Hearing Jenny's words the two younger women's heads snapped up.

"Uh..." Abby stammered. "What...what do you...uh...do you mean?"

"I mean, Abigail, that I just got off of the phone with Bethesda and they have no record of Ziva being admitted yesterday."

"What!" Ziva exclaimed. "Why were you speaking to Bethesda?"

Jenny rounded on her angrily. "Because, Agent David, I was worried about you and I wanted to speak to your doctor! But as it has emerged you didn't actually see a doctor, I. . ."

Jenny shook her head in disbelief. "You've done some foolhardy, even downright dangerous, things in your time Ziva but these last couple of days you've really out done yourself! You could have been killed yesterday! And then to not go and see a doctor? I am truly disappointed in you Ziva."

Abby looked sympathetically at her friend.

"And you Abigail! You knew what Ziva wanted to do was wrong and yet you endangered her health and disobeyed direct orders! I have never been more disappointed in the two of you!"

Jenny gave them a few moments to think that over, tears forming in both their eyes, before she made them jump with her command.

"Stand up!"

"Wha. . ."

"Up! Now!"

Neither of the two had ever heard Jenny sound that angry before and they jumped to attention.

Jenny came to stand beside Ziva and gave her backside three hard swats. Abby tried to drop back onto the futon to protect her bottom but Jenny grabbed her arm and dealt her the same three smacks she had given Ziva, before grabbing their upper arms in hands and dragging them out towards the elevator.

A new NCIS recruit who was bringing a box of evidence down to the lab stop dead in shock at the sight before him.

The Director of NCIS was storming along the corridor in a rage dragging the Gothic forensic expert, who was at least a foot taller than she was, and the MCRT member who he'd heard had been transferred from a Matrix style training facility in the Middle East and had once killed a terrorist with just a piece of paper whilst handcuffed to a bed.

He watched the elevator doors shut behind the pissed off Director and the protesting agent and scientist and shook his head. What kind of agency did he work for?

In the elevator, Jenny's temper had not gotten any better.

"Are we going to see Gibbs?" Abby asked finally.

"No, he's not the only one you two disobeyed yesterday."

Ziva and Abby exchanged confused glances then groaned as the elevator doors opened to reveal autopsy.

Immediately the pair increased their struggles. A pissed off Gibbs was one thing but a pissed off Ducky. . .that was uncharted water, and not water that either of the girls fancied sailing into any time soon.

As they reached the doors however, they stopped their struggles in favour of looking at their feet to avoid Ducky's gaze which was a terrifying combination of angry and disappointed.

Ducky walked over to them. "Of all the ridiculous, dangerous, disobedient things! I cannot believe that you tow would do something like this! Was I in anyway unclear about telling you to go to the hospital yesterday? Were you in any doubt as to what I wanted you to do?"

"No sir," they replied n unison.

Ducky stepped closer and, like Jenny, gave them each three hard whacks on the bottom.

"Ouch! Ow! Stop!" Abby cried as she was given hers.

"Don't make such a fuss Abigail! That was merely a warm up to what Jethro is sure to dole out to you in the near future."

The girls blanched. Sometime in the midst of being scolded by Jenny and then scolded by Ducky, they'd completely forgotten that they had the scariest of the bunch still left to face.

"Have you told Gibbs?" Abby asked worriedly.

"Nope," Jenny replied shaking her head.

She gave them just enough time to sigh in relief before she finished her sentence.

"Because you're going to!"

"No!"

"Jenny!"

"Come on!"

"That's just cruel!"

"You can't do that!"

Ducky and Jenny exchanged a look before Jenny began to drag them back towards the elevator.

Ducky laughed as, for the second time in as many days, he watched a surrogate granddaughter be hauled from the room, this time by their angry 'mother'. Their family just kept growing!