………………In Virginia in the storm………….

"Tony, are you alright?" Gibbs asked just seconds after he saw the pole landing right beside Tony.

"Couldn't be better boss…Let's get out of here!" Tony stated while thinking about how many times near death he has been.

"Watch out for the truck!" someone yelled. The truck just stopped right before Tony and Gibbs. A marine came out from the truck. He turned on his flashlight and went over to them. It was windy and raining heavily.

"Are you the ones who were kidnapped?" the marine asked.

"Yes…How did you find us?" Gibbs asked.

"We found the women a few hours ago and with their descriptions we tried to locate where you were." He answered.

"Is everyone alright?" Tony immediately asked him.

"They are all alright. They've all gone home." He told them.

………..At the base……….

"Where is my wife Caitlin Dinozzo?" Tony asked a guy as soon as he came to the base.

"I'll try to see if anyone knows." A marine said to him. 20 minutes later another marine came to Tony and Gibbs.

"She flew to New York with a helicopter. She said she had family there. She is currently at the FBI building with your family and the Gibbs family." He explained to them.

"Did you let them know we're alright?" Gibbs asked them.

"Yes I did but I have some bad news too…Your wife has gone into labour. They are looking for a doctor so he can stop the labour. We have orders to use the satellites phones carefully so I'm not sure you can talk to your wife." He explained to Tony.

"No…It is 2 months left…" Tony said now worried. He had heard about the chaos across the world and everything which could go wrong always happened to them.

………………………Meanwhile at FBI …………………

"They've given us some information about the power. Are you interested in hearing about it?" Andy asked Max, Lauren and Kate.

"After you fill us in on the doctor situation!" Kate tried to say calmly but she screamed it just like women in labour do.

"We're doing our best. Please hang in there. They've sent for someone to get some medicines from the hospital so when a doctor comes he can stop the contractions. Everything will be just fine…" Andy tried to reassure her.

"We know that already…Is the power coming back soon?" Max wondered.

"The good news is that it weren't bombs which made the power go. It was someone hacking in and destroying the computers. The bad news is that they need to go over everything until they feel safe enough to start letting the power on. No one knows if it will take hours, days, weeks or months since maybe they had also tampered with power lines, distribution stations or nuclear plants. It looks like an inside job across the globe and cutting the power leaving people clueless about what is going to happen next they thought was a smart move…" Andy explained seeing how much in pain his sister-in-law was. It wasn't him who should share this moment with her it was her husband. He remembered how he felt when Max was in labour.

"Agent Dinozzo…The doctor is here and so are the medicines. I also need to talk to you three outside the room." Some other agent told him while the doctor went in. Andy, Max, Lauren went out of the room.

"I don't want to be alone." Kate said scared.

"I'll be right back." Lauren assured her.

"Me too." Max told her.

………Outside the room………..

"They've found the men. Everyone is alright." The agent told them.

"Can we talk to them?" Andy asked.

"We need to tell Tony what is going on!" Max said.

"I told the one I talked to say to agent Dinozzo his wife is in labour and that the Dinozzo and Gibbs families are alright and they all are in the FBI headquarters in New York…Everyone has orders to only use the satellite phones for important things and I don't think letting you talk to agent Dinozzo as important." The agent continued.

"Too bad because I do. Now get me the phone so I can talk to him." Andy demanded.

"We'll go back to Kate and tell her the news. Maybe the good news can make her feel better." Max said to everyone.

………….In Kate's room……..

"I've given her medicines to stop the contractions. She is dilated a centimetre only and that is good. All that she needs is to stay in bed and not do a lot of things for two months. I can stay here for a little while longer but then I need to go back to work." The doctor told them when they entered the room.

"Kate, we have some great news. Tony and everyone else are alive and well. We're trying to see if you can talk to him." Lauren told her.

For the first time in a very long time she smiled but you could still see she was in pain.

…………..Two months later………

A baby was born and at that moment Tony and Kate couldn't have been prouder parents.

……………..2 years later…………

"So are your parents divorced? You only live with your mother." One of Isabella's new friends asked her.

"No…They are still happily married but my dad works in Virginia and they've come to an agreement that mom, Nick and I should live in New York. It was an arrangement they did when they got custody over us." Isabella explained.

"So Nick isn't really your brother but he is since he is living with you? Am I right?" the friend asked.

"Yes, you're right…So now over Halloween we're going back to visit our dad in Virginia."

"How come you and Nick call them mom and dad?" her friend asked.

"It's easier that way so we don't need to explain this a million times to unknown people and Lauren and Gibbs didn't object. My mother died when I was five, my stepmother was only in my life for a few years,my biological dad wasn't a good one and Nick had trouble with his parents…They are just the best parents we ever got…" Isabella explained.

"So are you going to do anything fun in Virginia?"

"I'm going to a christening…Some good friends of ours just got a daughter. She was born in July and we haven't been able to see her yet so I'm excited to see her. She has a lovely name too just as her big brother." Isabella explained.

"So what are their names?"

"Alexander Michael Dinozzo and Catherine Sasha Dinozzo." Isabella replied.

"Don't you know someone here in New York named Dinozzo? I recall meeting them once." Her friend wondered.

"Yes…It is his brother Tony and his wife Kate who just got another child. Andy and his wife Max have a son and daughter too…It's a bit complicated to explain how everyone is related and how everyone knows each other."

"So do you only go back to Virginia when someone is getting married or christened?" her friend asked her.

"I know it seems like that but it isn't. It is just everyone is either getting married or having children. Abby and her husband did get married in June and McGee and his fiancée are getting married in December…And next year Abby is going to have a baby…And also Palmer and Ducky surprisingly getting married last year came as a big surprise but we've been through a lot and it is like a snowball effect so when Ducky got married, then Palmer, Abby and now McGee…" Isabella continued.

"So who is next after McGee?" her friend asked.

"I'm glad I still don't know that…" Isabella assured her.