And here we are! That chapter before the last! The first part of the Epilogue!
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1 Year later...

Gibbs sighed as he finished his paperwork. It had taken him quite a while, but he'd finally completed it. Now he was hungry…

"DiNozzo!"

Tony looked up from his desk. "Yeah, Boss?"

"Your turn to buy lunch?"

Tony was about to open his mouth when he noticed Ziva glare at him. "I guess so…"

Gibbs walked up to the desk and dropped some twenty dollar bills on it. "Buy it."

Tony smirked. "Why, you hungry?"

Gibbs glared at the Senior Field Agent.

"Of course you are." Tony got up and headed to the elevator. "Maybe I could get Grace from the Legal Department to do this…"

"Is Tony getting lunch?" Ziva asked. Gibbs nodded.

"I forgot to give him my order…" She got out her cell phone and started texting Tony.

"Oh great, so did I!" McGee started getting out his phone.

"He knows what to get," Gibbs sighed.

"How do you know?" Ziva asked.

Gibbs smirked and tapped his nose. "I'm getting coffee."

As soon as Gibbs left the bullpen, the elevator dinged and two pairs of footsteps headed towards the bullpen. Neither Ziva nor McGee looked up until a familiar voice greeted them.

"So busy that you can't even say hi, eh?"

They both looked up to see Andy standing with Alice, both of them smirking. McGee frowned.

"What are you two doing here?" he asked. "Aren't you meant to get back home?"

Andy shrugged. "It's boring there. I'll be there alone."

Alice held up some sheets of paper. "Andy says you're good with Math. I need help."

Ziva looked around. "Where's Jessie?"

"Gibbs is picking her up," Andy and Alice said simultaneously.

"Gibbs?" Ziva and McGee asked.

"Right here." Gibbs walked into the bullpen with Jessie hot on his heels, chattering away.

"Hey, Dad," Andy greeted. "Hey, Jess." He saw Gibbs smile at the name Andy had insisted on calling him ever since the adoption had been completed.

"Is it over?" Andy asked as they walked out of the courts. Gibbs smiled.

"Yeah, it's over Andy."

"Who won?" Jessie asked excitedly. Gibbs thought about how to reply.

"Do you prefer to be called a Gibbs or do you want to keep your last name?"

Both Andy and Jessie's eyes widened in shock. "Really?" Gibbs nodded.

"Daddy!" Jessie hugged Gibbs' leg. "Thank you thank you thank you!"

Andy hugged Gibbs for the first time since they met. "Thanks, Dad."

"You can still call me Gibbs, you know," Gibbs pointed out.

"Yeah, but if I'm gonna be called Andrew James Gibbs, then I've got to call you Dad haven't I?"

Andy still couldn't get that day out of his head. The dinner, the party… the kiss…

"Hi Gibbs. Hi Jessie," Alice greeted. Her voice broke Andy from his thoughts. Jessie just continued to talk.

"… and then Molly was all 'I don't want to play with you because you're different', and I was like 'Just because I have friends and you don't', and then she went off crying and she told a teacher and said I was bullying her and everyone said she was lying and then she got in so much trouble and… oh, hi Ziva! Hi McGee!" Jessie bounded up to Ziva's desk and moved to sit on her lap. Ziva picked up the young girl and placed her on her lap as Gibbs sat at his desk.

"How are you, Jessie?" Ziva asked.

"I'm cool. It's been ages since we last saw you. I mean, two weeks is a long time!"

"Not really," Andy muttered from the floor beside Tony's desk, where he was doing his Math homework with Alice.

"Yes it is! It's fourteen whole days!" Jessie pointed out.

"Fourteen days can be a long time, Andy," Alice said, smirking.

"You always have to take her side, don't you?" Andy asked.

"Hey, Boss, I got the lunch!" Tony called out as he walked into the bullpen with three boxes of pizza. He froze, and then smiled when he saw Andy, Alice and Jessie. "Hey guys!"

"Technically, Andy's the only guy out of the three of us," Alice pointed out.

"Smartass," Andy muttered.

"Dumbass," Alice teased.

"At least I can complete my Math homework," Andy pointed out.

"At least I can complete my Physics homework without help," Alice argued.

"At least I can –"

"Shut up!" Jessie cried. Alice and Andy stared at her in shock before carrying on with their homework. Tony sat behind his desk and watched as Andy and Alice completed their homework together. Well, Andy struggled writing with his left hand.

"So, what are you three doing here anyway?" he asked.

"We wanted to see you lot again," Andy answered. He cursed silently as he made a mistake. "Stupid left hand – won't write the answer I want to write."

Alice smirked and snatched his pencil off him. "I'll write it for you."

"No. You'll use that answer for you homework."

"I'm not in your Math class. I don't get the same homework."

"…Fine." Andy moved aside to let Alice write down his answer for him.

"How'd you sprain your wrist, anyway?" McGee asked.

"Football. You were there!" Andy exclaimed. Tony nodded.

"He scored that touchdown that you thought was really awesome."

"Actually, that was you, Tony," McGee said.

"No it wasn't. He was busy kissing Ziva," Abby explained as she skipped into the room. She grinned when she saw Jessie. "Jessie!"

Jessie smiled. "Hi Abby!" She jumped off Ziva's lap. "Let's go to Abby's lab!" She skipped over to Abby and grabbed her hand before dragging her over to the elevator. "Come on Ziva! Come on Alice!"

"Coming!" Alice ran over to where the two were whilst Ziva walked behind. As soon as the girls were gone, Tony decided to talk.

"So, how's school?" he asked Andy. Andy frowned as he looked up at Tony.

"Good…" he answered uncertainly.

"What are your grades like?"

"I'm getting straight Bs apart from in Math, Chemistry, PE and Woodwork where I'm getting As."

Tony smiled. "That's good. And what's your status?"

"My status?" Andy smirked. "Is that what you were getting at? You didn't do a very good job at trying to sneak it out of me."

McGee smirked. "You owe me twenty dollars, Tony."

Andy smirked. "Sucker." He sat up fully. "I'm still single anyway."

"Still single? And you're hanging out with her?"

"I don't date every chick I see, Tony," Andy teased. "I'm waiting for the right time." He got on with his homework again.

"Are you shy?" McGee asked. Andy blushed.

"No…"

"Oh my god – you're shy!" Tony exclaimed.

"So is McGee!" Andy protested.

"But at least I'm dating now," McGee pointed out. Andy sighed.

"Fine then. What's it gonna take to get you off my back?" Andy asked.

"Ask her out," Tony suggested. Andy glared at him as if to say 'are you serious?'. Tony smirked.

"Yeah, I'm serious. Unless you're a chicken…"

Andy frowned. "I ain't chicken."

"Then ask her out."

"I… I… uh…"

Tony started making chicken noises.

"DiNozzo, we don't work in a damn farm, so quit it with the noises," Gibbs commanded. Tony continued to tease Andy. Andy clenched his fists in anger.

"Tony, stop it," McGee said. "You're getting him mad."

"No." Andy put up his hand to stop McGee from defending him. "I'll do it."

Tony smirked. "That's good, because the girls are coming up for lunch now."

"What?"

The elevator dinged and three different voices were heard as the people in it came out. Andy bit his lip and looked at Tony who was smirking.

"I hate you," he muttered.

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