Author's Note: First time writing NCIS and I wanted to do something a bit different. Each chapter will be a team member babysitting Palmer's baby. There's not much backstory that needs to be known except that the team wrote and agreed on a pact on a babysitting schedule so that no one got stuck with all the babysitting duties. Probably won't be much of Palmer in this.
Disclaimer: I do not own NCIS.
"Oh, come on! Bishop, can't you take the Autopsy Gremlin's Mini Gremlin?" Tony pleaded as they climbed the stairs heading to the director's office. He had a hot date planned the following evening and the Mini Gremlin was not going to make things very romantic.
Ellie just laughed. "Remember the deal we made? No one can get out of the babysitting scheduling unless there's an emergency that a baby isn't ethically or morally acceptable to present at." She recited from the pact they had all signed when the issue of babysitting came up the first time a few months ago. Tony had thought it was a brilliant idea, at the time anyway.
Tony stomped up the last remaining steps. "This is an emergency." He was almost willing to get down on his knees and beg the newest member of the team to make an exception.
"Knock it off, DiNozzo. You're babysitting Belle this weekend." Gibbs arrived with Belle in his arms and her bags on his shoulders. "Don't give me that look, you agreed to the same thing that we all did." He warned as he handed over the baby to DiNozzo. "Palmer said that she's been constipated and hasn't been sleeping well, so she's been crankier than normal." Gibbs gave his agent a crooked smile. As much as he loved Palmer's kid, he was happy that he didn't have to put up with a cranky baby but instead DiNozzo would have to; it would do him some good.
"Oh gee, constipation!" Tony sighed. He looked at Belle. "I guess Uncle Tony is going to have to cancel his date, isn't he?" He talked to her. She only blinked up at him, not understanding a single word.
That evening Tony arrived at his apartment with Belle and her things in tow. He set up the traveling play pen in his room where he normally placed it when Mini Gremlin came for a visit. "Okay, Mini Gremlin. Let's eat. You're hungry, right? Uncle Tony is." Belle was sitting in the crook of his arm as he moved through his kitchen looking through the bare cupboards for food to eat.
"I guess we'll order in Chinese. How does that sound?" He asked her. Belle smiled up at him before trying to shove a finger in his nostril. "I take that as a yes."
Tony had fed himself and the Mini Gremlin and he was ready to head to bed right after he got the little Gremlin to sleep in her bed. He told her a bed time story, like he did every time he put her to sleep and shut the lights off after she dozed off. A quick shower and Tony fell into his bed and drifted off to sleep.
Not too long after sleep had overcome him he was awoken by the Mini Gremlin's cries. "I knew it was too easy." He sighed as he flipped back his covers and sat up out of bed. He went to the Mini Gremlin and picked her up and let her rest her head on his shoulder. "You know, It's rude to wake the person who is taking care of you, right?" Tony whispered as he rubbed the baby's back.
The next couple of hours was spent pacing around his apartment, trying to get Belle to fall asleep. Finally, Tony was tired enough he collapsed onto his couch. He rested the fussy Gremlin on his chest and patted her back. Soon she fell asleep to Tony's surprise.
He smiled at the Mini Gremlin, "I guess you're sort of adorable." He decided before his eyes closed again.