Many years ago….
"Mam?" you have a healthy baby girl. Do you want to hold her?
Jenny carefully takes the baby into her arms. The child opens her eyes green eyes and stares at her mother. Her hair is blond and Jenny assumes it will turn red as she ages. The mother stops her thoughts there. She wouldn't get to see her daughter's first steps or hear he first words.
Soon the child would have a new home, a new mom and dad. She begins to feel guilty at this train of thought.
"He doesn't even know you exist", she whispers to the baby. Thinking about the infant's father makes jenny start to cry. He'd make a good father she knows he would yet here she was not giving him the chance to prove it.
The nurse must have noticed her frown because she glances wearily at the new mother but otherwise says nothing.
12 hours all she had with the baby before the Sciutos came to take her away.
"They want you to name her." The translator says after signing to the Sciutos.
"Why? She is no longer mine." Jenny says bitterly, the young women has to remind herself it is for the best, he doesn't want a child she thinks, he didn't even want me.
"They insist." The Sciutos are busy signing and gushing over there new child. She doesn't need to know sign language to see how happy they are and its all the reassurance she needs to know she is doing the right thing.
"Abigail", Jenny finally replies. "Her name is Abby."
Present time…
"The kids don't like it when mommy and daddy fight." Abby's early words ringing through her head, the irony of the statement lost on the forensic scientist.
It's her; Jenny knows it's her daughter. If her name and birth date weren't confirmation enough, her eyes were. Jenny would know those green eyes anywhere.
It hurts her every day to be so close to her daughter yet so far away. The universe must have something against me the NCIS director thinks. Here I am working with my daughter and said daughter's father.
Leaving for the day she hears abbey's energetic voice.
"Gggiiibbbsss, you owe me another Caf-pow."
"Do I?" the former marine fakes ignorance. Leaving his complain to pout.
She's definitely a daddy's girl jenny thinks, she would have been a daddy's girl she stops and corrects herself. Wiping the tears off her face that had begun to fall, she collects herself and heads back to her office listening as Abby and Gibbs voice drift off into the distance.
