Chapter Seven
TPOV
"Jethro, who is that?" Shannon asked the boss.
"Shannon this is Jennifer Sheppard ex director of NCIS. She died last year." I'm sure my face was a mask of shock much like Gibbs's face. Kelly squeezed my hand lightly.
"I worked too hard to get rid of you, all so you could screw it up. Shannon, and Kelly you should have stayed dead, Hernandez obviously didn't do a very good job." Jenny snapped. My mouth fell open as her words sunk in. This woman with so much history with Gibbs was the one behind everything that ruined his life. He spent years depressed because of losing his family.
"You tried to have us killed." Kelly asked incredulously.
"Of course Kelly, I had to get to Jethro and the only way to do that was to get rid of you and you worthless mother. I knew he would never leave you too and let you go back to your family, away from him. I had no choice I had to kill you, too bad it didn't work." She said in a sickening voice. "And Tony, once I found out that they had been in your life I couldn't risk them coming, not since Jethro became your boss. The frog I really didn't care whether or not he died, but that fake obsession I had, got you in my corner. Getting you to fall in love with Jeanne that was the easy part the hard part was having her figure it out. It's too bad she left you Tony, you really were perfect for each other." No she did not just go there. Jeanne now that was a low blow.
"Leave her out of it Jenny. You leave her out of it" I yelled. "Playing with people, hurting everyone who cared about you, why, why do all of it. Gibbs what did he do to you that has you all pissed off, why take innocent people from their lives." I asked not understanding why she did this all.
"Jethro, took the one thing that mattered most to me."
"What the hell are you talking about" Gibbs hollered.
"You killed my husband, you shot him without even flinching. He was your friend, your second hand man Jethro, and you killed him. You didn't even have the decency to come and tell me yourself you sent a Chaplin to do the job." She screamed.
"You said you were never married, I don't remember killing anyone outside of the war, and I never killed a troop member." He responded in a harsh tone.
"Oh ya I was given proof that it was your gun that shot him right in the heart. Jason Parson. Do you remember him."
"Yes he is a friend, Jen."
"And you killed him in Desert Storm." She seethed. Her eyes were narrowed and her teeth gritted together.
"No I didn't Jen" He said sounding more confused than anything.
"Yes you did" She yelled cutting him off before he could say anything else.
"I saw him last week Jen we had coffee. He never mentioned being married or ever even knowing you. I had no idea there was ever a connection between the two a-you." Gibbs explained.
"That's impossible. I was told he died. I'm his wife I should know." She said as she chocked on her words. Who knew Jen had a husband. The emotion coming from this stoic woman was more than I had ever seen.
Gibbs whipped out his phone. "Ya Mexico, hey I got someone here who wants to say hi." He handed the phone carefully to Jen.
"Hello." We heard her say, I tried to get Shannon, Kelly and Maddi out of the room, unfortunately she pulled her gun on us faster then we could move. "Jason is that you?" "I thought you died in 91." She lowered her gun as she moved to the other side of the room, we all decided to slip out the door and make a run for it. There was no way we were going to deal with the fallout. Kelly, Maddie and Shannon had to get to safety first. Nothing but that mattered anymore. Jenny Shepard could wait.
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Back in DC we were safe, Abby ran up to me engulfing me in a huge hug as we entered the bullpen. She then moved on to Gibbs. "I was so worried when you didn't answer your phone. Oh MY GOD Tony what happened to your arm?"
"I got shot again, no big."
"No big… Tony, it could have killed you."
"Abs it's my arm." I laughed.
"Hey Maddi... Who are they?" She said pointing her chin towards Kelly and Shannon.
"Abby, this is Shannon and Kelly..." he was cut off by Abby's high pitched delighted screech.
"GIBBS. But wait, didn't, you know what never mind this is GREAT." She hugged them both like they were old friends, McGeek and Ziva soon joined the party.
"Ziva, McGee, this is Shannon and Kelly Gibbs."
"Oh a it's a it's a pleasure to meet you both." McGee stumbled. Ha-ha. McGeek and his ramblings. I smiled.
"Hello." Ziva said her accent thick.
Everyone stood around the bullpen talking for what seemed like hours before we all separated and went to our respective homes. I was astounded when Gibbs let Kelly come with me to my place, with the promise of course that she would spend the weekend back home with him and Shannon. We could do that.
Back at my place we sat on the sofa, looking longingly at each other. "Tony?"
"Ya?"
"Do you still love me, I know it has been years and that we betrayed you, I betrayed you I know I don't deserve your forgiveness but I am asking any way, and I know that you have probably found someone new to love and I understand if you did." She rambled, her mind forgetting the things I told her before we left Mexico. How my heart was hers forever.
I looked right into her bright cobalt blue eyes "I have and will always love you Kelly. After you 'died' I was never the same, I didn't 'date' I just kinda you know had partners to keep my mind off everything that I lost. There was only one other woman who I thought I could spend my life with, only problem was that everything was based on a lie to help the director."
"That Jeanne woman?"
"Yes, Jeanne Beniot was the only other woman I loved, she was perfect and a doctor but I was a lie, I was horrible to her, made her fall for me then broke her heart to get to her father, now it turns out that it was really all for nothing because the ex-director just wanted to keep you away from me for fear of the boss finding out you were never really dead. It's sick and twisted, and I can't believe I fell into that trap, we all trusted her. OH, my god if she had Kate killed." I said standing up. I was defiantly getting angry. "If she had Ari kill Kate she will pay, she took you and Shannon away from us, she ruined Jeanne and her trust in everyone, if she took Kate too she will... god I can't even begin to think. Gahh."
"Who is Kate, Tony?" Kelly asked confused.
"Kate, she was my partner like Ziva is now, she was murdered by a Terrorist named Ari Hasswari."
"Yes I have heard about him, he came to the house one day to make sure we were fine, he said he worked for Pedro Hernandez.
"No, Damnit, no he didn't he worked for Jenny, he held our autopsy hostage one day, um he had a thing for Kate and then he killed her."
"How?"
"He shot her right here." I said placing my index finger between my eyes on my forehead. She gasped as my hand fell back to my side.
"I am so sorry Tony that is so horrible." She wrapped her arms around my neck and placed a small kiss to my lips. My own arms tangled around her waist pulling her closer to me. "I love you Tony."
"I love you too Kells." Pulling her in for a kiss, it's as if I am hole again, as if nothing bad could touch me ever again. Things are finally put back into place right where they belong. Perfect bliss, well that is until the phone went off. I pulled away, saddened by the loss of our connection to answer the phone.
"DiNozzo." I answered.
"Tony, It's Kate, help me!"
