Disclaimer- I don't own ncis,

Authors note – I wasn't going to upload this until I got back from germany but I love this chapter and it was so easy to write which is a nice change, so I canged my mind. I hope this is okay. It is different to my usual stories so please be nice.

Gangdad is what I used to call my granddad and I thought it would be cute for Katie.

Any questions let me know and I'll try and answer them.

Excuse the grammar and spelling

And finally, enjoy…

Life changes- people move on – but love can remain

We all wish sometimes in life that we'd done different things in life, said a different comment, or just not done something at all. Yet sometimes, that thing you regret has formed your life, what has made you who you are today. After all they say we learn from our mistakes. As such as Jenny Sheppard regretted leaving Jethro in Paris, if she went back in time that would not be what she would change. Why? Because if she hadn't have left him she may not have now the one thing she loves more than anything and the job she had always wanted yet never expected to have.

Life changes- people move on – but love can remain

A little over two years after Jenny left Jethro in Paris; things in her life took a turn she had never expected to happen. She fell in love, to a man who loved and cared for her and whom she loved and cared for back. It was a life she could only of dreamed of after she left in Paris, ever since the moment she had bumped into Ducky at a conference 6 months after she had left to find out Gibbs was engaged to a new red – head she had been sure he'd never loved her. She had also been sure that she would never be loved again. So, she had done what she always did when she couldn't cope, she buried herself in work. Yet when she worked a joint case with MI6 and met Danny Martins, a tall, dark and handsome agent who caught her eye, things began to look up. So much so that in the August of 2001 e proposed to her in covent5 garden whilst on their lunch. She accepted and in a whoosh of happiness a smile became embedded in her face.

At the moment she said yes, little did Jenny Sheppard know that in just over a month her whole world would come crashing down around her feet. On the first week of September, her fiancée left at Gatwick airport to go to New York City to work on relations for two weeks. HE left with a kiss on her cheek and a demand to plan their wedding. That was the last time his lips ever touched her.

On the 11th September, 2001 Danny Martins attended a relations seminar at the pentagon he was never to leave. As the twin towers and the pentagon was hit by terrorists in 9/11, the man Jenny loved was lost forever. Yet as she buried his body, she didn't know he had left her a little present to remember him by. On the 4th April 2002, Jenny Sheppard gave birth to a little girl, Katie Elizabeth Sheppard-Martins.. She was perfect, and the a reminder for Jenny of the life she so easily could have had, with brown wavy hair so defiantly her fathers colour and bright green eyes.

Surprisingly to Jenny mother hood came easily. She loved her child like there was no tomorrow and cared for her in every way she could. When asked to do anti-terrorist opp's in the middle east the first thing she thought of was her little girl. Yet she went, and with the help of Ziva the little girl was fine. Jenny travelled and so did Katie. When the time though came and Jenny was offered the director's position she knew that it was no place for Maria just yet. And so Jenny let her stay with Danny's parents, and left for DC. A choice that broke her heart, but she had to do.

Life changes- people move on – but love can remain

Carson was gone, and Jethro was so far away from her heart. She felt alone. She missed her daughter. As she looked at a photo taken back in Cairo she smiled, and made a spur of the moment decision. IT had been nearing three years; it was time for her to be a mother again. IT was what her little girl needed. And so, Jenny rung the little girl's grandparents, and they promised to fly her over on the next flight to DC. That was it, it was all arranged, Jenny was to be a mother again from 11 00 tomorrow morning, something that made her face light up.

As soon as Jenny had put the phone down she went upstairs to the room down the hall. IT was decorated with light purple on three walls and a deep purple on the other. It looked like the bedroom of a much older child than six, but it was how the little girl wanted it. After all, she was not any ordinary little girl. At the age of six she already spoke fluent French and Hebrew. She was her mother's daughter in that respect. Jenny smiled as she saw all the cloths in her wardrobe. Jenny always spoke to her little girl and every time she did she always bought her something she knew she was wanting for when she finally got the chance to bring her daughter home. With one last smile at the room that would soon be filled with life, she smiled and closed the doors.

Life changes- people move on – but love can remain

Jenny stood at the arrivals terminal at DC airport waiting to see her daughter. Jenny felt like a little girl she was so excited. As the plane from Gatwick airport which carried her daughter and late husband's parents was announced, Jenny's smile grew even wider. She saw the little girl and waved, before she knew what was happening there was a blur of brown hair and purple as she came running towards her mum. Jenny smiled as she felt her hips being grabbed in a bone crushing hug that would rival even Abby's.

When the little girl looked up at her mum and loosened her grip, Jenny nearly cried. She had grown up. Her hair was at her waist and her eyes were bright and shining. Katie's smile was big and bright and infectious. Jenny picked her little girl up and hugged her properly. "Hmm I've missed you!" Jenny said heart featly as she buried her head in the little girls hair and Katie did the same.

"I missed you too mummy. Can I stay with you now?" the little girl asked looking in her mums eyes.

"Yes darling you can."

"Forever?"

"Forever." The little girl jumped down and ran to her grandparents who had just walked over.

"Nanny, Gangdad, mummy says I can stay with her – forever!" the little girl said with a massive smile. As Katie talked with her Nanny, Graham, her granddad walked over to Jenny and hugged the younger woman.

"How are you Jenny?" questioned the older man. HE was a splitting image of what Danny had been, all except his hair was nearly all white.

"I'm getting there Graham, I'm getting there."

"And this thing with the frog is all over?"

"Yeah, and I didn't kill him. I dent him away, as far as I know he is now in Brazil somewhere."

"That's my girl. Danny would have been proud."

"I don't know about that." She said, gazing at her daughter.

"You miss him."

"I miss him, I've missed her. I…I just…I should have rung him…said anything…done something-"

"jenny this was not your fault."

"I know, I know."

Jenny walked over to her daughter and tickled her. Loving the sound of her laughter – a sound she had missed so much over the last few years. She picked the little girl up and smiled. "How about we go home, eh? I've got today off, so we could watch, oh I don't know maybe…cars?"

"My favourite! You remembered!"

"Of course I remembered honey, and maybe…toffee pop corn?"

"Yeah yeah yeah!" the little girl said smiling.

Jenny turned to the older couple and smiled. "You are both more than welcome to join us, you could come and stay if you like?" Jenny asked the pair. Both smiled but shook their heads.

"No, honestly we are fine. We have a flight to NYC booked." Replied Susan, Katie's grandmother.

"Okay, you off to the memorial?"

"Yeah."

"Tell him I miss him, we both do."

"Of course dear. Now, look after yourself, and we will see you soon."

"See you soon Susan, Graham." With that, jenny gave both the older couple a kiss on the cheek and Katie hugged them both before they grabbed the little girls suitcase and left for Jenny's town car.

Jenny handed the pink case to her driver and the pair got in the back. Katie was smiling and pretending to act like she was posh which made Jenny laugh. All Katie's life she had loved to act and always did at home. Jenny watched as he daughter went "Home Hector." In a posh British voice. The little girl had a slight British accent an anyway and her posh version was almost undetectable. It made Jenny smile. As they drove the pair talked. Jenny asked her daughter about school and Katie told her about it and yet she was excited about starting her new school in a few weeks. Jenny knew that it would mean she would have to go to work with Jenny, but that didn't matter. Jenny didn't care anymore if people found out she had a daughter, that she was a widow, that she was a mum. Why? Because she had nothing to be ashamed of. She was a mum; she had leaded a life in which she had made mistakes. Yet she was human, and humans aren't perfect. So from that moment on, as jenny sat on the back seat with her daughter listening to her talking about her drama and telling Jenny she wanted to learn to ride horses. Jenny couldn't help but smile. This was a new start. This was her chance to be a mum, a proper one.

Authors note – I hope it was okay, I'll try and upload asap but I'm off to germany on Saturday so I wont be able to for five days afterwards, but please review, that make me so happy.

Penny for your thoughts please xxx