Re Evaluation Ch 1
Jethro and Jenny have been married for around two months and are the happiest they'd been in years. Jenny has settled into living in what was Jethro's home but is now 'their home' and enjoys every moment she has there with him, especially those times she spends in the basement watching him work on his boat. Jenny could spend hours just watching Jethro's hands as he carefully works the wood.
Their jobs at NCIS had continued with no real change in their working habits or team dynamics, they remain professional at headquarters and people who do not know them would not automatically realise that the Director of NCIS is married to her senior agent.
This week they'd had to spend their first nights apart since they'd been married, Jen had to go to New York for a security conference and would be away for three nights.
Jethro was sitting in Jen's office at NCIS headquarters completing some of the paperwork he'd promised he'd do while she was away, although he would never admit it he was spending more time thinking about Jen than thinking about the files that he had in front of him. Many people thought that their marriage would be stormy but they'd only had one argument so far, he let his mind wander back;
Gibbs had walked into the bullpen and found two FBI agents talking to his team, as soon as he realised what they wanted he'd ran up the stairs, stormed past Cynthia and into the Director's office. Jenny was on the phone to the Director of Homeland Security and had to end the call abruptly to deal with a very angry Gibbs.
'What the hell do you think you're playing at Director? You've asked the FBI to interfere in one of my cases'
'Special Agent Gibbs, if you're referring to the Boditch case then I'm sure you'll realise the FBI have been working on this for the last 6 months and have a lot of valuable information which will help us.' Jen is livid with Jethro for barging into her office and interrupting an important call, husband or not she was still the Director.
'That's not the point Director it's my case and you do not meddle in cases that have nothing do to with you.'
'You forget yourself Special Agent Gibbs I run this agency, I'm in charge and I will do anything that I think is for the good of NCIS. I will not pander to the personal whims of my agents.'
Gibbs just looks at the Director and leaves the office even more quickly than he'd entered it slamming the door after him. As he re entered the bullpen he could tell that his team had heard the raised voices coming from the Director's office, he sat at his desk looked at the two FBI agents and started quizzing them about the information they already had. As the agents talked to Gibbs, Tony leaned towards Ziva and whispered 'No nooky for the Boss tonight'.
Gibbs soon realises that the information they have from the FBI will enable him to solve the case, he waits for the forensic evidence to be processed by Abby to confirm his belief before sending the agents to arrest the guilty party.
It is a long interrogation and it takes some time for the prisoner to confess. By the time Gibbs is ready to leave the office, Jen has already gone home and it's gone midnight by the time he gets in. He walks into the kitchen and sees a note on the table your dinner is in the oven. Jethro opens the oven door to take out his dinner which had been a salad but was now looking slightly brown round the edges. He guesses Jen is still angry with him as hedisposes of his burnt offerings in the garbage and debates whether to go down to the basement and work on his boat or go upstairs to bed.
He decides to go upstairs and walks quietly into their bedroom, he can see Jen lying with his back to him, he's not sure that she's asleep but she has not moved since he entered the room. He quickly undresses and gets in the bed beside her. He turns on his side and cuddles up to her back whispering in her ear 'I'm sorry'.
Jen turns toward him 'So am I, I should have talked to you first before bringing in the FBI', they smile at each other as Jethro slowly lowers his lips to kiss Jen and prove Tony's statement as just plain wrong.
Jen will be back from New York tomorrow and Jethro intends to meet her at the airport, hopefully he can persuade her to go home with him for an hour before going on to the office.
The day of Jen's return Jethro gets up early to go on his run, he had known he would miss Jen but he hadn't realised how difficult it would be to spend time without her, he was certainly going to let her know how much he needed her later today.
Whilst out running he notices someone jogging ahead listening to music, suddenly two men who'd been jogging towards this man try to mug him and rip off his I-pod, the victim starts fighting back and Jethro runs quickly forward to help him.
Jethro is taken by surprise when the victim turns on him and throws a right hook connecting to his chin leaving him dazed and on his back. He tries to get up quickly but all three men are upon him, they are obviously professionals in as much as they've had formal training in how to subdue someone. After a short while although Jethro' has got in a few telling blows he is left laying on the ground gasping for breath, two of the men kick him in the ribs a couple of times while the third stands back with a gun in his hands. Jethro is dragged to his feet, a bag put over his head and his arms secured behind him, he feels himself thrown into the back of a van, which is driven off.
He concentrates on the direction the vehicle is travelling, trying to gauge it's speed, 45 minutes later he is taken from the back of the vehicle and made to walk into a building of some sort. Although he's been unsighted in the back of the vehicle he has a vague idea of how far and in what direction they've been travelling even though that's not going to be much use to him at the moment.
The bag is removed from Jethro's head and he blinks in the light trying to focus on his surroundings, he is being held up by two men, they both look like boxers as one has a cauliflower ear and the other a crooked nose. Two other men are standing by looking at him, he recognises one of them as the I-pod wearer.
The man he has not seen before begins talking to him,'Special Agent Gibbs, I think you have some information that would prove useful to us if you tell us now it will be a lot less painful for you. You may think that you can hold out against us but every man has a breaking point we will find yours and we will break you and you will tell us what we want to know.'
Jethro stares at his inquisitor not saying a word.
The man continues, 'Your wife is Director of NCIS, you are her senior agent, there is a certain marine in Baghdad who is working for us but he's disappeared.
Jethro still does not respond.
'We want to know where he is, he had a lot of important information about us in America and in Baghdad – do you think we can persuade your wife to swap one marine for another. Now what we want from you is to know where he is and what he has told you'
'That information is need to know and I don't need to know'.
'Mmm, perhaps, perhaps not. You and your wife do not indulge in pillow talk?'
Jethro remains silent, he is aware that the authorities have taken into custody a marine who had been feeding secrets to Alquaeda, but he doesn't know who it is or whether the authorities know exactly what information has been provided or what this marine dirtbag knows about the Alquaeda operations. Jenny knows more but never told him the details.
His inquisitor continues, 'perhaps your wife can be persuaded to arrange an exhange of prisoners when she sees that we will treat you in exactly the same way as you treat our people.'
Jethro looks the man straight in the eye; 'The Director of NCIS will not be making any deals with you'
'We'll see'.
At his signal the two men quickly strip Jethro, punching him a couple of times in the ribs when he puts up too much resistance. His wrists are manacled to a belt round his waist and a chain runs down from this to his manacled ankles. He is thrown into a cold, windowless room and left lying on the floor.