Disclaimer: Tragically for me NCIS is the sole property of the creators, studio, writers, producers, directors, etc. Lucky them….

I consider myself lucky to be able to take them out to play for a while.

Warning: THIS STORY will CONTAIN NON-SEXUAL SPANKING; ABORT THE MISSION… DO NOT READ… TURN BACK NOW IF THIS ISN'T YOUR THING.

A/N: This story is complete AU and is the 4th installment of This Means War. Have fun suspend belief and read it like the fiction it's meant to be… Read, Enjoy, Review….

Dedication: This goes out to all the wonderful folks who have reviewed the series and enjoyed what I've taken great pleasure in writing. We are back to present time (Abby 15/Kate17/Tony 20) and the focus of the trio's trouble is Abby. Daddy Gibbs' little Princess is in it up to her hip-boots and calls in her siblings for a rescue.

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The Gibbs siblings had actually spent a mostly pleasant evening together. They consumed two pizzas, a pint of mint chocolate-chip ice-cream and a 2-liter of Pepsi. Tony even managed to convince them to sit through a James Bond marathon on cable. He was excited because they were all Sean Connery versions of the super spy. It had almost been bearable until he was compelled to help Sean out by reciting the lines along with him. Kate had threatened him with serious bodily harm if he did it one more time.

"Hey Tony since dad has no idea what you're going to do with a Phys. Ed degree maybe you could tell him you're going to Hollywood to put all your energies into being an actor." Abby suggested.

Being flip Kate added, "I think one kid blowing all his money at school is enough of a gift this Christmas."

"Thanks Kate." Abby jumped off the bed and slammed the carton of ice-cream in the trash.

"Sorry Abs, I was just kidding. Besides with an announcement like that dad won't even think about you failing one class. It could actually work to your benefit."

"She has a point Tony. You feel like taking one for the team?" Abby bounced on her brother's bed throwing her arms around him.

Flipping her over, he started tickling. "And what am I going to have to pretend in order to overshadow the forgery charge?"

In that instant all of the air went out of the room. He was right though no matter how bad flunking a class was it was nothing compared to the lying and forgery. Smacking his hand away Abby slid out of her brother's reach pressing her back into the headboard and pulled her knees to her chest.

"Maybe I could change my identity and just start a new life somewhere. I'm a smart girl there must be some kind of job I can get with three years of high school. He's not going to understand. He's not going to understand at all. Once we change the grade why do I have to tell him the rest? I mean failing the class will give him plenty to punish me for I don't need to motivate him more."

Kate and Tony exchanged glances not really sure if their little sister was serious or just succumbing to the drama. The silent tears falling on her night shirt told them to take her serious. Jumping in the bed with them Kate moved to one side of Abby while Tony scooted to her other side. Wiping at her tears Kate kissed her cheek.

"Honey, do you want to tell us how things got so out of hand now? Why'd you stop going to class?"

"Yeah kid, if we're gonna loose a sister we should at least know why?" Tony chided.

"In a word… Dante."

No response. Tony and Kate didn't know what to say.

Finally, "vegetable or mineral," Tony asked.

"Liquid or solid," Kate added.

Taking the pillow she swung back and forth hitting them both. "You guys are dorks!"

"Come on Abs tell it!"

"He's a guy." Suddenly she needed to move around. Getting off the bed she went to pour the last of the soda. Sipping very slowly she finally looked up at her waiting siblings.

"Clearly we need more." Tony said.

"No interrupting, no judging and no threats," the last one was directed at Tony.

"I don't like this already." He was rapidly slipping into big brother mode.

"I met Dante a few weeks into school. Some girls from the house and I went to town for a movie and met him and his friends at Ralphie's Ice-cream parlor. You know how I love mint chocolate-chip. Anyway, he's the first guy I've ever met who was smart, funny, interested in what I said and not an infant. The guys at Brinton are ridiculous. He loves the Dancing Lizards. I mean he was listening to them when we walked up. What are the odds?

"Okay, so you liked musically challenged boy. What's the problem?" Tony lacked the patience to have a story unfold slowly.

"There weren't any problems in the beginning. Then I found out his age and he sort of found out mine. Dump city was the path we were on. He said he couldn't date a girl with so many rules attached."

Tony was up now too. "Exactly how old was he Abs?"

"Down boy," Kate was curious but didn't want her brother pulling a 'Gibbs'.

"Look when we first started talking about school I assumed he went to one of the local H.S. and I guess he thought, because of my overwhelming brilliance and sophistication, I went to one of the community colleges." She waited for the dawn of realization to hit one of them.

"He was in college!"

"Did you have some sort of head trauma we don't know about? That's seriously the only explanation I can think of for just about every choice you've made since you got back here. The only good thing is you're already broken up with him." Kate was simply stunned. It was like this wasn't the sister she'd known for the last 15 years.

"You're acting like he was dad's age or something. He's 19, big deal I'll be 16 at the end of the month!"

"If you live that long," Tony mumbled.

"Okay, so you broke up after what…" Kate started to ask.

"… Right before Halloween. It was the worse. I just didn't want to do anything. I couldn't make myself feel better. I couldn't make myself feel anything. Then Kyleigh in Johnson Hall took me to get this…" turning around she lifted her nightshirt to reveal the tattoo on her lower back.

"Oh... MY... GOD! Please tell me that thing washes off." Kate was on her feet in a second bending her sister in half rubbing vigorously at her back.

Tony was hysterical. He had tears in his eyes he was laughing so hard. Kate and Abby just stared at him like he was having some sort of breakdown. He was trying to catch his breath but was finding it increasingly difficult.

"What?!" They both screamed.

"And you really thought failing Chemistry was your biggest problem." He tossed his cell phone at her saying, "Call, confess, beg… those are your only choices."

"I'm not telling dad about the tat. He wouldn't have found out about the piercing if I didn't let it slip… on purpose. I'm much better at hiding things then you two are. Look I kinda went off the rails a little after things with Dante. Kyleigh probably wasn't the best friend choice either, but she was one of the few people who didn't expect anything from me and I liked that… at least for a little while."

"What does that mean Abs?" Kate wanted to know.

"Turns out there are reasons she had low expectations of me and everything basically. Look she was into some things that didn't work for me so I ended our connection. No big deal I was bored with doing nothing all day anyway. It was just a little too late to pull it back together for this…."

Tony's cell phone rang. Tossing it back to her brother Abby went into the bathroom with Kate on her heels. She had so many questions about the tattoo. Maybe she'd get one too… if Abby didn't get crucified for hers.

"Alright kids we're all set. Gordo says he can do the work from his computer as long as we can get in Updike's office and to her computer for at least a half hour tomorrow."

The girls came out of the bathroom to get all the details. "So Abs is this Updike married?"

"Oh, Tony you're not going to try to hit on her, are you?"

"No I'm going to deliver her a very beautiful bouquet of flowers from…" He gestured with his hands indicating she should fill in the blank.

"Her husband… I think his name is Gavin or something with a G. He comes to the opening of school banquet every year."

"That's easy enough to find out. I'll bring them by late and just hide out in the building until after hours. Then I'll let you and Kate in."

"What about the alarm system?" Kate asked.

"The utility room in the basement has low windows and they're not alarmed. We can climb in that way. T just remember to get the window open."

Okay, she was really starting to freak her sister out now, "Why do you know that Abs?"

"Need to know Kate… and you don't want to know."

"Look I'm wiped out and we all need our energy and wits about us for tomorrow. Hit the rack kids. Abs you have a lot of explaining to do tomorrow to all those 'friends' you helped out."

"I'm going to be the most hated person on this campus." Abby said curling under the covers.

Climbing in next to her sister, "at least you'll be on campus," Kate added.

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Tony tossed the pillow at Kate's head. She just waved the back of her hand at him trying to ignore his need to know. Getting up he began flailing his arms around over her head. She just shook her head at his idiocy and slid across the bed. So, in typical fashion, that was an invitation for him to hop on and start bouncing up and down.

Finally giving in Kate put the phone on mute and gave her brother her undivided attention. "Seriously, how old are you? What?"

"Who's on the phone Kate?"

"It was mom and now it's Ash. Any more questions Tony?"

"Yeah, where's absentee-Abby?"

"Nice, she went to school."

"How? Yesterday she took a seventy-five buck cab. What'd she do, walk?"

"No, she took the bus. She said she had to get back before first class. Don't ask I don't know. She did text to say she made it back alright."

"Thank you. Now I can go take my shower." Tony strolled into the bathroom.

"It's about time… stinky," she mouthed to his back as he made his retreat.

Kate spoke to Ash for a couple more minutes trying her best to explain without revealing so much that he became an accomplice after the fact. She also wanted to be off the phone and ready to get in the shower without any more invasive conversations with her brother.

Coming out of the bathroom he never even waited to see if she was off the phone. "If the bus was good enough this morning why did I have to spend seventy-five on a cab last night?"

"I don't know put it on the list of other 'why-the-hells' for Abby!" Kate answered not breaking her stride into the bathroom.

Tony ordered the flowers and put on jeans, a t-shirt and his baseball cap backwards to complete his delivery guy look. He put his stuff back into his back-pack and took the liberty of packing up most of Kate's things too. He knew how pissed she'd be about that, but felt compelled to do it anyway. She hated him going through her things, but he figured that was too bad they had a plan a schedule to follow though and he didn't want to miss a beat. It was grab some lunch, pick up the flowers and get provisions for the long wait in the building until they could have it to themselves. Time was moving plus Tony was more than a little excited about the upcoming caper. In Kate's mind that was the first sign of a problem.

A/N: The next chapter is going up later today. It was entirely too long to be one document. Keep checking back:-)!