Sins of the Father
An NCIS Fanfic.
Tony:
"We're DiNozzos. We don't communicate well."
Tony could just vaguely remember the last meal his family had eaten together. All at the same table.
He was maybe eight years old. His father was home for once instead of flying all over the country on business trips. His mother had being wearing a purple dress, her blond hair smooth across her shoulders. Tony had always thought she looked so beautiful. Even in the end, when the illness started to show in her face.
They were not a family of talkers, and so they ate in silence. It was not a truly remarkable evening. But it stuck in Tony's mind because he had been happy.
Then the bed and the doctors and the medicines and the endless waiting. And no one to tuck him in, and no one to watch movies with.
And then the graveyard, and the tombstone, and his father's face as he sent him packing for boarding school.
They had never had an easy relationship, not even before. Tony's lovely mother had always been the mediator between the son who wanted so much for his father to pay attention and the father who wouldn't give his son the time of day.
There was only one afternoon where they had talked and actually listened to one another. It was a fishing trip, just the two of them. They left mother at the house and set out on their own, father and son.
Thirty or so years later, sitting together in a hotel room, Tony began to understand his father a little bit better. To see the scars of years past and the love for his mother still in his heart despite the numerous wives and mistresses. And Tony realized that they were similar. Similar enough that they repelled each other like magnets.
And it was high time they learned to stop burning bridges and accept the facts. That no matter what either believed, and no matter what crap life through at them, they were Anthony DiNozzo. They were father and son.
A/N: I simply love that Tony and his dad are starting to work on their relationship. It's so easy to look at them and know the pain they have each suffered. But they never took the time to look at each other. I hope Senior makes another appearance this season because I want to see how they are coming along as father and son.
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