NCIS:

TONY, I WOULD LIKE YOU TO MEET...

DISCLAIMBER:

NCIS and characters do not belong to me.

SUMMARY:

A few days after Kate Todd's funeral, Tony dose something and now it's been a little over seven years. What happened in the past comes back to him...with a shock! What did Tony do and why would it come back to him now?

Little TIVA, MCABBY and maybe a love interest for Leroy Jethro Gibbs

CHAPTER 11: JESSIE'S FEARS & TONY'S RETURN TO WORK...

TONY'S P.O.V.

It just last Monday that Ms. Holden came to check out the house after I had put the furniture in Jessie's room and everything else.

Then last Wednesday Jessie finally came home.

Today I was returning to work and had found a place for Jessie while I was at work.

I talked to Jessie's former foster mother and a woman she thought of as an Aunt, and then talked to Jessie about spending the day there while I was at work.

She would spend the day there for the rest of the summer and then she would go back to school in the fall. If I could not drop Jessie off at school or pick her up, Colleen said she did not mind because her other foster daughter, Laura looked at Jessie like a sister.

Colleen was at the current time in the process of adopting, Laura.

All of this worked out, because Jessie could see her 'Aunt' Colleen and see, Laura. Since Jessie had known Colleen all her life, she was the first person I thought of when it came to thinking of someone to take care of Jessie while I was at work.

Today I am going to start working hours that are different for me. First, I am dropping Jessie off at Colleen's.

"Come on, Care Bear. Time to get up," I said and she just shook her head mumbling something into her pillow.

I could not help, but smile, because this had become a morning routine over the past few days. I had been preparing for when I had to go back to work.

It was a game for her, I would tell her it was time to get up. She either would pretend to still be asleep or would do what she just did. Then after a minute, she would open her eyes and look at me.

One...
Two...
Three...
Bingo!

"Don't want to get up!" Jessie told me.

"Come on, Grumpy Care Bear. I have to go to work; I thought you wanted to spend time with Laura and Aunt Colleen today." I said and this got Jessie moving.

I left the room as she got ready and went to the kitchen to fix something to eat. After a few minutes, Jessie came in and climbed up into her chair.

"Daddy," Jessie asked and I looked at her. "What?" I asked.

"Why can't I go to work with you? You let me go a last week." Jessie said. "I have to work; Jess and I would be distracted by..." I began.

"I wouldn't..." Jessie began.

"Jess, you are not going to work with me. I thought you liked the idea of going to see Aunt Colleen and Laura every day." I said and Jessie looked sad. "I do, but what if you go away like...mommy." Jessie said as she started to cry.

"Listen to me, Care Bear. I'll make sure nothing happens to me, because I'll always come home to you." I said. "Mom…Mommy said she couldn't come back and..." Jessie began to cry harder as she wrapped her arms around my neck.

I just held her and let her cry. This was going to be a long and hard day, the first day Jessie and I had been apart since she had come to live with me on Wednesday.

"Come on, let's go." I said, but she would not let me go.

I got up, with Jessie still in my arms and grabbed everything I needed. Then set my stuff down and locked the door.

After a few minutes later, we headed for Colleen's house and Jessie was still sniffling a little bit. I hated to see her like this, but I had to go to work and had a feeling after getting to know Jessie that something like this was going to happen.

Soon we pulled up in front of Colleen's house. A little girl with blonde hair, who had to be Laura, Came running out the door and a women with chestnut colored hair was just behind her.

"Mr. DiNozzo..." She began. "Call me, Tony." I responded as I opened Jessie's door.

"All right, Tony. I know we talked on the phone and it's good to finally meet you." Colleen said as I got Jessie out of the car.

As soon as she was out of the car, Jessie once again wrapped her arms around my neck and refused to let go. She still had tears in her eyes.

"Jess, I told you I have to go to work." I said. "Don't go, daddy." Jessie begged and it broke my heart just to hear her say that.

"I have to; I'll come and get you as soon as I can. I promise, but I have to go to work and put some bad guys away." I told her and after a minute, I set her down on the ground.

"Daddy," Jess yelled, tears streaming down her face as I got in the car.

When I looked Colleen was kneeling beside Jessie and saying something, I started the car and headed for work.

NCIS BULLPEN...

I walked in dropping my bag on the floor with a sigh. Ziva looked up from her desk and so did McGee.

"Something wrong, Tony?" McGee asked.

"No, everything's perfect. Besides the fact that..." I began.

"She begged you not to go, didn't she?" Gibbs asked walking up coffee in hand and I just nodded. "Yeah, she's afraid she'll lose me and I'll die like her mom." I said sitting down. "I know how you feel, DiNozzo. Just before I left, Kelly begged me not to go. That was..." Gibbs did not continue.

I was as shocked as Ziva and McGee were when Gibbs mentioned Kelly. We knew it was too painful for him to talk about Kelly and Shannon, but to hear him say that today...

"We have your back, Tony and will make sure you get back to, Jessie." Ziva told me and I just nodded.

"I know, Zi. It is just hard...almost every day for the past two and a half weeks since I met, Jessie we have hardly been apart. Even more after she came home, it was just hard to leave her at Colleen's..." I began.

"Who is Colleen?" Ziva asked.

"She was Jessie's foster mom, but Colleen has known Jessie since she was born and became like an Aunt. Therefore, I talked to both of them and we decided instead of me having to hire a baby sitter until school starts, she would go spend the day there. It was just hard to see her crying as I left her there." I said and pulled a picture out of my pocket.

One that had been taken of Jessie and me in the last few weeks. I put it in a picture frame and set it on my desk.

"On the way up I had some women hitting on me and some of them just asked if it was true I had a daughter." I said leaning back in my chair with a smile, but it faded when I saw Ziva. "That's nice." Was all Ziva said looking at her computer screen.

"Ziva, I told them I had two things; One...Yes, Jessie was my daughter and two, that I was already taken." I said and Ziva looked at me, and then smiled before we got to work.

Well, she got to work. I kept glancing over at the picture of Jessie and me. I was still wondering if this was a dream I was going to wake up from.

My life could not get any better; I had Jessie and Ziva in my life...

Everything is going to well though.

"Jr.," Came a voice and I looked up to see...Anthony DiNozzo Sr.

"Dad, what you doing here," I asked.

"It's been a while since I've been here and I heard something when I came in... Someone saying that you have a daughter," My father said.

"Yeah, Jessie, Can we catch up later? I have to work." I said.

"All right, but I want to meet her." My father was looking at the picture of Jessie and me.

After a few minutes, he left and I told him about moving into a house. Then said after I picked Jessie up, we could meet up at my house.

"Hey, Zi, Do you want to come...?" I began.

"Yes, I will come over. Tony." Ziva said and when Gibbs glared, I got back to work.

Around lunchtime Gibbs was off on a coffee run, I saw Probie slip away from his desk and head for the elevator.

'Must be going to see, Abby,' I looked over at Ziva.

"He goes down every day we're not out in the field and has lunch with, Abby." Ziva told me and I could not help but grin.

"What do y..." I began.

"I think what they do is their own business." Ziva said, but I was already getting up and I felt Ziva behind me.

I just had to go see; besides I had not had a chance to see Abby yet today.