The next morning Gibbs woke up and his stomach was only rolling mildly. The anti-nausea meds were still working in his system. He opened his eyes slowly and blearily. He looked around and saw that everyone was asleep but Ellie and Ducky who were in the chairs by his bed. An hour ago Tony decided to lay down under the bench by the window. It was by the bed the Palmers were sleeping on. He smiled at their relaxed and sleeping faces. Seeing they were all sleeping he was happy to relax with his family.
"Hey you all sleep well?" He asked Ellie and she nodded.
"Yes we did" Ducky said.
"How does your stomach feel?" Ellie asked.
"Not bad, meds are probably still working." He responded.
He nodded and relaxed into the pillows. They turned to the t.v. and watched cartoons. The others woke up about an hour later at 8. Ellie and Abby lay on their sides beside him. Jimmy on the right with his chair by her hip, hand in hand. McGee sat the same way by Abby. Ducky and Tony sat on the right and Ellie on the left.
"I'm hungry what about you guys." Everyone nodded and looked at Gibbs.
"Are you dad?" Jimmy asked.
"Actually I am a little." They smiled at him, pleased his appetite was at least slowly coming back.
"What would you like?" McGee asked.
"Um…orange juice, ham, fruit, and toast." They beamed as they ordered.
"Do you want coffee?" Jimmy asked.
"No, don't' wanna waste it." They nodded.
"yes we will have four orders of eggs, Bacon, sausage, toast and green tea, Chocolate milk for two and orange juice for the fourth. Then two pancakes, sausage, ham, toast, one for chocolate milk and two orange juice. The final will be orange juice, ham, fruit, and toast. And coffee for seven." Ducky ordered.
Jimmy, McGee, Abby, and Brenna had chocolate milk. Gibbs, Tony, and Ellie had orange juice. The tea was naturally for Ducky. They had been enjoying time together when Gibbs groaned. He puked violently two seconds later. It was slightly better than the last several times. Barely but it was still better than it had been.
"Are you okay?" tony asked when he finished three minutes later.
"Yeah, it's not quite as bad," they huffed at his response.
"What? It was…kinda" they smirked and chuckled.
"Can one of you hand me a few of those toothbrushes" Gibbs asked. The nurse had given them a big bag full of the toothbrushes with toothpaste in them. Ellie, Abby and Brenna each handed him one.
"You trying to tell me something?" he joked, smirking.
"No we aren't" Abby said as she and everyone laughed. Gibbs rinsed, brushed and then rinsed again.
"We just want to help." Ellie said.
He yawned and they laid back. The others sat on the other beds and chairs. Jimmy and Brenna elevated in theirs, Tony sat in the chair by them. Ellie sat next to Abby, who was by McGee, in the other. Ducky sat in the other chair. Gibbs blinked slowly and yawned again, three minutes later. It was obvious he was fighting sleep.
"We know you absolutely despise feeling like this Jethro, but the more rest you get the better you will get." Gibbs sighed.
"Then you will be able to stay awake longer without getting so tired." Brenna said and the others nodded.
"Yeah, alright" Gibbs thought for a few minutes then nodded.
Gibbs fell asleep after a few minutes. They smiled as he snored slightly. They wanted him to get as much rest as possible to get better. They watched movies as Gibbs slept for a while. He slept for about five hours. He woke up puking violently, barely getting the pan. The doctor came in to give him his next dose of anti- nausea meds just as the second round hit. They wanted to get it to stop. The doctor said the puking will get worse before it got better, until the poison was out of his system.