NCIS Headquarters
Abby's Lab
McGee and Abby are going over the crime scene photos from the diner at the Mojave Desert. "I asked Gibbs why Jenny's body wasn't in the crime scene photos over and over again." McGee sighs in frustration.
"And his answer?" Abby asks.
"Ask Director Vance since it was his investigation." McGee answers with a hint of sarcasm in his voice.
"I thought maybe, because out of respect Jenny it was the reason why her body wasn't shown in the crime scene photos."
"No, Davenport treated the crime scene like it didn't happen and technically Jenny died at home in a fire from smoke inhalation." McGee frowns.
"I thought Gibbs saw her body down in Autopsy?" Abby curiously asks.
"Jethro never saw Jenny's body down in Autopsy." Ducky sadly informs them over hearing their conversation as he walks into the room. "When he was standing next to the body bag, which he thought at the time was Jenny's; Jethro emotionally could not pull back the zipper on the body bag." "He walked out of the room."
"Whose body was inside the body bag?" McGee sheepishly asks.
"Sasha Gordon's, I did her autopsy and sent her body back to Los Angeles for her family to bury." "Poor girl had her neck broken at the hands of Viggio Dratyev." Ducky sighs at the loss of a young beautiful woman.
"Body used inside Jenny's coffin for her funeral." McGee asks.
"Coffin is empty at her grave site next to her father and mother."
"Besides Director Vance, Ziva, and obviously Tony and yourself, who else knows that Jenny is alive?" McGee angrily asks.
"I'm not at liberty to discuss this with you at this time." "Gibbs will fill in some of the blanks with you." "He wants you to communicate with him through your burn phone." Ducky informs him.
"I need to get in contact with him; Tony keeps calling and asking a lot of questions." McGee groans.
"How is Director Shepard?" Abby frowns.
"As of this moment Director Vance is the Director of NCIS, Jenny does not go by that title anymore Abigail." Ducky sadly reminds her. "Jenny received a gunshot wound to her right side." "When it entered her body it grazed her side." "Luckily for Jenny it missed her organs." "I sedated her and she's resting comfortably in one of my spare bedrooms." "What concerns me the most, Jenny lost a great deal of blood and has come down with in an infection." "It's the reason why I'm here, so that I can get the medical supplies that I need to fight the infection and treat her wound." "Jethro shares the same blood type as Jenny, so when I get back home I'll perform a blood transfusion."
"Can we see her?" Abby asks with tears in her eyes.
"Right now no." "The less people that come in and out of my house, the better off Jenny is."
"Makes sense." McGee nods.
"I just came in here to update the two of you and to pass on Gibbs' message."
"You need any help on getting the supplies, since it's so late at night, there shouldn't people many not be in the infirmary wing." Abby asks.
"Infirmary got shut down due to budget costs a few months ago, but the supplies are still locked up in the supply room." Ducky winks.
"I'll hack into the Navy Yard computer system just on the safe side and I'll disable the cameras and key code for the supply room so that you can get in and out." McGee smoothly says.
"The main items that I need are antibiotics and morphine to keep Jenny pain free." Ducky sighs and walks off for the door with Abby following him from behind.
McGee begins to hack into the Navy Yard computer system. "Anything for mommy." McGee fondly answers.
Ten minutes at Ducky's house, Gibbs is applying compresses to Jenny's face and forehead. "Why didn't you come to me?" "Protecting me is not an excuse Jen." Gibbs angrily asks. Suddenly his burn cell phone begins to ring. He takes the phone out of his pocket and spots McGee's name on the caller ID. "What's up McGee?" He answers.
"Tony's calling and asking a lot of questions and I can't give him any answers." McGee grumbles from Abby's desk in the back of her lab.
"Soon as I get done talking with you I'll call him."
"How is she?" McGee frowns.
"Weak from blood loss and an infection from her gunshot wound." "Soon as Ducky gets back from the Navy Yard he'll start an IV of both antibiotic's and morphine." "And I share the same blood type as Jen."
"I know Ducky told me about the blood transfusion." McGee smiles.
Gibbs gets up from the bed and walks over to the window and looks outside. "When Ducky leaves I want you and Abby to go home for the night and get some rest, it's past 2300 hours." "I want her lab locked out after she goes home." "I don't want anybody going in and out of there, including Mossad."
"What about Director Vance's orders?" McGee asks.
"The hell with Vance's orders." Gibbs growls and hangs up. He presses in the speed dial button for Tony's burn cell phone. "DiNozzo!"
Georgetown University Hospital
Exhausted from being up for twenty-four hours, Tony is lying on the couch inside the waiting room. "What's going on, McGee won't give me any answers?"
"I'll stop by tomorrow morning and give you an update."
"You know who's responsible?" Tony asks.
"No!" "The Yukon that the gunmen had used in the shooting was stolen."
"Did Abby come up with a DNA match from Ziva's contact?" Tony curiously asks.
"Yes!" Gibbs snaps and turns and looks over at Jenny.
"Who is it?"
"I will brief you on it tomorrow at 0730 hours." "I don't want to talk about it over the phone and do not call up McGee; he's under orders not to talk about the investigation at this time, until I talk to you." "From here on out, we communicate via our burn phones."
"You don't trust Vance." Tony asks.
"Vance, Mossad, CIA, nobody and that includes the SecNav."
"I'm not looking forward to a face to face meeting with Director David." Tony grumbles.
"Neither am I." Gibbs barks, suddenly his attention is drawn to Jenny's blood soaked clothing that Ducky has discarded on the floor near a table. "In the meantime get some sleep, when Ziva wakes up, she's going to need you."
"I will!" Tony smiles.
"See you tomorrow." Gibbs smoothly says and hangs up. Gibbs puts his phone into his pocket and walks over to the pile of clothes that's on the floor. Picking up the black cargo pants from the floor, Gibbs goes through the pockets and finds a key to Jenny's rental car and a keycard to the motel room that she's staying at. Gibbs takes his burn phone out of his pocket and flips it open, presses in the speed dial number for McGee's burn phone. "McGee I want you to take a cab to Francis Scott Key Memorial Park tomorrow morning at 0600 hours."
"Why?" McGee asks from Abby's desk.
"We need to find Jenny's rental car." "I just went over the clothes that she's wearing and found a key to her rental car and also a keycard to her motel room that she's staying at."
"You want the car processed back at evidence room?" McGee sheepishly asks.
"I want the GPS device disabled at the scene and then I want you to drive the car back to headquarters." "After the evidence technicians leave for the night I want you to drive the car down into the Evidence Room and go over everything." "Then I want it cleaned up." "Blood, fingers prints, everything, I do not want Jenny linked to that car." Gibbs orders him.
"Do you want me to go over Jenny's motel room?" McGee asks.
"Yes!" "Maybe there will be something linking to whoever she's working for, my gut says it's the CIA."
Two hours later, Gibbs is lying on the bed next to Jenny on her left side as he's giving Jenny a blood transfusion. Ducky hands Gibbs a glass of orange juice. "I don't want you passing out on me." Ducky snorts.
"To bad there isn't any vodka in it." Gibbs chuckles and takes a sip from his glass.
"Jethro!" Ducky laughs and shakes his head. "I better get this wounded treated before she wakes up."
"How much longer?" Gibbs asks.
"Don't know all depends." Ducky shrugs and walks over to Jenny's side of the bed and pulls back the covers with Jenny's naked body exposed.
Gibbs noting the scar on Jenny's right shoulder. "Is that the gunshot wound from the diner?"
"I don't know Jethro I didn't ask her?" Ducky frowns and begins to pull away at the bandage.
Gibbs continues to look around for the other injuries that Vance had told him that Jenny had received at the diner. "Vance made all of Jenny's injuries up." Gibbs sarcastically asks.
"Yes, all of her injuries in my autopsy report." "With the exception of the gunshot wound to the shoulder."
Gibbs sits up in bed and watches as Ducky gently pulls back the gauze. "I still have the sounds of Jenny's screams in my head when she got shot for the first time in the Czech Republic." Gibbs chokes.
"Young and scared Jethro." Ducky sighs and begins to clean Jenny's wound. "But keep in mind she had you to take care of her."
"She let me take care of her the first seventy-two hours." Gibbs laughs.
"Just as stubborn as you are Jethro." Ducky chuckles.
"I know it was one of the reasons why I would let things slide with her, more than any other Probationary Status Agent that I trained over the years."
"No, you let things slide with her, because you had fallen in love with her." Ducky smiles at him.
"You're not suppose to fall in love with your partner." Gibbs sighs.
"Jethro you can't tell your heart what to do." Ducky softly says to him.
"After Shannon died I didn't think I could feel that way about another woman." Gibbs frowns.
"As I stated before, I blame the both of you." "It's both of your fault." "If the two of you would have communicated with one another twelve years ago, then maybe Jenny would not have chosen the path that she took."
"Communication was always my biggest problem with women when it came to Shannon and Kelly." Gibbs bitterly answers.
"Not just women Jethro, you never told your friends and colleagues about them over the years." "We only found out about them, when Jenny did a background check on you while you were in your coma." "You don't know how hurt and angry I was, Jenny was, your team, to know you had a life that you couldn't share with us." Ducky frowns.
"And I felt the same hurt, when I found out about La Grenouille." "That should have been me, not Tony helping her out." "The minute I left for Mexico, she began Tony's undercover assignment. "He wasn't on vacation for two weeks in Europe." "Tony was tracking down information on the Frog."
"Jethro part of the assignment was Jeanne Benoit."
"Tony was suppose to put a play on her so that Jeanne could lead him to La Grenouille, her father."
"But instead the poor boy fell in love with her." Ducky sadly answers.
"And almost got Tony killed in the process." Gibbs snaps.
"Did Abigail ever find out who put the bomb under Tony's car?" Ducky asks.
"Somebody that was connected to the CIA."
Greek Island of Kalymnos
Trent Kort's rental car pulls up in front of his boss' villa. He gets out of the car and walks over to the front door and rings the doorbell. Iris opens the door. "Kort!" She purrs at him.
"Don't make yourself so obvious." Kort mutters and walks inside. "Where is he?"
"Balcony eating breakfast." Iris answers and closes the door behind her. "You want anything?"
"No!" Kort sighs and walks off towards the direction of the balcony.
Outside on the balcony overlooking the Aegean Sea, the back of a white haired man is sitting down at table finishing up his breakfast. "Best view that money can buy." He brags.
"With the weapons you've sold over the years, you could buy this island." Kort smirks over hearing his boss as he walks out on to the balcony.
"Any word on Phoenix yet?"
"Figures you would get down to business." Kort sarcastically answers and approaches the table.
"I want to know where my shipment got to." "The Libyan Freedom Alliance is waiting for them."
"Julien Benoit out bid us for them." Kort snaps.
Suddenly the table is thrown over. "How did he get involved with this?" The voice angrily seethes.
"My best bet is Davenport's niece former NCIS Special Agent EJ Barrett." "A contact of mine saw the two of them together in Rome several weeks ago." Kort informs him.
"Eliminate her at once."
"If only Jonas Cobb hadn't failed a month ago." Kort groans in frustration.
"Whining over what Cobb did or didn't do isn't solving the problem." "I want Barrett eliminated." "Now back to the subject at hand." "You didn't ask me answer my first question." "Where is Phoenix at?"
"You mean your bitch of a daughter." Kort shouts at him.
Getting up from his chair, the mysterious white haired man turns and faces Kort. Jasper Shepard glares over at Kort. "If you value your life Mr. Kort, you will never address my daughter that way ever again." Shepard icily warns him.
"Is that a threat?" Kort smirks at him.
"I don't make threats." Shepard snarls at him. "I make promises."
Kort noting that if he keeps baiting Shepard, he won't make it out of the villa alive. "Jenny checked out of her hotel in Riohacha, Colombia on August 10th." "From what Ray Cruz has found out while he was in Riohacha." "Jenny took a flight out to Miami, using her burn alias Harriet Jones." "Cruz is on his way to Miami as I speak and will get back to me on where she went from there."
"Hopefully she's meeting another supplier there." Shepard mutters and grabs a cigar from his shirt pocket and puts it in his mouth.
"She better be." "Jenny has had contact with Ziva David on and off since she's went undercover for the CIA."
"Only when Ziva was working for Mossad." "Jenny has not been state side since the attempt on her life in California." Shepard shrugs and lights up his cigar.
"She was in El Salvador a year ago." Kort reminds him.
"She was meeting an Arms Dealer and I will remind you on the profit I made on the shipment of those weapons from Enrique Sanchez." Shepard answers and takes a puff from his cigar.
"Your daughter is a pro at kissing ass, she learned from it from the master herself." Kort winks at Shepard.
"It's how I've developed my empire." Shepard grins.
"Along with the CIA may I remind you?" "You wouldn't be here without them."
"I don't need to be reminded Kort." "It cost me my daughter for thirteen years." Shepard frowns and takes a puff from his cigar.
"I'll see if Cruz's plane has landed." Kort nods and walks out of the room.
Shepard waits for Kort to get out of view. "If I find out that you have anything to do with Jenny's disappearance, I'll make sure that there isn't a piece of you that can be identified." Shepard vows and takes a puff from his cigar.
Out in the dining room Iris sashay's her way over to Kort. "Iris not now." Kort warns her.
"But when?" She pouts and grabs a hold of the lapel on to Kort's jacket.
"After I track down your lover's prized asset." Kort smirks.
"What if she's dead and you're wasting your time." Iris asks.
"Trust me she isn't dead." "Jenny Shepard was trained by the best Iris."
Back at Ducky's, Gibbs sits on the edge of the bed protectively holding on to Jenny's hand as he watches over her as she sleeps. Ducky walks in with a clean wash cloth and a plastic basin filled up with cold water. "I never released how small Jenny's hands were until now." Ducky muses and puts the basin down on the nightstand.
"Jenny's soft hands and manicured nails to the contrast of my rough calloused hands." Gibbs smiles and takes the wash cloth from Ducky.
"So many differences between the two of you and yet so many similarities." Ducky chuckles.
"I know it was one of the reason why our tempers would collide with one another." "She always got the last word in and it would piss me the hell off." Gibbs growls.
"Or make you look like an idiot and she got off on it when the roles were reversed." Ducky laughs.
"I know I could hear my team laughing at me behind my back." Gibbs grumbles.
Ducky walks over to the chaise lounge and sits down. "I'm going to take a nap for a few hours." "Wake me up if her temperature goes up or if she comes to." Ducky yawns and closes his eyes.
"I will!" Gibbs smiles and dabs the wash cloth into the basin and wrings it out. Tenderly Gibbs applies compresses to Jenny's face and fore head. "You hated it when I would take care of you when we were together the first time." "Now you have no choice in the matter Jen." Gibbs whispers so that Ducky can't hear him.