Warning: Will contain spanking- don't like, don't read.
It had been a few days since Abby had gotten caught forging her moms signature, and lying. McGee was still grounded for another week and a half due to Tim and Abby's cemetery adventure.
Abby was sitting on the bus next to McGee. Abby had stayed up late studying for a Spanish test so she wasn't her usual talkative self. McGee was looking out the bus window.
While looking out the window McGee noticed a sign advertising a Haunted Harvest Fair. Since he was new to the area he didn't know what it was all about.
"Abbs, what is the Haunted harvest Fair?"
Abby began to wake up a little out of her fog at the mention of the Haunted Harvest Fair. She began to talk a mile a minute while her black pigtails bopped around while she talked. The sight made McGee smile.
"Oh my god McGee how can you not know about the Haunted Fair. Well of course you are new to here so they may have not had a Haunted Fair where you came from. Oh my god it is only the coolest thing on this earth. There is a haunted house, and ghost stories and all kinds of spooky things."
McGee thought it was cute how Abby could talk a mile a minute and not come up for air. Actually sometimes he wondered how she was able to talk so much without stopping to breath.
Abby began to bounce in her seat. "I love this time of year. Oh come on McGee we have to go to the fair. When did the sign saw it was."
McGee hadn't really paid that much attention to the dates and times. "Um … I..didn't …. see."
Abby lightly punched McGee in the arm. "Geez McGee how could you not see when the fair was. Oh never mind I can look it up."
Abby took out her iPhone and connected to the web. "It is this Friday night. We HAVE to go McGee."
As much as McGee wanted to go, not so much that he liked ghost stories and haunted houses, but he did like Abby and he would do almost anything to spend time with her.
His ears started to turn red from embarrassment "Um…. Abbs….. I'm.. still… grounded, remember. Plus won't your parents worry about you out at night?'
"McGee my parents let me go every year as long as Tony goes with me. Are you kidding they know how much I love the haunted fair and there is no way I could not not go. Come on isn't it time they let you off for good behavior?"
"Um I don't think so Abbs. They never back down once they ground me or Sarah".
Abby was still bouncing up and down in her seat. "Oh my gosh last year it was so much fun. They had a fortune teller, and a guy who can talk to sprits, and the haunted house was amazing although it was scary, and then we got to go to the old McCleary Barn out behind the fair grounds. It is said to be the home of several unsettled spirits….
McGee finally put his arm on Abby's to stop her non stop talking. "Abbs… it sounds fun but I can't go."
Abby was disappointed and a little mad. She missed hanging out with McGee and she was sure his parents would let him go if only he asked. She squinted her eyes at him. "McGee don't be such a scardy cat. Just ask your parents to let you out for one night."
McGee felt defeated and knew he wasn't going to win this battle with Abby so he decided the best thing to do was just agree with her for now. "Um… yeah… okay..Abbs….I'll…see"
Abby went back to talking a mile a minute about the fair.
Abby didn't take the bus home with McGee because Tony picked her up.
Abby threw her black backpack in the backseat and plopped down in the front next to Tony.
She began bouncing up and down. "Tony guess what the haunted Fair is this weekend. Please say you will take me this Friday."
The Haunted Fair had been Abby and Tony's thing for the last few years. Gibbs and Jenny had endured the fair for years, neither really enjoying it, but they both knew how much it meant to Abby. As soon as they deemed Tony old enough to go with his sister alone they began letting Tony and Abby go together as long as they had their cells and were never unreachable.
Tony leaned over and pulled on one of Abby's ponytails. "You bet Abbs. I wouldn't miss is. Would you mind if I invited Ziva?"
Abby really liked Ziva. She thought she was nice but also funny. "Sure Tony. I like her, I love the way she messes up our American idioms and then doesn't understand why everyone is laughing. The best was when she started calling my ponytails "Abbytails" because she said I was an Abby not a pony."
Tony could help but smile as Ziva's confusion of the American language. "Is McGoo coming too?"
Abby's smile disappeared and was replaced by a serious expression. "Well McGee is still grounded and he is too scared to ask to be let out for good behavior, but I begged him to ask, so he better."
Tony couldn't help but laugh. "Yeah that sounds like McScaredy"
That night at dinner while Tony was working on his third helping of chicken and yellow rice, Abby was telling her parents about the fair on Friday and her plans to go with Tony and Ziva.
Jenny was surprised that Abby hadn't mentioned Tim. "Is Tim going to go to the fair with you and Tony?"
Abby squinted her green eyes at her mom. "humph…. McGee is still grounded."
Thinking like a father and Marine Gibbs looked at Abby "Well there are consequences for behavior, don't do the crime if you can't do the time."
Abby could feel her frustration rise. "Well that is ridiculous, it has been 3 weeks. He was been punished enough. Jeeze you 'd think he killed someone or robbed a bank. All he did was sneak out."
Jenny and Gibbs both stopped to look at their daughter.
Abby suddenly could feel both her parents looking at her like she had just grown another head. Tony was too busy eating to notice or much care about what was going on.
Jenny was the first to speak "Abby what you and McGee did was dangerous. I believed we covered all the reasons why it was not only wrong but dangerous to sneak out. Mr. and Mrs. McGee are well within their rights to ground their son for as long as they deem appropriate. Let's not forget you are partly the reason he is grounded. You convinced him to sneak out with you."
Abby's green eyes were filled with fire. How dare her mother try to turn this around on her. Before Gibbs could shoot Abby a warning look, Abby got up out of her seat and was standing in front of her mother with her hand on her hips. Abby started shouting "I'll I'm saying is it's NOT fair. How dare you blame me…."
Before she could get any further Jenny was up out of her own chair and had landed an almighty swat to Abby's backside. "GET UP TO YOUR ROOM NOW".
Abby just stood there too stunned at the turn of events.
Gibbs decided before world war 3 happened right in his own dining room, he had better intervene. "Abigail, you heard your mother. ROOM NOW!"
Abby turned and ran up the stairs to her room, She was mad, not stupid. She threw herself down on her bed and began crying out of frustration at how unfair it all seemed.
A few minutes later there was a knock on Abby's door. Abby was still crying into her pillow. "Come in".
Jenny walked in and sat on the bed beside her daughter.
Abby didn't look up. She continued to cry.
Jenny began stroking Abby's black pigtails. "Abby I know it has been a long time, and to you it seems unfair, but there is nothing you can do about it. Your dad and I don't believe in long groundings. We prefer to use spanking. Other parents don't use spanking but prefer grounding. It is up to Tim's parents. Not you."
Abby turned her tear streaked face to her mom. Jenny used her thumb to begin wiping away the tears. "But mom I want him to come to the fair."
"Abby I am sure he would love to go to the fair but it is not up to you or even Tim. It is up to his parents and I am afraid there isn't anything you can do about it."
Jenny leaned down and kissed Abby's forehead. "Noemi made flan for dessert. Why don't you come down and get some before you dad and brother eat it all."
Abby got up. "Thanks mom"
Jenny turned and smiled at Abby "Love you Abbs"
"Love you two mom"
When Abby got downstairs to join her family for dessert she had realized two things.
1. Her dad and bother were pigs when it came to dessert, they had only left her a tiny slice.
2. McGee WAS going to the Haunted Fair no matter what!
TBC