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Chapter One: The Beginning of Something New From Something Old
All he remembered about what happened in the end was a pop, then a pain, then blackness.
He found out later by his “grim reaper” (thank you Harry Potter fanfic trope for being right on the money) was that his warnings to Tim and Ziva had gone unheeded and unlistened to because they had turned the radio off while he was out gathering voice prints to catch a terrorist.
This allowed the terrorists to catch not only him, but them, and kill them off before heading off to do the planned bombing. Killing a stadium full of military families and kids, as well as the SecDef and SecNav while they were at it.
What a shit-show.
And all because his team mates “could no longer stand his voice” enough to do their fucking job.
He had been allowed the choice of going on to “His next great adventure” to quote Albus. Or go back to when he first started at NCIS and do a cliched do-over. But if he did go back, he had to stick it out and not tell everyone where to stick it and quit.
He was among the pebbles that created the ripples that hit others ripples and they created more and so on, so he was among the lynchpins. Not the sole one. That was solely in literature. But one of the ones, so he would have to do his part in that.
He had asked a few clarifying questions, the events leading up to it the day he was to appear. Including getting his frat brothers to find and quickly move him into a new place in DC. One near the Yard with a first or ground floor apartment/condo so it would be better accessible to get his mother’s piano in and out. But with excellent security, and even better amenities.
With as many times as he had moved over time, he’d had one brother he had working strictly as that, plus keeping up with his property investments.
Gods was pops and certain members of the Paddington family going to be pissed at the fact Aunty Vi forced the issue of his getting his full Mother’s Inheritance away from all of them and force all of them to actually repay the moneys and value of the items they took from it.
On top of that she would make sure those in the family knew that her top of the line, with links to the Royals, solicitors and barristers had, and would, do her bidding as to her will. Which all came to him to dispense with as the executor of her estate.
That time between Philly and Baltimore was just not because he needed down time, but to take care of her estate. And he had forced the family to actually buy her estates and items at the actual listed value instead of downgrading them. Or giving them away like they wanted.
And the fact that he actually listed everything he, himself didn’t want, and could take back to the states with him, only fueled the fire even further.
My, but was Queen Consort Phillip mighty happy to get those estates that were next to his wife’s summer country estate, and the less said about the specific anniversary jewels he picked out, the better.
The added fact that he had Markus Leon Hunter, his own lawyer, do a name change when he got back, from Anthony Dominic DiNozzo Jr. To Antonio Dom. DiNozzo. And then sicced his firm on pops for stolen wages and 401k’s that pops had illegally claimed were his, was just icing on the cake.
He even had him do a buyout of pop’s share of DiNozzo Trucking at the going rate of those shares plus 10 percent. Then turned around and put the business in the hands of another brother who had gone into corporate business and it now was back to flourishing. Much to Sr.’s ire.
He, himself, would have just finished his Masters in Criminal Justice while he was in Baltimore and going to night school. Doing his paper on the “Justice System and Under Cover Work, and How They Intertwined, and at Times Clashed.”
He shook his head to get out of his thoughts of the past and was sent on his way, and that put him to where he was now. Standing in front of the FLETC Office of Glynco Georgia, about to do FLETC for the second time after being a training instructor there for a bit while awaiting orders to actually ship out when Vance took over.