Jennifer Shepard walked through the practically deserted bullpen, her long fiery red hair bounced as she slowly walked up towards her office, as she stopped on the stairs she noticed Ziva was trying her best to ignore Abby and Kate who were laughing about something Abby had mentioned, Jenny heard the usual 'ding' that was associated with someone getting out of the elevator on that floor, her heart skipped a beat as she saw Jethro Gibbs step out of the elevator carrying two coffee cups.
She walked up onto the catwalk and stopped, just then her phone began ringing causing Jenny to rummage through her handbag. She didn't notice Gibbs' sneak up behind her until a coffee cup floated in front of her face. She turned around, smiled at him, took the coffee cup and answered her phone.
"Hi Sweetie" Jenny said into the receiver.
Gibbs' was shocked, Jenny had a boyfriend?!
"I'll be home around 7 tonight, okay darling." Jenny hadn't noticed the slightly hurt expression on her ex-lovers face.
"I love you too."
Gibbs looked at Jenny with a hurt yet shocked expression on his face, she had moved on, he couldn't blame her, it was 6 years ago but it was as if Paris had never happened, it was like those wonderful memories were just dreams, he never thought he would loose her to someone else.
"Bye sweetheart."
Jenny hung up her phone, placed it in her bag and took a sip of the red-hot coffee, it was at that moment she noticed the look on Gibbs' face.
"You okay Jethro?" Jenny asked.
"Boyfriend?" He replied, Jenny could hear the hurt and pain in his voice.
"What business is it of yours anyway?" She replied before storming off into her office.
She hadn't been with anyone else since the night she had left him.
She couldn't do that to him or to herself. She loved him and only him.
Tears trickled down her cheeks as she picked up a photo of them, it had been taken in Paris, when they had shared a kiss under the Eiffel Tower at sunset.
She missed everything that they had, she needed to let go of yesterday, of past memories and try to move on with her life.
Jethro Gibbs stared at the door wondering if he should go into her office or just leave her be, his mind weighed up the possible outcomes and he decided against going in, he left her alone not knowing about the hurt she was feeling, the tears she was crying, all over one night in Paris that had changed her life forever.