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Rating: T

A/N: I thought I was out of ideas but this one just popped up…courtesy of Starbucks again ;) This is a 2-part piece….if you want to read the second part, please review and let me know. Enjoy. Em x

"Mommy!"

"What is it, baby?" Jenny called from where she stood at the bottom of the staircase.

"I can't find Otimus Pwime," Joel whined as he rounded the corner and flopped down on the top step.

"Well, why don't I help you look for it when you get home from Kindergarten?"

"But I need it nowwwwwwwww, Mommy. It's my day for Show-and-Tell,"

Jenny sighed and glanced at her watch. They were already running behind schedule and while she didn't want to disappoint her son, she really didn't have the time to look for his action figure. "I'm sorry, Joel, but you'll just have to find something else to take. You've got lots of lovely toys. Why don't you go choose another while I get your breakfast ready?"

She watched him as he contemplated her suggestion. After a few seconds he let out a huge sigh and stood up, heading back to his bedroom to look for something that would impress his classmates as much as his Transformer would have.

"Good boy," Jenny called after him, shaking her head and grinning. Of all the kids, Joel was the most like Gibbs. Not just with his dark hair and ice blue eyes but his personality as well. He showed the same determination as his father in everything that he did and the temperamental demeanor that on Gibbs could be quite intimidating to some, in her 4 year old son Jenny found it amusing.

Jen made her way back to the kitchen where Gibbs was sitting at the table with their two daughters. She reached into a cupboard and pulled out a cereal bowl, placing it on the table.

"Are you finished with those?" She asked Ellie, pointing to the box of Cheerios that sat in front of her eldest daughter. The eight year old nodded and handed her mother the box.

"What was Joel shouting about?" Gibbs asked as he spooned another mouthful of baby cereal into his baby daughter's mouth, carefully scooping up the excess that she let escape and offering it to her again. It never ceased to amaze him how it could take half an hour just to feed her a tiny jar of food.

"He can't find his Optimus Prime figure for Show-and-Tell so I told him to find something else," Jenny answered as she poured cereal into the bowl and topped it up with milk. She looked at her watch again. If Joel didn't hurry up he wasn't going to have time for breakfast. She leaned out the door into the hall and shouted.

"Come on, Joel, we're going to be late!"

"I'm here, mommy,"

She looked down to see him standing beside her. "How did you…? Never mind. Sit up at the table and eat your breakfast. We have to leave in 5 minutes,"

"Daddy, can Sarah come over to play this afternoon?" Ellie asked, before taking a sip of her orange juice.

"It's up to your mom, sweetie," he replied, wiping Molly's mouth with her bib and lifting her out of her highchair. He handed her to Jen. "She's the one who'll be supervising,"

"Can she, mom?"

"Well, I'll have to phone Sarah's mom but if it's okay with her then Sarah can stay for dinner tonight. How does that sound?"

"Thanks, mom!" she grinned.

Gibbs smiled as he surveyed his family. After Shannon and Kelly's deaths, he hadn't thought he'd ever feel this complete again but from the moment he met Jenny he knew it was possible to get a second chance at love. Ellie had been conceived while they were still undercover in Paris and they had married as soon as they returned home. She was born 5 months after they'd returned to the States and Gibbs had fallen in love with the tiny infant instantly. With her auburn hair and emerald eyes, she was a mirror image of her mother and as he'd watched her grow up, she only got more and more like Jenny.

Molly had been a surprise; the result of a night of passion and a miscalculation of the calendar on Jenny's behalf. All the same, they wouldn't be without her and at 7 months old she was the perfect combination of them both, curly auburn hair and pale blue eyes that sparkled whenever she got excited.

"You nearly ready, little man?" Jenny asked Joel who quickly spooned the last of his cereal into his mouth and pushed away the bowl in answer to his mother's question. "Okay, then. Let's go," Jen said, moving to strap Molly into her baby seat. No sooner had she clicked the buckle shut than the little girl spit up on herself.

"Oh Shi….oot," Jenny sighed, catching herself before little ears could take notice of her curse. "I'll have to change her,"

"I'll do it. You take the kids to school and I'll take Molly into the office. You can come pick her up when you're done," Gibbs offered, seeing the look of gratitude sweep across his wife's features.

"Have I told you how wonderful you are?" Jenny kissed him on the cheek.

"Not nearly as often as you should," he teased, already unfastening the fussing baby from her seat.

"Come on, kids, let's get this show on the road," Jenny opened the door that led to the garage and held it open as Ellie and Joel kissed their father and followed her out to the car.

NCIS NCIS NCIS NCIS NCIS NCIS NCIS NCIS NCIS NCIS NCIS NCIS NCIS

"Have you got your toy for Show-and Tell?" Jenny asked as she helped Joel out of the car. He nodded and patted the side of his back pack. She watched him heave it up onto his shoulder with a little difficulty and she wondered just how many toys he'd brought with him to substitute for his missing toy. She made a mental note to look for the figure so that it was waiting for him when he got home.

"Okay, then. I'll pick you guys up later," She kissed each of them and watched them walk into the school grounds, Ellie holding protectively onto her little brother's hand. Jenny wondered how much longer they would stay like that before they were at each other's throats like most siblings.

Hopefully not for a long time, she thought, climbing into the car and heading off in the direction of NCIS.

NCIS NCIS NCIS NCIS NCIS NCIS NCIS NCIS NCIS NCIS NCIS

"I brought coffee," Jenny announced as she stepped off the elevator and into the bullpen. "Where's Gibbs?" she asked as she saw Tony holding her daughter as if she was a ticking bomb; Molly was eyeing him just as warily.

"He's in MTAC with the Director," Tony said, relief visibly washing over his face as Jenny set down the coffee on his desk and retrieved Molly from his arms.

"And what about everyone else?" she asked looking around at the empty desks.

"McGeek is down in the lab helping Abby crack some computer code or something and Ziva is at the dentist," Tony explained, tucking into one of the pastries Jenny had also brought with her. "Mmmmph, 's'good," he said, spraying crumbs everywhere.

"Honestly, Tony," Jenny teased, throwing him a napkin. "Even Joel has better eating habits than you,"

Tony just shrugged as Gibbs rounded the corner.

"Joel? Even Molly's got better manners than Tony," he remarked, grinning at Jenny. Tony opened his mouth to protest but only proceeded to make a bigger mess and so clamped his mouth shut.

"You get them dropped off in time?" Gibbs asked, turning to speak to his wife.

"No problems," Jenny smiled. At that moment her cell phone rang. "Could you…?" Gibbs reached into her purse and opened the phone, holding it up to her ear. "Jenny Gibbs….yes….what did he do?" She held out Molly for Gibbs to take and took the phone out of his hand. "I'll be right there," she sighed, closing the cell.

"What's wrong?" Gibbs asked with a concerned frown.

"That was Principal Morton. It seems Joel's got himself into a bit of trouble,"

"It's only 945am. What could he possibly have done in such a short time?"

"I guess I'm about to find out," she answered.

"I'm coming with you," Gibbs said.

"What about Molly? I want to have my full attention on what the Principal says,"

Gibbs handed Molly to Tony who instantly started to protest. Gibbs guided Jen towards the elevator.

"Walk her around a bit. She'll fall asleep," Jenny assured Tony as the elevator arrived and she and Gibbs stepped on. As the doors closed, they could still hear Tony's protestation and while she felt sorry for the young agent being left literally holding the baby, her mind was full of worry regarding her middle child and what trouble he'd gotten himself into.

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