Title- Unconceivable

Author- PTBvisiongrrl

Part- 21/?

Date- 5/28/12

Rating – M

Pairings/Characters- Gibbs/Tony/Abby

Spoilers- A bit AU (obviously ), but this takes place sometime after the current season; this is a sequel to my stories Unattainable and Unexpected.

WARNINGS- Explicit; depicts slash and multiple partner sex and a monogamous, polygamous relationship. If this makes you uncomfortable, DON'T READ.

AUTHOR'S NOTE:

Oh, dear. I think this chapter starts to veer into fanfic triteness…but I couldn't help myself. If I'm going to continue this to delivery, there's going to be some hokiness, because there is just no other way to describe the arrival of one's children. Sorry if this offends or gets too sappy. There's only maybe four more chapters to this, and an epilogue.

Disclaimers- Unfortunately, I don't own any of these characters, and make absolutely no profit from taking them out to play…although Gibbs and Tony can frisk and cuff me ANYTIME. Hell, so can Abby!

Double Trouble

Gibbs held Abby's hand, listening to the whoosh of C.C.'s heartbeat. Always fast, as was normal, but today's rate was off the charts. Vi frowned, as Abby tensed, asking "What's wrong?"

Gibbs felt his stomach drop. Things had gone too well; it was only a matter of time for FUBAR to set in, he mentally berated himself, even as he reassured Abby. "There's nothing wrong, Abs, right, Vi?"

Vi did not answer immediately, but continued to run the ultrasound wand this way and that over Abby's bulging belly. "Give me a sec—" she adjusted the angle of the monitor, hit a few keys and spun the mouse once or twice. "Ah, Abby—"

Gibbs looked at the now visible screen with Abby. "Is that a second baby?" she gasped out, squeezing the hell out of his hand.

Vi shook her head in disbelief. "Yeah. It is."

"How did we not know this before?" Gibbs barked, his eyes never leaving the screen.

"Is the second baby okay?" Abby asked, squirming a little to get a better look.

Hitting the print button several times, Vi removed the wand and wiped Abby's belly with a towel. "Second babies sometimes hide behind a larger sibling. Higher hormone levels in pregnancy blood tests usually tell us to look for one, but I didn't question Abby's slighter higher levels because we had already done the ultrasound. We haven't done any more blood tests, just the amnio—"

"And now we can't tell which baby the amnio was for…" Abby added.

"There could still be genetic issues with the other baby," Gibbs quickly grasped, less troubled by the presence of a second baby than the possibility of having missed a birth defect.

"Yes," Vi agreed. "I'm sorry I didn't catch this earlier, Abby. The chances of a second baby hiding like this—"

"I hadn't gone for the 3D ultrasound yet. I was planning on next week-" Abby stated, still unable to take her eyes off of the screen. "We would have known if I had gone earlier."

Lee studied Abby's face. There was no stress at this unexpected news—just a beautific smile. "Another one," she just kept repeating to herself.

Vi bit her lip. "Knowing this now, we have a few changes to the plan to discuss, Abby."

Tearing her eyes away as Vi's words hit home, Abby asked, "What changes?"

Lee rubbed her shoulders, brushed her bangs back from her eyes, and pressed a kiss against her temple. "What changes, doc?" Gibbs asked, too.

"Twins usually come earlier than a single birth," Vi pushed her wheeled stool back to better look at both of them. Before she continued, Vi asked, "Do you want to call Tony on speaker phone so he can hear this, too?"

Abby was reaching for her purse—and phone—before Lee could take his own out. Vi waved Abby's frustrated reaching to stop, pulled out her own cell phone, and sped through the contacts to hit dial. Placing it on the counter, she nodded at Abby and Lee as it rang two, three times, and then Tony's voice came through a bit of background noise. "What's up, guys?" he asked, his tone tense.

"A lot," Lee sighed. "But—"

"Not bad," Abby chimed in, loudly.

A pause. "Then what's good?"

"Are you driving?" Lee asked quickly.

"Uh, no," Tony's voice shifted, from tense to a more plastic, office generic.

"Sitting down at your desk?" Lee asked.

"You're scaring me," Tony answered, as they heard an office chair pulled out and squeak as Tony sat down hard. "Now I'm sitting down- at YOUR desk."

"Tony—" Lee started to bark.

"What is it?" Tony hissed, enunciating.

Abby called out, "CC is not just CC."

"We're having twins, Daddy," Lee added.

A distinctive thump could be heard on the other end of the phone, and McGee and Ziva's voices calling Tony's name.

"Tony?" the three of them called out in unison.

"Who is this?" Ziva's voice impatiently demanded.

"What happened to Tony, Ziva?" Lee gruffly demanded.

Exclamations in the background of "I'm fine!" and "I don't need help, McGoogle," obscured Ziva's answer, until she turned her back on the ruckus. "He is fine now. He simply—passed out. What did you say to him, Gibbs?"

"We're having twins," Lee stated succinctly.

"Todah! This is a good thing, yes?" Ziva asked.

"YES!" Abby yelled.

"I am on speaker phone? Congratulations, Abby! Let me give the phone back to Tony, then." Ziva's heartfelt, "Congratulations, Tony!" could be heard beside Tony's quick breathing.

"Twins? Abby said it wasn't twins!" Tony's voice slowly rose in tone. "How can this happen? Oh, god, is this another girl?"

Lee laughed, deep and full. "God is getting even with you, Tony, if it is. Vi?" he asked.

"Hello, Tony," Vi spoke up. "Congratulations."

"How did you not know before this?" Tony asked accusingly. "Didn't you do tests and things?"

Vi nervously chuckled. She was obviously troubled by this development, even though neither Abby nor Gibbs was visibly upset at her. "Even in this day and age, Tony, sometimes there are unexpected surprises."

Tony's sound of disbelief was audible to all. "So is this another girl?"

"I'm not sure which baby we sampled for the amnio, since we thought there was just the one." Vi started. "But, based on today's sonogram, yes, its another girl."

"J.J. Jacqueline Jennifer," Abby interjected.

"Abs! No name discussion right now!" Tony stated. "TWO girls."

Lee's eyes darkened for a minute. "Both babies are Tony's, right?"

Vi saw that she needed to shut that train of thought down immediately, because Abby's eyes lit up at the possibility. "They are both his. It would be incredibly, incredibly rare if they weren't." Vi noted that Gibbs looked relieved, rather than troubled, at her insistence.

"I want to go for my 3D ultrasound today," Abby interjected. "I want to see both my girls."

Lee squeezed her hand. "Anything you want, Abs."

"I want to be there for that, too," Tony added. "I'll go tell Vance that I need to leave; you guys call and make the appointment." The phone clicked, and there was silence.

"I think he's excited," Abby bit her lip. "Right? Not too upset?"

Vi cut off the call and pocketed her phone. "I'll tell Lisa to call to make you an appointment for later on today, while we discuss the new birth plan."

~~~~~NCISNCISNCISNCISNCIS~~~~~

Five hours later found Lee, Tony, and Abby curled up in their big bed together, studying color photos from the 3D ultrasound. Abby was snuggled between the men, each of whom had an arm wrapped around her, their hands resting on the other's arm. The silence filling the room was unusual, but it was not an uncomfortable silence. Contemplative was a better description.

"So we're having two girls," Tony stated, his voice full of awe. "Two."

Lee chuckled. Tony had fallen back into stunned repetition of that same statement several times earlier this night. Leaning over to brush a kiss against Tony's temple, he asked, "Are you sure you're okay?"

Meeting Lee's eyes, Tony blinked a few times. "Yeah? I think so. I mean, if I was okay with one, what's a second baby?"

Abby smiled at her men, one hand resting on each side of her baby belly. "I'd understand if you were a little upset, Tony."

Tony shook his head. "No. No, I'm not upset. But we have some more work to do now. We only bought one of every thing."

"We bought enough ones of everything that I think we'll be okay, Tony," Abby smiled, taking some of the bite out of her words.

"I'm going to need some help to have a second crib ready for our girls, Tony," Lee stately lowly.

"Oh, Lee, I don't want to make a mess of things—" Tony tried to say, but Lee cut him off.

"I want your help. I need your help. I can't finish it working by myself in time. Abby can't help with the staining, and shouldn't really be around the chemicals down in the basement, anyway." Lee's voice brooked no argument. Lee was well aware that Tony hadn't felt like he had contributed much to C.C.'s room so far. All the furniture had been made by Lee, or Jackson, long ago. Abby had sewn and knitted and assembled decorations and linen. Tony had played Step n' Fetch It, grateful to be able to do something, as he felt he didn't have any other skills to contribute. That was stopping now.

Swallowing the lump in his throat, Tony agreed. "Okay, Lee. We'll see if all these years of watching you work on those damn boats taught me anything."

Abby broke into the men's moment. "We don't need to buy two of everything."

"Huh?" Lee ineloquently asked.

"Just because they are twins doesn't mean they aren't individuals. I don't want identical cribs." Abby sat up, pushing a loose lock of hair behind her ear. "I don't want to dress them alike, either. Ever."

Tony raised an eyebrow. "Okay," he easily agreed.

Lee nodded as well. Given Abby's stubborn individuality streak, it did not surprise Lee. He'd never really liked identical twins dressing alike, anyway. "What do you want on the crib, then, Abs?"

"Ducks and bunnies, of course," Abby stated, worming her way past the men to the edge of the bed. "Just not the same ones. Gotta pee," she called over her shoulder as she made her way to the bathroom.

Shaking his head, Lee muttered, "Of course."

~~~~~NCISNCISNCISNCISNCIS~~~~~

Vance's wide-eyed response to Abby's twin news made it worth the early morning trip to the director's office in answer to the annoying summons. "Scuito's having twins?"

"Yup," Lee laconically answered.

"God help you," Vance chuckled. "Both girls?"

"Uh-huh."

"Are you still in shock, or just monosyllabic today, Gibbs?" Vance sat down at his desk.

Lee shrugged. "So, the plan has changed. Abby needs to go out early. She doesn't want to, but the doctor told me it was going to be necessary by seven months, if not sooner. Tony and I are going to need to arrange an interesting paternity leave schedule. Its gonna be an adjustment."

"I do not envy you there, Gibbs. One is a handful, much less two—" Vance chuckled again. "Whatever you need, we'll arrange it. McGee can handle lead on most cases, these days, if I keep an eye on him."

Nodding, Gibbs agreed. "Green on him is long gone, Leon."

Sitting down on the sofa in the office, Vance pulled at the knees of his suit pants, smoothing them out. "So, the million dollar question, Gibbs, and I have to ask—when are you retiring to take care of your girls?"

"Five years to mandatory retirement," Gibbs took a long sip of his coffee.

Vance raised an eyebrow. "Gibbs."

"How'd you figure it out, Leon?" Gibbs asked, studying the man that he had sometimes called enemy, but most usually friend these days.

Vance shook his head. "You aren't that hard for me to read these days, Gibbs. And in your place, I'd be thinking the same thing. If I had realized how much I'd miss with my kids, given this job, I don't know that I'd make the same choices again. Given another chance at those years, I wouldn't hesitate to take it."

"I haven't brought it up with them yet, Leon," Gibbs admitted, one father to another. "I need to make sure of some things first."

"DiNozzo will be promoted to Supervisory Agent of MCRT. McGee will be Senior Agent." Leon met Gibbs's eyes straight on. "No one leaves D.C. No one gets transferred to another team unless they want to, and you and I both know none of them will want to do so."

"Thanks, Leon," Gibbs responded. "That's what I needed to know, to make a decision."

"Am I filing retirement papers?" Leon asked.

"Not yet." Gibbs rubbed at his face, feeling a little tired just thinking about telling his two lovers what he would like to do. "They aren't going to like it, Abby or Tony. Tony—I don't think he's going to believe he's ready to be in charge. He's not gonna feel like he's earned the position, he's gonna feel like I gave to him so I can spend time with the babies. He'll need persuading."

Vance nodded. "I know. He's a damn good agent, but doesn't seem to know it, all that bluster aside."

"He does, he just doesn't believe it," Gibbs agreed. "He'll get there. Give him time to prove it to himself."

"I will," Vance agreed. "Maybe you could give him a few months, slowly turn the reins over. Juggling paternity leave for the both of you, if DiNozzo takes his first, then you take yours…I think you have enough vacation, sick, and comp time on the books that you won't have to make it official until DiNozzo will feel pretty well settled in."

"Abby just doesn't like change."

"Little late for that to bother her, isn't it?" Leon smirked. "Nothing changes life like a baby, not to mention two.