Chapter 8

Jenny had never been so nervous in her life. Well other than the day she'd first started at NCIS, or the day she saw Jethro again, or when she found out she was pregnant, or when she'd given birth to Jade or when she'd seen Jethro again, so maybe she had been this nervous or more before.

But it was still a big step, she was going to see her baby girl for the first time, well not the first time but for a real long period she would get to be with her daughter, really look at her, hold her in her arms, look after her.

She wondered how Ziva and Tony would react to her, I mean would they be angry at her and ignore her for what she had done, well of course they would, what she'd done was almost unforgivable.

"Hey" Gibbs brought his redhead back to the land of the living, he grabbed her hand and gave it a tight squeeze "It's gunna be ok" he assured her with a smile.

They'd done a little bit more shopping before going to grab a coffee, they hadn't spoken much about Jade and especially not the future, they had just sat in a comfortable silence, they then decided mutually that they should go back to the hotel so Jenny could see Jade. Gibbs hopped it would persuade her to give them a second chance, to think about coming back to D.C where he could protect her.

Jenny gave him a weak smile "Do they all hate me?" she asked him after a moment.

Gibbs shook his head "They could never hate you Jen, a little upset, maybe but they'll be happy that you're alive" he assured her before leaning over and pressing a kiss to her forehead.

Jenny leant into his embrace as she rested a little on his shoulder and he wrapped an arm around her shoulder, as they sat on the tube.

She liked having him, being able to kiss him, be held by him, it reminded her of when they had been in London the last time, they'd just finished some part of the op in a bar where Jenny had been flirting with their target, Gibbs hadn't liked it one bit and when they'd got back to the car he'd started what she knew would turn out to be an argument and so she stopped him by kissing him, when they'd parted both had laughed and smiled, she'd wiped the deep red lip stick from his mouth and all had been well.

"Ours is the next stop" Gibbs informed her once again bringing her from her day dream.

"Ok" Jenny nodded with a smile, all of a sudden she felt a rush of excitement for seeing her baby daughter and friends again.

Moments later Jenny and Gibbs got up from their seats and waited by the door of the tube before it came to a jolting stop, making Jenny stumble, Gibbs pulled her close to him to stop her from falling "Thank you" Jenny told him, still a little surprised by the action.

Gibbs just smiled at before leading her off of the tube, they then pushed passed the large crowds of people, up the steep stairs before having to swipe their travel cards and the gates before exiting the tube station.

They then held hands as they crossed the road, both sending the car that stopped to let them cross a nod before continuing their journey, as they drew closer to the hotel the butterflies in Jenny's stomach began to prepare to take flight.

"Here we are" Gibbs stopped outside what to Jenny looked like a nice, rather expensive hotel, but weren't most of the hotels in London expensive.

"OK" Jenny took a breath before he guided her inside and they headed for an old, dark wood stair case.

Moments later they were walking down a corridor, the walls were cream and the floor was a deep red carpet, all the doors were dark brown with the number of the room shining in gold signs.

Gibbs stopped at the room marked 103 then pulled a key card out of his pocket and swiped it, Jenny was happy to hear the sound of Tony and Ziva arguing about something the other side of the door, it made her feel so much better knowing that not much had changed.

Jenny followed as Gibbs walked in and she shut the door behind herself before going around the corner and seeing Tony standing in the middle of the living area holding Jade like she was a ticking time bomb about to explode any minute and had a disgusted look on his face.

"Oh Boss thank God your back" the Italian thrusted Jade into her father's arms "Look what she did to my Magnum-PI t-shirt" he motioned to the baby spit up on it, right in the middle.

"Uhuh" Gibbs rolled his eyes at his agent before looking down at Jade and pressing a kiss to her head making the baby gurgle.

"Do you know how much this cost?" The agent continued to ask while Ziva threw a tea-towel at him to clean it up.

"A lot, Tony" Ziva rolled her eyes, she already heard all of his wining all week and she'd had enough.

Jenny smiled to herself, she really had missed the team, all of them, hearing them argue was like home for her.

Just as Tony began to take his t-shirt off he noticed the redhead standing behind Gibbs, Ziva looked over at Tony and saw the confused expression on his face and followed his gaze to where it rested on Jenny.

"Hello Tony, Ziva" she smiled and nodded to them both.

"So Gibbs' right you are alive" Tony stated, Ziva rolled her eyes, they'd seen her in the supermarket yesterday of course she was alive.

"Yes" Jenny nodded "I was put it witness protection" she explained, hoping that it would tied over all of their questions until later, maybe until she could explain to the rest of the guys back in D.C.

"Why don't we got out and get something for dinner, you're staying?" Ziva said all of a sudden realising that Gibbs and Jenny would probably want a moment alone with Jade.

"Yes, if that's ok?" Jenny replied.

"Of course" Tony nodded "I'll go with Ziva" he said to Gibbs, his baby spit up covered t-shirt forgotten as he grabbed his jacket and followed the Israeli out of the hotel suite.

Once they were left alone Gibbs carried Jade to her make shift cot and then carefully wrapped her in her blankets to let her have a quick nap.

"Coffee?" Gibbs offered to Jenny while he took his jacket off.

"Yeah" Jenny smiled at him before taking her own coat off and putting on the back of one of the chairs that surrounded a small dining table.

When Gibbs disappeared into the kitchen Jenny walked over to the baby carrier and smiled at Jade who look so at peace as she napped.

She really had grown in the last two weeks since she'd seen her, although she'd forced herself to not get to attached to Jade, knowing that it would have only made their parting even more unbearable.

It almost scared Jenny at how similar the baby looked like herself, she really was her daughter, Jenny smiled at the thought, she had a daughter, she would get the chance to be a mother.

Just as she was about to touch her daughters cheek, Gibbs walked in, two hot cups of coffee in hand.

The redhead straightened up and turned to smile at him as he handed her a mug of coffee, she took a sip and loved the intensity of the coffee "I've missed you coffee" she told him with a smile, coffee in America was a lot better than it was in London just as tea was better in London than it was in America. You can't have them both.

Gibbs smiled "That all you've missed?" he raised an eyebrow at her.

"Maybe your smile" she told him with a grin over her coffee cup "You barging into my office, the surprise dinner's" she continued "And even the fights"

"Yeah" Gibbs nodded "NCIS hasn't been the same without you" he mused before taking another sip of his coffee.

They talked for a little bit more before Gibbs decided to hit the 'head'. He'd just walked out when Jade woke up and began to wail.

Jenny froze she wasn't sure what to do, wait for Gibbs to come or….No Jade was her daughter, she could comfort her, taking a breath she turned on her heels and saw that her arms were flailing above her in the car seat.

She leant down and carefully scooped the baby into her arms and began to carefully rock her back and forth in a soothing motion "It's okay Baby Mummy's her" she seemed to find herself cooing.

After a couple of gentle rocks Jade began to quieten before stopping all together, Jenny smiled, she was surprised she'd been able to sooth her baby girl and so quickly.

The redhead still stood rocking Jade and bouncing her, the baby began to gurgle, her green eyes shining bright with happiness.

Neither of them noticed Gibbs standing in the doorway, looking at the two redhead's he loved so much. He knew by the look on her face that Jenny would come to D.C nothing would separate her from Jade anymore, and he would protect them both with all he had.

TBC…

I'm not really sure where the story is going from here, they'll probably go back to D.C and then I'll do an epilogue I dunno, any suggestions?

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