A/N: Ok, no cliffhanger in this chapter. On a side note: Thanks Jesco123 for your detailed and descriptive reviews. Here we go!

Kate and Ziva made it to the lab while Gibbs was still in MTAC. They were thankful that they wouldn't run into him until later. Abby was running tests on evidence for another team when they came in.

"Abby, we're back."

Abby turned around with an annoyed look on her face.

"Where the hell have you two been?"

"Well, Abby, when you follow someone it's going to take a lot longer than two hours. We brought lunch."

"Good. Feed me while you tell me everything."

They told her what they knew and showed her the photos they took.

"He's a Psychology professor? That's weird because you would think that Gibbs hates shrinks. I wonder who these guys are."

"Well, this guy is obviously a security guard. The other one I think is a secretary/receptionist of some sort."

The phone in the lab rings. Abby picks it up.

"Abby's Labby."

"Gibbs is coming your way."

"Damn, thanks McGee."

She turned back to the other two.

"Guys, Gibbs is coming. Act like you're helping me with something."

"Wasn't there some sort of machine you needed help with last week."

"Good idea, Kate. Ziva, the instructions are in French, so you can translate."

Gibbs walked into the lab and noticed something again was off. The stereo wasn't blaring Abby's form of music. He heard voices coming her office and went to investigate.

"Abby, you in here?'

Abby and Kate looked up from the machine they were working on.

"Hi, Gibbs, we're working on my new baby I just got in. It's going to be awesome!"

"That's nice. Abs, I need to use your office again. So can you guys leave, this won't take long."

"Sure Gibbs. I have to check Major Mass Spec anyway."

The three women went out into the main area of the lab and froze. Anthony DiNozzo was in the lab! With the other two men Kate and Ziva had seen. And the kids! But why?

Gibbs came back out. "Va tutto bene. Da questa parte."

The group followed him in and Gibbs shut the glass door.

Abby turned to the other women. "What the fuck are we going to do?"

"Well, Abby. This is your lab, your problem."

Abby started getting worked up. She began pacing the lab and waving her hands animatedly like she always did.

"We need to call McGee."

She ran to the phone.

"Tim, Gibbs' entire family is here. I'm scared and I need your support."

"I'm coming, but you know this is your fault, right?"

"Thanks, Tim."

Gibbs had his family sit down on Abby's futon. Whatever it was they needed to tell him it wasn't good because just from looking at his husband's face it looked like he had seen a ghost.

"Babe, what happened?"

Tony took a minute to breathe. "Jethro, I think we were being followed."

Gibbs tensed and his thoughts were racing. "How? We've been careful for twelve years. Twelve years!"

Tony got up and took Gibbs' hands in his. "Jethro, there was a government sedan in front of the house this morning before I left with Hector for work."

Gibbs' eyes widened. "Hector, that true?"

The man who wasn't the security guard stepped forward. "Si, Senor Gibbs. It was a navy blue sedan with government plates. There was one occupant, the driver. May have been a woman, but I couldn't tell."

Tony turned to Gibbs. "Then when we got the office I had noticed a woman with brunette hair in the building looking like a lost student, but from the way she was dressed and the way she moved, it just screamed fed. " He looked at his husband with a fear in his eyes that Gibbs hadn't seen in twelve years. "Jethro, did the FBI find us?"

Gibbs shook his head. "No, there's no way that they could know you're in DC. I threw Fornell and everyone else on that op off your trail years ago." Then the thought hit him.

"The gift," he whispered.

"The gift. What about it?" Tony said.

Gibbs thought about their date the previous night. The car that kept up him on the highway. He had thought he had seen the same one parked across the street from the restaurant but didn't think anything of it. Then, there was the feeling that they were being watched. Gibbs turned to the security guard.

"Tomas, did you happen to see anything this morning?"

Tomas thought for a minute. He spoke with a thicker accent than Hector. "I did see a car that weaved in and out of lanes on the way to pick up the ninos."

"Can you describe the car?"

"Bright red. The top was white. Maybe a Mini Cooper."

Gibbs swore. Tony looked at him with a curious look.

"Jethro do you know who it is?"

Gibbs' face grew stormy. He eyes were stone cold. Tony hadn't seen that look since Baltimore.

"I do. It's not the FBI."

"Then who is it?"

"My team." He said through clenched teeth. "And if I know them, they got curious, followed us, and there may be possible pictures."

Tony went pale and sat down. "No, no, no, no. There can't be pictures."

Gibbs knelt in front of him and took the younger man's face in his hands. "Do you remember my promise?"

Tony nodded.

"Say it."

"You will always protect me and Semper Fi."

Gibbs smiled and kissed him. He got back up. "Hector. Tomas. Stay with them. I have some asses to chew out."

Fornell got off the elevator on the floor where Gibbs' team worked. Twelve years he had been looking for DiNozzo and his father. They had both vanished without a trace when they stormed that warehouse in Baltimore. Gibbs had been there too, but for once had taken a step back from the investigation. It had bugged him at the time because Gibbs never handed jurisdiction over to another agency. It just wasn't in his nature.

He needed information from DiNozzo on his father's whereabouts. Anthony DiNozzo Sr. may have been a businessman, but he also was part of the arms smuggling ring and part of the Mafia based in Baltimore. Junior had been his only hope of finding him, but he disappeared in March of 2001, just a month and a half before the sting.

Fornell and the Organized Crime Unit had sent out BOLOs to every federal agency and even their overseas counterparts. No one had seen or heard of him since. Until today. Vance had been working closely with the FBI at the time and wanted DiNozzo just as badly for the murders of several Navy personnel.

He caught up with Vance in the bullpen.

"Where is he?"

"He downstairs with Gibbs."

Ducky was dropping off some vials and specimen jars at the lab when he ran into McGee.

"Timothy, are you in a hurry?"

"Kinda, Ducky. Abby said Gibbs and his family are in her office."

"Oh my. Shall we see what all the fuss is about."

They walked in at the same time and saw the three women looking worried. Ducky stepped forward.

"Abigail, I have some samples for you. And pray tell what's happening."

She set the samples aside and looked at Ducky. "Bossman's in my office with his family. I don't know what they're talking about, and that's what scares me." Her eyes started tearing up.

"Abigail, you knew when you were doing this that it would one day haunt you."

"I know, but I didn't think my karma would run out the next day."

"You should have thought about that before you started digging into my personal life."

Everyone turned around to look at Gibbs. The glare he gave them was murderous. He stepped forward.

"What the fuck do you think you were doing?!"

"Jethro, calm down..."

"Calm down? You want me to calm down? Et tu, Dr. Mallard?"

Ducky had the decency to look chastised. Gibbs turned to his subordinates.

"I don't share my personal life for a reason. I am protecting my family. You shouldn't have gotten involved."

"Gibbs, what is so damn important that you couldn't share with us?" Kate had the guts to say.

Gibbs glared at her hard. She would have been burned to a crisp if it was on open flame. "You want the story, Kate? I'll give you the condensed version. Christmas 2000, I was stuck in Baltimore for a psychological profiling seminar. The man I just so happened to sit next to was Detective Anthony DiNozzo. We hit it off, dated for a while when he came to me. He was in trouble and needed my help. I gave him a solution. Move to DC and marry me. No one would find him. Does that answer your question?"

"Yes, Gibbs," she mumbled.

"I knew there was something fishy going on yesterday when I came down here and I smelled everyone's cologne. It just didn't register at the time because I was in a hurry. Now I repeat. WHAT THE FUCK WERE YOU THINKING?! I can have your jobs for this. I can also have you arrested for stalking, harassment, and even child endangerment. Don't give me that look, Abby. I know there are pictures somewhere. McGee, I have a suspicion that you were roped into this."

"Yes, Boss."

"Alright, be a good agent and destroy all of the evidence you have. Pictures, and even t he recordings."

They all looked at him in surprise. He gave them a look back.

"I'm not stupid. I turned my phone off when I left the building yesterday. Imagine my surprise when I found it on when I got home."

Everyone looked at Abby. She looked at them with her hands up. "Fine. I'm the ringleader."

"I thought so. You're treading a very thin line, Abby."

"Can you forgive me, Gibbs?"

"I don't think I can. And it's not me you should apologize to."

He turned to Ziva and Kate and started yelling in Russian. Ziva was glad she couldn't translate because just from the look on Gibbs' face it wasn't pretty.

Vance and Fornell walked in and took in the scene before them. Gibbs yelling in Russian? That's a new one.

"Agent Gibbs, why are you harassing NCIS personnel?"

Gibbs turned to look at them. He narrowed his eyes. "What the fuck are you doing here, Tobias?"

"I have a subpoena for Anthony DiNozzo Jr's statement on the whereabouts of his father."

"I have no idea who you're talking about."

"Don't play dumb, Gibbs. I saw him come down here with you," Vance said.

"Anthony DiNozzo Sr and Jr both disappeared in 2001. You both know that. You were there."

"And you were there too. So how come Jr decides to vanish too?"

"I believe I can answer that, Agent Fornell."

They all turned to look at Tony standing in the doorway.

"Agent Fornell, that subpoena you hold in your hand is null and void." Fornell started to protest, but stopped when Tony raised his hand. "One, it's void because I have no knowledge of where my father is. I have not spoken in probably twenty-five years. And second, it's void because Anthony DiNozzo Jr may have disappeared in March 2001, but Anthony DiNozzo Jr ceased to exist when I married Jethro."

Vance and Fornell looked at Gibbs and Tony with wide eyes. Fornell came to his senses first.

"Why did the fuck you disappear?"

Tony gave a dark chuckle. "Dear, Agent Fornell. While I was a homicide detective in Baltimore, I was paired with a Danny Price. After I met Jethro, I found that Danny was a dirty cop and was feeding info to Mafia. Turns out Danny was supposed to bring me back into the fold. I didn't want that, so I ran to Jethro. He got me out. And we've been happily married ever since." Gibbs and Tony shared a smile.

Ducky stepped forward hesitantly. "Anthony, I sympathize your situation and need to hide, but what I would like to know is: how are you and Jethro able to have children?"

Fornell and Vance turned to the Medical Examiner then back to Gibbs and Tony. "Children?" Vance said.

Gibbs and Tony laughed at the looks on the two men's faces.

"Well, it's very simple Dr. Mallard. I have a genetic anomaly where I was born with extra functioning parts."

"I believe it has never been heard of I'm afraid."

"It's alright, Duck. After all the times we've sat in the waiting room at the doctor's office, we still get looks from the other parents to be."

Tony chuckled. "But it's worth it."

"Yeah, especially with the little one coming." Gibbs gave his husband an earth shattering kiss in front of everyone. The girls sighed while the men looked in the opposite direction.

"Ewww, Papa's kissing Daddy again."

The two men broke apart and busted out laughing. They turned to see the kids and their guards giving them silly grins.

"It's ok to come out now, guys." Gibbs said.

The two identical boys came forward while the two men hung back. Tony introduced them.

"Boys, this is Papa's team. Everyone these are our twins, Jacob and Jason. The guys are brothers also and our family's bodyguards, Hector and Tomas Ruiz."

"Aww, they're so cute!" The girls said.

Fornell said, "That's nice and all, but I would still like to know where your father is."

Tony gave him an innocent look. "Agent Fornell, I already told you I have no idea where he is. Don't bother asking Jethro either. He doesn't know."

"Nope," Gibbs smiled. "Now that you have your answers, I would like to get home. I have a Christmas holiday to plan."

The Gibbs clan walked out of the NCIS building with smiles on their faces, ready to celebrate the holidays.

A/N: Ok, so no cliffhanger this time. Yay! There's going to be an epilogue and that will be the end. I didn't feel like dragging this story out. Thanks for reading.