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Chapter Two:
The next morning, both Kate and McGee came in early, desperate to find out what was going on with Tony. He had a wife who died? And a daughter? Suddenly everything that they knew about Tony seemed almost shot to hell. As time ticked on, though, Tony, who was usually the first to arrive, still hadn't, and when Gibbs arrived and sat down, not even blinking at Tony's empty desk, Kate couldn't help but say something.
"What on earth is going on?"
Gibbs looked up at her surprised.
"What is the story on Tony, seeing as apparently we know NOTHING!"
Gibbs sighed and smiled. "Look, it's not a big deal. Tony isn't coming in today because his daughter is sick and he wants to take care of her."
"Okay," Kate breathed in deeply. "Since when does Tony have a daughter?"
Gibbs, realizing that she wouldn't stop until he explained, decided that that was probably the best idea.
"Listen, the story of Tony DiNozzo is a little long and complicated, so I don't want to…" he started before Kate cut him off.
"So complicate us," She said, ignoring McGee's mutter of 'that doesn't make any sense, Kate' and sticking to her odd, incomprehensible word choice.
Gibbs sighed; he knew that they deserved to know. Tony didn't have to tell that Marine wife that he himself had lost a wife, and he hadn't had to tell Kate that he had a daughter, he chose to and he must have known that they would want to know what was going on.
"Alright," he said, "So, first I will mention that Tony had a twin sister named Katalina. She was his life, he loved her so much, and when they were seventeen she announced that she had gotten pregnant by her ex-boyfriend. Tony, of course, told her that he would help her take care of the baby. Unfortunately, when Katalina was giving birth complications arose and she didn't make it. Tony took the little girl and he named her Katalina Nikola DiNozzo, Katalina being his sister's name and Nikola his mother's name. He formally adopted her a week later and has raised her as his daughter. I don't know when exactly, but Tony decided that calling her Katalina made him sad, so she has always gone by her middle name Nikola informally, or Nikki. When he was twenty he met this really nice girl named Alexandria and they were married two years later. Six years ago, when Tony was twenty seven, Alexandria was killed in a car accident. Unlike what he would like you to believe, Tony barely ever goes on dates as he spends all of his time either here or with Nikola. You wonder how he manages to get work done while actually not working at all, it's because after Nikola goes to bed he comes back here and works until about three or four a.m. before he goes back home to sleep for a few hours, see Nikki off to school and come right back here."
When he finally found his voice again, McGee said, "So that would make Nikki, what, fifteen?" he asked.
Gibbs nodded, "Yeah, she turned fifteen eleven months ago, she's almost sixteen and of course reminding Tony every chance she gets that it would be really nice to have a nice car for her sweet sixteen."
"I cannot believe this," Kate said. She closed her eyes tightly and shook her head, "No, that can't be right, I mean, you'd think that he would have slipped up and mentioned her at one point. This is way to surreal to be true, did you and DiNozzo come up with this last night after work or something?"
Gibbs' eyes widened, "No, of course not." He said, "You actually think that I'm making this up?"
Kate didn't know what to think, actually. Her head was telling her that she was acting ridiculous, and yet she just couldn't believe this about Tony DiNozzo, the man who lived to annoy her. This was way too surreal.
"Why did he keep all of this a secret from us?" McGee asked, "That's what I don't understand."
Gibbs sighed, "This isn't exactly a good place to talk about this," he said.
"This is the perfect place," Kate replied.
Gibbs was a little shocked by Kate's forcefulness; he had never seen her like this before. "I am not completely sure why he didn't. I can tell you that when Tony was growing up, his father treated him worse than crap. He told Tony that he was worthless countless times a day, and it was really hard on him psychologically. In the back of his head, he thinks that he has to create a persona to make you like him."
Kate quirked an eyebrow and crossed her arms over her chest, "And that's the persona he chose?"
Gibbs glared, "I don't appreciate your sarcasm. To be perfectly honest, I was completely surprised that Tony told you about Nikki, he works very hard to get you to believe his fake personality."
"So everything that we know about Tony is false?" McGee asked.
Gibbs laughed, "No, McGee, it's not. The fact that he goes out a lot with lots of women is wrong. Most of what he says is really what he wants to say, not the role that he plays. It's just a few select things that are different. Now that you know about it, Tony will more than likely start removing the mask some more. He has to be completely comfortable to let you in, and the fact that he decided to let you in at all is good for you."
Kate sighed and exchanged a look with McGee. Neither of them was really sure whether or not it would be a good idea to keep questioning Gibbs as his fuse seemed to be getting shorter. "Why now?"
Gibbs sighed, "I just told you, Kate, he trusts you, and now that he trusts you he will let you in."
Kate thought about that for a moment. "So does that mean that Abby and Ducky know? I mean, he trusts them doesn't he?"
Gibbs smiled. "Before you came here, we all were a family the four of us. Nikki knows all of us, from her Aunt Abby, her Grandpa Gibbs and her Great Grandpa Ducky, which by the way he doesn't like that very much, he would prefer to be Grandpa like me, but, well, you can't have it all." He laughed.
Kate and McGee were now really shocked. "She calls you Grandpa?" McGee asked exasperatedly.
Gibbs nodded, "I'm the closest thing to a grandfather that she's ever had."
Kate nodded numbly. She was still in a state of shock. The last two days were almost like a twilight zone. "I think I need a nap," She sighed, leaning back in her chair. She knew what she was going to do. After work tonight, she was going over to Tony's.
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So there is the second chapter. Please let me know what you think of it and the next chapter will be up soon. Thanks, One-Two.