The next morning saw them eating breakfast of cereal oranges or apples, and bacon. Gibbs, Jimmy, Brenna, and Ellie had Frosted Cornflakes, an orange for Ellie and apples for the other three. Tony, McGee, and Abby had Cocoa Puffs, an orange for Abby and an apple for the boys. Ducky had Cheerios and an orange. They enjoyed their meal in comfortable silence as they watched cartoons, currently Tom and Jerry was on.

"One of if not the best cartoon ever made." McGee said.

"I agree" Gibbs said.

"Do you like your cocoa puffs?" Gibbs chuckled out as Tony shoveled them into his mouth.

"Yes, you like your frosted cornflakes?" Tony responded.

"Yep"

"What about you Duck?" Gibbs asked.

"Oh, you add a slight bit of sugar and it makes a very nice cereal."

"I bet it's very good Duck" Gibbs smirked.

They all enjoyed their 1 or 2 bowls of cereal, fruit, and bacon three slices of bacon. They watched three episodes of Tom and Jerry before they finished their breakfast. After they all finished Gibbs cleared their dishes and set them in the sink and started to clean them, only for Abby to come up to him and lightly push him away and towards the living room. He held his hands up and laughed.

"Alright, alright But you do realize that I'll have to start helping around here, right?" He leaned into the cushions. Everyone sighed with fond smiles knowing that he truly was better.

They all laughed at what he said, knowing he meant both to heal physically and to keep from going crazy. They all knew he had to let him help to get his body back to full working order and get his blood flowing, even if it was only a fraction of his usual activity.

"Yeah, yeah we know for your physical health." Jimmy started.

"And so you don't lose your mind." Tony, McGee, Abby and Jimmy finished together.

"Well you all know me, very well apparently."

"Well we do spend a lot of time together both with work, your basement, and the few times we can get you out of the basement and out with us." Abby said.

They were deciding if it was a good idea to let him or not, they had two choices. Either he over does it and getting set back or he would make one of his famous escape attempts. Either way he would get himself in a whole lot a trouble, so they shared knowing looks and silently made a consecutive decision.

"Okay you can do the dishes after dinner." Brenna said.

"Alright I guess that'll do" He sighed out petulantly but it was ruined by a small grin.

"Well it will have to because that is all we will allow you to do right now." Ducky said sternly but gently.

"Fine" he pouted. They all chuckled.

They knew that normally he would be guarded but he knew that they worried about him in the hospital and now. They figured that it was because of their worry and fear and partly because of them all being stuck here. He wanted to help relax them and ease any tension. It was hard enough on them without him making it harder on them. In fact his goal was to make it easier on everyone.

"Good, it'll make it easier to have you cooperating." Jimmy said seriously though grinning to show he wasn't making fun of him.

"I agree and we will sit on you if we have to in order to make you relax and heal correctly" Brenna said, everyone nodding in agreement.

She curled into his right side Abby on his left while their boys doing dishes. When they finished they sat by their women. Tony and Ellie were spread out on the other couch. They had their heads on the arms of the couch, feet by each others heads, and hips next to each other. Ducky was in the only recliner between the two couches. They appreciated each others presence as family and watching the cartoons.