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"What's your uncle Dean doing here?" Nicky asked, looking over to where Dean Winchester stood with Abby Sciuto. They were standing with McGee, the boys laughing while Abby just smiled slightly.

"I don't know." Abigail said, keeping a hold of her friend's hand. They looked around, hoping to spot Tony somewhere. Dean looked over at them then paused as he recognized them.

"Gabe?" Dean asked, walking over with a frown on his face. "One...what are you wearing...and two...does Annie know you've brought Abigail to a crime scene?" He looked at the kids and frowned even more. "Oh hell, even Nicky. Dude you're gonna get yourself killed."

"No I won't." Gabriel said, waving his hand.

"Uncle Dean have you see Tony?" Abigail asked. Dean looked at the little girl and she smiled innocently at him. He took in all the costumes then smiled suddenly like he was trying to hold in his laughter.

"He's umm...well...his outfit certainly makes sense now." Dean said. "Hang on, I'll find him. Just...don't go anywhere. Gonna be in enough trouble as things are now." He walked off leaving the three of them to stand there. They watched him go back to Abby and McGee. The NCIS agents stared at Dean with wide eyes as he told them about Gabriel, Abigail and Nicky being there. McGee went off, Gabriel could only guess to get Tony.

"You are so dead." Abby said as she and Dean walked over. Under her coat she had on a red and black dress as well as knee high leather boots. "If Tony doesn't do it, Lila or Annie will."

"What were you guys doing earlier?" Gabriel asked, grinning.

"We were about to head out to a party." Dean grumbled. Abby tried not to grin. "Actually had the chance to date her and what happens? Stupid ritualistic bullshit."

"Uncle Dean!" Abigail said.

"Bull spit." Dean covered up. "What are you guys even doing here anyways? Thought you were trick or treating."

"We were." Nicky said. "But then we finished and got bored."

"Gabriel! What the hell?" Tony yelled, stomping his way over with McGee and Ziva right behind him. It was hard to take the angry look on the agent's face serious when he was still dressed as Smee. "What are you doing, bringing the kids here?"

"We figured we'd see if we could help." Gabriel said, shrugging.

"Help? HELP?" Tony said. Gabriel nodded. Nicky side stepped to stand behind Abby, pulling Abigail with him. "You...this...there are words to be said that can't be said around a six year old and a five year old."

"Oh come on." Gabriel said.

"Look...you and your Abby...you may be...you know whats...and Nicky may be a child genius but this is no place for them." Tony said. "Lila would skin both of us if she had any idea of this."

"Scared of the wife?" Dean asked.

"Not my wife but yes, I am." Tony said. "She's tiny but good lord she packs a punch. I've been on the receiving end of her anger several times and I do NOT want to be there again and..." He paused, noticing Abby looking over his shoulder at something. He glanced down at the kids hiding behind the Goth girl to see them both trying to conceal smiles. "She's right behind me isn't she?"

"Yep." Lila answered. Tony turned around. Standing between McGee and Ziva was Lila and behind her stood Castiel.

"Hey bro, what are you doing here?" Gabriel asked.

"I went by your house with news on...rituals." Castiel said.

"And I was just getting called about this." Lila said. "So...left Nicole with Annie and hitched a ride on the Angel Express."

"I'm not a train." Castiel said.

"No...it...I...never mind." Lila said, shaking her head.

"Hi mommy." Nicky said, leaning around Abby's legs to wave at his mother. Lila looked at her son and shot him a smile before turning a glare to Tony and Gabriel. Tony stepped back and Gabriel paused. The glare didn't exactly scare him but it was a little unnerving.

"So much trouble." Lila said simply. Tony opened his mouth to try and get himself off the hook but Lila just held up her hand. "Don't...later. And...really, can you guys not be pirates?" Tony and Gabriel looked at each other. There was a quick glance around before Gabriel snapped his fingers, giving himself and Tony their regular clothes back.

"Thank God." Tony said, sighing.

"Our Father had nothing to do with your clothing change." Castiel said.

"That...what?" Tony asked. He shook his head and held up his hands. "Actually, never mind. Just save me the confusion. Okay, let's go check this thing out." The whole group started moving but Tony spun around to stop them all. "Nicky...little Abby...you two are staying back."

"Aww man." Nicky whined.

"Someone's gotta watch them." Lila said. Tony turned his eyes to look at McGee.

"What?" McGee asked. "Why are you looking at me?"

"Because Lila's right, you bugged me about my costume that I didn't even want to wear." Tony said. "And while Gibbs isn't around, I'm the boss...so...you're stuck with kid duty." Abigail and Nicky tilted their heads and looked at McGee expectantly.

"She's not gonna...do anything is she?" McGee asked quietly.

"Nothing you can't handle, Probie." Tony said, patting his friend on the back. "Really should have thought before you made the jokes on the costume."

"Ziva did too!" McGee said.

"Yeah but not as much as you did and...I got a different punishment idea up my sleeve for her." Tony said. Ziva paused and raised an eyebrow, frowning.

Ziva's punishment turned out to be going through the crime scene, tagging and bagging everything, which wasn't easy given the mount of leaves on the ground this time of year. Tony, Gabriel, Lila, Dean, Abby and Castiel all stood in front of the tree that the victim was tied to, throat and wrists sliced open. Gabriel found it to look familiar but he couldn't place how. Unbeknownst to him, Dean was thinking the same thing. Both of them were frowning, looking at the body. Tony and Lila took pictures before working on getting the body down.

Meanwhile McGee was watching Abigail and Nicky as they talked quietly. The pair would occasionally look at him and giggle, which only served to make him uneasy. He tried to break the ice by talking to them. "So, how was the trick or treating? Get any good candy?"

"It was okay," Nicky said. "I got about the same as last year. Though I don't think all of it made it home. Abigail's dad sure can eat a lot of candy."

Abigail smiled at McGee. "Do you ever dress up for Halloween?"

"What did you hear about that?" McGee asked nervously.

"I told you," Nicky said. "Dad said he dressed up like an Elf Lord, just like those I pictures I showed you on the internet."

"It was a Snow Elf, and plenty of adults go to costume parties, too," McGee said.

Abigail and Nicky began to giggle again, and Nicky said, "Go ahead, Abby. Do it. Show me." Abigail looked around and then quickly closed hers eyes. Before he realized it, McGee was standing there, in his blue and fuzzy Snow Elf costume.

The two kids began to roar with laughter, and McGee began to yell. "Hey! That's not funny! Change me back! Now!"

The uproar caused the other adults to turn the heads and look over at the scene. Tony and Ziva, who had seen the costume before, couldn't help but smile, as did Abby and Dean. Tony muttered under his breath, "The Elf Lord has returned."

Gabriel actually started laughing and said, "That's my girl!" But the whole scene was interrupted by the arrival of Gibbs and Ducky.

"DiNozzo!" Gibbs barked as he surveyed the mass of people before him. "What the hell do you have going on at my crime scene? Not only do you have three unauthorized adults near the body, but you have allowed kids here as well?"

"Actually," Gabriel interrupted. "That would be one unauthorized adult and two angels. And I for one was thinking that there was something familiar about this, like I had witnessed something like it before."

"Really?" Dean asked, looking at Gabriel. "Me, too."

"Can it, Gabriel," Gibbs demanded. "I am in no mood for your bull right now. It doesn't matter, because when this goes to trial, how I am supposed to explain the presence of you, Cas and Dean here at the crime scene? It is not like any of you can take the witness stand as a member of my team or some outside forensics expert."

In the end, it didn't matter that Cas, Dean and Gabriel had been at the crime scene, for there was no trial. In fact, there were no arrests and very few suspects to question. The NCIS team spent over three weeks going over evidence and leads and came up with nothing. The woman who had been murdered was a wife of a marine. Her husband had been shipped oversees just five days before her death. They had recently moved to the area, and she had little time to develop friendships here. Both of them were from a small town in Alabama, and their family still resided there. The NCIS team came up with few leads as to not only who want to kill this woman, but who had opportunity to. Even Abby Sciuto, who was one of the most talented forensics experts in the field, found little physical evidence linking this case to anyone. It was as if all traces of the killer had disappeared.

Gibbs did eventually break down and decide to ask Gabriel and Dean what they thought about the case. But both the hunter and the archangel had little to offer, beyond the fact that it looked like a familiar ritual killing to them. Both of them had seen too many over the years to remember why this one seemed to trigger some sort of memory for each of them. The only thing that Gabriel had to offer him was the fact that Castiel had come to see him that very night to warn him about rumors in Heaven of ritual murders that were starting again and to see if Gabriel had heard of anything himself while on Earth. But even at this point, Heaven did not know the source of such murders, or the reason behind them.

"For crying out loud, Gibbs," Gabriel complained. "Give a guy a break. I have only been around a little less than my Dad, and He been around for-ever. After a few thousand years, all the ritual murders start to look the same."

"Then do me a favour...and stop trying to butt into things without the proper information to back up your ranting." Gibbs said. That got Tony holding back laughs. Gibbs looked at him and the younger man failed to try and look put together fast enough. Gibbs walked away from them, smacking Tony in the back of the head as he went.

"Ha ha." Gabriel said, pointing and laughing. Tony just glared at him before following his boss. Gabriel followed after him just for the hell of it and tilted his head to listen when Tony's phone went off.

"DiNozzo." Tony answered, holding his phone to his head.

"It's me." Lila said, sounding slightly panicked.

"What's wrong?" Tony demanded, instantly alert at the sound of his girlfriend's voice. Gabriel frowned, wondering what could be going on.

"Umm...Nicole's water broke and she's in a shit load of pain...like more then regular." Lila said. In the background there was a groan. "Oh shit, Nikki, come on breath."

"Where's Nicolas?" Tony asked, using his son's given name so as not to confuse the two.

"Soon as this happened I called Annie and Abby just sort of...popped him." Lila explained. "Man that kid has some wicked powers."

"Tell me about it." Tony muttered. He turned to start pacing then jumped when he found Gabriel right behind him. "Jesus man, don't do that!"

"You need to get there." Gabriel stated right before he put his fingers to Tony's forehead. There was no time to argue as they were transported to the house that the little DiNozzo/Curtis family inhabited. Lila jumped at their arrival then hung up the phone.

"Did you call anyone else?" Tony asked, hanging up his phone as well. He glanced out the window to the driveway where his car had appeared. Remembering that the car Nicole and Lila shared was in the shop, he stopped himself from asking why they hadn't left to the hospital yet.

"No, of course not, my sister's just gone into labour with super pain and...oh yeah, blood too!" Lila snapped sarcastically. Tony threw his hands up in surrender. Behind Lila, Nicole let out a scream of pain as she curled around her stomach. Lila tried to help her sister lie back down flat but the younger of the two wouldn't budge. "Nothing's arrived yet. She's too early!"

"Okay, okay, relax!" Tony said. "We can't start freaking out."

"Gabriel, isn't there something you can do?" Lila asked.

"I could send her to the hospital." Gabriel spoke up for the first time since entering the house.

"Okay...not the best idea." Lila said. "Don't need to pop up in a hospital."

"Lila calm down, the ambulance is here." Tony said, glancing out the window again.

"What do you mean you're in a hospital?" Annie asked over the phone half an hour later.

"I'm not in the hospital." Gabriel stated, sighing. "You're not allowed to use phones in hospitals remember."

"You know what I mean." Annie said, sighing as well.

"I went with DiNozzo and Lila." Gabriel said, scratching at an itch on his nose absently. "That sister of hers can really scream when she wants to."

"Abby put Nicky back on the floor!" Annie sudden snap made Gabriel jump. Through the phone, he could hear the sounds of the two kids laughing and could only imagine little Nicky walking on his ceiling.

"But he asked, mommy." Abby whined.

"Is my cousin gonna be here soon?" Nicky's voice carried through the phone.

"Yeah...soon enough." Annie said. "Off the ceiling now."

"Okay." The kids said together. There was a flopping sound and Gabriel raised an eyebrow, unsure of what to imagine to go along with that sound.

"It is going to be soon right?" Annie asked, her attention apparently back in the phone conversation.

"I think they're doing that thing where they cut her open." Gabriel said, looking at the hospital.

"I hope everything's going to be okay." Annie said. "Let me know alright?"

"Wait, you want me to stay here?" Gabriel asked, eyes widening as he stared at his phone in disbelief.

"Yes!" Annie demanded. "Tony and Lila need someone."

"But why me?" Gabriel whined.

"Because everyone else is working and you're already there." Annie stated, making it sound like it was the most obvious thing in the world.

"Awww fine." Gabriel whined, kicking at a stone. "But you owe me."

"Mommy come play with us!" Abby's demand carried through the phone. "We're gonna build a castle and have a dragon to guard it."

"As long as it's not a real one." Annie said, sighing. "Call me later Gabe, and tell them that everything is fine on this...Abigail what did I just say!" There was a click sound and Gabriel sighed, knowing he had been hung up on. He narrowed his eyes slightly at the large building next to him before entering it.

He was snapped out his bored-out-of-my-ever-loving-mind daze several hours later when Lila slapped him upside the head with her free hand. Gabriel blinked and rubbed his head before raising a brow at the blanket bundle in the woman's arms. His mind clicked into place finally and he jumped up to look at the little baby.

"Wow...that little bitty thing...why was your sister so big then?" Gabriel asked.

"Happens to a lot of women." Lila said. "This is my niece." Gabriel reached out and gently poked at the baby's cheek. Bright blue eyes opened up and took in the world.

"Nicole's fine and resting...and this little girl is just fine as well." Tony said, standing behind Lila to look at the baby his girlfriend held. "All that fuss and panic for no real big worry." The baby looked at them with wide eyes as if they were the most interesting things in the whole universe.

"I have something good to bring back home then." Gabriel said, grinning. At that moment, the baby decided to erupt into the loudest sobs any of them had ever heard from such a small mouth. Everyone in the waiting room looked at them as they all grimaced from the noise. "Okay, yeah, I'm out of here."

"Can you guys keep Nicky there for a while longer?" Lila asked. Gabriel sighed but nodded, knowing that arguing would be pointless because he was pretty sure Annie would say the same thing about the boy staying with them, probably overnight. He headed out of the building then turned around, walking backwards to look at them

"Do I get a name to bring back?" Gabriel called over the baby's cries.

"Mackenzie Jillian Curtis." Lila said, shaking her head slightly at the length of the name. Gabriel gave thumbs up then disappeared.

"One of these days, people are going to see that and panic." Tony stated as he went with Lila back to the room to get the baby taken care of.