I'm baaaaaack! I know I have no excuse for lack of updating. Real life's a bitch. That's all I'm saying. So enjoy and REVIEW!!!
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SWAK
May 2005
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"McGee!" fourteen year old Kate Gibbs heard Special Agent Tony DiNozzo say. "Kate here's never been Saki bombing."
Kate looked at her father who just shrugged Kate interpreted that the Kate Tony was talking about was Special Agent Kate Todd, "Big" Kate whenever Kate Gibbs came into the office.
McGee's answer was inaudible as Kate and her dad made their way from the elevator to the Bull Pen. She had tagged along with her dad, Senior Special Agent Leroy Jethro Gibbs today to escape her teething baby brother. He was spending the day with Mrs. Ducky.
Tim's answer must have been a form of "No, Tony, I haven't done that," because Kate heard Tony say,
"I work with a pair of wankers!"
"And you make three, DiNozzo." Gibbs said as he breezed into the Bull Pen with his coffee and Kate trailing along behind him.
Tony grimaced as he said "Morning Boss," and added a "Morning Boss-let" when he saw Kate trying to sneak in un-noticed.
"Morning," Kate Todd croaked out and Gibbs turned on his heal to face the former Secret Service Agent.
"Cold or flu?" he asked her and Katie Gibbs backed away from Kate T ever so slowly and towards Tony's desk.
"Just a plain old cold," Kate replied. "Don't worry," she said as she held up some tissues. "I will sneeze into my tissues. Unlike some people," She added as she stared at Tony.
"I have allergies, Kate." Tony said defensively.
"Never had allergies," Jethro chimed in from his desk as he booted up his computers. "Never had a cold."
"You never had a cold, Dad?" Katie asked him in disbelief.
"Nope." He said. "Never had the flu either."
"Why do I believe that?" Kate Todd whispered to the crowd in front of her desk; McGee, Katie, and Tony.
"If you were a bug would you attack Gibbs?" Tony whispered behind an envelope making Kate Todd giggle.
"I get colds all the time." McGee said as he handed Todd her mail.
"Sure you do, Probie." Tony responded quickly.
McGee ignored him. "Huh." Tim said when he came across an oddly addressed letter. "This one's just addressed to NCIS Special Agent."
"I think that's mine, McGee!" Tony said as he snatched the letter from Tim's hands.
"Hey!" McGee protested. "How do you know?"
Tony flipped the envelope over to show McGee a pair of lips on the backside. "I recognize the lips," he said in a sing song voice, "and the scent…"
"Gummy bears?" Kate Todd asked as McGee went over to his desk and Tony sliced of the side of the envelope with his letter opener.
Kate Gibbs stood next to Tony's desk and watched him joke with Kate Todd as he popped the side of the envelope open.
"Kate," Jethro said as he looked at something on his screen. "Come take a look at this."
Kate turned around just as Tony blew across the top of the envelope and a fine white powder was dispersed over Tony and Kate. Kate felt the powder cover her and some of it went up her nose as she inhaled. She froze in shock as her father climbed the top of his desk and whistled to get the attention of the third floor occupants.
"We've opened a letter with white powder." He said to the room as a hush fell over the usually loud floor. "Use the South East corridor to the holding room," he ordered. "You all know the drill."
Kate Todd threw a bottle of water at Tony and Katie, and then called the Emergency line to alert them of a possible biological attack and the evacuation of the third floor.
"McGee," Jethro snapped when his eyes fell on the dumbstruck Probie. "Are you up on procedures?"
Kate didn't hear McGee's reply. Her eyes were glued to Tony and her own white powder covered hands. She rinsed them off with the water mutely and heard Tony say,
"Lucky us." Tony said bringing Kate back to Earth. "Katie and I have won a free trip to Bethesda to pricked like pin cushions."
"Let's hit the showers, Tony!" Kate Todd ordered as she began a fast walk or slow jog to the decontamination showers.
"I thought you'd never ask!" Tony muttered as he walked, hunched over like the Hunch Back of Notre Dame, to the showers. "Sorry, Boss." He said as he paused in front of Gibbs' desk. "And I'm sorry you're day just got ruined, Katie."
Kate just shrugged and followed her father and Tony to the showers.
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For any fourteen year old girl, a locker room shower is that last shower they would willingly use. Even more so for Kate Gibbs when the other showers are occupied by your father, your pseudo brothers, and a pseudo cousin. To top that all off, it was the week of awkwardness and bitchy-ness that all teenage girls hate with a vengeance.
Kate stood under the warm spray of the shower head and scrubbed with the soap she'd been given as Tony began to complain.
"Who would send me a letter with Anthrax?" Tony whined.
"Pick a girl, Tony. Any girl." Big Kate cried from down the row of showers.
"Not me!" Little Kate chirped in. "I'd send you some Magnum PI DVDs."
"Thank you, Katie!" Tony said happily. "But this isn't funny, Todd!"
"Yeah, I know." Todd replied.
"This is serious!" Tony bit back sounding angry.
"I know, Tony! I'm sorry!" Kate Todd yelled over the shower's roar.
"This very instant someone is incinerating my Ermenegildo Zegna suit, my Armani tie, my Dolce and Gabana shirt, and my Gucci shoes!"
"Wanna paint our nails and swap secrets at a sleep over?" Katie asked giggling. "You're such a girl with your clothes!"
"Very funny." Tony said; Katie could hear the pout in his voice.
"You know it might not be Anthrax," McGee chimed in.
"I like the sound of that Probie!" Tony cried triumphantly.
"Yeah, it could be Small Pox, Bubonic Plague, Cholera, …"
Kate whimpered a little bit; she was afraid. After all she'd been covered in the powder as well and she'd gotten some of it up her nose too. Even over the roar of the showers Tony heard the little whimper that Jethro hadn't heard.
"PRBOBIE!" Tony thundered making them all jump. "Katie is here. She's in the same boat I am. So knock it off!"
Tim quickly switched tactics. An angry Tony was not a Tony anybody wanted to deal with. "Foot powder, face powder, talcum powder..." He'd honestly forgotten Katie was with them; she was in one of the stalls furthest away from him, and she had been uncharacteristically quiet all morning.
"Honey dust!" Tony cried suddenly having a 'Eureka!' moment.
"Honey dust?" McGee echoed Tony.
"Honey dust." Tony said again. "I give it to girls," Tony paused. "Women, sorry Big Kate," he could just feel the glare being sent his way. "for Christmas."
"You finish you're explanation on that DiNozzo, and you'll wish you had Anthrax." Jethro growled out startling his team.
"Why, Daddy?" Kate asked.
"You're too young to know what it is, Princess." Jethro said.
"Oh, okay." Kate said as she stepped back under the warm spray. She held her face underneath of the roaring water hoping the water drops pelting her face would make everything better.
"I've never heard of honey dust." McGee said.
"Well McGee," Big Kate said. "That's because your mother raised you to respect women."
"I got a box of honey dust last Christmas." Jethro said. Four heads leaned out of their stalls to stare at his. "No card."
"Aww, Shit." Kate heard Tony mutter. "Ahh, I think the Post Office screwed up, Boss. Someone else got your bottle of Jack and you got their uhh..."
"Hey!" Big Kate cried coming to Tony's rescue. "Doesn't the Post Office irradiate our mail?" she asked.
"Yeah!" McGee said. "That's right. All Federal mail is funneled through the Ion Feed facility in Bridgeport, New Jersey. If it has DNA, if dies."
"So the diseases you named have DNA?" Little Kate asked McGee uncertainly.
"They do!" McGee reassured her.
"Ha-ha! Then it's no worries!" Tony cried.
"Unless the post Office screwed up again." Jethro added his two cents.
"I don't wanna die!" Kate shrieked at her father's announcement. "I got some of that stuff up my nose!"
This was the first time Kate Gibbs had ever heard her father drop the F-Bomb in her entire life.
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"You should have given the letter to me, McGee." Jethro said as Ducky took blood from his arm.
"I know, Boss." McGee said as he paced around the morgue. 'If either Katie or Tony had Anthrax…' McGee stopped that train of thought. It would do no good to complete it.
"It's not McGee's fault," Katie said trying to defend Timmy.
"It's Tony's." Big Kate interrupted. "He snatched the letter out of McGee's hand."
Katie tried very hard to not roll her eyes and stick out her tongue. She wasn't a big fan of Kate Todd's revamped anti-Tony attitude.
Tony shot up from his lounging position on the Autopsy table next to Kate Todd. "So now it's my bad?"
"You did grab it, Tony." McGee said lamely.
"Lame excuse, Probie." Tony replied. "You should have stopped me."
Kate began to tune them out as she curled up into a ball on the Autopsy table Ari Haswari had ordered her onto just over a year ago. She hadn't been feeling good all morning and now this had to happen. The possibility of being infected with flipping Anthrax. She gave into her exhaustion and fell asleep almost immediately after she closed her eyes.
The next thing Kate knew, somebody had sneezed and Tony was shaking her shoulder to wake her up from her nap. "What's going on?" she mumbled as Tony helped her into a sitting position.
"Kate sneezed." Tony said.
"And the three of you are going to Hospital." Ducky informed you. "Off you go."
"What? Why?" Kate Todd demanded from Ducky.
"Kate, play it safe." Jethro ordered. "Go with Tony and Katie."
"That's safe?" Todd asked and Tony waggled his eyebrows. "Fine," she said rolling her eyes. "How long will we have to stay in isolation?" she asked the men from Bethesda Naval Hospital that had arrived during Katie's nap.
"At least overnight." One of them responded.
"Do you have double beds?" Tony asked. "Cuz I hate it when you push them together and get the crease between the two."
He winced as Jethro smacked the back of his head.
"If I get Anthrax, how will you feel?" Tony asked Jethro as Kate began to slide off of the Autopsy table she'd been sleeping on.
"Not as bad as you, DiNozzo." Gibbs replied honestly.
"Let's go." The man from Bethesda said as Katie staggered on her feet.
"Hold up a sec." Tony told the men. "Hop on." He told Kate as he turned his back to her. "You look like you could use a piggy-back-ride."
Kate grinned and clamored up onto Tony's back. "Thanks Big Tee."
"No problem, Little Kay." Tony said with a grin.
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"I can't believe you're commenting on my… Eww. Never mind." Big Kate said to Tony as she handed the orderly her urine sample.
"Neither can I," A man in white scrubs said. "Doctor Brad Pitt." He said introducing himself.
"No way!" Little Kate exclaimed.
"Yes, way." DR. Pitt replied. "That is my real name, and no, we aren't related. Wish we were, I'd love to meet Angelina." He winked at Big Kate and the NCIS Agent giggled like a school girl.
"Is he flirting with her?" Katie asked Tony as Dr. Pitt led the three of them to isolation.
"Yeah, he is." Tony muttered.
Katie looked at him like he'd grown a second head. "Are you jealous? Cuz you know, you sound jealous."
"Nope. Not a jealous bone in my body." Tony replied. "I don't know what you're talking about."
Katie giggled as Dr. Pitt was talking about the Isolation Chamber. The majority of the walls were Plexiglas, with the exception of the unisex bathroom in the corner of the chamber. The room surrounding the Isolation Chamber was cavernous and a blinding snowstorm white.
They stepped into the air lock and Katie jumped a mile as the doors squeezed shut and the black lights were switched on.
"Negative pressure?" Kate Todd guessed as Katie clung closer to Tony. She was nervous about being in this secluded part of the hospital.
"Mmhhmmm." Dr. Pitt said impressed with Kate's guess. "Air can flow in, but not out."
The little light above the door into the chamber proper turned green and the black lights died off as the entrance to the chamber opened.
"I'd like you to meet Lt. Emma Ingum, your Duty Nurse for the night."
"Hi, guys." Emma said. "How are you?"
"As a precaution I'm starting you on prophylaxis with streptomycin." Dr. Pitt explained as Emma handed them the little cups containing their medications.
"No dirty comments Tony?" Kate Todd asked confused. This would have been a good shot for one of Tony's tasteless jokes.
"Not now Kate." Tony hissed as he watched Katie stare at her pills with a little frown on her face.
"Do you have any pudding?" Katie asked Dr. Pitt quietly. "I kinda can't…"
"Of course!" Dr. Pitt said as he caught onto Katie's problem. "I'll have an orderly bring you some now."
"Thanks." Kate said as she blushed a little.
"It's okay," Nurse Emma said as she caught the slight blush on Katie's face. "It happens all the time."
Kate smiled meekly; she was happy that Nurse Emma wasn't going to baby her about the pills. She already liked the Navy Nurse.
"Take any bed you want guys," Emma said to the three of them.
"Thank you Nurse Emma!" tony said playfully as he followed Kate Todd to the end of the room and took the bed immediately next to the other agent's.
"But it is prudent to keep some form of separation in case one of you has been infected." Dr. Pitt told the 'adults' at the other end of the chamber.
"Thank you Doctor!" Kate Todd said sweetly as she hopped onto her first choice bed as she made a face at Tony.
"Brad," The doctor said as he smiled behind his white mask. "We're informal here."
"Kate," Agent Todd said with a smile as Tony shuffled off to a bed on the other side of the room. Katie hopped up onto the bed next to Tony's.
She'd like to see the Doctor try and move her from next to Tony. She was scared, tired, cranky and slowly approaching bitchy. She wanted her Daddy, and at this moment, Tony was the closest thing to her Dad while she was in the hospital.
After the orderly had dropped off the chocolate pudding for Katie and she's taken her medication, she sat there listening to the argument Tony and Kate were having about some movie she'd never heard of. John Travolta lived in a plastic bubble in it or something.
"Tony…" Katie whispered.
"Yeah, Katie?" he said as he broke off his rant on the 'King of Cool'.
"I'm scared." Kate admitted. "I wasn't this scarred when Ari held us hostage last year." Her voice hitched and she felt the tears welling up in her eyes as she blinked furiously to keep them from falling.
"Come here," Tony said as he patted a spot next to him on the bed. He felt so bad that the girl had come in contact with what had been in the envelope and he felt fully responsible for the girl.
"What about if one of us is infected?" Katie asked worriedly as she wiped her eyes.
"Don't worry about it." Tony said. "Come 'ere."
Kate mulled over it and decided that possible contamination was worth the risk, because the next thing Tony knew, the teenager had shot out of her bed and into his.
"You remember the first time we met?" Tony asked her as she got comfortable.
"Yupp." Kate said as she snuggled into Tony's side. "I had a 103.5 degree fever and you held me up in the back of the car on the way to the hospital."
"That's right." Tony said as he began to unbraid Kate's damp hair. "I thought you were the bravest nine year old girl I'd ever met when I saw you hooked up to all those tubes and wires the first day."
"I thought you were a big goofy guy." Kate admitted. "Bu you hung out with me as often as you could. You even put up with all my stupid questions about your old jobs."
"They weren't stupid questions." Tony told her as he flicked her nose. "You're a curious kid, Squirt. And that's a good thing."
Kate smiled and closed her eyes. Within minutes she was drifting off to sleep again.
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Kate was rudely awoken five hours later by Nurse Emma as Tony coughed up a lung. It was twelve hours after the letter had been opened.
Katie slipped out of the bed when Emma gave her a look and climbed back into her own bed.
"How are you feeling, Sweetie?" Emma asked her as she pulled the blankets up over the fourteen year old.
Kate shrugged. "Sleepy."
"Anything else?" Emma asked her as she consulted some lab results. "Need to cough, scratchy throat, difficulty breathing?"
"Nope." Kate replied as she rubbed her eyes. "Just the usual side effects of Aunt Flo's visit."
Something clicked in Emma's head. "That explains your elevated hormone levels."
Kate nodded as Tony began to cough again.
"Is he going to be okay?" she asked Emma worriedly.
Emma's reaction couldn't be seen through the mask she wore. Her eyes however, quickly darted from the charts to Tony, to Katie, and then to Dr. Pitt outside of the chamber fiddling around with some IVs.
Kate bit her lip nervously. "Who's got whatever it is?" she asked Emma in a whisper.
"I can tell you it's the Pneumonic Plague." Emma replied.
"Is it like Pneumonia?" Kate asked her curiously.
"Not quite." Emma told her. "This is much worse than pneumonia."
Kate nodded as she digested the information. "Do I have it?"
"We're not sure." Dr. Brad said as he came into the room with two IVs.
"How can you not be sure?" Kate Todd asked him.
"The lab results for Katie came back with conflicting reports." Brad said.
Katie felt the blood drain from her face as she sat up and pulled her knees up to her chest.
"What kind of conflicting reports?" Tony demanded from the doctor. He was watching Katie's reaction from the corner of his eye. "Does she have it or not?"
"Well the blood work says 'no', but the urinalysis says 'yes'." Dr. Pitt told them. "We're starting you on the IV as a precaution, Katie."
Kate nodded weakly and exchanged a glance with Tony as Nurse Emma and Dr. Brad began to hook them up to their IVs. She was frightened out of her ever living mind. There was a chance she could die before her baby brother could talk in complete sentences.
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"Tony," Katie whispered after Kate Todd had fallen asleep around eleven pm.
"Yeah, Katie-Kins?" Tony whispered back.
"Are you scared? Honestly." Kate asked as she rolled over to face him.
"Out of my ever living mind." Tony admitted. "You have no idea how responsible I feel for you and Kate being stuck in here with me as well."
"Don't." Katie told him. "It's not your fault some bitch decided to mail you guys a letter with the plague in it."
"Language." Tony said half heartedly. He really didn't care if the girl next to him started swearing because as of right now this could be her only shot of swearing. But her parents would kill him if they found out he let her 'French' slide this one time.
"Whatever." Kate said as she rolled her eyes. She was channeling her father's attitude as she tried to make Tony feel less guilty. "And Kate's not sick. She's only staying to make us feel better. Dumb ass."
"Watch your language, Squirt. You don't want Jay-Jay to pick up on it." Tony said to her. "We could possibly kill her and she chooses to stay. Smooth move Caitlin Marie Todd."
"Her middle name's Marie?" Kate said cocking her head to the side. She's been distracted by a new topic, something Tony was thankful for. "I always thought she was a 'Caitlin Elizabeth' kinda Kate."
Tony smiled as he nodded. "Yeah it's in her file. She does seem like she'd have a Saint's name for her middle name."
Katie shrugged and her eyes suddenly widened. "Crap!" she exclaimed.
"Again, watch your mouth." Tony said. "What's wrong now?"
"Mom!" Kate exclaimed as Tony coughed some more. "She's probably freaking out about why Dad and I aren't home by now!"
"Relax." Tony told her. "Your Dad must have called her by now to let her know where you are. It's late." Tony said with a poignant glance in her direction. "Get some sleep."
"But that's what I did all day." Kate whined as Tony gave her a look. "Fine." She said with a sigh. "But if I can't sleep I'm going to keep talking to you."
"Doesn't mean I have to answer you, Squirt." Tony said to the Kate shaped lump on the other bed. "Squirt?"
Kate didn't answer. Tony took a good look at the teenager and chuckled. She was yet again, out like a light.
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By eight pm the following evening things were not looking good for Tony. Both Kates had received negative test results and were both refusing to leave Tony for their own reasons. Katie had been taken off her IV, given a surgical mask around ten that morning, and since then she'd been glued to Tony's side. She'd been helping Nurse Emma take care of her 'brother' and she was determined to keep him alive.
Despite the best efforts from Katie and Emma, Tony's fever was through the roof, and he was using an oxygen tank to help him breath. Dr. Pitt had been vainly trying to get Katie away from Tony's side for the past hour and a half. Katie had been fighting off tears all afternoon and the majority of the evening as Tony coughed up blood. She was more afraid for his safety and health than for her own.
"Everybody behind the screen," Brad told the girls as he and Emma set up a portable x-ray machine. "Tony," he said addressing the ill Senior Field Agent, "I'm going to need you to take a deep breath and hold it for me."
"I don't think I can, Brad." Tony wheezed as he gasped for breath. "Maybe Emma could do it for me." He gasped as he tried to hold his breath like the doctor ordered. "You have very healthy lungs, Emma!" he called as Emma slipped behind the screen.
"Is he always like this?" Emma asked Kate Todd as Katie stood off to the side and wiped away the tears that were streaming down her face like Niagara Falls.
"Tony's humor has always been sexist, juvenile, and raunchy." Kate Todd said to Emma.
"Funny." Emma replied and Katie nodded in agreement.
"Sometimes," Big Kate said as she thought about it. "He can be funny."
"I think he's funny all the time." Katie said adding her two cents.
"He cleans his humor up when you and Will are around." Kate told Katie. "But at work when you aren't there, he's impossible."
"That's not what Dad and Timmy say." Katie said crossing her arms over her chest. "Whenever they start talking about Tony's jokes they always got some funny ones to tell. And Mom and Abby love to hear Dad and Timmy re-tell them. Did you know he actually likes the 'Mc-Nicknames'?"
Big Kate raised an eyebrow. "Really? I never would have guessed."
Katie shrugged. "Go figure."
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Half an hour later Ducky arrived while Tony was in the process of trying to banish Katie and Kate from the isolation chamber. He knew that both of his female companions were fine, and he could just feel the life in himself begin to wane. He didn't want Katie's last memories of him to be tainted by watching him die.
"Get, *wheeze* out of, *wheeze* here." Tony told Katie as he gasped for breath. His lips were turning blue and were cracking; his nose was a funny shade of blue that had nothing to do with the UV light over his bed. "I *wheeze* don't *wheeze* want you to see *wheeze, wheeze* me like *wheeze* this."
"No!" Katie cried firmly through her mask as she felt the tears in her eyes begin to fall over the edges. "I'm staying until Ducky AND Dr. B say I gotta leave."
"Well, we are now." Brad said as he stepped into the isolation chamber. "Your parents and brother are here to discharge you."
Kate bit her lip nervously. "Which brother?" she asked trying to figure out what her chances for staying with Tony were.
"I didn't ask." Dr. Brad said to her. "He's gurgling away in a stroller."
Katie sighed and Tony flashed a fleeting victorious smile. "Can't *wheeze* use Callen *wheeze* against Gibbs *wheeze* now."
Katie sighed and headed out to the air lock angrily ripping her surgical mask off as the tears fell from her eyes and she began to hiccup as she sobbed.
Kate Todd stood next to her silently as the girl sprinted into Ducky's waiting arms.
"He's dying, Ducky." Katie sobbed as the elderly Medical Examiner held her and rubbed her back. Kate Todd sniffled and was wiping away her own tears.
"The hell he will," Jethro growled as he angrily stormed past his people and into the Isolation Chamber.
Katie slipped away from Ducky and silently watched her father exchange some terse words with Dr. Brad and Nurse Emma and then walk up to Tony. He handed Tony a cell phone before lightly tapping the top of Tony's head and leaving the room.
When Jethro had left the Isolation Chamber and exited into the room that housed it, Katie honed onto him like a heat seeking missile.
"Is Tony going to be okay, Daddy?" she desperately asked.
Jethro nodded. "The bug's dead; it had a suicide chain after 32 hours. Now we just have to let the antibiotics work their magic."
Kate Todd let out a sigh of relief and re-entered the Isolation Chamber to be with Tony. Katie moved to follow the older woman, but was stopped by her father.
"I don't think so." Jethro said to his daughter. "He needs his rest, and you need to head home young lady."
"But Daddy!" she protested. "Tony almost died!"
"Which is exactly why you're going home." Jethro told his petulant offspring. "Dr. Pitt said it was okay to discharge you."
Kate pouted and knew that arguing with her father at this point was futile. She followed him out to the nurses' station to take care of Kate's discharge paperwork.
"Do I have to go home?" Kate moaned.
The nurse at the desk heard Kate and laughed. "That's a first," the woman commented.
"What is?" Jethro asked as he flew through the paperwork.
"A patient protesting their discharge," the nurse said. "Normally they're begging to sign themselves out of here."
"I just wanna stay with Tony." Kate said glumly as Jethro signed the last page.
"We'll come visit him once they've moved him to his own room, Princess." Jethro promised as he handed her a draw string bag with a change of clothes. "Go get changed so you can leave."
Kate rolled her eyes and disappeared into a bathroom, re-emerging in an old Eagles concert tee shirt that had once belonged to Callen, a pair of cutoff and her scruffy, old, white Keds. She held the blue pajamas that she'd been issued upon her admittance to the hospital in one hand and the empty bag in another.
"What do I do with these?" She asked the nurse speaking to her father.
"You can keep them, Sweetie." The nurse replied. Do what you want with them, wash them, donate them, burn them, or turn them into pillows. Whatever your little heart desires."
Kate smiled and thrust the pajamas into the drawstring Nike bag. "Thanks. I like the pillow idea."
Jethro groaned. "I feel an arts and crafts project with Abby coming on."
Katie giggled as she plunked her body down into the required wheel chair as Jethro called Jenny on his cell to let her know they were on their way down to the car.
Down in the waiting room Jenny was pacing around the little room bouncing Jay-Jay in her arms as she paced. Her hair was thrown up in a messy bun, her eyes had incredibly dark circles under them, and she was running on fumes. She hadn't been able to sleep a wink since Abby had called her almost two days before about the biological attack.
"Oh, Sweetie!" Jenny cried once she set her eyes on Kate.
"Hi Mom," Kate said. "Can I hold Jay-Jay?"
Jenny laughed. "Not until you shower, missy. I don't care if you've been under UV lights for the past 32 hours. You aren't holding this baby until all the plague bugs have been scrubbed away."
"Fine." Kate said with a smile.
Jenny smiled at her and kissed the top of Kate's head. "Let's get you home, Katie."
Kate nodded. Home sounded amazingly good right then.
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Hey sorry for the month long hiatus! Work has been hectic lately. I work at a family run bakery with a small staff and we've been scrambling to cover all the hours between their two stores for the past month or so. This should have been up on Sunday, but one of my co-worker's blood sugar level crashed (he's a diabetic and the inspiration behind Jake's Mohawk), and I had to go cover his shift so he could go home. Thankfully he's now okay, and back to flirting with me when he can :D. Scholarship essays are also getting in the way with April 1st deadlines, and I have two more essays to go. Hopefully once those are all handled updates will go back to a one week schedule. Hopefully. No promises because RL can be a bitch and ruin you plans at the last second.
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