For as long as anybody in Stillwater Pennsylvania could remember. Jethro Gibbs and Jenny Sheppard had been friends. They had met back in the first grade when Jenny moved to town. Jenny's father Jasper had been some important person back in Washington DC where Jenny was born. Until he was murdered after that Brandie Sheppard had sent her daughter to live with her grandparents. Brandie had promised to come back for her daughter but instead moved off to California with a new man and started a new family with him. Basically forgetting that Jenny even existed. Jethro would never forget her first day at Stillwater K-8 School. Some big fifth graders had pushed her down and taken her lunch. He walked over to her in the cafeteria and gave her his lunch even though it was his favorite and used his allowance to buy a hot lunch for himself. After that the two of them were inseparable. Jethro was the one Jenny first old about her mom's remarriage. They were eight years old and camping out in the backyard of Jethro's house and she tearfully showed him the letter her mom had sent the day before. Jethro wrapped her in a tight hug and told her that she had a family. Jenny was the first one Jethro would even allow near him after his mom died from cancer when they were twelve. For a long time they just sat in Jethro's room and watched old Western movies on his ancient black and white TV. That Jack had offered to update a million times. Until one day he opened up about how he felt lost and betrayed that his mom left him and that he knew she had killed herself. He had gone over to his Uncle LJ's house to see if he could borrow his baseball glove and overheard him talking to Ann. Jenny had hugged him just like he had all those years ago and promised to keep his secret. Jethro still remembered the moment he realized that he was in love with Jenny. It was in the eighth grade at Frankie Porter's birthday party and they were playing bobbing for apples. She had always been terrible at the game but when she raised her head up and shook the water out of her medium length orangeish red hair. Now they were seventeen and had been best friends for almost eleven years and dating for just over two. They had just started their senior year of high school and had their whole lives planned out. Gibbs was going to join the Marines and Jenny was going to go to college and become a nurse. They would leave Stillwater and go wherever Gibbs was sent. He would stay in the Marines until Jenny graduated. Then he would get out, they would move to DC, he would go to college there, and then join NCIS. Unless he got that baseball scholarship. Then he would go to college and go right to NCIS after college. He had no interest in going pro but it would be a good way to get his criminology degree. Jethro took a swig of his Gatorade before slinging his bag over his shoulder and walked across the street to Stillwater K-8 his bat bumping on the ground.

"Jethro!" Abby cried.

"Hi Jethro." Tim replied.

"How was baseball practice?" Tony asked.

"Hi guys practice was good now let's get home." Jethro replied.

"Hey where's Jenny?" Tony asked.

"Still home sick now let's go!" Jethro snapped.

"Even I didn't have that stomach flu for that long." Tim replied.

"I hope she'll be OK." Abby replied.

"She will be fine." Jethro replied.

"It's been two weeks." Tony commented.

"I know but she hardly ever gets sick but when she does it takes her longer to get well." Jethro replied.

When they got home Jethro made his siblings a quick snack and made sure they got started on their homework. Before heading downstairs to his basement bedroom. He had moved down into the basement at the start of the summer. When everybody got sick of Tim and Tony fighting all the time. They liked each other but they had polar opposite personalities. Tim was a shy computer geek and Tony was bold jock. Being in the basement was actually pretty nice. It reminded Jethro of being an only child. Not to mention the workshop as literally steps from his room. Jethro loved his siblings but they got on his nerves sometimes but he didn't hate them like he thought he would. He was furious when his parents told him that they were going to have another baby. He was nine years old and would be ten when the new baby came. He thought that he was free from siblings but that wasn't the case and on March 27th 2007 Abigail Scuito Gibbs was born. Jethro resented her for taking all the attention and making his mom cry so much. Until he found out that Ann Gibbs had terminal cancer. Abby was just over a year old and completely unaware that she would have to grow up without a mother. When she died when Abby was two years old. Jethro stepped up and cared for his baby sister after Jack returned to work. Tony and Tim were not biologically related to him but he loved them just as much as he loved Abby. Tony had come to Jack's store two years earlier answering the ad Jack put out offering summer odd jobs at his store. Jack hired the ten-year old to sweep up every day for a dollar a day. Growing concerned about how underweight the boy was and the way he flinched when somebody yelled or raised a hand to him. Finally he had enough and took Jethro to look for him. Only to find the address Tony gave him was wrong. It was only a tent in an empty field. The two Gibbs men brought the newest member of their family home that very night. Tim was his step-brother. Jethro loved Tim but still slightly resented his mom Darla. He thought it was too soon for his dad to get remarried. Tim and Abby had met in kindergarten and became instant best friends. Much like Jethro and Jenny. Except Tim's parents had divorced two years before. Jackson met Darla while picking Abby up from a play date. One thing led to another and they were married one year later. Jethro had warmed up to Darla but didn't see himself ever considering her a mom.

"Jethro! Jenny is upstairs!" Abby called.

"I'll be right up!" Gibbs called back.

Jethro walked upstairs wondering what his girlfriend was doing at his house. If she had been too sick to go to school or volleyball practice. He got to the front door and sent Abby back upstairs to finish her homework, watch TV, or something. Just to stay out of Jenny and his hair.

"Hey Jen feeling better?" Jethro asked.

"Jethro we need to talk." Jenny replied.

"What's up?" Gibbs asked.

"Remember our anniversary last month the weekend Jack took Abby and the boys camping and we were alone?" Jenny questioned.

"Yeah that was great. Why?" Jethro asked.

"I'm pregnant." Jenny choked out.

A/N What do you think? How will Jack and Jenny's grandparents feel about Jenny's pregnancy? Should I continue? Well you know what they say. When you end two stories because you are going out-of-town and don't want to be committed to too many stories. The best thing to do is to start a whole new story.