Here's chapter 3. Thankyou to everyone who is following this and also to those who are interested in it. :) I appreciate it. I hope you like this one, it took me a while to write. Enjoy.

Note: There are references in this chapter to 'Driven' (4.11) when Tony's "undercover" and also season 4 in general - the whole la Grenouille thing.

Miss-Margaret-4077


Chapter 3:

Jenny made her way to the hospital to see Ziva. "Can you tell me where Officer David's room is?" She asked the woman at reception. Being sure to flash her I.D while she was at it, she remembered how difficult it was last year when Gibbs was in the coma.

"Room 214, Ma'am."

"Thankyou." Jenny replied, making her way to Ziva.

When she arrived she saw the sight she'd been warned about: Abby.

Abby spoke very fast and sounded very panicky, "Director! You're here. She's okay at the moment, but the doctors say they don't know if she'll be okay, she will be okay, won't she, gosh I don't know what I'd do if she wasn't, I mean Ziva's my friend you know and I don't think I could handle another friend dying, that would be horrible. No, worse than horrible, it's just unimaginable and -"

"Abby, calm down, she'll be okay, you don't need to worry." Jenny said, trying to comfort Abby.

"If you say so Director."

"Please, Abby, it's Jenny."

"Sorry, Director. I mean, Jenny." Abby replied.

"So you said they don't know if it's permanent?" Jenny asked.

"That's right." Abby said.

"Can I talk to her?" Jenny asked.

"Sure, go right in. I was in there before, and so was Tony. Oh no, Tony, imagine how he feels, Ziva and him are pretty tight. I have to go find him." Abby said, going back to the speed she had been speaking in before.

Abby left to go find Tony and Jenny walked into Ziva's room. "Ziva? You awake?" She asked.

"Jenny. I should have known it was you, I recognise the perfume."

"You do?" Jenny asked, surprised.

"You know when a person loses one sense, the others become stronger? That's how I could tell, Jen." Ziva explained. And Jenny looked slightly more relived.

"So how are you?"

"You're kidding aren't you?" Ziva said.

"Aside from the lack of eyesight Ziva." Jenny said.

"I'm okay I guess, although the lack of eyesight is not helping."

Jenny sat down on the chair next to Ziva's bed. "I was talking to Gibbs before, he's worried about you, although he won't admit it."

"He never does."

"Oh I know, I've known him a long time."

"Yes, you have. I expect you know him better than anyone." Ziva told her.

"What about Ducky? He worked with Jethro years before I met him." Jenny answered.

"Yes that's true. But how well a person knows another person depends on their relationship, yes?" Ziva said.

"You may be right, Ziva, but I'm not here to talk about Jethro."

"I suppose not." Ziva replied.

"Excuse me, Director, visiting hours are over, I'm going to have to ask you to leave now." A nurse said, entering Ziva's room.

After the nurse left Ziva's room, Jenny said her goodbyes to Ziva, despite how much she didn't want to leave her alone. But she knew she had to. She also knew that Ziva needed rest, she'd been through a lot today.

As she walked out to inform the nurse that she'd finished talking to Ziva, Jenny wondered if the day's events would be any better if she hadn't called Tony away…

She thought about what had happened between the time that Jethro had stormed out of her office to when Tony had arrived at the warehouse…

Earlier that day…

Tony looked up towards Jenny's office, he thought, maybe he should go up and talk to her, Gibbs was angry enough as it was, maybe if he talked to Jenny about his assignment for this afternoon, that would in effect, cheer Gibbs up - a little at least. Once Gibbs had simmered down enough, Tony made his move, he got up from his desk and went up to Jenny's office.

"Does that a lot doesn't he?" Gibbs said, noticing the direction Tony was going.

Ziva answered, "Go to Jenny's office?"

"Yeah."

"Yes, he does. Although I do not know why." She replied.

"You think he's seeing her?" Gibbs hadn't really meant for that to come out, but it had nonetheless.

Ziva looked at him sceptically, "It is possible…"

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Tony opened on the door which lead to Cynthia's office, "She in Cynthia?"

"Yes, I'll let her know you're here, Agent DiNozzo." Cynthia picked up the phone and informed Jenny of her visitor. A few seconds later she told Tony to go on in.

"Tony." Jenny said.

"Good morning, Jenny." He replied.

"What can I do for you?"

"I wanted to talk about this afternoon."

"Yes."

"Well, you see, Gibbs isn't too fond of the idea."

"And why would that matter, Tony?"

"Well, you know him, he'll never let up."

"Yes, I do know him, Tony. But you leave Jethro to me, he's my problem, not yours." Jenny explained.

"I see."

"Is there anything else, Tony?" Jenny asked.

"No, that's all, Jenny. Thanks anyway, see you later."

"Bye Tony."

Tony walked back down to the bullpen. "You two have fun DiNozzo?" Gibbs asked, as Tony sat back down at his desk.

"What?" Tony asked.

"You and your new pal up there, Jenny." Gibbs replied, pointing in the direction of Jenny's office.

"I was just talking to her, boss. That's all." Tony answered.

"You expect me to believe that, DiNozzo?"

"Yeah."

Ziva watched them with amusement and intrigue. She was curious by what Tony was involved in with Jenny. She found herself feeling oddly jealous of her. After all, she obviously got to spend a lot of time with Tony, and she knew herself where that could get you. In the beginning Ziva had been attracted to Tony, but it was purely physical. Over time, she had actually seen past just his good looks, underneath that was a beautiful, kind, charming person. Ziva didn't know if it was love as yet, but she felt it must be something close to that. She found herself becoming more and more interested in Tony's life and him in general. She cared about him, she just hoped that one day it would be returned in the same way by him.

Not long after Tony had returned, Jenny appeared down the stairs and came into the bullpen. She walked over to Gibbs' desk, "Jethro, you have a case." She said.

"I do?" He replied.

"Yes, you do." Jenny said.

"You sure you don't want to take your buddy, DiNozzo, over there?" You two seem to be pretty chummy these days."

"Funny, Jethro, really funny. But seriously, I just got a call, you have a dead sailor." She handed him a piece of paper with the address, "You'd better get going, Jethro."

"You telling me how I should conduct an investigation, Jen?" He replied, taking the piece of paper. He tried to read what it said, he couldn't. There was no way he would let Jenny know that he couldn't read it clearly though, "McGee, take this, and DiNozzo, gas the truck."

"Where we going, boss?"

Because Gibbs hadn't been able to see the writing on the paper clearly, he didn't know, "McGee has the address." He glared at Jenny, because she'd won that one.

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They arrived at the crime scene not long after. Gibbs spotted Ducky doing his preliminary examination on their victim, "Hey Duck, what do we have?"

"Jethro, well, our young corporal was shot twice, once in the stomach and once near the heart."

"Time of death?"

"Approximately twelve hours ago." Ducky replied, looking at the liver probe.

"Thankyou, Ducky." Gibbs replied. He walked over to Ziva and McGee, "What do you two have?"

"I recovered his wallet and I.D," McGee said, "so from that I'll say the motive wasn't robbery. Especially because he had quite a large amount of cash in his wallet."

"How much, McGee?"

"$500." McGee replied.

Gibbs turned his attention to Ziva, "Ziva?"

"I found a bullet near the victim, one shot was obviously a through and through, Ducky can confirm that, of course." Ziva replied.

"Good, where's DiNozzo?"

"Ah, he got a phone call about ten minutes ago and left." Ziva explained.

"He left?" Gibbs asked, to check if he'd heard that right.

"Yes. I think it was Jenny, on the phone I mean." Ziva answered.

Gibbs was now officially pissed off at Jenny. He couldn't really blame DiNozzo - despite how much he wanted to - he was just following orders from a superior. "Damn her!" He cursed. He pulled out his cell phone, he was going to have a word or two with Jenny.

Ziva and McGee thought it would be better if they left Gibbs alone while he made this phone call, they did value their lives after all.

"What do you think you're doing!? Sending DiNozzo away from a crime scene!" They heard Gibbs yell. No one was quite sure of what, if anything, Jenny was saying, as Gibbs didn't give her much of a chance to speak at the rate he was going. They were just pleased it wasn't them on the other end.

After finishing at the scene they headed back to NCIS, they hoped that this case would not go on much longer, because no one was sure how long they could put up with an angry Gibbs.

Gibbs made his way down to see Ducky.

"Ah, Jethro." Ducky said, noticing Gibbs had entered Autopsy.

"What do you have Duck?"

"I recovered the second bullet, it was lodged near his heart. I sent it up to Abby. I also found something peculiar, our victim has a discolouration on his fingers, I would hazard a guess and say it was ink, but Abby can confirm that. I send a sample up to her."

"Anything else, Ducky?"

"Not at this time, I'll let you know when I find something else." Ducky replied.

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Gibbs made his way up to Abby's lab, he was still pretty pissed off at Jenny, he hoped Abby had something good to tell him.

"Abby?" He asked, as a queue for her to tell him something about their case.

"Gibbs, what can I do for you?" She asked.

"Tell me you have something."

"I have something."

"What?"

"This." She held up the money McGee had recovered from the victim's wallet.

"Yeah, and?"

"It's hinky." Abby replied.

"You going to tell me how? Or are you just going to stand there and stare?"

"You're a bit grumpy today Gibbs, you need to relax more often. There's this great massage place -"

He cut her off, "Abby…"

"Right, the money. I was examining it to look for anything hinky, because $500 is a lot of cash to have laying around in your wallet, unless you're like rich and famous or something. Anyway, I found something which I thought could be hinky, and it was, well, I thought so anyway. So I put the note under the microscope, and my suspicions were correct. The money is hinky." She placed the note under the microscope, and told Gibbs to look at the plasma, where he could see what she was doing, "Look at the print here."

Gibbs moved closer to the screen and squinted. Abby saw him having trouble, so she zoomed in on the area she was talking about. "You see it Gibbs?"

"Yeah, apparently this money comes from the 'untitled slates'. Good job, Abs."

"Thankyou my fearless leader." Abby replied.

"Are they all like this?" Gibbs asked.

"Most of them, some have other minor errors and a few are actually real."

"Can we find out who made them?"

"Well, I'm guessing our dead guy did. Or at least he helped." Abby replied, "Ducky found what looked like ink on his fingers, he was right, it looks like out guys were only new at this, or they'd had a few slip ups along the way. Aside from that mistake I'd say, as far as detection goes, they weren't bad, most of the bills are 20s or 10s usually they're higher numbers like 50 or 100."

"Thankyou Abby." He kissed her on the side of her cheek and left.

He went back up to the bullpen and asked McGee and Ziva (as Tony was still not back) what they had.

"The I.D. I recovered matched our victim, boss, his name is Corporal Alex Fisher." McGee explained, putting Corporal Fisher's I.D. photo up on the plasma.

"Abby thinks he and possibly others were involved in making fake bills. She examined the notes and found some errors in the print, Fisher also had black ink on his fingers and hands."

"Gibbs, I was looking through Fisher's financial records and it shows that he's been paying for a warehouse space, not far from where he was found. I have the address."

"Let's go then."

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Tony looked at his watch, he was thinking of how mad Gibbs was going to be at him. He'd already missed three hours. Jenny had asked him to go observe la Grenouille's people, there was still one un-identified, and Jenny wanted to know who it was and how they were involved. This mission did not involve going 'under cover' like he had last time, and no guitars and bad hair were involved either. He was simply observing and getting pictures. He also tagged their car with a GPS device so Jenny could track them from MTAC. Once he'd finished, he, very quickly, made his way back to NCIS. When he arrived, he was told then where the team had gone and he raced over to the warehouse.

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