Chapter 40

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Tim had also gone down to autopsy to share his news with Ducky and Jimmy before leaving for his leave.

"Heavens Timothy are you all right my dear boy. You look exhausted" Ducky asked concerned.

"I'm fine Ducky. Our daughter was born last night so we didn't get much sleep. I'm on leave from 1800 tonight so I'll be fine" Tim said smiling.

"A baby girl how wonderful!" Ducky exclaimed. "I trust everything went well."

"She's perfect Ducky" Tim said pulling up the pictures on his phone. "I can send them to your email so you can see them better" he offered.

"Thank you Timothy" Ducky said gratefully. His eyesight was very good for his age but that didn't mean he wouldn't appreciate having the pictures to examine carefully later. "Oh she's beautiful!"

"Congratulations Tim" Jimmy said enthusiastically. "Is she a good baby?"

"It's a bit too soon to say" Tim said grinning. "She eats well, every three hours, sleeps when she wants to and likes to be cuddled. She didn't like being left alone in her crib."

"She'll need to learn to sleep in her bed" Ducky said.

"Any hints on how to make her want to learn that Ducky?" Tim asked.

"No I'm sorry I don't, though I do remember a time when I was in Egypt and my supervisor's wife had recently had a baby…"

"I'm sorry Ducky but I have to go and pick up Rosie from the hospital, Hadrian's waiting for me" Tim interrupted.

"I'll look forward to meeting your little one" Ducky said.

"I'm off all next week so feel free to visit one night if you have time" Tim said making sure Jimmy knew he was included in that invitation.

"Does Tuesday suit you. About five. I won't stay long"

"Tuesday's great Ducky. Come for dinner. Gibbs is coming Monday."

"Oh I couldn't impose" Ducky protested.

"We do have help around the house" Tim said quietly.

"An elf?" Ducky asked even more quietly.

"Several" Tim confirmed. "I'm not sure how many. Other than Tollie they prefer not to be seen."

"They are very rare here in America. Even in Britain only the oldest families have elves" Ducky commented.

"Yeah well Hades is the head of more than one ancient and most noble house" Tim reminded him. "I think he told me he owns over a hundred elves but most of them work maintaining and developing his rental properties in Britain though he doesn't act like it. Hadrian used to look after us himself when we were in the flat, he still likes to do most of the cooking and spend as much time as he can with the kids."

"So that's how the house in Boston was renovated for the wedding so quickly" Ducky said nodding in understanding. "I'd wondered why anyone would have only those rooms wired for electricity."

"Yeah and they did our new house too. It was a total wreck when Hadrian bought it, you'd barely recognise the place. It would have cost millions to fix if we'd had to pay tradesmen. I've got to go. I'll see you Tuesday night Ducky" Tim replied. "See ya Jimmy" he called out to the younger man who'd been sent in to clean the equipment they'd used on their most recent guest.

"See ya Tim" Jimmy called back cheerfully. "Good luck!"

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Gibbs arrived around six with a large pink teddy bear for the baby in one arm and a toy truck for Teddy Lupin Black in the other. He'd thought about bringing something for the new father's as well but wasn't sure if it was appropriate, If Hadrian had been a woman he would have bought flowers, but he wasn't sure that Tim and Hadrian wouldn't be insulted by that. He drove up to the house wondering how it had been turned into units and how much access to the yard Tim and Hadrian had and whether they had a responsibility for the upkeep. He found himself nodding his approval of the tight security. He might not feel the need to lock his own house but Tim had a family to protect and Hadrian was an agent as well. The walled garden gave Teddy plenty of safe places to play though the trees near the wall were a bit of a security risk. He'd mention it to Tim. Walking up to the house he couldn't see any indication it had been divided into units, perhaps there were only two and the other had its own entrance.

"Come on in" Tim greeted him.

"This is a pretty fancy house" Gibbs said looking around the foyer assessingly.

"This is really the only fancy part, the rest of the house is much less formal than the house in Boston. Of course, it's much bigger than we really need at the moment but Hadrian liked the garden and the privacy of not having close neighbours" Tim replied showing Gibbs into the lounge room where Hadrian was sitting on the floor with the baby in his lap playing blocks with Teddy.

"So the whole house is yours then?" Gibbs asked. "I thought it might have been broken up into flats or townhouses."

"Yeah I know my address at work suggests that" Tim replied blushing slightly at having been caught in the deception. "I thought it better that nobody gets too suspicious that I'm living at an address that I really couldn't afford."

Gibbs nodded. "None of their business" he agreed. "The team is going to want you to host Christmas next year once they see this place though."

Tim laughed a little bitterly.

"We'd be happy to host Christmas if everything's going well with the team by then" Hadrian said. "Hello Gibbs. Please excuse me for not getting up."

"You're looking well" Gibbs said.

"I am well, though I could do with a little more sleep."

"You having trouble settling her?" Gibbs asked.

"She's taken a dislike to sleeping in her crib. I think it's partly that she gets cold on her own but she's also very social. When she's awake she'll happily watch people talking for hours."

"This is for Rosie and this is for Teddy" Gibbs said handing the teddy bear to Tim "You didn't have to" Tim protested. "Teddy, Agent Gibbs has a present for you. Can you come and say hello."

Teddy came over. "Hello Agen Gibbs" he said holding his hands out for the present.

"Hello Teddy" Gibbs said smiling at the little boy. "Do you like being a big brother to Rosie?"

"Rosie too wittle to play" Teddy said disappointedly. He ripped open the paper and cheered when he saw the toy truck.

"What do you say?" Hadrian reminded him gently.

"Thank you Agen Gibbs" Teddy said smiling sweetly.

"You're welcome Teddy" Gibbs replied.

"Would you like a hold?" Hadrian offered once Teddy was busy playing with his new truck.

"Please" Gibbs replied and Tim walked over to take the baby so Hadrian could get up.

"I think someone needs a nappy change before we give her to Gibbs" he said leaving the room.

"He seems happy" Gibbs said.

"Tim adores her, and she loves to listen to him talk. He talks to her or reads to her for hours" Hadrian said smiling. "Would you like a drink? Coffee, juice, bourbon?"

"Not if I'm about to get a cuddle" Gibbs replied.

"Are you staying for dinner, there's plenty" Hadrian offered. "I made lasagne, well eat as soon as Rosie goes back to sleep, she's due a nap."

"I'd love to stay but you shouldn't have gone to so much trouble" Gibbs accepted.

"It was no trouble, I enjoy cooking" Hadrian reassured him.

"Does it concern you that Tim hasn't told the rest of his team about you or the baby?" Gibbs asked.

Hadrian looked surprised. "Not really" he said sincerely. "I have met them all, though Ziva doesn't know I'm Tim's significant other and Abby probably wouldn't remember meeting me at all."

It was Gibbs turn to be surprised, though he was a little shocked that Hadrian recognised that in his expression.

"Ziva and I have done a few cooking classes together. She's aware that Tim and I are friends but not more than that. Abby I met briefly one night while I was rescuing Tim from one of her favourite clubs" he explained. "I didn't exactly look myself at the time."

"I noticed that Tim didn't look surprised when Tony complained loudly about how she and her friends treated him while they were out clubbing New Year's Eve" Gibbs said.

"I'm sure Tim complained the first time too and nobody listened, or maybe the first time after they finished dating. The night I rescued him she was totally ignoring Tim by the time I got there and she doesn't even seem to notice that her friends look down on him for not dressing like a circus freak" Hadrian replied. "Then when Tim complained that his friends ignore him she told him that it was his fault for not trying harder to fit in."

"I saw the outfit she bought him for Christmas" Gibbs commented.

"And the sad thing is I bet she didn't realise what a lousy present it was" Hadrian commented. "Tim looked as hot as hell in those clothes but I could never see him wanting to wear them out in public. He was embarrassed enough trying them on in our bedroom with just me looking at him. To answer your question Gibbs. I don't care if he never tells Abby, and it's not as if he's never tried. She's the one who keeps calling him a liar. If I had my way he'd be working in a team that doesn't treat him the way Abby and sometimes Tony does. Believe me his silence is protecting them from me just as much as it protects Tim and I from their derision."

Tim came back down and handed the now sweet smelling baby to his boss. He looked down at her glad that in she looked nothing like Kelly. "Hello there" he said smiling as he saw the little girl open her eyes and try to look at him.

"I'm your Daddy Tim's Boss. I bet that's gonna be confusing having two Daddies but I'm sure you'll work it out. You're a clever girl aren't you? And a pretty girl. Your daddies are gonna be glad they both carry guns when the boys start coming around. You're going to break a lot of hearts little Rosie" Gibbs talked to the baby seeing what Hadrian meant when he said she was fascinated by being talked to.

"Don't go giving her ideas" Tim pretested laughingly. "I'm not ready to think about that."

"You need to stop talking to her if you want her to go to sleep so we can eat" Hadrian said. "She'll fight it for ages if you're talking. I think she's afraid she's going to miss something."

Gibbs laughed, "She does look like she understands every word" he agreed. He stopped talking and rocked gently and pretty soon Rose was asleep. He gave her up reluctantly for Hadrian to tuck her into bed.

"Tim's dishing up" Hadrian said pushing the bassinette into the dining room and then lifting Teddy into his booster seat to eat dinner and washed his hands with the warm face washer Tim had brought in with the meals.

Hadrian and Tim made sure to keep talking while they ate and Gibbs soon realised that Rosie started to stir every time they were quiet for more than a moment.

"Did you end up telling the team you were on paternity leave this week?" Gibbs asked Tim.

"No I was busy trying to solve the case, or at least do as much of the computer searches for it before I went on leave" Tim replied. They'd caught the guy and he'd confessed just before they left Friday night. "Who's TAD for you this week?" he asked forgetting that he'd been told.

"Dorneget" Gibbs said sounding unimpressed.

"Give him a chance, Boss. I know he's green but I think he's going to be a good agent" Tim replied. "He's got some pretty decent computer skills if you need to use him like that."

"You're changing the subject. You need to tell the team about Hadrian and Rosie. Particularly once you file the forms to add Rosie to your dependents. Abby has all our personnel files hacked to flag her when a change is made. I don't know how she didn't pick up on you adding Hadrian as your next of kin?"

"I added him while she was away a couple of years ago and then hacked her computer to delete the notification" Tim said bluntly. "I realised she and Tony had unauthorised access to my personnel information soon after I joined the team."

"And you don't have the team flagged the same way?" Gibbs asked.

"No Boss, I try to respect other people's privacy. I've also never broken into Tony's, Kate's or Ziva's apartments or private drawers to snoop through their stuff or steal their food" Tim replied firmly.

"They've never broken into my place" Gibbs commented.

"They wouldn't need to, you leave your door unlocked. That doesn't mean they haven't taken a curious wander through the house when they knew you weren't home. They would just have been more careful not to touch anything for fear you'd notice the finger prints in the dust" Tim replied.

Gibbs laughed then sobered. "Is that why you stopped leaving snacks in your drawer?"

"Yeah wasn't much point if they weren't going to be there when I needed them" Tim shrugged.

Gibbs didn't stay long after Teddy went to bed, seeing the two men were probably only staying up because he was there.

"I'll let you get some sleep before one of them wakes up again" he said.

"Thanks Boss" Tim said gratefully.

"Thanks for coming Gibbs" Hadrian said letting Tim walk him out.

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"Ducky, welcome, come on in" Tim answered the door.

"Hello Timothy. How's life as a father?" Ducky asked.

"Pretty amazing Ducky" Tim replied grinning. "Though I am actually Teddy's father too. We legally adopted him a couple of months ago."

"It's different with a new baby" Ducky said wisely.

"Yeah" Tim agreed. "Not that I love her more than Teddy. I don't. It's just I feel so connected to her from the very first moment."

"That makes sense, she was your daughter from the moment you met her, I'd imagine you met Teddy quite a long time before you became his parent" Ducky said reassuringly.

Yeah" Tim nodded remembering his first meeting with Teddy. He'd known that the little boy was going to be living with them if he and Hadrian sorted things out and he agreed but he hadn't pictured himself as being anything other than Teddy's godfather's boyfriend at the time.

"They're through here. This is the room we use the most. It's a bit too big to be cosy but Teddy loves being in here and it makes it easier" Tim said leading the way into the former ballroom, now filled with comfortable couches, toys climbing equipment and room for a toddler to ride his tricycle or play ball.

"Oh my goodness. This is ideal. Especially in the winter" Ducky exclaimed looking around the bright and cheerful room. "I take it you've made the glass unbreakable?"

"Yes of course and the place is heated by magic so we don't have to light the fires" Hadrian said.

"What happened to his hair?" Ducky asked as he saw Teddy running about with sickly green hair. "Isn't there something that can get it out?"

Hadrian smiled. "Teddy's a metamorphmagus. The green is telling me he feels sick in the stomach. He got into the lolly jar and ate the lot. I have a stomach soother for him which I will give him when I put him to bed but he won't learn if I take away the consequences too quickly" he explained.

"Oh my goodness" Ducky exclaimed. "We didn't see any signs of it at the wedding."

"He was given suppression potions because there were people who aren't allowed to know about magic present" Hadrian said. "We try to do that as seldom as possible. He doesn't like them."

"But what if Jimmy had come with me?" Ducky asked.

"Tim would have called out that he was here and I would have taken Teddy upstairs and put him to bed. Tim and I both carry the suppression potions with us in case unexpected visitors turn up but if I gave him one today on top of all the lollies he'd probably be sick" Hadrian replied.

"Indeed! I remember the taste of potions from when I was a child. I must say I much prefer taking modern medicines even if they aren't quite as effective" Ducky agreed.

"Forgive me for saying this Doctor Mallard but potions wouldn't be as effective on you as they are on a witch or wizard. For me I find taking one dose of a cure and being perfectly well except for needing a sleep to replenish my magic is much better that suffering through an injury or illness no matter how bad the potions taste" Hadrian said hesitantly.

"Well they certainly healed up Timothy's bullet wounds quickly" Ducky said thoughtfully.

"They could have been even more effective if he hadn't had muggle treatments for the wound and follow up appointments to keep" Hadrian said. "We had to be careful not to make the doctors too suspicious."

"The dog bites are still quite a problem for Timothy though they don't seem to affect him too badly" Ducky said.

"The bite wounds are as people expect to see them, in fact there a permanent glamour applied over the arm so nobody notices that they healed without any scarring at all" Hadrian explained.

"Doesn't that drain his energy?" Ducky asked.

Hadrian nodded. "We tried transfiguration but transfiguring the muscles enough to look like that gave him a real loss of function so the slight magical drain from the glamour is the best option, short of moving to somewhere he'll never see anyone who knows he was bitten."

"Would you like him to move? To be transferred off Gibb's team?" Ducky asked perceptively.

"Not exactly. I'd like his team to be more supportive both in the field and back in general office relationships and I can't see it ever happening with the team he's on now" Hadrian said bluntly. "I wish I could. Tim doesn't want to transfer and that's all that matters. I'll support whatever decision he makes if that changes."

"You know he'd probably agree to a transfer to the London office if you wanted to return home?" Ducky asked.

"I don't. Want to return to London, that is" Hadrian replied. "I'm happy here with Tim and Teddy and Rosie. I like the anonymity." It was the first reference he'd made to his fame.

"I can understand that, hero worship can be hard to live with" Ducky said.

"Worse people think they own their heroes, have a right to tell them how they should live their lives and then turn on them when they don't behave the way they believe they should" Hadrian said tiredly.

"You mean that Britain would never accept a gay Boy-who-lived?" Ducky asked.

"Exactly! Or a stay at home Dad. They expect me to continue to be their saviour. To save them from every aspiring dark lord and problem. I just want to be me."

"Have you given up your job to stay home with the baby?" Ducky asked.

"I've taken leave, at least a year from when Teddy came to live with us. He was having a hard time adjusting to the mundane world and the loss of his grandmother, so I thought it best that one of us was with him instead of trying to find a magical day care."

"You don't have a nanny elf?" Ducky asked.

"We do and Tollie's been a godsend but I don't want my children brought up by elves. She's incredibly good with him but no matter how much we encourage it she can't bring herself to just sit down and play with him, and she won't let him pack up his own toys, unless I force the issue and I can see it distresses her. I don't want him to grow up being used to being waited on. And we need to expose him to the world I do want to put him in kindergarten next year."

"How is Teddy adjusting to having a baby in the house?"

"Pretty well, it doesn't seem to have set off any insecurities. He gets a little jealous when he has to wait for me to finish feeding or changing her to pay him attention but everybody assures me that that is normal", Hadrian replied.

"Dinner's ready" Tim called.

"I really don't want to impose" Ducky protested.

"Please stay. The elves cooked a traditional English/Scottish meal in your honour" Hadrian said. "They love having extra people to feed."

"So long as they haven't prepared a haggis" Ducky said laughing.

"No Roast beef and then 'spotted dick' and treacle tart" Tim said laughing as well.

Dinner conversation turned to local politics and events and Ducky took his leave soon after finishing eating. "I'll let you get these little people to bed."

"Night Ducky. Thanks for coming" Tim said smiling.

"Thank you for inviting me" Ducky replied.

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Jimmy turned up on Thursday. "Hi I brought this for the baby. It's not much" he mumbled embarrassed.

"Thanks Jimmy. You didn't need to get us anything" Hadrian said. "Rosie's sleeping in the playroom. Come and have a peep."

"I don't want to wake her up" jimmy protested.

"You won't" Hadrian promised reassuringly. "She can sleep though anything so long as she's not on her own."

They walked into the playroom and Jimmy bit his lip to keep from laughing. Tim was stretched out on the couch sound asleep with the baby on his chest. Unfortunately, he must have been looking after Teddy who was painting and Tim, the baby and the blanket were covered with splotches of paint. Hadrian pulled out the camera and snapped a couple of pictures waking the older man.

"Wha?" Tim mumbled.

"You fell asleep and left Teddy in charge of the paints" Hadrian said laughing. Jimmy's here but I think you and Rosie need a shower."

Tim looked down at the sleeping baby whose hair was full of paint. "Is there anything in the paint that could hurt her?" He asked.

"It's washable and non-toxic but I wouldn't recommend letting her eat it at her age" Jimmy said calmly after looking at the box the paints had come in. "It shouldn't do her skin any harm that a little baby oil wouldn't fix."

"I'd offer you a cuddle but it would wreck your clothes" Tim said sitting up.

"Umm… Yeah… No thanks" Jimmy said awkwardly. "She keeping you up at night?"

"A little though I really have no excuse for not watching Teddy properly. I'm sorry Hades."

Hadrian gave a small laugh. "It's okay, no real harm done, I've done it too but usually Tollie was there to rescue Teddy when it happened."

"I gave her the afternoon off" Tim replied to the unspoken question.

Hadrian nodded, Tollie had caught a cold the day before and needed some rest. Not that she wanted to take it but Tim had ordered her to take whatever medicine worked on house elf colds and to sleep until she no longer felt tired.

"Is Tollie a nanny?" Jimmy asked.

"Sort of" Hadrian replied. "We're going to need the help when I go back to work and I thought it best for the children to have time to get used to her, besides as you can see we need the help."

"Perhaps once she's well you could let her look after the baby one night so you can catch up on your sleep" Jimmy suggested.

"Maybe" Tim said hesitantly. He was going to miss Rosie so much when he returned to work he wanted to spend every possible minute with her now."

"I'm going to go" Jimmy said. "Let you get cleaned up."

"Thanks for coming by Jimmy" Tim said smiling.

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