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Chapter 10
"Abigail McGee! How could you! Your children are just over there waiting to have s'mores with you by the camp fire. If I thought there was any chance of you feeling it I'd put you over my knee right now!"
"Sorry Tim..........."Abby vomited all down the front of McGee's shirt. Thankfully his jacket, the only one he brought, was open.
"Abbby....." he whined. "A bit of warning.....Geez, what did you four drink?"
"And you Miss......." he started to say to Sarah, but Zac put his hand on his arm." I've got her. You look like you've got your hands full with Abby."
"You have no idea!" Tim said sarcastically.
"I think I have some idea." Gibbs said smirking. "I'm just glad she's mostly your problem now 'Timmy'."
"Amber?" Jimmy said. "I've never seen you like this."
"Whah?" she said drunkenly with a hiccup and a giggle.
"She's not lookin too much like a Barbie doll now? Is she Palmer." Gibbs said quite enjoying this show. Jimmy just looked at him dumbfounded.
"How about I go and distract the kids for a little while and it'll give you lot a chance to hide your women in the tents so they don't see the the state they're in. When they're asleep we'll tell ghost stories and eat s'mores with the kids. That's just as much fun as cuddling up to your wives in a double sleeping bag isn't it?" Gibbs said as he walked away chuckling. He had made himself laugh again.
Tony checked Ziva out for weapons and when he determined that she was clean he slung her over his shoulder and carried her to their tent. As he dumped her down on the inflatable mattress, the little button on the air seal popped off and all the air hissed out. He said that word that Jess had signed earlier in the day angrily, except that he didn't bother to use his fingers. Lying on the ground he huffed and puffed and blew until he got at least some air back into the mattress again. Not an easy feat with Ziva snoring away, her dead weight spread across the entire mattress. Tony sighed. Maybe tomorrow night, he thought sadly. He got up and went to join the others at the fire.
Tim lowered Abby on to the ground and stripped off his shirt, throwing it into the corner to be dealt with in a minute. Stripping off Abby's clothes, he changed her into a pair of sweatpants and an MIT t-shirt and cleaned her as best he could with some baby wipes. He folded over the sleeping bag and zipped it up. Kissing her on the head he got up to leave. "You might be really cute, but ohhhh you are in sooo much trouble." He said to her unconscious form. He lightly smacked the lump in the sleeping bag before he got up to leave, gathering all the messed clothes as he went. He took them straight down to the stream and rinsed them out. It wasn't an ideal solution but when they'd decided to camp not in a proper camping ground, none of them were imagining a bunch of drunken women to contend with. Or their mess.
Zac carried Sarah into her tent and he was amazed that SHE hadn't thrown up yet. He couldn't believe that she'd done this. With Abby no less. He didn't think that Abby would condone her drinking. I guess they'd have to wait until tomorrow to see what happened when they'd all had chance to sober up. He tucked her into her single sleeping bag and kissed her lightly sneaking back out to the fire.
Jimmy sat Amber on the floor of the tent. She wasn't exactly out to it like the others but she wasn't making any sense either. Helping her to take off her clothes Jimmy pulled a t-shirt over her head and then after removing her denim shorts he pulled some sweatpants up over her thong. He couldn't help but look wistfully at said thong as he covered it with the sweatpants. He sighed deeply. This was not how he imagined this weekend going. He turned her over in the double sleeping bag a zipped it up. With one last longing look he backed out of the tent and he went towards the fire.
As the last of them were seated Tim made a suggestion. "How about a sing a long. We could sing..........."
Before he could make his song suggestion Tony leaned over and said menacingly. "Just warnin ya McFlanders, I'm on the edge. If you so much as sing one verse of 'Michael Row Your Boat Ashore' or 'Kumbaya', I will not be responsible for what I do."
"Can you sing the Barbie song Daddy?" Jess said.
"A fine request, never get sick of hearing you sing that song. Can we have the dance too McDaddy?" Tony said sarcastically. As he looked at Tim's stony face he said "Please please pretty please?
"See Daddy Tony likes it."
"One one chorus. Ok? And Tony has to sing it too."
"Of course. Tony won't mind. It's his favourite. Isn't it Tony?" Jess said innocently.
"Backfire much Dinozzo?" Gibbs said. "Zac does that phone of your take those video thingy's? Take a picture for the girls will ya?"
Tony glared at Tim and they both started singing the Barbie song. Toby's mouth dropped open. "Oh Brother!" Dylan said embarrassed.
Next Jess got up and did a lovely version of 'Itsy Bitsy Spider',complete with actions followed by Toby and Dylan who told way too many knock knock jokes. Most of them Tim was sure they'd made up themselves. They weren't that funny, but the adults all pretended to laugh dutifully. Gibbs surprised everyone by playing 'The Star Spangled Banner' on a comb covered with paper. And finally Ducky told a story, after which everyone was ready for bed.
The next morning there were some very sore heads, which Gibbs decided to help along by playing the bugle at the crack of dawn. It made his day to think of the four women staggering around like death warmed up. Abby was the only one game enough to call him on it though. Stomping out of her tent and hissing "For God's sake Gibbs, what's with the off key trumpet? Sick people are trying to sleep here."
"Sorry Abs! Did I wake you? I knew you'd be eager to face your irate husband this morning so I thought I'd help you out with an early morning wake up call." He said with a big grin.
"Thanks a lot Gibbs." She said giving him a sign behind his back that wasn't a sign of peace.
He leaned down and said in her ear. "I saw that. Careful, Tim might consider that to be swearing."
"Oh Tim. Was he mad?"
"Ya think Abs. You only snuck off to god knows where, got drunk, got his sister drunk, road a bike while drunk, forgot about your children apparently and threw up on his shirt. He had to give you a bath with baby wipes and wash yours and his clothes in the stream. All in all Abs yep I'd say he was pissed. With good reason."
Thinking quickly Abby went to find the girls. Maybe they could get away to the cabin again. "Oh Abs?" said a voice behind her. "Going somewhere?"
"Morning Timmy!" Abby said trying to sound chirpy. "I can explain."
"You know what.....I seriously doubt it. But I'm sure it'll be interesting to hear what you come up with."
"I think it'd be better if you all explain together. Come on let's see about breakfast first."
Gibbs already had a pot of coffee on the fire. When he saw Abby getting a can of Red bull out of the cooler he took it off her and threw it back, handing her a mug of coffee instead. Abby was wishing she had some magic hangover cure. She took the Advil that Tim was offering gratefully though in it's absence. She almost threw up again at the plate of bacon and eggs that came next though, but Tim insisted that it would make her feel better if she tried it. So she did eat a little bit of bacon and a nibble of toast and was surprised that she actually did start to feel better. Tony and Ziva staggered out of the tent next. Tony was actually looking worse than Ziva. Apparently he had spent most of the night blowing up the air mattress that was leaking.
"Morning Tony, Ziva." Tim said happily. "Not feeling too good?"
"Shut up McGee! Ziva said grumpily. "Your smile is making my eyes hurt."
Tony just glared at first. Then helped himself to some coffee while putting the kettle on to make some tea for grimaced and then added about four sugars and some milk, hoping to mellow the taste just a tad.
Dylan and Toby then came running into camp followed by the dogs who jumped happily all over Abby, more than pleased to share the remnants of her breakfast. Jess came out of her tent dressed in the Snow White dressthat had finally been given back to her the night before they left. Abby looked at it and honestly didn't have the strength to even ask how she'd snuck it back into the bag again. "Mommy!" she said running into Abby's arms. "I couldn't find you." Abby felt sick. She pulled Jess into a big hug and tried not to cry. She looked at Tim. He knew that she felt terrible but that wasn't gonna save her from a serious butt warming. She really didn't care. She deserved it. They hadn't meant to stay away for more than a couple of hours but there was no excuse for what she did. And then there was a vague memory of Sarah.....Oh God Sarah had been drunk too. Abby stood Jess down. "I'm sorry sweetie Mommy got really tired after riding the bikes and I fell asleep. Would you like some breakfast? You can have some of your favourite cereal."
"Yes please Mommy."
"I'll get it." Tim said squeezing Abby's shoulder gently. Next to wander out of their tent was Sarah. She was soon joined by Zac from the family tent who took Sarah's hand and kissed her forehead. Tim did the rounds with the Advil again fixing Sarah with his eyes.
"I know Tim. I stuffed up. I know I'm in trouble. No need to do the whole death stare thing." Sarah said grumpily. Zac tapped her on the bottom.
"Hey! Attitude." He said. "I think you're in enough trouble don't you?" Sarah sighed and went and sat next followed.
Last but not least was Amber and Jimmy. Jimmy looked not happy and Amber looked like, well nothing like she usually did. Her hair was dull and matted. Her face was as white as a sheet, she had big dark circles and her nose was as red as her bloodshot eyes. Tim looked at her and couldn't decide if that was from the hang over or if she'd been crying. Jess went and stood in front of them. Then she shouted at Jimmy. "What did you do to Amber. I think you broke her."
"I didn't do anything. She just doesn't feel well."
"Why?"
"She just doesn't." Jimmy said.
"Did he do something to you?" Jess said now to Amber.
"No sweetie." She looked at Jimmy who wasn't looking too pleased.
"Want me to fix your hair?"
"Maybe later sweetheart. I'm just going to have some coffee first." she said sitting down gingerly holding her head.
"How about a walk after your breakfast, Miss Jess?" Ducky asked.
"Can we look for some birds nests?"
"Yes I think that can be arranged. I remember when I was a lad....." Ducky trailed off as he went back to his tent.
After breakfast was over, Ducky took Jess on the promised walk and Gibbs took the boys for a bike ride to give the couples some time to talk.
When they had gone Tony started first. "Where were you women yesterday after noon while we were fishing?"
"Is this an interrogation Tony?"
"Ah......yes it IS Zi-va?"
"And since when do you interrogate your own wife?"
"Since I spent all day trying to untangle a fishing hook out of Zac's hair while listening to the Mcbrat's and friend complaining and whining. I got wet while trying to help Ducky out of the stream after Princess McBrat pushed him in and I came back here to drink more of Gibbs coffee, if you could call it drinking. It 's so strong that you could almost eat it with a spoon, and out here it has that extra flavour of being boiled over an open flame. While you my love were off somewhere having a party. A party to which I, your husband was not invited. So! Where....were......you....women....yesterday....afternoon....while....we....were....fishing?"
"Well,if you are going to get huffy."
"Huffy, Zi-va, doesn't even begin to cover it."
"Abby? Would you like to answer the question?"Tim asked.
"Not really." She said in her best smartass tone.
Sarah giggled. "Seeing as how you think it's so funny, you wanna have a go?"he asked Sarah next.
She shook her head.
Jimmy spoke next. "Amber can tell where they were. It was her idea."
Amber looked at Jimmy with tears in her eyes. "Go ahead." He said.
All eyes were on Amber. The girls eyes all held sympathy for their new friend. Tim's eyes held curiosity and Tony's held shock as he looked from Amber to Jimmy and back again. Zac's eyes held amusement. For all even though he was mature for his age, he was still young and he could see the funny side of this. This had to be the strangest camping trip he had ever been on.
Amber looked back at everyone and the girls nodded. This was her cue to tell all of it. The jig was up so they may as well fess up and get it over with.
"Last week at lunch we were talking about the trip and I thought it would be kind of fun,....if we rented some kind of accomodation."
"You women have a room? With a bed? And hair dryers?"
"And a Jacuzzi." Amber said wincing.
"And a Jacuzzi?" Tony said looking as though he really might cry.
"And copious amounts of alcohol obviously." Tim said frowning at Abby and then Sarah.
"So we booked the room on line, well Abby and Ziva did." Amber continued.
"Using who's credit card?" Tim asked.
"Ziva's". Abby answered.
"Ziva's!?" Tony asked in shock.
"I'll reimburse her Mr Scrooge!" Abby said.
"Anyway we had to figure out how we were gonna get there so I talked Jimmy into the bikes.'
"Which is why you talked me into the bikes." Tim said to Jimmy.
"I didn't know Tim, I swear."he said glaring at Amber.
"I know Jimmy."
"So tell me how Sarah came to be drunk?" Tim asked Abby.
"I didn't give it to her, but I did let her pour the rest of us drinks which probably wasn't that smart." Abby said honestly.
"Ya think Abby?"
"And you Miss. Did Abby give you permission to pour your self an alcoholic drink?"
"No Tim."
"Sarah go and wait in your tent. Abby come with me."
"What out here?!"
"Yes Abby! Out here!" Tim said putting his hand out. Abby stood up and stamped her foot, but it really didn't have the same effect when you were wearing flip flops on dirt. Tim just grabbed her hand anyway and pulled her off towards the trees.
When they had reached an area where there was a fallen branch Tim sat down and wasted no time in pulling Abby over his knee. Pulling down her sweatpants, he peppered her backside with a flurry of stinging swats that had her eyes watering in minutes. Then he slowed but if anything the smacks were harder and he didn't alter his pace until her breath began to hitch in sobs. He stopped then and pulled her up into a hug.
"I'm sorry Timmy. I shouldn't..... have just .....disappeared like that and....... I should have.... watched Sarah.... more closely."
"No you shouldn't and yes you should've, but I forgive you. Even if you did throw up on my shirt."
"Oh sorry Timmy did I?" she giggled.
"Oh so you think it's funny do you?" he said tapping her bottom a few times.
Abby giggled some more. "Come on, I need to go and get Sarah." He said.
"Was it really her fault Timmy?"
"Yeh Abs. She made her choices. No one forced her to drink. No one even gave her permission."
"I guess. It's just; it would have been kind of tempting with all of us....."
"Stop right there Abs. Don't start making excuses for her. She has been so much better but if we start to let her get away with stuff now, we'll be back where we started."
"Ok."
Back in their tent Tony looked intently at Ziva. "You know you deserve a spanking too don't you? Keeping me here in these squalid conditions while you're over there in the lap of luxury."
"What if I cover for you, and I give you the return, you cannot ever speak of this again."
"I can go and sit in the Jacuzzi? For how long?"
"An hour? I will pretend you are asleep."
"Oh Ziva, I knew there was a reason that I loved you so much." He said pulling her into a hug. "Thank you."
"You are welcome." She said kissing him deeply.
Back in Sarah's tent, Zac was laying with her. They were holding hands. "Why do you keep doing that stuff Sar when you know your gonna get in trouble?"
"Death wish I guess."
"Seems so to me sometimes. Tim's gonna tan your ass, you know that don't you?"
"Well Duh! Way to state the obvious Zac."
"You really are a smart ass sometimes aren't you.I can see why your always in trouble."
"Why do you hang around me then if I'm so much trouble?"
"Well, you are trouble but your very cute."
"Hey guys." Abby said, sticking her head in the tent. "I hate to interupt, but Timmy wants you."
"Here goes nothing." She said squeezing Zacs hand as she got up to leave."
"Zac?"
"Yeh Abby?"
"I know I did the wrong thing not taking better care of Sarah."
"Not really my business Abby but I did wonder."
"I knew you would. That's why I mentioned it. I shouldn't have let her pour the drinks but I would have stopped her if I'd of realised what she was doing."
"You're human Abs. I get it."
"Thanks."
In Jimmy's tent. "You ok?"
"Yeh. I'm really sorry."
"I know."
"Do you think they'll hate me?"
"Na. I know they won't. I'd say that you four are pretty alike actually. All have a knack for finding trouble."
Everyone was slowly finding there way back to the fire. Abby, Jimmy,Amber and Zac were starting to make lunch when Gibbs returned with the boys. Ducky returned soon after with Jess followed closely by an embarrassed Sarah. "We saw Sarah gettin a spanking. She must have been bad."
"I'm so sorry my dear, I thought that the coast was clear."
"That's ok Ducky, it wasn't your fault."
"Whatya do Sarah?" Jess asked.
"Nothing."
"Daddy wouldn't spank you for nothing."
"Leave her alone Jess." Tim said."Or you might just be next."
She ran away and Tim smiled.
"Where's Tony Ziva?" Tim asked.
"He is sleeping. He did not have a good time last night."
Not very far away, Tony was lying in the Jacuzzi, listening to Frank Sinatra and finally starting to relax.
After lunch,the girls started to talk about what they would do with their afternoon.
"Oh No you don't. That's the final part of your punishment."Tim said. The girls all looked up stunned. "You girls are gonna do what we did yesterday. You're gonna take the kids fishing."
"Is that all!.....Oh how hard can that be." Abby said.
"A breeze." Ziva said.
The other two nodded in agreement.
A few hours later found three wet, emotionally and physically exhausted women and one grumpy teenager with a hangover dragging two wet children, one chasened little girl and two sopping dogs back to the camp. They left one of the fishing poles in the stream where it got stuck during the fight that saw everyone ending up in the water.
It was very brave of Rex to jump in and save Dylan after he and Toby had fallen in the water after fighting over a tangled line, but then Abby had had to jump in to save Lulu who had followed Rex. Ziva had tried to help Abby but had been pushed all the way in the water by Jess who misunderstood and thought she was hurting her mother. The other two had tried to pull the others out but after looking at each other and deciding that they shouldn't miss out on a dunking, Ziva had pulled Sarah in and Abby had done the same to Amber.
"Have fun ladies?" Tony asked.
"As a matter of fact we did." Abby said.
TBC