Disclaimer: still dont own it
Just a story of when Jenny was still Gibbs' probie. They get a case in a national park during winter and Jenny falls through the ice... I'm thinking there will be body heat in this, lol.
"This totally sucks", Stan said for the thousandth time in the last minute as he carried most of the gear up the snowy slope.
And then the inevitable *SLAP* was heard as Gibbs head slapped him, "Stop complaining", he growled and Jenny couldn't help but smirk. Burley reminded her of that teenager in high school that thought that everyone was out to get him... And he was probably right.
She felt Decker behind her, "Twenty bucks says Gibbs gives him a concussion before we get out of the park", he whispered in her ear and she laughed, "Fourty says Gibbs makes him stay here with Ducky to take back the body.
She continued following the path of foot deep snow that Gibbs was breaking for them as they trekked up the slope. A Marine petty officer had been murdered up here and they were on their way to investigate. The temperature was dropping with the sun and the snow certainly didn't help brighten her mood. Snow was pretty and all, but it stopped being pretty when she was forced to walk through it and be in it against her will.
She popped the collar on her jacket in hopes that it would help block the wind from hitting her neck; oh, how she wished she had brought a scarf with her today. But, then again, how was she to know they would be out in this god forsaken weather.
"Shepard!", she heard Gibbs yell and she peered over Stan's shoulder. They had finally reached their crime scene. "Photos!", Gibbs told her. "Burley, bag and tag. Decker, sketch".
They all got onto their individual tasks; the faster they got it done, the faster they could get out of the cold.
"Be quick guys! We need to get all this evidence before the snow covers it up!", Decker told her and Stan as he made quick work of his sketches. She looked over at Gibbs; he was on the phone, no doubt helping Ducky find his way up here.
It was only another ten minutes before Ducky made his way toward them with his assistant Fiona in tow.
"Decker, Burley, go help them with the stretcher", Gibbs ordered and took over Decker's sketches, seeing that Stan's was already done bagging and tagging.
She continued taking photos of the scene as the stretcher was brought to the body, moving back into the open field to get a wide shot of the entire scene.
And then a loud crack echoed as Stan and Will jumped back and the stretcher was suddenly lowered into... The ground? The cracking sound continued toward her until the ground shifted under her feet and she realized with sickening horror that what she thought was a field was in fact a lake.
A frozen lake.
She looked up and met Gibbs' wide eyes right before the ice gave way and she plunged into the freezing water.
God! It was so cold!
The cold was all around her and it felt like knives stabbing every inch of her body, threatening to suffocate her. She kicked madly, desperately fighting the urge to gasp from the immense pain the cold caused. And with one last, hard kick, she smacked her head against solid ice.
She could feel herself quickly losing consciousness.
This isn't how she wanted it to end.
And right before she succumbed to the darkness that was sure to engulf her, she heard a crack, dulled by the water and then she was moving.
