AN: I'm sorry about the long wait, but between hangovers and exchanging Christmas gifts I had no time to write, hopefully the wait won't be this long for the next chapter. Thank you so much for the nice feedback!

Hope you enjoy this chapter, and bear in mind that my medical knowledge is limited but I tried to make it accurate.


Chapter three – What's wrong?


Outside the room the team gathered around the doctors, who were discussing what might be wrong with Jenny, both of them thinking that it was something psychological.

"I don't think it's a selective amnesia, though. You may block a certain incident because it's traumatic, but you don't lose ten years. That is too much", Dr. Gelfand argued.

"What about dissociative amnesia?" Dr. Goodman offered.

"It is very rare, but you're right, it could fit". Todd turned towards the six people who all looked confused. "Dissociative amnesia is when a person blocks out certain information, usually associated with a stressful or traumatic event, leaving them unable to remember important personal information. It's most common with women and usually trigged by overwhelming stress, which might be the result of traumatic events—like abuse, accidents or disasters—that the person has experienced or witnessed. I don't believe Jenny's accident to be the cause, but something traumatic could've happen in her past so her mind decided to simply block out everything after that incident. Another option is that the incident didn't occur over a short period of time but was ongoing which meant she was still trouble by it and therefore chose to live back in 1999."He paused. "Do any of you know what could have caused her mind to behave like this? Has she experienced anything that could traumatize her, something that affected her every single day, maybe some sort of obsession?"

The group looked around at each other all thinking the same thing – René Benoit. Finally Gibbs spoke up.

"The Frog"

"The man who killed her father?", Dr. Goodman asked.

"Yeah… She has been trying to get him for the past decade"

"But she didn't remember him which means that he might be introduced to her life short after whenever her brain think it is" Gelfand finished and looked at Goodman for confirmation.

"That could be it. If whatever happened between her and The Frog affected her every day, maybe she simply chose to go back to a time where he didn't exist."

"Is there a cure?", Ziva asked.

"With dissociative amnesia, the memories still exist but they are deeply buried within the person's mind. There are different ways to recall the memories, difference kinds of therapies. But I think the best thing to do would be bringing her back to a familiar environment then the memories might resurface after being triggered by something in her surroundings."

"She can't be the director of a federal agency when she's like this", Gibbs stated.

"She could work with us", Ziva said surprising the crowd who looked at her in disbelief. She elaborated. "Jenny could work with us, on your team, Gibbs. She has worked with both of us before, but she only remembers you and Ducky which means she will be comfortable around you. We could try to help her regain her memory since we know things about her that a random team would not, yes? Besides I really do not think she would like to work alongside assistant director Vance, she may not remember him now, but when she does I do not want to be there"

"Director Shepard knows Vance?" Tony asked, obviously intrigued. Ziva just smiled at him and looked back at Gibbs, who looked over at Ducky. He was after all the one of them who knew most about psychology.

"Excellent suggestion, Ziva. I do believe that working on Jethro's team would be the best thing for Jenny at the moment".

Gibbs sighed. It wasn't that he didn't want to work with Jenny, she had after all been one hell of an agent. But given their history and her current situation he wasn't sure if working together would be such a good idea. On the other hand he didn't know who else she could work with. Ziva was right, working next to Leon probably wasn't the smartest thing to do and Jenny did have the best options for regaining her memory working on his team. He looked at the doctors. "Is there a chance she won't regain her memory?"

"There is always a chance that the person won't recall the suppressed memories, but they usually do.", Todd answered in a very diplomatic, doctor way.


"Line up" Tony bellowed to his fellow teammates as they stepped away leaving Gibbs and Ducky to discuss something practically about Jenny's return.

McGee looked annoyed at him. "What, Tony?"

"Pay up", he stretched out a palm.

Ziva looked skeptically at him, "What for?"

"We had a bet, and who said the director and Gibbs had an affair back in the days? Moi!" He pointed two thumbs at himself to enforce his point.

"Tony, we all said that", Ziva pointed out.

He looked around at the group, both Abby and McGee nodded in agreement to Ziva's statement.

"All of you?", he whined.

Ziva smiled, "Yes Tony, all of us."

Tony squinted his eyes and did some heavy thinking, before he said, "But! ... Who said the director was seeing the doctor?" He looked around for approval.

Ziva rolled her eyes, "You did", she said annoyed and defeated.

"So", DiNozzo smiled victoriously, rising himself once again to full height with chest pushed forward and shoulders pushed back, "pay up".

"You know what I just realized, Tony?" McGee said with a pondering expression.

"What?" Ziva asked, before Tony had a chance.

"You are the by far the biggest shipper I know"

Abby laughed. "Oh yeah, you're so right, McGee! I can't believe I didn't noticed that before"

"He is a what?", Ziva asked confused.

"A shipper" McGee clarified, "is a fan of a romance between two fictional character"

Ziva looked even more confused. "But neither the director nor Gibbs is a fi.."

"I know", McGee interrupted her. "I just occurred to me that Tony is always the first to point out a romantic link between two people".

"I don't do that", Tony insisted having gotten over the initially shock.

"Director Shepard and Gibbs, Dr. Gelfand and Director Shepard, Colonel Mann and Gibbs, Palmer and Lee, Agent Jonhson and that girl from…"

"Okay, McGee I get your point" Tony said preventing Tim from continuing. "But I never suggested it was a romantic relationship. I just said they were doing it. One doesn't necessarily mean the other".

"You can say what you want to Tony, but deep down your just one big romantic cuddle bug" McGee smiled and Abby and Ziva both laughed at Tony's horrified facial expression.

"I merely stated that Gibbs and the director they.."

"They what, DiNozzo?" Tony immediately turned around starring straight into his boss' eyes looking sheepish.

"Erh.. What I said was.." He dragged out slowly. "They, you and director Shepard, probably weren't up for any food at the moment." He looked at Ziva for help.

"So we thought about getting something to eat for ourselves and then go back and do some paperwork."Tony groaned at the last mention.

Gibbs raised an eyebrow questioningly at him. "Ziva is right" Tony hurriedly said. "And McGee saw a fast-food place on the way over here, right?"

"Ehm… yeah, I've been there a couple of times since Jenn…"

Gibbs looked annoyed at them.

"Shut up and lead the way, McDonald" Tony said shoveling McGee out the door with Abby and Ziva hot in his heels.


Jenny awoke. She had no idea for how long she had slept, but the darkness outside the window suggested that it was way past bedtime. She turned to lie on her side and hopefully she would be able to get some more sleep before the sun rose. However when she turned around a file lying on the bedside table caught her attention, or more likely the note on the file caught her attention. She sat up and turned on the lamp.

I don't want to talk about it, but I thought you should know before you got back

-Gibbs

Curiously she grabbed the file and opened it. She scanned the pages and her heart dropped when she realized exactly what case file she was holding in her hands. Two pictures were attached to the file, one showing a beautiful redheaded women and the other one a cute little girl. She began to read. Gibbs had been stationed in Iran. His wife Shannon had witness a murder and wanted to testify. Drug Lord killed the agent driving a car with Shannon and Kelly inside and they both die in the crash. Details didn't really matter, because she got the bigger picture. Jethro had had a family; a real family with a wife and a kid, with birthday parties and family dinners, with sleepless nights and baby cries. He had had that.

She took a deep breath to clear her thoughts and wipe away the tears that had gathered in her eyes while reading. She looked at the pictures once more. Shannon was absolutely stunning, but the photo she really cared about was the one of Kelly. Gibbs had had a little girl. A daughter. He had been a dad. Somehow she couldn't fit that into her perception of him. He had been her partner, the guy who worked too much and therefore neglected his wives. The loyal but complicated man who had been her friend and family in the time she had worked with him. And he had been the man she had fallen in love with despite trying to rationalize that she wasn't. That man had had a family... And she hadn't known, she couldn't help but add.

She placed the file on the table and pressed her head into the pillow. She couldn't help but wonder if he really had felt anything special about her. It was a selfish thought considering she just found out that he had lost his family, that he had lost a kid, but she had it nevertheless. She hated second-guessing him but she couldn't help it. He had had a redheaded wife and a daughter, and now all his wives/girlfriends were redheaded. If there was one thing Gibbs had taught her it was never to believe in coincidences. Maybe she had just been a substitute. A thought Jenny hated but couldn't get rid off. Maybe he had only been with her because she had reminded him of Shannon, a ghost of what he used to have. She turned to lie on her backside. No, she refused to believe it. Gibbs liked redheads; he always had, before and after Shannon. He had to have.


The next time Jenny woke the sun was shining and illuminating the otherwise cold hospital room. She blinked a couple of times trying to get used to the sunlight. She stole a quick glance at the table, but the file was gone. A small smiled played across her lips, she hadn't really expected it to be lying there in the morning. When had he been there to remove it? Her question was answered when the door flew open and Gibbs stepped in, a cup of coffee in his left hand.

"You're up"

"It was a bit hard to sleep with all the sun coming through the window".

"Want me to close the blinds?"

"Nah, I needed to get up anyway", she smiled. "Did you talk with the doctors yesterday?"

"yeah, they seem to think you have some sort of amnesia."

"Really?" Jenny asked sarcastically.

He tried to suppress a smile at her annoyed look. "It's some sort of psychological defense that has kicked in. Apparently you've experienced something traumatic in 1999 which has affected your whole life and therefore you've shut that part of your life out."

She stared at him, letting his words sink in, trying to understand the meaning. "Oh My God, you think our break up traumatized me so much, so my mind still decided that we're together?!" She asked disbelieving.

He chuckled at the thought. "Well…"

"My God what an ego you have, I assure yo…"

"Relax Jen, that's not the reason", he cut her off before she really could get started, he knew how much she could ramble if she was worked up.

"Oh"

Gibbs took a deep breath before he continued. "We think that you're amnesia has something to do with the Frog."He waited to gauge her reaction.

Jenny's instinct was to kick him out. She didn't want him to know anything about her father, partly because they'd never had that kind of relationship and partly, well, actually she didn't know it was just a gut feeling, that something bad had happened between Gibbs and this Frog-fellow. But then she remembered the case file on her night stand. She had no idea when she had first learned about his family, but now that she knew she felt she needed to be honest with him too. Or at least wait to kick him out until he had said something enlightening.

She closed her eyes, "How so?"

Gibbs relaxed a bit seeing her reaction. "You once told me, that you'd been trying for a decade to bring him down. If that's true, you would be chasing him since right about now according to your timeline." He paused. "You fell down my stairs in march".

"I know"

"In April we went to Paris on an undercover mission."

"You think that's where I found out about the Frog?" He raised an eyebrow questioningly wondering how she figured that out. "La Grenouille is French so I took a guess".

"A damn good guess"

A silence fell over them and they both gazed out the window, so they didn't have to face each other. After a little while Jenny looked back at Gibbs. "What do you think happened?"

"Don't know…. But I do know that you haven't been yourself these past years", she looked questioningly at him. "You've been obsessive over this guy; Endangering your agents to settle your own revenge."

"I would never…"

"That's what thought so too… until now"

Jenny looked down at the hands. "So what now?"

"Now you'll be joining my team"

"What?!" She stared at him in disbelief. "You joking right?"

He would've chuckled at her horrified look, if the situation hadn't been serious. "Apparently that's the best way to regain you memory."

"Says who?"

"The doctors"

Well she couldn't really argue with that. Another silence enveloped the couple.

"Do you know when I can go home?"

"Jenny.." he sighed.

"Jethro", she whined, "you know I hate it here. Nothing is physically wrong with me, so they have no reason to keep me" She looked up at him with big puppy eyes. "Can't you talk to the doctors", she pleaded.

Gibbs sighed he might as well give it a try; "sure", he turned to walk out.

"Hey Jethro" he looked back at her. "Thank you".


AN2: Okay, so that's it for now folks. I hope you enjoyed it and reviews are very welcome. Also I have another question that occurred to me while I wrote it this chapter. Would anyone be interested in a House/NCIS crossover? It would be Huddy, Jibbs and some Tiva. I haven't exactly figured out the plot, but it would be something along the lines of House trying to diagnose Jenny and it'd take place after internal affairs. It's just the Lisa Cuddy and Jenny sort of reminds me of each other, so I thought it could be fun to put them in the same story and see what happened. Anyway, just wanted to know if anybody would be interested =)