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It was that time of year. The time for the NCIS holiday party. The time when everyone at the NCIS offices looked at Abby like she was insane.
To be fair, she might be a little bit crazy, but that wasn’t why she received the looks she did. No, no, she received those looks because of her roseate personality. Especially during the Christmas season, Abby’s naturally bubbly personality became even more bright and cheerful.
Gone were the black goth like outfits. Instead, she’d adorned herself in red and green and a million ribbons. She still wore skirts and completely inappropriate outfits for out in the field, but now when she twirled a cascade of red and green ribbons would spin out from her skirt.
Every day leading up to the holiday party, Abby would have an even more garishly festive outfit than the previous. Not only that, but she would add a new decoration to the Christmas tree, one of the few government provided decor items for the season in the building. These weren’t simple brightly colored balls, they were elaborate ornaments each day a new crazy ornament that she’d found who knows where.
It hadn’t been too bad at first, a Mary Poppins ornament and then a Scooby Doo ornament. Even the Doctor Who ornament had been relatively reasonable though a bit strange, but when she brought in the Cat in the Hat ornament complete with a button you could push to make the cat come out of the ornament even Tony wondered what she was up to.
By the time the holiday party rolled around in addition to the white lights and multicolored balls that had been put up by PR, there were roughly 20 random figurines that Abby had added to the tree. Abby had forced or enticed every member of the MCRT to be present at the holiday party. She claimed it would be full of rainbows and sunshine.
Tony doubted very much that that would be the case given Vance would be there. Still they all had to go, Bishop included. Tony thought he had braced himself for anything and everything that could possibly be at the Holiday Party, but he was wrong.
So wrong. Nothing could have prepared him for Gibbs in a rainbow Santa costume. Gibbs as Santa wasn’t a huge surprise, but Tony had no idea how Abby had talked Gibbs into wearing that.
Gibbs practically sparkled. He was like a bad vampire, a bad rainbow vampire. Tony didn’t even know where to begin.
His brain laid splattered on the floor somewhere as he tried to compute what he was seeing and failed miserably. He wasn’t the only one who was a little dumbstruck either. There was a small set of NCIS agents, largely forced by Abby, dancing by the Christmas tree.
The vast majority of the rest of the agents were looking back and forth between Abby and Gibbs. Well except for the few that were crowded around the buffet table eating everything in sight. He had to give it to Abby.
It would be a holiday party few would soon forget. Tony shook his head and tried to get his head back together. It wasn’t fair of Abby to torture him like this. She knew what his feelings were for Gibbs.