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I did not particularly liked this chapter but here it is.

Chapter 8


Snap shot: "You're making the wrong choice though."


After moments of silence, the team turned away from Gibbs, knowing they would get no answers from him and got back to work, back to trying to figure out where Benoit was?

"What did you find Ziva?"

"Kort is with the CIA and is in charge of Benoit. I've asked Vance to bring him in and he's working on it as we speak. The only danger is the CIA protecting Kort who is protecting Benoit." Tony only gave her a nod.

"What about you Gibbs, anyone that stood out to you, that seemed out of place?" Tony asked. Gibbs shook his head.

"I don't remember much before the explosion and since… No, I can't remember much," he finished. Tony said nothing as he looked at the rest of his siblings. They were all still mad at his sudden departure but Jenny had told them how people leave but to have hoped that Gibbs would return. Everyone thought she was crazy but all she asked of them is to be open to the possibility and when (even though at times the team would catch her say 'if') he came back, it would be okay for things to be different. For a while, the team wanted their boss back but time had passed and they slowly changed their minds.

However, what bothered them now was Gibbs relationship with Mann and him putting her over their mother and not only their mother but also the agency. He had decided what to do that morning and the team didn't know if they could truly trust him now. And with the added information Tim had given them moment before… What was going on between Gibbs and their mother? Where they together before the explosion? How could they call themselves NCIS finest agents if they didn't have a clue?

Tony was about to tell everyone to get to work when all of a sudden the lab door opened and in stepped Ducky and Palmer with sullen eyes, fear and sadness in them.


Moments before.


"Mr. Palmer, I think we can put this body away and-" Ducky started to say but stopped at the sight of SecNav entering autopsy, the doors closing behind him.

"Mr. SecNav, what can I do for you in autopsy?" He asked a little worried at the sight of SecNav's face.

"I need you to take out the Director's medical file."

"Why?" Ducky asked. SecNav shook his head.

"I need you to read it, find anything that is different or worry some." Ducky was about to argue but SecNav's eyes told him not to argue and so he didn't. Ducky made his way to his desk and took out the file from his drawer.

"I had taken it out the morning… she had not been feeling well and I was going to run some test." Ducky said as he looked over the medical file.

"Everything seems the same as it was months ago. She had her physical done four months ago; she had another physical in two months. NCIS is always making sure their Director is in top sha-" Ducky stopped after reading a few pages through the file. SecNav stepped forward, not liking the doctor's sudden stopped of conversation.

"What did you find?" SecNav asked Ducky. Ducky looked up from the file in his hands confuse.

"Why are you here? What is wrong with Jennifer?" Ducky asked but SecNav shook her head.

"What did you find?" Ducky shook his head, not wanting to believe why SecNav was here. "Dr. Mallard, tell me!"

"Jennifer had her medical will change four weeks ago."

"To what?" SecNav asked.

"I didn't sign it. I would never let her do this." Ducky shouted.

"Doctor Mallard! Please!" SecNav shouted, making Palmer who had been ignored jumped.

"If she is to fall into a coma… she is to be taken off life support after 72 hours. If she is to fall into a coma without any brain activity… she is to be taken off life support after 48." SecNav's face fell and turned pale. Ducky closed the medical file in his hands and turned his body to SecNav completely.

"How long does she have?" Ducky whispered, knowing that this is why SecNav had come all the way from his office up in the hill.

"Under 9 hours," SecNav whispered back, hurt in his voice and unbelief. The Jennifer he knew would not take this coward's way out.


"Get a crash cart!" A doctor shouted as he ran down the hallway.

"Doctor, she's coding!" A nurse shouted from inside the room.

"Stay with us, stay with us!" Another doctor shouted as she entered the room running. "They can't lose you, he can't lose you," she whisper under her breath.


Back to the lab


Abby shook her head as she saw Ducky and Jimmy's faces. "No!" she shouted. "Don't give us bad news! Tell us she is fine. Tell us she is awake and is asking for us!" Ducky looked at every agent and stopped at Gibbs. He turned back to the team who had grown closer together because of the woman in question and because of a missing part of their family; who had arrived two months ago and who was still trying to find his place back into the family.

"Jennifer… Jennifer changed her medical will four weeks ago." Ducky swallowed back tears. "She is to be taken off life support if she falls into a coma after 72 hours." Ducky clears his throat. "She is to be taken off life support if she falls into a coma with no brain activity present after- … after 48 hours." The sound of a pen could be heard if it had fallen into the floor in the lab, complete silence and unbelief.

"How- how long- does she have-" Gibbs started to say but struggle through it all.

"Under nine hours."

"Where is she at?" Gibbs asked, the only in the agent who seemed to be able to speak.

"We aren't to know," Ducky whispered.

"Why?" Gibbs asked confuse.

"Jennifer's sister wants nothing to do with NCIS, the reason why her sister is in this situation."

"What!" Abby shouted.

"She's the one who is letting Jenny die!" Ziva shouted right after.

"That isn't right!" Tim said right after.

"Jenny wouldn't write that will!" Tony added after everyone had finished adding their comments. "Something isn't right here," he added.

"Why would she change it? Is there anything in her medical records that might prompt her to change her will?" Abby asked. Ducky shook his head.

"Only that she had not been feeling well for a while and that I was to see her…" He stopped at mid sentence not wanting to remember the sound of a shot and no response from Jennifer.

"Abby, tell me everything you can on Jenny's sister." Tony said as he tried to figure out how to solve the problem. "Tim, figure out why Jenny's sister would want Jenny dead? Find if she has any depth or loans, anything. Ziva try to get Kort in here so we can question him and continue forward on Benoit. I have a feeling Benoit is the source of all this mess. Gibbs-" Tony started to say to look at Gibbs but he was gone. He looked at everyone but shook his head.

"Everyone get to work while I tell Vance of the developments. Ducky read over Jenny's medical record once more, there must be something we aren't seeing. Why would she change her will?" Ducky gave him a nod and left the lab, Jimmy behind him. Tony turned around and saw Abby and Tim working side by side on the desk. He looked around and didn't see Ziva, she must have already left, Tony told himself as he took the elevator up. He rubbed his hands over his face, not wanting to believe that Jenny would change her will to the one she had now. She loved her children, why would she leave them like their father?


"You said it was my choice," Jenny said looking at the green trees in front of her. Everything was green, the grass, the trees, the different plants that she was sure she had never seen before. The sky above her was the bluest she has ever seen, except this one time… but she refused to bring forward that memory of another lifetime ago.

"You're making the wrong choice though."


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