After dinner, Tony and Kate fell asleep again and slept until the evening, awakened by their soft thrusts from Gibbs.
"Boss, I want to sleep…" DiNozzo muttered, pulling the blanket over his head. Todd just groaned in displeasure and rolled over on the other side.
"You can sleep after dinner and medicine," the man pulled off the covers from Tony, but he just tucked his head under the pillow and continued trying to sleep.
"Okay, I'm counting to three." Jethro gave the children enough attempts to do as they were asked, his patience was already at the limit. But it looks like Kate and Tony did not appreciate such nobility on the part of their boss and happily continued to ignore him, "One ... Two ... Three ... Time is up."
Gibbs took a deep breath these children will bring him to his grave. The first two spanks fell on DiNozzo's ass he jumped up and looked annoyed at the boss, rubbing the soft spot, if the boy was not sick, he would have received more for the unflattering comments that he uttered not quietly enough for the sensitive ears of his boss. Next was Kate, the former Marine pulled the covers off her and gave her the same two flip flops.
"Gibbs!" the girl screamed indignantly, sitting up in bed.
"Okay, I'm glad you finally paid attention to me, now open your mouth." Gibbs took two thermometers from the nightstand.
"Well, Giiiibbs," the guys groaned at the same time, falling back on the bed.
"No Gibbs, will you open your mouth voluntarily or should I repeat our little discussion?" The man asked sternly, raising an eyebrow. The agents shook their heads sadly and obediently opened their mouths.
"103,1, not good, Duck said that the medicine should help," Jethro muttered, examining the thermometer readings, "You took the medicine, did you?"
"Of course Gibbs." It was obviously a very bad idea to lie to Gibbs, but then they clearly did not think about the consequences and will soon regret it.
"Okay, maybe I should just wait. Drink this before you eat." The silver-haired man took the bottle of cough syrup, opened it, and held out the lid of the medicine to Tony.
"Come on, boss, I don't want to drink this nasty," the guy crawled away from Jethro, looking displeased at the syrup.
"I'm afraid you have no choice, DiNozzo. So drink or should I do what I did last time?" The younger guy shook his head quickly he definitely wouldn't want to repeat that time, so he quickly drank his dose of medicine.
"Ugh, how disgusting," the guy grimaced after the syrup touched his tongue and drained the glass of water that Gibbs brought to get rid of the nasty taste, and silently thanks the boss for such condescension.
"Come on, Kate, it's your turn," he handed her a spoon and a jar, and the expectant looked at the young girl. She made another attempt to convince Jethro that she was okay, but an attack of dry cough ruined all her plans. After another warning glance from Gibbs, the desire to fight whatever the older man said suddenly disappeared and she obediently swallowed a spoonful of the most disgusting medicine she had ever taken.
"Excellent," the former Marine sighed with relief. He still won the first fight, though it took him almost half an hour, but that can be omitted. "In twenty minutes, dinner will be ready and…" Jethro's phone suddenly rang.
"Gibbs ... Yes, how is he? In order? It's good, Tony and Kate, too, more or less, but the temperature is still holding ... Okay, I'll call if they don't feel better, Duck ... Yes, see you on Monday ..." in the general context, the young agents understood that we are talking about Jimmy, who was most likely caught in a lie. Poor guy, he will have to go through this weekend with Ducky, and as you know, the man, although he had a reputation for being the kindest person in NCIS, never took his health lightly, even too much. Although Gibbs and Shannon are not far from him.
"Is it about Jimmy?" Kate asked worriedly.
"Yes, the boy lied to Ducky, and then to me. He has the flu, and so do you two. I think he and Ducky will have a serious conversation about the lie," DiNozzo and Todd mentally sympathized with poor Jimmy and themselves in the near future, if Gibbs of course finds out their little secret, or is it more correct to say when he finds out? Jethro finally left their room, but with a stern proposal to behave well, the guys reluctantly nodded, making sure that Gibbs was out of earshot, began to discuss their lies.
"I can't believe we just lied to Gibbs," Kate sighed, looking up at the white ceiling in the boys' room.
"Yeah, but we'd better not say anything about it," Tony advised her as he played on his phone. "You know Shannon and Gibbs, they take it too seriously."
"You're right, but do you really think Gibbs won't know?"
"I don't know, but as for me, it's better not to risk it," DiNozzo muttered and groaned in disappointment when he lost.
Twenty minutes later, Gibbs and Shannon entered the room with a tray of food in their hands. The pleasant smell of soup wafted through the room and both agents realized how hungry they were. The soup disappeared in a matter of minutes, although Keith made a few attacks on Tony and his manner, but overall the dinner went well. Until it was time to take medicine, only it was not with the kind Shannon, but with the stern and unyielding Jethro.
"Come on, boss, you don't have to check," DiNozzo tried to get out of the situation he and Kate were in. They supposedly took the pills as usual, but Jethro decided to insist on making sure that the medicine had indeed been swallowed.
"It's not up for debate, Tony. Since the last time you were ill at my house, you hid the pills under your tongue and then spit it out, I would not want this to happen again. So open your mouth now," the older man growled. His patience was running out, he was rather tired of agents who behave like rebellious teenagers and if they continue to behave this way, they fully deserve a real spanking.
When DiNozzo shook his head, seemingly for the twentieth time, Gibbs could not resist and took the initiative into his own hands. He pressed down on the jaw of his senior agent, so that he had to open his mouth wide enough for the gray-haired man to notice that the pill was still not swallowed.
"Tony," Jethro said in a deadly calm tone and looked sternly with his cold blue eyes at the young man, he swallowed, a small shiver ran down his back. It's amazing how Gibbs could say so much with just one name.
"Boss, I didn't want to…" Before the boy could finish his excuses, he found himself staring at the wooden floor. "Boss, you can't do this, I'm sick. Or at least not on your knees," Tony muttered embarrassedly. He hated the spanking, but most of all he didn't hate the spanking on Gibbs's lap, it seemed too personal.
"Patients usually take their pills and it seems that you have been trying almost all day to prove that everything is fine with you?" a slight smile appeared on the face of the gray-haired man, "besides, you behaved like a naughty little boy."
It wasn't even a real punishment, though. Just ten slaps on his pants, but Jethro's hand was firm enough for DiNozzo's ass to feel his displeasure. Tony was again seated on the bed and the older man ordered him to drink water to take a pill.
"Open," the man gently tapped on the boy's chin to check if he obeyed this time or he will have to conduct another session of punishment. This time the young man did as Gibbs asked without complaint, he didn't want to feel the elder's hand on his ass again. "Excellent. Kate?"
The girl was sitting on the bed all this time and grinning, she was still a little offended at Tony because of yesterday's fiasco and what it eventually led them to. But the slight smile faded from her face when it was her turn.
"Come on, Gibbs, I'm not Tony," then there was an indignant cry of the above mentioned, but Todd safely ignored him, "I'm not hiding the pills."
"Kate, if you're not hiding the pills, just open your mouth and prove it to me or do I need to treat you like Tony?" Now it was DiNozzo's turn to grin at how Kate turned pale, when the meanings of the older man's words reached her.
"Gibbs, you can't be serious, I'm an adult ..." the girl did not have time to finish when the former Marine came closer and she simply had no choice how to open her mouth. Within a second, she was in the same position as Tony a few minutes ago staring at the wooden floor in Gibbs's lap was embarrassing as hell.
The same ten spanks and Todd was back in bed with a glass of water in hand. After another check, Jethro kissed Kate and Tony softly on the forehead, partly to check the temperature and partly to provide some comfort.
"Rest, you cannot get out of bed, except in the bathroom. And if I find out that you are hiding medicines again, I promise you will not like the consequences," the man took the pills from Tony's nightstand and grinned in shock on the faces of his agents, left the room, throwing a last warning glance from which DiNozzo and Kate shivered, desire disobeying the former Marine immediately disappeared, well, at least for now.
After a while, Kelly made her way into the room with her hands behind her back and a wide smile on her lips.
"What's wrong, Princess?" asked the young man, stretching out on the bed and playing on the phone. Kate, in turn, looked up from the book and looked at the girl with curiosity.
"That's what," the baby smiled even brighter and showed what was behind her. Three jars of pudding. Chocolate for Tony, banana for Kate and vanilla for Kelly "Dad said you didn't deserve dessert, but I was able to grab a couple for you."
"Chocolate," DiNozzo cried out joyfully, he really loved this sweetness. Todd, in turn, rolled her eyes at the childish impatience of her partner and more restrainedly took her portion of such a wonderful dessert.
For a while they sat and talked about various stupid things, until a gentle woman's voice was heard from the first floor.
"Sleep in fifteen minutes!"
Looking at their watches, all three collectively groaned, the clock was only nine twenty. While it was a more or less normal bedtime for Kelly, the senior agents weren't used to going to bed so early.
A few minutes later, the Gibbs couple knocked on the door and entered.
"Come on, it's time for you to sleep."
"Well, Gibbs, it's too early," Tony moaned, and Kate nodded in the affirmative. She didn't really want to go to bed so early either.
"No Gibbs, let's lie down," the man ordered, pulling the blanket over Tony, who pouted in displeasure, but obeyed, the tingling in his ass still reminded him not to argue. Jethro smiled and gently ruffled his senior agent's hair as Shannon straightened the covers over Kate and kissed her temple. After the couple changed.
"Good night," Gibbs picked up his daughter in his arms. "Say good night to your brother and sister."
The girls nodded, the older man tilted her down enough so she could hug Tony and Kate and wave goodbye.
"Sleep well," this day is finally over, but there is still a whole weekend ahead. I hope everything will be fine, Jethro thought, carrying his sleepy little girl into the room.