Kelly watched her husband storm upstairs and then she went straight for the kitchen to confront her father. She hadn't heard a lot, but she knew enough to know that her husband was really angry. On a normal day, Tim didn't flip out like that without a hell of a reason. Not to mention that when they first went into the kitchen, Tim was nervous and worried. Her father had to have said something pretty bad to cause him to change his demeanor so quickly.

Shannon followed her daughter. She didn't even try to stop her. For one, she knew it wouldn't do any good and for another, she was angry too. Tim didn't get that angry, ever. It took something very big to bring out that kind of anger in him. Now while she expected that a portion of his anger was over the buildup of what she and Kelly had done, she also knew her husband had to have said something very insulting and for Tim to have that kind of reaction.

Kelly walked into the kitchen and saw her father by the coffee pot making coffee. "What did you say to my husband?"

"What needed to be said, and please stop using that word," Gibbs said. He cringed every time he heard Kelly and McGee refer to each other as husband and wife. The thought of his little girl being married was too much to bear right now. In his eyes, she was still the little girl he lost. He didn't wanna think about her being with a man, let along marrying one.

"You said something that you shouldn't have. Tim doesn't get angry like that. He doesn't scream," Kelly said.

Gibbs couldn't deny that his daughter was right about that last part at least. McGee's new attitude was a new experience for him. He'd never once heard the man yell like that. Tim McGee was probably one of the most mild mannered men he'd ever met, yet he'd lost it when talking to him. "Look, there are things you don't know, okay? There was a reason for what I said to him."

"Like what? What did you say to him?" Kelly asked

"He cheated on you, honey," Gibbs said.

Kelly cringed at the idea of her husband being with other women, but it wasn't something that was unexpected and she certainly wouldn't call it cheating. If Tim was with someone else, it was her own fault. She left her husband and she told him to move on. She couldn't expect him to be celibate after that. "No, Dad, he didn't. You can't cheat on someone who's left you. I left my husband. I did it to protect him, but I still did it and it still hurt him. I knew what would happen if I walked away. I knew he would move on. I knew that because I told him too. So who the hell am I to judge him for doing what I wanted after I abandoned him? And who are you to do it?"

Gibbs narrowed his eyes at her. "I'm you father!"

"Yeah, but that doesn't give you the right to butt into my marriage! My relationship with Tim is exactly that! It's between the two of us! Stay out of it!" Kelly demanded before leaving the room.

Shannon watched her husband leave before turning back to her husband. "So apparently you didn't listen to a word I said before you came in here."

"I was defending our daughter," Gibbs said before going back to preparing his coffee.

"Don't give me that! You are not talking to a stranger off the street or a colleague who barely knows you. I'm your wife. I know you and I know what this is really about. This isn't about Tim cheating on our daughter because we both know that's not true. That's just something you're telling yourself to make hating him okay," Shannon said.

Gibbs didn't say anything. There was nothing he could say and he knew it. Shannon was right. She'd figured him out just like she always had. Even when he accused McGee of mistreating Kelly, he knew it wasn't true. He knew that because of the way McGee had spoken about her since he revealed he was married. He loved her. Ironically, that was what upset Gibbs the most. The idea of someone loving his daughter in that way and her reciprocating that love freaked him out. In his mind, she was still the little girl that was taken from me. Also, he didn't like that Tim had had a relationship with his family for years while he was going around thinking they were dead. But neither of those things were actually McGee's fault, so he tried to find something that was.

"But it's not okay, Jethro, and it's not fair. You're angry because your daughter grew up and didn't get to see it. That's not Tim's fault. It's not his problem that the daughter in your head is still eight-years-old," Shannon said.

Gibbs finally turned to his wife. "What do you want me to do, Shannon? I've had less than a day to process the fact that my wife and daughter are alive and the fact that my daughter, who was a little girl the last time I saw her, is married to a man I've worked with every day for seven years."

"I get that, Jethro, I do. What you fail to understand is that Tim is in the same boat. Actually, it may even be worse for him. You spent this time believing we were dead and that was awful, and I know that because I felt that same pain from losing you. But we all thought we knew what happened to each other. Tim never knew. We were there one day and then we were gone. All he had in way of an explanation was a vague letter that Kelly wrote him. Then nearly a decade later, he's back in our lives, but we're not who he thought we were. Our names aren't even what he thought they were. To him, we were Sharon and Kelsey Gilbert and we had normal everyday lives. Now we're Shannon and Kelly, the wife and daughter of his boss, and we're on the run from drug dealers. Now so is he. That's a lot for one person to handle in less than a twelve hour period, don't you think?" Shannon asked. She felt a lot of guilt for the situation Tim was thrust into. Not only was she the reason he had a price on his head, but she'd also caused him a lot of pain by walking out of his life. She hated herself for that, especially since she knew the pain he'd suffered at the hands of his own parents. She'd done it to protect him, but for him, it was probably nothing but more rejection.

Gibbs sighed. He knew that this was hard for Tim. He'd seen some of it first hand before they even left DC. The way Shannon and Kelly had left him had him in turmoil. Yet he still loved them and wanted to protect him. He was a good man. Gibbs knew that. He'd known that for years. He'd often thought that out of their entire team, Tim was the best of them. He was the one that would do the right and moral thing no matter what. Still, it was hard for him to except his daughter with anyone, even someone like Tim McGee.

"I know this is difficult for you, I really do. But you are not going to lash out at Tim because you're angry about something that none of us could've helped. That kid has had enough people in his life blame him for things that weren't his fault and I will be damned if I let that happen again! So you better find some other way to deal with how you're feeling because he's not gonna be your scapegoat," Shannon said firmly before leaving her husband alone once more.