THE NEXT MORNING
When the boys came down to breakfast their dads and the girls were in the kitchen. The boys sat down on their places and winced a little.
"It will never be the same!" Reed said giving his dad a reproachful look.
Mac smirked "You will survive and I would bet you will forget it till the next week."
"I will never forget it" Reed gave back.
"If this is true I want to know why you act so often like a little toddler."
"I don't know. I mean I don't forget the spankings but when I have a great idea I forget to think about if I would end with a sore but for doing it."
"Thinking before doing means acting in an adult way. But I think there are adults who forget sometimes to act this way." Mac said giving Elliot a glare.
"C'mon I just thought it would be fun to bring the grass snakes in the car. And you know it's in my DNA to act this way at odd times." Elliot told his friend.
"I know it's in your DNA. I can remember times we had detention nearly every day because of your ideas."
"But you can't tell me you were guiltless. I mean I had the ideas but it was you who found the way to work them out."
Danny's eyes went wide "You had detention every day? What did you do?"
Mac grumbled "Nothing you should emulate!"
Suddenly William entered the kitchen a wooden paddle in his hand.
"I want you to leave and go into the garden" he ordered the kids.
The boys looked mischievously when they went out of the kitchen.
"I want to know why?" William asked Elliot.
Elliot gave him a disbelieving look "How do you know it was me?" he asked.
"Because I know you are as stubborn as your son and because it was your purse I found in font of my car."
"Okay. My purse is a damning evidence. But I think I'm too old for this" Elliot pointed on the paddle.
"Not before you will have grandchildren of you own. And you can't tell me you don't deserve it."
"But William! I mean a spanking?! I'm a father of a nearly twenty year old boy."
"And yesterday this boy got a spanking for the same stunt. So bend over!" William told him pointing on the chair.
Elliot murmured "To be exactly it was not the same stunt."
William gave him a glare and Elliot decided to obey. He stood up giving his friends a look of disbelieve mixed with a little amusement and bent over the chair.
William walked behind him, raised his arm and landed one firm and loud sounding swat on Elliot's butt.
"Ow!" Elliot commented rubbing his back "How could I forget how painful this is?"
"It was just to remember you about what could happen to you if you act again like it is in your DNA." William told him.
"I swear I will remember" Elliot told him a smirk on his face.
When the man walked out of the house the boys were playing soccer.
"Do you need a pillow to sit?" Ryan teased his dad causing Gibbs and Mac to laugh.
"I don't need a pillow little boy. But I can tell you there's a good working paddle in this house and I know where I can find it. So don't get too fresh with me." Elliot answered his son gently tousling his hair.
"What do you think about a family day at the lake?" Gibbs asked the Kids.
"That sounds great" Kathy answered.
So they took all they needed for a pick nick and went to the lake.
It was a wonderful day. They played soccer and jumped into the water from the little jetty. And even when the kids decided to douse water over their dads, who were sleeping in the sun it ended only with a pursuit in the water.
They all lay in the sun being snoozing when Gibbs's phone rang.
It was Jenny "Jethro I would not call you but I think it is something wrong with Ziva. I figured out something about her. And know we are on the way to met you."
TBC