Warnings: Spoilers for "Lockdown"
A/N: I'm so far behind in my tags. Hope you enjoy this one :)
Guest- I did like the crossover episode. The only ones that I thought were rude to Tony where Hetty and Granger. Tony was probably lucky that Sam didn't clock him haha, and I loved the banter between him and Deeks. Also liked his scenes with Kensi.
"Little Pumpkin"
Yellow leaves rained down all over the Navy Yard. Some of them fell on the light blue blanket Jack was snuggled in; others stuck to Leah's cream-colored pea coat. Maneuvering the stroller through the leaves, she entered the NCIS lobby and immediately garnered smiles from the security guards working there.
Charlie had been working at NCIS for years and had often asked Leah how she had managed to tame Tony. Some days, Leah wasn't sure she knew the answer to that. Today, the guard leaned down and peeked at the sleeping baby. "Would you look at this handsome little fellow? Looks just like his daddy."
Leah smiled. She had been hearing that since the baby had been born. Carefully she lifted Jack out of the stroller and rested the baby against her shoulder. "Tony thinks he looks like me."
"Either way, you two made a beautiful baby," Charlie chuckled, grabbing the stroller and diaper bag to send through the metal detector. "Not that there was any doubt with both your looks."
Jack rubbed his cheek into his mother's shoulder and sighed in his sleep. His first visit to NCIS and he didn't seem excited at all. Leah rubbed his back as she stepped through security. Once through and everything was clear she was given the stroller and the diaper bag back. Jack was laid back into the stroller without even stirring.
Charlie handed her a visitor badge to clip onto her jacket. "Someone will be down to escort you up in a few minutes, Mrs. DiNozzo."
Leah thanked him and waited, watching as Jack sighed in his sleep, stretched his little body and opened his eyes. Always just in time to see Daddy, the new mother thought. Jack also had the intuition to know when to wake up just before Tony arrived home every night. Leah smiled down at her son. Despite not being home that much Tony was making the most of the time he was home and spending it with their baby.
An agent joined her, introducing himself, but Leah missed it because she was busy steering the stroller into the elevator. Besides, it was always a different agent that came down to escort her upstairs. Once it had been Tim, but only because he happened to be coming in at the time. As they got into the elevator the agent talked about his family, congratulated her and Tony on the arrival of Jack and informed her that there had once been an office pool going whether or not Tony would ever get married.
She smiled at that. It was no secret that she was some kind of legend in the building for grounding Very Special Agent Anthony DiNozzo...
"I didn't know I was getting a visit today," Tony greeted with a tired smile.
"We haven't seen you in a while," Leah said before her husband leaned down to capture her lips in a tender kiss. "We miss you."
Tony sighed and picked his son up, nestling him in his arms. "I know," he spoke to the baby, whose eyes were fixated on Tony's face. "But hostage situations and Ebola scares... kept me away."
Leah startled and instinctively reached for her baby. "Ebola scares? Have you been exposed? If so, you could be exposing the baby!"
He kissed the top of Jack's head. "Don't panic, sweetheart. It was a hoax, there wasn't really an Ebola scare. I wasn't exposed. And if I was, do you think I'd be here? Jack's safe. But you know, sweetheart, he's going to get sick sometime. It happens."
She took a deep breath and stood back. There was never any doubt in her mind that her son was not safe with his father, but she found that she panicked more now that she was a mother. "I know... I just don't want his first illness to be Ebola."
"Duly noted."
"Or the Plague."
"Don't worry, I don't plan on getting that again."
Leah couldn't help the little smile on her face seeing the playful glint in Tony's eyes. She glanced around the empty bullpen. "Where is everyone else?"
Tony shifted Jack into one arm and reached for her hand. "Lunch. Come on, I think Abby could use a visit."
She took his hand and let him lead her towards the back elevator. "Why? What's going on with Abby?"
He shook his head, slightly, and replied, "She was just involved in that whole hostage situation, fake Ebola scare."
"Oh," Leah replied as if what he had just said was normal.
"Trust me. Abby is going to love seeing the baby," Tony said.
In the lab, Abby was starting to put up her decorations for Halloween but she immediately stopped when she saw her visitors. She gently and eagerly took Jack into her arms and began to talk to him, his big eyes staring at her, finding her completely fascinating. "You are just the cutest little pumpkin! Oh! A pumpkin! That's what he could be for Halloween! I can make the costume!"
Leah glanced at Tony, anxiously. Her mother had already sent Jack a costume... but how could she let Abby down? Well, Jack can wear one costume at the Halloween party and the other one on Halloween... Slowly, she smiled at Abby and remarked, "That would be great."
Tony opened his mouth to tell Abby that they had a costume for Jack but his wife gently elbowed him in the stomach. He glared at her briefly, but then when he saw how happy Abby was—talking to the baby and planning his first Halloween—he couldn't take that away from her. They had been through a lot the last twenty four hours, Abby especially, and it felt good that he was able to give her this little stress relief in the form of making a Halloween costume for his baby boy.