Okay, so this is my first fanfic for NCIS. I don't know if I should continue this. So if the reviewers (you guys) want me to continue, I will. I'll start this off with the prologue and the first chapter.

This story is slightly AU due to obvious reasons and the time frame. I could've picked a different woman for this story, but I wanted it to be Shannon.

Disclaimer: I don't own any of the characters... in this story.

Prologue

Thirty Five Years Ago

Shannon paced her room as she was contemplating what to do with the new results she had received. She had only met Leroy Jethro Gibbs twice and had irreversibly fallen in love with him. But, now he was gone and she didn't know what to do. She had received news earlier that day that she was six weeks pregnant. Her mother would kill her. Her mother was very Christian and to find out her daughter was expecting and she wasn't married would infuriate her, maybe she'd even disown her. Of one thing she knew for sure, she wouldn't get rid of her child.

Three months later

Shannon was starting to show and people at work were starting to stare at her. She would have to tell her boss soon. She had told her mother the previous month and as she had expected her mother had had a conniption. But, as the weeks passed by, her mother had cooled off and supported her daughter through whatever decision she would make. She hadn't told Jethro yet and had decided not to tell him. He wouldn't be back for awhile and he would never find out. She had decided along with her mother that the best decision to make was to give her baby up for adoption. She wasn't financially equipped to take care of her child and she couldn't do it alone. That afternoon she had told her boss and then announced it to her nosy co-workers.

Five months later

The baby squirmed in her arms. He was a beautiful blue eyed baby with brown hair; of course most babies were born with blue eyes. She wondered if her child would have green eyes like hers. It would be the first and only time she could hold her son as his adoptive parents arrived. She didn't know who they were, and it was best that way. She caressed the soft skin of the baby's cheek before a nurse took him away. She cried herself to sleep that night and for the next couple of months.

The Italian couple looked down at the beautiful baby boy. They were already in love with him. "Welcome to our family, Anthony Dane DiNozzo, Jr." His adoptive mother cooed at him. He was there first and only son. Soon the love Anthony Sr. felt for his son became rage and hate as he'd beat his son while in a drunken stupor. His mother died tragically when he was eight and his father never wanted to be around him. He was sent to various boarding schools and later joined Baltimore PD and then moved on to NCIS.

Shannon was reunited with Jethro a year later. They had gotten married and had a daughter. Shannon and her mother would never tell Jethro that he had a son and the secret was brought to the grave with Shannon. Her mother, having made a promise with her daughter, had never told the man, even after she had met up with him recently. She had felt sorry for him when his family died and she thought, that telling about a son that was given away would have sent him over the edge. It would have been close to impossible to find the boy, anyway.

Next, chapter one.