Chapter 4

Tony took a deep breath as he stepped out of the car with his family behind him. Jimmy was already inside preparing his resignation for NCIS. He walked up to the front desk and saw a shocked woman behind it. "Hi Debbie." Tony said with a small smile. The woman now known as Debbie shot out from behind her desk and slammed in Tony's chest, wrapping her arms around him and crying into his shirt. "Tony, You're okay!" she said while sobbing as she tightened her grip on him.

Tony smiled as he wrapped his arms around her, lifting her off her feet a little. "Yeah, Deb, I'm okay."

Deb's sobbing lessened until it turned into a sniffling mess. "We thought that you were gone. The Director said that you were stationed in Israel. We were told from the director that you were MIA. Everyone tried to look for you, but the director told us not to look into it, but everyone was looking on there own free time." Debbie said as she wiped her eyes.

"I was captured when i was on a mission, but i escaped. I'm back now Deb, and nothing is going to send me away this time." Tony told her with a smile.

Debbie nodded as she signed him and let him and his family pass. Tony took deep breaths as the elevator reached the deignated floor. Emily knew that he was scared, even though he probably wouldn't say that. Reaching out, she took his larger hand into her smaller one and gave it a small squeeze

Tony smiled as he glanced at the small girl. He could do this, he had his family with him.

The elevator came to a stop and the door slid open, Tony felt his heart pounding in his chest. Taking a deep breath, Tony held his head up high and walked into the bullpen.

When Gibbs woke up that morning he could feel it in his gut that something big was going to happen. Walking into the Bullpen, he saw Ziva and McGee working at there desks. Ever since Tony was repeorted missing, the team had lost their spark. They still completed their investigations but it wasn't the same without their lost friend. Everyone in the bullpen was treating them different as well. They thought that Tony just joked around and cared only for himself, they didnt know that he knew almost everyone by name and had the entire bullpen standing behind him.

All worked stopped when they heard the elevator coming up to their floor. They were used to Tobias and Emily coming to NCIS to check and see if Tony was found. The entire bullpen was silent with shock when they saw a face that they had not seen in four months.

Tony walked out of the elevator with his head held high, Emily holding his hand beside him, Isabella and Tobias standing behind him.

Everyone was shocked when they saw Tony walk out of the elevator, he was tan before he left but know he looked like he spent the entire time he was gone in the sun. He had muscle, but know he looked like he was nothing but rock hard muscle. They could tell by how he walked that he wasn't the same as he left, That tony was a beta to Gibbs but this Tony was the alpha and he had no problem showing it. The white ring on his right middle finger stood out on his tanned skin, they couldn't tell what was on it but they knew he didn't have it when he left.

Tony stopped walking when he noticed everyones eyes on him. He looked around and saw all of the people that he had worked with and greeted them with a small smile. "Hey everyone" he said softly.

Everyone was silent as they stared at Tony in shock. Tony was about to say something else but was cut off by everyone running up to him and asking him questions or to hug him and shake his hand.

Team Gibbs was staring at Tony in shock, they thought that he was dead but he was standing five feet in front of them. They saw how everyone crowded around him and were asking him questions about what happened to him. They came out of there shock when Vance leaned over the rail and yelled for Tony.

"DiNozzo! My offfice!"

Everyone moved and let Tony move walk to the stairs. He passed his old desk where he saw Emily sitting in the chair looking bored. With a small smile he took his phone from his pocket and handed it to her. "Here you go, sqiurt."

Emily smiled and took the phone from him and started playing some games that Tony had downloaded for her. "Thanks, big brother."

Tony smiled at her and walked up the stairs, where Vance was waiting on him with the office door open., that was closed when Tony walked through.

Once the door closed behind them, Gibbs and the rest of his team turned and looked at Tobias and Isabella, who were talking and laughing with the other agents.

Ziva looked at Emily, who was playing on Tonys phone. "Are you happy that your brother has returned home, Emily?" she asked the little girl.

Emily looked up with a smile and nodded. "Yeah, He came home a couple nights ago and tucked me into bed. I was very happy." Emily said as she went back to the phone. She played for a few more minutes before the phone in her hand started ringing. Emily looked at the screen and saw the picture of a beautiful woman and the name Nora Sapphira under it.

Emily took the phone to her daddy, who was talking with Gibbs. "Dad, Big brothers phone is ringing."

"Well, who is it, Em?" Tobias asked bringing everyones attention to the little girl.

Emily looked at the phone again and saw the name and a grin appeared on her face. "It's brothers girlfriend" she said in a sing-song voice. Emily pressed the answer button and brought the phone to her ear. "Hello?"

"Hello? Who is this?" A woman asked.

"This is Emily."

"Oh, your Tony's younger sister. He talked about you a lot when he was here." The woman said with a chuckle.

"He did?" She asked with a smile.

"He sure did. He talked about how sweet you were and how he was missing you the most." Nora said over the phone. She was in a room with three of her friends and they were giggling quietly at Nora talking to a little girl, they wanted to talk to Tony but this was too good to pass up.

Emily giggled at the laughing she heard on the other end of the line. "He told us about you this morning. I think that he likes you" she said in a whisper, or a whisper that only a little girl could do.

Ziva was listening to the conversation that Emily was having on the phone. She wasn't able to see the name on the screen but she heard the girl tell her father that it was Tony's girlfriend, and felt her heart break. She knew that she hurt Tony badly when they were in Israel, but she didn't think that he would move on in just a few months.

Everyone in the bullpen smiled at how cute the little girl was when she talked on the phone. They were also happy that she was smiling again, She hardly smiled when Tony was gone, but now the light had returned to her eyes.

"What did you need to talk to my brother about?" Emily asked with a tilt of her head.

"I was going to tell him that me and some of his friends were planning on coming to America in a few weeks." Nora said with a smile.

Emily started jumping around the bullpen, "You are! Yay! We can go to the park and go to Chuck E Cheese, and I can introduce you to my friends and you can meet my dad and Aunt Isabella, and Jimmy!" she yelled through the phone in excitement and happiness.

Ziva's frown deepened, she had head Nora say that her and some of Tony's other friends were coming to America. She only knew one Nora in Israel and she hoped that it wasn't the one that she was thinking of. She also wondered who else Tony was friends with. She thought that Tony going to Israel would be a bad thing and that he would get hurt, but it looks like Tony had replaced them with people from her home country. She looked at Emily, who had hung up and was telling her father and Isabella that Tony's girlfriend and some of his other friends were coming and what she wanted them all to do. She turned and saw Jimmy and Ducky walking into the bullpen and over to the group.

"Jethro, what has everyone in a smiling and happy mood? I even saw some of the ladies downstairs crying tears of happiness. Ducky asked.

"Tony's back. He's in the directors office." Gibbs told his friend.

"Oh my, I wonder what the poor boy has gone through while he was away." Ducky said with a shake of his head.

"I don't know" Gibbs said with a frown. Gibbs turned his head to look at Jimmy and noticed the white envelope in his hand. "What's that, Palmer?" Gibbs asked.

"Nothing you need to worry about, Gibbs" Jimmy said, not afraid in the least. Jimmy thought about last night and the conversation that he had with Tony and realized that if he was going to be as strong as his big brother that he needed to grow a back bone and not let other people push him around.

Team Gibbs and Ducky were shocked by Jimmy's attitude. The only time that he had an attitude was when he found out that it was Ziva's fault that Tony was left in Israel.

Everyone else was impressed and happy that Jimmy stood up for himself.

Ducky walked up to Jimmy and held out his hand, "May I see the paper Mr. Palmer?"

Jimmy didn't hesitate and handed the paper to Ducky, who opened it. What he saw surprised him. "Dear boy, this is your resignation." he said, shocking the entire bullpen.

Why did you sign your resignation?" McGee asked. He was shocked that Jimmy was going to leave, he thought that Jimmy liked it here.

Jimmy opened his mouth to reply but was cut off by Tony's voice from behind the group, "That's because I am leaving as well."

The group turned and saw Tony standing tall and Vance behind him with a sad look in his eye. "Tony" Gibbs said in a whisper, the man he left in Israel was not the man standing before him, he had changed.

"Agent Gibbs" Tony said with a bow of his head.

Now that Tony wasn't moving or being crowded, the group could see the changes even better in Tony. His skin was darker, showing that he spent a lot of time in the sun. He was more muscular then he was when he left. But what everyone noticed was the change in his eyes, they held power and told them that this man had suffered a lot and didn't let it change him.

"Tony" Ziva said in a whisper as she walked up from behind Gibbs.

Tony looked over and saw Ziva walk up to him. "Ziva" he said as he bowed his head once more.

Ziva felt her heart break even further when she saw how he didnt say her name with love anymore. "I am glad that your back. We thought that you were dead. What happened?" she asked with tears in her eyes.

Everyone was silent and waited for Tony to tell his story. Tony smiled and picked up Emily from his chair, making her giggle before sitting in his chair and placing her in his lap. "Well...

And that is chapter 4!

Next chapter Tony will tell the team most of what happened to him and will start his first day as a FBI agent and a super hero, as well as meet a lanter corps.

I still need ideas for his hero name, but i think i have it figured out.

Who do you think Tony should be with?