This is a bunch of random Christmas stories about the happy Christmas days of the Gibbs house with our all-time favorite Gibbsling, Kelly. (it still works in the show-timeline) - please let me know what you think :)

1988 - December 24th

Marine gunnery sergeant Leroy Jethro Gibbs wakes up. He slowly opens his eyes and sees his beautiful wife Shannon sleeping right next to him. Her red hair is spread out over the pillow. For the past four years, Gibbs has woken up by his internal alarm clock at 5.00 am. If he on a rare occasion manage to sleep past that his external alarm clock in the form of his 4-year-old daughter wakes him up. This morning it seems like it is neither. He looks over at his watch on the nightstand. It is 3.30 am. He looks back over at his wife and leans over to give her a kiss on the cheek and then snuggles back under the cover. He can rest for a few more hours. He barely gets to close his eyes before he hears the sound of little footsteps and the door slowly being opened.

"daddy…" a little girl's voice is heard. Gibbs sits up and looks over at the little girl standing in the doorway with her doll in her hand.

"Kell? Why are you awake this early?" he asks and sits up. He can hear his little girl sniffles. Gibbs is a highly trained marine sniper. He is trained to handle anything but hearing his little girl cries… breaks his heart. He sits up and swings his legs out from over the cover and places his feet on the cold floor. He takes a moment to get used to the cold air hitting him before he gets up and walks over to her. he kneels down in front of her and brushes a strain of hair away from her face.

"what is going on sweetie?" he asks.

"I can't sleep, daddy. Had a bad dream." Gibbs lifts the little girl up in his arms and immediately feels the wet spot on his little girl's PJ pants. He carries her into her own room and helps her get changed. He looks in her drawer for a clean set of PJ but there is only one clean set. She has been having a lot of nightmares lately and with that has come her wetting her bed also. It has been happening since she found out that he was going to be deployed next year. Gibbs isn't sure she understands exactly what it means but she is a smart girl and she understands it means he isn't going to be home for a while. He takes out the last set of clean pajamas in her drawer and walks over to help her put it on.

"no daddy," Kelly says and steps away from Gibbs when he is going to put it on her. he looks confused at her.

"its Christmas PJ. Not Christmas yet."

Gibbs can't object to that fact then he looks at his watch.

"you know it is actually the 24 of December today." He says. the little girl shakes her head.

"No daddy. Mommy said to sleep before it is Christmas."

"well, Christmas starts at midnight. And it is past midnight. So it is Christmas." Gibbs explains in his best sneaky voice and a big smile spreads on the little girl's face and she then allows her dad to help her in her Christmas pajamas.

Once the little girl is dressed in her clean pajamas the little girl looks sad at the pile of her dirty pajamas and underwear. Gibbs follows her eyes to see why she looks sad.

"mommy is going to be mad at me," she says.

"no she is not," Gibbs says and places a hand on his little girl's cheek to reassure her. the little girl doesn't seem to believe him. "Lets put it in the hamper and then I am going to clean it tomorrow," Gibbs says and picks up the clothing and puts it in the hamper. He then picks up the little girl on his arm.

"Daddy?" the little girl says and Gibbs stops and looks at her.

"Can I…?" the little girl says and then giggles shyly and hides her face into her dad's neck. "can you what?" Gibbs asks with a smile even though he knows what she is going to ask.

"sleep in your bed?" she asks.

"so I'm going to sleep in your bed? That means I am sleeping with princess bedding." Gibbs says and looks over at the little girl's pink bed with pink princess beddings on.

"no daddy. You and me sleep in your bed." Kelly explains.

"so mommy is sleeping with the princess beddings?" Gibbs asks. The little girl giggles.

"no daddy. Me and mommy and you sleep in your bed." She explains to her dad. Gibbs pretends like he is considering it for a moment. The little girl places a quick kiss on her dad's cheek. It is more sound than an actual kiss. She has done that a lot lately as a new persuasion technique.

"Alright, you make a very persuasive argument," Gibbs says and he walks his little girl into the master bedroom.