Our Life, Our Family

Chapter 15

ony drove back to NCIS, Charity in the passenger seat and AJ in the back, in his car seat. They were on their way to share the news. They soon arrived and were on the elevator. Tony was holding AJ in one arm and had his other around Charity.

Just before Tony, Charity, and AJ arrive...

Abby practically ran to the team's desks. She looked absolutely giddy. Gibbs looked up at her, "Charity send you a text telling you they were almost here." He stated.

"You always know, Gibbs. Where did you get your magic powers?" Abby asked.

Gibbs just smirked at her.

Duckie then entered the room. "Are they back yet?" He asked.

"On their way, Duck." Gibbs answered.

"I can't wait to find out what it is." Abby said, excitedly.

"I think it would be very interesting to see Anthony if it's a girl." Duckie stated.

Abby giggled. "Very interesting."

Just then the elevator doors opened and the family of three, soon to be four, stepped out. Abby looked up at them, an expression of excitement and anticipation on her face. "So?" She asked.

Tony and Charity looked at AJ. "Tell 'em buddy." Tony said.

"I gonna have a wittle sissy!" AJ exclaimed, a big smile on his face.

"That's awesome!" Abby replied excitedly.

Ziva looked up from her desk at Tony. "You look very proud of yourself, over there, Tony." She observed.

"Of course I am. I have done something no other DiNozzo has done before." Tony replied, a smirk on his face.

Gibbs let out a quiet chuckle at this. He remembered thinking the exact same thing when he found out that both his children were girls.

Charity and AJ visited for a while longer before heading home. Once they were home Charity popped in a movie for AJ and the two of them snuggled up on the couch together. AJ looked up at his mom. "Mommy?"

"Yes, baby?"

"Why Sissy in you tummy?" He asked.

"Well, right now she's too little to be out here with us right now. So, she has to be in my tummy until she's big enough." Charity answered.

"How she get out?" AJ inquired.

"Well, when she's big enough I'll go to the hospital and the doctors will help her out of my tummy."

"Otay." Aj said, then he thought for a minute. "Mommy?"

"Yes."

"How Sissy get in you tummy and how she made?"

Charity had hoped that he wouldn't ask that question. Why did he have to ask me that? Why does he have to be so curious? She thought to herself. However an idea came to her mind so that she wouldn't have to tell him about the birds and the bees yet. "Well, you see God took a little bit of your daddy and mixed it up with a little bit of mommy and made your little sister. Then he put her in my tummy." She answered.

"Oh, otay." AJ replied, his curiosity satisfied.

Charity leaned back and let out an internal sigh of relief. She was glad that she had beem able to think quickly. She then thought back to when she had asked her own mother about babies.

Flashback...

A five-year-old Charity sat in her mother's lap watching her favorite cartoons. She looked up at her mom. "Mommy?"

"Yes baby girl?"

"Where babies come from?" She asked.

"I already told you, they are in mommy's tummy until they get big enough to come out."

"I know dat, but how babies get in dere?"

"I'll tell you when you're older." Shannon answered.

Charity let out an exasperated sigh and crossed her arms. She was not at all satisfied by the answer. Then she thought to herself, I ask Daddy when he come home.

Present...

Tony and Gibbs arrived home to find Charity and AJ asleep on the couch and the DVD movie menu up on the screen. Tony turned the TV off and Gibbs pulled a blanket off the back of the couch and covered Charity and AJ up with it.

"Should I call for pizza?" Tony asked.

"Sounds like a plan." Gibbs replied.

Tony went and made the phone call. Gibbs looked at his daughter and grandson. He recalled walking in on a scene very similar to this one when Charity was a girl.

Flashback...

It had been a long deployment, but Gibbs was finally able to come home. Shannon and the girls didn't know he was coming home. He opened the door and stepped house was completely silent.

He walked into the living room and found Shannon asleep on the couch, a little girl snuggled up with her under each arm. He smiled at the sight and pulled the blanket off the back of the couch. Then he bent down and kissed Shannon's forehead and gave each of his girls a kiss.

Gibbs smiled at his girls and thought how glad he was to be home. This was just what he had been missing."This is the life."