"Come on! McGee, we gotta go," Abby yelled from the front door
McGee came into view looking presentable whereas DiNozzo's hair was sticking out and he was barely awake.
"Tame your hair DiNozzo, you look horrible," Ziva said before taking off on her jog
McGee hurried out and closed the door behind him. Abby and McGee were going to the store to buy ingredients for the meal Abby was going to prepare and the two would run a couple other errands as well.
Ziva was jogging and would be back in two hours so that left Tony with Liam and Logan. Tony was tired to say the least. He placed Liam and Logan into the playpen in the living room and reclined on the couch.
He felt his eyelids getting heavier and heavier and soon Tony was fast asleep.
Liam and Logan were not fond of being cooped up in the playpen and with some manoeuvring, both boys escaped the pen.
Liam toddled over to the coffee table while Logan hopped onto the couch beside Tony's sleeping form.
Liam picked up Tony's discarded cell phone and began randomly pressing buttons. He put it to his ear when he heard a voice on the other end:
"Heyo," Liam said seriously
"Hello, Agent DiNozzo, how may we help you?" The NCIS switchboard operator asked
"I is not Nozzo," Liam replied
"You aren't," the operator asked laughing at the little boy," Where is DiNozzo?"
"Nozzo is sleeping," the boy answered firmly
"Iam, come!" Logan shouted
"I is on phone with someone," Liam replied indignantly
"We need make Nozzo bootiful," Logan told his brother
"Okay, lady, I need go make Nozzo pretty, bye," Liam said before pressing random buttons again
The NCIS switchboard operator laughed and knew that she definitely wanted to see after effects.
Logan and Liam raided the bathroom and grabbed the soap and shampoo.
"Need water," Liam realised
Logan nodded and returned with toy bucket which they tried to fill.
"Can't reach!" Logan exclaimed
Liam lifted the toilet seat and instructed his brother to fill water from there.
The boys soon got to work on shampooing Tony's hair until suds were all you could see.
"We make his face pretty too," Liam decided
"Mama colour her face! We colour Nozzo's face!" Logan exclaimed
Liam climbed the shelves and pulled out the drawer with the markers. He systematically chucked down every colour until there were none left.
"Red goes on mouth," Logan said proceeding to scribble on Tony's face
"I put pink on him's nails," Liam shouted as he furiously coloured Tony's nails and fingers.
So the boys went to town, colouring nails and face until they heard a car pull up.
Liam jumped from the couch and landed in the playpen with Logan doing the same.
"Aww, you poor kiddies!" Abby exclaimed, rushing over," Did Tony leave you…Holy Cow!"
"Abs, help would be nice," McGee muttered
"Forget that! Get over here!"
McGee walked over and yelled in DiNozzo's ear causing him to spring up.
"Uh hi guys,"
Abby and McGee were in fits of laughter and could barely stand when Ziva threw open the door and announced," I call the shower first,"
As Ziva came around and caught sight of DiNozzo's face," On second thought, you need it more!"
"I do not!" Tony exclaimed as McGee snapped pictures of Tony from every angle
"Look in a mirror," Abby advised and the girlish scream that followed had everyone rolling in laughter again.
Since Tony did not come back it was assumed that he had gone to scrub his face and hands
"Where did they get water from?" McGee wondered
"I did open the bowl with the lid," Liam piped up
"Does he mean the toilet!?" Abby exclaimed and the three of them looked at each other in horror.
"Oh man! DiNozzo is gonna go ballistic!"