NCIS:
WHAT SHOULD HAVE HAPPENED IN MEXICO...
DISCLAIMER:
NCIS and characters do not belong to me.
SUMMARY:
Tim drinks bottled water and Abby stayed in the room that night. What should have happened.
CHAPTER 21: READY OR NOT...HERE COMES BABY MCGEE...
ABBY'S P.O.V.
FEBRUARY 10th...
I was in labor for over twenty hours and I'm sure that Tim lost the feeling in his hand from me squeezing it so hard, but the moment our daughter was born.
Everything changed I saw Tim look back and forth between me and our daughter. Our daughter was cleaned; checked over and then Tim sat beside me with this newborn in his arms.
"She looks just like you. You think the name we chose fits her?" Tim whispered to me, as I took the baby from his arms.
"No, Timmy, she looks like both of us and I think it fits." I replied tears were streaming down her face.
"Hello, Colleen Amy McGee. I can't believe this; you don't know how long I've dreamed of this, Abby. A family with you." Tim said.
"I-I think I do." I said with a laugh and he looked at me.
"Wh..." Tim started to say.
"Oh, come on, Timmy. You don't think I didn't know the times:
When we flirted and joked...
You were undressing me with your eyes...
I saw the look on your face whenever we were together in the lab...
Every time we had lunch, even after the was team got split up and put back together...
or just the time we spent together.
I knew, Tim, I knew." I told him with a kiss.
"We've known each other for a little over seven years. I started dreaming of this the moment I met you and decided to impress..." Tim started.
"The moment you decided to impress me with that tattoo? It took me a long time to realize that I wanted to be with you." I replied.
"When did you realize it? Mexico?" Tim asked.
"No, it was long before that. It just took me six years to decide to do something about it. I'm sorry." I told him.
"Rule six...never apologize, it's a sign of weakness. What are you sorry about?" Tim asked and I knew he was curious.
"I know you heard what I said that day, when I said...I hoped it wouldn't be you going as my escort." I told him.
"Abs, that's in the past, now we have a future. You know what?" Tim asked and as I leaned against him as our daughter began to fuss and then cry.
"What?" I asked.
"I'm glad you changed your mind about us. We've broken a few of rules that Gibbs set up to get here." Tim told me.
"Those rules never applied to us, Tim. We knew that from the moment we met." I told him and I felt my eyes beginning to drift shut.
Tim took our daughter from me.
MCGEE'S P.O.V.
"I know, Abs." I said as I began to take care of Colleen.
After a few minutes Colleen calmed down and with her in my arms, I decided to go see everyone.
I knew they would be in the waiting room...
THE WAITING ROOM...
"Hey, it's Probie." Tony said getting everyone's attention and they all came to surround me.
"Tim, she's beautiful." Sarah said from beside me and I just smiled.
"Hey, Probie, good thing she looks more like her mo..." Tony began, but got a slap to the back of the head.
"Congratulations to you and Abigail, Timothy." Ducky told me.
"Thanks." I replied.
"How is Abby doing?" Gibbs asked and I saw the trace of sadness mixed with happiness that Abby and I had seen so many times over the past few months.
"Abby, fell asleep just before I left." I said.
"What's her name?" Sarah asked.
"Colleen Amy McGee." I replied.
"I remember the day you were born and also the day Sarah was born." I heard my mom say and she looked ready to cry.
"She is beautiful." I heard my dad say and looked at him in shock.
"I'm happy for you and Abby." Ziva said with a smile as Tony wrapped an arm around her.
I saw the look on Gibbs face and could imagine what he was thinking...
'There goes rule twelve.'
"We're all happy for you, Probie. Maybe one day she will be the next McGee to work at NCIS and write books." Tony said as he gave me a slap on the shoulder.
"Maybe...but, I think she will be whoever she wants to be. I guess I better get back in the room, before Abby wakes up and wonders where we are." I told them and turned to walk back down the hall.
ABBY'S ROOM...
I walked back in the room, just as Abby stirred and woke up.
"What did everyone think?" Abby asked.
"They all thought she was beautiful. Tony said that, 'It's a good thing she looks like you.' Then said, 'Maybe she will be the next McGee to work at NCIS and write books." I told her.
"She looks like both of us and we'll love her no matter what she does. We did good, huh?" Abby asked.
"We did good." I parroted back to Abby, as I laid Colleen down in the bassinet and Abby moved over a little so I could lay down beside her.
ABBY'S P.O.V.
I don't know how long ago Tim and I fell asleep, but it couldn't be that long. I saw a flash, when I woke up, Tony had a camera and Gibbs was holding Colleen settling her down.
"Couldn't resist." Tony shrugged.
"How about a picture with the three of them?" Gibbs said handing Colleen to Tim.
Tim handed her to me and then a picture of the three of us was taken, followed by several more pictures.
Tim and Sarah parents; Then Sarah, Tim, Colleen and I...
Then finally, Tim's mom took a picture of...
Tim, Colleen and I with our NCIS family...
"How do you feel, Abs?" Gibbs asked.
"I just went through thirty hours of labor. I feel like..." I began, but Gibbs smiled.
"You sound just like Shannon the day Kelly was born." Gibbs told me.
"The same as the days Tim and Sarah were born." Tim's dad said and I couldn't help, but notice he seemed to be hiding a smile.
My family was finally complete.
Not only with NCIS, but also with...
Tim, Colleen and Tim's family. I could see that Tim's family was finally beginning to warm up to me.
Tim and I had decided to wait until the March 21st to get married. I wanted to wait until after the baby was born.
Tim's parents said they would take care of Colleen while Tim, but I can't really stand the thought of leaving her so soon.
So it we decided to postpone our honeymoon, until she's a little older.
I'm sure Gibbs knew, but didn't say anything about Ziva and Tony finally getting together. It had happened just a few weeks after I talked to her.
Though they were only dating, I knew one day they would get married and have a family of their own.
I knew when this happened Ziva would not let her father, Eli David, be a part of their children's lives.
I looked around as everyone talked and laughed the whole time Tony's arm around Ziva.
"Hey, are you okay?" I heard Tim whisper in my ear.
"Fine, I'm just glad to see our entire family here and having a good time." I whispered back and gave him a kiss on the lips.
"Why don't you two wait..." Tony began, but Gibbs smacked him as Tim and I just smiled.
Tim continued to sit there beside me and I continued to hold Colleen. It was much later when everyone left saying they would see us soon.
Then it was just Tim, Colleen and I.
"You do know how beautiful you two are, don't you?" Tim asked and had long since stopped turning red when he told me this.
"Just as you know how handsome I've always found you...from the day we met." I told him and he turned a little red.
When we looked down at Colleen, she was just laying there and seemed to be looking at us. I felt Tim put his arm around me and leaned against him the best I could, with Colleen in my arms.
I felt tears and couldn't believe it, the family I thought I never wanted...
Tim and Colleen...they were now my family!
There was nothing that could have made me happier in my life.
So much had changed since that night in Mexico...
'A harmless joke I tried to play and it had made me a family.'
Something I tried to deny that I wanted for so long.
TIM'S P.O.V.
We looked down at our new daughter; she was just laying there and seemed to be looking at us. I put my arm around Abby and felt her lean against me, with Colleen still in her arms.
I saw the tears, but couldn't move to wipe them away.
The family Abby and I thought we would never have together...now we did.
Abby, Colleen and I were now a family! Just the three of us, I couldn't be more happy.
I had dreamed of this for so long and it had finally happened.
Seven years, five months, two weeks and nine days.
I was so happy that Abby and I had worked things out in Mexico.
Then next month on the 21st we would be getting married. Now I know I had to be dreaming, because two things Abby said she never wanted had happened.
We just sat there for I don't know how long...bonding as a family.
I wonder what would have happened if things had turned out differently, but I didn't care anymore.
I didn't want to think about what would have happened, because then we wouldn't be together.
THE END