"Boss can I ask you something personal?" McGee said hesitantly.
"What Tim?" While away from the yard, most of the team had started using first names only, but Gibbs was still always Gibbs or boss except to Tony who called him Jethro or Jet when it was Gibbs turn to feed.
"Do you love Tony?"
Gibbs turned to look at the junior agent he shook his head.
"Oka never mind I shouldn't have asked."
"I can't answer that Tim because I am afraid to ask myself the question."
"Oh." Tim said quietly.
The sounds from the bedroom let the two men in the living room know that they would have company soon. Gibbs stomach ached; he had to share Tony with all of the team. He had for sometime but considering the amount of blood Tony had to take there was no way any one of them would be able to sustain him alone.
"I'm afraid to ask Tim," Gibbs said very softly knowing Tony would be able to hear the conversation now that he wasn't distracted, "because I don't want to forget Shannon and Kelly, and Tony is a very all consuming person."
Tim nodded he could understand the statement completely.
"But I think if I did ask the answer would be yes." Gibbs voice was not steady like McGee was use to hearing it waivered and was husky.
"I think your wife would want you to be happy boss. I think she would have wanted you to move on and find someone to live with someone to make you smile and we all know Dinozzo is the only one who can really manage that."
"Yeah he is."
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Standing in front of a huge house everyone had open mouths and stared. This was it the house they had been looking for. It had seven bedrooms, eight bathrooms, a pool five-car garage, two dens and a living room. The kitchen had been massive, the dining room even bigger, and they would be close without being each other's way.
There was an actual wood shop big enough for Gibbs to work on his boat without dismantling it to get it out, there was a basement that could be turned into a workout room in short, it was perfect.
"How much?" Gibbs asked the realtor.
"Their asking 800."
"We'll take it." everyone said at once.
"It has been on the market for sometime though. It's just too big for most families; they don't want to live so far from town I could get them down a little farther.
"We will take it." Ziva said.
"Well I mean you should make an offer but there are others."
Tony looked at Gibbs and walked over to the woman put a hand on each side of her face, "We will take it at 800,000 who do we make the check out to?"
"Are you sure dear it is so far from town?"
"Ma'am we have been looking for 4 months for a house like this. We want this house, call the seller right now and ask them where to mail the check we want to move in by the end of the month."
"I oh okay if you're sure."
"Yes." All six people shouted. As Ducky drove up he heard the shout upon getting out of his Morgan, he said, "This is it then, yes I think it is and I haven't seen the inside yet."
"Come on duck man let me give you the grand tour of the new casa de whatever we think of."
The realtor looked at the pair and walked away to place the call. Tony walked over to Gibbs and said, "Hey Jethro can I crash at your place tonight having that Michele guy pop up was kind of…"
"Unsettling?" Gibbs finished.
"Yeah, to say the least."
"Yeah you got a bag in your trunk."
"Yeah I do hey random thought, how are we going to handle personnel and all the mass team change to the same address? Before it had been and abstract idea hey we should do this so we're not playing musical places who on first what on second but now that it was an actual reality there were going to be some complications."
"I won't change mine." Gibbs said, "I'll keep the house, it's on the way to the yard from here so we can stop, and keep an eye on it, get the mail and those kinds of things."
"What about the rest of us?"
"I think you should put it in first, then maybe Ziva. Tim and Jimmy should get PO boxes say there's been some problems with miss delivered mail. If it gets to be too big of a hassle for them to pick it up maybe do that service where the post office sends you your mail in one package."
"Hm yeah I guess we have some time to figure out some things. Tim has a lease that he can't break on his place and Ziva just got hers to."
"No one will say anything about you changing addresses." Gibbs poked Tony in the chest.
"No probably not." His apartment was legendary at NCIS head quarters because there was always something broken.
The realtor came back over, "They will have the papers drawn up in the morning. Where would you like me too have them delivered?" It was the weekend so it was decided that they should go to Gibbs house. Being who they were and doing what they did Gibbs had McGee set up an account and slowly move some of their money into it so that when they found a house they could jump on it without the invasiveness of getting a loan. Tim was fronting most of the money from his royalties but they had worked out a plan where he didn't pay any of the household expenses for the first few years to make up for it.
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When the pair pulled up to Gibbs house Tony sat in his car for a few extra minutes. He was trying to get the courage to do something he had wanted to do for a long time, six months really.
Taking what courage he had built up, Tony went into the house and listened, he soon found the man he hoped to call lover in the basement, truthful Tony should have just gone there to start with. Knowing neither of them were any good with words, Tony went straight for action, taking the plainer from Gibbs hand, set it on the bench, then pinned the man to the bow of the boat and kissed him.
"I want you Jet and I don't mean for fucking dinner." Tony hissed into Jethro's ear.
"You do, do you? I think I want you back."