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Gibbs went and put Angie to bed, as she had fallen asleep just after Roselen's call. And checked in on Kate. Unfortunately, he found her asleep on the bed, still wrapped in her towel. He went near her, covered her, and sat in front of her, smoothing out her hair.

"Kate, sweetie, I'm sorry I wasn't more understanding of your feelings. When I met your mother, I understood why you wanted to take care of her, you wanted to be perfect, for your mother to be proud of you, and for your daughter love you.

She's belittled you, and has succeeded in making you think you're incapable. You deny, but I'm sure your choice of career is link to this traumatism, you wanted to prove to yourself. You don't want to repeat these mistakes with our daughter, it's why you didn't want to leave her, why you wanted to be the only who will love her and cherish her, but today, we're a family, and even if you don't dare to ask me for help, I promise you, from now on, I will try being here for you to lean on more often, even if you insist on doing it yourself. I wasn't aware of your fragility, but now I am. As if it wasn't bad enough, your mother arrives tomorrow."

Kate opened one eye, looked the alarm clock, it was 6.00. She turned round to find her husband awake, leaning on one elbow, watching her. He smiled her.

"Hi."

"Hi, Sleeping Beauty"

"Oh, I'm sorry, I fell asleep…"

"You were exhausted, it's fine" he said to reassure her.

He didn't know how to tell her of her mother's arrival. It was, on this rarest of moments, that words failed him.

"Kate…last night, when you were in the bath… your mother phoned."

Her smile disappeared.

"Oh, I see, what did she want?" She asked him diverting her look.

She really didn't help him. He decided to take the plunge.

"She's coming to spend a week here."

Her eyes grew.

"What? When is she coming?" She asked him worried.

"Tonight."

"What?" she said, leaping out of bed. "Why you didn't wake up me yesterday, did you see our home's condition, I have to clean…"

Meanwhile, He got up and put her arms.

"Katie, calm down, it's nothing she can't understand.

"Jethro if it's ok I want to stay home to get ready for her."

"If you want, but promise me that you will stay calm."

"Promise"

Kate polished the house all the day and Gibbs wasn't home yet when the doorbell rang. She took a big breath, and opened the door.

"Hi, Mom," She said with a smile which hid her stress. She said to herself my girl if you can't confront your mother at 30 years old ,What are you doing?

"Caitlin, dear," She continued.

"Good, have you looked at yourself? When was the last time you slept? Have you seen the bags under your eyes? Your husband told me you were tired, but not like this."

Hearing these words, Caitlin cursed inwardly, Gibbs was going to pay.

Her mother hadn't changed, she was always the same. Telling Caitlin, that she gained weight since Angie's birth and that she looked like death warmed over…she didn't need any of that.

"Tell me, where is my granddaughter?" she asked.

"She's in the day care."

"What? Even if you don't work, you put your daughter on the day care!"

"I wanted to get ready for your arrival. I found out you were coming just this morning," She justified herself.

"Kate! You really don't know how to bring up your child! Since when do we put our children in day care to do housework?"

Kate, who was on the verge of tears, continued to justify herself, "But, you know, with our work at NICS, a day care with a very good reputation is reserved for an agent's child." Seeing that her mother shot daggers at her, and that she didn't want to say that it was her husband that insisted on bringing her, she decided to stop there. "I'm sorry mother, you're right; I should have keep her at home."

"Stop crying, your work, let me smile, it's this hell that you call work, you should have been a lawyer, as we planed, with your father, but you had to quit your law studies, all that because of …"

"Mother stop! We rehash that same thing every time you visit. I can't take it any more."

"Well, if this is how you react, I won't talk about it, I will drop my belongings."

Her mother left the room and left Caitlin lonely in tears, leaning against the wall.