"Very Special" Senior Field Agent Tony DiNozzo's Journal

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Name: "Very Special" Senior Agent Anthony "Tony" DiNozzo

Fandom: NCIS

Age: 43 (Born July 19, 1968)

Point in Canon: End of Season Six

Alignment: Heaven/Hell/Neutral: He's definitely a fighter for the side of good.

Powers (If any): No supernatural powers. He also doesn't have Gibbs' all but infallible gut or Ziva's ability to kill people with office supplies, but he is a damn good NCIS agent and is particularly skilled at going undercover.

Personality: DiNozzo is a hard working, loyal, fun loving, woman chasing/chauvinistic agent at NCIS. Tony is pretty street savvy and childish in spite of his age. He loves pulling pranks on his teammates (usually McGee) and often goes browsing through their things while they aren't at their desks and such. Tony also has a habit of flirting with just about every woman he comes across, be it on a case or not.

DiNozzo also has a habit of comparing real life to cinema at times and, while this can be seen as annoying and immature, sometimes it does in fact help on a case or two. In fact, DiNozzo's immaturity has often uncovered new evidence that could have been otherwised missed. He can also be surprisingly insightful too, which usually stuns his coworkers.

He is extremely loyal to his team at NCIS. Especially his boss, Gibbs. Even if it does get him in hot water at times with the NCIS director.

Brief History: (Must be in at least 400 words and in your own words.) Tony was born Anthony DiNozzo to a wealthy family from Long Island, New York. He was an only child but was cut off from his family's fortune. At eight years old his mother passed away but not before going through a phase that gave him vampire nightmares for a while. His father, a neglectful alcoholic, was a Civil War reenactor and led to Tony's intense dislike of anything relating to the Civil War. Though Tony and his father do have traits in common, such as women chasing and movie quoting.

Tony spent much of his childhood in various boarding schools and summer camps. When he was a teenager, he attended and graduated from the Rhode Island Military Academy and went on to go and graduate from Ohio State University (where he played varsity basketball) with a degree in physical education. After graduating, he wound up working in three different police departments before being hired by NCIS out of Baltimore's homicide division by Special Agent Gibbs. He left the police department in 2001 after working a case with Gibbs in which he found out his best friend and partner was actually a dirty cop.

Tony is the Senior Field Agent on the team, second in command to Gibbs. Two years after joining Gibbs' team, as they're working a case, Tony's cop instincts kick in and he realizes that the case is too perfect and searches out the real culprit of what happened. The next few cases Tony works has him as his usual girl flirting, head getting smacked by Gibbs' self. When a case has them heading to Guantanamo Bay, Tony is given the fun task of trying to discover Agent Paula Cassidy's involvement in the case.

The next several cases DiNozzo helps out with were pretty standard, including his battle of wits and flirting with Agent Kate Todd. One case involving marines going missing ends up in leading Tony going missing and sending his teammates on a hunt to successfully save his life. The following case has Tony going undercover to find out who is buying decommissioned military weapons on the black market, leaving Gibbs to go undercover himself and find the corrupt person at the center of the investigation for the marine's death.

As the cases and investigations continue, Gibbs and his team work to uncover the truth about Ari, a terrorist who had kidnapped Ducky, Kate, and Gerald at NCIS headquarters. It eventually escalates into the team tracking down a terrorist cell Ari had been a part of and results in a shootout that ends with the death of Kate by a single round to the head. Tony and the others work to prove that Ari was the sniper who did in fact kill Kate while trying to convince his Mossad control officer, Ziva David, and the new directer of NCIS, Jenny Shepard, of this fact and eventually succeed.

A few weeks later, Tony is first to discover that Ziva has been assigned as a liason officer to NCIS and will be replacing Kate. As the two begin working on cases together (and Tony and McGee suffering her interesting driving skills), he constantly tries to one up Ziva, which leads to amusing banter and a possible head slap from Gibbs. But it is with their first under cover mission that Tony starts feeling truly attracted to Ziva.

During a case, Gibbs is rendered comatosed leading Tony, the Senior Field Agent, in charge of the team as they search for a bomb on a ship. Even when Gibbs' memory returns, Tony is left in charge as Gibbs turns in his badge since his warnings about the bomb went unheeded. His leadership is put to the test when Ziva is forced to go on the run after witnessing an unauthorized assassination by a Mossad agent and is suspected as a double agent by the FBI. Eventually, Ziva's innocence is proven. Tony remains in charge for a while longer until Gibbs returns and, though offered a promotion and his own team, Tony turns it down in favor of staying to learn more from the man who hired him into NCIS.

With the team continuing to investigate various crimes, Tony is given an undercover assignment by Shepard that he's not to share with anyone on his team about. This, along with calls to his phone from a hospital, leads Ziva to think he's sick though Tony is unaware about her seeing the calls. Eventually, Tony finally meets the man he had been trying to track down: an arms dealer known as La Grenouille and the father of the doctor he had been seeing (hence all the hospital calls), unaware that La Grenouille knew who he was. A short time later La Grenouille is murdered but his body is not found for months. His daughter appeares and blames Tony for the death, but another man comes forward and takes credit for the murder. Tony and La Grenouille's daughter break up, leading to a long relationship slump for Tony.

Tony, along with Ziva, accompany Director Shepard to the funeral of a colleague who appeared to die of a heart attack. But at the funeral, Shepard discovers this might not be the case and, in order to keep Ziva and Tony from interfering, orders them to take the day off. Tony happily obliges, trying to get Ziva to enjoy their day off. Ziva, however, persists and nags Tony into constantly checking up on the Director. They soon learn that all is not well and work on trying to find out where Shepard is. By the time they locate her in an old diner, she had died from wounds suffered during a gun fight.

Feeling wholly responsible and ashamed of not fulfilling his duties, Tony works tirelessly to try to find the ones responsible for killing Shepard. In response to the death of Shepard, the new director assigns Tony to the USS Ronald Reagan as agent afloat. After a while, Tony is stationed aboard the USS Seahawk and has an apparent suicide on his hands. But as he investigates, it turns out the real Lieutenant was killed in Cartegena, Columbia and that the intention was to expose the crew to anthrax. With help from Gibbs and Ziva, they solve the case and Tony returns to D.C. in spite of Vance's wishes.

After years of working hard for Gibbs, Tony is finally told by his boss of how proud he is of Tony after a case in which a marine Tony had imprisoned three years ago was released and a witness against the marine was found dead. Gibbs gives Tony the lead on the case and they find out that the marine was actually framed, resulting in them finding the true culprit of the embezzlement scheme.

As time went on, Tony started suspecting Ziva's loyalty to NCIS as she spoke with a Mossad officer. Eventually, Tony comes head to head with the Mossad agent, Michael Rivkin, and the two face off as Tony tries to arrest him for working for a foreign nation while on US soil. He is forced to shoot Rivkin in self defense. Rivkin later dies in a hospital. Gibbs, Vance, Tony, and Ziva go to Israel and speak with the head of Mossad, and Ziva's father. With tensions rising and information Gibbs, Tony, and Vance leave Tel Aviv and Ziva.

After a few months with no word from Ziva, Tony and the rest of NCIS believe she is dead.

Played by: Michael Weatherly

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Third Person: (Two paragraph minimum requirement) Tony couldn't believe it. He didn't want to believe it. He had lost enough partners and he didn't want to admit he had lost another one. First his partner back in his homicide days at Baltimore PD being dirty. Then there was Kate Todd. Had he loved her? Perhaps part of him had. But she had been a damn fine partner. Rather hot too.

Now? Now there was Ziva. Oh how she kept him truly on his toes. And all those sayings he had to help correct. Granted she spoke quite a few languages but still. He missed those.

He didn't want to admit she was gone but he knew he needed to. But like he had said after the death of Director Shepard, he dealt with things slowly. His eyes glanced up and over to Ziva's desk. She was definitely his favorite Israeli Ninja.

Deciding to get some air and coffee, he rubbed his face vigorously with his hands in an attempt to clear his mind and rose from his seat. Grabbing his jacket and gun, he put them both on before heading to the elevators. As he stepped into the elevator, he hit the button for the ground floor and watched the doors close. Part of him debated on going down to the lab to see how Abby was doing. But he decided against it for now. Once he got his coffee, he'd be sure to get her a Caf-Pow. Suddenly, the elevator jolted and he went sprawling ungracefully to the ground, hitting his head against the metal wall just hard enough to daze him.

As he blinked his vision clear a few minutes later, he frowned. This was not NCIS's elevator. This was a park. A park in the cold. Zipping his jacket up, he looked around, trying to figure out where he was and how he had gotten there. A hand went to his holstered weapon. Oh he didn't like this. Didn't like it at all.

First Person (Comm post style.): Okay, neat trick whoever decided to stop the elevator suddenly, drug me, and dump me in a park. I mean, thanks for letting me keep my clothes but come on. Did it have to be a place so cold?

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