The Other Tony chapter 14
Merry Christmas guys! This is my Christmas gift for you so I really hope you like it.
-Flashback-
"This is really not how I pictured my day going." His Uncle's voice suddenly broke through the air in the office both him and Luke currently were in.
"It's not what you think." Tony immediately defended.
"Oh, so you two aren't the pranksters whose been targeting me for two weeks now?!"
"Come on Uncle Steve."
"No. Sit down! Both of you!"
"You can't be serious" Tony muttered angrily.
"I most definitely are, so I wouldn't test me right now Tony. You are in enough trouble as it is."
"You can't prove anything." Tony blurted out.
"We'll see if your Dad thinks me finding you here setting up your next prank isn't evidence enough."
"…"
"Don't even bother Tony. All I want to know is why?!" Tony bit his lip and gazed down at the floor not wanting to answer.
"Anthony."
"Come on Uncle Steve, we aren't at home right now, you can't use that." Tony complained.
"Anthony Leroy."
"We wanted revenge." Luke suddenly blurted out, making both Uncle Steve and Tony to turn their gazes over to him. "Sorry." Luke whispered.
"For what?!" Uncle Steve questioned.
"You weren't speaking to me."
"That's true, however I appreciate you answering the question. Would you care to elaborate?"
"You took away our ability to let school be school and home be home."
"Us being Tony?" Uncle Steve questioned his voice calm, careful not to startle the cooperative boy.
"With all due respect sir, that's not my place to say."
"You are right, thankyou Lucas." Luke grimaced at the use of his real name something that didn't go unnoticed. "Guessing you aren't too fond of your real name?!"
"Not really sir."
"I'll make you a deal Luke…"
"You know my nickname?!"
"Both Tony and his Dad has spoken highly off you on more than one occasion. So the deal is, as long as you keep yourself out of trouble young man, I'll call you Luke. If you ever though get into trouble you'll be Lucas again. No second chances."
"That sounds really great sir."
"So seeing it is Tony's place to tell me, why don't you go outside and wait for a few minutes while I speak to Tony alone."
"Yes sir." As soon as Luke closed the door behind him, Tony exploded.
"I'll make you a deal, stay the hell away from my friends!"
"Anthony!"
"You have no right to use that against me while I'm in school."
"So you'd rather have me deal with this later when your Dad gets home?! Don't think that's a great idea."
"Still." Tony muttered, not knowing what else to say. He really didn't want to deal with this at home.
"Why Tony?"
"Luke already told you."
"Didn't make much sense though."
"Maybe not to you…"
"Why don't you explain it then?"
"No."
"Okay then, you've left me no choice." Opening one of his desk drawers Uncle Steve took out a yellow folder marked Anthony Gibbs and opened it.
"Hey! That's not fair! You promised!"
"You young man really aren't in a position to tell me what's fair! I told you I wouldn't do it unless you gave me a reason to. You won't answer and the answer Luke gave me leads me to believe whatever I find inside here is going to be interesting."
-Flashback ending-
"Out with it son. What aren't you telling me?!"
"Hello Gibbs family!" Luke's voice suddenly rang followed by a slammed door. Luke had stopped knocking years ago.
"Luke?!"
"Yes sir?"
"How come you suddenly start siring me son?"
"Sorry Gibbs. I'm thinking about school so it kind of just came out of habit.
"Any problems?!"
"No, I've tried hard to keep my nose clean."
"Good. Now, I guess you know Tony's grounded."
"Yeah, sorry about that, but I wanted a word with Tim if you don't mind and Tony got my history book by mistake so I'm without all my notes and have an essay I really should write." With that Luke turned to walk out of the room when a voice stopped him dead in his tracks.
"Stop right there Lucas Andrew. I have a feeling you know what's going on here and I want to know just how much you are aware of."
"I haven't gotten the full story yet sir, Tony just told me bits and pieces. I know you want me to step up and tell you if there is something going on, but this time I truly didn't have a chance."
"Okay Luke, why don't you guys tell me what's going on together."
"Tony told me you guys were on it."
"We are but I think there is more to the story."
"You haven't told him about all of it have you?!" Luke asked sounding a bit hurt.
"I told him most of it Luke. Come on. How much do you expect of me?!"
"You know they would help you."
"He wants to hurt my kid brother Luke, what would you have done!" Tony yelled, totally forgotten his Dad was in the room.
"Who Tony?!" His Dad was at his side in less than a few seconds gripping his chin forcefully, making Tony meet his eyes.
"Anthony Rizzo. He threatened me to hurt Tim and after all he has done I couldn't take the risk. I could handle it Dad but you know Tim can't!"
"We could put an end to this in a few seconds Tony, he wouldn't have been able to hurt your brother. Deep down inside you know that, so why try to play the hero?!"
-Flashback-
It took his Uncle 15 long minutes to read through the map, or rather skim through it because it was to say the least, thick.
"Tony look at me." Uncle Steve waited until he with angry eyes met his gaze. "Is all this true?"
"Yes sir." Tony bit out turning down his eyes to study the floor.
"Look at me! You are the prankster I've heard rumours about since I've started and you willingly took my promise to keep your past your past as a way to get away with pranking me of all people?!"
"It wasn't like that!"
"So how was it then Anthony?!"
"You won't even listen to me!"
"Watch yourself Anthony and lower your voice. Remember who you are speaking to."
"The uncle who had to come in and destroy everything." The seconds his Uncle couldn't hide the hurt he felt at the words had Tony's anger defuse a little.
"You mean I destroyed your little pranking game the last Principal let you get away with without telling your Dad half of what you did.
"It's not like it was anything big!"
"Judging from this Anthony, at least every other was. Here both me and your Dad thought you were doing just fine in school, instead you've been goofing around this whole time. Well guess what, that ends now. From this day on I'll watch you with hawk eyes. I'll have your Dad formally request weekly updates on you, that way I'll have an excuse to request those."
"Yeah because it's not like you want anybody knowing I'm your nephew!"
"It has nothing to do with that Anthony and you know it." Tony just stared angrily at him.
"This clearly isn't going to go anywhere so I think we'll call your Dad into a meeting tonight. Seeing this map might give him a heads up on what his oldest has been up to the last few years."
"You can't!"
"I can and I will!"
-Flashback ending-
"I don't know Dad."
"Do you have any idea Lucas?!"
"No sir, I truly don't. "
"Okay kid, why don't you go on and tell me what you know." Sighing Luke did just that, keeping an eye on his best friend at the same time. "Thankyou Luke. I truly believe you were trying to do the right thing. Next time though, at first sight of anything like this, I expect you to come straight to me or Steve."
"Yes sir."
"Go on then." Once Luke was out of the room, Gibbs turned to his son once again.
"Pen and paper. I want the whole story and don't leave anything out this time, I mean it Anthony. No more secrets."