Disclaimer: I own none of the characters you recognize from the show. They are the property of the show. I am borrowing them for my own entertainment and hopefully for yours as well. This should have been part of the first chapter.
Flashback Gibbs POV
He was working on his boat when he heard the front door open. It was way too late to be Ducky. McGee never let himself in. The footsteps were too light to be DiNozzo or Abby's. He couldn't imagine what Ziva would be doing here either. Hollis and Jen were both out of town. The footsteps paused briefly in the kitchen. Fornell would have come straight to the basement.
Gibbs is surprised to see Jessi standing at the top of the stairs wearing his USMC sweatshirt.
"You should be sleeping."
"So should you. I think being alert is kind of important when you get shot at for a living. Besides I can't sleep." Jessi replied as she made her way into the basement.
"Why can't you sleep? Worring about school?"
"You know how I have been taking this film class?"
Jethro just nodded, remembering how she had reminded him of DiNozzo at dinner the other night.
"Well tonight we watched this movie about how these terrorists created this nuclear bomb. They managed to get it into this stadium and they detonated it during this huge event. DC was destroyed and it was chaos. And that could totally happen."
He quickly pulled her to him. Pushing her hair back and framing her face with his hands. He looked her in the eyes, waiting for her to stop her hurried ramblings.
"That is not going to happen, Jessi. I am not going to let that happen. You don't have to worry about that. I do my job so that you are safe." Jethro was very adamant.
"But it did." Jessi whispered. Jethro could feel her shaking slightly. "That man put the poison on the money. And people got sick. You got sick. It can happen. It can!"
"Jessi, we stopped him. The good guys won."
Jethro just held her, rocking her gently. Jethro knew that her fears were not based on the possibilities she had seen in a movie, but what had happened. They were almost too late with Sharif. She was terrified that the bad guys would win just once. Her whole world would stop when being shot at for a living became got shot.
"I am not going anywhere, baby girl. I will always be here when you need me. Always."
End Flashback
As he parked his truck in the emergency lot of Mercy General he was determined to keep the promise he had made in his basement.
Author's Note: I know I am evil and am still playing "whose the mommy?" Hit review and leave a guess. Have we met her on the show? Is she an ex wife? Why couldn't the hospital call her? And why isn't she with Gibbs? I want to know what you guys are thinking. I dare you to tell me even if it is to say you hate it.