The New Director's Secret

By Twilight Trekky

Rating: T

Pairings: Jibbs and slight McAbby

Disclaimer: I don't own anything. NCIS belongs to its creators and such. I also don't own the quote I use from Baby Mama. Jenny screams it out, so it's in capitals. It's the perfect quote for the moment, plus it comes from a pretty good movie. Anyway...

A/N: I think this all started when my new cousin was born. I kept thinking about Jibbs stuff with Jenny being prego and stuff, and this generated itself out of that. This takes place after Kill Ari Part 2 and probably around or before Mind Games. Enjoy! :D

Hint/Note thing: Things in italics are either the movie titles or the people on the video itself. You'll understand when you get there.

Tony looked at the screen on his computer, scanning through the words on it. He looked up at Abby, who was sitting on the railing of the staircase right behind his desk. "Anything?" he asked.

Abby shook her head. "The director is still in MTAC. So is Gibbs."

"This is so wrong," McGee said from his desk.

"What's the matter, is McChicken… chicken?" Tony asked. He started making chicken noises.

"No!" McGee said. "It's just that we shouldn't be doing this!"

"Aren't you the least bit curious about our new director, McGee?" Tony asked. "I mean, c'mon! For one thing, there's something awfully suspicious about her."

"How do you mean?"

"The looks she exchanges with Gibbs. They're so full of sorrow. I gotta know what's going on between them, or what went on."

"Is that all you're curious about?"

"Nope," Tony said. "Look at her, McGee. She's young! Well, not young young, but she's young for a director! And she's a she!"

"What's wrong with her begin a woman?"

"She's the director! There haven't ever been females in the position she's in."

"There's a first time for everything," McGee pointed out.

Abby nodded. "Timmy's got a point."

"Oh really?" Tony asked. "Then how do you explain the connection between her and bossman?" When neither of them answered, he said, "Exactly!" He turned back to the computer. "According to her file, she was assigned to NCIS under one Special Agent Leroy Jethro Gibbs in 1997." He grabbed the clicker and clicked up her file onto the plasma behind Gibbs' desk. "Abs, you better be paying close attention to that door."

"Aye-aye!" Abby said, saluting him and staring up at the MTAC door, only taking her eyes off of it to look at the plasma.

"She got promoted frequently, got her own team by 2000. Worked anti-terrorist ops since 9/11. Worked in Egypt in 2003. Then later she landed her spot here as the newly appointed Director of NCIS."

"That it?" McGee asked.

"Not at all, McGeek," Tony said. He clicked the button again, showing some pictures. "She was a cheerleader in high school, second-in-command of the squad. Really wish I could see a video of her cheering." He sighed at the fantasy he was coming up with in his head.

"Tony!" Abby yelled.

Tony looked up at the MTAC door, which was still sealed shut. He looked over at Abby, confused. "What, Abs?"

"You shouldn't be thinking about our director like that!"

Tony laughed. "Sorry, can't help it."

"Are there any videos of her?" McGee asked.

"How do you tell if there are?" Tony asked.

McGee went over to Tony's computer and clicked on a few things. "There're a couple that were uploaded by… Dr. Donald Mallard. Looks like Ducky took some videos with her in them. There are… three. One from '98 and two from '99."

"Do they have titles?"

"Yeah, uh, one sec." McGee clicked a few things on the keyboard. "Uh, there's NCIS Fundraiser, which is the one from 1998. The first one from '99 is The Paris Mission and the other one is… Baby's First Video."

"Baby's First Video?" Tony repeated.

"I wanna see the baby!" Abby said, smiling in delight.

McGee took the clicker from Tony and he clicked it, bringing the video up on the plasma. Tony sat down on the edge of Gibbs' desk while Abby sat in Gibbs' chair. McGee ran over to his desk and grabbed his chair, bringing it over and sitting down next to Abby. The video finally started with a view on Ducky's face.

"Today was the day where the ultrasound would reveal whether the child was a boy or a girl," Ducky said. "Jethro and Jennifer just pulled up in the driveway. I thought I might make a video for them to remember the stages before the child is born starting from when they find out the gender." He smiled and turned the camera onto what was presumably the front door. Said door then opened up and Gibbs walked through, carrying a bag in each hand.

"Hey, Duck," he said. "What's with the camera?"

"I'll tell you later," Ducky said.

Gibbs nodded and looked back through the door. "Are you coming?"

"Yes!" Jenny said as she walked through the door.

Tony paused the video. "Whoa, look at her stomach!"

"She's pregnant, Tony," Abby said.

"I never knew she had a kid," McGee commented.

"We did just barely meet her the other day," Abby pointed out. McGee tilted his head in a shrug, nodding at her logic.

Tony clicked the play button and the video continued.

"Look out, steam engine coming through," Gibbs said, chuckling.

"Haha," Jenny said in a very sarcastic way. "You're so funny."

"When you two are done bickering, would you mind telling me what your baby's sex is?" Ducky asked.

"Boy," Jenny said. She smiled and looked down at her swelling stomach, rubbing it affectionately. "Jethro Junior."

"We're not naming him 'Jethro'," Gibbs said.

"Then how about Leroy?" Jenny teased.

"No way," Gibbs said. "Naming can come later, though. We have another few months to decide."

"Yeah, well, we don't want to make it a last decision," Jenny said. "If it was a girl, we wouldn't be having this conversation. I already had my mind made up for a girl's name."

"What would that be, dare I ask?"

"Jethra," Jenny said.

"That's the cutest name ever!" Abby squealed.

"No," Gibbs said, snorting. "That is the stupidest name ever."

Abby pouted in Gibbs' chair, folding her arms over her chest. "Is not."

"Is not!" Jenny said. Abby smiled in an almost triumphant way.

"Is too!"

"Is not!"

"Is too!"

Ducky sighed, turning the camera back to face him. "That's all for now. Probably will be all until the birth." The screen went blank. Tony paused it.

"So Director Shepard and Gibbs had a kid?" McGee asked.

Tony nodded. "But… Gibbs never said anything about a kid. And the director's file says she has no children…"

"Miscarriage?" Abby asks.

"Isn't that too far along, though?" McGee asked. Abby nodded.

"Then maybe the director had custody of the kid," Abby mused.

"But it says she doesn't have a kid," Tony repeated.

"Maybe… she was a surrogate mother," McGee guessed.

"Then why would she be naming the kid?" Tony asked. When no one answered, he shrugged, clicking the play button. "Let's see if we get our answer from this video."

The video opened up on Ducky's face again. "Just like I promised, it's the birth of the baby! Jennifer's in labor now, though she doesn't seem like it. I think Jethro's more frightened than she is." He chuckled, turning the camera around and opening up a door before the view fell on Jenny, who was panting in a hospital bed. "Is everything alright?" Ducky asked the doctor who was in the room.

Before the doctor could respond, Jenny was screaming out, "IT FEELS LIKE I'M SHITTING A KNIFE!" She leaned back into the pillows.

Abby, McGee, and Tony all started laughing at that. Abby even snorted, causing them all to laugh harder.

"Get this damn thing out of me!" Jenny screamed. She looked at the doctor. "Am I allowed to have alcohol yet?"

"No, ma'am," the doctor said. "Not till after the baby is born, and that isn't advised since you'll be breastfeeding."

"Did you just call me 'ma'am'?" Jenny asked. "Do I look like a ma'am to you?" she yelled.

"Jen, calm down," Gibbs said from beside the bed where he was holding her hand and patting her forehead with a dry cloth.

"Don't tell me to calm down!" Jenny yelled. "If you want calm then get your ass up and give birth to this baby! Otherwise, don't tell me to be calm!"

Gibbs reproached from her, smiling slightly as he was amused by her attitude. Tony, Abby, and McGee were, too. None of them noticed that the present time Jenny and Gibbs were standing on the staircase behind Tony's desk, watching the video with them.

The video once again changed to show Ducky. "Uh… let's wait till after the baby is born to continue this. Who knows what will happen with Jennifer's attitude from now till then. I wouldn't want anything too explicit on this." He chuckled and turned off the video. The screen now showed a doctor holding a baby.

"Congratulations on your baby boy," he said. The camera settled itself on the baby before the doctor took it to another room.

Jenny was lying back on the hospital bed, looking wiped out. Gibbs smiled at her. "You did good, Jen."

She gave him a tired smile in return. "We did good," she corrected. "I think I'm ready for a nap now." Gibbs chuckled. Jenny looked around before settling her eyes on Ducky. "Where'd they take Jethro Junior?"

Ducky cleared his throat. "The doctors have to make sure that everything is alright with the baby before they give him to you."

Jenny nodded in acknowledgement and then smiled over at Gibbs. He gave her a kiss on her forehead, then her nose, causing her to giggle.

The screen whirled around to the entrance where a doctor was standing, looking at them sadly. "I'm sorry to tell you, this, miss, but it seems your child was born… dead."

Abby gasped. "What?" she asked weakly. On the video, Jenny had the same reaction.

"He didn't get enough oxygen when he was born," the doctor explained. "He was dead before we even started to make sure everything else was okay. I'm sorry." The doctor's pager beeped. "If you'll excuse me." With that, he walked out of the room.

The screen turned to look at Jenny and Gibbs' sorrowful faces. Jenny buried her face in Gibbs' shoulder as Ducky turned the camera off. The video ended, putting up a blank screen on the plasma.

Abby wiped away a couple of tears as McGee pulls her into an embrace. She cries, hugging him back. Tony sat there, shocked, and cursing himself for ever getting curious about their new director. He stood up and turned around, stopping when he saw who was standing on the staircase behind his desk: Jenny and Gibbs themselves.

Jenny had tears in her eyes. She quickly turned and jogged up the stairs into her office, shutting it behind her. Gibbs gave the blank screen of the plasma behind his desk a heartbroken look before he went upstairs, following Jenny. Abby sniffled and pulled away from McGee, rubbing her eyes. Her make-up was now strewn across her face. She went over to the elevator and rode down to her lab. McGee grabbed his stuff, leaving as well.

Tony walked over and sat down at his desk. There was something wrong with this picture, other than the fact that Gibbs and Jenny were partners and they shouldn't have been having kids. The doctors didn't even let Jenny and Gibbs see their child before they took it away from her. On the movies, they always gave the kid to the parents after cutting the umbilical cord and tying it up, giving the baby a belly button. Tony clicked on the "internet" icon on his computer. He was going to solve this mystery if it was the last thing he did.

Gibbs glanced at Cynthia's empty desk before slowly opening up the door to Jenny's office. She was sitting on the floor in the corner by the bookcase, her knees drawn up to her chest and her arms wrapped around them. Gibbs walked over and managed to sit down beside her.

"It's my fault," Jenny said after a few minutes of silence.

"Jen, how is it your fault?" Gibbs asked softly.

"It has to be my fault, Jethro," she replied. "I'm the one that was taking care of our baby for nine months. Anything I ate, he ate. Anything I did, he could feel it."

Gibbs put his arm around her shoulders. "Jen, you didn't do anything wrong. You did just as the doctors told you to do, just as Ducky advised. It's not your fault."

Jenny looked over at him, the tears starting to flow down her face. "You don't know that."

"Neither do you."

Jenny sniffled, resting her head on his shoulder. "I wonder what it would be like if he never died? What would our lives be like right now?"

"I guess we'll never know," Gibbs said.

A/N: So that's it for the first chapter. I've thought of how to make it continue on to be longer, but that depends on the response I get from you guys! Please review and make my day!