A/N: Hi guys! This is my first take on an NCIS team as actual family fanfic.
The ages of the kids in this story are:
Tony (17) Kate (15) Abby (13), Jimmy (14), Ziva (16), Tim (14).
I'll write the next chapters as soon as my studies are going to let me. Enjoy!

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It started out as a hectic morning at house Gibbs. Kids were getting ready for their first day of a new school year. Their father, Jethro Gibbs was sipping his third cup of black coffee that morning while reading the newspaper he brought in earlier that morning and listened to muffled yelling of his three kids upstairs.

He was a single dad for twelve years and even though it desired a lot of patience, energy, and coffee, he managed to keep up with his work as an agent and raise three teenagers at the same time.

Usually, he left their home for work way before they did, leaving a pot of hot tea and breakfast on the table. But it was the first day of school and he wanted to be there for his kids. It was Abby's last year at middle school and Tony's at high school, so it was that more important for him to wait and drive them to school himself.

"Kate! Stop! You're using my makeup!" protested Abby standing in a hallway in front of the bathroom.

"Abby you're too young to even use makeup! You know dad prohibited you from wearing it," said Kate, applying the second layer of mascara in front of the mirror.

"Dad won't notice. He's long gone," replied Abby while trying to grab the mascara from Kate's hand.

"I'm right here Abbs," he shouted her name after hearing her response to Kate.

Abby froze for a second until she heard her older brother running from the room.

"Dad's home?" he mouthed towards his younger sisters.

"Well, looks like it," Abby shrugged her shoulders, "Unless he installed a motion device that plays his voice every time we move!"

"That doesn't even make sense," said Kate rolling her eyes, making her way through her siblings still standing in front of the bathroom.

It took a while before they finally got ready. The three kids made their way down to the kitchen one by one. First, it was Kate, dressed in a matching olive green blazer and pants, her shoulder-length dark brown hair in a half updo. Greeting her dad with a quick hello, she poured a cup of tea before she stationed herself on a chair in front of him.

Then, there was Abby. Bouncing down the stairs in a black floral dress, her hair up to two ponytails, she kissed her father's cheek and sat down next to her sister.

"Oh look at my beautiful family sitting at the table in the morning peacefully," called Tony towards the three people he was closest to in the world. He was wearing blue jeans and a grey sweatshirt.

"Yeah, until you ruin it with your loud voice," said Abby teasingly. It was too early for Tony's comments. She might love her older brother, like a lot, but she hated how full of energy he always was in the morning.

"Oh come on baby girl, don't ruin this moment for me please?" replied Tony to his youngest sister.

"Why do you care anyway?" she said, setting her tea down on the table.

"Well, I am leaving high school as you know, I will be moving to university and I won't me home as much so I want to get as much family spirit this year as I can," he smiled, showing his perfectly white teeth that he used as a girl bait.

"Oh since when did you become so sensitive and family oriented?" asked Kate.

"Kate, he's right. We're getting busier and busier and I don't like how little time we spend together. So I thought of creating a family night, let's say, every Friday night. Just the four of us, talking. We can watch a movie or order pizza," recommended their father, leaving his three in a shock. Their father was a trained marine turned NCIS agent and he definitely wasn't one for the sensitive mushy stuff.

"Why, dad? Did we do something wrong?" asked confused Abby.

"And why exactly Friday night? That's like the best night to go out!" claimed Tony.

"No. I just don't want to miss more of my kids than I already have. And now, pack your things and get in the car, I will drive you to the school today. First, you two and then Abby," he added, standing up and putting a coffee mug into a sink.

"This is so unfair! I'm the only one left at middle school! Even Jimmy is already freshmen," complained Abby, her arms crossed over her chest.

"Come on Abby, you have all your friends at your school," smiled Kate at her sister.

"Well yes, but I feel like a total baby!" Abby replied, throwing her hands up in the air in frustration.

"Well that's because you are," giggled Tony from behind her back, playing with her ponytails. Abby turned around and smacked him across his chest.

"Stop smacking each other and move your butts to the car, otherwise, I am going to start giving out a few slaps myself," said their father, halfway to the car.

They didn't hesitate and run to grab their school bags.

The car ride was rather silent. They had their mind buzzing with thoughts, ideas, what the new school year is going to be like.

Tony was excited about his basketball friends and meeting new girls. He was glad he was leaving for university, but looking over his shoulder at his younger sisters, he knew they needed him. Just like he needed them.

Kate, she was different than her brother. Much more reserved, enjoyed the presence of a good book more than the one of attention from people. She liked it that way. She loved her friends and her family, but she also loved her alone time and during the summer holidays, she didn't get any.

Abby was going through difficult times. She was 13, going through many changes, problems and dramas any teenage girl goes through. The only difference was, she didn't have a mom to go through it with her. Sure she did have her dad and Kate, but it wasn't the same. Dad was too busy and a man and Kate was too… her older sister.

It took them around 20 minutes till their dad was pulling up by the high school Kate and Tony attended. He parked the car and looked over at his kids. What catches his eye instead was a red-haired woman stepping out of a car parked right next to them.

"… and I should be back home by five. Dad, are you even listening to me?" asked frustrated Kate.

"What are you even looking at? A ghost?" asked further Abby and they all looked in the direction their dad was staring at.

Right next to their car was standing a redhead, dressed in a tailored suit with her hair up in a bun. From her car stepped out a girl, around Tony's age, with dark curly hair and olive skin, followed by a younger boy who definitely looked more like than women standing by the car.

"Wow, who's this chick?" asked Tony, pointing to the girl.

"Tony, watch your tongue," warned him, Gibbs, "and go, you two. You'll be late."

As he started driving away towards NCIS, he still wasn't sure what he saw.

His mind was suddenly as busy as his kids'. That woman sure looked a lot like his old colleague. But what is she doing in a high school in Washington D.C., Alexandria? That didn't make any sense. She was transferred to Paris just a year before his wife died. And as he heard, dropped working for the agency years after. He found himself so caught in the memories that…

"Dad? Isn't my school in the opposite direction?" asked Abby from the back seat.

TO BE CONTINUED