Nico grinned at his daughter. "Connor, hurry up!"
Connor hurried out with the camera. "I've got it!"
"Alright, are you recording?"
"Yup, go ahead and take her in."
Nico carefully climbed into the water with the infant, pausing as the water hit her feet.
She looked surprised, but was still humming until it got past her knees, then she stared at the water and continued staring until they were in as deep as Nico was going to take her. Then she looked up at them sort of confused.
"She's so cute! Look at her!" Connor gushed.
Nico laughed. "I know, she's so adorable." He set her in her floaty.
She just looked around then started singing to herself again and splashing a bit.
Nico grinned.
Connor got closer. "Echo!"
She looked at him, her blue eyes wide and expectant, then grinned when she saw it was just Connor grinning at her.
Nico grabbed the toys they had gotten for her for in the pool. "You know, when she gets older she'll probably want siblings. We should start looking into that now."
Connor grinned. "So that she never has to wonder?"
"Exactly."
Connor handed the camera off to him and then started taking off his fake foot so that he could get in the water.
"So we'll talk to someone and start the adoption process."
Connor paused. "I don't know if we'll qualify."
"Why? Because of…?"
"Partially that, but also you just graduated. How stable is your job right now?"
"Abby told me that she asked the director to keep me on as her assistant. Apparently, I've passed her standards. And I guess Gibbs wrote a letter of recommendation for me to stay on permanently. I was already accepted for as long as I was a student. Now that I've graduated, I can put more time in and be more useful." Nico snapped a particularly cute shot of Echo, then handed the camera back to Connor. "Better put that on the table."
Connor did. "But what if one is enough?"
Nico looked up at Connor, trying to figure out where this conversation was going. He saw the fear hidden in Connor's eyes, fear that they would be rejected, or something might happen to take their girl away. "She is, but we just agreed that she'd want siblings. Come on, Connor, have a little faith. It'll all be okay."
Connor met his gaze as he waded over. "You've changed your tune."
Nico kissed him. "I had a really good friend help me."
"That must have been a really good friend." Connor's lips lingered close by.
Nico kissed him again, wrapping his arms around the taller man's neck. "The absolute best."