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Chapter 4

Jasper Shepard hadn't been surrounded by this much chaos in years and he was rather enjoying watching it unfold.

His daughter was trying to explain to Callie why she had to wear her jumper. "But why?" the little redhead asked using the pouty face that her father could never resist and always cave into.

As her daughter asked the most dreaded question to all adults she groaned and then saw the pouty face come out which she knew her husband could never no resist "Because I said so" she said before walking off to find out what Gibbs and Owen were doing.

Callie huffed before putting on her pink jacket before walking over to her grandfather. "You're so much like your mother you know that" the older man said giving her a warm smile.

"Yeah Daddy tells me all the time" she said sending him a grin that wasn't Jenny's so must have belonged to her father. "But Mummy tells me I'm stubborn like Daddy" she said with a giggle that seemed to light up the whole room.

Gibbs then walked into the room "Hey Callie-cat" he said lifting up his little girl into his arms and kissing her forehead. Callie returned the favour by kissing his cheek.

Sam the dog then bounded into the room his tongue hanging out as he ran in circles.

"Sam wait" Owen came in laughing at the Golden Retriever as he approached it trying to calm it down.

Jenny then came in a little out of breath holding the dog's brown leather lead that matched his collar. Gibbs put Callie down before approached his wife "I'll it on him" he said taking it from her hands.

"I'll get the kids in the car" she said giving him a quick kiss on the cheek before turning to their two terrors. "Come on" she said motioning to the kids.

"Wait" Callie screamed before running up the stairs as quick as a flash.

"Fred" Owen mumbled crossing his arms over his chest and tapping his foot impatiently as he heard his sister upstairs looking for the bear.

Jasper followed his grandchildren and daughter into the hall. Just as he stepped into the hall Callie came down the stairs with the brown bear by her side.

"Come on Cal" Jenny said offering her hand to the little girl before heading to the front door, the other two boys in the hall following behind her.

As they got to the car Jenny unlocked it and lifted Callie so she could get in her car seat "Owen, you and grandpa get in the other side" Jenny instructed and they did as they were told as she helped the little girl get settled just as Gibbs was pulled out of the house by Sam.

Once he'd put the dog in the boot of the car Gibbs then got into the drives side, he gave Jenny a smile before putting on his seat belt before starting the car and pulling out of the drive.

Jasper sat in-between his two grandchildren not really sure what to say or do. Owen was looking out of the window while Callie was looking at her brown teddy bear straightening his bow and pretending to talk to him.

Callie all of a sudden turned to her grandfather and shoved the bear in his face "This is Fred" she explained.

"He's very nice when did you get him?" The old man asked trying to interact with the children to maybe get on their parents better sides knowing he still had a lot and I mean a lot of explaining to do.

"Daddy got him for me when I was born" she said looking at the back of her father's head and he knew he was looking at her.

"Aww he's very special then" Jasper said with a nod, the girl nodded to.

"He goes everywhere with me" the little redhead said hugging the bear close to her chest.

The older man then turned to Owen "So got any ideas what you would like to be when you grow up?" he asked knowing kids at his ages had crazy ideas.

"I want to be an NCIS agent like dad" the little boy replied with a smile before looking back out of the window.

Twenty minutes of silence later and they arrived at the big park. After getting everyone out of the car the family walked into the park.

Gibbs took Callie, Owen and Sam off to a patch of grass to play with a Frisbee they had brought with them while Jenny and Jasper got a chance to talk, to clear the air.

The two walked around for a bit before settling on a bench but they could still see the others. "Tell me about yourself?" Jasper asked not really knowing who his daughter had grown up into.

Jenny took a breath before beginning "Well I'm the first woman director of a federal agency, proud mother of two have great friends and the best husband anyone could ask for" she summed her life up in a nut shell.

"You do have beautiful children" he said looking at his grandchildren as they ran after the Frisbee

"They almost didn't happen, none of this did" The redhead mused to herself.

"What do you mean" Her father asked confused and worried for her or what she might tell him.

"I almost left him, but he chased after me and showed me how wrong I was" she said watching her husband as he picked up their daughter and made her giggle as he tickled her sides.

"Oh" he mumbled.

"Why don't you like him?" she asked turning to her father.

"I don't know what you mean" he said to himself trying to look away from her.

"I see the looks you give him and the way you talk to him, what is it, why?" she pushed, she had always wondered what her father and Jethro's relationship would be like, she always thought they would get along evidently not.

"I don't trust him, I mean who is he, what type of past does he have?" he asked looking at his son-in-law.

"He's Leroy Jethro Gibbs, grew up in Stillwater Pennsylvania, his father owns a grocery shop there, used to be a marine, now an NCIS agent, married four time's divorced two" she said giving him all of her husband in a nut shell.

"He's a bigamist" Jasper said wide eyed looking at his daughter in shock.

"No" She said putting a hand on his arm and shaking her head "I'll tell you but you can't let him know you know" Her father nodded slowly "he had a wife and a daughter but they were killed while he was away in the marines and he doesn't like talking about it" she continued.

"it still don't like him" he said shaking his head.

"Well you know what I don't think you get a choice in any of this and I don't care about your opinion, maybe I would have if you had never 'died', I love him and there is nothing that will ever change that" she said very angry.

"And whose fault is it that I 'died'?" he asked.

"I don't know, yours because you to that bribe" she said keeping her voice low.

"You know I didn't take it Jennifer" he only used her full name when angry with her.

"Then why did you have to fake your death huh?" she asked confused.

"I did it to protect you, to stop the frog from going after you as a way of getting to me" he said touching her hand.

"And you think he left me alone, he turns up at my house ten years after your death begging me to help him get away from the CIA and when I say no he threatened my family, my children" she said with tear filled eyes.

"Where is he now?" Jasper asked worried for her and her familys safety.

"Rotting in a prison somewhere, I helped the CIA take him down" she said just as Callie came up to her. "Hey Callie-cat" she asked with a smile

"Can you push me on the swings" she asked.

"Sure sweetie" Jenny said getting up and walking to the swings.

Hours later after the sun had set the family of five arrived home very exhausted after a day of playing in the park then stopping for ice cream on the way home for dinner.

Gibbs un buckled Callie from her seat and lifted her sleeping body up "I'll take her up" he said to Jenny as she got Sam out of the car while Owen and Jasper got out, the little boy very tired.

Once inside Jenny helped her son take off his coat just as Gibbs came down stairs.

"Dad can you read me a story before I got to bed?" the little boy asked his father sleepily

"Sure thing buddy" The older Gibbs man said following his son upstairs.

Jenny walked into the kitchen to start to make a pot of coffee and Jasper followed her. "I've been thinking" she said as she opened the cupboard to get some mugs.

"Yeah" the older man said wondering what she was thinking about.

"The sofa isn't comfy and there is still the house in George town It's still yours I mean mine but now you're alive yours , I haven't been there since what 1999 and your stuff is still in it nothing has changed, you should have it" she said going into a draw and pulling out a very familiar key.

"Are your shore?" he asked as he took the key.

"It's just collecting dust" she said "I can drive you there tonight if you want" she suggested with a smile.

"I would like that" Jasper said with weak smile.

Forty minutes later the two arrived outside the house they had once occupied together. "Do you want me to come in or…?" She began.

"No it's fine you go home" he said with a smile "Sweet dreams" he said with a smile before kissing the top of her head.

"If you need just call" she said before he got out of the car. She watched as he unlocked the door and walked in before driving off and heading home.

As soon as he walked in Jasper was taken aback by the memories the house harboured for him.

He looked to the stair case and couldn't help but remember his wife walking down the stairs in a lovely ball gown looking more beautiful than he had ever seen her ready to go with him to some function or another and him feeling like the luckiest man in the world, he wondered if the marine felt the same way about his daughter.

Then there was the lounge and memories if him dancing to music with Jenny clouded his mind, him take her by the hand and twirling her around as her dress fanned out around her. The little redhead's laughter was music to his ears. But she wasn't that little girl anymore and she would never be again.

She was a woman, had her own life, her own little redheaded daughter, she wasn't his Jenny anymore she was a changed person, his 'death' had changed her and there was nothing not even him coming back from the dead could do to change that.

TBC…

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(Jenny didn't kill the frog in this)