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Abby came in grinning, bouncing a small toddler up and down in her arms. She and Kate had obviously had fun dressing him, he was wearing a pair of denim dungarees, a pale red top with the sleeves rolled up as they were obviously too long, and they must have had fun putting that diaper on him. If Ducky was correct, and he still had his speech and memories. Well, there must have been a shouting match.
Although, Gibbs mused, he still looked quite tired, his eyes kept drooping and every so often he kept dragging his thumb away from his mouth, where it had been steadily creeping towards. A clear sign of tiredness in babies.
The baby itself was actually incredibly cute. His big, dazzlingly green eyes were looking into Gibbs's own ice blue, and his tufty brown hair was falling over his face. Not knowing exactly what to do, Gibbs walked over until the baby was having trouble focusing on the huge figure and bent down so that he was eye level with it. Quietly, so he didn't scare it, he said,
"DiNozzo?" The baby looked down, as if scared to answer, (though he was probably extremely embarrased) and mumbled,
"Hey Boss." Gibbs back away in surprise. It was weird, hearing a baby talk. It definitely wasn't 28 year old's Tony's voice, but you could tell it was him. The voice was simply extremely more childish than normal.
"Done yourself proud this time huh kid?" He asked, good humoredly. The baby stuck it's tongue out but kept against Abby, snuggling up occasionally and still trying to keep his thumb out of his mouth. That was it, the kid clearly needed sleep,
"Abby, DiNozzo looks like he's gonna pass out, can you not put him down somewhere?" No one was really surprised that Gibbs could tell this, but Abby said,
"Gibbs, I have too much work to do. However much I'd love to spend time with this little cutie," She said in a patronizing voice (But you could tell how much she meant it), pausing to rub hers and Tony's cheeks together, "I need to concentrate." Gibbs looked over to Kate who backed away, saying,
"Oh no Gibbs, you're not pinning this on me, you know how long we're all going to be staying tonight." Gibbs sighed and looked over to Ducky, hoping for a suggestion,
"How about, since you're all staying in the office late tonight, you take it in turns to watch him. I assume one of you can make a small bed for him while you work?" The team shrugged to one another, and Abby smiled, handing the now sleeping Tony over to Kate,
"Awesome, baby in the office! Keep me informed, right Kate?"
"Of course Abbs." Kate replied, to which Abby grinned and went back to her lab.
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Gibbs growled as yet another agent came up to them and peered into the drawer of the filing cabinet that he had cleaned out and stuck some blankets in which now contained a sleeping toddler. His thumb was now in his mouth, and it eased Gibbs' anger just a bit to see it.
"Is he yours Special Agent Gibbs?" the moron asked him, to which they got a,
"Nephew." Spat at them, causing them to run out the doors in a hurry. Kate chuckled, but sighed as she went over to the printer, looking down at Tony,
"Gibbs, you can't keep him in your drawer. I'm sure there's a law against it, and he won't be very comfortable. I'm sure we can find some kind of cheap, travelling crib thing in a shop." Gibbs ran his fingers through his hair and nodded his head. He needed to get out the office anyway,
"I guess we should. I'll go, I need coffee." Kate shook her head,
"You need sleep Gibbs, and I'm sure if he plays up or anything you'll be the one who'll calm him down easiest." Without waiting for a response she grabbed her bag and walked out. Gibbs waited until the lift doors closed until he looked down at Tony, smiling slightly as his thumb was still securely in his mouth.
"What're we gonna do with you DiNozzo?" He whispered fondly, and jumped when he got back,
"You could get me outta this drawer, my head's killing." Gibbs bit his lip guiltily and immediately scooped the toddler up, looking around for an alternative before sighing and placing him gingerly on his lap, looking around quickly to check no one was watching. It didn't do his 'street cred' as DiNozzo referred to it, if they saw him bouncing a baby on his knee, which was at that moment gurgling happily as he saw some shiny things on his boss' desk. He reached over and his tiny fingers wrapped around it, smiling as it caught that light. Without thinking, he went to put it in his mouth. It seemed like the logical thing to do at the time.
"DiNozzo!!" The baby jumped and looked guiltily up at Gibbs, who was pulling an extremely stern face, "What the hell do you think you're doing? You don't put knives in your mouth!" Tony looked down guiltily and mumbled,
"Sorry Boss, but it's hard, the baby part wants to, and I know it's stupid, but the baby part kind of, overules me sometimes..." Gibbs sighed as he saw how downcast Tony had become.
"Just... just sit there and don't touch anything." With that he set Tony down on the floor next to his desk. The toddler felt wide awake now and sat there gazing around with wide eyes. He couldn't remember ever being so low down before. However, the office life, nothing but typing and the occasional grunt as someone almost fell asleep, was taking it's toll on Tony.
"I'm bored." He moaned, looking up at Gibbs, hoping he'd take notice of this. The older man glared down at him, but scooped him back up, again placing him very gingerly on his knee,
"You can help me with my work," He told Tony, "I need to finish the report on what happened when we arrested Warren."
"Don't put in the whole tablet thing," Tony pleaded his boss, "No one needs to know..." Gibbs rolled his eyes,
"DiNozzo, how the hell am I going to explain how he managed to do all this?" He asked, motioning toward his agent's body, "Doesn't really matter," He muttered, "I'm almost done." With that he just turned away from his computer to see McGee's desk empty,
"Where the hell did McGee go?" He snarled, too tired to be 'nice'. Tony flinched as he felt the anger and felt quite happy afterwards as Gibbs gave a quick guilty shake of the head, as if just remembering where he was.
"I think he went to talk to Abby or something," Both man and toddler turned to see Kate walking down from the lift to their office, "But I found him downstairs, he's going to help put this up." She waved an arm behind her for them both to see McGee struggling with quite a large box.
"What is it?" Tony asked excitedly, not being able to read the label. Kate smiled down at him, not having really experienced a very awake baby DiNozzo, he was pretty much out of it by the time they'd found him curled up in Abby's sleeping bag.
"It's so you don't end up sleeping on the floor Tony." Kate said, in her usual way when talking down to him, as if it was obvious,
"Aw Kate, I didn't know you cared," He grinned at her, "You don't usually care when I sleep on the floor."
"That's because you usually look absolutely disgusting, with half a slice of pizza down your face and your mouth open, snoring like a wilderbeast."
"Do wilderbeast snore?"
"Shut up Tony." The toddler shrugged and settled himself more comfortably on his boss, who looked quite embarrassed at this, though only Kate noticed, as McGee was too busy trying to slot the right pieces in place. After a few moments of silence, which was occasionally punctuated by either McGee's swearing as he got a finger trapped, and Tony's giggles as that happened. Gibbs pretended to swat him over the head whenever he did giggle, but Kate smiled as he left off at the last minute, looking away so no one saw him smiling.
"Done." McGee panted, standing up and gazing proudly at his handiwork. The crib was more of a playpen, raised off the ground slightly, with black netting round it, stopping whoever it was in there from getting out. It was a very plain cot, but it was sturdy and had been cheap, so Gibbs couldn't really care less,
"In you go DiNozzo." He muttered, and lowered the toddler into the pen, biting his cheek to stop from laughing as he saw his slightly confused face. It was clear he was only going to get out of there if someone lifted him, and he was having difficulty standing up.
"C'mon Boss, get me out, I'm not tired anymore." Gibbs shook his head,
"'Fraid not DiNozzo, we all have to stay here, so you do as well." Kate grinned at Tony and went to her desk, as did McGee, every so often glancing over to Tony, who was just sat there quietly, looking around, a slight bored expression on his face. As Gibbs settled down to do some proper work, he paused for a moment, thinking about what he said.
Who would take Tony home?
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