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In this chapter Kate is six years old, and is learning how to stand up to the bullies at her elementary school.

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Six year old Kate Gibbs sat on a bench in the main office of her elementary school, kicking her feet and using the patented 'Gibbs Glare' on Tommy McLaughlin. Tommy, eight years of age, was a second grader who enjoyed picking on the younger students. That day in particular Tommy had his sights set on Kate. Tommy had pulled Kate's curly hair on four separate occasions during a fire drill and snack recess. During lunch recess however, Tommy had kicked it up a notch and pushed Kate off of a swing. Kate in turn had sucker punched Tommy in the gut and then punched him in the face. Tommy was now developing a lovely black eye and was sulking at the opposite end of the bench.

After what seemed like forever, which in reality was only ten minutes of waiting, Tommy's father, a construction worker, arrived to the school. Miss Kelly, the secretary, led Mr. McLaughlin into Mr. Robertson's office. Miss Kelly emerged a few minutes later and continued on with her secretarial duties.

After a half hour Miss Kelly turned to get a page from the printer and saw Kate still sitting on the bench. "Miss Gibbs!" the secretary exclaimed. "Where's your father?"

Kate shrugged. "Workin' I think."

"I called his office a good half hour ago. He should have been here by now." Miss Kelly continued. "Have you any idea where he could be?"

Kate bit her little lip and shrugged. "At Dr. Ducky's maybe. Or in Labby Land or in Interesting."

"Excuse me?" Miss Kelly asked surprised by the answers. "What's Dr. Ducky's?"

"Daddy says his last name is Mallurd, but I couldn't say it as a baby sos I gets to call him Dr. Ducky. He's a medical exam for the Navy." Kate explained.

"Ah." Miss Kelly said. She seemed to understand what Kate was saying. Dr. Mallard (a type of duck, Mallard, Ducky. It made perfect sense now.) was a medical examiner for the Navy. "What's Labby Land?"

Kate rolled her eyes. "Abby's Lab. Duh." Kate said it like it was the most obvious thing in the world. "Abby works with Daddy and she's a scientist." Kate said proudly. "Abby does my pigtails for me." Kate was playing with her pigtails now, showing them off to Miss Kelly.

Miss Kelly nodded. She had noticed the pigtails Kate always seemed to have when her teacher, Mrs. Walsh, let her be the office messenger. "And Interesting?"

"Interesting is where Daddy and his team ask people questions 'bout why they broke the rules. Daddy says when I gets older I can go with him and listen if I wanna." Kate explained. "But he says I gots to be in high school first." Kate's baby blues grew comically round as she said high school. "You know what being in high school means Miss Kelly?" Kate asked.

"No Kate I don't. What's it mean?" Miss Kelly asked playing along.

"It means you're all growed up!" Kate exclaimed jumping up off the bench. As Kate was explaining her views about growing up to the young secretary Gibbs was coming into the school.

"Caitlin Erica Gibbs!" Kate hung her head when she heard her father's upset tone. "What did you do?"

"I punched Tommy McLaughlin." Kate admitted, her eyes failing to meet her father's.

Gibbs crouched down to her level and lifted her chin with his index finger. "Why would you do that Princess?"

"Cuz he pushed me off the swings hard and pulled my hair a lot." Kate mumbled.

Jethro sighed and pulled her into a hug. "What am I going to do with you?" He asked jokingly. Jethro had calmed down now, now that he knew his daughter wasn't dying from a head injury.

"Get me a real Teddy?" Kate asked hopefully, referring to her beloved stuffed dog. "Please?"

"We'll see." Gibbs said standing up. "After I hear what your principal has to say."

Kate made a face. "It's Tommy's fault Daddy! Not mine," she stated firmly as Gibbs walked off.

Gibbs quickly found himself seated in Mr. Robertson's office with Drew McLaughlin and the principal Ron Robertson.

"Mr. McLaughlin," Mr. Robertson started after a moment of awkward silence. "Tommy is being suspended for the rest of the week," it was Wednesday, "and is losing his recess privileges as well for two weeks."

"What? Why?" McLaughlin demanded to know; he was outraged with this punishment.

"It seems Mr. McLaughlin that Tommy has a history of bullying with the younger students. We have a no tolerance policy for bullying and Tommy is also being punished for past altercations." Mr. Robertson explained. "You're also very lucky that Miss Gibbs hadn't started swinging when your son shoved her off the swing. There could have been charges pressed."

"You're damn right." Gibbs growled out glaring at the other father. "I'm thinking of pressing charges regardless."

"Mr. Gibbs?" Mr. Robertson asked him to elaborate.

"You do realize McLaughlin, that I'm a Federal Agent?" Gibbs asked.

McLaughlin nodded. Gibbs continued with his explanation. "Assault charges can be pressed against anyone regardless of their age. If my daughter so much as has a scraped knee you'll be hearing from Metro PD." Gibbs said as he stood up. He turned to Robertson and said, "Kate won't be coming in to school Thursday or Friday. We're going camping." Gibbs stormed out of the inner office to dismiss his daughter.

"Daddy?" Kate asked as she pulled on her purple Barbie backpack, "Are we still going camping with Abby and Dr. Ducky and Auntie Jenny?"

"Of course we are Kiddo." Gibbs said as he led Kate out to the car. "Why?"

"Just wondering." Kate said. "I miss Auntie Jenny."

"Really?" Gibbs asked as they approached his car.

"Uh-huh." Kate said skipping along at her father's side. "She tells funny stories about her friend Ziva from Israel."

Gibbs chuckled. "Look and see who's in the car." He instructed.

Kate's baby blue eyes grew in excitement. "Auntie Jenny! Auntie Jenny!" She cried bounding over to the red headed NCIS agent. "I missed you!"

Jen crouched down and Kate threw her arms around Jenny's neck to hug her.

"Oh I've missed you too Katie-pie." Jen said as she secured the girl in her arms before picking her up. "You've gotten bigger since the last time I saw you."

Kate beamed. "Dr. Ducky says I'm 42 inches." She stated proudly.

"What a big girl you are!" Jen said.

Kate smiled at the appropriate response from Jenny and squirmed to be put down.

"Can we go now?" Kate asked her father as he unlocked the back door.

"Why so anxious Baby Doll?" Gibbs asked.

Kate rolled her eyes. "I wanna go camping with Abby and Dr. Ducky! Duh!"

Gibbs gave Kate a look and she apologized. "Sorry Daddy and Auntie Jenny for saying a mean word."

"It's okay sweetie," Jenny said. " 'Duh' isn't a very polite response when your father asks you a question."

"Oh." Kate said. "Then how come Lily Humphries gets to say it all the time?"

Jethro exchanged a look with Jen as he strapped Kate into her 'big girl' booster seat.

Jen shook her head and mouthed 'Your kid. You're on your own.'

Gibbs rolled his eyes, unnoticed by his daughter. "Well that's because Lily Humphries' Mommy and Daddy let her. I'm not Mr. Humphries and you're not Lily." Jethro explained. "What's Daddy's Rule Number One?"

Kate shrugged. "I dunno."

Gibbs started the car as he replied, "No back talk from Kate to Daddy or any adult who is in charge. Remember that now?"

Kate nodded. "Uh-huh." The drive back to the Gibbs home was quiet for a while. "Daddy?" Kate asked after a few minutes.

"What's up Princess?" Gibbs asked looking in the rear view mirror.

"Mrs. Ducky says you put bad people in time out." Kate said. "Do you have rules for the people in time out?"

Gibbs chuckled. "Yeah Kate, I do."

"Really?" Kate seemed to light up. "Can I know some?"

"Sure." Gibbs said slyly looking a giggling Jenny. "Rule number one- Never put the rule breakers in the same room once they've been caught."

Kate nodded solemnly. "That's a good rule."

"It's a very good rule." Jenny said. "Your Daddy teaches it to the other people on his team."

"Really?" Kate asked. "Can I know another rule?"

Gibbs racked his brain for a Kate-appropriate rule. "Never spill my coffee." He settled on finally. "This is a very important rule."

"Why?" Kate asked curiously. Gibbs grimaced remembering when Kate would ask him 'Why' all the time when she was three.

"Your Daddy is a very Grumpy-Gus without his coffee." Jenny explained.

"Why?" Kate asked.

"That's a question for Dr. Ducky." Gibbs said as he mock glared at Jenny. "You can ask him tonight during dinner."

"Okay Daddy." Kate happily chirped as she rummaged through her backpack. "Guess what Daddy?" Kate asked.

"What?" Gibbs asked playing along.

"We had library this morning!" was Kate's chipper reply. "I got a Magic School Bus book! Can you read it to me tonight?"

"I thought you wanted me to finish the Felicity book tonight?" Gibbs said. "We're almost done you know. I think she might save Penny from mean old Jiggy Nye."

Kate sat in the back seat perplexed. She really wanted to find out if Lissy saved Penny or not, but Ms. Frizzle's class went somewhere cool! At least, that's what the pictures hinted at. "I don't know Daddy." Kate said after a few minutes of consideration. "I wanna hear both."

Gibbs thought about his options for a little bit. "Hey Jenn?" he asked in Russian. "Feel up to reading her library book when we get back to my place? I've got to get back to work. I'll cover for you."

Jenny nodded before answering in rapid fire French. "It's fine Jethro. Is this an invitation to spend the night at your home?"

Gibbs chuckled. "Da," he said and nodded 'yes'.

"Soooo?" Kate asked. She knew that when her Daddy talked using the funny words he was talking about something important. Like how he went to Paris last year with Auntie Jenny almost the WHOLE year and Kate got to live with Dr. Ducky and his Mummy.

"Aunt Jenny agreed to read the Magic School Bus when we get home." Gibbs said.

"Yay!" Kate cried happily. She then spotted a German Sheppard pulling its owner, a thin bond twenty-something woman, down the sidewalk. "Daddy can I have a puppy like that?" she asked sweetly.

Gibbs spotted the dog in his mirror as it approached the stopped car. "I'll think about it."

Kate sighed dramatically and Jenny turned around to face Kate.

"What's up Katie?"

" 'I'll think about it' always means 'No'." Kate explained as she pouted.

Jenny and Jethro couldn't help but laugh at her comical response to the oldest trick in the book; evading a direct answer your child wanted.

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A/N: I don't know if the assault thing is true or not. Let's just go with it's not and Gibbs was baiting McLaughlin. He's an angry Papa Bear out to protect his baby girl.

The Magic School Bus belongs to Scholastic Books and PBS I think. (Not sure about the PBS part)

The American Girl Doll characters belong to American Girl Doll or whatever the company is called now.

If there are any situations you want to see Kate and Gibbs face PM me and I'll see what I can do about it. There will be times when Kate is six in one chapter, eighteen in the next, and three months old right after that. These will be all out of order. Just a heads up. Enjoy! As always REVIEWS!!!!!!!!!