AN/ Small final chapter I know but at my end note I have a surprise.

Chapter Twelve

'Love, open your eyes my love.' Tony could hear a soft voice coming from a woman but wanted it to leave him alone!

'Daddy, he'll be pissed if you leave him behind while he had to come back for you.'

Said a second voice... Wait! Did that voice just call him daddy!? He opens his eyes in shock, knowing for sure that he had died.

'Huh, figures now he opens his eyes.'

'Am I dead?', he asks.

'No my love, you are in a deep unconscious state after getting shot multiple times. Jethro is with you.'

'You two on first name basis already?'

'He's nice dad, can he be grampy Gibbs?' Tony chuckled at that.

'Make sure he doesn't hear you say that Kiara, he might shoot me.'

'Not if you stay here...'

'I have a choice?'

'You always had a choice, you didn't have to chase after those Russians or sacrifice you own life to end them. That were your decisions, nobody else made them for you.'

'I know...what if I don't want to go back?'

'Daddy, we miss you Elijah isn't here now but I would like you to meet him...but now is not the right time because they still need you.'

'Elijah? Y-you mean?'

'Yes, our son, and how much I would like for the two of you to finally meet each other, now is not the time.' Tony looks at his wife and daughter and sighs.

'A choice of my own you said hmm?'

'Never said we couldn't stimulate you into the right direction. You never did know what was right for you.'

'And you do?'

'Obviously, otherwise we wouldn't be having this conversation.'

'Time to go daddy, say hi to grampy Gibbs will you? And give him a kiss!'

'I'm not kissing Gibbs!'. He yells before everything turns white.

'I'm not kissing Gibbs!', he hears Tony yell before he shoots up in sitting position and yelling out in pain.

'Better hope so DiNozzo, and you better stay down.' He gently helps Tony lay back down and sighs in relief.

'Sorry boss, screwed up, good thing I wore a vest.'

'Yeah, you screwed up big time! What the hell were you thinking DiNozzo!?'

'Was thinking that I wasn't going to let them get away, once I figured that Roy was one of them I knew where they had to be, they killed my family once Gibbs...nearly succeeded a second time with you, couldn't risk losing you guys.'

'You are family to knucklehead, we don't wanna lose you either.'

Tony grins at Gibbs' words and sees the paramedics rushing to them. Once they place him on a gurney and start rolling him to the ambulance he speaks again.

'Hey, Grampy Gibbs! Kiara says hi', he says with a huge grin before the ambulance door closes.

A week later

Finally having found the courage to take his car and drive to Norfolk. He wasn't proud of how he handled the situation with McGee and wanted to apologize. He knew he shouldn't have shove him nearly on top of Kiara and he knew he should have left Sarah out of their fight. He still believed that McGee never should have gone to the director and should have followed orders, but he misses his friend and is willing to swallow his anger and pride to get his friend back.

He arrived at the address he had written down and took a deep breath and regretted the action. His wounds still hurt, especially the one on his back and chest were still sore.

Slowly walking he thought about what he was going to say but didn't know. Maybe the words would come once he saw McGee.

He knocked and the door opened soon after. For him stood McGee looking surprised at him. For the first time ever Tony felt awkward about approaching him.

'Hi...', came his brilliant tension breaker.

'What do you want Tony?'

'Make up...apologize, hope I haven't lost my friend yet... have I?'

'I don't know, were we ever friends?'

'I like to think so...'

'You made it clear to me that we were not friends, if you had been my friend you would have listened to me, but you benched me and immediately accepted Balboa.'

'You left McGee, we were in the middle of a investigation and you couldn't follow orders, we needed the help en Rick offered.'

'In that case, yes, yes you lost your friend and now, get the hell out of my sight.'

Tony sighed.

'Fine McGee, I tried, good luck further in life.' He turned around and started walking towards his car when a shot rang and pierced his back.

"Not again!" Were his thoughts as he fell to the ground.

He felt his body hit the ground with such force that he opened his eyes in shock.

What the hell is happening!? He yelled over and over in his head.

It may not make sense now but there will be coming a sequel, I don't know yet when but it will be after my next story about Gibbs needing help for once.