New The District Fic: 10-44 Meal
Title: 10-44 Meal
Fandom: The District
Crossover: The Emily!Verse an AU NCIS series
Characters: Phil, Nancy, Jack and Ella Brander (The District) Leroy Jethro and Emily Gibbs, Abby Scuito, Tony DiNozzo, Maddie Tyler, Tobias Fornell, Estacia and Annie Diaz-Fornell.
Prompts:For family_15#10 Dinner and varietypack100 #26 Teammates
Word Count: 929
Rating: K+
Summary: Even though dinner, the first that his family had ever had with his girlfriend’s family, had gone really well until this point, Jack felt a nervous tickle across the back of his neck.
Author's Notes: This is an AU story that is so far off on timeline and storyline that it is only a “The District” fanfic because it is borrowing those characters. In order for this universe to work with another universe that I crossed these characters over into, the show needs to have taken place in the early/mid ‘90’s. Which means for this universe Nancy found out about her Huntington’s disease in 1995 and Ella Farmer died about the same time. Also, Nancy never took the promotion to Detective in this series, but she does work closely with Debreno and Temple as needed.
“So, Hot Shot,” Anthony ‘Tony’ DiNozzo, NCIS Special Agent and Jack’s girlfriend’s honorary big brother, leaned across the table, a predatory grin bearing his teeth, “did you see what they had by the front door?”
Even though dinner, the first that his family had ever had with his girlfriend’s family, had gone really well until this point, Jack felt a nervous tickle across the back of his neck, “No, sir.”
Tony rolled his eyes and leaned back in his chair, “Em, tell your boyfriend that I’m not 105 and I’m not a sir.”
“Jacky, Tony hates being called sir and he’s not that old… just about 95,” Emily Gibbs, Jack’s 14-year-old girlfriend, giggled and poked her tongue out at Tony.
“Can I get love from no one,” Tony lamented with thrown up arms.
A chorus of no’s echoed around the table from Emily’s friends and family.
Once the laughter from both families had died down, Jack smiled shyly at the older man, “What do they have by the front door, Agent DiNozzo?”
The predatory grin reappeared, “It’s Tony and they’ve got a ‘ShootOut’ machine. You proved you got good moves on the court. What to prove you got the shot, too?”
“Bring it, Old Timer,” Jack grin matched Tony’s.
“Oh, you are going down.” Tony turned to the girls at the table: Emily; Maddie Tyler, Tony’s girlfriend and Emily’s honorary big sister; Annie Diaz-Fornell, Emily’s best friend and quasi-step-sister; and Ella Brander. “We need cheerleaders.”
Emily shook her head, “I’ll come with you guys, but Annie and I are playing ‘Out Run.’ I know better than to cheer for either of you.”
“Chicken,” Tony winked and Emily bawked once in reply.
Laughing, Maddie patted Tony’s cheek, “Don’t worry, I’ll cheer for you and Ella can cheer for Jack.” Turning to Ella, Maddie carefully and slowly used the signs that Emily had been teaching her, E-L-L-A, play?
Ella turned bright and hopeful eyes to her parents, who nodded their consent, and then raised her arms to let Maddie pick her up and swing her onto her hip.
Soon the ‘kids’ were all moving away from the table and towards the game area of the restaurant, but Emily’s father, NCIS Special Agent Leroy Jethro Gibbs, called Tony back. Gibbs was fishing money out of his wallet, but Tony just shook his head.
“Hey, you paid for dinner, or you’re going to pay for dinner, I’ll get the entertainment. No biggie,” Tony jogged away to catch up with the others.
With the kids now gone from the table a slight awkward silence fell over the three sets of parents that remained. Finally, Abigail ‘Abby’ Scuito, Emily’s step-mom and an NCIS Forensic Scientist, spoke up, “Come on, this should be easy. We’re all in law enforcement and we’ve all got kids. There should be five million things for us to talk about.”
With a slight couch, Phil started, “Mind if I ask a… well a personal question?”
“You can ask it,” Gibbs’ blue turned on Phil’s grey ones, “doesn’t mean we’ll answer it.”
Phil nodded, “Understood. Why does Emily call Agent Fornell Papi, if Mrs. Fornell isn’t her mother?”
Abby laughed, “Oh, you asked a good one. Try and keep this all straight; there will be a test afterwards.”
“Well,” Gibbs, who normally hated talking about his personal life, let out a breath, “after my third wife, Emily’s mom, and I got divorced, she became Tobias’s first wife. Em was just a tiny thing at the time and since she lived with Diane and Tobias, she pretty much figured she had two dads. I never figured there was any reason to stop her thinking that way, since Tobias and I are good friends.”
“Okay, but where is Emily’s mother,” Nancy asked, still pretty much confused.
Fornell took up the narrative, “What Jethro failed to mention was that Diane passed away when Emily was five years old. If it hadn’t been for the cancer, we would have been divorced, but Jethro didn’t want to take anyone else away from Em when she was that young.”
“So, you’ve…” Phil trailed off completely unsure of what to say.
Abby laughed again, “They’ve been co-parenting. Not that they would ever admit it. Emily spends one week a month and every other weekend with Tobias and Estacia.”
“And Annie spends one week a month and every other weekend with Jethro and Abby,” Estacia Diaz-Fornell, Annie’s adoptive mom and Tobias’s second wife explained. “If you ask either of the girls, they’ll tell you that they have two sets of parents. It’s all terrible complicated, but also completely simple.”
Nancy laughed, “Sounds it. No wonder Jacky and Emily found each other. Their families are both completely crazy.”
“You’re family seems completely normal compared to us,” Fornell pointed out.
“Well, maybe the nucleus, but the rest is just as crazy.” Nancy sighed slightly, “Ella was five when she realized that the Chief of Metro Police wasn’t her actual grandfather.”
“Mannion,” Gibbs asked. At Nancy and Phil’s nodded, he smiled slightly, “The man’s insane, but a damn good cop. You obviously know him well.”
Nancy smiled and leaned forward, “We both worked directly under him for awhile. When we got married, Phil transferred, but I still work for the Chief. He’s been a second father to both of us. And, yes, he is somewhat insane…”
Almost two hours later, when the kids stumbled back from blowing $100 of Tony’s money on video games and the photo booth, the parents were still laughing and exchanging war stories of law enforcement and raising teenagers.
Fandom: The District
Crossover: The Emily!Verse an AU NCIS series
Characters: Phil, Nancy, Jack and Ella Brander (The District) Leroy Jethro and Emily Gibbs, Abby Scuito, Tony DiNozzo, Maddie Tyler, Tobias Fornell, Estacia and Annie Diaz-Fornell.
Prompts:For family_15#10 Dinner and varietypack100 #26 Teammates
Word Count: 929
Rating: K+
Summary: Even though dinner, the first that his family had ever had with his girlfriend’s family, had gone really well until this point, Jack felt a nervous tickle across the back of his neck.
Author's Notes: This is an AU story that is so far off on timeline and storyline that it is only a “The District” fanfic because it is borrowing those characters. In order for this universe to work with another universe that I crossed these characters over into, the show needs to have taken place in the early/mid ‘90’s. Which means for this universe Nancy found out about her Huntington’s disease in 1995 and Ella Farmer died about the same time. Also, Nancy never took the promotion to Detective in this series, but she does work closely with Debreno and Temple as needed.
“So, Hot Shot,” Anthony ‘Tony’ DiNozzo, NCIS Special Agent and Jack’s girlfriend’s honorary big brother, leaned across the table, a predatory grin bearing his teeth, “did you see what they had by the front door?”
Even though dinner, the first that his family had ever had with his girlfriend’s family, had gone really well until this point, Jack felt a nervous tickle across the back of his neck, “No, sir.”
Tony rolled his eyes and leaned back in his chair, “Em, tell your boyfriend that I’m not 105 and I’m not a sir.”
“Jacky, Tony hates being called sir and he’s not that old… just about 95,” Emily Gibbs, Jack’s 14-year-old girlfriend, giggled and poked her tongue out at Tony.
“Can I get love from no one,” Tony lamented with thrown up arms.
A chorus of no’s echoed around the table from Emily’s friends and family.
Once the laughter from both families had died down, Jack smiled shyly at the older man, “What do they have by the front door, Agent DiNozzo?”
The predatory grin reappeared, “It’s Tony and they’ve got a ‘ShootOut’ machine. You proved you got good moves on the court. What to prove you got the shot, too?”
“Bring it, Old Timer,” Jack grin matched Tony’s.
“Oh, you are going down.” Tony turned to the girls at the table: Emily; Maddie Tyler, Tony’s girlfriend and Emily’s honorary big sister; Annie Diaz-Fornell, Emily’s best friend and quasi-step-sister; and Ella Brander. “We need cheerleaders.”
Emily shook her head, “I’ll come with you guys, but Annie and I are playing ‘Out Run.’ I know better than to cheer for either of you.”
“Chicken,” Tony winked and Emily bawked once in reply.
Laughing, Maddie patted Tony’s cheek, “Don’t worry, I’ll cheer for you and Ella can cheer for Jack.” Turning to Ella, Maddie carefully and slowly used the signs that Emily had been teaching her, E-L-L-A, play?
Ella turned bright and hopeful eyes to her parents, who nodded their consent, and then raised her arms to let Maddie pick her up and swing her onto her hip.
Soon the ‘kids’ were all moving away from the table and towards the game area of the restaurant, but Emily’s father, NCIS Special Agent Leroy Jethro Gibbs, called Tony back. Gibbs was fishing money out of his wallet, but Tony just shook his head.
“Hey, you paid for dinner, or you’re going to pay for dinner, I’ll get the entertainment. No biggie,” Tony jogged away to catch up with the others.
With the kids now gone from the table a slight awkward silence fell over the three sets of parents that remained. Finally, Abigail ‘Abby’ Scuito, Emily’s step-mom and an NCIS Forensic Scientist, spoke up, “Come on, this should be easy. We’re all in law enforcement and we’ve all got kids. There should be five million things for us to talk about.”
With a slight couch, Phil started, “Mind if I ask a… well a personal question?”
“You can ask it,” Gibbs’ blue turned on Phil’s grey ones, “doesn’t mean we’ll answer it.”
Phil nodded, “Understood. Why does Emily call Agent Fornell Papi, if Mrs. Fornell isn’t her mother?”
Abby laughed, “Oh, you asked a good one. Try and keep this all straight; there will be a test afterwards.”
“Well,” Gibbs, who normally hated talking about his personal life, let out a breath, “after my third wife, Emily’s mom, and I got divorced, she became Tobias’s first wife. Em was just a tiny thing at the time and since she lived with Diane and Tobias, she pretty much figured she had two dads. I never figured there was any reason to stop her thinking that way, since Tobias and I are good friends.”
“Okay, but where is Emily’s mother,” Nancy asked, still pretty much confused.
Fornell took up the narrative, “What Jethro failed to mention was that Diane passed away when Emily was five years old. If it hadn’t been for the cancer, we would have been divorced, but Jethro didn’t want to take anyone else away from Em when she was that young.”
“So, you’ve…” Phil trailed off completely unsure of what to say.
Abby laughed again, “They’ve been co-parenting. Not that they would ever admit it. Emily spends one week a month and every other weekend with Tobias and Estacia.”
“And Annie spends one week a month and every other weekend with Jethro and Abby,” Estacia Diaz-Fornell, Annie’s adoptive mom and Tobias’s second wife explained. “If you ask either of the girls, they’ll tell you that they have two sets of parents. It’s all terrible complicated, but also completely simple.”
Nancy laughed, “Sounds it. No wonder Jacky and Emily found each other. Their families are both completely crazy.”
“You’re family seems completely normal compared to us,” Fornell pointed out.
“Well, maybe the nucleus, but the rest is just as crazy.” Nancy sighed slightly, “Ella was five when she realized that the Chief of Metro Police wasn’t her actual grandfather.”
“Mannion,” Gibbs asked. At Nancy and Phil’s nodded, he smiled slightly, “The man’s insane, but a damn good cop. You obviously know him well.”
Nancy smiled and leaned forward, “We both worked directly under him for awhile. When we got married, Phil transferred, but I still work for the Chief. He’s been a second father to both of us. And, yes, he is somewhat insane…”
Almost two hours later, when the kids stumbled back from blowing $100 of Tony’s money on video games and the photo booth, the parents were still laughing and exchanging war stories of law enforcement and raising teenagers.