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Chapter 7

"Do you bring all the girls down here?" Jenny asked from her place at the top of the basement stairs, looking over the banister as the dark and dusty basement he had brought her to after they'd had dinner at a quite Chinese place.

"Nope, only the special ones" he said sending her a smile as he took off his jacket and put it on one of the work bench. "Drink" he asked turning around and grabbing two empty mason jars and the bottle of bourbon.

"Please" Jenny said as she took her high heels off, not wanting to break her neck. Gibbs notice this, pretty, had the taste for bourbon and common sense, was he on to a winner?

He handed her the jar of bourbon as she reached the bottom step, she took it with a nod before taking a sip, "You know Ducky told me a little bit about you" she said walking over to the boat and running her finger with the grain of the wood.

"Really" Gibbs asked making him turn around.

"Mmmh, you build boats in your basement" she said "How are you going to get it out?"

"That's a secret" he said taking another sip of his bourbon, eye the redhead over the brim if the jar.

"A man of mystery" she said with wide eyes, there was an awkward silence until Jenny decided to break it, "Ducky told me you're a great friend" she said giving him a smile.

Gibbs nodded "Ducky's always been there for me" he could always rely on his friend.

"He was there for me when my father died, I don't know what i would have done without him, he's lie a surrogate father for me" she said with a frown. She had a glassy look in her eyes as she got lost in memories of unpleasant times, she soon came back to reality and took a big gulp of her drink.

"You get the bastard who killed him?" Gibbs asked, secretly knowing to some degree what the younger woman had gone through.

"Oh yeah" she said with an evil grin, before finally meeting Gibbs's gaze, she saw something in his eyes, something that told her he had a tragedy happen, that he kept bottle up inside, a dark shadow that would always be with him, but she knew what it was like, she never liked to talk about her father, It wasn't something that just slipped out like it seemed to just then. Maybe it had something to do with the company.

"Refill?" Gibbs asked noticing her jar was almost empty.

"Why not" she said just before he poured more of the amber liquid into the jar. "It's an acquired taste" she said after taking another gulp, "shame more people don't acquire it" she said turning her attention back to the boat she was leaning on.

"Only met one other woman than you who ever liked the stuff" he said looking at the amber liquid.

Jenny turned, her green eyes meeting his again. "My first wife, Shannon" he said with a sad nod.

"Ducky mentioned you had been married a few times, what happened to her?" she said wanting to find out more about the masked man who had been in her dreams for the past weeks, who it took her until now to unmask.

"She along with are eight your old daughter were killed in a car crash by a drug dealer while I was away in the marines" his voice choked up by the end, but tears didn't fall, he was all cried out years ago now it just made his heart ache and voice shaky.

Jenny came up to him and gave him a hug, he would help but hug her back, his arms went around her little waist. He rested his head on top of her's as without her heels she was shorter than he was.

"Did you get him?" she asked looking up at him.

"Oh yeah" he said using her words from earlier making them both laugh.

He didn't know what it was that made him tell Jenny the big secret he usually harboured from the woman in his life, even Ducky didn't know. Maybe it was something to do with the fact she knew what he had gone through, she hadn't automatically walked out or pressed for more information, she was just fine with what he had told.

After a couple of more moments still standing entwined Jenny pulled away and turned to the boat. "You built all this by hand" she said taking a real good look at it.

"Yep" he said with a proud smile.

"It's very impressive" she said touching the wood like she had done before.

"You want to help sand it?" he asked picking up the sanding block and paper before walking over to her and handing it to her.

Jenny smiled before starting to sand the wood, deliberately not going with the gran as he father had taught her. Gibbs did just what she had wanted him to.

He came up behind her and put his hands on top of hers. "With the grain" he whispered into her ear, his breath hitting her skin causing a shiver down her spine. He then began to move both their hands so that they were sanding with the grain of the wood.

The tension between them was building between them once again, it hadn't been there since being in the elevator but it was back again.

Jenny turned so she was still in the confines of his arms, she reached up and kissed him, one which he eagerly returned. Her hands went to his hair much like they had done before. The spark form new year's had returned only this time was more like a fire.

The next morning Gibbs woke up when sing light hit his face, he reached out for the redhead who he had fallen asleep with but she wasn't anywhere to be found. He hadn't had another dream had he?

Then his en suit bathroom door opened to reveal Jenny dressed in the same clothes as the night before, she put her phone in her pocked as she walked out. "Hey" he said looking up at her with a smile one which she couldn't help but return.

"Hey, didn't mean to wake you sorry" she said leaning over and giving him a kiss.

"You weren't planning on running off so I would never be able to find you again where you" he said jokingly as he pulled her down onto the bed.

"Because now that I've found you I won't let you go" he said kissing her again.

"And I'm blissfully happy about that and I don't plan on loosing you either but I'm on call this weekend, so I have to get home and change before Fornell doesn't ask me why I'm doing the walk of shame. Can you imagine his face if I were to say you were to blame" she said laughing at the thought.

"Ok you can go" he said letting go of her wrist

"I'll call you later" she said giving him one last kiss before walking out of his bedroom door.

An hour later, Gibbs decided that he need more wood to finish his boat, on the way to the hardware store, he stopped at one of his favourite coffee places.

As he was making his order he noticed Fornell in the corner, dressed for work, obviously have a break.

"Here you go sir" the woman said handing him his coffee, Gibbs handed over the money before making his way over to his friend.

"Jethro, what a pleasant surprise" he said looking up from his drink.

"Tobias any reason you're not at work?" Gibbs asked sitting down.

"I'm having a longer than usual break" he said.

"Why?" Gibbs aske das he took a sip of his coffee.

"Sacks and Shepard are at each other's throats, him wanting to know who she's sleeping with all I can say is lucky bastard whoever he is" Fornell said shaking his head. Gibbs supressed a smirk, if only his friend knew. "She comes with baggage though" he continued.

Gibbs's smirk went "What?" he asked confused.

"She's a single mother, has a son" Fornell said "I only know because I looked in her file, she doesn't like to talk about him"

Gibbs was shocked, nor Jenny or Ducky had told him. After all he and Jenny had told each other last night, she didn't tell him that she had son. Why?

TBC…

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