AN: Here is the next installment of the story. I have had it written for a while but the semester got really busy really quickly. I have one more chapter pre-written and ready to post. Please review so that I know what you think of this. Thank you for your continuous support through your reading!

Chapter 9 (The BBQ)

(1800 Hours)

[Abby's House]

The minivan pulls up to Abby's house she is currently renting, so she is now able to keep Jethro the dog, and everyone gets out. The first to speak is Abby. "Hello everyone! Welcome to my new home. For your edible pleasures we have BBQ type food, chicken, salads, and we are waiting for the desserts to come out of the oven and Cynthia said she would bring some deserts as well. She is just running about fifteen minutes late but she will be here shortly."

"Hello Abby, it has been a while. I got you a present during our stop for gas in town on our way here. Kyle can you please grab mommy the cup I told you guys to not drink out of?" Jen asked her son. When he returned from the minivan Jen gave the cup of Caff-Pow to Abby.

"Thank you Director Shepard. Welcome back into our lives!" Abby said excitedly.

"Thanks Abs but I still have my meeting with the new SecNav tomorrow before I can say for sure that I am back. And if I am I will have to do a press conference about the whole situation." Jen replied. "Oh and before I forget do you mind if I run off somewhere private quick and call my Vancouver partners so they know we got here safe? I forgot to call when I checked myself and the girls into the Adam's house for the night."

"Go right on ahead and do that here I will show everyone out to the backyard. Fair warning Gibbs...Fornell is here with Emily and Emily wants to talk to you she says it is important and she needed your help." Abby said as she started to show the group out back so that they could join everyone else.

"When Jen gets off the phone we will deal with Tobias. Kids, come on and I will introduce you all to the group. Fair warning there are a lot of them." Gibbs says as the kids looked back over nervously at Jenny.

"But daddy I want mommy wif me. I no like meeting new peoples. I stay here wif her." Sophia says running over to attaching herself to Jenny's leg.

"Soph why don't you go with daddy. He will keep you just as safe as I do when we meet someone new." Jen said handing her youngest to Gibbs and pulling her phone out of her pocket and beginning to dial it. "Hey Angie I bet you guys are at a crime scene. Sorry I forgot to call when we got here but we arrived at about 4pm DC time. We are over at a friend's for a BBQ so I will call you again once everyone is settled for the night." she said as she got Detective Flynn's voicemail and began to follow everyone else outside.

"I thought you were making a phone call?" Gibbs said leaning in to whisper in her ear.

"Got her voicemail." Jen whispered back.

"Well then let's get this over with." Gibbs said taking Jen's hand and turning to face everyone else. "Listen up people I know that most of you know by now that Jenny is back and is talking to SecNav in the morning, hopefully ending up with her coming back as Director again, which is 95% certain but not one hundred percent. Also you may know that we have gotten back together for the third and hopefully, final time, picking up yet again where we left off. That is with an engagement ring being placed on her finger." Gibbs said smiling.

"What you may not know, however, is this time around I do not come by myself to be accepted by you guys. This time I have four little attachments who I will introduce you to in a second starting with the youngest. and working my way backward to my oldest. Now the most quiet munchkin is different than her three older siblings since she is not adopted, however, all of the kiddos are going to be around and are to be treated as Jibblets as well and just as equally. I know that is what you would be referring to them as in your head." Jenny begins then picking up Sophia to finally start the introductions. "Everyone this is Sophia she is four but she will be five in November. Gibbs did not know this but about two days before I had to fake my death I had found out I was pregnant. Sophia is that child so meet the youngest Jibblet. Next up on the introduction are Kyle and Jared my twin boys, they are nine years old and will be ten at the end of October, I adopted them after a rough case when they were six. And last but not least, my oldest daughter Alexis who I adopted when she was eight. She is currently twelve and her birthday is in December. Please make them feel like a part of our nice, big, dysfunctional family."

"I knew it the moment Tim texted saying you drove a minivan! Welcome to the family munchkins!" Tony replied.

"Sorry I am a little late I had an errand I had to run before I went to pick up the desserts and it took longer than I had anticipated." Cynthia said as she joined everyone in the yard.

"Soph, can you go cling to daddy for a minute? Mommy has to go talk to the lady that just came in. I will bring her over here for you to meet in a minute." Jen said handing Sophia off to Gibbs for the next couple of minutes.

"Director you look amazing. Vancouver has agreed with you. Now, where are the kids? We can catch up later we have plenty of time after your meeting with SecNav tomorrow." Cynthia said with an excited smirk.

~Time Skip~

[Gibbs' House]

(2100 Hours)

"Thank you for taking the boys tonight. I want to have a bonding night with the girls. We have not been able to keep our plans for any lately. We have had quite a few cases where I was needed." Jen said as the boys got settled into the spare room.

"It's not a problem at all. I think I will show them what I have done on my latest boat, then maybe have the, help me with it a bit, then I will put them to bed, I have to go into work tomorrow and you have your meeting, Abby said she would gladly take a couple of the kids until lunch as did Cynthia. We just have to tell them which kids to expect." Gibbs said making sure that Jen was a little bit included in the plans for the next day.

"Well Cynthia is joining us for girls night so I think Sophia will be more comfortable with her since she will know her better than Abby by tomorrow. The boys already told me that they like Abby and think she is awesome. The only one not too receptive to either one is Alexis. Alexis is closing herself off and not talking, I don't think she wants to go through with the move. We are going to have to sit down with her and see if we can reach the root of the problem." Jen said reluctantly.

"I will tell Abby about it being the boys. When we are both done for the day we will sit down with Alexis and talk with her and for the other kids we will set up a movie or something so that we can be alone with her. I already have this house up for sale and am already looking for a new place for all of us close to where you used to live. All we need is to finish everything with the Press Conference and making you come back then we will be all set." Bibbs said giving her a quick plan for how to handle the week.

"Jethro please don't move too quickly. We don't even know for sure our plan is going to work the way we think it will. I plan to talk to Alexis tonight while Cynthia is occupying Sophia getting to know her. We have to go now though, Cynthia is on her way to meet us in the lobby of the Adam's House. I will see you in the morning." Jen said with a quick departure kiss.