"Ding" the elevator doors open…
"Hi guys" a female hidden by pizza boxes greets them.
"MOMMY" Robert recognizes his mom; he slips from his dad and runs towards his mom. Gibbs is NOT happy; he can only see her slightly enlarging tummy, her face and upper body is covered by boxes of pizza, she is four and a half months pregnant and she disregards his request not to carry heavy things around!
He is about to stride to her. But McGee, standing closest to the elevator, quickly grabs the pizza boxes from Kate's hands.
Robert is hugging her legs, he smells the delicious aroma from the boxes.
"Bobby" Kate struggles to bend down and kisses his sticky cheek. "Bobby hungry" Robert says as he looks at the boxes on top of the desk.
Kate says, "Guys, lunch on Gibbs…..Robert! Your face is sticky! Candy?" as she tries to wipe his face, but he wriggles out and runs to the food.
Gibbs is by Kate's side now, helping her up from the floor "Thanks" she smiles at him and kisses his cheek before he scolds her.
"Open…Bobby hungry" he sort of jumps around the table.
"Wow, Kate?!?" Tony is asking for the reason as he looks at the pizza boxes hungrily, then he and Robert pries the box open and peek!
Kate is in Gibbs's arms, "We are celebrating because of my husband’s not paying alimony to ex wives number two and three anymore. Ex number three has remarried three months ago!" She explains.
She lets Gibbs get the food. Her son is hungry, sniffing and prying the box open, as is Tony! Apart from their height, there is no real difference between the two and the thirty two year old.
"Open mommy, Bobby hungry…" Robert is fidgeting by the table.
"Say please Bobby" Kate looks at her boy and opens the box.
"Pleaseeeee mommy, Bobby hungry" and Kate smiles at him. Gibbs is looking at Robert who is standing patiently by his mother's feet, his head is as tall as the desk but he's learned not to touch anything on the desk.
Just a couple of days ago, he got spanked for the first time in his life! He ruined his mommy's laptop, touched things after he was told not to.
Gibbs recalls that particular morning. He had just finished typing on Kate's laptop when he heard the phone ring. He went to pick it up and Robert slipped out of the shower and bathroom naked. Robert must have seen the unattended laptop, perhaps the screensaver Abby just installed caught his attention and the boy pulled the cord and the laptop came down crashing on the floor.
As Gibbs heard the crashing noise, he slammed the phone down and sprinted to the kitchen, only to find a crashed laptop! Then a shocked naughty two year old got spanked by his worried angry mom.
Kate was pale and she slipped near the table, thank God she is all right. Gibbs flinched when his boy got spanked; but Robert didn't bawl, it was just tears running down his cheek. Kate only spanked him twice, after that she cried with him too! It was a sorry scene and Robert promised NOT to do it again!
The elevator's doors open again, and this time Abby, James and Roland enters with more food and drinks.
Robert claps his hands and lunges towards the guys. James falls flat on his face, fortunately McGee and Tony had taken his load and Robert received another glare from his mother and he quickly said sorry…the boy is extremely active!
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Half an hour later, the bullpen is swarmed by agents, clerks, administrative staff and even the security personnel are there…in turn, of course. There are boxes of pizza, ribs, sandwiches, lasagna, chips, sodas…and a huge chocolate cake and of course, ice cream all over the main tables.
Robert is sitting with his mother, he doesn't mind his mother’s growing tummy, he's not bothered by it, and whenever he feels a movement from his mom's stomach he just looks at it for a while, and then dismisses it.
Robert wants to try everything! And he says to his mom, "Bobby's office full people".
The kid thinks the bullpen is his. After he finished his meal, he walked around gaily in his bullpen, he received lots of sweets, chocolate, mints and…cigarettes!?! And he put them in his front pockets; he refuses to come to his dad's office wearing clothes with no pocket, the schmuck is smart!
The two year old’s final destination is the giant chocolate cake on the middle table with ice cream on the side. Gibbs has just finished his conversation with Balboa when he sees his son stop by the table with the cake on top, he watches his son across the bullpen. He wonders whether the boy will pull the cake down.
Robert is eying the cake, standing right in front of it; he looks around him, right left, everybody is busy eating and chatting, no one is paying real attention to him, BUT Robert Jethro Gibbs slyly double checks his findings, he looks again…just to make sure! Not knowing that his daddy is watching him from afar.
Then Gibbs sees his raise his chubby index finger to the cake and dip it in the frosting and slip it into his mouth! Gibbs notices the boy smiling to himself and he takes the second dip, with more confidence! Robert slowly dips his two fingers in the frosting and quickly sticks them in his mouth again. He grins to himself, move his feet excitedly, turns his face…and he sees his daddy, watching him!
Robert grins at his dad, embarrassed, getting caught red handed or shall we say chocolate handed! He lunges to his dad, hugs Gibbs's leg, looking up at him guiltily, with his soft blue eyes, begging his dad not to tell on him.
Gibbs smiles and kneels to his level, "Do you want to eat the cake Robert?" he feels sorry for the kid, wanting something so bad but not being able to enjoy it openly, he would give the world to him, let alone a mere chocolate cake.
"Yes daddy, please" he says to his dad along with his sweetest smile reserved just for his mom and dad. Gibbs holds his son's hand and they walk together to the cake.
He cuts a big piece of the chocolate cake for him…and a scoop of ice cream! The whole time Robert is very excited, not only does he get a giant portion of chocolate cake, he gets an ice cream too! Life is just beautiful, thinks the two year old!
He said "Yummy" happily and soon, he starts moving his bum and singing a song that cool Abby taught him two weeks ago:
“Yummy yummy yummy I got yummy in my tummy…..Yummy yummy yummy I got yummy in my tummy" over and over again, moving his butt right and left just like Abby taught him, while rubbing his round tummy, at all time looking at his dad's hands and the chocolate cake with ice cream!
Soon, the noisy bullpen grew quiet…
One by one, people stopped talking, turning their attention to the singing and dancing boy by the Director's leg. Most of them are thinking: “How could Gibbs produce such a cute little tot?”
Gibbs is grinning to himself, listening to his antics. He asks the delirious boy, "Do you want me to feed you?"
"No, Bobby big boy, Bobby eats alone" he wants to feed himself
"OK, come here son" as his callused hand takes the boy’s soft smaller hand to his old desk.
Gibbs placed the plate of cake on the table, sits on his old chair and hoists his son up to his lap, and then Robert starts eating. He doesn't use the spoon his dad gives him, oh no…it’s too much work; he uses his fingers, all of his ten digits; within minutes his cheeks and mouth are smeared with chocolate, he doesn't care that everybody is looking at him, he is happy with his "huge piece of chocolate cake plus ice cream" he is having the time of his life.
Kate and Abby are laughing, shaking their heads at the scene:
Then Robert stops eating, he cocks his head, thinking, realizing something is missing. Then he remembers, he turns his body, looks at his dad, picks a piece of wet cake, soggy with melted ice cream and offers it to his dad, Gibbs eats from his hand and Robert goes back to his cake, finishes the yummy cake and…burp!
Gibbs is drinking his coffee, lost in thought. Looking at the schmuck on his lap; there is nothing he wouldn't do for his son…and he turns his gaze to the beautiful woman not far from him, who married him in spite of his bleak past, bore him a son, his wife, expecting their second child. Never once in his life he imagined the scene…looking at them from his old desk, where he usually sits and be grumpy!
His daydream is disturbed by a sudden movement from Robert.
Suddenly, the boy lunges at his dad, kissing Gibbs with his chocolate-y mouth and face while cupping his dad's face with his chocolate-y hands.
Oh dear! And Kate snaps pictures of the both of them.
When Robert is done thanking his dad for the delicious cake, Gibbs's face is smeared with chocolate frosting and cream, and part of his tie and shirt got it too.
The following week:
At nine in the morning, Gibbs enters his office as he is still thinking about a funny incident last night, involving Kate's belly and Robert's fear of what's in his mom's belly.
Gibbs stops in his tracks, in front of his working desk and sees a picture of him, his face is covered with chocolate with Robert in his lap, his blue eyes twinkling, and his son is looking at the camera, grinning at his mom who was taking the picture.
Gibbs smiles and touches the framed pictures lovingly, his wife’s handwriting on the lower right corner: “Smack Daddy”
He wouldn't have his life any other way.
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-End-nova2007.
Hope you guys enjoy the humor in the story! Let me know what you think!
Special thanks to my BETA!!!
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Author's Chapter Notes:
Robert got his first spank!!! And many more!