Disc: I do not own the characters or show of NCIS or NCIS: LA.

Story: Things have reaching boiling point for Tony! He has been thinking for a while about transferring and he finally does it.

OOC: There is a possible coupling, not sure were its going to be. I think it well be Tony/Gibbs but then again, I am not sure where this story is going yet. It could be Tony with someone from NCIS: LA. So I guess its going to be a surprise 'cause I have no clue what will come as I write.

I was in a motel for tonight as my things had yet to be delivered to my new apartment. First thing the next morning there was a knock on my door. I had already got dressed. This was an undercover job so I had decided - no more suits. I had a pair of jeans on, along with a nice button up black silk shirt. I answered the door and a handsome man about my age looked at me.

"You must be Anthony DiNozzo. Name's G. Callen, I'm here to take you to our headquarters."

I smirked some, he was handsome and he was the Lead Agent! I shook hands with him, grinning. He handed me a badge and gun. I slid the badge into my jacket pocket and slipped the gun into the back of my jeans and put on a light leather jacket. We headed out to his car, it was so cool. We got in and he turned and looked at me.

"So, you worked with Gibbs for eight years? That tells me a lot. The man is hard to work for and I'm glad to get someone trained by him."

I looked at him with a raised eyebrow. He knew Gibbs? That was a new one to me, that was for sure. I ran my hands through my hair as I looked at him, I wasn't sure if that was going to be a good or bad thing.

"Yeah, he hired me right out of a local precinct of Baltimore PD, Homicide."

He nodded and he drove off. I could tell I could trust him right off the bat, at least to have my back and I could see he was one that got the job done.

"Did an undercover op a long time ago with Gibbs, he's a good Agent. If he trained you I can tell there's not a lot that I'll be needing to teach you. I looked at your file, you've done some damn good undercover work."

I smirked at the praise and nodded my thanks. When we got to the head quarters we walked in. There was an African American man that looked like he was Military. We approached and I saw there was a pretty brunette as well, along with a lanky one who really didn't look like he could be a undercover agent. G. started to make the introductions. He started with the African American man.

"This is my Senior Agent, Sam Hannah. Then this is our Junior Agent, Kensi Blye. Then, last one here is Operational Psychologist, Nate Getz. Guys, this is our new Junior Agent, Anthony DiNozzo, he was a Senior Agent for an old friend of mine for about eight years in the D.C. office, in Major Cases."

I wasn't quite sure if that was saying he trusted me because I had worked for Gibbs so long and he knew that for Gibbs to have someone that long meant Gibbs had trusted me. I looked them over, they looked like a good team.

"You can call me Tony, if you want. I'm glad to be working with you guys."

Kensi was the first to hold out her hand and shake mine. Somehow she reminded me of Kate and Ziva, and for some odd reason, that was a bit of a comfort.

"You can call me Kensi, Tony. Well, it'll be great having you on the team."

Sam shook my hand, he didn't say anything and I still had the impression that he seemed like the Military type. I could see him being someone I could trust. Hell, all of them did, and that was a nice feeling for coming in to the new team. Nate took my hand and shook it.

"Good to have you aboard, Tony. You can call me Nate."

I could see he had more to say when there was a whistle from above. I looked up and there was the geek of the team, I could tell right off the bat. He looked me over for a second and then G smirked.

"Looks like you are about to start your first case with us, Tony."

When we got up there I meet the Tech Operator, Eric Beal. He was the geek of the team. Then there was a woman who was really short and she was about as old as Ducky. I liked her because, well hell, it was nice because she reminded me some what of Ducky. She was Henrietta 'Hetty' Lange and she was the supervisor of the team. We got straight to work. The case was just like most undercover work but I noticed that, like Major Cases, we worked murders. We didn't deal really with the evidence collecting, we did a little but not as much as we did on Gibbs' team. The case went well, I fit in with the team which was nice. But I was still going to miss the old team. But it was nice to feel somewhat at home with this team right from the word go.

It took me a month to get my apartment set up like I wanted it. It was built with old brick, like my old apartment. Seems Vance wanted me to feel at home. I thought about Gibbs' team and everyone else back at D.C almost every day but this felt, for now at least, like it was the right move. I was loosening up. Nate took longer to get used to because, well, he did some shrink talk with me but it didn't feel like I was going in for sessions. I warmed up to him eventually. He was good at what he did. Kensi wasn't all like Ziva and Kate but there was still the similar things, but she had her own style. I hadn't really flirted like I had with Kate and Ziva. Didn't feel right somehow.

Then there was G and Sam, they were a good team. They did more undercover work together. I was set up with Kensi most of the time and we worked well together. After the first case I knew that this team had my back and that I could trust them. I liked that a lot, it made it easer to not feel so guilty for leaving Gibbs team. There was still some guilt. I heard a knock on my door, it was G. We actually hung out along side Kensi and Sam and we went to bars to relax after work. He walked in and sat down.

"So, there's something I've been wanting to ask but you really don't have to answer them if you don't want to."

I sat down and leaned back. I figured I knew what was coming, one of them was going to ask me why I'd left a team after eight years. So I didn't even let him ask.

"Well, I had been Gibbs senior agent for almost seven years. The first Agent we hired was Kate Todd, she was a secret service for the president. She was good, she fit in slowly, we trained her - she did a lot of what Nate does really. She was with us for two years. I am sure you saw my record, where I got the plague. Well, when I came back after that we caught this case, there had been a terrorist we had been dealing with for a long time, called Ari Haswari. Me, Gibbs and her were on a rooftop, trying to prevent a terrorist strike when she was shot, right between the eyes by Ari."

I took a deep breath, that was hard but for some reason I knew I could talk to G. I felt easy around him, different but I felt safe around him like I did Gibbs, like I could talk to him.

"Well, his half sister came down to help us take care of him. Ari was shot and killed in Gibbs' basement. Figure you know about that boat he builds, or boats I should say."

G laughed some and nodded as he leaned back. He looked at me and I waited, I wanted to give him a chance to say something.

"I know to leave Gibbs after so long, that things must have gone to hell. I can see when I mention Gibbs that you have a lot of respect, I can tell that he really didn't make you leave. I figured there were a lot of reasons. You don't have to tell me them all, but I see you as a friend and would like you to."

I nodded and continued.

"Well, after Ari's death, his half sister was put on our team. Abby has been mentioned, she was my Eric. She was our hyper-energizer bunny and damn good at her job. It took her the longest to get over Kate's death and accept Ziva. Abby is the kind of person that makes you feel like you're all family. To her, we were not co workers, we were her family and she loved us all. We were, and still are, close but Gibbs got caught in a bomb blast and lost his memory. Things went bad when he started to remember and he just up and left and made me Lead Agent. Abby was so lost that Gibbs had left, he was like a father to her. The team didn't really look up to me. We were all devastated when Gibbs left."

I stopped and took a breath. I stood up and went to the kitchen and came back with some beers. I took took a drag from one and sat back down. G was quite ready for me to continue.

"Their need for Gibbs made them all cranky with me. They followed orders but the respect wasn't there. When Gibbs came back to help a friend and then later, another case to help Ziva, it didn't help. He came back to the team soon after but it wasn't until last year that he actually told me he was proud of how I did as a lead agent. The thing was, when he came back I had been doing a deep undercover for the director. I messed up and fell in love with the girl I was dating, she was the daughter of a big arms dealer. Found out the Director was using me to get to the girl's father, who she pretty much knew had killed her father." I took another drink of my beer. "Well, the case came crashing down when I was with Jeanne and her father picked us up one morning. He knew who I was. One of his men took my car, both my cells and my badge were already in my car. We were driving along when my car exploded. We stopped at a park and I told Jeanne who I really was and when she asked me what it was all about, the undercover, I told her that she needed to talk to her father. After that, we found her father dead and out of her pain, and also to get back at me, she accused me. She was leaving the office when she asked me if any of it was real. I wanted her to move on because there was no future for us so I lied told her I hadn't loved her. Took me awhile to get over her. If you want honesty, this goes no further then here, G."

He nodded. I trusted him more than I did the rest of the team. They all had a great respect and trust from me.

"I've been bi sexual since I started even thinking about sex. When I first met Gibbs, I fell in love with him and I knew I was going into deep water when I accepted the job. Jeanne was a get away from that. While I was getting over her, I thought in my head I was getting over Gibbs as well. Well that wasn't the case."

He nodded, he was going to let me keep going. There wasn't any hate in his eyes or disrespect when I told him I was bi. I took a deep breath and at that he patted my knee. Then he leaned back.

"Then the Director had to come to a memorial and funeral here in LA. Me and Ziva were protection detail and when she told us to go have fun, because she had things to take care of, Ziva didn't want me to but I could see she was up to something. I didn't want to get hurt again. I ignored Ziva but eventually I gave in and we finally went to find her. When we found her, Director Sheppard was dead and it all went to hell. Gibbs had had a relationship with her in the past and I could see he was hurt. Hell, it hurt me! I loved him so much it hurt. When Director Vance took over, he didn't like me much. He split the team up and I was sent to be an agent afloat."

I took a deep breath and finished my beer in one long guzzle.

"When I came back from that, Gibbs had fought hard for me, that's why I feel guilty that I left so soon after. But it was hard to be around him, the way I felt about him and know that nothing would come of it. So I went to Director Vance and asked for the transfer. I think he was glad, but in the end he had some respect for me, even if it wasn't a lot. I told two of the people that worked for us right off the bat. Ducky our ME, he was like a father figure - he tried to understand us and he understood. His assistant, Jimmy, had become close to me after Gibbs took off after the whole explosion fiasco."

I leaned back some.

"Really, no one pissed me off so much that it made me leave. I had trained a good kid for five years, he came to us nervous and shy. I trained him to have a back bone. He was my Probie. But I knew when I left that I left Gibbs in good hands. I said that he would make a good Senior Agent and he would. But Ziva was also there and I knew she would protect them both, she had become family too."

G looked at me and he laughed softly. "Bi sexual myself and when I first meet Gibbs, I didn't fall in love with him, but truth was, I could see he was damn attractive. You were right about him and Director Sheppard, she was part of our undercover work in Russia. All of us knew they were together, and it was hot and heavy. I could see looking at Gibbs that he was in love with her. I can also see, now that I've met you and know your story that it was damn hard for you to leave them all. But thanks for trusting me with this. Why don't we watch a movie and chill?"

I knew he was letting me off the hook. I turned on the new James Bond movie and we sat there, watching the movie. I was more relieved now because I thought I had found someone who understood me, and I knew G had a past he probably wasn't going to tell me right away. But I could see that he was like me, he was trying to be someone else all his life. Half way through the movie G spoke.

"Tony, there more to this story before you even met up with Gibbs."

I stopped, okay, so he wasn't going to let it totally go. I took a deep breath and leaned back and turned the movie on mute.

"Yeah, I came from a rich family. Though you probably already knew that. My mom was being abused by my father and he abused me when I got old enough for him to kick me around. Well, my mom had enough. We had a stable at home. I had gone looking for my mom and there she was, she had hung herself. The letter said she couldn't take it anymore and she was sorry for leaving me. I was eight."

I took a deep breath, I could see he was watching me.

"I had learned from an early age to show I was a happy, spoiled kid and not to show that I had such a shitty life. For four years, my old man beat me and subjected me to a lot of verbal abuse. When I turned twelve I decided to tell him I wanted nothing to do with the business. It pissed him off, he disowned me and put me in Military school. I graduated and went to college where I broke my knee. When that healed and I graduated, I went in to the police force. Really never found a team or a family like I did at NCIS. They were great and I still love them all like family, but it was time to move on."

G nodded, then he leaned back.

"I was left in a cathedral by my mother. With just G. Callen for my name. Then I went through a lot of foster care. Like you, I just kept all the pain in and acted like nothing was wrong. I didn't stay in any foster home for long. When I was around eight, I never sayed anywhere for more then a few months, I was switched around a lot. Joined the FBI first and then went to the CIA, that's when I did that undercover with Gibbs and Director Sheppard. Then, like you, I found a surrogate family at NCIS. I know this isn't Gibbs team but you are family here, Tony."

After that the year went by quickly and I started to get over Gibbs. I knew I would always love the man, truth was he was my first real love and I was always told you never forget that first love. The team had learned to trust me and we had come to work real well together. Things were going real good for all of us. For now!