Chapter 7

Sometime during the early night, one of the other NCIS teams is keeping an eye on the Crows over night. So Gibbs and his family are home. Tony and Chioke are sitting on the couch in the family room. Jamie joins them. The three of them watch a movie together; a Curious George movie. Chioke is sitting between the two of them.

Gibbs walks to the threshold of the entrance to the room. As he looks upon the happiness in their faces, he thinks about Shannon. The memories of how his wife, daughter and himself would sit on the couch in the exact positioning and watch TV or movies together were happy times. After the car accident is when he stopped watching what little TV he watched and no movie ever played on his TV since.

Jamie notices her father standing there looking at them. She smiles at him.

"Come join us, Daddy." Jamie invited her father. "We're watching Curious George."

Gibbs enters into the room. Jamie scoots over a bit and her father sits next to her. The four of them watch the rest of the movie as a family. As Gibbs sits there watching the movie, he can't help but feel an overwhelming happiness. Though it's not the same as him, Shannon and Kelly watching TV or a movie together like old times, it's still very comforting and gratifying. The feeling of family being together means more to him than anything. He only wishes Shannon was here to join them in watching the movie. The old times were fun. But in this case, new fun times can be created; new traditions.

"We should do this every week." Gibbs stated. "Once a week the four of us watch a movie together."

"I like the idea of a movie night." Tony agreed. "Just the four of us."

'I like idea too.' Chioke signed with his hands and a smile on his face.

"It's an excellent idea. Just like old times, eh Dad." Jamie said. She leans closer to her father in order to whisper to him. "You're such a softy."

"How about every Sunday night at 8pm as being movie night?" Tony asked.

"Sounds good to me, Tony." Gibbs agreed to the night.

'Can be quiet? I try to watch movie.' Chioke signed.

"Sorry." Both Gibbs and Tony apologize. They remain quiet and enjoy the rest of the movie.

After forty minutes, the movie is over. Chioke claps with excitement because he enjoyed the movie; a movie he's seen tons of times already.

"That was actually pretty good." Gibbs said.

'Curious George is the best!' Chioke signed.

"Time for you to wash-up, Chioke." Tony said. "Come on..." The two of them stand up and walks away. Jamie also walks away; but she goes to the kitchen.

Gibbs grabs the remote control from the coffee table. He starts pressing buttons in order to turn the DVD player off, but is unable to figure out how. Gibbs scratches his head as the DVD rewinds.

Chioke re-enters into the family room. From the bottom of the stairs, he noticed Grandpa Gibbs having trouble figuring out the DVD player so he decided to help. Chioke sits next to Gibbs.

'I help. Will show you how work DVD.'

"Show me." Gibbs hands the remote control to Chioke.

Tony walks down the stairs as he's wondering why Chioke isn't in the bathroom yet. From the bottom of the stairs, Tony sees them in the family room. Chioke is teaching Gibbs all about how to properly work a DVD player; what buttons on the remote do what and even how to properly place the DVD into the player itself. Even though Chioke needs to bathe, Tony walks back upstairs so Chioke doesn't feel pressured into hurrying up when he's trying to teach his grandfather how to do something. Tony is proud that the little boy who once shoved a DVD into the VCR is actually teaching someone else how to properly use the DVD player.

On the second floor, Tony waits patiently in the bathroom for Chioke.

Chioke enters into the bathroom after a couple minutes.

'I sorry keep you waiting.' Chioke signed. 'I ready for bath.'

"There's no need for apologies. I know you were teaching Grandpa Gibbs how to use the DVD player."

'I help him learn.'

"You're a helpful little guy, I know. And you learned a lot since coming to America."

'I have good teacher. You teach me well.'

Chioke starts taking his clothes off as Tony turns to the bathtub. The water is turned on. With his hand, Tony checks the temperature of the filling water.

"You want bubbles?"

'Yes please.'

Tony quickly grabs the bubble bath liquid. He flips the lid and pours some of the liquid into the bath. Bubbles start forming in the bathtub. Chioke finally steps into the water, though he doesn't sit. Tony look at him as this is the first time when Chioke is actually taking a regular bath inside of sitting in the tub while being washed down with the showerhead. A bathtub filled with water always scared him due to his fear of water which he's recently been working on getting over. Just last week he went in the pool at school without Tony being there.

"If you want to bathe the other way, we can…"

'No… I good.'

Chioke sits down in the water. The water level continues to rise. Tony tosses a couple bath toys in. Chioke grabs his favorite bath toy; a red and yellow scuba diver.

"What adventure is Scuba Steve going to get himself into today?"

'Giant sea monster…' Chioke holds up an octopus toy and places it on the side. 'Will attack the submarine…' He holds the toy up then places it next to the octopus. 'It's up to Scuba Steve to save the day.'

"Sounds exciting."

'You be the sea monster.' Chioke signed, then grabs the octopus and hands it to Tony.

The two of them play their Scuba Steve adventure, with Tony narrating it. From the doorway, Jamie looks on with a smile at how cute the two of them are with each other.

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Author's Note: Trivia time! In the chapter you just read, I made a movie reference. What movie did I reference???