Author's Note: This is the sequel for Violation Wow, and yes, this is really OOC/AU, but I think it works. It'll be a multi. Enjoy!
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She looked up as the elevator door pinged open and she sighed, she was back. Gently, Kate looked down into the face of her daughter and she smiled, leaning over to coo in Dana's face, the baby laughed and gave a squeal as Kate pushed the pram out of the elevator and into the Bullpen. She smiled out as she saw McGee looking over at her, as he spoke with Tony. She hadn't arrived with Tony as they'd decided on surprising people with her return, and it had worked. McGee had most definitely been surprised to see her with the baby in tow.
Gibbs was the last to see her across the partitions of the Bullpen and he stood, smiling across at her. It was as Kate was entering their section of the Bullpen that Abby seemed to appear out of nowhere, and she charged at Kate, wrapping her arms around her in a friendly embrace that most definitely said that the Forensic Scientist had missed her.
"Abby!" Kate giggled, sounding slightly winded from the impact of Abby's embrace with her. She smiled to her Gothic friend as she pulled away to finally look at the baby in the pram. Kate saw Abby's delight with the baby in the seat, looking up at her with those dark, chocolate button eyes, wide like saucers.
"Oh, Kate! She's just like you!" Abby exclaimed as she looked between mother and daughter, comparing their similarities.
"Well, yeah Abs…I am her mother." Kate smirked a little.
"I see being married to Tony has been keeping you up to speed with sarcasm. He's obviously wearing off on you…I like it!" Abby chuckled and then blinked a little before she quickly added, "Not that I didn't like you before you married or even began dating Tony…" she frowned at herself as she seemed to be digging herself further into a grave.
"Abby, stop!" Kate giggled and nodded, "I know…!" she smiled to Abby again before she gently asked the Goth, "Hey Abs, do you want to look after her a little while? She needs to get used to being around you!" Kate smiled brighter at that point.
"Kate, I'd love to! I know right now, I'm not with anyone…but it'll give me some practice for when my big time with kids happens." Abby smiled and nodded, leaning forwards again to look at Dana, "She's changed so much from the pictures Tony showed us a few months back."
"She really has." Kate agreed, nodding as she looked to Abby and saw Gibbs appearing behind the Gothic Scientist, "Could you take her downstairs, Abs?" she smiled and gently cleared her throat as she handed over the pram into Abby's hands while she looked to Gibbs.
Gibbs waited behind Abby patiently until she'd left the area with the baby, before he smiled and then stepped forwards to embrace Kate just as Abby had done, to welcome her back to the Bullpen, just not as rough or hard as Abby had done. He pulled back before the embrace became too intrusive and he smiled to her, somewhat proudly before he gently nodded and spoke up, "I'm glad you're back Kate."
"Me too, Gibbs." Kate smiled, nodding back to him before she then glanced sideways to see Tony, her husband standing with McGee.
McGee was still looking bewildered at the whole situation. Obviously, things had moved too fast for poor McGee to keep up with and he hadn't been privy to how old Kate and Tony's daughter actually was. Even with setting up their engagement party and attending their wedding reception, McGee was still very clueless but he smiled to Kate, "Welcome back Kate, it's nice to have you back on the team." he told her, before gently moving past them, standing in front of Gibbs he spoke up again, "Boss, Abby needed something from me, would you mind if I went to give it to her?"
"Go ahead, Tim." Gibbs spoke up. He was in a good mood thanks to Kate returning back to work, usually McGee would have been cowering right now if Gibbs had spoken up, "Help her out with the baby."
McGee had began to walk away when Gibbs added about helping Abby out with the baby and he looked back to their boss before raising his brows and turning back to face Gibbs before he questioned the comment, "Uh, Boss?"
"Abby's going to be busy, McGee. Help her out." Gibbs said before adding, "I'm sure it won't be too hard for you both to manage."
"Sure, Boss." McGee nodded and hurried towards the elevators, waiting for the doors to ping open and he could join his friend and long awaited crush in her Forensics lab, downstairs.
Gibbs just chuckled and he looked to Kate, gesturing for her to sit back at her original desk, as Tony moved towards them with a big, old DiNozzo smile, flashing his perfectly white teeth to his wife and his boss, "She's a doll, Kate. She looks just like you!" he chuckled and nodded, "DiNozzo, you're a lucky guy, you know that right?"
"Of course, Boss."
"People keep telling us that she really looks a lot like me." Kate said and then added, "Which is ridiculous because, I am her mother, it's not some big miracle that she wouldn't look like me, or Tony for that fact." she rolled her eyes and quickly chuckled, shaking her head, "She has our genes, she's bound to look like one of us!"
"Maybe people keep telling you that Kate, because they think she's just as beautiful as her mother." Tony smirked at his Boss' comment and nodded, touching Kate's shoulder and gently squeezing.
"See, even Gibbs thinks so, Kate." Tony commented quietly to his wife then.
Kate glanced back at Tony and she smiled to him, gently blushing as they were still in Gibbs presence, she softly touched Tony's hand on her shoulder before she then looked back to Gibbs and smiled to him, "Thank you…" she said quietly.
"It's the truth, Kate."
She continued to blush before Gibbs jumped in again and softly sighed, "Serious moment now, Ari." The atmosphere rapidly changed and could immediately be cut with a knife it became so tense. Gibbs looked between the two for any tell tale signs of his appearance around them, he saw Tony's hand tighten around Kate's shoulder before she cleared her throat.
"What about him?" she asked Gibbs and swallowed softly, "He hasn't been around since that night…" she said, meaning their engagement night. Gibbs and Tony had no idea that she had been seeing him in the guise of going to the baby store and browsing, pricing up new things to purchase when she and Tony could get the chance to go together. She swallowed and shook her head, "I told him to stay away, and he paid attention this time. I think because we have a child now, he knew that it would be too risky to try and frighten me now." Kate shrugged, she didn't want it to open a can of worms between she and Tony, so she changed the subject, "How's everything been here, Gibbs?" she asked brightly.
"Tony hasn't told you the big news?" Gibbs asked and raised a brow at her before glancing briefly to Tony, who winced a little and shook his head, "You really need to get things out of him, Kate."
"What big news?" Kate asked and tilted her head.
"You're going to be working with another teammate." Gibbs told her abruptly, "She's Israeli."
"She? What?" Kate frowned a little, "I'm not the only female on the team anymore?" she swallowed a little and blinked softly, sighing.
"Sorry, Kate…" Tony gently crouched beside her and looked into her eyes, "I should've told you sooner. I'm sorry…"
"Tony, please…it's fine." Kate sighed and looked down, "I suppose I should get to know her, what's her name?"
"Ziva. David. She's Mossad." Gibbs then said.