Disclaimer: I do not own NCIS or any of the characters, or the Disney Princesses either for that matter…
A/N: I was bored, just playing around, not so fluffy most likely a one-shot (Gibbs and Abby have already been together for a while in the fanfic)
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Gibbs sat at his kitchen table sipping a glass of water, he was about to go to bed, regretting Abby's decision to stay at her place that night. He was just listening to the rain hitting the roof when he heard a knock on the door. He had already locked the door; he looked at the clock, almost twenty three hundred hours. He wondered who it was as he stood and went to the door.
He opened it to see a drenched Abby; she rushed in with a tiny little girl on her heels. She looked really young, her blonde hair was put into two little pigtails like Abby's, with little pink hair scrunches.
"Who's the kid, Abbs?" Gibbs asked as she greeted him with a peck on the lips.
"Sorry I would have called," She said, and that is when he saw the few tears mingled with the raindrops, "The power's out at my apartment because of the storm."
"You never have to call, Abbs," He replied and gave her a kiss on the temple, and took her into a hug as the little girl went and sat on his couch, "What happened? Who's the kid?"
"Her name is Kalila, she's four, and you know my friend Lauren?" She asked, and he nodded as he released her, "Well Lauren was killed in a car accident earlier, the roads were wet, her car flipped. Her daughter, Kalila, well, I am her guardian now."
She promptly started crying, and Gibbs took her back into his arms.
"I'm so sorry, Abbs," He said into her ear.
"It's not your fault, Gibbs, it just happens, and Kalila's too young to realize exactly what's going on," Abby said as she pulled out of Gibbs's arms, "She's four, she likes princesses and pinkness, Gibbs, how am I gonna raise a princess lover?"
"Princesses?" said Gibbs and memories of Kelly at four flooded his memory, she liked princesses, he felt a tear in the back of his eye and blinked, it was time to be strong for Abbs, "Like the Disney Princesses and all that?"
"Yeah," Abby sniffled.
"That I can help you with," He said with a small cheery smile, "I still have some of Kelly's old Princess movies."
Abby was shocked silent at the mention of Kelly, he never mentioned her, avoided it she figured, too painful. The fact that he was willing to let that wall down just made her go silent as he walked into his family room where Kalila was sitting.
"Hi, Kalila," He said with a smile, "You like princesses huh? Which is your favorite? I'll see if I have the movie."
"Ariel," she said, returning his grin, and Abby just continued to watch him, marveling at how well he was handling all of this at once.
"Ok," He said still smiling, and he went over to the movie shelves, and took out The Little Mermaid, and popped it into the TV for her, then led Abby back into the kitchen, an arm around her waist.
She sat down at his kitchen table and put her head in her hands while Gibbs sat down across from her.
"What am I gonna do, Gibbs?" Abby asked face still covered by her hands, "I don't know anything about raising a little girl." THIS 10
"You keep throwing that 'I' word around," Gibbs said pulling one hand off her face and taking it in his own hand, "What? You think I'm just gonna bail? I'll be here too, Abbs, unless you make me, I am not going anywhere."
She took her remaining hand covering her face down and looked at him.
"You mean it?" She asked cautiously.
"Abbs, I love you, and yeah, I really mean it, you both can move in here, I have been trying the better portion of six months to figure out how to ask you to come and live here, with me," said Gibbs rubbing little circle on the back of her hand with his thumb, "She can take the guest room, it should be big enough for her, I may even paint it for her."
"You sure you're up for this?" She asked and he just silently kissed her, and then smiled.
"Mmhmmm," He said, "So are you gonna end up going to work tomorrow, or are you gonna pull a sick card?"
"No, I'm going, it'll help keep my mind off everything," Abby said, "And Kalila can either hang out with me in the lab, or she can go with Uncle Tony, while he's in the squad room anyways."
"'Uncle' Tony?" Gibbs repeated quizzically.
"Oh, I guess I never told you, Lauren, was Tony's half sister," said Abby, "But she left Kalila for me to care for, the lawyers at the hospital looked over her will and said there was no rush for me to legally adopt her or anything, she's mine now due to the will, I'm her guardian."
Gibbs just nodded solemnly as they stood up and he led her back out into the family room where Kalila was very peacefully sitting on the couch, watching the television. Looking more closely, they both saw that her eyes were getting droopy.
"Kalila," said Abby softly, "Time for bed, ok?"
Kalila stood up and she could hardly walk over to them, she yawned and rubbed her eyes in the most cliché way a four year old does, and Gibbs scooped her up. Abby turned off the TV, and they headed upstairs. Gibbs and Abby put the already asleep little girl into her bed and then went out into the hall.
"I have to go get her stuff tomorrow, at Lauren's," said Abby.
"You can go before work, we'll both go in late, I'll stay with her here and get her breakfast while you go and get her things," said Gibbs soothingly.
Then Abby allowed herself to be carried, in both arms, off to bed.