Woah, it has been a while! Ok so huge problem, writer's block! I'm sure we've all had it at some point, and I'm pretty sure this won't be the last time, but ain't it a bitch! Ok, you will be happy to know I now have some idea of where I am going with this, but it may take me a while to get their. For those of you waiting on the Sister's Of Magic sequel, I will be posting that soon. Anyway, enjoy.

Chapter 9

The twins looked at each other before both shouting "It was Abby's idea!"

"WHAT?! NO WAY WAS THIS MY IDEA, ALL I SAID WAS THAT MAYBE WE COULD DO SOMETHING TO STOP COLONEL MANN FROM FLIRTING WITH GIBBS!" Abby ranted and raved at the twins. They began to yell back. Jenny sighed. She gave a loud whistle, and the yelling stopped. Sophie, Erin and Abby looked at Jenny to find her standing with her hands on her hips, her heeled foot tapping on the floor and the look on her face, told them all to keep quiet.

"While I find the idea of getting Colonel Mann to stop flirting with my husband, I do not however condone this kind of behaviour especially from my own children." Her voice sounded firm but calm, something which scared the girls even more than they already were. Suddenly she gave a small smirk.

"However…" She slowly took a seat on one of the chairs in Abby's lab as she motioned for the others to join her. "I do think you could be going about this in a different way." She bent her head forward and giving a sly smile, motioned for the girls to come in close.

Meanwhile up in the Bull Pen, Coronel Mann was tapping away at her keyboard, unaware of the 3 agents watching her like a hawk. McGee tapped away at his computer and suddenly Tony and Ziva's IM messenger woke up.

'Where are the twins?'

'Don't know probie, Erin's your best friend, shouldn't you know?!'

'Ziva's their favourite aunt!'

'Hey!' Suddenly Abby's IM joined their conversation.

'We don't have a favourite!'

'Although Abby and Ziva would tie for first if we did :)' Came the reply.

'What about me?' Tony typed.

'… what about you?' Came the reply. Ziva and McGee had to cover a laugh.

'Come down here you guys, the plan's changed.' The trio looked at each other over the top of their computers, before they rose from their chairs and fled to the list, completely ignored by Hollis, who was still tapping at her computer.

The trio practically ran into Abby's lab, but stopped dead in their tracks when they saw Jenny sitting at the desk.

"Hello." She said calmly. Ziva looked at Tony, Tony looked at McGee, McGee looked at Ziva.

"It was their idea." Tony said stepping back. Ziva gave him a murderous look before whispering in his ear, "You either take that back or…"

"I take back my entire last sentence." Tony said rather quickly. Abby and the twins laughed.

"Don't worry guys, Mum has a rather wicked idea." Sophie (or it might have been Erin, the team had no idea who was who at that point) said, before beckoning them close and whispered the new plan.

Back in the Bull Pen, Hollis looked up from her computer to notice the team had disappeared. She sighed.

"Nice to know that I'm being kept in the loop." She mumbled.

"Something wrong, Coronel Mann?" Erin said appearing out of nowhere. Hollis jumped.
"What the hell!"

"Sorry I have a habit of doing that, mum says I get it from dad." She smiled and took a seat on the edge of Hollis's desk.

"So hows the case?" Hollis just blinked.

"I know I know you can't talk about it." She said with another smile. "I just thought that if you wanted to get on well with the team, you could use a hand."

"Pardon?"

"Listen, I have a sure fire way to get the guys to trust you, I'll put in a good word with them for you." She said as if it was the simplest thing in the world.

"As nice as that is," Hollis said having finally regained her composure, "I fail to see how that will help."

Down in the lab the team were trying hard not to laugh.

"I have to admit, this is way better than our plan." Ziva said, giving Jenny a smile.

"Nice idea mum, killing her with kindness." Sophie smiled at her sister's performance on the screen. "She's totally confused."

"I think what worries me the most is how good an actress your sister is." Jenny said. With that the team couldn't keep the laugher in.

"Oh, don't worry; the team completely trust my judgement. I'm like an un-official agent." She said beckoning Hollis towards her.

"By the time I'm finished, they will be begging you to join the team permanently. Besides I think you're cool." She said.

"Well thank you." Hollis said, turning back to her computer.

"I think that's your que guys." Abby said. The trio nodded and headed to the lift.

Back in the Bull Pen, Erin was still perched on the end of Hollis's desk, glancing at the screen pointing things out to her as she waited for the team to get back. She heard the lift ping and started to talk rather loudly.

"That is so cool Coronel Mann. I'm sure that you can break the case with that." Erin spotted Jenny standing in the lift also and nodded in her direction. She watched as the lift doors shut and Jenny emerged and walked into her office.

"Oh hey guys." Erin said to the trio as they walked back to their desks. "Hows Abby?" "She's ok, says you can go back whenever you want." McGee said.

"Great, think I might stay up here for a while though, see how you guys are doing with the case."

Meanwhile down in Abby's lab, Sophie suddenly had a horrible thought.
"Abby, dad should be back soon, how are we going to explain this without him ruining the whole plan?" Abby went white.

"Stall him!" They both said together. Abby rushed into the back of her lab with her phone and began calling Gibbs trying to find out where he was.

"Erin, if you can hear me cough." Sophie said looking at the screen. In the Bull Pen Erin coughed.

"Abby is trying to find out where dad is; we may have to get you out of their quick." Abby rushed back.

"He's just getting into the lift; I heard it ping in the background!" She began tapping quickly at her computer to warn the others to keep quite as Sophie relayed the message to Erin.

"Get out of their now sis!"

"Excuse me; I need to go to the ladies." Erin said quickly leaping off of Hollis's desk and rushing into the ladies toilets."

"The ladies! That's the best excuse you could come up with?!" Sophie shouted at her twin.

"Well excuse me, I'm not the one who should be worrying about where dad is, I'm the one trying to put our plan into action!" Erin whispered back as a woman drying her hands looked at her strange. She smiled back.

"Help!" She whispered.

Sophie looked at Abby, who looked back with a blank expression.

"Soph, get mum to help" came Erin's quick reply. Abby grabbed her phone and dialled Cynthia's extension number.

"Hello?"

"Cynthia, no time to explain, put me through to Jenny now." Abby said rushing to get her words out, just as the pair saw the lift doors opening and Gibbs stepping out.

"Abby?"

"Gibbs just walked in the Bull Pen, Erin trapped in toilets, help!" She rambled.

"Leave it to me."

Gibbs had just taken his seat when his desk phone rang.

"Gibbs."

"Nice to hear a friendly greeting." Gibbs smiled.

"Always good to know."

"Heard you went out for coffee, you got one for me?"
"Should I have?" Gibbs said setting the extra coffee cup he had bought down on his desk.

"Jethro coffee now!" Jenny said laying the phone back down on the hook. In the Bull Pen Gibbs smiled to himself and left his chair grabbing the coffee on his way up to his wife's office. Jenny picked up the phone again and called Abby.

"I'll keep him busy as long as I can, get Erin out of the bathroom and into your lab, call me when she's there." She hung up the phone as Gibbs came through the door.

"Erin coast is clear, get out of their make some excuse and get to the lab now." Sophie relayed the message to her twin.

"Got it."

"Hey guys." Erin said on her return. The team gave her a smile and went back to their respective computer screens. Hollis gave her a wink. Erin winked back.

"Hope the case goes well, I'm gonna see Abby." She said with a wave as she headed for the lift. She heard the doors ping behind her and slipped in to see a surprised Palmer looking at her funny.

"Hey long time no see Jimmy." Erin said pressing the button for Abby's lab sharply, whilst giving Jimmy a look that said 'if you say a word, you'll be in trouble'. Jimmy nodded an understanding.

Abby quickly sent a message up to Jenny to tell her Erin was on her way down, and soon enough Gibbs appeared back on the screen taking his seat and clicking at his computer.

Soon after McGee's computer pinged and Gibbs and Hollis took off after a suspect. The trio released the breaths they had all been holding in.

For the rest of the day the twin's hid out in Abby's lab, occasionally making an appearance in the Bull Pen once they were sure Gibbs wouldn't be back anytime soon.

By the end of the day the team had successfully completed their plan, and with the team now being nicer to Hollis, she was unnerved to say the least. Once Gibbs had dismissed them, they took off for the night. Jenny had left her office after the team had gone and after giving Gibbs a silent message, she stepped into the lift and headed down to the car park to head home.

"You going?" Hollis said a hint of hopefulness in her voice.

"Can't stay here all night." Was the reply. Hollis picked up her coat from her chair and joined Gibbs walking to the lift.

"Fancy a bite to eat?" She asked. Gibbs laughed in his head. 'Sure, with my wife and children, not with you.'

"Got something to do tonight." He said getting into the lift as the doors opened. Hollis joined him.

"Some other time then."
"Maybe."

When Gibbs arrived home he found Jenny sitting in the living room and book in hand and two glasses of bourbon on the table. The twins were sitting on the floor playing a game of chess and Christopher and his girlfriend Emily were sitting with them.

"How can you play chess with four people?"

"Tag teams Gibbs." Emily said. She and Christopher had been together for a few years and to all was an extended member of the family, and although they had their own place they often spent the night at the Gibbs family home. Gibbs laughed and took the glass of bourbon Jenny had set out for him and lifting her feet onto his lap, sat down on the sofa.

"How was Coronel Mann today?" Jenny asked not taking her eyes of her book.

"She seemed fine, the team seems to be getting on better with her, I think it creeps her out a bit, kinda like they are setting her up for a fall." The twins smiled at each other.

So there we are, something tells me Jenny doesn't like it when other women flirt with her husband! Anyway this longer chapter is my way of apologising for the lateness of this one, hopefully the next chapter will finish off the episode and then what will Hollis do? As per normal please read and review, I will be forever grateful to you all.

Beth xx