"Hannah?" Gibbs whispered from the door of Hannah's bedroom. Hannah bolted awake when she heard a voice.
"Lyddi?" Hannah asked.
"No, Its me. Listen I just got a phone call." Gibbs started.
"Keith?"
"Come, we'll talk more in the car." Gibbs assured. Hannah nodded and went to grab some clothes, when she came out of the room she saw Tony and Ziva in the kitchen.
"They're going to stay with Lyddi." Gibbs told her and Hannah nodded, two special agents would be able to watch over Lyddi for awhile and Gibbs led her back out to the car. The ride back to the naval yard was quiet. When they got to the NCIS headquarters Hannah was escorted to a large room that appeared to be restricted as it was well secured.
"We are in MTAC. Civilians are normally not allowed in here." Gibbs shared and Hannah realized that she was being given a privilege.
"Your husband's team has just been recovered." Director Vance shared with Hannah. "We've been able to patch in with the medics, he apparently is unconscious but you will be able to speak with the front line corpsman. I think you need to be prepared for that."
"He's alive?" Hannah confirmed.
"He's alive." Vance acknowledged, but said little more. He turned to the control man and nodded. A grainy picture came onto the large screen, Hannah saw several people on the other side. It appeared to be some type of medical facility. A medic stood in front of the screen.
"Mrs. Douglas?" The medic asked and Hannah nodded.
"We recovered your Sergeant Douglas's team at 1100 hundred hours. He has sustained injuries, but he is stable enough to transfer to the base hospital. From there we will be able to reassess his condition and provide a more details." The medic continued to talk but Hannah was unable to understand what he said.
"Can he talk?" Hannah asked.
"Not right now," The medic assured.
"Is the rest of team okay too?"
"I'm unable to share that information with you." The medic shared and Hannah nodded her head it was worth a try to find out more information.
"Can you tell him that I love him when he wakes up. I just am glad that he's safe." Hannah asked and saw the medic's head nod. The picture flickered on the screen and Hannah looked startled.
"The communication connection is becoming unstable." The technician announced.
"Okay, we're going to close it out." Vance nodded and looked at Hannah with a fatherly smile.
With that the screen went black and Hannah whiped the tears that had started to spill over from her eyes.
"Thank you." Hannah sighed and turned back to Gibbs. "It was more than anyone else was able to provide and appreciate it very much." Hannah took a shaky break. "I think I'd like to go home now." Gibbs nodded led Hannah out of the room.
"I now that injury and death come with being in the service but you pray that it doesn't affect your family." Hannah shared as the two left the building.
"I'm sure the base will be in touch with you regarding what's going to happen with your husband and keep you appraised to the condition he is in." Gibbs started.
"Your probably right." Hannah looked out the window and rested it finally and closed her eyes for a moment. "Do you think they'll send him home stateside right away?"
"I don't know. It depends on how stable he is." They pulled into the driveway and got out of the car. When they came into the house Hannah stood shocked at what she saw.
"It's not as bad as it looks!" Tony assured. The man was covered with a variety of foods, Lyddi was sitting in her highchair laughing. Ziva was at the sink trying to clean up the mess on the counter.
"We didn't know what she wanted for breakfast. So we had to guess."
"Lyddi?" Hannah asked as she saw her daughter covered in a mess of food.
"Hannah, why don't you go lay down for a bit. I'll help these two clean up Lyddi and keep her occupied while you rest. Hannah looked uncertain for a moment until she felt the weariness settle in on her shoulders.
"She looks like she might need a bath." Hannah looked over to Tony. "You look like Keith's size. There are some of Keith's civvies in the laundry room. You might find something that isn't covered in mush."
"Go lay down Hannah." Gibbs ordered and Hannah made her way to the bedroom. He turned back to his team members.
"You two are the worst baby sitters I've every met." Gibbs announced. "Go get some clean cloths on DiNozzo. Ziva what did you try to feed this child?"
"Yes Boss." Tony nodded and went to the back room.
"Well we tried the basics first, and then Tony suggested pancakes. It went down hill from there." Ziva shared as she bent down to clean the floor around the highchair.
"Bad news?" Tony asked as he came back into the kitchen.
"Yup." Gibbs nodded. "The details are sketchy, but Keith has been injured and although we were able to speak with the front line medic, information isn't clear. He didn't look very good." Gibbs took the child back into the bathroom and turned on the water, stripped of her clothes and lifted her into the water. "Can you hand me those toys." Gibbs asked and Tony passed over a mesh bag of bath toys and dumped them into the tub.
"Is he going to be okay?" Ziva asked as she too joined the group in the bathroom.
"I hope so for Hannah's sake. It looks like he's had some type of head trauma." Gibbs grabbed the baby wash from the sinks counter and carefully cleaned the food out of Lyddi's hair. Lyddi splashed around in the water pouring the water from the cup back into the tub.
"Hannah is okay?" Tony asked.
"She's exhausted. She's been through a lot these past few months. The prospect of her husband being injured isn't helping." Gibbs started to let the water out of the tub and pointed to the towels that hung on the rack. He covered the little girl up and lifted her up out of the tub and walked her into her room.
"Can you pick out something practical in her closet Ziva?" Gibbs asked.
"Not a problem." Ziva nodded and turned to take a look at the clothes. What she thought was practical. A few minutes later Ziva had found something, Gibbs had managed to diaper the baby, put on an undershirt snapped it closed and was pulling on some socks by the time Ziva brought the clothes over. "Okay?"
"Looks good." Gibbs slid the pants and top onto the child and stood her up. "All clean Lyddi?"
"Swing?" Lyddi asked. Gibbs looked over to his agents.
"I'm going to stay here, can you two manage a walk to the park or should I call Abby?"
"No, we can manage." Tony nodded.
"We will not feed her while we have her outside." Ziva agreed.
"Alright. Eventually you will figure it out." Gibbs handed the child back to Tony. "Hannah keeps the stroller just inside the carport."
"Stroller?" Ziva asked.
"The thing you push these kids in. Has wheels, a spot for your coffee" Tony reminded.
"Oh of course." Ziva nodded.
With the two agents out of the house, Gibbs looked in on Hannah. She was curled up on her side, her face flushed with tears and she held onto shirt of her husband. She hadn't bothered to crawl under any blankets so Gibbs pulled the quilt at the bottom of the bed up over her and left the room.