In his bedroom, Tony, dressed in his comfiest sweats and hooded sweatshirt, sat on his bed after following his boss's orders to get into his pyjamas before he was told that the SFA had to tell Gibbs everything his 'father' did to Tony as he was growing up, something that made Tony groan: he wasn't sure that he could tell his boss everything he had endured at the hands of his father as a child, especially when he wasn't sure if his boss would even believe anything that he was told. After all, his boarding school 'friends' didn't believe him, so why would Gibbs believe him?
A knock came at his bedroom door and Tony exhaled deeply, he knew it was time to tell his boss everything, so with a bowed head, Tony walked out of his room and back into his living room where Gibbs was sat on his couch, watching the flat screen tv.
Tony trudged to his couch and sat at the other end of the couch, as far away as he could get from Gibbs before he sighed.
"What I tell you tonight doesn't make it past that front door." Tony snapped at his boss, he saw Gibbs shake his head. "No, based on what you tell me tonight, me and the team will track him down and arrest him for child abuse." Gibbs said. Tony snapped his head up to his boss. "Are you insane?! If he finds you I told you, he'll kill me! He made it quite fucking clear that I'm not to tell anyone what he did to me as a child! Especially not a cop!" Tony roared, his green eyes were filled with fear. Gibbs moved closer to his son and wrapped his arms around his trembling son. "Tony, Senior hurt you for a very long time and you've buried it for so long, and if it weren't for this case, we would've never have known that you were abused by him, don't you want him to pay for it?" Gibbs asked softly, Tony nodded as he lent his head on Gibbs' shoulder. "Of course I do but you have non idea what he'll do when he finds out I told you." Tony said fearfully. Gibbs closed his eyes: Senior really hurt Tony as a child, so much so, he's made his son fearful of trusting anyone.
"The only thing Senior will do when he finds out he's being arrested is curse at me for slapping the cuffs on him. You won't even have to see him, if you don't want to." Gibbs reassured his son who had lent against him even more, something that made the older man smile.
"Come on, why don't you tell me what he did, then we can arrest him." Gibbs suggested as he nudged his son into sitting up straighter. "Can you call the team here? I only want to relive this once." Gibbs nodded as he got his phone out of his pocket. He'd do what it took to make his son somewhat okay. After calling everyone, Gibbs watched as his son went into the kitchen to make coffee for the team. He knew his son needed to be doing something rather than sitting on his extremely comfortable couch doing nothing except worrying about how the team would react.
Gibbs just hoped he and the team could get Tony through this without the SFA spiralling out of control.
A\N: This is coming along now! Thanks for bearing with me while I get back in the swing of stuff.
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Family is family
FanfictionTony is forced to confront his demons when a case that has him flashing back to his childhood. Will Tony let Gibbs help him face his demons and open up or will he push the only father he's ever known away?
