Hello. Here is my new chapter as promised. A little background for the next few chapter. This one is from Gibbs's POV and the next few will be all around the accident with the car, and the aftermath. Enjoy.

Chapter 6

Gibbs's POV

Cold. That was the first thought that went through my head, I'm freezing cold. For a moment I thought I was locked in one of Ducky's freezers until I heard a voice.

"Jethro?" My heart skipped a beat, I hadn't heard that voice in years. Opening my eyes I found myself staring at a woman I never thought I would see again.

"Shannon?" Neither of us moved until I saw the familiar smile grace her face, the smile I had fallen for all those years ago, the first time I spotted her in the shop window back in Stillwater.

"What are you doing here?" Came her silky voice.

"Where is here?" I asked taking in my surrounding. I was standing in a white room, a room completely white, walls, floors, ceiling everything was white. There was no furniture or anything in the room, just Shannon and me. It was like someone had re-decorated but not put anything back in the room yet, everything was just white.

"I guess you could call this Limbo?" Shannon said, her voice echoing in the empty space. "It's the space between the living and the dead." It was then I was able to take her in fully. She was dressed in a creamy white dress that fell to her ankles, with a tight fitting top half and flowing sleeves, the skirt flowed with the gentle breeze that had somehow entered the room, and her feet were bare. Her long auburn locks lay loose over her shoulders and back reminiscent of how she had had it just after we met.

She smiled again and hurried to hug me. I held her tightly.

"Oh Shan, I've missed you so much."

"I know, and I've missed you too Jethro, but you can't stay here, you must go back." I swallowed.

"I don't understand, what happened to me?" I asked. Shannon let go of me and looked me square in the face.

"You don't remember?" She asked, concern plastered on her face.

"My heads a little fuzzy on the details, I went to help Maddie didn't I?" I asked for clarification. She smiled back.

"You saved her life Jethro. She's gonna be fine. A little damp maybe but fine."

"She's really ok?" I asked, unable to comprehend the fact that Kelly's best friend may lose her life because she came to me for help.

"Really. Kelly's with her now, she'll take care of her." I was horrified. I had failed her, this was all some sort of nightmare. I pulled away from Shannon.

"I thought you said I save her."

"You did." Shannon said very confused by my actions. I felt my frustration coming to ahead.

"So why is she with our dead daughter?"

Now it was Shannon's turn to look horrified. She had tears in her eyes.

"Dead! Jethro Kelly's not dead, at least she shouldn't be. What do you mean she's dead?!"

"But she died. With you, in the crash." My mind was whirring. If Kelly hadn't passed on in the accident, where was she? What had happened to my daughter?

"No, no Jethro Kelly didn't die, only I did. She got out of the car before it caught fire, that was the first thing they told me when I got to Heaven."

I was speechless. Kelly had survived. She was still alive. So where was she? What had happened to her? Where had she been for 15 years? Was she ok? Why had she never come back to me? Could she come back to me?

"Jethro." It took me a minute to realise that I had asked all my questions out loud, instead of in my head as I previously thought. "Kelly is safe, she's been cared for, and now she's come back to you." Shannon closed her eyes, as if she was picturing something in her head.

"She and Tony got you and Madeline out of the car. The paramedics put you into the ambulance and she went with you. She held your hand in the ambulance, she kept apologising on the trip to the hospital. She's still there now." Shannon revealed.

"But the only other person at the docks with us was Hanna." I said.

Shannon smiled at me in only the way she could. Her little knowing look that made me feel like I was missing something quiet important. My brain started working in overdrive. Hanna… no, she couldn't be. Well she was the same age as Kelly would be now… but she said she grew up in England. Well she did say she had been born in America and moved to England, but surely she would have said something, she would have… wouldn't she? I would have noticed if she was… Shannon reached out and touched my arm.

"Jethro, just listen to what she said to you in the ambulance." For a while the silence was deafening, but then I heard a voice. I voice I had heard nearly every day for the last 6 months, but now it felt like I was listening to her properly for the first time.

"I'm so sorry. This isn't how I imagined this would turn out. I should have said something sooner. I can't lose you, not now."

"You seem close." (I had never heard that voice before, I guessed it must have been the paramedic.)

"You've got no idea."

I couldn't speak. The room was silent again. Hanna. Hanna was Kelly. Hanna was my little girl.

"6 months." The words fell out of my mouth.

"Pardon." Shannon asked.

"She's been on my team for 6 months. I didn't notice who she really was once."

"Jethro." Shannon laughed placing her hands in mine. "Fifteen years is a long time. People change, look at you. Divorced twice, I never did think much of number 2, what was her name again; Rebecca?" I nodded. "And don't get me started on Diane." We both laughed at that. Shannon squeezed my hands.

"But look at you and Jenny. She's good for you, and little TJ and Chloe, they need their dad just as much as Kelly does."

"Oh crap!" I said suddenly remembering something I had said when Kelly met the kids.

"What is it?" Shannon asked soothingly.

"Chloe, I called her my favourite girl in front of Kelly." Shannon shook her head whilst laughing.

"Oh Jethro, you always did know how to stick your foot into it didn't you." She chuckled again. "Kelly won't hold a grudge. Well she might if you spend any longer talking to me." I smiled.

"Chloe said she looked like her, Kelly I mean. When they first met, Chloe said that Hanna looked like her. I just brushed it off. But she did. Their sisters."

Shannon laughed again. "She sounds like a clever girl Chloe. Go home Jethro. Go back to Jenny, Chloe and TJ, to Tony, Ziva, Elijah and Isaiah, to Abby, Tim, Jodie and Connor, and Ducky. Go back to them. And go back to Kelly, back to our daughter. Hug her, kiss her, tell her you love her, and while you're at it, tell her I love her, and that I'm so proud of her, of everything she's become and achieved." Shannon place a kiss on my cheek, before taking my head in her hands and pulling me too look at her.

"Now Jethro, I want you to be nice to her boyfriend too. I know in your mind she's our little girl still, but she's a grown woman, and Jimmy loves her dearly, he's good for her."

"Jimmy?" I bellowed. Shannon laughed so loudly, I thought she'd burst my eardrums. I'd figured out who the 'Jimmy' Shannon was referring to was.

"Kelly's dating the Autopsy Gremlin!" I yelled using Tony's nickname for Jimmy. I was fuming. He had better not hurt my little girl, otherwise I would quiet happily kill him and bury him in the back garden. Shannon seemed to read my mind, as one of her hands slipped off my face and gave me my very first Gibbs slap. No wonder the team did as they were told when I gave them one of those, they hurt!

"Now you listen to me Leroy Jethro Gibbs, he loves Kelly and she loves him. I'm a little worried about your detective skills if you didn't see that they were together, but I'll let that slide. Jimmy is a good person. He's cares about Kelly. He's with her now at the hospital. Give him a chance. He's petrified of you. How do you think he's going to react when you give him the 'you hurt my daughter I'll hurt you' speech. You have a gun, and know to use it." I sighed. Shannon was right, as always.

"Jethro, my time with you is nearly up. Go home. " Shannon smiled at me again. "I love you."

"And I will always love you too Shannon." I said, meaning every word.

"Tell Kelly I love her too." She said fading away.

"I will!" I called to her fading form. With that Shannon was gone.

I wiped away the tears from my eyes.

"Well what am I waiting for?" I shouted to the blank room. "Take me home, take me back to my family" and with that I felt myself being pulled into the darkness again.

And so Gibbs knows. This I found was one of the hardest chapters for me to write for some reason. I have always loved Shannon and Gibbs's relationship. I think it's one of the most romantic and beautifully written and played relationships I've seen on TV. Jibbs will always be my top romance, but Sibbs is pretty close to the top as well :)

I would also like to wish a Happy Valentine's to all those reading my work, and if you could leave me a review, that would be a lovely valentines present for me. Please enjoy and I'll look forward to posting again in another 2 weeks. Until then, happy reading.

Beth xx

PS: for all those reading my HP fanfic 'Finding Magic' I am in the process of writing chapter 16, it is on its way it's just taking longer than I had hoped. I promise I am trying my best, and hopefully it will be up soon. Thanks for the patients.