I swear I thought I put this chapter up already. I am SOOO sorry...

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"What happened to your eye honey?" Kate's dad asked when he saw her stitches.

"Oh that." Kate reached her hand up to her eye instinctively. "I was in a car accident. It's no big deal. Really," she lied. Her mother had a look of pure shock on her face, but Kate just ignored her. "Umm, I want to introduce you to someone," she said, chaning the subject. "This is Tony. Tony, these are my parents, Tonya and Robert."

"It's nice to meet you," Tony said, standing up and shaking their hands. He then pointed to his parents who were sitting down behind him. "These are my parents, Gabriella and Joey DiNozzo."

"It's a pleasure to meet you... all of you," Robert said, taking a seat next to Kate's.

"Caitlin, I thought it was just going to be us?" Tonya whispered to her daughter.

"Well, umm... I have some news. Tony and I do. We figured this was the best way to let everyone know," Kate answered. "Should we tell everyone now or wait a little while?" she questioned, looking at Tony.

"Maybe we should just wait until after we eat," Tony replied.

"Just go ahead and tell us honey," Robert persuaded.

Both Kate and Tony stared at each other for a moment. "Well, why not. Some of you may have figured this out already, but Kate and I, we're... getting married," Tony told everyone. "I feel like I should've clinked a glass or something first," he whispered to Kate.

"I knew it!" Laura practically shouted. "We don't have big get togethers like this for nothing."

"Thanks for that Laura. Really. But anyway, there's more," Kate said, "This is the real big shocker. Mom, dad, everyone... I'm pregnant. Tony and I are going to have a baby."

"Meraviglioso!" Gabriella shouted. (Wonderful or marvelous)

"I'm going to be a grandpa!" Robert said excitedly.

"Hey Marcus, we're going to be uncles!" Ashton yelled.

Tony put his arm around Kate's waist and kissed her on the lips before they both sat back down. They were thrilled. Everyone around the table was so estatic, talking about the baby and the marriage.

"Is everybody here ready to order?" the waiter asked, walking up.

"Umm, yeah. I think we are."


"Katie darling, I am so happy for you... and for me," Robert told Kate as he and Tonya got ready to leave. "My baby girl is going to be the first one to give me a grand-baby." He kissed her on the forehead. "Man this is great."

"Thanks daddy. But you know you can't spoil him or her, right?" Kate laughed.

"Oh please," he smiled and turned his attention to Tony. "It was a pleasure meeting you Tony. I can't wait until we get to spend some real manly time together. Do you like cars? We can work on cars together. Get all smelly and really get to know each other."

"Robert, give Tony a break," Tonya said before Tony had a chance to get a word in. "It was nice meeting you though Tony. Oh and Caitlin, make sure that you call me tomorrow."

"I will, I promise," Kate replied as her parents started to walk away. "Sorry about my dad," she said to Tony. "He's kind of old fashioned with all that quality male bonding time."

"It's okay babe. But what is with your mom and calling you Caitlin?" Tony asked.

"She's always called me that. When I was little and everyone called me Katie, she still called me Cailtin. I don't know. It was like my great-great-grandmother's name or something. Family name," she explained. "Over all, dinner wasn't bad though."

"No it wasn't. Now we just have one thing left to take care of."

The only people left were Abby and McGee and Tony's little brother, Joey Jr.

"You go to yours and I'll go to mine. Deal?" Tony questioned.

"Sounds good. You talk to Joey alone because I don't know him all that well," Kate said.

"Okay. Good look," Tony said as he walked towards his little brother who was getting the rest of his things together.

Kate watched them for a moment before walking over to Abby and McGee. She was so nervous but she really didn't know why. Abby was her best friend. She could do this.

"Well Kate, that was quite the dinner," Abby laughed. "Do you think that highlight of the evening was Laura throwing food at Kevin and storming out or Tony's brother Trevor not being able to keep his hands of whats-her-face?"

"Her name is Maria and she is his wife," Kate giggled. "But I didn't come over her to talk about the best part of the night. I actually need to ask you a serious question."

"Sorry Kate, but you're already getting married. It's illegal to have multipal spouses. Maybe not in Iowa though," Abby joked.

"I'm being serious Abbs..."Kate paused. "Now listen. McGee, Tony wants you to be one of his groomsmen and Abby, I was really hoping that you would be my matron of honor."

"I'm in," McGee said with a huge smile plastered across his face as Abby stood there were tears starting to glitter in her eyes.

"Oh Kate..." Abby started, but she was interrupted by Joey.

"Guess what guys! I'm the best man!" Joey yelled as he came up to hug Kate. "You're going to be like my sister."

Joey's arms wrapped around Kate a little to tightly.

"Ugh, that's great," Kate groaned.

"Oh sorry," Joey apologized as he took a step back.

"What did you say Abbs?" Tony asked, coming up and gently putting his arms around Kate's waist.

"Well I actually didn't get a chance to answer yet, but... of course!" she shouted.


"Joey acts a lot like you," Kate said to Tony as he was washing his face and she changed into her night clothes.

"He's only twenty-two," Tony said from the bathroom.

"My point exactly."

Tony laughed as he came out of the bathroom and watched Kate crawl onto her side of the bed. "You look so cute doing that."

"What? Scooting into bed or having the look of pure anguish on my face from bruised ribs?" she asked sarcastically.

"Anguish? You didn't seem to be in that much pain last night." Tony winked as he tucked her in.

"Last night didn't help," she whined as he crawled into bed next to her and she wrapped her arm around him.

"Well then fine. We just won't do it anymore," he joked.

Kate smiled as she looked into his eyes. "If I can't get it from you, Joey Jr. didn't seem like he would mind helping me out."

"Aww Kate, that's my little brother."

"Yeah, well that didn't stop him from checking me out all through dinner, pregnant or not," Kate explained.

"Well what can I say? The DiNozzo men have good taste."


Chapter title- I titled this chapter "Faking It" because Kate took a while to tell her family the news and because she lies to her parents about the stitches. Also because in the end, she plays off her pain to mess with Tony.