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Chapter 36
"I asked Louise and Beth to have dinner with us." Kim said trying to put her mascara on over her puffy eyes.
"Okay. That was nice." Gibbs said. "It's a difficult position the woman's in."
"Difficult. It's impossible. I don't know how she can stay so strong."
"Needs must. She doesn't have a choice."
"It must be terrible. I don't know what I'd do if I were dying and didn't know where Maddie was going to end up."
"Yeah."
"Specially when there are so many people in the world that want to adopt children."
"Uh huh." Gibbs smiled.
"Some people that have several of their own children STILL have room in their homes for another child."
"Yes they do."
"Some with lovely big houses that have more than one spare bedroom."
"Some that happen to have a husband that work at NCIS?" he asked with a raised eyebrow.
"Possibly." Kim said a little sheepishly. "Yes well I tried to ease into it."
"EASE into it? With a tractor more like." he chuckled.
"I knew you wanted Beth form the word go, there was no need for the hard sell."
"Does that mean we can tell Louise that we'll take her?"
"No."
"Why?!" Kim stamped her foot in a manner that was reminiscent of old Maddie. "Why are you SO insistent on not having any more children? It's not fair. It's really not fair. YOU are not the only one in this marriage Leroy Jethro Gibbs!" she said poking him in the chest to punctuate each word. When she got to the last word he captured her finger and that's when she noticed that he was no longer smiling.
"I thought we were done with tantrums in this family."
"It wasn't a tantrum." she said backing towards the bed and then trying to scoot sideways. "Really."
"You stomped your foot. You shouted like a two year old who wasn't getting her own way."
"Well. I was making a point."
"I got that." Gibbs said sitting on the bed with his wife's wrist firmly in his grasp. "When you poked me in the chest."
"I was just making you listen."
"I was listening." He pulled her over his knee. "AND I was feeling your finger stabbing me in the chest. A lot."
"I'm sorry!" Kim wailed as the slinky dress she'd put on for dinner was being smoothed over her now clenching bottom cheeks.
Gibbs brought his hand down hard in the centre of her squirming bottom before finding himself a pace. His hand bounced up and down and all around each cheek.
"Maddie..."
"Is at Abby's remember?"
"Dammit." she muttered. "OW." she squeaked after a particularly hard spank.
"I'd forgotten how relaxing this can be." Gibbs said as he watched the slight wobble of his wife's pretty cheeks.
"It hurts!" she yelled.
"I'm just trying to make you listen."
"I'm listening. I'm listening. Please."
"Ok." Gibbs said sitting her up on his lap.
She tried to get her hot bottom away from his hard knee but he held her firmly.
"I want you to listen."
"Ok." she said. Even with a just spanked bottom it was hard for her to hear the words she knew he was going to say. She had her heart set on it. She couldn't explain it it just felt right.
"I said no." Gibbs said ignoring the pout his wife was wearing. "I said no we can't tell Beth's grandmother that we'll take her. Not yet."
"You mean there's still a chance?"
"I think there's a big chance but it isn't that cut and dry. This little girl has special needs and Louise can't be discounted."
"I don't understand."
"This isn't a puppy we can just take sweetheart it's a little girl. We need to talk to someone. Get advice about how we can do this the best way for everyone. Maddie included."
"So you WANT to take her?"
"Of course I want to. I've told the others that we would like to have dinner alone with Louise and Ducky. See if he has an opinion and see what Louise has to say. She knows Beth better than anyone, she'll have an idea how she will best adjust."
Kim wrapped her arms around her husband's neck. "Have I told you lately how much I love you?"
"Sometimes." he said. "I could hear it again."
"I love you."
"I love you too."
"So what happens now?"
"Now we take Abby with us to see Louise. We can ask her if it's ok for Abb to take Beth to have dinner with the kids."
"Great idea." Sore bottom forgotten Kim bounced up. "How will let Abby know?"
"I stopped next door when you were in the shower."
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"Abby walk don't bounce in those shoes." Gibbs said as they walked up the long hallway to Louise's cabin.
"Sorry Gibbs. I'm just so excited! I can't believe you two are gonna be parents again!"
"It's not definite yet Abs."
"I know not technically but it's just a matter of ironing things out and there's no one better at ironing things out than you Gibbs."
Gibbs smirked and kissed Abby on the cheek. "Thanks Abs."
They knocked on the door and waited. Even Gibbs looked a bit nervous.
"Hi." Louise said as she opened the door.
Beth peered out from behind her. "Hi." she said looking at Abby curiously. "Who are you?"
"I'm Abby." She stood there on her giant shoes and her black pigtails smiling and holding out a hand to Beth. "You must be Beth."
"Yes. I'm Bef. I'm having dinner with Gibbs and My Nanna. Why are you here?"
Gibbs smiled. He loved the way this little girl was so to the point. "Abs is our friend." He said.
"Oh."
"Actually," Abby said. "I was wondering, if it's alright with your Nanna if you'd like to have dinner with Maddie, Jess and all the rest of the kids. "
"Where is Maddie?" Beth asked.
"She's with my husband. We're all going to go to the pizza restaurant."
"I like pizza."
"Can I Nanna?" Beth asked.
Louise looked at Kim for some kind of assurance that it would be ok. "Abby os a good friend and she works at the NCIS with Jethro."
"Ok then Beth. You mind Abby though and you don't wander off ok?"
"I promise." Beth said already with her hand in Abby's."
The three adults stood there watching the two unlikely new friends. Abby tall with black pigtails and Beth short with blonde pigtails.
"I like pigtails." Beth said.
"I know right? Pigtails are the best."
"Are you a Mommy or a little girl?"
"I'm a Mommy." Abby answered. "I'm Jess's Mommy and I have two boys a big boy named Dylan and a baby boy. His name is Ethan."
"Can I hold Ethan?"
"Sure. Although, he likes to pull hair." Abby said with a wrinkled nose. "You'll be safe though because you have the magic pigtails."
"Beth giggled. "You're funny Abby."
"Surprisingly that's not the first time I've heard that."
"Me eiver." Beth added with a shrug.
When they'd disappeared from sight Gibbs turned to Louise. "We need to talk so we thought it might be best if we had dinner on our own."
"Really? You want to talk?"
Even Gibbs nearly cried at the hope that sparkled in her eyes.
TBC