So I know I said I would not post again until I got five reviews, but I like posting. I also like reviews and I got two for the last chapter. Let's see if I can get three for this one. Please. I hope you like it.
Chapter Two—McGee
"Other than being you sister is there any evidentiary reason she should not be charged"
"But she is my sister director if Sarah lashes out at someone she does it with her mouth or a pen not a knife"
"I hope you have some evidence other that brotherly love agent McGee."
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"Your actions or should I say in actions did nothing to her you sister but they did impugn the integrity of this agency"
"Sorry for not putting the integrity of NCIS above my sister it will not happen again"
McGee smiled as he walked up to Jenny's coffin. He had very little contact with the Director of NCIS but when he did she was always very director-like. He had never met the Jenny that Gibbs had known. He had never had the friendship with her that Tony and Ziva had. She had always been Director Sheppard. Even in his own mind it felt strange to call her Jenny.
He felt a little awkward standing there among the mourning. He knew that out of all the people at the funeral he was the least sad about Jenny's passing. It wasn't that he did not like her it was just that he had spoken to her directly about twenty times in three years. Gibbs had known her for nine years and the two had been lovers in Paris. Speaking of awkward thinking of the bosses being lovers was at the top of the list.
Tony and Jenny had grown close during his undercover mission. She was a cross of mother and friend for Tony. The same thing went for Ziva. Jenny had been the only friend Ziva had when she first came to NCIS and he meant only. They had worked together all over the world or at least Europe and the Middle East.
Ducky had worked with Gibbs and Jenny years ago and had obviously been close friends. Even Abby was closer to Jenny then him. To Abby she was again half a mother and half a friend. It made McGee feel a little left out.
It wasn't a question of loyalties. It never had been. He knew that Jenny would have given her life to save his without a second thought if it had come to that. He knew that he could have gone to her with any problem just like Tony and Ziva and she would have accepted him. It just had never seemed right. Maybe it was because, unlike Tony and Ziva, the family he had come from was whole and undivided. Actually compared to theirs, his was just about perfect. He had a sibling, while Tony was an only child, and he had not had to shoot that sibling or watch them die like Ziva. Both his mother had died of old age, unlike both of their mothers, and his father cared about him, unlike their fathers.
He did not dislike Jenny he just did not need to have her there in the way that Tony, Ziva, and Gibbs did. He looked around him at Jenny's family. Her father had died when she was about twenty and she had never talked about her mother. Jenny had never married and never had any kids. She had died without any blood relatives, as Tony had pointed out at least fifty times since his return to Washington.
Whatever Tony had said, when McGee looked around and saw Jenny's family. Family wasn't just who you share blood with; it is who you love and who loves you. Jenny was the mother of the NCIS family. She would never be forgotten.
He laid his rose on the coffin, "Good-bye, Jenny."
This is kind of a short chapter but I could only write so much about McGee and Jenny as they only have about five conversations in the entire three years she is there. Please review. I will stop pestering you if you do it. Promise. Thanks.