It was 05:00 on Christmas morning and the team were already awake and mucking about in the snow. Jenny, Gibbs and Ducky were drinking coffee and getting a plan together for the change in celebration plans.

"Duck and I will head over to his place and fetch the turkey and everything else," Gibbs said

"I will go shopping for other things we might need," Jenny continued

"Take one of the four with you," Gibbs said, taking a sip of coffee before heading to the door and yelling for the four to come inside.

"Tony, you and Ziva are in charge of food," Jenny told them," And Tim, Abby you guys are doing the pudding with Ducky,"

Gibbs and Ducky put on their coats and headed out while Jenny asked who was joining her.

"I will come, Jenny. There are a few things I would need," Ziva said heading to fetch her coat

"Hey, I wanna come too," Tony whined and Ziva and Jenny rolled their eyes but let him come never the less.

Once they arrived at the supermarket, Jenny went one way while Tony and Ziva went another. Ziva was currently trying to choose what chees to purchase when Tony came back with a small chicken.

"Tony I have seen Ducky's turkey and it will be more than enough. We do not need that," Ziva told him motioning to the poultry he was holding.

"I'm pranking Abby," he announced

"What is that supposed to do?"

"You remember the Probie and I had our guy's night out about 2 weeks ago?"

"Yes," Ziva said suspiciously wondering what a chicken had to do with that

"Probie had a little more to drink than normal and he may have let it slip that Abs and him are gonna have a little McGee." Tony said in hushed whisper, glancing around every once in a while

"Tony, are you saying Abby is pregnant! Why don't I know?" Ziva demanded

"Shh. They gonna tell everyone at the New Year's Party," Tony said

"Well, I don't think this is a good idea," Ziva said rolling her eyes but letting him do it

Once Jenny, Tony and Ziva arrived at Gibbs' house, Ducky and Gibbs were already there. Tony and Ziva insisted that no one come in to the kitchen at all. Tony placed his hen into the turkey and put it to cook.

Soon all the food was ready and Ducky and Abby took over to make the Christmas pudding with Tim helping out. By 15:00, all the food was prepared and everyone was sitting together in the living room. Abby demanded that they opened presents then.

Tony had received an autographed movie poster from McGee, a book about movie history from Ducky, a Magnum PI shirt from Ziva, a knife with a carved wooden handle from Gibbs, a painting from Abby and two free movie tickets from Jenny.

Ziva had received a necklace from Jenny, a book about computers from McGee, a knife with her name carved into the wooden handle from Gibbs, a novel from Ducky, earrings from Tony and a stuffed Bert from Abby.

McGee had got a computer themed mug from Ziva, a knife with a carved wooden handle from Gibbs, a new MMORPG from Abby, an antique collectible from Ducky, a guide to dating from Tony and a novel signed by his favourite author from Jenny.

Ducky had got a new bow tie from Abby, a Donald Duck themed mug and a box of his favourite tea from Tony, a book about medical science history from McGee, a box of his favourite chocolates from Jenny, a pencil holder decorated with the best things about Scotland from Ziva and a bottle of scotch from Gibbs.

Jenny received a necklace from Gibbs, a red shoe which served as jewellery holder from Ziva, a bracelet from Abby, a classic movie from Tony, earrings from Ducky and finally a French novel from McGee.

The team had got Gibbs two collective gifts since they claimed it was far too difficult to buy the Boss anything. Gibbs however was instructed not to open it while they were there.

Dinner was placed on the table and everyone sat down. Once Gibbs had carved the turkey, Abby noticed something was off.

"Why is there other meat inside it?" Abby asked

"Ducky must have gotten a pregnant turkey," Tony said trying not to laugh

Abby reached out and grabbed the turkey, trying to launch it at Tony but the tablecloth was caught in her spiky arm band and food went everywhere!

The turkey flew towards Gibbs who was sitting at the head of the table but fell into the pudding instead. Abby turned red and muttered an apology still glaring at Tony and Tim.

Everyone started to clean up the mess but Gibbs disappeared.

"Guess dinner is out," Tony muttered

"You have yourself to blame," Ziva told him

Once the mess had been cleaned, Gibbs appeared with a couple of bags. He pulled out burgers and dished ice cream.

Soon the team had left and to say Gibbs was curious was an understatement. Opening the first box he found a smaller box. When he opened the clasp it showed two pictures. One of Shannon, Kelly and him covered in flour and eggs and the other of the team covered in flour and eggs from the night before. His eyes welled with unshed tears as he placed the frame on the mantle.

The other box was some sort of DIY kit. According to the instructions he had to place the blue mat thingy on the shelf in his living room. Gibbs then had to place a boat on it, locking it in. There was a red mark on his wall and decided to stick the white fluffy thing there. Now he had to place the people in white on the cloud and the rest of the people in the boat.

When Gibbs stepped back he realised what it was and this time the tears really did fall. He knew that the cloud was for Kelly, Kate, Shannon, Franks, Jack and Anne. The people on the boat were the NCIS team. This was the best gift he had gotten.

As night dawned Gibbs realised that he always thought that by celebrating with his team meant replacing Shannon and Kelly but now he knew that it was anything but that. Holidays with Shannon and Kelly were traditional but with his team it was just crazy.

After all they were the only family to have a Christmas meal of hamburgers and ice cream.

Happy Holidays to All