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Title: I can be the friend you need

Rating: T

Abby parked her car outside her apartment condo. "Here we are stranger" she said to the man who was sitting next to her. He didn't answer to her and she turned to check if he was still awake. She realized that he had fallen asleep on their way to her apartment. 'What made you this way stranger?' she wondered as she tried to wake him up.

"Where… where are we?" he asked, his voice was sleepy and he seemed like he wanted to throw up.

"We are at my place stranger." Abby said smiling. He seemed to be half dreaming. "Jen" he murmured "don't leave… don't leave me" he whimpered. His broken voice made Abby to want to cry. He was a broken man, maybe more broken than she thought he was. More than he let everyone around him to see. He was clutching her coat like it was his lifejacket. "I won't leave you" Abby said. He was drunk and he needed closure, whoever that Jen was tonight she was going to take her role…

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Catherine got in the house, she was sitting at the beach for at least four hours and she was sure that her head was going to explode. Sara walked in the room she was running the whole morning trying to get away from the tension her new job was giving her. she had just moved into Las Vegas, that was good because she had Catherine there but it was bad because the amount of the work that needed to be done was twice as much as it was in San Francisco. She took a cold bottle of water from the fridge and turned to see Catherine sitting on the couch starring at the closed TV in front of her.

"Hey you ok?" she asked, since they arrived Catherine seemed to be a little lost into her thoughts. She was clearly troubled about something.

"Right now I am not, but… I am getting there…" she said and smiled to the younger woman next to her. Sara smiled at her as well and sat down on the couch next to Catherine.

"I'll be there for you" she said and hugged her tightly.

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Abby left the man on her couch he was tiered and he fall asleep, she was watching him sleep with a cup of coffee in her hand. something was telling her to wait until he sober up to tell her who he is but the holster she saw on his belt made her impatient she went to the coat she removed from him earlier and looked into his pockets, she found a badge

"Nice to meet you NCIS special agent Gibbs." She said to his sleeping form on the couch, "I am honored to meet you" she said smiling.

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The night was slow for Abby she sat on her armchair watching the strange man sleeping. That woman's name "Jen" was the only he was repeating. She needed to know who that Jen was, because whoever she might was, she was haunting this kind stranger's dreams.

"Where am I?" he said from the couch, Abby stood up and walked to his side, she sat down and placed a hand to his shoulder.

"In my apartment, you were drunk as hell last night and you didn't want to go home so I brought you with me, I hope you don't mind." She said. Gibbs looked at her, her light green eyes remind him of a child… his child…

"Thank you" he said. He was ready to leave when Abby grasped his hand and stopped him.

"Let me give you an advice, whoever that Jen is, you better find her cause if she has the power to haunt your dreams like that, she has to be special to you."

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Kate and Ari were sitting to their bedroom in their new safe house in Greece. They were lying on their bed into each other's arms, fully content.

"Do you thing that we will get away from this mess?" Kate asked. These last days she was thinking about all those things she earned from this operation but still those things she lost were always coming into her head. She lost moments with her family, her sister, her parents…

'You found Ari, Jenny, Ziva, Paula, Horatio, Alexx, Sara, Greg, Lisa, Mike, Kelly and who knows how many more people will enter your life from now and on.' A small voice was telling her.

"I hope we will Caitlin. Don't worry, as long as I am alive they will not hurt you" he said and hugged her closer to his chest. Ari kissed the top of her head softly smelling her conditioner. The soft smell of the lavender fill his nostrils calming his senses making him feel like… home.

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Gibbs felt frozen when he heard Jen's name. He turned to the girl "How do you know about Jen?" he asked. His voice almost broke but he tried to hide it, if Abby couldn't read people so well she was going to miss it.

"You were asking for her. Last night, when… when I brought you over." She said. Abby was seeing his eyes they were sad, clearly this Jen was someone who meant a lot to him. "I… I wasn't meant to listen or pick into your personal life you were just asking for her and I… I was there…" she said.

"Let me call at my work to tell them that I won't go today I'll tell you everything." He said.

"No need to…" she started but Gibbs stopped her. "You picked me up from the road and you knew nothing about me. I could be anyone, even a criminal but still you were there for me. You deserve it"

"Thank you" Abby said smiling.

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Natalia was sitting in the office of Agent Danville the woman was around her age with long brown hair. She had gone to find the other agent that was in this an agent Fornell. She didn't seem to be very happy that she had to work with that Fornell guy and that made Natalia more nervous than she already was.

"Sorry that I kept you waiting" agent Danville said, she entered the room with an older looking guy, he seemed to be around forty but something on his face was telling her that he got through a lot.

"No problem agent Danville, it was too long." She said smiling.

"Here is agent Fornell" agent Danville said showing the guy next to her. Natalia smiled and extended her hand towards his direction.

"Nice to meet you agent Fornell" she said as they exchanged handshake.

"Me too" he said grumpily. "Did agent Danville explain to you why we need you?" he asked.

"Yes she did."

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Abby was sitting waiting for Gibbs to come back, he had gone in the bedroom to make the phone call to work, let them know that he won't be coming in today.

"Everything ok at work?" Abby asked him when he re-entered the living room.

"Yes, I called them." he said and sat down on the couch. "Here I made coffee" Abby said and gave him a cup of coffee. Gibbs took the cup and smiled the cup was black with white bats on it. "Nice cup" he said.

"Thank you" she said smiling. "Well?" she asked.

"Whatever I'll tell you today will stay between you and me alright?"

"You have a deal."

"About five years ago I got a new partner her name was Jenny Shepard, she was a new agent, a Probie, and I was the one who trained her. The first year we hated each other, we were trying to get away from each other as much as it was possible. At the time I was married to a woman named Diane. When Diane and I got divorced jenny and I were sent in an undercover operation in Europe. Things changed there…" Gibbs was starring at the coffee cup in front of his he seemed to be lost into his thoughts.

"Things didn't work out well?" Abby asked.

"When things work out well? We were together for three years, three whole years we were traveling around the world playing husband and wife. When a year ago when our mission was over and we were going to come back in D.C. I told her…

FLASHBACK

Jenny was lying on the bed in their apartment on Paris. Jethro was in the bathroom and she was in the room alone, she heard the water running and decided to open her new orders and check out what it was about. She didn't go very far in reading thought because as soon as she opened the file the water stopped running in the shower.

Jethro got out not long after that with a white towel wrapped around his waist. Jenny wanted to freeze time and stay here in this moment for ever.

"I was thinking" Jethro started as he walked closer to the bed. "When we get back in the states to move in together" he said smiling. Jenny turned her head to him, his blue eyes were shinning, he really meant it. He wanted the two of them to move in together.

"I… I don't know, let's go back and we'll see." She said smiling. Jethro smiled and kissed her. "ok, unless you want to get married first."

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Abby was watching him with her eyes wide open "you asked her to marry you? What did she said?" she squealed. She hoped that Jenny said yes to his proposal but something was telling her that she said no otherwise he would have been home with her…

"She didn't answer. She thought I was kidding. She just said 'yeah right Jethro' the next morning she left. She said that she forgot her coat in the plane, I got there to get it and when I came back in the airport she was gone. She left a dear john letter in the pocket." Abby had tears in her eyes and she moved closer to Gibbs, she put her hand around his shoulders "I am so sorry that it didn't work out"

"The thing is that I got married a few months ago and now I am getting ready for another mission in Moscow. I can't get on a plane without thinking of her."

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Natalia got out of the FBI building, her head was spinning she was now an agent. She was carrying a gun and a badge. This whole thing was overwhelming and she didn't know how to deal with it… what to do?

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END OF CHAPTER 9

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