DiclaimerL I do not own NCIS
Warnings: None in this one.
A/N: Welcome to the second part of Cub, called Becoming Pack! These are little short stories, going through Season 3 to Season 8, about Team Gibbs learning how to be a a pack.
Special Thanks to my Beta: MaddieStJ, who is awesome!
Enjoy!
Becoming Pack
Chapter 1: Once You Feed Them They Never Leave.
Gibbs was beginning to wonder if Shannon and Kelly were alive today if his home would be like this: loud, bright, full of laughter, and joy.
"Time for videos!" Raven announced as everyone cleared their plates.
The McGee siblings groaned.
"Oh hush," Raven scolded lightly. "Be grateful I didn't bring the picture album. Victor, do the dishes."
Victor did as ordered, grumbling about how he was the Alpha and he should be the one bossing his wife around.
"Why don't you?" Tony asked, as they all shuffled into the living room, and Leo got to work on the TV.
"Dude, when did you get this thing? The Stone Age?" Leo asked Gibbs who glared at him.
"Daddy wouldn't let her," Sarah giggled answering Tony's question.
"Don't forget the cake!" Raven called to her mate.
"You come get it, Woman!" Victor shot back, up to his elbows in sudsy water.
After the cake was eaten, along with some serious debate, a video was chosen.
"Awwww!" the girls cooed.
On the screen was a large dark red almost black snow leopard laying on her side, her four cubs all curled up and onto of each other asleep and purring happily
"Which one's which?" Abby asked.
Raven pointed to the light furred ball of fuzz. "That's Leo." She moved onto the large black ball of fuzz. "That's Kuma." She then pointed to the light red ball of fuzz. "And that's Orion."
"Where is McGee?" Ziva asked.
On the screen, a hand came into view moving Raven's large paw to reveal small light brown ball of fuzz.
"Awwww!" said Ziva smiling while Abby squealed. Tim blushed while his brothers and sister chuckled.
"Raven my dear, what year was this?" Ducky asked curiously, after all at their first meeting Orion had told them that they were over five hundred years old, aside from Sarah and Tim, and unless he was mistaken, electronics were a very, very distant thought, let alone having video recorders in existence.
"Somewhere in the 1500s, give or take a few years?" Victor said, tilting his head to the side while he thought about the question.
"What?" he asked, looking at the surprised and shocked looks on everyone's faces.
"1600? How?" Ducky trailed off speechless.
"How what? Oh! You mean how did we have recorders? Weres are more advanced in technology than humans. Most of us just prefer the simple things," Raven explained, "I think it was a Werewolf who gave its mate the design for the first recorder."
"Tony," Tim said, looking around at the shocked faces. "Remember the first Men in Black movie when K is showing J around their headquarters and he talking about certain items and how they got them?"
Grinning, Tony nodded. "Yea, McMoviebuff. I remember, how day to day things we have came from folks from other planets, like the microwave oven"
Tim nodded, "Most of the stuff you use every day was invented by Weres we just don't take the credit"
Ducky opened his mouth, possibly to ask why, and what other things have been invented by the Weres when Sarah interrupted him.
"Look! It's Daddy."
A large sandy blonde furred tiger with black stripes stepped into the screen. He nudged his mate in greeting before sniffing at the small ball of fuzz. A soft mew was heard followed by a small head lifting and a little nose bumping onto a larger one.
Five minutes past of watching the cubs waking up, meowing, and belly crawling around on the beds of furs, Raven moved over until all four cubs were happily suckling.
Not once did anyone of the humans found it odd, that they were watching their friend and teammate basically breastfeeding, maybe it was the fact that on the screen was something you would see on National Geographic, that, or it hasn't sunk in yet at it was Tim.
The next scene showed the cubs were older. Kuma was bigger than his brothers and all three Cubs were wrestling around with their father, while Tim was happy to curl up underneath his mother's head.
"Mama's boy much?" Tony teased.
Tim glared at him, well it was a pout, but everyone decided it was best not to say anything.
On screen the boys tumbled. In the background there were some voices, and Raven lifted her head and grunted before lowering her head to give Tim a bath. Sometime later different size paws, and different colored fur appeared along with several cubs all different sizes. Soon the screen was filled with wrestling cubs, with the McGee family identifying everyone in the pack.
Later in the evening Tony lay awake, his body was using one of the purring Weres, he was pretty sure it was Orion, body as a pillow, and curled onto of his chest was Tim face buried in his neck purring loudly and happily. The Agent's thoughts wandered back to the videos he had seen and the way everyone looked so happy and content and he found himself being envious of Tim.
As the days went on, Team Gibbs - Ducky, Abby and Jimmy included - found their lives interacting with the McGees. Most of the time it was random. Tim was nowhere to be found [was usually in the group] when one or two would show up at one of their doors, and when mentioned to the younger man, he didn't look surprised, only slightly annoyed. Tim would just sigh and apologize for his "crazy family".
Days turned into weeks, and it was a month later when Tim came to work with surprising news.
"Your family's moving to Brazil?" exclaimed Tony.
Tim nodded, and if they were visible his ears and tail would be drooping sadly.
"Dad's been restless since the Hunters appearance," he said softly and quietly not wanting to be overheard. "And so has the pack."
Everyone was surprised to hear that Victor had been restless; when they had seen the Alpha he didn't seem anything but calm if a little grumpy.
"Yea, but Brazil?" Tony said.
Tim shrugged. "We've moved to weirder places before."
"But this is time, you will not be with them," Ziva stated, her head tilted. "You are staying here, yes?"
Tim nodded, "Sarah finished school, so she going with them. Mom wanted me to go, but I told her that to just up and leave with no warning isn't a good idea in my line of work."
"Is that okay?" Tony asked. After all, even though his Probie's family had made it quite clear that while they were proud and happy for their family member, they weren't so comfortable with someone so young not being near them
"No," Tim said, from his desk with a chuckle. He powered up his computer to begin his day. "Kuma put up a big fuss."
Both Ziva and Tony grinned, the elder McGee sibling was quickly becoming known for being overprotective towards his siblings, Tim more so, and they often wondered what had happened to make him that way or was it just a Werecat thing.
"They're leaving in a week, I going over this weekend to help to pack," Tim informed them. "You guys should probably come. Knowing Mom, she'll be pissed if you don't."
"Will there be food?" Tony asked.
"Always!" Tim chuckled.
"I'm there."
Ziva shook her head with amusement at her co-worker, "I will come as well, and you should inform Abby, Ducky and Jimmy."
"Do you think the Boss will come?" Tony suddenly asked. "Maybe if your Mom makes that cake. He seemed to really like it."
"Why is no one working?"
All three Agents jumped when Gibbs came breezing in. He paused and stared at them until they were all back to work. Then he sat at his desk and resumed looking through the folder he had earlier before going on a coffee run. Silence fell for five minutes until Gibbs spoke up.
"What time do you have to be at your parent's house, Tim?"
Surprised, Tim blinked up at his boss before answering. "0900".
Gibbs nodded.
Turns out, moving for Weres was packing the bare essentials, having a big party and burning everything else, house included.
"You know this is illegal, right?" Tony asked, watching the fire dance.
Leo shrugged, "It's the only way no one finds out we were here. Last thing we need is a Hunter coming around."
"But the fire will attract a lot of attention, will it not?" Ziva asked.
"We made it look like a forest fire. The weather is hot enough for it," Victor said.
They watched the fire throughout out the whole night, the Pack and humans curled around each other.
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