Hey all! thanks for the reviews...here is the next chapter, sorry its a bit short. if i can i will post the next two chapters by friday or saturday.
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Chapter 6
Next morning 0703
Kate woke to a shrill ringing. Groaning, she rolled over blindly searching for the phone, "Speak."
"Caitlin that is no way to answer the phone, it is not very lady like to answer the phone with a grunt-"
Kate tried to smother herself with her pillow as her mother went on about proper behavior, and how a 'lady' should act.
"Caitlin, are you listening to me? Caitlin!"
"Huh! Oh, sorry mom, I was just, hang on, mom its 0708 in the morning! What is so important that you have to call me this early on Saturday, on my rare day off?" Kate yawned, rubbing the sleep out of her eyes as she tried to get comfortable again.
"Caitlin, I was just ringing to see if you were still coming to Alexandra's wedding celebrations? And will you be bringing someone? I need to make the arrangements."
"Arrangements?" Kate asked confused.
"Yes, sleeping arrangements, your brothers and their children will staying with your father and myself, so I need to know if you are bringing anyone so that I can organize the sleeping arrangements."
"Mom, don't worry about it, we'll probably just get a hotel room. The house is going to be crowded as it is with just Robbie and his brood, let alone Bryan's."
"Caitlin, I will not have you staying at hotel, when there is enough room here, wait you said 'we'."
Kate sighed, "Yes mother 'we', I will be bringing a friend with me-"
"Oh darling, that's wonderful! Who is this gentleman and why have you never mentioned him to me?" Kate's mom changed her tune as soon as Kate mentioned bringing a friend with her to the wedding, so she decided to have a bit of fun.
"Mother, I didn't say my friend was a gentleman, he can actually be a bit of a bastard-"
"Caitlin Rose you watch your tongue!" Kate just laughed.
"Hi honey! Elizabeth you can talk to Katie later. Sorry about that honey, how are you doing – Elizabeth go away!"
Kate laughed harder as she heard Jonathon Todd try to hold the phone out of her mom's reach, "I'm fine Daddy, how are you holding up?" Like Grace, Kate had a close relationship with her dad, they were able to joke around and speak to each other with ease.
"I'm good, sorry about your mom there; I can't wait until this wedding is over with, your mother and Aunt Anne are driving me insane! On a better note, my back swing has gotten a lot better since this whole wedding!" Kate grinned. Knowing that both her father and Uncle Peter will have been frequenting the golf club a lot more as the wedding drew closer.
"How is Uncle Peter, Dad? I'll bet that he's hiding in his study with last minute preparations and all."
"Oh sweetheart you have no idea! Now what's this about my little girl bringing a gentleman friend to this wondrous event?"
"Geeze Dad, don't sound excited for Alex or anything!"
"I am excited for her, but I can't wait for it to be over, Bryan and Robbie's weddings weren't this bad, now don't change the subject who's this gentleman that you are bringing with you?"
Kate smiled, she never could really get much past her father, "I've told you about him daddy, his name is Jethro Gibbs-"
Her dad cut her off, "Not the Jethro that you talk incessantly about? The Special Agent that dared switch the body bag from under the FBI's nose?" Jonathon relayed laughingly. He had heard about that event when he was in DC on business.
"Daddy! I do not talk about Gibbs incessantly!"
"No dear, he just happens to come up in all conversations by coincidence?"
"Daaad!" Kate groaned into her pillow while her dad teased her some more.
"How did you manage to ask him? I thought that he had some kind of rule?"
Kate had told her dad about Gibbs' rule 12 and he understood the frat rules that the Fed's thought so highly of. Kate relayed the story about Abby and Grace to him, and how Gibbs had finally agreed to 'help her out'. Jonathon Todd was laughing heartily by the time Kate was finished "Dad it's not funny! I was mortified! I still can't believe that he agreed to it. You should have seen his face when I told him it was a week long!" her father just laughed harder.
"So what are you doing about sleeping arrangements? I won't have you staying at a hotel when you can stay in your old room. And if you're worried that Agent Gibbs will be uncomfortable, he can have the spare room across from yours and I promise I'll be nice to the man, I won't take no for an answer Katie, and by the sounds of it, neither will your mother-listen sweetheart I have to go, call us when you make up your mind ok! Love you honey."
"Love you too dad! Bye." Kate smiled and sank back into her bed, her Dad always had a way to make her feel better, even if the situation was crazy, which it was. Her eyes slowly closed as she nodded off back to sleep trying to ignore the butterflies in her stomach.
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