Rehearsal Dinner

Before I had known it was the day before JD and Dave's wedding. That night was the rehearsal followed by the rehearsal dinner. But first, it was time for Dave to meet the rest of the family before the rehearsal and rehearsal dinner. It was clear that JD was nervous as hell. It was one of those things where you had a gut feeling that bringing your fiance home to meet your overprotective parents who just so happened to be federal agents and to meet your three younger sisters was nerve-racking, but having your fiance meet your extended family; who were for the most part in the same profession as your parents was ten times worse.
JD knew that if there was anything that Dave should fear more than meeting his future mother-in-law and father-in-law, it was meeting her uncle; the legendary Leroy Jethro Gibbs along with her Aunt and partial namesake. JD even due to the fact that her godfather had been a cop as well as a federal agent for years along with the minor detail that her godmother was a trained assassin prior to her current position was anything but comforting. It was instances like these that JD truly detested the fact that she was protected, let alone that we chose a former Mossad assassin and a cop to be her godparents almost two decades prior. She just didn't see that Nick and I had wanted her to always be protected if anything should ever happen to us, it was the same thing we wanted for the twins and Jayla; t was what we wanted for all our girls.
"Everything will be fine. If I was able to get through a meeting with your parents and your sisters; then I can get through a brunch with your Aunt, Uncle and Godparents." Dave said as he and JD drove to the restaurant they were meeting Jethro, Jen, Tony and Ziva for brunch.
"Ha sure you are. Just remember Jethro is a marine; Tony, Ziva and Jen all trained under Jethro. They eve worked under him. Jen was Jethro's Probie way back when. Tony was a Baltimore cop prior to joining NCIS." JD said.
"You left out Ziva."
JD smiled upon hearing her godmother's name.
"Ziva is well, she's the female version of Jethro in every sense. Just whatever you do, don't mention anything about Shannon, Mossad or Eli David. And whatever you do, Leon Vance is still off limits as he was the last time."
"I got it babe."
"And one more thing, remember my Uncle Jethro is quite protective of the women in his life."
JD and Dave had walked into the restaurant to see Jen and Jethro with the triplets in their respective car seats, Tony and Ziva were waiting.
"Dave; this is my Uncle Jethro."
"It's nice to meet a former Marine Gunnery Sergeant, sir. My father was a Commander with the Navy during the Gulf War."
Jethro smirked.
"There's no such thing as a former Marine." Jen, Tony, Ziva and I said in unison.
Once again Jethro smirked; we could see how pleased he was with us quoting him.
"And this is my Aunt Jen, my mom's sister and half of my namesake."
"Nice to meet you ma'am."
"Nice to meet you too, Dave."
"And who are these adorable little ones?"
"They are my cousins, Bella, Carson and Jasper. My Uncle Jethro and Aunt Jen's kids."
"You have three beautiful children, ma'am."
"This is my Uncle and Godfather, Tony."
"Ah, it's nice to finally meet the famous movie aficianado, JD has told me so much about."
"And this is my Aunt and Godmother Ziva."
"Nice to meet you ma'.........." Dave trailed off after JD elbowed him in the side.
"Don't call her ma'am, she doesn't like it." JD whispered.
"Don't worry about it, JD is just being dramatic." Ziva said .
"Factious, babe." Tony corrected.
"Okay before this gets anymore dysfunctional, let's eat." JD said as she helped Jen and Jethro carry the triplets to the table.
The triplets had been quiet content in their car seats. Bella cooed ever once in awhile just to get Jen and Jethro's attention while Carson and Jasper sucked on their pacifiers.
"She's her mother's daughter." Jethro said to Jen.
"Ha, play nice Jethro."
Brunch had gone better than what JD had expected it to go. Before long we all had met up for the rehearsal. JD wanted to have her wedding in Jen and Jethro's backyard just as Ziva and I had nineteen years ago.
We had run through the entire wedding. Dave's parents'; Grace and Chris walked down the aisle to their seats as Dave took his place in front of the Reverend. After that the wedding processional started down the aisle with Liza, Addie and Jayla being walked down the aisle by Kelly, Jaliyah and Ashleann. Jake and RJ were carried down the aisle by Ducky and Jason. Following the kids' venture down the aisle it was the bridesmaids' turn to walk down the aisle. Hannah was escorted down the aisle by Vince followed by Leah and Andy who were linked arm in arm just as Hannah and Vince were. The DiNozzo twins were then followed by Jayden and Jocelyn who had their new boyfriends Eric and Clay Smithson. Then it was time for the matrons of honor to make their way down the aisle with their escorts. Now I had the honor of not only being the mother of the bride but also being one of the matrons of honor. So Abby was escorted down to the alter by McGee, AJ and Palmer followed, then Kate and Drew walked down, Ziva and Tony followed afterwards, myself and Nick followed as did Jen and Jethro.
Later that night Nick and I had found out about the twins' boyfriends who also happened to be twins themselves. I had also later heard my daughter's soon to be mother-in-law refer to Hannah and Leah as the DiNozzo twins as she referred to mine and Nick's twins as the Balboa twins. I had to remind Grace that the girls all had names and that it would probably be best not to always refer to the four girls as the twins. Shortly after the rehearsal we went to the rehearsal dinner before calling it a night.