We're all in this together
I do not own any of these characters, they are sole property of CBS and Don Bellisario.
Warning: This story may contain spanking.
Thanks to Chelsea 1234, my guidance and sounding board
It was a long case. Plain and simple, there were too many sleepless nights spent on stakeouts in closed quarters and one thing was for sure this family of agents needed a vacation.
"Will you wake up TONY!" McGee yelled as he turned to see Tony not watching the window but, instead snoozing away. McGee had been teamed up with Tony for their part of the stakeout and as in previous stakeouts Tony always made him do a majority of the work and then when Gibbs made a remark about a job well done, Tony always stepped into receive the praise. Finally reaching a breaking point, McGee took his now cold chai spiced tea and dumped over Tony's head.
"SPLT! What in the hell! McGeek you are so done now!" Tony did not appreciate having a $2.99 cup of tea poured over his $150.00 new shirt. Tony lunged out of his chair and tackled McGee. They were rolling around like a couple of children when they felt a warm liquid hit them. This stopped them instantly and rolling over , Tony started to reach for the conspirators leg when he realized just who had thrown the coffee on them. Staring at the well worn boots, he knew not only had their boss caught them fighting like kid brothers, and now looking into the blue eyes he knew they were in big trouble.
"Uh, boss, sorry, just a little uh…." McGee stuttered, trying to keep Gibbs from knowing that they had actually been fighting each other. He remembered the last time they had been on a stakeout and Gibbs had caught them fighting.
"Uh, just showing Probie some of my wrestling moves from when I was in college at Ohio State." Tony tried to pass this lie off as the truth, but looking at the expression on his boss's face, he knew he didn't believe it at all.
"Thought you played basketball Dinozzo, never heard you mention anything about wrestling before." Gibbs said with a little twinkle in his eyes. If his two boys only knew how well he could read their expressions, they wouldn't waste his time with lies. "I will give you to the count of three to tell me the truth or we will all take a trip the bathroom and revisit the lesson of not lying. One…"
"Uh, boss well.." McGee started.
"Two…"
"OK, fine, Mcbutterfingers here dumped his tea all over me. He thought I was.." Tony was interrupted by McGee.
"I thought, there is no I thought TONY, I turned around and you were asleep and I told you to wake up and finally I had to wake you up somehow." McGee argued.
"Oh, like you tried so hard before you dumped your tea on me." Tony now started to shove at McGee when Gibbs decided enough was enough.
"STOP IT YOU TWO! "Gibbs ordered in his best marine voice. " I have put up with a lot of your petty quarrelling and fighting , but now this draws the line. You could have missed the suspect leaving. You want to act like a couple of bickering little brothers , then dad here will treat you accordingly. McGee, you start cleaning up this mess, Tony, bathroom now…"
"But, boss you never reached three, we told you…"
"Oh, I know Dinozzo, but you also lied to me when I caught you to fighting so, go, now." Gibbs ordered.
McGee was bent over cleaning the coffee and tea off the floor when he heard the unforgettable sound that they all dreaded. As Gibbs had started walking toward the bathroom, he unbuckled his belt and that SWOOSH! Always sent chill up their spines. Hearing the door shut, he started wiping up furiously, trying to drowned out the sounds he knew he would be hearing.
"Face the sink and grab the handles." Gibbs doubled the belt and pulled back to lay the first lick. Looking up into the mirror, he didn't just see a young man, eyes shut already grimacing before the first lick was laid. He saw a young man, needing guidance and a son needing reassurance and looking at his own reflection he saw not just a grey haired marine getting ready to lay into someone, he saw a father correcting his son. "You know the consequences of lying to me son?"
"Yeah, dad, not a smart decision." Tony acknowledged as he prepared for the first lick and when it was given he raised up on his toes.
SMACK! SMACK!SMACK!SMACK!SMACK!
Each lick was hard enough to raise Tony to his toes, and to make sure that what little there was in number the pain would still be felt. "AWWW! OOWWW! OK, I get it. Sorry!" Tears were starting to form in Tony's eyes, even though it was only 5 licks, it felt like Gibbs had put every ounce of strength into each lick.
Gibbs tossed his belt on the toilet, and turned Tony around and looked him in the eye. "Sorry doesn't cut it, not only could you have messed up this entire operation by acting so childish, you could've hurt McGee. You know I hate doing this, but I won't tolerate fighting amongst my kids and ..?"
"Lying, I know." Tony said with a little pout. He knew he should've told the truth, but sometimes the lies just flow so easily.
Gibbs, tousled his hair and sent him out the door. "McGee, front and center."
As McGee passed Tony, he saw the red eyes and knew that from the sound the spanking had been a hard one. "Sorry Tony, should'nt have thrown that tea on you. I am.."
"Too late for apologies now McGee, in here NOW!" Gibbs barked out the door. As McGee entered the bathroom and shut the door Gibbs instructed. " Face the sink and grab the handles, not going to say this anymore, I'm tired of these childish antics. You and Tony have to start handling things like adults, not like little brothers. So as much as I hate this I will give you the same 5 licks as Tony, son."
SMACK! SMACK!SMACK!SMACK!SMACK!
And as previously with Tony, each lick was delivered with enough force to lift McGee to his toes also. " ARGHH! Boss, Sorry"
Gibbs turned McGee to face him and said, " I know that Tony can be totally annoying and just irritating, but sometimes little brothers just have to ignore it. Got it?"
"Got it in one Dad." McGee answered.
Gibbs opened the door and gently patted McGee on the shoulder. "Let's just hope your sisters are faring better than you two did. I left Ziva to help Abby in the lab, now that I think about it that may not have been the best idea. Finish cleaning up, your replacements should be here in 15 minutes." Gibbs gently shook his head and smirked. One thing about having four kids is that things are never dull and if his gut was right, he had an inkling that things were not going so smoothly back in the lab.
Back in Abby's lab, little sisterly battle was going on. "Ziva, no that's all wrong."
"Wrong, how is this wrong? I am doing like you said."
"No that is not how I said, ARGHHH! I could just shoot Gibbs for sticking you with me." Abby started to argue.
"You being stuck with me, more like I am being punished by having to stay here in this lab and help you. I am too talented to be stuck here in this place." Ziva turned as she heard the crash of glass. Gone was the lil' sis Abby and now stood the truly pissed off Abby.
"You take that back!" Abby said as she launched herself at Ziva.
"Bring it on, lil' sis." Ziva taunted her.
"Oh it's on!" Abby said as they both fell against the counter.
Little did they know that Director Shepard had needed to double check with Abby on the results of a previous case, so as they started fighting, she had walked by Abby's lab, she flipped open her phone, hit one number and spoke these little word. "Hey, Gibbs, your daughters are wanting some attention."