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Previously on Back for Good;
"Stay with an agent. I'll be in touch." And then the phone went dead.
Now;
Having hung up the phone Jenny turned to Gibbs,
"Jethro, can I stay with you?"
"Of course, after all it was me who burnt down you house."
"Oh yeah, thanks for that." She quipped sarcastically. She realised just what that meant, "Jethro, I will have no clothes."
"Yeah you will; Mike and I raided your house to get stuff to remember you by."
"You found the letter head?"
"Yeah, what was that going to say?"
"Something along the lines of I messed up, I'm sorry and I still love you. I was going to try and get you back again."
Gibbs smiled fondly at the woman in front of him, wondering why she gave him a second chance after the way he treated her as Director. He wondered how the others would react to her being alive and decided Abby would take it best so that was who they would visit first.
"Let's go see Abby. She'll be so glad to see you; she took your death so hard."
"Oh god, I feel so bad." She said almost on the brink of tears.
"Jen," He pulled her into his arms, "It wasn't your fault. Vance deserves to be rotting in jail somewhere and that is where he will be."
They climbed into the lift and Jenny started to attempt compose herself to see her younger friend, she ran a frantic hand through her hair and Gibbs grabbed it and kissed her knuckles,
"You look fine Jen." He muttered as the doors opened. Jenny noticed the absence of loud music immediately.
She walked up to the usually bubbly Goth and tapped her on the shoulder, making the younger woman jump before turning around,
"Jenny?"
"Hey Abs,"
"B…B…But, you are dead. I did the forensics on your clothes. Well at least I started to before Vance told me the case had been closed and I needed to hand all of it into his custody. Wait, where is Vance? Is he gone? Can I throw you a party? Are you going to be Director again? Who else knows you're alive? Can I hug you?"
"Abs, you can always hug me, you know that. Vance is in interrogation awaiting transfer out to a prison, hopefully Gitmo."
"Good, now what about the party? And you're being Director? And who else knows you're alive?"
"I'm going to regret this but there can be a party, I am being director effective immediate and Ziva and Cynthia know I'm alive."
"Well, go tell people so more people can come to the lab. Go see Ducky; he's the one who did the supposed autopsy."
They walked out of the room and toward autopsy. The familiar sound of Ducky telling Jimmy one of his stories was surprisingly comforting for Jenny.
"Jennifer?" Ducky asked spotting the red-head.
"Hey Ducky," she said anxiously.
"Well, this does explain a lot."
"What does it explain?"
"A few minutes after Jethro left autopsy Director Vance came into autopsy and took the body, said something about it being too painful for me to do the autopsy. Who did that to you Jennifer?"
"Vance, he didn't want you to find out the bullets came from a hit he ordered on me. The Svetlana bit was just an added bonus for him."
"Well, I'm certainly glad that you're alive and that Vance is gone."
"Yes, well, we must be going. I have to go see the MCRT before news gets spread by Ziva." She chuckled, before grabbing Gibbs' hand and leading him back to the lift only just in time to hear Ducky call after them
"Congratulations,"
"What on?" Jenny asked playing dumb.
"Your relationship, it's easy to spot, the way you act around each other has changed."
"Thanks Ducky, but keep it quiet."
"Of course I will my dear." Little did they know Abby, who was listening through the autopsy to forensics communication, had a plan.
They headed up to the bullpen floor and prepared to face the team; because she was anxious Jenny was fiddling with her hair so Gibbs gently took her hand and stroked her knuckles. He placed a kiss on her forehead before letting go of her and heading in.
The was a stunned silence as she stood in the middle of the MCRT until Tony spoke up,
"Jenny?"
"Tony, I'm so sorry for what I must have put you through." She said seeing the flash of hurt in his eyes.
"After all I did for you, I fell in love with Jeanne just for your stupid little revenge plan and now you lie to me about dying. How could you?"
"Tony, I was in a coma and I had to dig up dirt on Vance. I'm really sorry." She said, close to tears.
"Jenny, that was just the shock talking, of course I forgive you." He said, engulfing the red-head in a hug. He noticed Ziva was not shocked, "Zee, how are you not shocked?"
"I helped her arrest Vance. He was a slimy bastard who needed to be put in his place. I was glad to help."
"Wait! Zee? Are you two together?" Jenny asked, wanting to know just how much had changed in her absence.
"Yes, we are breaking rule 12. But I do not care, we love each other and we wouldn't make the mistake of letting interfere with our work."
"Well, I wasn't going to be a hypocrite and stop you." Gibbs said before realising his mistake.
"You're breaking rule 12?"
"Yes, we are." Jenny answered for him. Then McGee's phone went off.
"Party in the Lab! Let's go!"
They all rushed down to the lab and saw posters all around many of them saying 'Welcome Back Jenny' and others saying 'Jenny and Gibbs Forever!'
"Abby, what's this?" Jenny asked
"I overheard your conversation with Ducky. Mainly the last bit, you should be able to have an open relationship."
"We already told them. Well Jethro kind of screwed it up so I just gave up the pretence that we weren't together."
"Well, that's good." Abby said, pulling her into a hug. "I missed you so much."
"I'm back now Abs. Not going anywhere as long as you let me breath." The Goth quickly released her and she chuckled. "It's good to be back."
"It's good to have you back Director," came McGee's voice from the corner.
"Thank you Tim, but it's off work hours so call me Jenny."
"All right Jenny."
They were joined by Gibbs, who put an arm around Jenny's waist and placed a kiss to her forehead.
"Enjoying the party?"
"Yeah, but I'm tired. I really want to go home and to bed." She sighed and leaned into his shoulder.
"I'll tell Abby. We'll go home and you can get some rest."
They said goodbye and headed home, stopping by the Chinese take-out to get some food, then headed up to bed.
"I love you Jen."
"I love you too."