Author's Note: Yay! Time for another chapter! You wouldn't believe the amount of writing projects I have going on at the moment (I can think of 9, just off the top of my head) and they're all keeping me very busy.

I'm gonna try to get the family reunion wrapped up in the next few chapters so things can head back to DC. We've already hit the biggest major plot peak, so things will smooth out between now and when I wrap up the story. But more about that later. For now, enjoy something you all have been waiting for!

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"I half expected your sister to be here," Penny commented to David as he parked his car in front of the house.

"Betsy may be an idiot, but she's not that stupid," David replied.

Tim sighed. A lot could be said about his aunt's intelligence, but now really wasn't the time. He's rather be far away when Penny got around to confronting Betsy.

"Now," Penny began saying as they all got out of the car. "How did your earlier discussion with Jennifer end?"

"Me warning her that I had no hope in stopping you from coming here, yourself," David said. Tim snorted in amusement and stepped behind David when Penny threw a look. "Other than that, Mom, it was just a rehash of our argument at the beach yesterday. It was going nowhere."

"Good. Then I can start with what I want to start with," Penny declared. David and Tim exchanged worried looks as they followed Penny into the house. That tone from Penny usually only meant one thing. Penny was barely done setting her purse down when she inhaled sharply. "Jennifer McGee!"

Noises could be heard coming from the kitchen. Penny immediately followed them to their source, leaving David and Tim to follow after. They were greeted with the sight of Jennifer surrounded by piles of dishes filling the counters as she used a dry rag to wipe out a cabinet.

"What do you want, Penny?" Jennifer asked without turning away from her cleaning.

"For starters, an explanation that fully explains how you've lost so many brain cells since we last spoke!" Penny snapped. She surged forward and stood behind the island counter so it was between her and Jennifer.

Penny's question caused Jennifer to sigh and turn around, pausing a moment when she saw that David and Tim were also there. She stared at Penny for a few moments to study the look on Penny's face. A stubborn expression appeared on Jennifer's face after a few seconds.

"That girl is barely into adulthood, Penny," Jennifer said, making it clear she knew precisely what Penny was getting at.

"And yet she acts more mature than you and Betsy combined! Do explain how that makes her a terrible choice of significant other for Tim, because I am just not seeing it," Penny shot back.

"He has cousins with children older than her!" Jennifer exclaimed.

"How is that in any way relevant to Tim? David's my youngest, Jennifer, with a 12-year age difference between him and my oldest. And they all had kids at a young age. David was 8-years-old when his first nephew was born. None of that is Tim's fault!"

"It's inappropriate!"

"Explain to me how!"

David and Tim looked back and forth as Penny and Jennifer yelled at each other, neither of them too willing to interrupt. Tim was half tempted to go sit at the kitchen table because it was probably going to be a while, but he didn't want to draw attention to himself.

"He could have babysat her in college, Penny! College!" Jennifer said.

"Tim didn't meet her until she was already an adult! And it was a handful of months before they even started dating! You are throwing a fit about a relationship between two consenting adults. Do you not realize how ridiculous you sound?!"

"She is hardly an adult!"

"That is not for you to judge!" Penny snapped, a disgusted look growing on her face.

"Penny, you look me in the eye and tell me that other people aren't gonna wonder about them! Evelyn looks her age! Tim is in his 30s! I promise you, Betsy and I aren't the only ones who'll be thinking it!" Jennifer yelled back.

"Other. People. Don't. Matter," Penny slowly hissed out through gritted teeth. "Only this family matters. And you've made it quite clear that you don't want to belong to it!"

"Mom," David spoke up, stepping forward. "Let's not go kicking people out of the family just yet."

"What other option is there, David? Your wife seems all too eager to turn her back on Tim. It's only fair to return the favor!" Penny argued.

"I'm not turning my back on my son, Penelope!" Jennifer snapped, giving Penny an incredulous look.

"Then just what are you doing, Mom?" Tim finally spoke up, pulling everyone's attention to him. He gave his mother a tired look and let out a small scoff. "I came down here fully expecting Dad to be the one to freak out over my and Evelyn's age difference. I came here expecting Dad to disown me. And yet, here I am, in the fucking Twilight Zone, because Dad has been begging me to stay in Key West longer and you have all but straight out called me a pedophile. What are you doing, Mom, if not throwing me out on my ass?"

"Tim, darling..." Jennifer began. She opened and closed her mouth a few times as she searched for the words. "Tim, your relationship with Evelyn is not going to be an easy one. You're going to be ostracized by so many people you meet once they realize how much of an age gap is between you and her. I do not want that for you."

"Mom, my coworkers are the ones who encouraged me to ask Evelyn out. I originally wasn't going to because of the age difference. Clearly people in DC are far more understanding than you give them credit for," Tim said.

"And even then, Tim doesn't owe anyone an explanation," Penny pointed out. Jennifer glanced at Penny with a look of irritation .

"So you're willing to put up with the endless barrage of cradle-robbing, sugar-daddy comments that are in your future? For this girl you've known less than a year?" Jennifer asked Tim, obviously not believing it.

"Mom, you haven't even taken the time to speak with Evelyn. You can't make that kind of judgment. She and I just... We just click. When Evelyn first met Tony, Ziva, and the others, Tony was so positive that I had known her longer than I was claiming and had been holding out that he confronted me about it later. Abby had thought that Evelyn and I had been dating for months and threw a jealous fit. And these are professionals whose jobs are to read people, Mom. They don't make that kind of mistake often. You've been so focused on Evelyn's age and feeding off Aunt Betsy's own anger that you are missing out on truly meeting Evelyn," Tim said. He gave his mother a look before continuing. "Evelyn's only here because you insisted I bring her, after all."

Jennifer looked away at Tim's comment. She remembered that phone call. She had refused to accept any argument from Tim on the matter.

"You what?" David asked, looking at Jennifer in surprise. Penny looked at Jennifer in shock, as well.

"When I called Tim to tell him about the reunion, I had just gotten off the phone with Sarah. She had told me he had a new, mystery girlfriend. I told him to bring his girlfriend so we could meet her," Jennifer explained.

"You ordered Tim to bring his girlfriend, and you have the nerve to be angry with him about who he's dating?!" David yelled.

"How was I supposed to know that Tim was dating a teenager?! He didn't give any details about her!" Jennifer shot back.

"Probably because he knew you would react exactly the way you currently are," Penny snapped in disgust. "Jennifer, I am simply astounded by how ignorant you are acting right now."

"And you are acting rather blase!" Jennifer said.

"Mom," Tim interrupted before anyone else could continue the pot shots back and forth. The McGee Stubbornness began to show on his face as he inhaled deeply to brace himself. He had reached his limit and wasn't going to put up it anymore. "Mom, I am not leaving Evelyn. Breaking up with her because you and Aunt Betsy want me to is just not happening. And I am done with constantly fighting with family every time I come home. So that leaves you with two choices. Either act like an adult and get over it or I leave to go back home to DC today and make no plans to come back. Dad and I have finally reconciled after all these years, Mom. I'm not starting Round Two with you. If that means not coming home until you pull the stick out of your ass, then so be it."

Penny and David gaped at Tim. Drawing a line in the sand was not something they expected him to do when he got dragged along. Penny started this argument, and they had expected Penny to end it. Jennifer, however, left her face blank as she maintained the eye contact Tim made with her when he gave his ultimatum. Silence fell over everyone for several moments before Jennifer broke it by exhaling sharply. She tore her eyes away from Tim and focused on some random object across the room.

"Bring your bags back home, Tim," Jennifer said, barely above a whisper. "Your scheduled flight home isn't until the day after tomorrow."

Tim stared at his mother a few seconds more to judge how much he was going to believe her response. Happy enough with what he saw, he walked forward and pressed a kiss onto her cheek like he had always done before leaving the house while growing up. Tim gave David and Penny a look that said 'Hurry up' as he pulled away from Jennifer and headed for the door to go wait by the car, wanting to let the situation settle down as smoothly as possible.

If Tim and Evelyn were coming back to the house, then they needed to repack the few things they had removed from their bags the previous night. That meant Tim needed to return to Penny's house right away. Not to mention that Tim did not want to be there when Penny dragged his father along to go confront his Aunt Betsy. That whole scenario didn't have any possible way of ending on a good note, and Tim was done dealing with confrontations for the rest of the weekend.