Kate sighed before telling the story. "Your mother's ex-boyfriend had laid low for years."
"Then he called your mothers old cell phone" Gibbs explained. Palmer ducked his head. He still felt guilty for giving away the DiNozzo's address.
"I had your moms old cell phone. He told me he was an old friend and wanted to come see you guys." Palmer said trying to hold back the tears.
"Her ex-boyfriend found your mother's government issued gun and used it on your father." McGee explained still having a hard time with the incident after all these years.
"Your father was shot twice. One bullet going into his chest and one into his side. It shredded his heart and the other hit his lung." Ducky recalled.
"Did he die instantly?" Tonya asked.
"No he actually hung on for a while which was a miracle. We don't understand how he wasn't dead before he hit the ground." Palmer answered. "Your mother was so panicked but what had happened that she didn't call 911, she called Gibbs."
"I was down in my basement working on my boat when I got the call." Gibbs said.
"What was your first reaction?" T.J. asked.
"Why the hell was your mother calling me at this time of night?" Gibbs answered. "When she told me that your father had been shot, I went running down to your house only to find her on the floor of the master bedroom. Your father lying in a pool of blood and her trying to stop the bleeding in his chest. I was a little upset when I found out there wasn't an ambulance on the way, however I could understand she was in shock of just seeing her husband shot in front of her. Your father struggled for each breath, but one of the last things he said while he choked on his own blood was tell the kids I love them and don't let them forget about me."
T.J. and Tonya were both wiping tears by this time.
"Your mother tried to console him and assure him that he was not going to die. Even though he knew he was." Ducky said.
"The last thing your father told your mother was I love you. It was almost like a love story." McGee explained. "Your mother moved him just a little bit so he wouldn't choke on his own blood but it only made his chest bleed even more."
"She just wanted him to breathe and to come back to her, just to wake up." Palmer explained.
"Were you worried Gibbs?" Jason asked. He had never truly heard the teams take on the story except what he had heard in court.
"I was. I called Kate over to watch the twins. When I found out the ambulance was coming I tried to tell Deanna but all she did was cry and tell me that Tony was dying." Gibbs said trying to hold it together as he thought back on the memories.
"Your mother rode in the back of the ambulance with your father and was speechless." Palmer went on.
"Did she try and hold on to any type of hope? Was he covered in blood?" T.J. asked.
"He was and he had stopped breathing on his own. She had held his lifeless hand and prayed." Gibbs said.
"She prayed the bullets didn't do as much damage as it looked." Palmer said wiping tears.
"When I got to your house to get fresh clothes for your mom that's when I found a lot of blood in their bedroom. I knew right then he probably wouldn't make it." McGee said.
"Your mother was covered in your fathers blood and was taken to the hospital with him in nothing but a blood covered night gown." Gibbs explained.
"So with the bullet ripping through his heart, could they have not done a heart transplant?" T.J. asked.
"That's what I asked and they said it wouldn't help because he was already brain dead." Palmer answered. "There was no hope for him."
"Did you get to go in and see him?" T.J. asked the team. He was full of questions. Tonya was just reeling at all of it taking it all in.
"Yes we got to go in and say our goodbyes to your Anthony. It was hard to know that in less than 24 hours he would be lying on my autopsy table." Ducky expressed. "McGee he could have taught you a lot."
McGee kind of smirked.
"He was always making fun of you McGee, but he really was a good teacher." Gibbs chimed in.
"Kate what was it like for you to be stuck in isolation with dad?" Tonya asked.
"Scary, annoying at first because it was your father and his movie quotes. I joked with him that I was stronger then he was, but to be honest he was the strong one." Kate said holding back the tears.
"Letting go was the hardest part." Ducky said.
"When those machines went off it really set in that he was really gone and that was hard." Gibbs explained.
"How did mom react?" Tonya asked.
"She climbed in the bed with your father and laid her head on his chest almost to see if she could hear a heartbeat." Kate said remembering back.
"We had to pry your mom off your dad so Ducky could pull the sheet and take him to the morgue." McGee added.
"I caved that night and let her go back to the crime scene just so she could sleep in her own bed." Gibbs remembered.
"She kept telling me that she could have saved him and that it was her fault he was dead." McGee said.
"There was nothing she could have done different." Palmer said.
"She went into a dark depression. Some tried to say she killed your father." Gibbs added.
"So what did we wear to our fathers funeral?" Tonya asked.
"T.J. was in a little suit and looked just as handsome as his daddy did. Your mom pinned her Special Agent badge onto your little jacket. " Gibbs answered.
"It had the black strip that went across when we lose a fellow special agent." McGee added.
"And Tonya you were in a little black dress with ruffles." Kate smiled.
"Your mother thought it would be good if you told your father goodbye." Ducky said.
"Tonya you wanted to try and climb in to the casket and cuddle Tony not realizing he was gone." Kate expressed.
"Your mother tried to explain to you guys that your dad had went on a special mission to where you couldn't see him but he would always be there to protect you." Ducky explained.
Kate drug out a card from Tony's funeral that she still carried with her. She handed it to the twins so they could look at it.
"Whoa dad was a buckeye and played football? Guess that is where you get it T.J." Tonya said smacking her brother upside the head. Gibbs just smiled
"That's what I like to call a Gibbs slap."
"Oh cool he was a detective?!" T.J. marveled.
"Awe look he was a Probie!" Tonya said smiling. Her smile faded as she remembered that Gibbs had said something about her mother getting into trouble. "How did she get into trouble?"
"One of our forensic specialist tried to pin the murder of your father on your mom." Gibbs explained.
"One of the hardest things I ever had to do was arrest your mom." McGee said.
"However that's how I met your mom. I took her case. I knew she was innocent and I was willing to do whatever it took to prove that she was." Jason popped in. "The first night I met you guys you thought I was your father. I guess I resembled him."
Kate laughed "You still do"
"We found a jury and began the mock trial before we took the case before the real jury." Jason said.
"It was hard to go on the stand and testify. But I knew your mother was innocent. She loved your father too much to kill him. Even though I had thought about doing it myself a couple of times." Gibbs chuckled.
"Oh you got to tell the kids of what you did to win the jury over." Palmer eager to hear the story.
"Dad what did you do?" Tonya questioned.
"Well it was supposed to be a plan but it went haywire." Jason said and Marissa gave him a look. "It's not that I meant to do it honey." He shrugged.
"Oh dad you got to tell us the story." T.J. pleaded.
"So we had several jurors that was finding your mom guilty of murder saying that she should have called 911 and gotten help there faster. I had a plan of just stopping the elevator and seeing what the jurors would do." Jason explained.
"Seriously that's all you were going to do?" Marissa asked not knowing this information until now.
"That's it. So Marissa and I got on the elevator with the 12 jurors. I had Cable stop the elevator. One lady started freaking out thinking Hannibal was going to show up. I didn't realize with all that was going on that I had been having chest pains that day. I grabbed my chest and told Marissa that I didn't feel good. That I had heart palpitations. I begged someone to call 911."
"I thought it was all part of your plan or else I would have called 911." Marissa pointed out.
"I couldn't breathe. By this time, I knew I was having a heart attack. Then everything went black." Bull explained.
"Scared the daylights out of me because he collapsed onto the elevator floor. He was in cardiac arrest. One of the jurors decided to call her boyfriend instead of 911. Even Cable and Danny thought you were faking!" Marissa said.
"Oh they are so fired." Jason smirked.
"As they did CPR I was afraid of losing Jason. He was under for some time." Marissa's voice started to crack.
"And yet here I am." Jason smirked again. "Because of that it opened the jury's eyes and they let your mother walk away innocent. Turned out though your mom's ex-boyfriend was in the courtroom and rushed to the front and tried to strangle me."
"We were able to lock him away only for him to escape." McGee explained.
"He found his way in through our autopsy." Ducky chimed in.
"That was the day I was going to propose to your mother. We had started dating soon after the trial. She had also asked me that if anything ever happened to her that if I would raise you two." Jason said.
"It all makes sense now." Tonya said wiping the tears from her face.
"The guy came in and he was out for blood. He shot me in the arm and then he shot your mother in the chest. I held her in my arms and proposed to her. That's when she revealed to me that she was pregnant." Jason said.
"You mean to tell me we would have had another sibling?" Tonya asked.
"You sure would have. But instead your mother died in my arms." Jason answered trying to hold back the tears.
"Jason and I wanted to give you guys the best opportunity at life. That's why we adopted you and soon after we got married." Marissa explained.
"That is so sweet of you guys." T.J. said.
"Thank you for doing that." Tonya said.
"Ok guys I have a surprise for you in the morning but for now let's call it a night." Gibbs said. He carried T.J. up the stairs and they all settled down for the evening.
That night Tonya remembered back on her encounter with her parents. She didn't realize how much her parents meant to each one of the people she was around tonight. She could only hope that the surprise Gibbs had in store was something to do with her parents.
The next morning came and Gibbs had fixed them all breakfast.
"Where are we going today Agent Gibbs?" T.J. asked.
"It's a surprise." Gibbs halfway smiled.
They loaded up the vehicles and headed out. The first stop on Gibbs' surprise for the kids was at a cemetery. They came to two headstones. The one on the left read Special Agent Anthony D. DiNozzo NCIS Senior Field Agent July 8, 1968-August 8, 2017 Loving father and husband.
The headstone on the right read Special Agent Deanna Renee Carter DiNozzo NCIS October 3,1992-August 13, 2019 Loving Mother and wife.
The twins couldn't help but cry. This was actually where their parents had been all their life. The kids were actually DiNozzo's not Bull's. Tonya knelt down beside her parents' graves and whispered.
"Thank you for watching after us."
After the twins had come to peace with finally meeting their parents, Gibbs took them to NCIS headquarters. As they got off the elevator they seen a wall of remembrance. Up on the wall sat a picture of their mom and dad right together. Above it read Fallen Special Agents, under the pictures it read their names Special Agent Tony DiNozzo and Special Agent Deanna Carter DiNozzo. There was two desk sitting across from each other both empty.
"This one over here was your mother's desk, and this one was your fathers." Gibbs said pointing to each desk. The kids went to their parents desks and looked around. Of course none of their stuff was there anymore.
"Now it's your desks." Gibbs said. The twins looked up with surprise as did Jason and Marissa.
"Our desks? What do you mean?" Tonya asked.
"I mean you are part of the NCIS family. Welcome to the team. I want you two to be my special agents. We just had two positions open up and I could think of filling them with anyone other than the DiNozzo twins." Gibbs said.
T.J. ducked his head and began to cry. "I can't be a Special Agent, I can't even walk."
"Trust me you can still be a Special Agent. Ask McGee. He can train you in all kinds of stuff." Gibbs said.
"Mom, dad, can we pleaseeeeeee?" Tonya pleaded.
Marissa looked at Jason. They had just gotten their lives back on track. But they knew they couldn't hold the kids in New York City forever. They were DiNozzo's, being a Special Agent was in their blood.
"Ok but only if you agree to letting us by a house down here in D.C. that way we can come and see you and or take care of you." Jason bargained.
"It's a deal!" T.J. popped in.
The kids couldn't believe they were going to be special agents!
How will the kids adjust to being Special Agents and what wild and crazy calls will they get to handle? New Chapter up soon. Please Review!
