I apologize to anyone who doesn't like Hollis. But I need Gibbs to talk and I notice he did talk to her in the episode he came home with her after their date.

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"What's this, Jethro? Don't tell me you have a son you never told me about too?" Hollis question as she indicated the photo album she had pulled out of Gibbs fire proof box.

Actually she had found two photo albums. The first album had been full of pictures of Kelly. Almost every first the girl had was in the book, from her first steps to her first day of school. When Hollis had reached for the second album she had been expecting that she would find more of the same.

Instead she found pictures of a boy growing up. Maybe a nephew? was her first thought. But Jethro wasn't in any of the photos.

Gibbs walked over behind her and put his arms around her, smiling while looking at the pictures in the album. "DiNozzo" was his answer.

She glanced up at him startled. "Why do you have a photo album with pictures of DiNozzo as a kid?"

"Long story." Gibbs responded.

She gave him her best impression of the Gibbs glare and he responded appropriately.

"Which I am going to tell you over coffee." he said.

He sweetly took her hand and led her to the kitchen. As he started the coffee he began to explain.

"Not long after I came back from Mexico, I was showing DiNozzo some stuff in the fire proof box and he found my album with Kelly in it. He loved it. He told me he was really amazed I had kept that book of her as she grew up."

"Well, it was sweet, but not really amazing. Of course you have pictures of her, she was your daughter." She commented in response.

"He was amazed that I had kept the pictures of Kelly safe for all these years, even though she was gone. And he loved that I had them in a fire proof box. It was the exact opposite of his father." Gibbs responded uneasily. "His mother died when he was a kid and when his father disowned him at 12, the bastard got rid of every picture he had of Tony. He burned them in front of the kid."

Shock, Hollis could not respond. She was stunned into silence by the thought of a boy watching all the pictures of himself reduced to ashes. How could Tony's father be so evil? Why would he have burned all the photos of Tony? She could tell from the photo's she was looking at that Tony had been a bit of a trouble maker, but she could also tell the boy had been a sweet kid. Suddenly, she wondered where the photos she was looking at had come from.

"So how did you get these?" She said indicating the album in her hand.

Gibbs turned to fill there coffee cups and shrugged as he continued. "Abby and I went on a mission. We found his old nanny, she had some photos. Then, we contacted some of his mother's relatives in England. They had a few more. Abby made some on the computer and I got a hold of his old coaches at the boarding school he went to. We made this for Tony." He said indicating the book.

"So have you shown it to him?"

"I tried to give it to him for his last birthday." Gibbs paused wondering how to explain. "He was really excited." Gibbs smiled at the memory. "But then the photos reminded him that his Dad had burned his."

"I can't believe his father did that. If he were here I'd…." She trailed off unable to decide what she would do to the man.

Gibbs sighed. He also wished he could do something to punish the man who had treated his senior field agent so badly. Tony didn't deserve the childhood he had. He gently took the album from his date, flipping through childhood photos of Tony. Sometimes he could almost see the youngster Tony had been. Hollis leaned over and lightly laughed at the picture of a smiling Tony in a swimsuit enjoying the beach.

"I can't believe DiNozzo didn't want to keep this. I know his father was a jerk, but this album is really special."

"It's not that he didn't want to keep it. He actually comes over and looks at it sometimes. He asked me to keep it in my fire proof box with Kelly's. He probably wanted to make sure that the photos never burned again." Gibbs explained.

"I think," Hollis commented with wisdom, "he want to make sure someone who cared would take care of the photos."

"Yeah," Gibbs agreed quietly lost in the pictures.