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Of course, the case Gibbs and the team were working wasn't a simple drug deal gone wrong but ended up having some technological implications and they confiscated several encrypted laptops as evidence. Abby was swamped with evidence from other teams as well as theirs and Gibbs had to ask for assistance from the cyber division in the basement.
"Where's agent McGee, he's better at this than any of us?" the nervous technician asked. He'd never worked with Abby but he'd heard stories of her excruciatingly loud metal music and her impatience with having an outsider in her lab and her cruelty to Agent's that annoyed her.
"Paternity leave, we'll possibly able to call him for some phone assistance later today if you need him to fill you in on the case so far," Ziva replied.
"What?" Abby asked.
"Tim's and Hadrian's surrogate had a baby girl this morning," Ziva replied. "He assured me that all is well and they will be able to bring her home tomorrow."
"Then why isn't he here today?" Abby asked.
"The delivery took most of the night, Tim is exhausted and catching up on his sleep before the baby comes home," Gibbs said. "He's going to need it with a new baby, a toddler and an elementary school child in the house."
"He didn't tell me they were expecting a new baby!" Abby said pouting.
"Can you be surprised considering how unsupportive you were about the last one," Tony said.
"Gibbs!" Abby whined when Gibbs didn't head-slap Tony for the comment.
"He's right Abby, you've made it very clear that you don't accept Tim's family, why would he share his news with you," Gibbs replied.
"What hospital?" Abby asked preparing to hack the security feeds to see if she could get a look at the baby.
"Don't know, what's it to ya?" Gibbs said. "Get back to work and leave Tim alone! That's an order, Abby."
-o0o-
Once Tim and Hadrian had woken up, and Tim had managed to help Hadrian shower, not that he really needed the help but Tim was still anxious about him being in there on his own and were dressed Hadrian in his favourite pyjamas and Tim in fresh jeans and a T-shirt, Tim called for Tollie to bring one of the children to see the baby.
Tollie popped in on her own and cooed over the new addition for a moment before popping away and arriving back with Rosie. "Teddy beings at schools," she explained. "I brings when he gets home?"
"Yes that would be best Tollie, I'd forgotten he had school today," Hadrian said smiling gratefully at the elf as Tim lifted Rosie up onto the bed so she could see her baby sister who Hadrian was holding.
"Baby," Rosie said reaching for her.
"This is your sister Daisy," Hadrian said holding the baby out while Tim helped the toddler put her arms around the newborn gently. He called for a nurse and asked her to take some photos of the four of them.
"We must all be very gentle with Daisy because she's so little. She is too little to play with at the moment but she will soon grow big enough to play baby games," Tim said.
"Too little, baby," Rosie said nodding but poking at the baby. Hadrian caught her hand and helped her touch Daisy's cheek gently.
"Yes. You used to be this little too, you need to touch gently, don't poke," Hadrian said smiling. "And Teddy had to wait for you to grow big enough to play. Daisy will do a lot of eating and sleeping for a while but she loves gentle cuddles."
Rosie quickly lost interest in holding the baby and began to squirm, so Hadrian took Daisy back while Tim scooped up the toddler and started to feed her the snacks he'd packed in her bag in anticipation. She finished her snack and Tim took the baby so Hadrian could give Rosie some attention and cuddles before Tollie took her back home and Tim settled Hadrian in to nap a little before Daisy's next feed.
-o0o-
Teddy came several hours later, arriving while Hadrian was bathing Daisy. After cuddling with Tim for a minute or two he eagerly climbed up on the stool Tim moved over for him to see into the baby bath.
"This is your little sister Daisy," Tim said.
"Not a brother?" Teddy said disapointed.
"Sorry Teddy but no she's a baby girl, so she'll be your sister," Hadrian said laughing. "But Rosie is your sister and she's a lot of fun to play with isn't she."
"Yes Rosie is fun sometimes," Teddy agreed.
"Daisy will be fun to play with when she gets a bit bigger too. She is too little to play with much for a while. Do you remember when Rosie was this little?" Hadrian asked. He knew it was a stretch; Teddy wasn't quite four when Rosie was born so he wasn't sure whether the little boy had started making permanent memories by then. Still he'd seen plenty of photos of Rosie as a baby with him holding her gently so that might have helped him to remember.
Teddy nodded, "It took a long time for her to be big enough to play baby games."
"It seemed a long time to you, but really it wasn't," Hadrian said smiling.
Hadrian finished bathing Daisy and lifted onto the change table where Tim quickly wrapped her in the towel and started drying her off.
"Do you think that Daisy will want to wear her pink sleeper or the yellow?" Tim asked Teddy.
"Yellow," Teddy decided. "Daisy likes yellow." Tim and Hadrian exchanged a grin at Teddy declaring that Daisy shared his favourite colour.
"Daisy isn't old enough yet to know her colours but she will certainly look very pretty in the yellow," Tim said putting the yellow growsuit onto the baby and wrapping her in the yellow swaddling cloth. "Do you want to sit up on the bed and have a hold and a cuddle?"
Hadrian climbed onto the bed and Tim handed Daisy to her, he lifted Teddy onto the bed and sat on his other side as Hadrian carefully handed the baby to the little boy. Once he was settled safely Tim slipped off the bed and started taking photographs of the two of them.
Teddy and Rosie were in bed asleep by the time Hadrian was released that night. The healers wanted to keep him until morning but they admitted that it was mostly because they didn't want Hadrian or the baby to be outside in the cold night air and they wanted him to get one night's uninterrupted sleep before being at home with three children.
"Tim and I will both sleep better knowing that Tollie is looking after Daisy than some strange elf no matter how well they are trained in the care of neonates. If Daisy is healthy enough to leave the hospital then we want to go home," Hadrian said firmly. "And it isn't like I don't have a whole team of help at home between Tim, Tollie, Barbara and the other elves I won't be allowed to do anything much for the next two weeks."
Healer Roberts laughed. "Not everyone has your resources, I forgot how well off you are," he admitted. "Portkey while her stomach is empty and don't feed her for at least fifteen minutes after returning home. I want to see you in my rooms in a week, earlier if you have any concerns at all."
"Thank you," Hadrian said smiling. Tim shook his hand but Hadrian's arms were full of newborn.
They arrived home and Tim insisted on Hadrian getting straight into bed while he changed Daisy's diaper and settled her from the portkey before Hadrian could feed her. Swaddling her he laid her in her bassinet. Unlike her older sister, Daisy had taken well to settling herself to sleep once her stomach was full. Hadrian sat watching her sleep for a while before Tim could persuade him to try to sleep himself.
-o0o-
Tony and Ziva were curious who would be conscripted to TAD for the team. They hoped it was someone who had at least worked in the bullpen before and was familiar with Gibbs idiosyncrasies and had the inner strength not to take his criticism too personally, or at least someone who knew enough not to piss Gibbs off.
They were both relieved when Ned Dorneget turned up late morning.
"Hey guys," he said enthusiastically.
"Hey Ned, you with us for the next two weeks?" Tony replied, fairly pleased with the arrangement. Ned was still very green but he'd worked with them before when Tim was away and had a lot of the more basic computer skills they relied on Tim for, and he was getting better at knowing when to shut up before Gibbs head-slapped him.
Ned looked at Tony and Ziva, "I'm replacing Tim again? Don't the two of you get any leave?" he asked surprised and a little disappointed not to be working with Tim.
"McDaddy is on paternity leave, not a type of leave that I'd want. Ziva and I took leave at the same time as Gibbs this year, so they stood the whole team down rather than deal with months of cold cases and a never-ending stream of TADs," Tony replied.
"Another baby, his daughter's only just turned one hasn't she?" Ned asked.
"Rosie will be two next month," Ziva replied.
"How did you know Tim's kids?" Tony asked curiously.
"I saw the pictures last time I TAD'd for the team. Tim likes to catch up with me before hand and give me a run down on what you guys are working on. I guess he couldn't this time if this leave was confirmed at the last minute," Ned replied.
"But he must have known the due date for months," Tony objected.
"Yes but he couldn't have handed over the cases you'd be working on at the time. I spoke with him the day before yesterday and he made no mention of leave this week," Ned replied.
"He did not mention the baby being on the way when he left last night," Ziva said. "He must have been informed that toil had started after he left."
"You mean labour, Ziva," Tony said amused.
"Labour, toil it means the same thing," Ziva replied.
"Not in this instance labour and toil both mean hard work but the contractions to deliver a baby are labour," Ned explained.
"Thank you Dorney," Ziva said smiling at the younger agent. She and Tony quickly brought Dorney up to date with the investigation so far and the computer forensics that Abby and the agent from cyber crimes were running, and he settled in to check some of the minor suspects backgrounds to eliminate them from the investigation and hopefully get some more insight into some of the more major players. He was hard at work by the time Gibbs returned to the bullpen and the lead agent merely grunted acceptingly at his presence.
The case broke three days later and after completing the reports the team gratefully staggered out of the bullpen at 16:30 taking advantage of Gibbs' rare offer to let them leave early. Once the bullpen was empty, Gibbs called Tim to see how he was and whether they were up for visitors to deliver the baby's gift he'd made.
"Sure Gibbs, we're starting to settle in, that or last night was a bit of a fluke," Tim said jokingly. "The kids would love to see you."
"How are they reacting to the new addition?" Gibbs asked.
"Rosie isn't too interested most of the time, she's happy so long as one of us is available when she wants us. She hasn't shown any real jealousy yet though. Teddy is quieter, but he's already quite protective of his baby sister," Tim replied cheerfully.
"I have gifts for them too," Gibbs said, not so much asking for permission as warning the parents not to object in front of the children.
"I'm sure they'll appreciate that, but please don't spoil them too much," Tim replied ruefully.
"I won't but it isn't fair that the baby gets all the presents," Gibbs said grinning.
"And I'm sure it has nothing at all to do with the fact that the other two are more fun to give presents to?" Tim groaned.
-o0o-
Tim hacked the phone records to check on the Admiral's whereabouts before he rang his mother with the news of Daisy's safe arrival. Heather was thrilled and enraptured by the photographs Tim sent her.
"She looks so much like her big sister, a perfect blend of the two of you. What does the surrogate look like?" she asked.
"The surrogate isn't the egg donor, Mom," Tim replied. Rosie and Daisy don't look anything like her.
"Are Rosie and Daisy full sisters?" Heather pressed.
"Mom we are not going to tell you who the biological father is even if we find out which we don't plan on doing," Tim said.
"But if you used an egg donor you must know," Heather said.
"We don't know and we don't care Mom, Rosie and Daisy are our daughters," Tim said firmly. "Please stop pushing."
Heather took note of the warning in her son's voice, she wasn't going to get an answer and continuing to ask for one was going to make him angry. Tim's temper was nowhere near as bad as his father's but once roused he would eventually explode. "Is she a good baby?" she asked.
"She's a good eater and she's self settling better than Rosie though she doesn't sleep for as long between feeds," Tim replied. "She hasn't got day and night worked out yet so she's mostly awake one hour in every three around the clock."
"You sound tired," Heather said sympathetically.
"We both are, but we have plenty of help available if it gets too much," Tim said yawning.
"I'll let you go and try to get some sleep," Heather offered.
"Thanks Mom, but chance would be a fine thing I promised Teddy some quality time if we got both girls to sleep at the same time, " Tim replied "Love you."
"I love you too," Heather said smiling. "Thanks for calling, and for the photos."
-o0o-
Gibbs and Ducky arrived that afternoon eager to greet the new arrival and spend some time with their other honourary grandchildren. Tim and Hadrian were both feeling a little sleep deprived but since they weren't the ones in charge of cleaning or cooking at the moment the house still made it seem that they were both coping quite well. Daisy was a fairly placid baby and slept reasonably well, except for waking to be fed every three hours. She seemed to have Tim's fair hair and pouty lip, though her eyes were still newborn blue. Hadrian loved having a new baby in the house again and Tim also loved spending the extra time with their expanding family.
"She's a fine wee lass," Ducky said examining the baby. "With a very healthy set of lungs on her," he added as she protested the examination. Tim quickly redressed her and handed her to Gibbs while he went to fetch her bottle. Gibbs held her up where she could see his face and started talking like they used to do to settle Rosie. It was only partially successful.
"She likes being rocked to settle more than being talked to," Tim returned. He offered to take the baby but Gibbs refused, moving her to the crook of his arm and holding his hand out for the bottle.
Tim surrendered it with a grin and watched his boss expertly feed and burp the newborn, not even seeming to care about the spot of baby vomit on the shoulder of his shirt. He continued to rub the baby's back, "Is she due to sleep?" he asked.
"No she's just woken up, she's due some time on her tummy, she hasn't done that today but she's a little small for it to really matter and we can do it next time she wakes up," Hadrian said.
"She keeping you on your toes?" Gibbs asked smirking.
"I'll admit three is a lot more work than two, even with all the help we have," Hadrian said chuckling ruefully. "I wouldn't change it for the world though. She and Rosie are so close in age, I hope they get along."
"They'll fight and make up and get along and not sometimes all in the same half hour, and be prepared for them to deliberately make opposing choices to establish their own identities being so close in age," Ducky replied. "But when all's said and done there's nothing quite like the bond one has with a sibling."
"I'm an only child and while I was brought up with a cousin my age we were never encouraged to think of each other as family," Hadrian said pensively.
"And yet now you have a wonderful family of your own and you'll never be truly alone again," Ducky said supportively.
Hadrian smiled.
-o0o-
Sarah came to visit and even held the baby for a few minutes, though she had more fun playing with Teddy and happily helped Rosie try to do the things her big brother was doing.
"Oh dear sweetie, you'll need to grow a bit more before you can do that," she said at one stage scooping the little girl up before she fell.
"She's a lot like you were as a little girl, always determined to do what the older kids were doing," Tim said reminiscing.
Sarah laughed ruefully, "It's only watching it now that I realize how annoying I must have been. I feel I should thank you for being as patient as you were," she said.
Tim laughed. "You were even worse than Rosie, you had absolutely no fear and every day it seemed you were about to injure yourself somehow, I was terrified that you would be seriously hurt sometime and it would be my fault for not watching out for you better," he admitted.
"It wouldn't have been your fault, I used to try and hide from you and follow so you wouldn't catch me and take me home. I interrupted a lot of times you were with friends and I didn't realise it at the time but it must have made moving much harder for you, trying to make new friends with a little tag-a-long following you everywhere," Sarah said apologetically.
"Hopefully with Daisy so much closer to her in age she'll stop trying to follow Teddy and start playing with her sister once she's big enough to play," Hadrian said. "They've already got different personalities though."
"How so, I thought Daisy would be too small to even have a personality yet?" Sarah asked.
"Rosie used to love to be talked to or read to, it didn't matter if we were holding her or she was on the ground as long as she had our whole attention and she could hear our voice. Daisy likes to be cuddled especially if you're rocking or moving but seems quite happy to be in your arms even when you're not paying her any attention. I was holding her and writing reports the other day, there's no way I could do that with Rosie unless I was reading what I wrote aloud and discussing it with her," Tim said.
"She's very structured already too. She wants her nappy then her bottle then playtime before being tucked back in bed to go to sleep," Hadrian said. "She objects to being put to bed before she decides she tired but sleeps much better when she's self settled, and she wouldn't take her bottle until after I'd changed her this morning."
"Mom wants to come and visit," Sarah said.
"Mom knows she is welcome to come visit, all she has to do is call and let us know when, we've plenty of room for her and I have made the offer," Tim replied mildly.
"She can't just up and leave Dad, he's not coping well with being denied that promotion and he's been told he will be posted to a permanent shore position after his next deployment. He feels he's been sidelined," Sarah said.
"I hope he isn't taking it out on her," Tim said.
"He wouldn't!" Sarah declared adamantly.
"Not physically," Tim agreed, "But you know how hard he can be to live with when everything isn't perfectly up to his standards."
"Have you heard from Penny?" Sarah asked, changing the subject since she and Tim were never going to agree about their father.
"Not since Daisy was born she sent us a string of Nepalese elephants to hang in the nursery for good luck a couple of months ago. I'm not even sure where exactly she is at the moment. She promised to break her trip in DC and visit next time she flew through the United States," Tim said.
"Did you put up the elephants?" Sarah asked.
"We did, but not over the cot we put them near the window up well out of reach, they're pretty but cheaply made and not at all child safe," Hadrian replied, not mentioning that he'd also cast several charms to prevent them from falling apart or sequins falling off and to prevent the children touching them as they weren't sure how child safe or germ free the materials were.
Sarah laughed. "She sends the strangest gifts, that backpack she sent me is great, just the right size for my laptop and purse and favourite book without looking to big and bulky, though it did have a funny smell, until I spilt coffee all over it and had to wash it."
Tim laughed too. "I don't even want to try to think what it may have been."
"Probably something illegal," Sarah teased her brother.
Tim groaned. "I said I don't want to know."
"Sibling squabbling, that's what we have to look forward to," Hadrian laughingly interrupted them.
He and Sarah laughed when Tim groaned again.
"Did Mom and Dad send you a gift?" Sarah asked
"Mom sent gifts, but she didn't even try to put the Admiral's name on the card," Tim replied.
"I hate to tell you this Sarah, I think your Mom has spent at least this quarter's shopping budget on Daisy and the kids," Hadrian said gesturing to several parcels that had just been delivered.
"Hope you didn't need anything urgent," Tim teased though he knew in a real emergency he or Hadrian wouldn't hesitate to help her out.
Sarah flipped him off over her shoulder, careful that her nieces and nephew didn't see the gesture so Tim didn't kill her for corrupting the kids.
-o0o-
Harry sent birth notifications with a photograph to Neville and Hannah, Kingsley, Robbards, Sir Geoffrey and to Ron and Hermione. And within a couple of days received gifts from most of them of magical toys, books or baby care equipment. He and Tim particularly liked the nappy bucket with the inbuilt vanishing charms that Hermione sent. Sir Geoffrey also sent over a couple of vaccinations for magical diseases that were mostly only prevalent in Britain and Europe and therefore not routinely vaccinated against in America. Hermione had also sent some Union Jack gro-suits, as well as a frilly pink baby dress robes. Ron sent a baby broom.
"She's a bit young for that," Tim exclaimed.
"She is, but I got one for my first birthday and Sirius said I loved it," Hadrian said. "I'll put it away until she's old enough to use it in Hawaii. Rosie is old enough to use it."
"You're going to give Daisy's present to Rosie?" Tim asked.
"I could always buy her her own but it would be better to use this one and buy a new one in a year or two, I don't know how long the charms will last if it isn't used," Hadrian said.
"Wouldn't it last longer if it isn't used?" Tim asked, surprised.
"No, brooms use the magic from the rider to power them, that's why a muggle or squib cant ride one on their own, the magic in the broom guides how the rider's magic interacts which refreshes the charms," Hadrian explained.
"Then this is a stupid present to buy for a newborn," Tim said.
"Yes it is rather, but Ron had their Rose riding her own broom as soon as she could crawl, he probably took her up with him the first time the two of them were left alone together," Hadrian said.
"You are not…" Tim ordered forcefully, he never spoke to his husband like that. Hadrian didn't take offence he knew Tim was just reacting to the danger and his old mate's stupidity.
"No, I wouldn't, not till she's walking and even then, the broom is designed for toddlers, it's the tricycle, or better yet toddler ride on toy, of the broom world, it hovers about a foot or two from the ground and moves at walking pace and has some truly impressive stabilization charms, it is almost impossible to fall off it," Hadrian said.
"I don't care Hades, I don't want our daughter riding it until she can walk," Tim said firmly.
"Okay, it's better if they never ride brooms here at home anyway, the toddler broom works well enough inside but we don't have the privacy here for a proper broom and it isn't fair to let Rosie and Daisy ride their brooms when Teddy can't ride his," Hadrian said without fuss. "I'll have one of the elves pop it to the house in Hawaii."
Tim trusted Hadrian not to break his word but he still felt better once the broom was out of the house. He didn't want Teddy finding it and trying to teach either of his sisters to ride.
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