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Chapter 25

The next morning after church the McGee's were busy getting ready for their usual Sunday lunch. Tim sighed happily as he got the grill ready as he remembered the day had started badly but it had ended GREAT! It'd been a while since he'd warmed Abby backside for real. He hadn't even realised how much he'd missed it...or realised that ABBY had missed it...them being them.

Abby blew raspberries on Ethan's tummy and smiled as he chuckled. You know if you could bottle that sound and market it...there'd be no need for anti depression pills. She took a deep sniff of the freshly bathed a powdered baby. And that baby smell... she thought.

"Why you smellin Ethan?" Jess asked, climbing up onto a chair to join in.

"Cos it's about the nicest smell out..try." Abby said. Jess lowered her nose to her brother and sniffed deeply. Ethan smiled and burped.

"Ewww." Jess said, her face wrinkled. "He don't smell THAT good." she said kissing him anyway. "Can you brush my hair Mommy?"

"Sure thing hon...just let me put Ethan somewhere safe."

"Can I hold him? Please?"

"Sure Jess but you have to hang on tight."

"I will." Jess said with a broad toothless grin.

"Come sit over here." Abby said, making sure Jess was sitting securely in a bean bag on the floor. She pulled up a stool to sit on herself and then passed Ethan to his sister.

"Hellloooo Ethie Wethy!" Jess said smacking a big kiss onto her brother's chubby face. Abby smiled to herself as she brushed her daughters long golden locks. Too long really. They should really have it trimmed but Abby couldn't bring herself to. You could really only have that kind of long hair when you were little...

"Careful Jess." Abby said. "I think he's had enough kisses."

"You can never have enough kisses...can you Ethie?" Jess said as she planted yet another kiss... Ethan winced and then did the only think a baby could do under such circumstances, he grabbed a handful of a golden lock that escaped the brush and tumbled offered Jess one of his biggest smiles as he twisted the satiny strand tightly in his hand.

"Owwww...ahhhh. Mommy stop he... he has my hair!" Jess wailed as she tried to undo the tiny clenched dropped the brush and and quickly undid Ethan little hand.

"I tried to tell you Jess."

"But I love him!" Jess cried. "I can't help it..."

"Then you better save up for a wig." Abby said planting numerous kisses all over her daughter's face.

"Mommy!" Jess squealed.

"Annoying isn't it?"

"A bit." Jess said with a coy smile.

"When he starts to wriggle or pull a face you have to stop." Abby said rescuing her son from being killed with kindness.

"Ok Mommy." Jess said. "That's Maddie!" she said before jumping up and disappearing down the stairs.

"You know what THAT means..." Abby said to her oblivious son... "Keep those little fists handy...there's more kissing coming..."

By the time Abby reached the bottom of the stairs Jimmy and Amber and little Jack had arrived.
"Yay!" Abby said enthusiastically. "You're here!" She pulled first Jimmy and Jack and then Amber into a tight one armed hug. Amber smiled.

"So your mood's improved I see?" she asked. Abby grinned.

"Who...me? I'm always happy." Tim came to greet his guests with a smug grin..

"Not always.." he said.

"Ethan wants his Daddy. Don't you Ethan." she said passing over the baby. Mommy has to make a salad.

"I'll help." Amber said.

"Do you need some help with the grill?" Jimmy asked as he popped Jack into a car bouncer that Abby kept there for such occasions. He laughed at the look of concentration as Jack attempted to bounce up and down while hitting all the rattly toys all at once.

"Nah...Gibbs and Ducky are already arguing about whether it's hot enough." Tim laughed.

"Just like old times." Jimmy said.

"Tony here yet?"

"In the flesh..." Tony said from the doorway. "Someone wanna come help? The boys scooted around the back. They heard Dyl in the pool."

"Is someone watching them?" Abby called out.

"Sarah and Zac are there." Tim called back. Sarah had gotten back early that morning.

Tim put Ethan in his baby swing next to the car Jack was in and secured him with the restraint.

"Do you mind watching him Jimmy?"

"No of course not." Jimmy said, putting on the television and popping in a Wiggles dvd.

Tim and Tony walked back out to the car to give Ziva a hand with the rest of the stuff and the babies.

"Missed ya yesterday..." Tony prodded.

"Yeah sorry about that...Dyl behave?"

"Yeah, he wasn't a problem..I was just wondering what would keep you away..."

"Were ya?" Tim said with a grin.

Tim slung a bag over his shoulder and helped himself to a baby.

"Hi Zi." he said. "And which little princess are you?" He asked the baby in his arms with a smile as he read her tiny bracelet. "Hannah...hello Hannah..." he kissed the tiny baby before carrying her into the house.

"Leave him alone." Ziva whispered. "I will find out from Abby what happened."

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"Hey Kim." Abby said as her friend wandered into the kitchen after slathering all the kids with sunscreen...mostly against their will.

"Hey there." she said giving Abby a hug. "You feeling better today?"

"I'm fine thanks." Abby said with a small smile.

"And you were not fine yesterday?" Ziva asked joining in as she plonked on a stool with Aviva in tow.
"Tell em Abs." Tim said with a chuckle as he passed Hannah to Kim who was trying to wrestle her out of his arms. Abby went on rinsing the salad.

"Abby?" Kim giggled. "What happened?" It'd been a while since they'd had some nutty Abby excitement.

"I may have been in a little bit of a bad mood." she said with an angelic smile. Tim scoffed. She couldn't care less if her friends knew she got spanked. WHY she'd been spanked though was a different story. Abby knew she'd behaved badly...she'd taken a chunk out of the door...and broken the buckle off one of her favourite boots... It had kind of ended up ok though... she thought with a smile.

"Bad enough that Tim had to stay home..." Kim said. Abby just gave them all a secretive smile and carried on.

"Exactly..."Tim said.

"I think those salad greens are well and truly washed now hon." Kim said.

"Yes they are..." Tim added.

"You know what Timmy, why don't you take your pompous as.." Tim covered Jack's ears.
"Tch, tch, tch..." he tutted. "Not nice Abby." Abby threw a dish towel at Tim's head...he managed to duck in time. The girls all giggled at their antics.

"Oh well...at least it wasn't a boot at fifty paces this time." Tim said before he slipped out of the back door and went to join the boys. His work there had been done. He'd planted the seed and the girls would all be on Abby like vultures now...he chuckled.

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"You seem pleased with your self there McSmiley." Tony said. Tim grinned even wider and snatched the basketball form his friend.

"Yes I am Tony...life is good."

"Even when your kid eggs a neighbours house on halloween?" Jimmy asked.

"Yep...well technically it was Tony's neighbour and they did break a window..but yes...even then."

"Even when Jess helped Maddie slip me a medicine on toast...?" Gibbs asked. Tim smiled.

"They meant well..." he said with a smile.
"What about when the little girls pour Barbie pink bubbles into your pool?" Ducky asked.

"They haven't done that..."

"Um yes they HAVE!" Gibbs yelled suddenly noticing the quickly changing colour of the pool water.. "Everyone! Get out of the pool!" All hell broke loose when the boys realised they were turning bright pink.

"You threw a boot at Tim?" Ziva asked. "Why?"

"That must have gone down well." Amber said.

"Oh Abby." Kim giggled.

"Ok, ok...not all at once." Abby said with a grin. "Firstly...I was angry."

"Okay...about?" Kim asked. Abby sighed and then retold the sad tale that was her yesterday. Ziva giggled.

"I would have loved to have been eyes on the wall, when that boot almost hit Tim."

"A fly on the wall." All the girls corrected Ziva at once.

"Oh me too." Kim said. "I'm surprised he kept his patience as long as he did.

"Oh it takes a bit to rile Timmy these days." Abby said.

From where Amber was sitting she had a good view of the backyard.

"Um Abby...don't speak too soon." she said as she watched the performance in the backyard.

"You pair of idiots!" Kyle yelled as he examined his brightly coloured skin.

"There's no way I'm going to school like this!" Mike muttered as he tried to scrub the pink off with his towel.

"Dad!" Dyl whined.

"I'm so sorry Tim." Zac said. "They were just in the spa with their dolls." Jess's bottom lip wobbled.

"We thought the Barbie's wouldda liked to have pink spa water..." she said.

"Cos they're Barbies..." Maddie said with a wince. "They kinda like pink..."

As Tim and her Daddy headed for the pool area, she looked around for somewhere to run. There was nowhere...cept the pool and it was all pink. So she settled for the only thing she COULD do. She hung onto the gate for grim death. With the only option being used up by Maddie Jess did the only thing that was left to her. She wailed..loudly.

"Don't spank me Daddy! I'm sorrry!" Jess sobbed. Zac tried desperately to scoop the pinkest of the water out of the pool before it spread and Sarah helped in the only way SHE could, by seeing the funny side. She almost fell off her lounger she was laughing so hard.

"Maddie..." Gibbs said as he swung the pool gate opened with ease, while Maddie was still attached to it. "You are in big trouble."

"Again." Jimmy said with a chuckle. He stopped though when Ducky frowned at him.

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Abby, Kim, Ziva and Amber all ran out to see what all the fuss was about. They were a comical vision them selves with all the babies in tow. Jack had been pushed out still in his walker. He looked around with bewilderment while he wondered where the Wiggles had gone. Ethan looked around wearily at the noise around him. Nothing out of the ordinary for these crazy people, they were always making noise. Aviva and Hannah slumbered on regardless of the trauma of their brother's sudden pinkness..

"Mom!" Kyle whined. "I'm all pink."

"I can see." she said, trying not to laugh. "Shh. We will try and fix it when we know what it is."

"Try?" Kyle said, his voice filled with horror.

"What did you put in the pool Jess?" Tim asked sternly.

"Pink colour." she said quietly.

"What kind of pink colour?" Her Daddy asked. "Show me the bottle." Jess walked over to the pool backwards where a bunch of bedraggled pink dolls were laying in a heap. She dug underneath the pile and fished out an empty bottle of pink food colouring.

"Is that all?" he asked. He couldn't see how one tiny bottle of pink should have made such a bright pink colour I such a large amount of water. Jess looked at Maddie nervously.

"Maddie?" Gibbs warned. "Tell Uncle Tim what you put in the water." Maddie went and fetched the other bottle and passed it to Tim.

"Red." he said."Ok pool's closed for today...until I can get someone out to fix it."

"Awww. Thanks a lot girls." Dyl said. Maddie poked her tongue out.

"All you kids come with me and we'll see what we can do to get the colour out." Abby said.

"What soap you gonna use?" Mike asked curiously.

"Not sure.." Abby said. "Trial and error."

"Very scientific." Amber said.

"Yes it is." Abby said with a smile. As each child walked through the kitchen, she passed them something to clean themselves with.

"Kyle...shower gel." she said passing him a bottle.

"Mike...shampoo."

"Dyl...toothpaste."

"Jess...lemon juice"

"Maddie...shaving cream."

"I'm not a boy!" she yelled at her Aunt.

"Luck of the draw." Maddie, Abby said with a smile. Then she whispered. "Don't shout...you're in enough trouble as it is."

"You mean we're still getting spanked? Even though we have to put all gross stuff on ourselves."

"Pretty safe bet honey." Kim said.

"It's a certainty." Gibbs said with a frown. "As soon as Aunt Abby has finished her experiment."