Chapter 35: The other brothers-in-law
A car slowly rolled into the garden of the Buchanan household and two muscular men came out of it, their desert fatigues long gone as both were wearing civilian clothes. They approached the door and grinned at the loud booming laughter echoing in the living room.
They opened the door and were greeted with a sight for the books: Joseph was sitting beside Maggie, who after much debate insisted to join the others at the table, and all NCIS agents and the FBI Agents were watching as Jake beat Tony in his highest score on the Guitar Hero.
"Folks, I'm home!" Jonh Buchanan shouted, which resulted in several loud excited screams as people tried to run one after the other to reach him.
"Dad, I beat Tony!"
"Honey, thank God!"
"Hey Bro!" Matt waved at him, not leaving his comfortable spot beside the beautiful Sarah. He played with her hair earning him a blush from her, a grin from Maggie and a glare from McGee.
Luke grinned as he was hugged by Faith and the sisters Hope and Grace.
"Good to see you in one piece, little brother." Grace teased him.
"I'm taller than you now, squirt."
"The taller you are, the higher you fall, dumb ass."
Luke greeted the others and Hope introduced the NCIS agents as both brothers had heard about them, but not met them before.
Once they were introduced to McGee, both brothers looked at each other and grinned, before approaching McGee with mischief in their eyes.
"Hi, I'm Timothy Mc..." McGee wasn't able to finish his sentence as John leaned and grabbed McGee by his waist, lifting him effortlessly over his shoulder as if he was a potato sack and not a six point one tall man, and carried him outside, while Luke rubbed his hands evilly and Mark and Matt looked at each other with matching grins.
"Is he gonna baptize him?" Matt asked.
"Oh, yeah..." Mark ran after his older brother, just to be followed by everyone but Joseph and Maggie, who simply stayed behind calmly sipping their coffee.
"He's got that temper from you." Joseph said.
"Ah, but that's so entertaining." Maggie answered grinning at him.
Joy came back from upstairs as she had gone to get some photo albums to show Gibbs.
"Where's everyone?"
A loud scream and something falling hard on water was heard, followed by laughter and loud conversation outside in the garden.
"What was that noise?" Joy asked her father, who took his time before answering her question.
"Probably the noise of Johnny throwing Timothy in the river in the backyard."
"WHAT?"
Joy ran to the backyard door in the kitchen, fury boiling her veins as everyone laughed and stood by as her brothers terrorized HER fiance.
"JOHNNY! DON'T YOU DARE BREAK HIM!"
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"Are you OUT OF YOUR MIND!" Joy screamed at Johnny, her voice raw and her eyes burning with fury, while Johnny screamed back as mad as her.
"Yes, I am. He's sleeping with my little sister!"
"Get your head out of your ass! Did you expect me to be a virgin! Of course he's sleeping with me! That's the freaking reason why I'm marrying him."
"He's not good enough for you!"
"Nobody will ever be good enough for me in your opinion! If I had to wait for your approval, I would die an old maid! Do you have any idea how hard it is to find a good heterosexual male with no freaky habits nowadays!"
"I think I'm taking the kids to bed, if you are going down that way," Lisa said, waving to Faith so they gathered their own smaller kids and herded into their cars and went to their houses.
Jake watched the shouting match with a grin, sitting beside his two buddies of his band.
"This is so cool, man. Your father looks like he's going to blow a gasket."
"That if my aunt doesn't shoot him first." Jake said.
"Cool."
McGee was wrapped with blankets and towels shivering on the sofa, while the two siblings shouted at each other in the middle of the living room. Tony offered him another towel that Tim used to dry his hair while the argument escalated into personal insults.
"Ah... if I may..." McGee tried to stand up, just to be forced down the sofa by the hands of Mark and Luke on his shoulders which held him down.
"They are not finished yet." Luke said.
Mark leaned forward and whispered to McGee, grinning when he looked at him scared. "I had warned you that I was the nice one."
"Oh, you selfish little..." Joy shouted at Johnny, going on and on.
Maggie touched Joseph's hand signaling it was time to intervene.
"ENOUGH!" Joseph roared, shutting up everyone in the room. Joy looked with fury at Johnny before looking at her father, who stood up and glared at all of his children.
"We were gathered this week to celebrate being a family and welcoming new members with open arms. Leave your squabbles behind and start being the amazing people you are capable of being, despite your temper and bad attitude. Johnny, apologize to Joy and Timothy, as you have nothing to do with their lives and he has asked me for her hand and I have given him my approval, so SHUT UP." Johnny looked apologetically to Joy, who folded her arms and glared at him.
"Mark, stop terrorizing your future brother-in-law". Mark pouted but stopped whispering dire threats in McGee's ear, who had become paler and paler as he continued. "...and Temp, for god's sake, get a room."
Temp and Jimmy jumped apart, looking guiltily as everyone turned on their seats to look at them who had been trying to enjoy a kissing session in the kitchen unnoticed.
"But we were... weren't aahh... " Jimmy blushed five shades of red as Temp grinned and stood up, grabbing Jimmy's hand.
"Yes father."
She started dragging a stuttering Jimmy upstairs, who grinned lightly before running after her into her old room, slamming the door behind themselves.
Gibbs looked back at Joseph with respect, who grinned at him as he sat back on his love seat. "You sure you prefer those two alone upstairs?"
"As long as they are busy they are not a source of worry for me." Joseph said as he observed Joy glaring at Johnny who at least looked contrite.
"I'm sorry."
"You're not supposed to say sorry to me."
Johnny sighed out loud, before turning to McGee. "Sorry for trying to drown you in the river, McGee. But if you hurt my sister, you're dead."
McGee gulped and looked with serious eyes to Johnny, "I'd rather die than to let your sister get hurt. I would never hurt intentionally her."
"Good, because if you're ever the source of any grief for her, I'll kill you and after you're dead, I'll find a way to bring you back and kill you again."
Tony cringed at that before muttering at McGee. "Are you sure you want to enter that family?"
"A little bit late to give up now, uhm?"