Author: Renay D
DISCLAIMER: No I don't own them but if you're offering them I'll taked 'em!
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A/N: This is not beta-ed so I claim all mistakes!
Leeroy Jethro Gibbs sat in his basement with his coffee mug full of bourbon, his mind still racing. This case had been torture and even his bourbon and boat didn't make it better. He heard the sound of his front door open and the clicking of high heels on the hard wood floors above him. He had known it was only a matter of time untill she showed up. He looked up as she decended the stairs. Her long red hair down, curls falling loosely around he shoulders. She slipped out of her red pea coat and placed it on the work bench. She unbuttoned her suit jacket and grabbed the bottle of bourbon off the workbench pouring some into a small macing jar she had just dumped nails out of. They remained silent for sometime, leaning against the workbench staring at the arch of the boat in the dimly lit basement.
"You want to talk about it?" Jenny asked finally. He didn't respond at first and when he did she could here the pain in his voice.
"That girl today... something about her just made me think of Kelly. Maybe it was the red hair. Maybe it was becuase she was the same age Kelly was. I don't know but seeing her on that table... all I could see was Kelly" his voice was cracking and he gulped down the rest of his bourbon no doubt burning his throat in the process. He turned around and slammed his mug down. Jenny turned to face him setting her 'glass' down gently next to his.
"Oh Jethro..." she said rubbing circles on his back. " Why didn't you ever tell me?" she didn't mean to ask that question ,not wanting to sound cruel, but she did. She searched his face for an answer but he wouldn't look at her, his eyes remained on the scratches on the wooden workbench. Eventualy he answerd.
"I didn't want to loose you too." that answer shocked her.
"Why did you think you would loose me if you told me?" she asked
"I was afraid if you knew how I had let Shannon and Kelly down you would be afraid I would let you down too and wouldn't love me anymore." He admitted quitely.
"Jethro... You never let anyone down. What happened to them wasn't your fault." Still he didn't turn so she placed he hands on each side of his face and forced him to look into her eyes. "And I would still have loved you. I could never stop loving you. I will always love you Jethro." He stared deep into her green eyes and seen the truth in her words.
" I love you Jen" he whispered
"I love you too Jethro I always have and always will." she whispered as their lips touched in a fiery deep kiss that had the same passion and heat that had always been there and would always be there.
Let me know wha you think!
R.F.D