Personal Space

Chapter 1 Investigating in her private life

To Gibbs it was a morning like any other. He was sitting at his desk, watching the entering agents of the other teams, occasionally greeting one of them and otherwise staring grumpily straight through them.

When Ziva entered she looked tired but Gibbs didn't feel the urge to ask why. "'Morning…" The woman mumbled and sat down behind her desk, starting immediately with her paper work.
A little later McGee stepped out of the elevator. He had obviously paid a short visit at Abby's lab because Ziva just looked up but didn't greet him, so Gibbs assumed they have met earlier.
After two agents who Gibbs had never really seen in the bull pen, the team leader looked up to the second level because of a motion he had recognised as Jen entering her office.
Tony was the last to enter and he quickly brought some excuses to which Gibbs didn't even listen, sat down and started observing Ziva as usual.

The silver haired man sighed, grabbed some files with the reports which belonged to them and walked towards the staircase and Tony gave him a short glance before he returned to the report of the case he was working on.
As usual Gibbs didn't wait for Cynthia to announce him to Jen and just entered, finding her putting on some make-up. She jumped at the sound of the door and almost dropped the little box she was holding when she looked up at Gibbs.
"You do that on purpose, don't you?" she asked and nodded towards the door. Gibbs smirked and nodded.
"Gives me the feeling of being important." He answered with humour in his voice. Jen gave him a killing glance and placed the make-up back in her drawer.

"What can I do for you, Agent Gibbs?" she asked and leaned back in her chair.
"You wanted the reports of the last three cases, here are the first two." He said and placed them on her desk. Slowly Jen leaned forward again and brushed her hair out of her face to read the first page. Just then he saw the reason why she was putting on make-up in her office. The area around her cheekbone had a bruised bluish green colour and as soon as she remembered it, she let her hair fall back down over it.

"What's that?" Gibbs asked in a low voice which was always the sign for Jen that the conversation was about something personal. "My desk, the reports, my desk-lamp, what are you talking about?" she asked, looking up from the files and trying to leave her face expressionless.
"You know what I mean." Gibbs replied and reached out to brush her hair back again but Jen pulled back.
"Don't you think that this is personal and none of your business, Agent Gibbs?" she asked sternly but Gibbs shook his head. He didn't say anything just kept on observing her very closely.

"I took a bath yesterday evening and slipped on the wet floor, I fell against the door frame and got that bruise!" she finally said titled her head to a side.
"I see you still know my rules." He just said but didn't move an inch. "Always be precise when you lie. That's what I taught you." He added and she rolled her eyes.
"I'm sure you have a job to do and don't get paid for investigating in my private life, do you?" she asked defiantly and got up, signing him to leave.

"You know I won't leave now, Jenny. What happened?" he asked calmly and went around her desk until he stood beside her. "That is really none of your business what I do and with whom I do that." She said and sat down again, hoping he would leave it at that. But she knew he wouldn't. He leaned against her desk and looked down to her.
"So a person did that. Your current lover?" he asked and Jen closed her eyes, supporting her head in her hands.
"What if he was my fiancé?" he asked and Gibbs nodded.
"He is not, so your lover. Did he hit you?" For a moment time seemed to be standing still. Then Jen looked up at Gibbs with a tear in her eye.
"Yes, he did! We had a fight!" she admitted and got up again, rounding her desk and walking to the couch in the corner of her office.

"Now you know, is it possible that you leave now?" she asked with a slightly shaking voice.
"He didn't do that for the first time. Usually you can cope with something like that much better if it just happened once." He said in a low voice and with a bitter chuckle Jen wiped the tear from her face.
"Stop it! Damn it, stop analyzing me! I'm not a suspect, I'm your boss!" she exclaimed and Gibbs nodded.
"Right, I'll leave." He said and went towards the door. Shortly before he opened it, he turned towards her once more. "No one has the right to harm you. And no fight can justify that." He said and left Jen alone in her office.

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