The McGee Family

When Abby had gotten home from the girls night in, she had found McGee asleep on the couch with Addison asleep in one arm and Jacob asleep in the other. Abby couldn’t help but pull her cell phone out and take a quick picture of the sight in front of her. After the photo opportunity was over, Abby picked the twins up and brought them into the nursery before waking McGee up to go to bed with her. Addison and Jacob fussed some but that was to be expected, they were only ten months old.
After being in bed for five minutes, McGee heard the shower in their master bathroom and woke up just as Abby got out of the shower. Now Abby obviously knew he was watching her as she wrapped a towel around her.
“See something ya like, McGee?” Abby asked as she quoted herself from the bathroom threshold.
McGee’s mind flashback to when Abby first asked him the same question twenty- three years earlier when she caught him watching her change in her ballistics lab.
“I believe Addie and Jake are living proof of me liking you, Abs.”
“Aww, Timmy.”
“So how was the girls’ night in at Director Shepard and Gibbs’ house?” McGee asked as Abby changed into her pajamas.
“It was fine for the most part. Ziva brought Hannah and Leah with her and Jay brought JD along.”
“What made it go sour?”
“Jenny told us that she is going to retire when Ducky and Gibbs retire.”
“And how did you take the news?” McGee asked.
“Better than Jaylyn did.”
“What do you mean, better than Jaylyn did it? I thought you would be as upset about Gibbs retiring as you were when he went on his Mexican sabbatical.”
“Of course I’m upset about Gibbs retiring, I don’t want him to retire just like I didn’t want him to retire twenty-two years ago; but I’m not as upset as Jay is. She stormed out and Jenny went after her.”
“You do know why she is upset about Director Shepard retiring, right?” McGee asked.
“Yes I do. Jay likes being a field agent unlike her sister who likes being the Director, but its either take over for Jenny or work under Tony like the rest of us.”
McGee knew that once Jen, Jethro and Ducky retired that there would be a new reign. We all knew that once Jen, Jethro and Ducky retired, whenever that maybe; it meant that I had to take over for Jen or relinquish the role of Director to Leon and I wasn’t about to let that happen. At least not again. It also meant that Tony would be team leader just as he was when Jethro retired all those years ago and that Palmer was going to take Ducky’s place.
None of us were quite ready for this change, but we all knew that we all had to keep the role of Director within the family so that no outsiders got it like before.
“Either way, the next few days aren’t going to be a walk in the park for any of us at work.” McGee said.
“So what is the game plan for tomorrow?” Abby asked as she settled into bed next to McGee between the bedding.
“As far as I know, we’re were going to bring the twins with us to work since they have a check up with their pediatrician and Sarah was planning on stopping by tomorrow night so she can see her niece and nephew.”
“Wait Sarah is coming over tomorrow? My parents are coming over to see their grandkids for the first time.” Abby said as she tried to figure out how she was gonna handle having her sister-in-law and her deaf parents around while taking care of the twins.
McGee could tell that Abby was worried.
“Don’t worry, Abs; everything will be fine. I promise.”
A mere eight hours later Abby and McGee were up with the twins when there was a knock at their front door.
On the other side of the door was Abby’s parents and McGee’s sister, Sarah. Shortly after their arrival McGee and Abby left for another day of work leaving their kids with their Aunt and Grandparents.
“Hopefully Sarah will be able to talk to my parents. If not this maybe interesting.” Abby said as she got into the car.