Just a small little visit from our Seals. I hope you like this one.
Driving back from the airport, director Vance rolled his shoulders he was tired. So very tired and he missed Jackie terribly. As the holiday seasons came closer he missed her all the more. With his resent health scare he came to understand just how little time he was spending with his children.
He had taken them to see Jackie's family for the Thanksgiving vacation four and a half days of not having to deal with paperwork and crime.
It wasn't even his idea, it was Gibbs and his second in command. Gibbs told him to go that he would handle the day to day running of the agency and if anything important came up he would call. Tony would run the MCRT so there would be nothing to worry about.
Remembering back, he almost told him no but the look of his son's face as Gibbs proposed his idea in his office. The look was so hopeful and full of fear at the same time.
"You'll call even at the hint of an emergency?"
"We'll call. Go Leon take your children to see their family give your Nanny time off too,, Enjoy the time away, your kids are going to be gone before you know it. College then families of their own."
It was the bright and colorful light glow that caught his attention and that of Kayla and Jared as they pulled onto their street.
"I wonder who put their light up?" Jared asks.
"I like the Christmas lights, they are so pretty." Kayla says softly.
"Your mom did too. She always went all out for Christmas, for you kids." He tell them with sadness lacing his voice. "I wish I could do better for you."
"We know dad. But it's okay we know you don't have the time to put light up and decorate like she use to." Kayla tells him from the back seat.
"Holy cow look at that it's our house! Look at the lights and the Christmas display on the roof. " Jared exclaims as Vance pulls into the driveway.
"Dad it's perfect! What a surprise, thanks dad!" Jared says just before he jumps out of the car.
Leon closes the door to the car and stands they're in shock as he looks at his house. Who would go to the trouble to decorate his home while he was away, he wonders. Calling his children follow him they each grab a bag and make there way into their home.
If he was in shock while looking at his home from the outside he was completely speechless as he looked at the entryway it was decorated as well. Tastefully and beautiful just like it was when Jackie was alive.
When he flipped the wall switch for the living room lights they saw a Christmas tree standing in the corner twinkling with lights. Stepping closer to the tree they can see that there are a plethora gifts laying under its branches.
Leon reaches out and touches one of the ornaments on the tree and has to smile only to laugh when he counts fourteen little blue men in white stocking hats scattered around the tree. When he spotted the ornament that looked lit a stocking hat but only in red he knew that he too had been hit by the mysterious group.
Remembering that at all the other places there was always some mention about a dog named Billy. He looked again making sure that there was no hidden surprise that would wake him and the children up at three in the morning. Finding none he breathed out a sigh in relief.
He walked into the bullpen as sees Gibbs and the rest of the team working on cold cases.
"Gibbs." He says as he gets closer to his desk.
"Director, how can I help you?"
"That BOLO that we have out on that special Op's team. Put it on the back burner until after the holidays."
"Yes director." Gibbs replies.
Gibbs waited until after lunch before he goes to see Leon. "Did you get hit Leon?"
"It's the damnedest thing, I think it was them. My house it was decorated from top to bottom. On the kitchen counter four tins of baked goods. It was the Christmas tree that gave it all away little smurfs as ornaments, fourteen of them and one red hat with no owner."
"Any dog dish or stray bone anywhere?"
"Not that I could find, they wouldn't would they?" Vance asks before looking at his mail
"They do have a funny sense of humor and from what I've been able to ascertain from their behavior they have this thing about kids. You protect and spoil them."
"I'll kill them with my bare hands, I'll kill them."
"What is it?" Gibbs asks. Leon hands him a letter to read.
Gibbs chuckles slightly as he reads. A letter informing Leon Vance that his children have won first prize. That he should expect delivery of a pure white Angora kitten named Billie and pure Golden Labrador puppy also named Billy. Enclosed are their papers and records for the first shots. Expect delivery on Christmas Eve. Sincerely, the Temporary Secretary of the GBLA.
"Well I did tell you. I'll make a dog house and beds for them."
"Thanks, a lot."
"Any time Leon, any time. So you still want me to put off looking for them until after the holidays?"
"I just wish I knew how they do it any of it."
"I find it better to be kept in the dark sometimes, if we don't know then it can't bite us in the ass when things go bust."
"Have you ever heard of anything going bust for this ragtag bunch of delinquents?"
"No, their luck can't hold out mush longer. No one is that good Leon."
"I'm putting my money on them. I just hope they hit someone else next time. I love the house and the baked goods. But the animals, that's just."
"Juvenile, and something only someone with a heart of gold would do for children who still miss their mother."
"Yeah, hold off until after the Holiday season Gibbs, but try and find them... please."
Gibbs nods his head then leaves with a smile on his face.
"DiNozzo I need you to help me buy wood tonight I have to make a dog house and two animals beds."
"Boss?"
"The director's kids won a kitten and a puppy. I'm making beds for them."
"What kind of a bed are you going to make a white kitten?"
"I never said anything about the kitten being white."
"Just a wild guess isn't that what most contest give white kittens, with green eyes. Kids love them so do ladies." Tony answers then waggled his eyebrows.
Tony reaches for his ringing phone before Gibbs can say anything else to him. All Gibbs can do is glare at his SIC as he smiles and talks on the phone. The whole time Gibbs' hand is getting itchy wanting to deliver a head slap. Just because the man is always right.