will however try and learn how to control this though." Tony nodded understanding. "You can't be setting things on fire when ever you get nervous, angry or scared."

"I know." Tony replied.

"Speaking of which you owe me a new suit." Gibbs said.

"Oh, yeah, heh, forgot about that." Tony said shifting his position slightly. "Sorry about that, did I burn you to bad?" he asked timidly.

"I didn't think so but Ducky insisted it needed immediate attention."

"Yeah, sorry, I didn't know I could make fire… that ones all new to me too." Tony said. "It really doesn't make me feel any better though."

"So you didn't know about that." Gibbs stated.

Tony nodded and took a deep breath still uneasy talking about this. "No, um, I just knew I could go up to high temperatures."

Gibbs nodded and leaned back in his chair. "So, you feeling any better? We were a little worried for a while there, you were out for hours."

"Wow, really?" Tony asked raising his eyebrows and Gibbs once again simply nodded. "Well, enough of sitting around here I wanna get up." He said sitting up and taking the sheet off him.

"Understandable," Gibbs said. "But I really don't want you running around, you still must be a bit tired."

Tony smirked and looked over to his boss. "You're worried for me, I knew you liked me."

Gibbs rolled his eyes smacked him upside the head one last time and hoped the people up in the office were ready to see Tony.

Abby walked to Kate's desk and sat down on it, her high healed, knee high boots softly tapping the side of the desk. They had barley said two words to each other while they waited for him, McGee just cut himself off from everyone, he was thinking about, well, what to think. Abby was just pacing playing with her rings or choker, Kate was curling her hair in her fingers and Ducky was sitting in a chair with his head in his hand thinking to himself.

The elevator dinged and Tony stepped out followed closely by Gibbs. Tony's hands were in his pockets, he had his head down and looking a bit self conscious. Abby jumped off and shuffled over to Tony the best she could with her shoes and gave him a great big hug. He smiled slightly and hugged her back feeling a little bit more comfortable.

Kate then got up after her and when Abby finally let go she gave Tony a quick hug. "Welcome back." She said quietly in his ear.

He smiled at her thankfully but managed to turn it into a flirtatious grin. Ducky came over and out his hand on his shoulder, "Glad you're feeling better, my boy."

Tony smiled to them, still having a thousand worries running through his mind, but maybe it wouldn't be as bad as he thought. Little did he know how the media would expose it out of proportion.

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AN: I'm sorry this was so late… I'm lazy I really, really am but at least I got it up right? Once again I'm not gonna thank all the people individually that would take to long and I'll probably get sidetracked and forget to upload it. So I'll just thank you all in a whole, thank you all my wonderful reviewers I would not have continued this without you! Okay I'll try and update soon, see ya then.