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“How did we end up doing this?” McGee protested as he climbed a ladder to hang his mistletoe with bells on the ceiling.
“Abby!” the rest of the team chorused.
Right. Abby had been put in charge of decorating for the holiday party and she’d decided to do a jingle bells theme, which wouldn’t have been bad except this was Abby they were talking about. She had to go overboard which meant not only were there plenty of jingle bells staged throughout the room on tables, but now they had to put it on the ceiling with the mistletoe.
Tim had tried to protest the mistletoe. He didn’t want to kiss anyone, but Abby hadn’t cared. She’d told him to stop being a baby or something. So now he was on a ladder to hang the jingling mistletoe on the ceiling.
Tony and Gibbs had turned it into a missile toe challenge and were taking turns attaching bells to the mistletoe and launching them at hooks already in the ceiling from previous years in an attempt to get the mistletoe and the bells to catch on the hooks and hang. Tim hadn’t even considered it because while he was a decent shot with his gun, he was nowhere near the marksmen that Tony and Gibbs were and had no desire to look fatuous.
“Missile Toe away!” Tony shouted as he launched another missile filled with mistletoe and bells.
Gibbs just grunted and tossed his own. McGee knew their method was faster, but it didn’t work for him. He would spend longer chasing the mistletoe all over the place as it missed the hook than he did going up and down the ladder to manually hang them.
Abby had talked them all into trying Tony and Gibbs’ method at least once, but it had only proved that Tim couldn’t hit the hook, so he’d not done it a second time. Jimmy had managed a lucky shot the first time and Ducky seemed to have almost as good an aim as Tony and Gibbs. Abby had mostly used it as an excuse to aim for the other team members and try to force them to kiss.
Tim had quickly moved away from everyone once Abby started that. There would already be too much kissing expected for him at the holiday party. The entire ceiling was going to be covered in mistletoe at this rate.