Chapter 9

Even though they were both very happy about their daughter, both Tony and Gibbs were worried about what was going on around them. Spencer and Derek didn't need these kinds of complications. They were some of the best people Tony had ever known. He turned to Gibbs and gently pushed him. "We're fine, why don't you see if you can help at all, maybe keep Spence on track with that freakin wooden bear and not the fact that his baby is in distress.

Gibbs wasn't sure about this, technically Tony wasn't finished with the birthing process himself. There was still the afterbirth and the cutting of the cord. "Baby you still have a bit of things to do yourself." As he said this he saw a look come over Tony's face as he started pushing again. It was much easier to birth the afterbirth so Tony barely broke a sweat.

"We will worry about the cord later, go help them" he said slight force.

Taking his cue Gibbs scooted over to Derek and Spencer. "I have been sent to help. So here I am."

"Thanks Ro" Morgan responded, "but Tony still needs you and so does that baby girl. Hey Tony" Morgan almost shouted, "how bout Spencer tells us more of the Arabian story." Whispering to Gibbs he said "maybe Spencer telling more of the story will refocus him on the baby and finishing his delivery. Tony too. If things get dicey I'll call you back."

Spencer tried to remember where he had left off and concentrated on it rather that his delivery. …"and the merchant wailed and wept and the three sheykhs also manifested their sorrow by weeping and crying aloud and wailing but the first sheykh, who was the owner of the gazelle recovering his self-possession kissed the hand of the 'Efrit, and said to him O thou Jinni and crown of the kings of the Jann if I relate to thee the story of myself and this gazelle and thou find it to be wonderful and more so than the adventure of this merchant wilt thou give up to me a third of thy claim to his blood he answered yes O sheykh if thou relate to me the story and I find it to be as thou hast said I will give up to thee a third of my claim to his blood" Spencer was able to get in before the next contraction set in. They had started on another story… the one about The Story of the Merchant and the Jinni. Spencer couldn't hold back the scream he released as the contraction seemed to continue on forever.

Derek was beginning to sweat and as he felt the baby moving forward he fought to keep his fingers open and not let his or her nose get covered cutting off the oxygen. All of a sudden, he felt an explosion against his hand and delivering the baby's feet and torso, leaving just the shoulders and head.

"Derek" Spencer seemed to scream, just as he had delivered the tiny feet and body. "Keep control his head and shoulders don't let them come too quickly."

Derek placed his hands on the shoulders as he delivered them. The baby's head came into view and as gently as Spencer had told Jethro to deliver their baby he delivered theirs. He was shocked when the baby took a breath. It was a boy, the boy Spencer had told him he believed all along they were having. "Guys it's a boy… we have a boy and a girl" he finished as he took his first full, calm breath since this began.

Baby Gibbs was rather quiet, just cooing a bit, when her Uncle Spencer told his story. There was something about his voice that was simply relaxing. BUT when Spencer and Derek's baby boy started crying so did baby girl Gibbs, who really needed a name.

Tony and Gibbs had thought about names but all of them had been boy's names because it was such a small chance that two males would have the genetic make-up to give birth to a girl. "Shhh little one, no need to cry. I know Uncle Spencer might be a bit scary right now but believe me he is a great guy and will help you get to be oober smart."

Gibbs smiled at Tony talking to their daughter. Even though he had been scared to death to have something so small around the house that was HIS responsibility he seemed to have forgotten the fear now. Gibbs heard crying coming from Derek and Spencer's baby and smiled even bigger when the healthy baby boy was placed in Spencer's arms. While Spencer held his son for the first time, Gibbs stood up and got the blood rushing back into his lower limbs. He looked down at the two babies and their Daddy's and chuckled a bit to himself.

"You guys look beat, why don't I take the kiddos and get them all cleaned up. Derek you think you can help clean up the boys?" When he got nods of approval he headed to the kitchen sink where they had put everything needed to clean the babies a few weeks before, just in case. Once he was done he went back to the birthing area and took each baby in an arm and headed to the sink for their very first bath.

Tony watched his daughter being taken away from him and almost panicked. It would have been worse if it had been a nurse or somebody he didn't know, but this was the father of his child and he had done this whole baby thing before. He turned to Derek and was curious what was going to happen with him next.

"Jethro" Spencer said as the breath began to even out. "After you are done, the stuff you need for them is in our room. The diapers we made from our shirts and the skins Tony and I prepared to help keep them dry. Derek, there are strips of cloth we prepared to capture the blood that will still need to drain from our bodies, and there are leather thongs to hold them." All of these preparations Spencer had taught Tony were from things he remembered from books he had read most notably a series of fictions called The Children Of The Earth by Jean Auel. Spencer had been fond of the series ever since his Mother had read them to him at age 5. He had worn out three copies of the series as he had read them over and over. "After you get us washed up you will need to take everything that is bloody and bury it away from the cabin so that when the predators come they will stay away from the cabin."

Derek looked fondly at his lover and new father of their son "I don't know how you remember all this stuff but I am sure glad you do."

Before going to the kitchen, he made a detour to the nest, Gibbs made sure he had everything Spencer had just mentioned and got to work cleaning the babies. Both of them were trying out their new set of lungs crying the whole time.

Derek got all he needed to help clean up both Spencer and Tony. As Spencer had told him he he made a pile of bloody cloth so he could bury them away from the cabin to keep everybody safe inside. He looked down at his newly cleaned lover and smiled. "We have a baby boy…a healthy one from what I can hear over in the kitchen."

They all sat on the on the floor facing the fireplace, backs against the couch, babies quieting down to light coos.

"Oh he's healthy all right." Gibbs laughed as he dried both babies and swaddled both of them and took them to each of their daddy's.

After Jethro gave Tony their little girl, he turned to Derek and started to hand his son to him. Derek backed up "oh no I can't hold something so small, Spencer you remember what I said when Haley and Hotch brought Jack in. I told them I'd stick to practicing?"

"Yes I do, and I also remember when JJ brought Henry in you took him away from Garcia and fed him his first BAU bottle. I remember the look on your face. Take him Der you'll be just fine then both of you come sit here," Spencer said patting a place beside him.

"We need to come up with names for these two. We can't call them Baby Gibbs and Baby Morgan forever" Tony said as he looked down at his daughter. "Jethro what do you think of calling her Kaitlin Paddington?" he bit his lower just in case Gibbs totally hated it and then he would feel funny. "We can of course do something else." He said hiding his nervousness.

"I like that Tony are those names from your family?" Derek asked as he thought of names for their little boy.

"Kaitlin was my partner before Ziva and way before Ellie came about. She was killed in the line of duty and was one of my best friend's." Tony explained.

"Also Paddington is his mother's maiden name so I think it works perfectly for our little girl." Gibbs leaned over and gave both Kaitlin and Tony a kiss on the forehead.

"Oh yeah I think I remember something about a Kaitlin Todd, she was your partner?" Derek asked? "Cause I gotta say from what I heard she was a very special agent. She's almost a legend at the BAU."

"Is she really?" Tony asked with a bit of shock in his voice. "When we first got her she was part of the secret service. But of course Jet here coaxed her into joining NCIS and she fit in perfectly." He took a deep breath "and she will always be missed. I mean it's different to lose a friend and agent through death unlike things were with Ziva when she left a year and a half ago. I mean we still talk on a weekly basis, or at least we had until we got stuck here. Now we probably left Tim to deal with Ellie Bishop. She is definitely interesting."

"I think what Tony is trying to say is that all the women on our team are all great agents and different in their own rights. It will be nice to get back." Gibbs replied.

"So are ours, each is fantastic in their own way." Turning to Spencer, Derek asked "so what about this little guy Spence?"

"Welllllllll, I was thinking about Franklin Dane Morgan. Franklin for your dad and Dane is the male equivalent of Diana my mom's name." Spencer looked at Derek and reached to run a slender finger down the downy soft cheek of his new baby. He smiled as his son turned to his finger and made little sucking motions with his tiny lips."

"Looks like someone is getting hungry Pretty Boy" Derek smiled at his lover. The words had just left his mouth when little Franklin opened his eyes and screamed. "Well" Derek said "I guess that's clear enough."

As soon as Derek handed Franklin over to Spencer, he moved the baby to his breast just like the books had said to. Feeling the baby naturally latch on and start to suckle brought a calm to Spencer he had never known. He was unaware of the bucolic smile that covered his face.

Derek thought at that moment his life was as good as it would ever be.

TBC