So what if Kelly was alive and spicing up Gibbs' life. I still believe that Jenny and Gibbs should have developed different than it did! So try and follow my line of thought and see where that takes us. Read and review.

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"Come on Kel, we are late enough as it is!" Jethro Gibbs yelled upstairs towards his daughters room.

"I'm coming!" the seven year old yelled when she bolted down the stairs.

"Finally, what's been taken you so long?"

"Well dad, it is not like you are the greatest braider and I need to look pretty today because we got a new principal and I want to make a good impression."

"Sweetheart you are seven years old, you don't need to look good for anyone besides me and grandpa."

"Still he is really cute."

"Is he now?"

"Yeah, and I think you would really like him." Kelly exclaimed as she put her hands on her hip.

"Why?"

"You just would." Kelly's seven year old logic kicked in.

Gibbs shook his head and laughed, then he urged his daughter out of the door, and slammed it shut. They drove to the school, and immediately Kelly ran off to hug her friend Maddie. Gibbs got out of the car as well and followed the girls inside, he said a soft 'good morning' to Maddie's mom and they entered the school, the new principal had decided to say hi to everybody in the large auditorium the school normally rented out to the large company next door.

After half an hour all the attending parents had gotten a good look and a good impression of the new principal, he was a very straight to the bone kind of guy, and he wanted nothing but the best for the children.

Gibbs hurried a goodbye to Kelly and ran to his car and drove into headquarters, the second he exited the elevator DiNozzo asked "Boss you are almost an hour late?"

"Kelly's first day back at school." he simply stated and sat down.

"Oh, ok well Ziva is down at Abby's we found the slug yesterday evening. And I found the wife just before you got in, she bought a plane ticket for Europe two weeks before the husband was murdered, with a departure time three hours after the poor Petty Officer was hung in his living room."

"Then why are we not at the airport retrieving the surveillance of the gate?" Gibbs questioned.

"Uhm 'cos I was waiting for you boss?"

"Call Ziva and McGee and tell them we are leaving and to keep looking for the wife, Europe is huge."

They worked hard on trying to find the woman who had killed her husband because he had figured out that she was the drug dealer on camp. After several days of tracking the woman's travel record they found her in the southern part of Spain. Gibbs praised his team for the good and hard work they had done, and was glad to finally be able to go home and spend some time with Kelly, This crazy week hadn't allowed much time for fun for father and daughter.

The little girl had blossomed again finally, two years had passed since her mother had died in the car crash Kelly had survived, the Mexican man that had shot and killed the driver of the car they had been in, had paid the price of taking Shannon out of Gibbs and Kelly's lives. Kelly was shocked to the core of course and was traumatized but slowly she was beginning to be her old self, the fun, loving and happy girl. Of course she still had her moments when she really missed her mother and daddy wasn't good enough.

But even though Kelly was slowly coming back into her old self, Gibbs didn't dare tell his daughter that he was seeing someone, it was difficult in the beginning, but as he had gotten to know this amazing woman some more, he was so at ease with her, and even missed her when he hadn't seen or talked to her in a little while.

Jenny Shepard was the perfect match to Jethro Gibbs, she was just as stubborn, just as addicted to coffee and just as devoted to her job as he was. They had stumbled upon one another in a coffee shop, she had dropped her coffee when she had run into him, and the second he looked into her eyes he was sold. He had followed her out of the shop and all the way to her car, and made contact. He had asked her out for coffee that same day and she agreed, she just had to finish work first.

They had clicked instantly, and Gibbs had been very forward, much more than he normally was, and asked her out for dinner that same Saturday.

Today Kelly would get to meet Jenny and visa versa, and Gibbs was practically biting his nails of, he was just sitting in the kitchen waiting for the doorbell to ring, Kelly was sitting besides him coloring in her book. Gibbs had been turning page after page not really been reading anything, and the second the bell sounded he flew up.

"That is really pretty honey!" he said nervously just before he left the kitchen.

He threw the door open, only to reveal Jenny standing in front of him in a lovely olive green dress she smiled widely as she meet his blue eyes.

"Hi!" she softly said as he stepped forward and hugged her to him.

"Hi, I've been waiting for this for so long."

"Me too, are you nervous?"

"Very much so, I don't know how she will react. But we might as well face the music now." he took her hand and pulled her after him into the kitchen. When they entered Kelly looked up, she looked between her dad and this woman who was holding his hand, and even with fingers entwined.

"Kelly, this is Jenny."

"Hi Kelly, wow are you coloring?"

"Why are you holding my daddy's hand?"