The Cascade Effect Chapter Twenty-Three/??

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The Cascade Effect

Rating: R(Will Go Up to NC-17)

Summary: One Event, One Minor change in the way something happens can change a lot of events in the future.

Disclaimer: I don’t own so no sense suing.

Chapter Twenty-Three

A few days after Maddie Tyler had showed up at NCIS looking for help from Gibbs things were slowly going back to normal. Well normal for them that is. Kelly and Maddie had been playing catch up, so Tony was left to himself for the most part. He was still staying at the Gibbs residence so he wasn’t completely alone but he knew sooner or later he’d drive Gibbs up the wall. The murky water that he’d accidentally inhaled was still irritating his lungs but he was glad it wasn’t worse. Brad had told him it could have been much worse than just some irritation. Tony had gotten a very stern warning in the form of a lecture from Ducky on the hazards he could face with his lungs compromised like they were. Gibbs had also gotten a stern lecture about going off grid from not only Kelly and Tony, but Ducky too. Thankfully nothing had come up case wise so Tony could relax.

Things had returned to normal within a week, with the added bonus of Tony spending time with, not only Kelly but Maddie as well. He had somehow ended up hanging with both women when Kelly had decided she wanted to go dancing and found out Maddie didn’t know how to dance. Tony had been roped into teaching Maddie how to dance like he was teaching Kelly. He didn’t mind, it meant that everyone could rest easy, Gibbs included.

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A few weeks had gone by since Tony had taken a dive into the Potomac to save Gibbs and Maddie Tyler. McGee had brought by his scout troop to see NCIS and Abby had ran a young boy’s prints through AFIS as a demonstration on how the program worked. No-one had thought that anything would pop up but when Carson Taylor’s print popped up as him being an abducted child they were shocked. They dug into his father’s past and found out he was the one to kidnap Carson after his wife drowned and her mother sued for custody and won.

Gibbs, Tony, McGee, Kate and Ziva went to Carson’s house and spoke with his mother Elaine, who was actually his step-mother. McGee and Gibbs were talking with her while Tony, Kate and Ziva looked around Carson’s room. Kate and Ziva had tried to point out ll the similarities they were noticing between Tony and Carson but Tony didn’t seem to get it. Unbeknownst to them he did see the correlation and if it weren’t for the fact that him and kids didn’t often get along he would have offered to take Carson home with him while they figured things out. It still surprised him that he got along with Kelly so well, though she wasn’t exactly a kid which could explain it. Gibbs had managed to trick the director into taking Carson and when Carson called to talk to him he headed over. It took him an hour because of a traffic accident but when he got there he recognized the music coming from the director’s study immediately. Years of having Tony hanging around had ingrained that knowledge.

“Jazz?” he asked Jenny because last he knew she wasn’t too fond of Jazz.

“His favorite.” She told him.

“Ziva and Kate were right. DiNozzo.” He said, seeing it for himself that Carson could be a carbon copy of Tony.

It was while they were looking for leads they found that he was wanted for murder. Ziva called Metro and made the mistake of agreeing for them to hand deliver the cold case file that Brian Taylor was a suspect in. Tony told Ziva that it was the oldest trick in the books and a way for local cops to stay on the case. He made sure she was the one to tell Gibbs of her faux paux. Abby was watching Carson while they were looking for leads and her and Carson managed to beat Tony’s score at a movie trivia game.

It was while they were searching for Brian Taylor that Abby learned that Brian had been framed by none other than the Metro detective Collins who was a dirty cop. It brought back memories for Tony of his ex-partner Danny from when he was a Homicide Detective with Baltimore PD. It also pissed him off so he was glad to arrest Collins. He’d never liked the man and arresting him for murder was a bonus in his books. If he was a little rougher than normal he could attribute it to his hating dirty cops and Collins putting up a fight. It was a happy reunion for Carson, Brian and Elaine.

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Their next case dealt with an escaped mental patient, Corporal Damon Werth. The young Marine was sent back from Iraq ahead of his unit and suffering Post Traumatic Stress Disorder. He’d attacked the night nurse who was handing out meds, despite his being in a strait jacket, and had hijacked a car that was leaving Bethesda’s parking lot. They managed to track Werth to where one of his men, PFC Stone, t another hospital where he was undergoing Physical Therapy for the injuries he’d received after being captured along with Werth and two other guys. They were visiting PFC Stone when Damon Werth showed up. Gibbs managed to talk Damon down but McGee cuffed him to quickly and Werth flipped out. He broke McGee’s arm, managed to knock Gibbs into a table and broke Tony’s nose. Ziva was abe to handle him for a time until he rammed his head into hers. Tony, Gibbs and Ziva were able to overpower Werth together and get the man cuffed.

Tony and McGee were at the hospital while Ziva and Gibbs went back to the Navy Yard with Werth. Kate was rather lucky as she had gotten the flu and was out on sick leave when the case went down. Abby had come up and was freaking out, Ziva had tried to calm her but Abby proceeded to get nasty with her, calling her a totally emotionless perfect warrior. It was later in their case, after Gibbs had talked with Werth and then a Senator, Senator Hawkins, had had him transferred back to Bethesda. Ziva was feeling something for Werth, which made Tony glad because maybe she had quit trying to hit on him. Tony knew that Ziva’s flirting got to Kelly too and Gibbs as well. Though Tony thought that Gibbs’ reasoning had more to do with Rule 12 than any kind of jealousy on the older man’s part. Tony wouldn’t mind if Gibbs wanted more than just a working relationship and friendship but knew it wouldn’t happen.

They managed to close the case after Abby and Ducky found masking agents in Cpl. Damon Werth’s urinalysis. It seemed Werth had steroids in his system, too complicate matters more Senator Hawkins was awarding the Silver Star to Werth personally because they were both from Michigan. The Senator’s Public Affairs man was interfering in ways that were rapidly pissing Gibbs off. After they had figured out that Werth was being dosed with steroids and was suffering from steroid induced problems. Tony, Gibbs, McGee and Ziva went back to Bethesda to speak with Cpl. Werth after he’d been transferred back there on the senator’s orders. They got there and Dr. De La Casa allowed them in to see the Marine even when the senator’s aid tried to keep them out. While Gibbs and Ziva were in the room Werth began to crash because someone had given him too high of a dose of the sedative. Gibbs and De La Casa held Worth down while Ziva gave him the injection of Adrenaline that the doctor had handed her. McGee and Tony were watching the feed when Ziva began giving the shot to Werth.

“She’s pulling Pulp Fiction.” Tony said.

“On the hulk.” McGee commented before following Tony out of the surveillance room and to Werth’s room.

Meanwhile Gibbs jumped the suddenly very angry Werth and got tossed into the wall behind them. Werth then grabbed Ziva and slammed her into the wall, off of her feet. They stared into each other’s eyes before Worth allowed her feet to touch the floor then collapsed into her.

At that point in time Tony and McGee showed up wondering what had happened. De La Casa denied being the one to try and kill him. Gibbs asked who administered the doctor’s orders and they realized it was the nurse that Werth had previously locked up when he escaped. They went after him and he tried to run but Ziva took him down, taking her anger at what had happened to Werth out on the orderly. It was after that that they found out that Werth had started taking steroids because his own blood wouldn’t allow him to join the Marines due to a rare abnormality. The Marines would decide if he still got his silver star but the senator would not be the one to award it to him if he did. Later that night Gibbs, knowing that Tony was the one that went and received Gibbs’ medals in lieu of Gibbs and where he kept them, grabbed the silver star and dropped it off at the hospital on Damon Werth’s bedside stand. The man deserved the medal after all he had done in the war.

Following that case they investigated the murder of a Marine who was Muslim. At first it appeared as if he had been killed by a gunshot wound but upon further examination by use of a MRI they found a needle tip. It was a very old needle and it contained traces of a neurotoxin from the blue ringed octopus. During their investigation Ziva brought the young marine’s father down to speak with Ducky and he asked Ducky not to cut open his son. Ducky agreed and refused to do an autopsy.It was during that case that Jenny Shepard’s tru colors began to come out, she was forcing Ducky to do the Autopsy but he managed to outsmart her and found another way to do an autopsy without opening the man up and thus preventing his religious beliefs to be fulfilled. He made sure she knew that she had to turn a blind eye to what would happen and he called in a favor from an old friend at Bethesda. Once they had gotten those leads they had arrested a man that was a supply clerk at a facility dealing with biological toxins and other research. They then arrested the marine reservist that was also a parole officer for the marine’s murder. It turns out he didn’t kill Abdul but he knew where the German, Hans Steiger aka The Recruiter, was at and he made a deal after Gibbs and Ziva tricked him into thinking he would go to Gitmo. When they got there Steiger was already dead and Ziva began to say she recognized the prayer beads in the man’s hands but Gibbs stopped her because he understood wanting revenge. They were able to close the case and release the body to the family.

It wasn’t long after their run in with Damon Werth that Kate ran into Ziva with Damon at a restaurant. It gave Tony and Kate some ammunition on Ziva to tease her about, something that definitely made Tony’s day. The weekend came and finally they weren’t on call. Tony had plans to relax around his apartment but Kelly called and asked him to go to a movie with her and her dad as she’d managed to talk him into going for the second time. Tony agreed and just as he was leaving he ran into someone that looked vaguely familiar.

“Sorry. Wasn’t watching where I was going.” Tony said, helping the young man up.

“It’s alright man.” The guy said before heading into Tony’s building. Tony watched him leave before cursing, He was gonna be late if he didn’t leave now.

After the movie, Tony, Kelly and Gibbs headed out to a nearby bar for dinner and while they were waiting Tony noticed the same man from earlier walk in. He paused, looked around then pulled out his cellphone and called someone. Tony began to fidget slightly, something both Gibbs’ picked up on.

“Tony? Everything alright?” Kelly asked.

“Yeah. Maybe. I think so.” He said, slightly distracted.

At that moment their food arrived and they began to eat. It was while they were eating and talking that the man Tony ran into came over.

“Tony? Tony DiNozzo?” the guy asked.

Tony, Gibbs and Kelly looked up at him.

“Maybe. Why?”

The guy had a slightly pouty look on his face when he replied. “You don’t recognize me? I’m Jesse. Dom’s friend.”

“Jesse! Where’d ya go man!” a very familiar voice called, before pushing their way through the crowd.

“Over here!” Jesse called just as another man, taller than Jesse and almost as tall as Tony came over.

“Hey…” he trailed off at seeing who Jesse was talking with. “Tony! Hey man! Didn’t know you were here.”

“Brian.” Tony stood up and pulled the other man into a brief hug before stepping back.

“What’re you two doing here? I thought you guys were in Cali?” Tony queried the blonde.

“We were. Came out here for a vacation. That and Mia’s here for a class trip and you know how Dom gets bout Mia.” Brian said just as another, slightly shorter but more muscular man showed up.

“Bri you’re up. Tony? What you doin’ here? Thought you worked most weekends.”

“I do. We’re not on call though so I’m hangin’ out with some friends. Let me introduce you.” Tony smiled before turning to Kelly and Gibbs.

“That’s Kelly and her dad Gibbs. Gibbs is also my boss at work. Kelly, Boss, this is my cousin, Dominic, his...” he trailed off unsure as to how to introduce Brian. Thankfully Dom interjected. “Lover.”

“Brian, Dom’s Lover, and finally the youngest of the ‘strays’ Dom collects, Jesse. They’re all from LA.” He finished, having pointed to each of them in turn. He’d met Jesse shortly before the whole thing with Brian had gone down.

“Hi. It’s nice meeting you.” Kelly was polite whereas her dad just looked at them in askance before going back to his beer.

“Don’t mind him, he’s always like that.” Tony said.

“You doin’ anything tomorrow?” Dom asked.

“Nah, not that I know of, unless Kelly’s already got plans and never told me.” He replied looking at Kelly who just shook her head no.

“Why don’t you come over then? We can hang out, catch up. Mia will be there too and she’s gonna want ta grill ya.” Dom told him, smirking.

“Sure. Still at Uncle Nico’s place?” Tony agreed.

“Yep.”

“Cool See you around….say 1000?”

“Sounds good. Well, have fun. We gotta get back before Leon sends out the search party for Jesse here. See ya later man!” Brian told him before dragging Dom and Jesse off, presumably to meet up with the Leon he’d mentioned.

“I thought you didn’t talk to anyone in your family Tony?” Kelly asked after the three had left.

“I don’t. Dom’s father was born an illegitimate child to my Nonno DiNozzo. Uncle Nicolai got his mom’s last name. He doesn’t associate with anyone in the family but me and his sister. He’s the one that gave me the Supra.” He told her, smiling.*

“Oh. That explains why he doesn’t look like he’s related.” Kelly said and that was the end of the conversation. They stuck around a bit longer before heading their separate ways; Kelly to Maddie’s apartment, Gibbs to his house and Tony to his own apartment.

The next day Tony got around before heading to his Uncle’s old house. Dom and Mia had inherited it when Uncle Nico died in that accident. Tony had flown out shortly after he’d heard the news and had been able to get Dom’s sentence changed to something lighter under the circumstances. It was so weird to know he was older than Dom but they looked pretty close in age. He got to the house, driving the Supra and stepped out. He’d seen the gawking from the two men and the one woman he didn’t know at his getting out of the Supra. He wondered if they knew that Dom had given it to him. Just then Jesse stepped out from around the side of the house.

“I thought I recognized that engine!” He exclaimed. “You seem to know how to treat that car. Least now I ain’t gotta worry.” He said before laughing as Tony was bombarded with a very excited Mia.

“Tony!!!” Mia cried out, throwing herself into his arms and laughing as he spun her around.

“Mia, my cugina. How are you?” he asked after he’d set her back on her feet.

“Good. I’m studying to be a doctor, which definitely comes in handy with this bunch.” She replied smiling. “Come out back. The grill’s already fired up.” She led him around the side of the house the other three following cautiously and Jesse bouncing alongside her.

“Mia, have you seen…” Dom trailed off as he saw who Mia was dragging to the backyard.

“Tony. I see you made it. Didn’t have trouble finding it did you?” he asked.

“Of course I made it and no I didn’t. I just had to drive like I was taught since traffic in DC’s a bitch. You’d think they’d be used to vehicles driving like that since Gibbs does live here.” Tony said, laughing.

“Ah, so your boss drives like he’s in NASCAR too?” Mia asked, remembering the name that Dom had mentioned last night.

“Oh yeah. Him and his daughter both. Not to mention our fiery Mossad Liaison who drives using…what did she call them…oh yeah. Evasive driving maneuvers.” Tony replied, laughing about the first time McGee had ridden with Ziva. Kate even said that Ziva was worse than Gibbs.

“Dom, whose the cop?” someone asked, not sounding happy about having a cop around, and how he knew Tony was a cop was beyond him.

“Not a cop, least not technically.” Tony replied, smirking. “You gonna freak out like Brian did?”

“Depends on what it is you do.”

“NCIS.” Tony smirked, wondering if anyone would get the reference.

“Never heard of em.”

“Vince…” Dom growled.

“Vince is it? Well NCIS stand for Naval Criminal Investigative Services. I’m basically a Navy Cop but my agency is a part of the Alphabet Soup of Federal Agencies. Oh don’t go getting all uppity, I only deal with crimes committed by or against our service men and women in the Navy and the Marine Corps.” Tony laughed, remembering when he’d met Gibbs and called him a Navy Cop.

“So you’re a fed?” the other guy asked.

“Yeah, dealing with the Navy and Marine Corps. We don’t jump the gun like the Feebs do.” At the confused looks he clarified. “FBI. They tend to be annoying and only two are actually worthy of knowing.” He smirked.

“Vince, chill. He’s cool.” Brian said coming into the mix of heated glares.

“What’s he doin’ here Dom?” Vince questioned.

“He’s family, Vince.”

“Yeah. Tony DiNozzo. Dom and Mia’s cousin.” Tony smirked at the slack jawed looked Vince gave him.

“That’s Vince, ignore him. Leon’s the one next to him. Letty, Jesse whom you already know, and Brian who you’ve also met.” Mia introduced. “Now sit back, relax and catch me up on what you’ve been doing since we last talked.” Mia demanded, pushing Tony into a chair and taking one next to him before talking his ear off. It had been too long since they had been able to catch up properly.

Tony ended up crashing there that night. When he got up and ready he headed down to the kitchen, his gun and badge secured on his person.

“Morning Tony.” Mia greeted. He smiled in greeting before snagging some coffee and sitting to eat breakfast with the rest of the “family” as they trickled in. He got some startled looks from Jesse and Leon when they sat at the table.

“What? I gotta work today. My Boss is a bastard and rather proud of it.” He smirked, knowing that if they ever met his boss they’d be shocked.

Once he’d eaten he headed out and left. Walking into the bullpen he knew he’d catch hell from Kate, Ziva and McGee about wearing something that wasn’t his normal suits. They’d think he’d had a hot date. Boy would they be surprised to learn that he’d actually been with family. First he had to play a joke first. Thankfully things were quiet and he hoped they’d remain that way.

TBC…

AN: Mostly just a filler chapter. Hope you all enjoyed this one. For those that don’t know Italian translations will be below. As always Reviews, Comments and Constructive Criticism is always appreciated. Flames are not and will be fed to my dragon. Flamers will be sent to the Everglades to be eaten by the dinosaurs that live there ;)

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*I had to come up with a believable story that would allow for the Torretto’s to be related to Tony so, since we all know that Anthony Sr is a hound dog he had to get it from somewhere and I felt that Tony’s grandfather would work best. Hence the grandpa had an affair that resulted in an illegitimate child who took on the mother’s name of Torretto and thus Nicolai Torretto was born. Since there’s no mention of what Dom and Mia’s dad’s name is I went with Nicolai. So Tony’s uncle them got married had Dom then had Mia, lost his wife, and then died himself. Since it wasn’t as accepted to have kids out of wedlock then as it is now(even in the 70’s and 80’s it wasn’t as accepted.) So that’s the explaination for Dominic Torretto being related to Tony DiNozzo.

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