It had been months since Rowan, Ellie, Elijah and Taylor came into the world. Over the course of the past seven months; Tali and Jaxson had more than enough help when it came to caring for the quads and setting up a routine. The quads had changed over the seven months since their birth like all babies do, their personalities were quite apparent. Rowan had definitely inherited charm from both sides of his family. Ellie was quirky just like her namesake. Elijah seemed to have his maternal great-grandfather stubbornness with a touch of the DiNozzo flair. Taylor seemed to be the quiet one out of the quads, the low maintenance kid. Each baby obviously had inherited bits from their parents like all kids did since the beginning of man. But in the intervening seven months, everyone started to see more striking connections.
Just as Tali had been Ziva's doppelgänger with the minor exception of her eyes; it was obvious that now Tali had her own mini me so to speak and Jaxson did too. From the moment, Taylor and Rowan were born they had been their parents' doppelgängers. For Taylor she had all of the same features and everything else that Tali had inherited from Ziva, but Taylor had Jaxson's eyes. Rowan had Tali and Tony's eyes but the rest was all from Jaxson. Besides everything that was going on with the quads along with Tali and Jaxson getting into the swing of parenthood; a long-made wish of a certain redhead who was a partial namesake to one of the quads had come true.
Jenny and Gibbs' twins had followed in Jenny's footsteps and were now with their parents. Occasionally Gibbs was even fortunate enough to have all three of his biological children under one roof. The only condition of having JJ and Annie amongst the living in the physical form was that they had to be older than the quads, so they came into the world as thirteen year old twins. Of course, Jenny and Gibbs weren't fully ready to have teenage twins especially when the twins started to ask why their parents weren't married after all these years.
Thankfully today was not one of the days where JJ and Annie brought up their parents not being married. The questioning was different that morning at breakfast.
"What's the game plan for the holidays in a few days?" JJ asked.
"Thanksgiving will be the same as it always is." Gibbs answered his son.
It was then that Gibbs got a look from Jenny and Annie that said he should have answered differently since he knew better.
"Jethro, they weren't around last Thanksgiving like I was."
"I forgot..."
"So, what happens for Thanksgiving, Daddy? Annie asked as she reminded Gibbs of her older half-sister.
"The entire team comes over for the day and Thanksgiving night we all sit down to dinner." Gibbs said.
"That so sounds exciting." Annie said sarcastically.
Gibbs smirked at his daughter's sarcasm since it was pretty much the same bout of sarcasm, he got from Jenny every so often. Jenny saw the look on Gibbs face when their daughter had answered as sarcastic as she did. After all these years, Jenny knew full well how to speak Gibbs.
"Basically, what your Dad is saying is that Abby flies in from England, Tim and Delilah are coming with Morgan and John, Tony, Ziva and AJ come too. Tali and Jaxson are coming down from Ohio with the quads along with Kelly, Rhett, Sawyer and Zayn. Jack comes with Leon, his kids and their respective significant others. Jimmy, Breana, Victoria, Kasie, Bishop and Torres come..."
"What about Grandpa Jasper, Grandpa Jack, Grandma Ann, Ducky, Shannon and Kelly?" JJ asked.
Gibbs cleared his throat after he nursed his coffee, which had been at least his seventh cup of the day so far.
"Ducky always comes. It will be the first time your grandparents, Shannon and Kelly come since in the past they have been keeping an eye on the two of you for us."
JJ and Annie were excited for their first Thanksgiving on this side of things, but first they had a few more days of school left before it was time for Thanksgiving break.
"Eventually we have to come up with a solution to their other question, Jethro." Jenny said once the twins left to catch the bus for school.
Gibbs didn't verbally answer Jenny, instead he nodded and sipped his coffee before he went down to the basement.
A/N: And there you have it, a sequel to Reimagined. I hope you all enjoy it, at this point I don't know how long this one will end up being or how many times I will be able to update it so please bare with me on that front. Thank you for your support.