Things were going badly for DiNozzo. There was so much work involved in trying to free him of the, obviously planted, incriminating evidence. Something was off about this whole situation and Gibbs's gut was acting up once again.
Ziva said something in Hebrew and just as she was about to translate it, the one and only Jenny Shepard appeared and did it for her.
"A little fire burns a lot of corn."
"What?" Gibbs was caught totally off guard and wondered what the heck that meant.
"I never understood it either." Jenny's voice reached Gibbs's ears and Ziva spoke once more about it losing something in translation before she did the exact opposite of what he wanted; left him alone with the Director.
She said something he wasn't particularly paying attention to but he had a retort all the same. "You can drop the Director act." He cringed mentally as he took in the look on her face. Ok, so not a brilliant idea but he was a man of few words and when he said them it was with finality. Besides how could he sincerely hold up rule number six if he broke it now? No apologies or retractions of statements were intended to come out of his mouth and so they didn't.
"You think my job is an act?" Jenny's eyes flashed as she angrily demanded an answer to her question from Agent Gibbs.
Well, he'd launched the war. There was no point in not launching a counter-attack. "No," Her expression softened a little and he hesitated a split second before following through with the rest of his statement. "Not all of it. Ass-kissing on the hill is a skill."
"So is castration." He should of known that would be her retort.
"I wear a cup." There was a moment where they exchanged glares before she handed him a file. Gibbs didn't even get to raise an eyebrow in question before she spoke. "I managed to find it between kissing asses." Her hair flared out slightly as she turned on her heel and prepared to storm away.
She'd taken hardly a step before his hand snaked out and caught her wrist. Jenny turned to face him, lips pursed, and an angry retort ready to be fired from her lips but Gibbs wasn't having any of it. He dropped the file on the ground and did what he'd been dying to do since she came back into his life; he kissed her. Immediately he felt the fire drain out of her.
Then there was her pushing away and fleeing from the hallway. He'd have gone after her if he didn't realize that it could wait and that Tony was in need of immediate help.
As it was he did call after her, "JEN!"
There was no response.
***Author's Note***
Right well any of you waiting for a chapter to another story who got this instead…don't kill me? I watched it last night and this idea wouldn't leave me alone. Also, It was like actually 2 a.m. when I watched it so I was a little fuzzy on the dialogue, my bad.
-C.E.S.
