Ducky watched the pair for the better part of a week. Jethro was eating more junk food and seemed emotional, because any amount of emotions regarding anything personal was more for Jethro.

Tony on the other hand just seemed run down. He showed no signs of being underfed, no headaches, or tell-tale scent. He drank his usual amount everyone assured Ducky. But his skin was not as colorful as usual and others in the office were starting to notice it as well as his lack of just being Tony.

He wasn't flirting with every woman who walked by, he wasn't cracking jokes, or pulling pranks. It was so noticeable Vance had asked Ducky about the lack of disturbance coming from the bullpen. Ducky quickly covered for Tony as best he could by telling the Director a longer than usual story of a colleague he had in New Guinea, the director left so frustrated he forgot he hadn't gotten an answer from the ME.

When Abby finely finished the blood work Ducky had taken of Jethro everyone was walking on eggshells around the man. Ducky rescued a new probationary agent from another team that didn't know Gibbs and had asked a simple question. But that had set off the marine, until Ducky arrived and saved the poor girl by dragging Gibbs to his office.

"Jethro really that poor girl was almost in tears. She only asked where evidence was. Really."

"Get it over with Duck. What the hell is wrong with me?"

"You have some elevated levels of hormones, yes. Nothing to high but being a little more man then most the estrogen in your system is wreaking havoc. There are a few others that are a little higher than normal but honestly, there is nothing wrong. I suggest you try to keep calm and I would like to give you a shot of testosterone."

"Wait your saying I have high levels of the pregnancy hormones aren't you?"

"No not high Jethro just elevated but given you personality they are just…"

"Wreaking havoc." Gibbs parroted back.

"Yes." Ducky said with his quirky smile.

"But I'm not right?"

"No you are not."

"Alright so what caused the…"

"Jethro I am not sure there is really no reason for it but Abby checked the results twice to make sure."

"Alright Ducky what do we do about it?"

"I think you should take a few days off, I don't want to start giving you injections to counter act this if it is stress induced, Jethro."

"Ducky come on I can't take time off you know that."

"I've already cleared it with the director Jethro. Come now it won't be so bad. Take a couple days and just relax."

Gibbs snorted he didn't relax, not really.

"Work on the boat, sleep in do something other than work and worry about Anthony."

Gibbs had started to turn to leave but paused, "I don't worry about Tony."

"Yes you do Jethro." Ducky laid a hand on Gibb's shoulder, "Jethro, I know that what is between you and him is different than what he had with the others. There really is nothing wrong with it but you do worry."

"Ducky I don't know what to do with him." Gibbs all but whispered.

"You'll figure it out, I'm sure of it."

Gibbs nodded and left, instead of heading up to the bullpen Gibbs left the yard and walked over to his favorite coffee shop. Leaning against the wall leading towards the ally was Michele.

"Gibbs."

"Michele why are you here?"

"My friends found something." Michele said with a shrug.

"So why didn't you call Tony."

"Because we would like your little friend to verify what we found."

So you want Abby to know before Tony, while he hates needles Michele he hate being kept in the dark worse."

"Well Jethro if my friends are correct then he will know very soon anyways."

"Cut that grab," Gibbs "What did you find?"

Michele obviously fought and internal war over answering the question but in the end he pushed himself away from the wall and answered. "We found high levels of hormones in Tony's samples. We tested every sample you gave us to ensure there was not some contamination. There were also some other genetic changes that were expected and then some that were defiantly not expected."

"Don't answer questions with vague statements Michele, friend, or foe I will hurt you." Gibbs backed Michele up against the wall with nothing more than a glare.

Michele swallowed audibly and cringed when he answered. "We think that Tony is more of a a I we," taking a deep breath, "we think the change was quite different in Tony."

Gibbs still as a wave of fear washed over him. "Different how?"

"I must admit something to you before I tell you anything else Agent Gibbs." Michelle answered.

"How did you find out?"

"A friend of a friend knows your Agent Dinozzo's DNA."

"So long as his name is not Chip Sterling I'll learn to live with that."

"No but her name is not Chip and after the bit of duck tape and Cafepow! she explained it to me I can understand your worry."

"So since you're here near the yard and you called me Agent, you know who we are."

"Yes she told us of your positions so that we would understand your paranoia."

"We're not paranoid, just careful."

"And we understand that. I don't feel comfortable telling you what we found. Take this to your Abby and be ready for Tony to make a movie reference."

"Care to tell me which movie."

"No I'll tell you has Danny Devito in it though."