Abby's Lab.
Abby is at her workstation going over Petty Officer Driver's e-mails. Glancing up, she spots Gibbs walking into the room. "Gibbs!" Abby notices that he's wearing jeans. "You've been wearing jeans a lot lately."
Gibbs tells Abby that he's been working on his boat a lot lately, so instead of changing into his clothes, he heads down into the basement at night after work.
Abby tries to gauge his relationship with Hollis. "You work on your boat with the Colonel."
"She's a big help Abs, wouldn't have gotten as far as I have with out her help." Gibbs comments sheepishly.
"Going to marry her." Abby asks curiously.
Gibbs rolls his eyes at Abby. "Just seeing one another, after my marriage with Stephanie, I don't think I'll ever remarry again."
"If I wasn't so busy with my work, I should have went up to visit Stephanie when she was in interrogation, even though your marriage ended badly, I did like Stephanie." Abby smiles
Gibbs thinks back. "Out of all my ex wives, Stephanie was the good one." Wanting to get back at the topic at hand. "Now on to my e-mails, and off my ex wives and sex life."
Abby giggles. "At least one of my boss' has one." "The Director works way to many hours Gibbs, the woman needs a social life." Abby protests.
"Jen's always been like that Abs, even when we were partners, creature of habit."
Abby looks up at Gibbs. "Just like you."
"I throw myself into my boat, to keep my mind off of things, Jen throws herself into work, same thing." "Now back to the e-mails and off of the Director's sex life."
Abby starts to types away on her keyboard. "Of lack there of." "Now!"
In the Squad Room an hour later, McGee sits at his desk, looking over Driver's cell phone records, Gibbs spots Jenny working up on the balcony, working in front of MTAC.
McGee notices something on the call log. "Boss I think I got something."
Gibbs gets up and heads for McGee's desk and leans over his shoulder, looking at the information on McGee's computer monitor.
Up on the balcony, Jenny looks down at Gibbs, who's sticking his butt out on purpose to tease her. "Obvious Hollis isn't cutting it out for you in the bedroom anymore, you've been a major tease for over a week now." Jenny decides to keep a mental note to get even with him later on.
While all of this is going on, Tony and Ziva walk out of the elevator. Ziva catches their boss' antics and grabs Tony by the elbow. "Tony!"
Tony looks up at Jenny and over at Gibbs and laughs. "Checking out Gibbs again." Tony grins over at Ziva.
Ziva notes, by the smug look on Gibbs' face, he's doing it on purpose. "How we say, being a tease, Tony."
"Why not, check out the merchandise that the Colonel is getting." Tony walks over to his desk and puts his knap sack down and sits in his chair.
Gibbs looks up from McGee's desk and spots Tony and Ziva have returning to their desks. "Find anything!"
Ziva sits at her desk. "No!"
Gibbs irritated with his team. "Going for coffee." He grumbles and walks off towards the elevator.
Tony waits for Gibbs to get into the elevator, Ziva watches Jenny go into MTAC. "Gibbs in the elevator."
"Now he is, and-"
"Just went into MTAC." Ziva quickly finishes it off.
McGee looks at his two partners and raises his eyebrows. "Did I miss something?"
Tony grins at McGee. "Daddy teasing mommy." Tony takes in McGee's clueless expression. "He was making sure, that she could check out his ass, when he was leaning over your shoulder at your desk."
Ziva smiles with a wicked grin from her desk. "Not the first time he's done it."
Tony grabs his mouse on his desk. "One of the perks of your desk Ziva, is you can watch all of our boss' antic's."
Trish is working behind the counter at Starbucks and watches Gibbs walk through the door. "Usual Gibbs."
Gibbs walks over to the counter. "Nah, Jamaican blend."
Trish remarks that Gibbs hasn't ordered that in a long time. "Been awhile since you've ordered that."
Gibbs takes his money out of his wallet. "Haven't been in the mood for it."
Ten minutes later, in Cynthia's reception area, Gibbs walks in, coffee in hand. "She in!"
Typing something on her computer and not looking up at Gibbs, Cynthia tells him yes.
Shocked that Cynthia isn't protesting that he's walking into Jenny's office unannounced, Gibbs glances over at her, before he walks into Jenny's office.
Inside Jenny's office, Jenny is sitting at her conference table reviewing case files as Gibbs walks in and flops on her couch. "Got a minute."
As Jenny is reading over the file. "Just a second."
"Mine should be a second." Gibbs tells her, in his best little boy tone of voice, to get on her nerves. Through her glasses, Jenny gives Gibbs, an annoyed look, and then proceeds to finish reading her file. Gibbs, laughs at Jenny's expression and begins to sip his coffee, and patiently waits for her to finish up. He loves to get a reaction out of her. Finishing up her file, Jenny puts her glasses on the table and turns her chair to face Gibbs.
Gibbs pats the chair next to the couch. "Haven't had a conversation with my old partner in months."
"Before Mexico!" "Jenny gets up and sits in the chair, next to Gibbs.
"Yeah!" Gibbs hands Jenny his coffee. "You haven't swiped my coffee from me since then either. Watches Jenny take a sip, and notes her reaction. "Last time I had Jamaican blend was when I gave you mine in MTAC the time of Abby's stalker."
Jenny puts the cup down on the coffee table. "That was a year ago Jethro."
"We've grown apart with in the past year Jen, I don't like it." Gibbs notes Jenny's reaction. "Before my coma, we had gotten into a comfortable routine with one another." "It was like we were partners all over again."
Jenny inhales sharply. "Problem is, partners should never keep secrets from one another, and the both of us did."
Gibbs thinks on the secrets they've kept from one another, not telling Jenny about Shannon and Kelly, and Jenny not telling him about her father's death. "Yeah!" He says softly
"Not sure if we can get that back Jethro." Jenny leans back into her chair.
Gibbs looks over at Jenny. "We did it once." "Took us six months to trust one another when you became Director, we can do it again." Gibbs cell phone starts to ring, picking up his phone and flips it over and notices Hollis' ID.
Jenny picks up Gibbs' coffee. "Going to answer it." She takes another long sip.
"Not important." Gibbs hits decline, and flips his cell phone over. Gibbs gets up from the couch. "Better get back to my team."
Jenny hands Gibbs his coffee back, looking down at her. "Keep it, I bought it for you." Gibbs walks off, with Jenny leaning back in her chair taking a healthier sip.
Back in the Squad Room, Gibbs returns and wants a Progress Report. Tony tells him that they have nothing.
Gibbs' cell phone rings again, and before he answers it. "That's what I don't want to hear DiNozzo." Sitting at his desk, Gibbs flips his phone over and notices it's Hollis again, hitting accept. "Gibbs, yeah!" He answers
Over at Gibbs', house sitting at the kitchen table. "What was so important that you declined my call?" Hollis asks in a sarcastic tone of voice.
Gibbs makes a face at Hollis. "I had a briefing with my boss, does that answer your question Hollis." He angrily growls at her.
Over at Tony and Ziva's desks, they are having an instant message conversation about Gibbs and Hollis.
Tony-(IM's Ziva) "Trouble in paradise, told you so."
Ziva- (IM's Tony back) "You just want to win your pool."
Tony- (Returns the IM) "Damn straight I'm going to win it, future ex wife number four will be
history soon."
Gibbs pulls up in front of his house furious at Hollis. Getting out of his truck, Gibbs storms over to the front door and opens it. Stepping inside the house and slams the front door.
Inside the kitchen, Hollis is frying some trout for Gibbs for lunch. Hearing the front door slam, Hollis walks out into the living room. "Want the entire neighborhood to hear you slamming the door."
Glaring at Hollis. "Not the first time they've heard it slam." Gibbs growls
Hollis stands her ground with Gibbs. "Which wife?" Hollis hisses in a nasty tone of voice.
Gibbs snorts back. "All three ex wives."
Hollis decides to bite her tongue about Shannon, and as she, makes her way back to the kitchen. "I don't like you ignoring my phone calls."
Gibbs follows Hollis into the kitchen. "I told you I had a briefing with my boss."
While Hollis is cooking over at the stove, flipping over Gibbs' fish. "I smell her on you, does the woman have to wear a whole bottle of perfume." Hollis whines in protest.
Gibbs opens up an upper cabinet to get out a coffee mug. Rolling his eyes at Hollis, Gibbs puts his coffee cup on the counter. "What's that suppose to mean?"
Hollis turns and faces Gibbs. "The woman drives me out of her office with the amount of perfume that she wears."
Gibbs grabs the coffee pot. "I hardly notice it." Pouring himself a cup of coffee.
Hollis turns back over to the stove and shuts off the gas to the burner. "That's because you're a man Jethro."
Gibbs barks at Hollis. "Enough on Jen." He walks over to the kitchen table and sits down.
Putting Gibbs' trout on a plate, Hollis corrects Gibbs. "You mean Director Shepard." "Now I can see why she wrote that back ground report on you, you constantly are disrespectful to her authority."
"Maybe if she would keep her nose out of my cases and quit playing Field Agent, I wouldn't be disrespectful to her."
Hollis laughs. "So she has an itch to be a Field Agent every now and then Jethro."
Pissed off at the conversation they're having, Gibbs suggests that maybe Jenny should of thought of that when she took the job as Director Of NCIS.
Hollis walks over to the table, puts the plate down in front of Gibbs, and notes his approval. "When we went fishing in August, you put some trout in the freezer."
Gibbs starts to eat, Hollis leans back against the counter and notes her lover is enjoying her cooking skills.
Fifteen minutes later, Gibbs is over at the coffee pot, pouring some coffee into a travel cup, Hollis finishes up with the dishes in the sink and approaches him from behind. Hollis rubs Gibbs' shoulders. "Have time for a quick one?" Hollis starts to kiss the back of his neck.
Irritated, because he's not in the mood. "I don't make love on my lunch break."
Hollis nibbles on his ear lobe. "Want to start?"
Gibbs mind flashes back, to a time when he did make love during lunch.
August 26th 1997.
Gibbs walks into his bedroom with Jenny thrown over his left shoulder and throws her on to his bed. "You've been begging for it all morning long." Gibbs begins to take off his boots.
Jenny lies on the bed and looks up helplessly at her lover. Jenny raises an innocent eyebrow at him. "How?"
Gibbs gives Jenny the stare. "You know damn well how?" "Tease!" "You have a minute to get undressed, before I do something about it." Gibbs pulls both his t-shirt and polo shirt over his head at the same time.
Two minutes later, Jenny is on her back being ravished by Gibbs. Protesting as Gibbs bites down on her neck. "You better not be leaving any marks." Crying out with pleasure as Gibbs enters her body.
Smirking down at Jenny. "Like you should talk, Decker and Pacci were busting up on me for days, with the one you left on my neck. Slowly Gibbs begins to make love to Jenny.
Present time, Hollis watches Gibbs, she's seen the look on his face, his mind is somewhere else, and it's not Shannon. Questioning him. "Gunny you in there."
Angry with Hollis she's brought Gibbs out of his flashback. "Yeah!" "Just looking over my hedges, they need to be trimmed."
Hollis asks Gibbs if he'll be home tonight. Gibbs grabs his cup and approaches Hollis. "Not sure yet." Gibbs leans over and kisses her.
Hollis tenderly kisses him back. "So I won't make dinner tonight."
Gibbs starts out the kitchen, and looks back at Hollis. "Make if for yourself, I'll eat left over's or take out." Gibbs walks out of the kitchen.
Hollis sinks in one of the kitchen chairs and sadly looks in the direction that Gibbs walked off in. This is not what she had planned on, when she decided to move in with him.
*Author's note, I want to thank you for the positive reviews, it's the first time I've ever written a story, there will be frequent updates to this story, so keep looking everyday
Secondly, I've gotten a kick out of the anti MIBBS comments in the reviews so far, I loathed Hollis, Susanna Thompson just had zero spark with Mark, and Hollis, like Jean and Michelle got on my nerves during Season 4, don't worry MIBBS is short lived*
