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Tim arrived home and set up the swing in the play room. "What's that?" Teddy asked.
"It's a baby swing for your sister" Tim replied. "Ziva gave it to me this morning with an apology for not believing me."
"I saw her at cooking on Saturday, she recognised our rings" Hadrian explained. "I didn't want to tell you in case she chose not to say anything. You never can tell the way she's going to react."
"She seemed sincere in her apology" Tim said.
"She was actually quite upset when she realised that you'd been telling the truth about the wedding and that you'd been hurt by everyone's reaction" Hadrian said.
"I take it you told her of the problem with Rosie sleeping in her crib" Tim said gesturing to the swing.
"Yes well she doesn't like the pram an better than the crib unless it's moving quite quickly" Hadrian replied frowning.
"Was she disruptive during your class? You said it went quite well" Tim said.
"She wasn't too much trouble. I cuddled her during the demonstration and then when she wouldn't settle in the pram, Ziva helped me put the harness on backwards so she could snuggle into my back as I cooked" Hadrian explained. "It's quite comfortable that way though Rosie prefers to be on the front where we can talk to her."
Tim laughed. "She's going to be a real little chatterbox once she gets talking isn't she."
"She's probably going to talk quite early too, with the way she listens to everyone" Hadrian said.
"Ziva thought the movement of the swing might help her settle for a little longer" Tim said. "She's bought the safest one on the market so we can leave her in it without being right next to her."
"I hope it works" Hadrian said yawning. "It would be nice to at least be able to go to the loo without having to listen to her screaming and shower when I feel like it. Speaking of shower, I don't want to dump her on you as soon as you walk in the door but…"
"Give her here" Tim said getting up and taking Rosie out of the harness.
Hadrian quickly unhooked the harness and fastened it on Tim expertly adjusting the fit as he did. "I'll see you soon."
"Take your time. Rosie and I are going to catch up. I miss her during the day, she seems to grow and change a little every time I'm gone."
Hadrian smiled and went upstairs to shower and shave coming back down half an hour later feeling refreshed and more sociable. He was pleased to notice his ability to physically respond to stimulation was returning to normal as the hormones from the pregnancy left his system. He figured that Tim would be pleased as well if they could manage some time on their own. Hopefully the swing would work, if not perhaps Tollie would be okay with sitting and cuddling Rosie for an hour or two after Teddy was sleeping.
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"The swing didn't work?" He asked dismayed, walking into the playroom and finding Tim sitting on the floor playing trucks with Teddy with Rosie in her harness on his front.
"I haven't tried it" Tim replied. "Rosie and I are having fun playing with Teddy."
Hadrian grinned and sat down with them. "Dinner will be another half hour. I let the elves cook tonight so I hope you're hungry." The elves had been persuaded after much discussion (and threats by Hadrian to cook every meal if they didn't agree) to cook low fat healthier meals but they still had difficulty not cooking way too much for two adults and a toddler. Hadrian had a sneaking suspicion it was an attempt to stop him from cooking if there were always leftovers in the kitchen but since it distressed the elves if they ate the same thing for three or four nights as well it wasn't keeping them happy. Perhaps their previous masters had had appetites the size of Ron Weasley's.
Tim laughed. "I'll take the leftovers for everyone for lunch tomorrow if they can be microwaved" he offered.
"That'll only encourage them to cook more" Hadrian warned laughing. "It's a pity that we cant have them give it to a soup kitchen or something."
"I can just imagine their reaction though if food kept suddenly arriving, particularly if someone actually saw it appear out of nowhere or they had security cameras" Tim said laughing. "I could deliver things though on my way to work some mornings."
"That's a great idea. The elves put things under stasis charms so you could deliver all the leftovers once a week" Hadrian said. "I'll look around the local churches and see if there's a soup kitchen that isn't too far out of your way."
"Thanks" Tim replied.
"Dinner is ready's master" he said popping away quickly.
"Thank you" Hadrian said to the empty air knowing that the elves would hear him if he intended them to.
Hadrian took Rosie while Tim carried in the baby swing and checked it was properly set up. They put her in and set it going before sitting down to their first unhurried meal since Rosie had been born.
"It works" Hadrian breathed quietly afraid to jinx it.
"Yeah it does while we're talking" Tim agreed. "I wonder if it will work if we leave her in it in her room.
"Can we leave her in it for hours though? Is it safe?"
"The literature says it's okay for a couple of hours, the same as her capsule because. The real problem is that she is refusing to spend any time lying flat on her back or her tummy" Tim replied.
"She lies on her back between us at night and she spent some time on her tummy this morning but I had to lie down with her on my stomach and talk to her to keep her from screaming" Hadrian said.
"Does that count?" Tim asked.
"I think it would, as soon as she can she will want to lift her head to watch us talk" Hadrian replied.
"Do you think if she's happy in her swing we could let Tollie look after her for a while after Teddy's asleep for the night?" Hadrian asked.
"I'm sure she'd be happy to. You want some time alone?" Tim asked.
"Alone with you" Hadrian said pointedly.
"Are you sure you're healed. I don't want to hurt you" Tim replied slightly anxiously.
"I was fully healed before I left the hospital" Hadrian stated firmly. "If you don't want to then…"
"I do want to" Tim said eagerly. "I just didn't want to push you until you were ready."
"I'm more than ready" Hadrian reassured him eagerly. "It's just hard to be in the mood when I know Rosie's crying in the other room because we're not with her."
Tim nodded. "Or with her there watching us" he agreed.
Hadrian shuddered. "We've got to get her to sleep in her own bed" he stated. "As much as I like having her cuddled up with us I'm missing being with you."
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Of course, Tollie was happy to help and made grabby hands for the baby as soon as Hadrian asked. He laughed as he handed her over. "She liked the swing so if she won't settle in bed and needs to sleep, try that. You'll need to buckle the harness, not that I think she'll be able to wiggle enough to slide out yet but it's best to be safe.
"I'se will takes good care of Miss Rosie. Don't you worry Master Hadrian" Tollie said calmly. "I'se has been lookings after babyses since before you were a baby."
"I know you will Tollie" Hadrian agreed. "Knock on the door if you need us."
"I'se will Master Hadrian" Tollie replied reassuringly though she was determined not to need to interrupt them if she could possibly avoid it.
Tim watched from the doorway well aware how hard giving the baby into Tollie's care was for his husband. It wasn't that he had any doubts that the baby would be kept warm, clean and fed. It was just that the little elf considered Rosie to be a duty instead of someone to love and cherish.
Hadrian looked up and saw him watching. "I'm okay" he said softly as he joined him.
Tim brought his hand up to cup Hadrian's cheek. "I know you are" he said kissing him lightly. "She'll be fine!"
Hadrian led him into the bedroom and cast a one way silencing charm so they could still hear if Teddy woke up or someone approached the door.
"Did you buy protection? I know we haven't really talked about more children but I don't want to risk you falling pregnant again so quickly" Tim asked.
"I know Kingsley and Sir Geoffrey are going to pressure us to try again for a boy as soon as possible but I want to wait at least a year before trying again" Hadrian replied. "That is if you want another child." It was almost a question.
Tim nodded. "I do eventually. It's your body. You should wait until you feel ready" he agreed.
"I bought condoms while I was out today. You would not believe the dirty looks I got. I think I'm going to patronise the other chemist from now on" Hadrian said laughing slightly.
"Did you have Rosie with you?" Tim asked. "They probably thought you were pressuring the baby's mother into having sex. Non magical births take a lot longer to recover from. I've heard that it's normal not to resume sex until after the mother and baby's six week check up. Rosie still looks a lot younger than that."
Hadrian nodded. "I'm still going to the other chemist though."
Tim laughed commiserating at his husbands embarrassment. "We could go in together next time I have a day off" he offered. "Have you had much trouble from people who know you're in a gay relationship seeing you with a baby?"
"Not really since we already have Teddy. Most of the people in this area who know I'm with you have seen us out as a family and got used to it already" Hadrian replied. "I did receive a lot of female interest from women I haven't seen before, being out by myself with a baby though" he added amused.
Tim laughed and pulled Hadrian in close kissing him passionately. "Did you tell then you're mine?" he asked teasingly.
Hadrian responded enthusiastically to the kiss and started unbuttoning Tim's shirt. "I told them I was happily married" he confirmed.
Tim stepped back a little, kicking off his shoes and pulled Hadrian's sweater and T-shirt over his head before pulling him into another kiss. He felt Hadrian's arousal pressing against his and smiled dropping to his knees. Hurriedly unfastening his husband's belt and jeans he mouthed him through his boxers before carefully lifting the waistband over the already leaking member and pushing them out of the way as he swallowed him whole.
Hadrian groaned loudly clenching his fists at his side to stop himself from grabbing Tim's hair and fucking Tim's mouth. "Stop stop I don't want to come like this. I want to be inside you" he gasped.
Tim drew back slowly giving the tip one last lick and leaned back grinning up at his lover.
"I can't wait" he said, helping Hadrian to step out of his jeans and boxers before standing up and stripping off his own.
Hadrian moved over to the bed, ripping off the quilts and throwing them to the floor on the other side before rummaging through the bedside table for the lube. He carefully began to prepare Tim, well aware that it had been months since their wedding rituals which was the last time his body had let him top. He added a third finger and Tim began to beg.
"Please Hades, I need you now. Please. Fuck. Please" he babbled.
"Shh I will" Hadrian said removing his fingers and gently working his way in. He stopped to catch his breath and give Tim time to adjust. "You feel so perfect. So tight." he moaned.
"Please move" Tim begged arching his back.
Hadrian leaned down to kiss along Tim's jaw and began to rock his hips gently wanting it to last. "Gods I've missed this" he murmured.
"Yes" Tim moaned, Hadrian wasn't sure if he was agreeing to what he'd said or if he'd just managed to hit his prostate perfectly. He sped up his thrusts reducing his husband to incoherence.
They cuddled up together almost dozing in the afterglow.
"Should we go and check if Tollie need us to take Rosie?" Tim asked.
Hadrian took down the silencing charm and immediately they heard their little girl crying. "I'll go get her" he said getting up and pulling on a pair of pyjama pants.
He arrived in the nursery to find Rosie crying in her crib. "She be sleeping on her swing chair until about twenty minutes then she be's being fed and nappy'd. She just being naughty now not sleeping in her crib. There's being nothing wrongs with her" Tollie reported.
"Is she warm enough?" Hadrian asked picking Rosie up and cuddling her. "Perhaps she's just lonely."
Rosie started to settle but she'd been upset for a while so it took some time.
"She's be warm enough and not too warm. She's just be a spoilt baby" Tollie replied.
"I don't believe you can spoil a baby with love and attention" Hadrian replied. "They deserve as much love as they want. When she's bigger then she'll need to learn that she can't have everything she wants but she's too little for now and she needs to sleep."
"Yes Master Hadrian" Tollie replied obediently. Tollie was used to working for traditional pureblood parents who left her to look after their children while they continued with their work and normal social engagements. Hadrian and Tim who wanted to spend every spare minute with her baby baffled her a bit and she was worried about how spoilt the baby would be. They baby would never settle into her care if they came and cuddled her every time she cried and it made her feel like she wasn't doing her job properly.
Hadrian didn't notice her insecurity as he happily carried Rosie back to bed with him and Tim.
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This established a pattern, every night after Teddy went to sleep Tollie spent a couple of hours anxiously trying to prevent Rosie from crying while Tim and Hadrian had some time to focus on their relationship, when they made love or just spent some time cuddled up talking and kissing depending on how tired they each were. Tollie soon learnt that talking to the baby did help but all her previous owners had wanted her to avoid talking to their children as much as possible because they didn't want the children learning to speak like a house elf. In the past Tollie had been punished when the child under her care had spoken broken English like an elf and had tried to learn to speak more like a human only to be punished for that as well when her owners had heard her do so. So she was worried but Tim and Hadrian had always been very lenient masters who had never punished any elf under their employ so she pushed down her anxiety to do the best she could to look after Rosie and Teddy the way her masters wanted her to.
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TIMESKIP
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Ducky was determined to have everyone come to his Fourth of July barbecue. He wanted to try to fix the rifts in his work family before their problems tore them apart. He'd been worried about the team since December when the rift had formed over their reactions to Tim announcing his wedding. Over time Tim seemed to have mended bridges with Tony and Ziva but seemed to be making no attempt to repair his friendship with Abby. Tony and Jethro also seemed more standoffish with the forensic scientist, and Abby wasn't reacting well to no longer being treated as a favourite child by Jethro.
At times he thought it odd that he, Jimmy and Abby had always been so much a part of Jethro's team and not the other three teams that worked at headquarters, in his case (and Jimmy's by default) it was probably due to his longstanding relationship with Jethro from the days when Mike Franks' team was the only one at the naval yard. In Abby's case it was more that Jethro was the only one to support her non-professional behaviour and even that support had declined over the last year.
There was some resistance to the idea of a team party but they were on call the Saturday of the weekend so nobody had plans to go anywhere and nobody wanted to upset the elderly medical examiner by declining his invitation when he was so enthusiastic, so everyone agreed to go.
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Tim and Hadrian were deliberately the last to arrive though Tim had been over earlier to drop off the highchair, booster seat, porta cot and playpen as well as their contributions to the meal. Tim took note of the cars as they pulled up.
"Everyone's here. You ready for this?" he said. Each carrying a child they knocked on the door.
"Ready as we'll ever be" Hadrian replied.
"Timothy, Hadrian. Happy fourth of July! Welcome to my home" Ducky greeted them.
"Hi again Ducky" Tim said laughing.
"Hello Ducky" Teddy said grinning. "Me come to party."
"So you did Teddy and I'm glad to see you" Ducky said to Teddy before turning to his parents. "Oh dear! I doubt this is going to be the sort of party he's expecting, I hope he won't be too bored."
"We brought things for him to do and he'll have a new yard to explore even if we don't see anything special about it in terms of play areas he'll find something to interest him" Hadrian said reassuringly.
"And this little poppet has grown so much. Do you have a cuddle for Ducky?" he said reaching out his hands invitingly.
Rosie happily went to him listening to him talk, they headed towards the dining room and kitchen where everyone was gathered.
"Do you know everyone?" Ducky asked the young couple.
"Yes Ducky" Hadrian replied politely to the older man. "I know who everyone is."
"Well I don't know you. What are you doing here? This is a family occasion, you're not supposed to bring a date McGee" Abby said crossly.
"Ducky invited us" Hadrian said prepared to step back and leave if the others felt that way too.
"Of course he did, we can't expect Tim to come to a family dinner without his family" Ziva said. "How are you Hadrian, and this must be your older child Teddy you've told me about. What did you make to bring for dinner? Do you need someone to get it from the car since you had your hands full?"
"Hello Ziva" Hadrian said smiling. "I made Vietnamese salad and a chocolate tart. Tim dropped them off with all the other stuff we'd need for a peaceful dinner and afternoon out."
"You still haven't told me who you are" Abby huffed frustrated at being ignored.
"Hadrian McGee. Tim's husband" Hadrian said choosing to use Tim's name so she would have more trouble searching for him. He also resolved to be careful not to leave fingerprints or DNA on things she could collect. There was a spell that would prevent that. He didn't hold his hand out to shake.
"Tim's What!?" Abby screeched.
"Abs" Gibbs barked reprimandingly. "How are you coping with two children Hadrian? Rosie and Teddy look well."
"We are well, thanks Gibbs" Hadrian replied taking care to smile not smirk at Abby being controlled by Gibbs so effortlessly.
"When do you return to work?" Gibbs asked.
"Straight after Labour Day" Hadrian replied.
"There's a pretty good day care at the Navy Yard" Gibbs said.
"There's a pretty good day care at Quantico too and I'll work less hours than Tim does a lot of the time" Hadrian said. "Though I'm also looking onto hiring a nanny. It's not so easy to find one who has the experience with children, is willing to work on our schedule and meets all the security clearance requirements.
"The travel from your place to Quantico will be a bitch though" Tony said.
"Less than an hour most days given I won't be driving in peak hour" Hadrian said.
"What hours will you work?"
"1000hrs to 1600hrs when I'm not on assignment, I can often work from home a couple of days a week as well" Hadrian replied.
"And when you're on assignment?"
"I'm away for up to a month at a time. That's why I think hiring a nanny might be the best option. Someone who's willing to be flexible enough to help Tim out in the evenings when I'm away and he has a case, in return for extra time off when I'm home." It was true they were looking for a human nanny to help Tollie out at least part time, to have a human face to do the kinder drop off and pick up, but given it had to be someone who knew about magic as well as passing stringent background checks it was proving difficult to find someone.
"Will Teddy go to kindergarten this year?" Jimmy asked.
"He's right on that borderline where he could go or I could easily get an exemption for him to start next year. I'm not mad about the idea of him being the youngest in the class but I thought we'd send him and see how it goes. Developmentally he's independent enough with most things but he's still a little shy with other children" Tim replied.
"He's come out of his shell wonderfully since we met him at Christmas" Ducky said looking at the little boy happily chattering with Tony, showing him the toy trucks he'd brought to play with.
Tim and Hadrian both smiled. "Is there anything I can do to help with lunch Ducky?" Hadrian asked.
"Oh dear! I suppose we better get a move on with the dishing up. Everything should be ready. You sit and rest I'll have Abby and Ziva help me today." He went to pass the baby back to Hadrian but was intercepted by Gibbs, and shepherded the protesting forensic scientist into the kitchen.
"Abby, we are having a friendly peaceful dinner. Tim is right I did invite Hadrian, Teddy and Rosie. They are part of this family too now" Ducky said.
"No they're not Ducky. They aren't part of my family they're strangers. I don't want them here ruining our dinner. We won't be able to talk freely with outsiders here" Abby whined.
"They are Tim's family, and my guests. Hadrian is in law enforcement too he understands the demands of the job and his clearance is high enough for anything we would talk about" Ducky tried to reassure his young friend.
"I think you will like Hadrian once you get to know him. He and Tim are good for one another" Ziva stated. "And it will be good for us all not to be able to talk store."
"I think you mean shop, Ziva" Ducky corrected gently.
"Shop, store aren't they the same thing?" Ziva asked.
"Yes they generally are, but we use the term talk shop to mean to talk about work" Ducky explained.
"Haven't you been in America long enough to learn English yet" Abby snapped.
"English is the hardest language to learn and I do speak it fairly well, it's just the odd sayings that only exist in your language that trip me up" Ziva said frowning.
"Abby, I understand that you're upset with Tim but there's no need to be taking your mood out on Ziva. I expect you to be polite to the guests in my home" Ducky stated sternly. "All the guests" he added when it looked like she was going to argue.
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