„Hey Buffy.“

Tony sat next to her in the basement a little apart from the others and the young woman frowned.

„What do you want?“

„Can’t I just sit next to you?“

She raised one eyebrow at him and he sighed.

„Ok, I don’t want to discuss that with the big secret watchers over there just yet. It’s...last night...when Jethro and I were about to...“

„Have sex?“

„Er, yeah...well...he suddenly stopped kissing me and rolled off. He said he heard a voice calling him Leroy.“

„Leroy? Why Leroy?“

Buffy looked confused at him.

„It’s his first name.“

She looked even more confused.

„I thought his first name is Jethro.“

„It’s his second name. Nobody calls him Leroy.“

She nodded slowly.

„Ok, so he hears a voice in his head that calls him by his first name that nobody uses?“

„Yeah. It says he should take me...their way. I guess it’s his father. You think that’s possible?“

She looked over at Gibbs who once more watched the sunset.

„I guess. I’ve never dealt with vampmen before, Tony. I wouldn’t know for sure.“

That moment the door flew open and Abby and Willow ran in. Abby quickly put up her laptop.

„Gotta see this, guys!“

She started a video clip, apparently a foreign news show. For a couple of minutes they just looked at it.

„Abby, I don’t understand anything!“

Tony said finally and she looked up at him.

„Oh, sorry, it’s from Brazil. Anyway, they’ve found three dead women, all of them had currently given birth. And all of them were blood out, absolutely. There were no other wounds then two wholes on their necks.“

„They’re spreading!“

McGee said with big eyes but Gibbs frowned.

„What do you mean? I’m from Virginia, so it’s nothing new.“

„You’re sure that you’re from here? I mean, were you born here?“

Tony said and Gibbs looked unsure from one to another, all of them looking at him now.

„I knew my parents. You know that.“

„Didn’t your parents die when you were eleven?“

Ducky asked his expression concentrated.

„Yeah...why?“

„They probably never told you that you were adopted. I mean...your father definitely wasn’t your father and I can’t imagine that vampire letting your mother live.“

„Couldn’t it be that my father was a vampire?“

Tony shook his head.

„This is what happens to the women, Jethro.“

He said pointing at the laptop.

„They’re the first meal of the babies. If your father had been your father he’d taken care that you drink blood. I think that your mother somehow escaped and set you out. And I think you’re actually from Transylvania.“

„Transylvania? Why you think that?“

„Because the first reports hinting to vampmen in that time frame was in Rumain, Transylvania. It’s a lot of work for a vampire to regain the possibility of reproduction. I can’t imagine that more than one vampire got the idea at more or less the same time.“

„Then how you explain Brazil?“

Abby asked in between.

„It’s his children.“

„Wait! I had a daughter and she definitely wasn’t a vampman! She died!“

Gibbs said and a expression of pain crossed his face for the tiniest part of a second, but Tony saw it.

„You’re not transformed. You’re more human than a vampire.“

Gibbs looked down and nodded slowly. He walked away from the group out of the door. Tony stayed still for a moment before he suddenly ran after his lover.






Tony stopped when he saw Gibbs in the yard between the main house and the guesthouse. The older man was pacing up and down his hands clenched fighting for control until he finally gave in and screamed. Falling to his knees as the yell echoed away. Tony slowly walked to the panting man and knelt next to him.

„It’s ok, Jethro, you’ve got every right to be angry.“

He sat putting a reassuring hand on his shoulder.

„I’m not angry. Of all feelings I have at the moment anger isn’t one of them. I’m confused, lost...scared. Who am I, Tony?“

„You’re a man who lost his family when he was protecting his contry. You’re a man who now protects the people who protect this country. And you’re the man who I love and who makes me happier than I was ever. You’re still the man you used to be, Jethro. This doesn’t mean that you’re not you, it just means that there’s a part of you you didn’t know.“

The soothing of Tony’s hand on Gibbs‘ back turned into caress and Gibbs smiled slightly.

„When did you become so deep?“

„That’s a part of me you didn’t know.“

Tony grinned back and helped the older man to stand up.

„Listen, we’ve got to find out about this as much as possible and not all of it will be nice, hell, I’m sure most of it we don’t wanna know, but it’s important. I don’t think that vampire did that for no reason. And we have to know what role you take in that play. So, you’re up for it?“

„Do I have a choice?“

„Not really.“

They shared a quick kiss and Tony entwined their hands before they walked back in.






The rest of that day they tried to avoid topics like Gibbs‘ family and concentrated on ways to stop what ever the original vampire has planned. The ring of Gibbs‘ cell phone at 11 pm interrupted them.

„Yes...ah huh...ok...I’ll be there.“

He hung up and turned to Tony.

„They need me in.“

„Only you?“

Tony frowned back at his lover.

„Yeah. They’ve got a perp who needs to be broken in interrogation. They already tried it with everything they know, even Ziva tried it. Now it’s my turn.“

„Ok, I’ll come with you.“

„No, Tony, it would be too suspicious when you come with me.“

Tony opened his mouth to protest. He could care less if anybody suspected them to have...what ever it was that they have.

„I’ll come with you. I need to get something from my desk anyway.“

McGee intervened before a single sound had left Tony’s lips. Now both men looked at him.

„I don’t need a baby sitter!“

„Actually, we said you need to stay under our supervision.“

Tony opened his mouth once more but Ducky continued before he could speak.

„And I think McGee notices changes in Jethro’s behaviour better than you do, Anthony.“









„Tony, I think I found something.“

Buffy said putting a huge book onto the table in front of Tony. He looked up at her and didn’t like her expression.

„What is it?“

„Don’t really know. It’s one of the old textes about Vampman. Apparently about the first vampire who tried it. It’s freaky. It’s a mixture of Dracula and Van Helsing and Frankenstein’s Monster, really.“

„Will you tell me what it says?“

He said slightly annoyed. Now he understood how Gibbs felt when he tried to explain a theory with a movie example.

„Ok, this vampire was working with a really mighty witch. This witch gave him the power to reproduce. But, once the baby was born he killed the witch and drank her blood together with the baby. Therefore, both of them are really mighty. The baby has it since it’s the child of the witch and the vampire has it because he drank her blood. Once he started he continued to reproduce but the children were never as might as the first born. Neither were the children of the children, not even the one of the first born because the blood of the witch became thinner with every generation.“

„Ok, so we know that not all of them are equally strong. But how does that help us?“

„The vampire was that strong that only one could kill him.“

„The first born?“

„Exactly.“

Buffy leant back in her seat giving Tony time to let it sink in.

„So, if Jethro’s the first born he’s the only one to kill the original vampire, but then there are still those vampman and all of them can reproduce. How could we stop them all?“

A sad expression entered the young woman’s face. She looked to the book and pulled it closer.

„Once the vampire is dead all his offsprings die, just as their offsprings.“

„You mean...if Jethro kills this vampire...he has to sacrify himself.“

Buffy nodded and Tony buried his face in his hands. Suddenly Tony looked at her with anger in his eyes.

„How should I do that? Should I make love to him tonight and when he are going to sleep say „Hey, Jethro, we found a way to stop that vampman shit. Unfortunately you have to die aswell!“ I can’t tell him that!“

„You already did!“

Tony froze and turned slowly. Gibbs stood there his usual cold mask on his face and McGee next to him mouth open in shock.

„You have to kill me?“

Gibbs asked as he sat next to Tony. The younger man noticed that there was no mask, Gibbs was completely calm.

„No. You have to kill your father and then all vampmen will die with him, including you. But that only works if you are the first born.“

„Why you think I was the first?“

„The first attacks indicating vampmen were about fourty years ago. It was about the time you were nine. According to this text vampman start to hunt at the age of six. Before that they get feeded. You’re the oldest known vampman, not that we really know any vampman except you.“

Buffy said when the others gathered around them.

„What would happen if we don’t stop it?“

Tony and Buffy changed a look before the younger man answered Gibbs‘ question.

„There’s a balance, the Slayer is the keeper of this balance. As far as we know are vampmen stronger than usual vampires and therefore harder to kill. They would destroy that balance which would have severe consequenses not only for menkind but also for all demons.“

„So, we need to kill that vampire or the world would be destroyed?“

„More or less, yeah.“

„Well, then find out where this vampire is so we can get started.“

Gibbs stood up and left the basement once more. Abby was about to follow him but Ducky held her back. Not even Tony followed him since they all knew that he needed some time alone now.







„Ok, I’m starting to worry. I’ll go look for him.“

Tony said after two hours. All others had returned to do some research but he was just pacing up and down every few minutes complaining that he would go and look for Gibbs. But for the first time nobody said something to stop him. For a second he considered staying but then he left.

It took him almost a hour before he suddenly knew where to find Gibbs. It would have been the first place to look but after the last months, nothing was normal. He slowly took the stairs making sure to make enough sounds, he wouldn’t startle a 180 pound vampman, until he was on the last stair.

„Hey, mind if I join you?“

„You have no idea about woodworking, DiNozzo.“

„Really? Only the word woodworking gives me plenty ideas...“

Tony grinned down at the older man but Gibbs just continues to sand the already smooth wood.Tony sighed and made his way over, wrapping his arms around the strong man he became to love so much.

„I was worrying when you were gone that long.“

He whispered against his neck and he felt Gibbs tense, not the effect he wanted.

„Soon you don’t have to worry about me anymore.“

„Jethro, if there was another way, I’d always choose that. But there isn’t. That vampire is more powerful than anything I’ve dealt with before.“

„Yeah...Like I said, go find him, then call me.“

„Maybe you can call him.“

Tony suddenly said as an idea stroke him. Gibbs turned in his arms pushing Tony away in the move.

„What do you mean?“

„I mean...maybe, if he can call you, maybe you can call him aswell. You ever answered that voice?“

„I usually don’t answer voices in my head. And if I do...don’t you think he’d know that I want to kill him? He’d read my mind, wouldn’t he?“

Tony shrugged and stepped a little closer again. He couldn’t stand any distance between them right now.

„If he calls you again, answer him, tell him what he wants to hear, tell him that he has to come.“

Out of the blue Gibbs grapped Tony’s waist and pulled him tight against himself.

„I love you, Tony.“

Tony pulled the older man even closer and breathed in his scent. He tried to savour everything about his lover, the smell, the warmth, the rythm of his heartbeat.

„I love you, too, Jethro. I don’t wanna lose you.“

Gibbs pulled back enough to look him in the eyes.

„Let’s go up, one last time.“

Tony swallowed the tears threatening to leave his eyes down and nodded.









„I have to find him!“

Andrei said pacing the dark room up and down. He came so far, he already was in Washington DC and now he couldn’t find him. His mind wasn’t open for him.

„Why is Leroy so important to you? You have many other children.“

Ziva didn’t look up from her hand while she painted her nails black. She could never understand why her father was that fixated on his first born.

„Without him I can’t do it. We need to be together, only then we have the power to win over all powers. And I have only time until midnight! If he’s 50 and not on my side he has decided against me! Find him, Ziva! Find him now!“





„Jethro...“

Tony moaned this time completely relaxed when Gibbs spoilt his neck. He couldn’t bring himself to worry, not tonight. Gibbs took a deep breath, smelling the scent he loved so much.

„Leroy.“

He didn’t stop. He kept kissing his lover’s neck, moving his hand over the well-defined stomach.

„Take him, Leroy.“

„I got him.“

He had answered, the only sound filling the room was Tony’s loud breathing, but he had answered, and he knew He had heard him. He looked up and saw a man with long dark hair and black eyes kneeling at the bed just behind Tony.

„Take him our way, Leroy.“

„I...I don’t know how.“

„You know how.“

Gibbs tried to lick his dry lips but felt sharp teeth. He looked at the man in front of him.

„You have to take him, Leroy. You have to take him now. Show me that you’re my son.“

„I will.“

Gibbs descented his head to Tony’s neck, and blood ran down from where his mouth was closed around the younger man’s throat. A wide smile spread over Andrei’s face when he saw the blood on the tanned skin. Gibbs looked up, red surrounding his mouth and he grinned.









All of a sudden Gibbs jumped from his straddling position onto the man next to bed pinning him to the floor.

„You didn’t really think I’d kill my lover, did you?“

With that he rammed a wooden stab into the heart of the vampire. A yell and dust filled the room and it pulled Tony out of his paralisation. Touching his neck and feeling blood but no wound he turned quickly to see Gibbs lie on the floor.

„Jethro!“

He jumped from the bed kneeling next to his lover, who slowly moved.

„Tony...I...I killed him.“

Tony looked at him in shock but pulled him ito a tight embrace quickly.

„It’s over, Jethro, it’s ok.“

But Gibbs pushed himself away from Tony and stood up, wiping the blood from his mouth. He looked around.

„It can’t be over! I’m still alive! You said I’d die!“

Tony stood up himself and looked rather confused.

„Maybe...maybe because you weren’t transformed.“

Gibbs pulled him close.

„I love you so much, Tony.“











„What happened here?“

Tony asked shocked when he and Gibbs entered Ducky’s basement. Everything lay in peaces. Before they could do anything Gibbs had a armfull of Abby.

„You’re alive! You’re alive! But how...Ziva...and...“

„Wait! Ziva?“

„When you were gone at least five vampmen came here.“

Buffy said and McGee nodded.

„Ziva and Ari were two of them.“

„Ari? I thought he’s dead.“

Gibbs said but then it hit him. Ziva had shot him. But if they both were vampmen Ari returned as a vampire.

„It explains some things. It explains why he tried to kill everyone but you and me.“

Tony said. Gibbs frowned at him.

„He couldn’t kill you because you were important to his father, I guess. And he couldn’t kill me because you’re father wanted you to bite me, the Slayer. To kill Kate was a try to make you angry. To make you forget all cautions.“

„You killed the vampire? Because suddenly they went to nothing but dust.“

McGee said from where he was brushing dust away, maybe one of the vampmen.

„Yeah, I killed him. Apparently I was lucky that I wasn’t transformed.“

„Tony...is that blood?“

Buffy said with big eyes as she saw Tony’s neck where still blood was.

„My blood. I bit my lip so it would look as if I bite him.“








When they went home Gibbs went with Tony. He didn’t want to spent the night in his bed where he nearly killed his lover.

„What will happen now? Am I still, a vampman?“

„You’ll always be one, Jethro. You will always feel the hunger. But I’ll make sure it’s satisfied without blood.“

Tony said and kissed him passionately. Maybe the start for them was not the best but the future was looking good. Maybe Gibbs wasn’t really living, but he was definitely not undead. He knew that now that this was over to be a vampman was a strengh and someday, he maybe can forget about his family and be happy with his love.





This is the end of the story, at least for now. I'm not sure if I write a sequel to this or not. If you have a really striking story plot, feel free to mail it to me. Feedback is as always very appreciated. (But please don't tell me that I need a beta. I got one and usually I get it betaed, I just wanted this on for now.)