A/N: Thank you everyone that read and reviewed the previous chapter. This story isn't going to be as long as the original- probably 5 or 6 chapters maximum. Enjoy :)

They stared at him in disbelief. Looking at his mother, Tim saw the flicker in her eyes and unconsciously drew himself up to his full height, preparing for the inevitable storm to break. Maria McGee had always appeared to be the stronger of his parents- or at least the quicker to anger, qualities she'd passed on to his little sister Sarah. He caught sight of Abby looking from him to his mother, and felt sorry for her, getting stuck in the middle of it like this.

Maria was the first to find her voice.

"Your wife?"

Tim nodded. "We were married last Friday."

"But... how is this possible? When I spoke to you two weeks ago, you didn't even have a girlfriend! And now you're married?"

"We eloped." Tim told her shortly. He could see her trying to figure out how to respond to that. In the short silence, Abby spoke softly. "I should go." It was clear that her words were meant for Tim alone.

Tim took the two steps to her side. "Abby, you don't have to go."

She shook her head. "This will go smoother if I'm not here."

"Abs..." it was half apology, half entreaty. She gave him a small, understanding smile. "It's ok Timmy. I'll see you later."

...

He watched her go with a strange sense of having lost something. Suddenly he was angry; how dare his parents come here unannounced and spoil everything? He'd been so ridiculously happy when Abby had ripped up the annulment papers, and he wanted so badly to just spend the weekend with her- their first weekend as a married couple, or at least as a married couple that wanted to be married. Instead his parents had turned up and their reaction definitely left a lot to be desired. He clenched his teeth, trying to control his temper.

"What do you mean, you eloped?"

He hesitated before he answered that question, knowing there wasn't really any way of explaining a drunken Vegas marriage that would be acceptable to his mother- or any mother, for that matter.

"We didn't exactly plan it, Mum. We had a bit too much to drink, I said I'd never been to Vegas, and, well..." he trailed off, catching his dad's amused grin out of the corner of his eye. His mum went quiet for a moment, clearly turning over his words in her mind.

"Can't you get weddings like that annulled?"

That was the last straw.

"Yes, you can get 'weddings like that' annulled." He mimicked his mum's voice, knowing he was going to make her angrier than she already was, but much too angry himself to care about that right now. "But we're not going to. And I don't care if you don't like it, or like her- you've barely even met Abby, so how can you tell? Abby and I are married, and that's not going to change." He strode across the room and picked up his house keys off the table. "I'm going to Abby's. I don't know what you guys are doing here, or where you intend on staying, but I'm spending the weekend with my wife."

With that, he walked out, slamming the door shut behind him

...

Troy McGee stopped his wife from following their only son out the door.

"I wouldn't."

"Troy, I'm not going to let him leave here like that."

"Yes, Maria, you are."

"Why did he react like that?"

Troy smiled at that. "He loves her. Think about it, if someone said the things you said about us, how would you react?"

...

McGee knocked on Abby's door, hoping she wasn't too upset because of his parents to let him in. It took her a few minutes, but finally she opened the door. She looked sad and tired, so he did the only thing he could think of to cheer her up, pulling her close to him and holding her tightly.

"I'm sorry about my parents, Abs" he told her. "Mum overreacts."

She pulled away a little. "What if everyone reacts like that, Tim? What if they're right, and this is a mistake?"

Feeling like he'd been punched in the stomach, he swallowed hard against the hurt. "It doesn't matter what everyone thinks, Abs, as long as that's not what you think." He stopped shy of asking her straight out if she thought it was a mistake, afraid of the answer. She shook her head slowly. "I want this, McGee. I never thought I would want to be married to anyone, but I love you."

He kissed her softly, and then was unable to stop himself grinning. "It is pretty crazy though. I think we're going to have to get used to the disbelief."

"What did you tell your parents?"

"That we were married and staying that way... then I kinda stormed out."

She laughed, and then quickly grew serious again. "I hope they're not too mad."

He shrugged. "They'll come around. Dad will talk Mum out of it, as always. Oh well, at least that's one part of my family down. Sarah should be easier."

Abby made a face. "Now we've just got my family to tell... and Gibbs."

...

Gibbs crossed the darkened bullpen towards his desk. Unable to sleep and disinclined to work on his latest woodwork project, he'd come in to catch up on some of the mountain of paperwork that went along with his position as team leader. Something caught his eye as he walked past McGee's desk. Reaching into the trash can, he pulled out half of a sheaf of torn legal papers. From what he could see, they looked like the annulment papers that McGee and Abby had been waiting on. He chuckled to himself. When he'd told McGee to fix it, he'd wondered if this was the way things were going to end up. He'd known of McGee's feelings for the tall and beautiful Goth for years; Abby's feelings for McGee were harder to pin down. Watching them try to explain this on Monday could be interesting.

Putting the papers back in the trash can where they'd obviously decided they belonged, Gibbs settled at his desk and snapped on the lamp.

A/N 2: I know Tim's Mum's reaction seems a little extreme... I was trying to picture how my family would react if I told them I eloped to Vegas lol. I'm pretty sure I'd be in serious trouble.