Here is the fourth chapter of Good-bye Jenny. This story is not as popular as some of my others but I really appreciate everyone who has reviewed it so far. So here are Ducky's thoughts.
Chapter Four—Ducky
She was dieing Jethro. She knew the deterioration would have been rapid, debilitating pain, loss of motor skills. As difficult as this is to say, this may have been more merciful.
Ducky walked towards his old friends coffin and sighed. He had been prepared for this day. Well not so much prepared as he was expecting it. He had known that he was losing her from the time she asked him to run the test. He took some comfort in the fact that she had died on her terms. As horrible as it was to say this was the best way for her to die.
Jenny had always had her own way to do things and many times it had gotten her into trouble. He remembered when he had asked for her help after he pushed the cop off the cliff. Any other agent would have just acted as a witness, but not Jenny. She stole a boat and helped him and Gibbs flee the country, because of course Jenny was not just another agent.
Jenny did her job as well as any other agent before her but her methods would often raise questions within the agency. She had pushed a lot of people's buttons but she had also become the first women director of a federal agency. Ducky had seen a few directors come and go in his time with the agency, but Jenny was defiantly the best.
She cared about her people and would do anything to bring them home safe. He had noticed that when the team had been sent out to investigate a death on the classified ship the Chimera, a classified navy ship. The team had been at high risk and Jenny had pretty much bullied the man in charge until he gave her the information that she wanted.
As much as he had liked Jenny as a director she had made an even better field agent. She could get agencies to cooperate with them, but she was also quite good at hacking into systems. That was a side of her that very few people had seen, only those who had worked with her in the field. That would have been Gibbs and Ziva, both of whom had been Jenny's partners.
Ducky glanced behind him at Gibbs, Ziva, and Tony who were waiting in silence. She had trusted them with her life, and yet she had not told any of them about her illness. Most people would have wondered why, but Ducky knew the Jenny hated to admit weaknesses. She would have found it unendurable to lie in bed and wait for death to come and claim her for its own. So she was waiting for a situation to come up where she could fix something, possibly at the cost of her life.
That was why she had let Tony and Ziva off that day. She had discovered they had been compromised in Paris, so she had gotten back-up, gone to the diner, and waited for men to catch up to her. She had gone down in the battle but so had her opponents, and she had gone down protecting Gibbs.
Ducky had watched them carefully while Jenny was director, and there was barely a hint of their previous relationship. You could only see that small hint of sadness every time she had seen Gibbs with another woman.
Ducky shook his head sadly as he thought of her disease. She was too young to die that way. It was an unidentified disease that caused rapid, painful deterioration. That was not Jenny's style, going down in a firefight was. He looked down at the oak box that hid his friend's body.
He laid his rose on the coffin, "Good-bye, Jenny."
I know that Ducky calls her Jennifer but that screws up the repetition so oh well. The chapters after this should be longer. So what episode is this quote from? The last on was from Twisted Sister and the winner of the hypothetical cookie is Emeilia-Rose. A round of applause.