A/N: this chapter was inspired both by the weekly Friday Night Dinners that My sister, brother-in-law and I have with his sister and our lovely nieces and on the dinner I had at my Mum's house tonight, the conversation is taken from my crazy family of nut-jobs (who I do love really)

Thanks to my Beta:writingfreak145

Warnings: swearing, mention of child abuse and mild mentions of necrophilia.

Chapter Fourteen: Team Gibbs Family Dinner

Lilith's love of her new found family had started a new tradition, weekly family dinners the first time had been at Gibbs' house but then the idea of rotating the location to a different member's house each week. This week it was Abby's.

It was Sunday afternoon, Lilith and Moose were both standing in Abby's kitchen helping to prepare the main course for that evening; roast chicken with garden vegetables and tofurkey for Moose and Lilith both of whom had cut me: it out of their diets. Extras, drinks and desserts were to be brought along by the others later on, Lilith was peeling the potatoes and carrots while Moose chopped and diced them and Abby prepared the chicken.

"So when did you two stop eating meat anyway?" Abby asked as she moved the package of artificial meat product out of her way, her hands were busy but she made sure to look at Moose meaning he was able to read her lips 'I've never eaten it, my mother was vegan but I've always been vegetarian' Moose signed in reply to her question, 'I stopped eating meat a couple a years ago, when I met Moose' Lilith added her own explanation.

The three continued to work, getting dinner ready for the strange mismatch of people they now called "family" was hard work.

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Abby's new place was a little bigger than the old one, it had two bedrooms rather than the one her old apartment had had. The dining area was just big enough for the group, some of them sat at the breakfast bar; Lilith, Moose, Tony, and Abby were tonight while Gibbs, Jen, Ducky, Ziva, Kate, Palmer and McGee sat at the dining table it was a tight fit, but no one really minded.

Dinner conversation seemed to jump from topic to topic, the current topic had been started by Jimmy and Abby and talks of sex and the Goth's coffin, Jimmy had stated "I don't really see the problem with necrophilia," much the horror of the others around him.

"Eww, Jimmy, that's just gross" Lilith had practically yelled from her seat, "well not me personally, but for some people who are into that thing I don't see the big deal with it," Palmer had tried to save himself.

"It's such a violation though and so, so wrong," Abby said, she may have sex in a coffin but no way would she have sex with a dead body it was just wrong on so many levels.

"But, people donate bodies to science and organs for medical procedures, if there was a form you could sign to donate your body it would be a choice" Jimmy tried to explain his reasoning.

"I wouldn't let someone touch my body for their pleasure, not if I wasn't around to enjoy it too," Tony added his two cents to the topic, "I mean what's the point of sex if you can't enjoy it? I mean sex is about enjoyment right?" Tony asked only to be rewarded with a swift slap to the back of the head. WHACK!

"Enough, DiNozzo, someone change the subject to a more appropriate dinner conversation," Gibbs ordered

"Hey Boss why'd I get a head slap and not Palmer, he's the one who started the topic," Tony whined.

"Quit the whining Tony or you'll get another one," Gibbs growled but did reach over and add one to the back of Jimmy's head. WHACK! "there are children present, Palmer," Gibbs told the young man, "keep topics appropriate."

Lilith and Moose were both smiling, this was what family truly was, people who cared about each other and had no problem showing it. Gibbs didn't smack anyone he didn't care enough about to correct, Lilith and Abby would get a swat on the butt and the others including Moose a slap to the back of the head; Moose had received his first one just recently for getting into a paper plane war with Tony during work hours.

Moose had seemed to slip into the family with ease and spent almost as much time at NCIS as Lilith, mostly to avoid the confrontation and unhappiness of his home life and the abuse he suffered from his foster father Burt. Lilith had tried to convince him to tell the team but he'd refused although Lilith planned on doing so herself if he ended up with another broken bone.

After the meal was finished, Abby, Lilith, Tony, Moose, Tim, Jimmy, Kate, and Ziva aka the
"children", moved into the living room to play video games while Ducky, Gibbs and Jen had coffee and talked.

"Oh fuck!" Tony yelled when his character died horribly thanks to McGee.

"DiNozzo language!" Gibbs warned loudly.

"Sorry, Boss, but McGee keeps killing me!" Tony replied.

"Keep swearing and I'll be the one killing you" Gibbs growled.

"Shit, shit, shit, Tony, look out!" Abby yelled forgetting that Gibbs was within earshot.

"Abby, I just warned DiNozzo about his language, next person to swear will be in trouble with me" Gibbs scolded he may only have one child but he did have quite a few "kids".

Moose forgetting that if he could read the man's lips and signs, Gibbs could still see him signed to Abby, 'wow what a fucking control freak!' Abby laughed before going pale, Moose didn't have any warning before SMACK, SMACK, SMACK!, was landed on his butt, he spun around so fast it was almost comical.

'That goes for you too,'' he signed to the boy, 'no more swearing, got it?' Gibbs asked the teen

'Yes, Gibbs, I got it.' Moose signed back. Those few swats had hurt and he had no plans to swear near Gibbs ever again.

Gibbs nodded and made his way back to the table to have some coffee with Jen and Ducky, another eventful Team Gibbs family dinner which Gibbs secretly loved and enjoyed very much, in fact all of them looked forward to Sunday night even those that were spent eating takeout in the Bullpen, while working on an active case.

A/N: so what do you think, the conversation about necrophilia actually happened out of nowhere at dinner at my house tonight (thanks to my brother). Swearing was also quite prominent at my Mum's tonight although she was the one swearing while her Girlfriend scolded 'language, such terrible language'. Gotta love family =)