Disclaimer: I don't own them, I just use them for my own entertainment.
Author's Note: Darn, I guess I'm not as original as I thought with the relationship between the baby and Gibbs, since someone figured it out already ;o) Oh well, it was going to come clean soon anyway! And I apologise for the short chapters, it's been a long time since I've written anything so I'm starting slow!
Chapter 2
"Shhhh. Shhhhh. It's okay!" Abby desperately jiggled the child in what she thought was a soothing motion. She couldn't fathom why Gibbs had left a baby with her. Maternal instincts weren't well, exactly her strong point. Give her any complicated evidence needing exact processing and she would know exactly what to do. Hand her a baby and she became... flustered.
Desperately she made her way across her lab, the baby wriggling and squalling in her arms. Setting her down gently on one of the counters where the child immediately started waving her arms and kicking her legs frantically, Abby lifted Bert from where he had been overseeing her work.
"Look! Farting hippo!" she squished her beloved toy, wriggling him a little and trying desperately to distract the infant from crying.
It worked. A smile came across the tiny girl's face and the wriggling arms instead reached out to the toy, his tail soon ending up in her mouth, acting as a makeshift pacifier. Appeased, the baby burbled a little, cuddling the soft toy.
"Awwwwww..." Abby found herself gazing at the baby, a half goofy smile gracing her lips again. Pulling her wheelie chair over, she settled both baby and hippo in her arms, snuggling quite happily while she waited for Gibbs to return.
"Abby! You got my.... " Tony did a double take as he saw the goth lab rat snuggling with a ... baby? "... lab results?" he finished weakly, before his mind was overtaken by what currently seemed more important.
Walking over to them, he poked the baby gently in the belly. "Who's this?"
"Wouldn't we both like to know?" Abby rolled her eyes. "Gibbs shot off before he mentioned that part."
Abby couldn't help her smile widening as Tony scooped the baby up out of her lap. "Hey, midget, who's your Daddy?" he cooed, making the little girl giggle as he zoomed her around in the air. From the child's reactions, it seemed Tony's much self-lauded ability to charm females worked on infants, if not on their fully grown counterparts.
"DiNozzo! Where are those results?"
Tony and Abby both whirled around, guilty looks on their faces before they realised that they actually weren't doing anything wrong, and they relaxed sheepishly, the baby still cradled in Tony's arms. Abby fixed her hands on her hips, and as black a glare as she could give Gibbs in her eyes.
"Well maybe if someone hadn't left me with a baby with hardly an explanation I'd have had time to do them!" She was surprised when Gibbs let out one of his rare grins, but his only actions were to pluck the little one from DiNozzo's arms, snuggling her safely into his own.
Fixing Abby with a true smile, he said softly, "Thank you for looking after my niece, Abs."