Chapter 9

Gibbs, his team, his daughter and Hollis Man had a really good time together, to the big surprise of his team Gibbs even laughed a lot and being all nice, paying for all the drinks. Surely it would take some time for his team to get used to the "new Gibbs" but they were all very happy for him and really enjoyed this time they spend together this evening. As it was getting late, one by one of Gibbs team said goodbye because they were tired or they had some other plans for later this night in Tony's case, till only Hollis, Gibbs and his daughter were left on the big table near the window of the nice comfy bar in the middle of DC.

Then finally Gibbs, Kelly and Hollis left the bar an hour later. As the two were standing in front of their own cars, an awkward silence hang in the air between them, both of them not knowing for a moment what to say. Instead of saying anything Hollis slowly stepped nearer and nearer to Gibbs, the man she still loved deep down so much but was he still feeling the same way about her? Finally the two were standing just a few inches away from each other, just staring into each other's eyes for a couple of minutes. Then Hollis finally closed the distance between them, kissing a very surprised Gibbs directly on the mouth with all her heart. Gibbs hesitated for a moment, because he didn't know if he really wanted it but with all doubts finally being pushed out of his thoughts, he kissed her back with a lot of passion. Kelly smiled as she was leaning against her dad's car in the background watching this whole scene unfold in front of her and was really happy, that the first phase of her "little plan" had worked. The two then pulled away from each other, Hollis kissed Gibbs one last time shortly on his mouth and said: "Good night Jethro, bye Kelly." They smiled at each other before finally getting into their cars and Gibbs really still was on cloud nine at this very moment.

In a comfortable silence father and daughter then made their way back home, he was happy that he still had left the room of his daughter the same she left it because he couldn't get rid of those things, even if it surely was painful to know in the first place that there was the room, where his little princess had slept in upstairs. Since that tragic day, where some filthy drug dealer had taken away his wife from him, Gibbs had never entered one of the rooms on the second floor of his house, because he knew he would probably be overwhelmed with grief if he would ever look at the bedroom he had shared with his first wife Shannon again.

But maybe with his daughter back in his life, he would be able to put some of that grief behind him and be a father again for his wonderful daughter. Was he still maybe in love with Hollis or was this all just one sided, so was she the only one that still had romantic feelings for him? He had to ask himself if he even was willing to give this thing him and Hollis another try. He then decided to put those thoughts to rest for now and instead said to his daughter: "Good night sweetie, I love you." He softly kissed her on her forehead and brightly smiled at her.

"I love you too Dad and I wish you too a good night." Kelly then went upstairs and still knew all the way to her room on the first floor of the house and had been surely amazed at first as her dad had told her, that he had left her room in this house in the way she had left it the last time a couple of years ago, when her mother had still lived and her mom and dad had been happy together. Kelly then got herself ready for bed in the bathroom upstairs and reflected on the nice evening she had with Hollis, his dad's former girlfriend and his dad's colleagues.

Meanwhile Tony being on another student party on this night really wondered, if Gibbs was Gibbs anymore when he was being all nice to them but he was happy when his boss was happy and Gibbs surely hadn't been that happy for a very long time now. Maybe he was the only but Tony had sensed that spark between his boss and Hollis Man the whole evening, where the two might be getting back together or was he just imagining things now?

Before he finally went to sleep, Gibbs walked into his daughter's room, silently walked up to her bed and softly kissed her on her forehead without waking her.

The next day

Kelly was up very early, and, while her dad was still sleeping she decided to make breakfast for them both before he had to go to work this morning. She made some coffee for dad just the way he liked it with the coffee machine she found in the kitchen, that seemed to be used ten years ago the last time and then placed dishes on the table and made the bread ready for eating.

As Gibbs finally woke up out of his sleep at seven o'clock in the morning, he was surprised to see his daughter already up sitting on one side of the kitchen table. Finally he then said: "Wow, this all looks really great, you just got up early to make your old dad some breakfast sweetie?" Kelly laughed at this comment from her dad and said: "Yes I did, sit down or your coffee gets cold." Gibbs smiled back at her and said: "Yes ma'am will do!" That comment got Kelly laughing in the middle of eating so nearly choked on a piece of bread. When she had successfully swallowed that piece down she was grinning at her dad widely and they both started laughing. Gibbs decided to take Kelly along to work, because he was still worried about her safety a a lot, so after Kelly was finally ready to go the two got into Gibbs car and made their way to NCIS Headquarters in DC.

NCIS Headquarters, Bullpen

To the surprise of all the team members in the room right now, instead of Gibbs coming through the door it was his daughter Kelly. Tony flirty smiled at her and got Kelly to put on her best face that practically said: *If looks could kill*. Tony got a little scared by that look because that reminded him a lot of Gibbs and quickly went back to look at his computer screen and pretended to work on something important.

"Hey everybody, I was down the street at the Starbucks and you all look so much tired, so I got you all a coffee." Kelly said and earned some very surprised looks from Ziva, Tony and Mc Gee at first but all thanked her for the coffee.

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