So, requests for less pet names from our married couple have been made so I tried to tone it down.
There was also a comment from a guest reviewer who said in Chapter 1 that what I have written about Gibbs and McGee's relationship is impossible. I would just like to point out that this is called FANFICTION for a reason.
I did not mean to bash anyone but this chapter practically wrote itself.
On with the story.
"God Tim, your hands are magical."
"I'm glad you think so."
"That feels so good." Tony froze in the midst of knocking. "Don't stop." the soft moan of his newfound friend made him blush knowing that it was his long time friend who was the one to illicit those sounds. "Oh God!" finally deciding to risk it, he knocked.
"Come on in Tony!" Tim answered without bothering to get up from his spot on the couch.
"Is it safe?" but even as he asked, he entered the house with a hand on his eyes while the other carried the food that he'd brought.
"You're safe Tony."
"Don't roll your eyes at me McLovin'. I don't want a repeat of what I saw last time." Tony said without removing the cover from his eyes. Tim snickered at the mention of the one time he and his wife were caught unawares while they were fooling around in the kitchen. "It's not funny McGoo. I need to get my brain washed of the image of your ass."
"Of course, because there's only one ass that you'd like to see. Isn't that right Tony?" Janna teased laughing as said man blushed at the implication.
"Damnit J! Don't say things like that!"
"I haven't said anything yet," Tony squeaked as he spun around, one hand still covering his eyes, at the sound of Gibbs voice.
"I wasn't talking about you."
"You said J."
"I always forget..." Tony sighed.
"Why are you covering your eyes?"
"I didn't want to see anything I shouldn't see."
"Tim was just giving me a foot rub Tony," Janna said.
"Then why all the sounds?" Tony finally dropped his hand and faced the couple on the couch.
"You try getting pregnant and then have your lover give you a foot rub. It feels divine!" Janna sighed happily as she sunk further into the couch.
"Getting ideas, DiNozzo?" Gibbs whispered against his ear when the younger man closed his eyes and shuddered delicately. They still hadn't addressed the proverbial elephant in the room though both men had no problems acting on the desire whenever the mood comes over them.
"Why don't you two just get it over with and sleep together already?"
"Don't be so snappy with me young lady," Tony stepped away from the heat of the hard body behind him towards the couch where the seven-month pregnant woman sat with her legs on her husband's thighs. "Not when I brought your recent craving." he shook the paper bag in his hand and Janna made grabbing motions at him. No one cared that Tony pointedly ignored her comment, they all went on as if nothing had been said. Although for one Leroy Jethro Gibbs, the information was stored for later perusal.
"Gibbs?"
"Come right in Ziva." their team leader said just as the former Mossad agent was about to knock. She entered soon followed by her date. "Werth."
"Werth?" Tony turned back to them in shock at the sound of the other man's name. "As in Damon Werth?"
"Tony, Gibbs and McGee, you met Damon." Ziva reintroduced. Gibbs held back a smirk at the gaping expression on his SFA's face while hiding a proud look as Tim watched the man with a guarded yet welcoming expression.
"Yeah," Tony finally composed himself. "I met him. He's the guy that gave me more than just a few bruises and dislocated McGee's shoulder. What is he doing here?"
"Well you asked me to bring a date."
"So you brought him?"
"Ah, young mister Werth. I was wondering what all the commotion was about." Ducky stepped from the kitchen towards the young men diffusing the situation with his mere presence alone.
"Dr. Mallard."
"Nonsense, everybody calls me Ducky."
"Alright Ducky."
"Well whoever you are, grab a seat 'coz the movie is about to start." Janna, the one person that seemed to be forgotten by everyone, spoke taking the attention from the tense men.
"Oh that's right!" Ducky exclaimed. "You haven't had the pleasure of meeting Mr. Werth Janna dear." she shook her head in response. "He was part of a case that Team Gibbs had a couple of years back."
"Victim or suspect?"
"..."
"Ah, so it's one of those cases." she nodded. "Nice to meet you. I'd stand to greet you but the mere action is a task in itself. I'm Janna McGee, Tim's wife."
"I see. Congratulations on both the nuptials and the incoming addition to the family."
"Thank you." she smiled at the man. "Please have a seat." the rest of the group took to their places. Ziva and Damon sat together on the loveseat, Tony on the ground next to Janna while Ducky took his spot right in front of the fire in an armchair. Gibbs stayed standing in the landing between his front door and the living room watching everything when his phone rang.
"Gibbs."
"Gibbs!"
"Abby?"
"Gibbs, get out of the house! You're in trouble. Well you're not in trouble, McGee's in trouble."
"Abby, what's going on?"
"I did something stupid Gibbs."
"What did you do?"
"I was running a check on McGee's file. I opened his family history and tripped an alarm. It alerted Admiral McGee and now he's on his way there."
"Why is he coming here?"
"McGee's home address."
"Shit!"
"Boss, is everything alright?"
"Everyone out!" Gibbs ordered, his tone of voice brooking no argument and everyone jumped to their feet.
"What's going on?" Janna asked just as a rain of bullets passes through the windows. They all dropped to the ground, Tim and Tony covering Janna's body with their own as they began to crawl.
"Get to the back porch!" Gibbs ordered.
"McGee, where's your gun?"
"Underneath the coffee table."
"Ziva, get Janna and Tim out of here."
"On it."
"Tony,"
"Ducky, got it."
"Werth."
"Got your back Gibbs." the hail of bullets paused as their assailants reloaded their weapons. Jethro tossed a gun at the discharged marine and the two began to return fire.
"McGee call for backup." Tony led the group, still crawling on the floor, across the living room to the kitchen as more panicked shots came through from the front.
"Shots fired, I repeat, shots fired."
"Roger that. Back up is on the way ETA four minutes." the group rose carefully, Tony pushing over the thick wooden table for cover as more shots followed them through.
"DiNozzo, is everybody okay?"
"We're good..." Tony trailed off when the backdoor slammed open revealing four men in full tactical gear with military issue guns. "Spoke too soon." he shouted back. "We've got guests in the house Gibbs!"
"Take them down." Ziva was already moving. She'd brought down one intruder before Tony had stopped speaking. Another fell from her hands with a roundhouse kick to the head. The last two men pointed their semi-automatics at her leading her to raise her hands in surrender.
"Get down on the floor." one man barked at her while his partner turned his focus on the other people left hiding behind the table facing them.
"Good idea," Janna quipped as she launched a knife from her hand, the metal slipping right through the gap between the man's helmet and his vest. He fell to the floor a second later when two more shots rang out. The other man fell dead from a gunshot to the neck by Tony just as sirens sounded through the streets.
"MPD freeze!" the sound of dropping guns from the outside had the team relaxing their stances.
"Is everyone alright?" Gibbs rose from his position crouched behind his couch.
"MPD, drop your weapons!"
"NCIS!" Gibbs flashed his badge at the man.
"Agent Gibbs, is there anyone injured?"
"Tim..." Janna grasped her husband's arm when the world began to shift dangerously.
"Janna?!"
"Get EMTs in here, a pregnant woman's been shot!" Ducky set to work trying to stave off the bleeding.
"Where's all the blood coming from Ducky?"
"I don't know yet Anthony."
"Do something!" Tony ordered as the medics came through. He, Ziva and Ducky were pushed away as they tried to stabilize her.
"BP's dropping, she's going into shock. We need to get her to the hospital now!"
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"Gibbs!" Abby rushed through the ER and into the man's embrace but Jethro stiffened in her arms. "I'm so sorry Tim!"
"This is all your fault!" Timothy McGee was a gentle mannered man, very few things could rile him up and he never knew how to stay angry at someone, besides a few exceptions. The team had never seen this side of him, here was a protective, defensive Timothy whose family was in danger. "What did you hope to accomplish? Why were you even snooping in my file? I thought we were friends?" his voice raised, a rare occasion in itself but most especially since it was directed at Abby.
"I didn't mean to... I wasn't... I didn't want any of this to happen!"
"What exactly did you want to happen Abbs?" the mere use of the nickname made her breathe a little lighter. He wasn't that angry if he was still calling her Abbs. "My family is in danger because of you."
"But Tim, I only wanted to..."
"TO WHAT? BREAK INTO MY PRIVACY? KNOW ALL MY DEEP, DARK SECRETS SO YOU CAN BE THERE FOR ME? I HAVE A WIFE WHO DOES ALL THOSE THINGS AND SHE DIDN'T HAVE TO BREAK THROUGH MY PERSONAL FILE TO LEARN THEM. SHE GOT TO KNOW ME AS A PERSON!"
"Sir, please this is a hospital!" a nurse scolded Tim, a glare rivalling Gibbs's patented one had her stopping in her tracks but she continued anyway. "If you can't keep it down, I'm going to have to ask you to leave." Tim took a few deep breaths to at least maintain a modicum of calm and mutter an apology to the distressed woman.
"My wife and child are in surgery right now." Tim told Abby. "Janna was shot. I don't know if either of them is going to make it Abbs. All because you wanted to know something you were not entitled to. Damon was shot in the arm, we don't know yet if he'll be able to use it. Tony was grazed, Ziva almost got killed right in front of us and Ducky..."
"I'm so sorry Tim."
"Just don't..." Tim sagged, thankfully being caught by Gibbs. "Our house is a crime scene Abby. They destroyed Dad's home. He built that house and because of you our memories there are tarnished. I have my wife's blood on my hands," he raised the bloody appendages. "Quite possibly my child's too. You endangered all of us." Tim let go and broke down into sobs. Abby's heart broke and she wanted to apologize but she knew there was nothing she could do to help alleviate the pain, not until Janna came out of surgery.
"Jethro!"
"Tobias."
"I took over the case from Metro, joint investigation between NCIS and FBI but we're leading." Gibbs nodded while he led his 'son' to a chair. "I need everyone's statements."
"JD's still in surgery." Fornell nodded sullenly.
"I know but we need to get this over with."
"Start with Ducky, I need to calm Tim."
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"You!"
"Me?" Janna looked up from the autopsy report she'd been studying. Both Ducky and Jimmy were out to lunch and she was the only left in Autopsy. She was waiting for Tim to pick her up as she read.
"What did you do?"
"What are you talking about?"
"Ever since you came, everything's changed."
"I don't understand..."
"Don't play the fool with me!" Abby snapped at her. "Since you came Gibbs, Tony and Tim all changed."
"What do you mean they changed?"
"Gibbs never kisses me anymore, he doesn't bring my Caf-Pow as often as he used to and he doesn't praise me when I do a good job. Timmy never visits me at my lab and Tony doesn't want to talk to me!"
"I fail to see why that has anything to do with me."
"It's all your fault!"
"Why is it my fault?"
"Your Gibbs's new favorite girl! Even Ziva likes you better than me now."
"I'm sure it's just your imagination Abbs."
"Don't call me Abbs, only family calls me that. You're not one of them."
"I apologize Miss Sciuto." Janna adopted her professional tone. "I should not have assumed."
"Damn right you shouldn't have!"
"As for your accusations, have you ever stopped to think that they have changed towards you because you yourself haven't?"
"What?"
"After Leroy, Tim and I told the rest of the team about our life you expected everything to go back to the way things were. That could not happen because as I pointed out most of Team Gibbs have been hurting my husband, be it directly or indirectly. You, most of all, have hurt him the most."
"I never hurt him!"
"You did and you still do. You never took the time to get to know the man I know Tim is. Until now, years later, all you can see is McGee the technical genius. You don't know him as Timothy."
"That's a lie."
"Really?" Janna raised an eyebrow. "Can you name all his hobbies?"
"He has an obssession about jetpacks and he likes playing video games."
"What else do you know about him?"
"He graduated from MIT. He has a sister named Sarah and he's the son of a Navy General."
"Anything else? What about his dream?"
"..."
"He wants to have his own family and be the best father he can be." Janna said. "All you know about him is what everyone else told you. You never bothered to find out anything else about the man that he is even after you slept together." Abby was silent. She couldn't deny the other woman's words, they were true after all. "What about Tony? What do you know about him besides his love of movies and the many dates he's had?" Janna sighed. "Leroy loves you. He treats you as his own daughter. And before you protest, he still does though not as blatantly as before."
"This is all your fault."
"There comes a time in our lives Miss Sciuto, when we need to start growing up."
"I'll find out everything there is to know about them. I'll show you that I can do it better than you." without another word Abby left the Autopsy room. Clomping in her steel toed boots as she did.
"Please survive JD. I don't know what Tim will do if you die."
"Miss Sciuto?"
"Yes?"
"Are you ready to give your statement?" Fornell asked formally and the Gothic woman nodded.
"Agent McGee?" a doctor came from the operating room removing his gloves as he walked towards the group. Tim tried to stand but his shaky legs couldn't support his full weight. "Your wife and daughter have been stabilized."
"Daughter?"
"We had to perform an emergency C-section. The bullet entered your wife's stomach and right into the amniotic sac. It hit your child's umbilical cord and we had to get her out otherwise she would not have survived. She's been placed in the NICU under observation but there's a big chance that she'll be okay. We'll see how tonight goes and then we can be sure."
"And my wife?"
"She's resting in her room. You can visit her there. She's a strong woman Agent McGee, she fought valiantly in there."
"Thank you Doctor." tears of relief rushed down Tim's face at the news. "Thank you for saving them."
"Your wife is a fighter as is your daughter. I suggest you see them both now." the surgeon left the family in tears.
"I'm ready to go Agent Fornell." Abby told the older man as she watched Gibbs comfort Tim in a way she'd never seen before. In the back of her mind she was wondering when exactly things had changed but now was not the time to investigate.
"Gibbs!" Fornell called out to the NCIS agent. Gibbs nodded at him and they exchanged a look before the FBI agent led Abby away.
"Tim, let's go see Janna."
"Okay." Tony and Ziva watched the pair silently.
"Miss David?" another nurse approached the two.
"Yes?"
"Mister Werth is asking for you. He's been taken out of surgery." Ziva looked to Tony as if asking his permission.
"Go, I'll check up on Ducky."
"Are you sure Tony?"
"Right now, I'm more worried about Tim and Gibbs."
"Be strong Tony. Everything will be alright." she kissed his cheek before following the nurse.
Everything's so messed up. What the fuck are we going to do?
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"Tony, wake up."
"Wha~?"
"DiNozzo!" Gibbs snapped as his agent finally broke free from the clutches of sleep.
"Gibbs!"
"Pick up your damn phone before it wakes Ducky."
"Oh, sorry."
"DiNozzo!" Gibbs barked when the other man made no move to answer the ringing phone. Tony sluggishly began to do as told.
"Hello?" Gibbs watched as the Senior Field Agent tensed. "Shit! I'm sorry, I got held up at work. I'll be there in fifteen minutes. I'm really sorry Mrs. Winters." he shut the phone and grabbed his jacket from the back of the chair he'd been sleeping in.
"What's going on Tony?"
"I gotta go Gibbs." the older man grabbed his arm looking in worry as his agent froze. He let the other man go slowly.
"I... just... I have to go."
"Call me if you need anything." Tony nodded before he finally stepped out of the room.
"He seems to be in quite the predicament." Gibbs wasn't even surprised that the supposed patient was speaking. He took the seat Tony had occupied and stared at the ME.
"You know what that was about Duck?"
"Perhaps I should get some more rest. I do feel quite a bit dizzy." Gibbs could only watch in silence as Doctor Mallard turned away from him.
"What the hell?"
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"I want you see our our daughter Love," Timothy spoke to his wife's sleeping form. He knew she was only sleeping by the continuous beating of her heart as echoed by the monitor on her bedside. "She's as beautiful as you are, but Dad say's she has my eyes. I haven't put down her name yet because I know you'd like to hear it first." he kissed her hand. "Doctors say she'll have to stay in observation for the next few weeks until they can be sure she can breathe without the oxygen but other than that she's perfectly healthy."
"You should get some rest Tim."
"I can't leave her Dad."
"I know, but that doesn't mean she'd like you to stay up the whole time she's here." he touched the younger man on the shoulder. "Go get some sleep on the couch." he ordered. "Tobias will be here tomorrow to take our statements."
"Yeah, sure..." Tim broke off with a yawn. "You get some rest too Dad." the younger man rose, already asleep on his feet. Gibbs watched fondly as Timothy fell upon the couch unconscious before he could settle properly. His Junior Field Agent had one foot on the floor, the other haphazardly slung over the arm of the couch, his arms squashed beneath his body with his face in the cushions. He shook his head as he headed over to reposition the younger man.
"Leroy," Gibbs looked up from the rib of the boat he was sanding to find his agent's girlfriend walking down the steps to his basement. He grunted in acknowledgement as he continued his work. "Tim's finally asleep." the younger man had only been staying at his home for three weeks but he couldn't find it in himself to kick his agent out. Tim had already become a permanent fixture in the house even though there was no conscious decision on both men's parts to let the other in. "I can't thank you enough for letting him stay. I'd rather have him at home but he insists that he'd be a burden to me." she was silent for a few moments. "Just watch out for him Leroy. He has nightmares and he's taught himself to keep quiet so that he won't disturb anyone. I'll be back tomorrow to bring breakfast." she approached him and kissed his cheek as had become their routine in the past few weeks.
He looked at his watch, surprised to find that it was already past three in the morning. He put down his tools and decided he should at least try to get some sleep before he had to come in to work.
"No!" the soft mumble reached his ears as he strode up the stairs for a change of clothes. His keen ears strained to hear more. "Please, stop!" more hushed whispers came from the guest room where Tim was staying. He pushed open the door, flinching when it creaked but the sound did not stir the young man thrashing on the bed. "I don't... please... no!"
"McGee!" he tried to wake the young man in his best 'Boss' voice but the young man flinched away from him and tried to burrow into the sheets. Whimpering as softly as he dared. "Timothy," Gibbs tried using the younger man's full name but even that had Tim fearing his voice. Running a hand through his hair in frustration Gibbs softened his voice the same way he used to speak to his daughter Kelly. "Tim," he called out, making his movements match his voice as he slowly approached the trembling form. "Wake up, Tim."
"No, please!"
"It's just a dream." he told the sleeping man. "Come on Tim," he coaxed. "Wake up now." he reached the bed and knelt down, not wanting to startle Tim should he wake.
"Dream?" Gibbs sighed in relief, his words seemingly getting through.
"It's a dream. You're not there anymore."
"Where?"
"You're at home Tim."
"Home?" there was still fear in the voice.
"Yes, home, in DC." jade green eyes fluttered open, unshed tears falling freely from their confines.
"Dad?" unfocused and confused Gibbs accepted the call and sat beside the young man.
"Go back to sleep."
"Stay with me?"
"Sleep Tim."
Gibbs watched as the young man finally settled on the hospital-provided couch and took the seat Tim had left. It seemed as if he was doing that a lot. He was worried about DiNozzo and had wanted to call him when he left but after the strange encounter with Ducky he decided that he would wait for Tony to call. Gibbs had even checked on Ziva and Werth, the couple had been sleeping on the bed together and he couldn't help but smile. When he finally came back to his son's room he listened to Tim spoke to his wife. Now he looked at the woman who had changed everything in his life, though it was not intentional.
"Jethro, Tim told me you're still home. He asked me to..." Gibbs stopped with what he was doing at the sound of pounding paws on the hardwood floor. "Jethro, down!" he snickered softly at the mutterings that followed. "We really need to get you a new name." he could hear the woman as she walked towards the basement where he was. "And you," she'd reached the top of the staircase and glared at him with her hand on her hips. "Stop laughing. I'm not calling you Jethro from now on." She almost stomped down the wooden stairs, eyes narrowing when he only raised an eyebrow, smirking at the dog that continued to follow her. "Who the bloody hell named the dog after you?"
"Abby."
"That explains everything." she tossed a paper bag onto his work bench. "I brought you breakfast, or rather, lunch."
"Tim?" he asked as she settled herself on a wooden horse.
"I had Jimmy bring him something at work." she eyed him as he opened the bag. "Speaking of which, why aren't you there?"
"Personal day."
"Alright, I'm off." she nodded as she rose and walked over to him, patting the dog's head as she did. The German Shepherd continued to follow her even as she kissed his cheek. "Enjoy your day Leroy."
Janna had been there both for him and Tim. She'd helped them adjust to their new relationship as father and son but most of all she was there to show him that it was okay to move on. She opened their eyes, not only his but also the whole team's, to their faults to Timothy. There was still much to be resolved but with them together he knew they could get through most anything. Gibbs snorted at the sappy turn his thoughts had taken and settled down to at least take a nap. There'd be hell to pay once they found out exactly who ordered the hit on his family.
Sorry to all the Abby lovers out there who are reading this story. There will be reconciliation but I needed it to work this way.
So I edited all the chapters until this one. Just minor changes where you guys reviewed.
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