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A/N: WOW I don't have anything witty to say, which if you know me, you know is very rare… Read. Enjoy. Review.
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It had been five months since Abby had gotten her first ultra sound, which had come back completely normal, and now they just had to wait for their baby boy to come. Mike and Gibbs had finished the room at top speed, first getting the wall up so Kalila could sleep in her room, then to just to get it finished. Once Abby had picked a painting color, they wouldn't let her see the room. They told her she wouldn't be able to see it until eighth month of her pregnancy.
"Are you two almost done?" asked Abby as she and Gibbs climbed into bed, Abby's stomach now prominent and huge, as was expected due to the fact she was seven months pregnant.
Gibbs gave her a kiss as he slid under the covers and Abby stayed on top. He looked over at her weirdly, almost concern in his eyes as his head hit the pillow.
"Abbs, I know it's getting warmer, but it's still February," said Gibbs still watching her.
"It's like a zillion degrees in here, Gibbs," Abby said as she settled herself on top of the covers cuddling the best she could to Gibbs's side.
"Abbs, it's still like fifty or sixty degrees in here," said Gibbs, concern shining through his bright blue eyes.
"Gibbs," said Abby, her head on his shoulder, "Trust me it's plenty hot in here, besides I promise if I get cold I will crawl under the covers with you, and you can heat me right up."
"Ok," said Gibbs and he gave her a little kiss on her forehead, "Just please don't freeze to death."
"No problem," said Abby as she closed her eyes and drifted of to sleep.
Abby made several trips to the bathroom that night, and each time she woke up she had a blanket wrapped around her, which made her smile. That was her Gibbs, making sure she didn't freeze. As she returned to the bed at two that morning, Gibbs greeted her with a kiss and led her under the blankets.
"Ok, it is a little cold," said Abby cuddling up to him, and he smiled, taking her in his arms.
That next morning Abby woke up, remembering one saddening fact, it was her first day of leave, she was staying home. This made her sad, because Gibbs would be going off to work and she would stay home with Kalila, and Crash, who was now, as Gibbs said he would be, much bigger. It took Abby a second to realize her head was on the pillow, not Gibbs's chest. It was already seven, he'd be walking into the squad room. Abby sat up as Kalila walked into the room.
"Daddy told me to check on you when I got up," said Kalila as she crawled up on the bed next to Abby.
"Oh he did?" Abby said, even though it had been months since Kalila had started calling them mommy and daddy, it still sounded weird.
"Yeah," said Kalila, "Look he left you a note."
Kalila picked up the small piece of paper from the pillow that had been vacant when Abby woke up. Kalila handed it to Abby, who read it to herself with a smile.
Meanwhile inside the NCIS squad room, Gibbs had just sat down behind his desk, two extra tall coffees in front of him. Tony, Ziva, and McGee cautiously glanced over at him as he pretty much chugged down the first coffee and throwing the cup right into the trash.
"You ok, Boss?" asked Tony, looking over at him, half scared.
"Yeah, just a little tired, Abbs has been having what I have been told is the perfect pregnancy, however that doesn't save her from going to the bathroom, every half hour like clock work."
"Rough night, Boss?" asked McGee.
"No, I love her I don't really mind," said Gibbs as Jenny joined them.
"You look like crap," she directed at Gibbs.
"Yeah well I got a total of four very interrupted hours of sleep last night," said Gibbs starting to sip his second cup of coffee.
"Well the nice people at Quantico just called, they have a dead sailor for you," said Jen.
"And they called you because?" said Gibbs with slight frown.
"He was a retired Commander, the secretary of state was there, witness," said Jen, "They don't want the general public to know."
"Delicate, got it," said Gibbs, "Is Abbs's temp here yet?"
"Got here ten minutes ago," said Jen, "She's getting settled."
"Ok," said Gibbs, thinking of the many ways Abby would complain that she messed up the lab once she got back, "Gear up, Tony, you're driving, Ziva alert Duck, Elf Lord, C'mon with me."
Gibbs was almost dreading going back to the headquarters, because he knew he would have to check with the lab, and it wouldn't be Abbs. He would probably have to deal with some lab rat for who knows how long.
"Jethro," said Ducky walking unsteadily over to him, "We should probably head back now."
"Yeah," said Gibbs with a long sigh, and he walked over to the car.
"Boss doesn't like the idea of a new person in the lab," Tony told the other two as Gibbs came up behind him and gave him a nice whack over the back of the head.
"Sorry, Boss," said Tony.
"Don't be, you're entirely correct," said Gibbs as they all piled into their respective cars.
Abby sat cross legged down on the couch in the TV room, watching some mindless kids' show that Kalila seemed to like. Kalila was sitting next to her on the couch half paying attention to the show, but mostly she was playing with her little plastic My Little Pony. So, Abby decided to channel surf a little, Buffy was on on one channel, but knew Kalila was much too young to be introduced to the vampire slayer. Then she found Franklin, which was entirely respectable for both their ages, in the manner of it would entertain Kalila and wouldn't bore her to death.
Abby was amazed it still had the same theme song, she smiled as she heard Kalila singing along. Resting her hand on her stomach, she felt the baby kick.
"Kalila," Abby said grabbing her hand and gently holding it to her stomach where the baby was kicking.
"Whoa," said Kalila.
"That is your baby brother kicking in there," said Abby and she made a little squeaky voice, "Let me out, let me out."
Kalila giggled, and Abby couldn't help but tickle her too, not helping her giggling in the least.
Gibbs took a deep breath and exhaled loudly as he stepped off the elevator into what was usually Abby's lab. He looked around for the temp.
"Hello?" He called, looking around.
Then, a woman popped up from behind the computer, bright and cheery. Her brown hair was swept up in a tight bun in the back of her head, she wore very, almost comical glasses, and a red skirt and shirt suit set.
"Hello," She said extending her hand as Gibbs refused to shake it, and she lowered it immediately.
"Got any results on the DNA?" said Gibbs with a furrowed brow, missing Abbs's reports and unique brand of cheeriness.
"No," said the woman, and Gibbs walked out before he could hear her say, "I just got all the machines up and running."
Gibbs stepped onto the elevator thinking of the many ways he was going to show Abby he missed her when he got home.