The first day didn't go as smoothly as Gibbs had hoped, but they were still able to handle it. True, Jethro, quite unexpectedly for himself, found out that his beloved wife would have to leave for the weekend, which means that he would spend two days alone with three troublemakers.
"Are you sure you need to leave now?" the former Marine asks for the hundredth time. The prospect with two children, two of them sick, did not smile at him.
"Sorry, dear, but mom needs help. I'll be back the day after tomorrow evening," the woman smiled and gently kissed her husband on the cheek.
"Your mother still hates me," Gibbs sighed heavily. He could have survived if the kids were okay, but when two are sick and a third is upset that he won't be able to visit his grandmother, it becomes a real test of strength.
"Don't talk nonsense," she lightly slapped her husband on the shoulder. He just smiled mischievously and kissed her on the lips.
"Mom, mom, why can't I go with you?!" Kelly asked loudly as she walked down the stairs.
"Hush, honey, Tony and Kate are still sleeping. And we have already discussed this, I will only return on Monday evening, and you have school," Shannon explained.
"But that's not fair," the girl said irritably, crossing her arms over her chest and pouting.
"Hey, baby, don't argue, okay? You can go to your grandmother for the holidays." Gibbs lifted his daughter in his arms and ran his hand over his ribs. She tried to contain a giggle, but it didn't work out very well.
"Dad, stop it," Kelly asked, half irritated, half pleading, trying to free herself from her father's strong arms.
"I will not stop until you stop sulking."
"That's it, I won't be, honestly, - the girl sobbed," Mom, save me.
"Haha, stop Jethro," Shannon said with mock sternness, taking the baby out of Gibbs's arms.
"Mom, but please, I missed my grandmother so much," the baby decided to use the puppy-eye tactic, but unfortunately it did not work.
"Sorry, dear, but I already said that you cannot go," the woman kissed the child on the frowning forehead, but obviously the girl did not like it.
"Great, last time it was the same, but as always you lied," Kelly broke free from her mother's hands and stomped down the stairs to her room, naturally not forgetting to slam the door.
"Kelly Gibbs, you ..." but before Jethro had time to scold her, a gentle hand squeezed his shoulder, he turned around and saw her shaking her head.
"Just let her be alone."
"Okay," the man sighed heavily. His love has not even left, and the problems have already begun, and this has not yet woken up two troublemakers.
"I love you, I will come soon, do not be bored," they kissed for the last time and she left. As he closed the doors, he muttered:
"It will be a very long weekend."
For now, Gibbs decided to leave Kelly and check on Tony and Kate because they were being suspiciously quiet. The man opened the door after knocking and no one answered. The two agents were still sleeping peacefully and Jethro did not even want to wake them up, but it was time to take medicine.
"Hey, get up," both blankets moved, but no one tried to get up, "I won't repeat it twice," the man sternly warned, slapped both children on the ass. They felt almost nothing through the blanket, but it was just a warning.
"It's too early, Gibbs," Kate moaned into her pillow.
"It's time to take medicine, so let's get up," Kate still obeyed, she was sleepy and all the time muttered under her breath, something impartial towards the Marine. But he decided to ignore it for now. Tony, in turn, was still asleep, not wanting to crawl out of the warm bed.
"Tony," the warning Tony did not give, so he decided to act differently, "Kate, go in the shower, you can take your time," the elder handed her a towel and clean pajamas, since there were enough clothes in the house, and gently pushed her into the bathroom ... The girl nodded yawning and staggered into the shower, half asleep. So far, the unsuspecting DiNozzo slept, but not for long. The man pulled the covers off him and grabbed the young man's ear tightly.
"Ay, boss, it hurts!" Tony screamed as the ex-Marine pulled him out of bed.
"I know it should be, Tony," the stern gray-haired man said, turning DiNozzo sideways and slapping him on the ass several times.
"Ay!" as soon as the elder let go of his long-suffering ear.
"Great, I'm glad I finally decided to get up. Now in the shower, come on lively," the young man did not argue, quickly jumped up and went to the shower.
"Tony!" I heard an indignant cry of Kate.
"There's no need to shout like that, I'm just brushing my teeth," DiNozzo replied mockingly. There was a crash and loud screams.
"Hate you."
While the two agents were arguing, Gibbs fell onto Tim's bed, which temporarily belonged to Kate, and groaned loudly into his folded hands. Faster if his wife came back.
When the two wayward agents finally finished cursing and took a shower, Gibbs forced them to take medicine.
'Come on," the man took the thermometers, checking the results. The temperature nevertheless subsided a little, but was quite high.
"Gibbs / Boss, I don't want to," both Tony and Kate groaned at the same time, crawling towards the wall. Gibbs was tired of the constant protests, so he decided not to stand on ceremony. Pulling DiNozzo closer to him, the man pinched his nose to force him to open his mouth. It took a while, but still the boy gave up and opened his mouth, the ex-Marine quickly put the pills in his mouth and made them swallow. While the young man washed down the hated pills with water, Jethro turned to Todd.
"Gibbs, you won't do this, will you?" The man raised an eyebrow and effectively silenced her protests.
"Are you sure?" She shook her head quickly and obediently opened her mouth, Gibbs gave her the pills and held out the glass. After he checked the presence of the pills, Jethro kissed her on the scales and complimented her, "Good girl." She blushed and looked away in embarrassment. There was a mocking chuckle and the girl nodded an annoyed look at the source, but before she could say anything, the former Marine intervened.
"Any problem, Tony?"
"No, boss," DiNozzo muttered, looking down at his knees. Because of his pouty look, the older man could not help smiling, the young man looked more like a small child than an adult agent.
"You're a good boy too," Gibbs ruffled the child's sandy hair and headed for the exit to warm up breakfast, lastly he said, "Don't get out of bed."
Before going to the kitchen, Jethro decided to visit his little girl. The man knocked, but when he received no answer, he still went in. Kelly covered herself with a pile of blankets and buried her face in the pillow, completely unresponsive to her father.
"Kelly, dear, let's have breakfast," the elder asked softly, but in response there was a quiet grumble, "honey, I can't hear you, repeat it again."
"I said I'm not hungry," Kelly replied defiantly. Gibbs shook his head heavily and sighed.
"Change your tone, Kelly," the former Marine warned, still soft but stern.
"I don't want, I don't want anything, just leave me alone."
"Okay, I'll come back later and if you don't change your attitude, there will be consequences," he warned, leaving the girl's room.
It only took a few minutes to warm up the breakfast. Putting two plates of omelet on the tray, he went upstairs again.
"Eat," briefly ordered Jethro to his agents, not living to listen to any protests, left the room and went to his daughter. The baby was still in bed, completely unresponsive to Gibbs.
"Come on, kid, you need to eat."
"No, I don't want to, leave me alone, just leave me alone!" the man sighed heavily, it was always hard for him to spank his children, but his little girl was always the most difficult. He pulled off a pile of blankets from her, with a quick jerk pulled her pants off and laid her on his lap.
"Ay, dad, stop it!" Kelly screamed, the girl tried to escape from her father's hands, but nothing helped. The flip flops were still mercilessly falling on her poor ass, dressed in only thin panties. The spanking ended pretty quickly, with only fifteen spanks and Gibbs straightened the girl's clothes, but that was enough to make the baby cry. Jethro wanted to hug her tightly and comfort her, at the same time himself, but the child suddenly wriggled out of the embrace.
"Don't touch me, I hate you," her careless fame, thrown in anger, wounded him to the core, although he well understood that she was just angry. Before the former Marine could say anything, the baby ran out of the room, the man knew her well enough to know where she was headed.
Two agents sat on the beds and silently looked at the omelet, did not feel like eating at all, especially so early. Although they knew that Gibbs would make them eat something anyway, that would be later. What was their surprise when a tear-stained Kelly burst into their room and dived into Tony's bed. The baby clung to her older brother and cried even harder. DiNozzo reflexively hugged the girl and began to gently stroke her back, hoping to calm her down.
"Hey, what happened, Princess?" Kate asked, gently stroking the little girl's red hair.
"I ... He ... Dad ..." Kelly tried to explain, but this was prevented by constant sobbing.
"Sorry, Princess, but we don't understand." After a few minutes of active consolation from the two agents, the child still calmed down enough to speak.
"Mom did not take me to my grandmother, and they promised that next time I would go, I really miss my grandmother, so I was very angry and rude first to my mother, and then to my dad and he spanked me," Kate and Tony winced, rudeness and disrespect is not something the boss takes lightly, "And then I told him some bad things and now he probably hates me."
"Princess, do not be silly," DiNozzo sat her on his lap and hugged her tightly while Todd wiped the lines of tears from the girl's face with a napkin, "The boss loves you very much. Nothing in this world will make him stop loving you, even if you become the cause of the apocalypse," he joked, kissing her softly on the temple.
"He's right, there is no man in this world whom he loves at least half as much as he loves you and your mother," the young woman said, and Tony nodded in agreement.
"Well, maybe Abby," he added, forcing the girl to smile weakly.
"You think so?" The baby asked uncertainly, resting her head on Tony's broad shoulder.
"We're sure," the agents repeated at the same time, helping Kelly allay her fears a bit.
None of them even noticed a shadow flickered behind the door, Gibbs was standing outside the door all this time.