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****NCIS****

The next couple of weeks flew by fairly fast for Gibbs. He had been out on several dates with Stephanie-hoping to get rid any thoughts of Jenny or her body on his, moving in that sexy little way she did.

"Dad, Jenny can't watch me tonight," Kelly said, as she joined him in the living room. "She's got a date or something like that."

Looking at Kelly in shock, he felt a twinge of jealousy at hearing Jenny was going out on a date. He was grateful he had his own date that night-maybe being with Stephanie would get his mind off Jenny. "Do you want to stay with Abby?"

"Or you could just not go," she said, seeing the look that crossed his face at her declaration of Jenny being on a date.

"You want to stay with her or not?"

"Fine, I'll call her and ask her if she can babysit me."

After getting it set up that Abby would watch Kelly at her place that night, Gibbs had her pack an overnight bag and got her out to the truck. "Please try to come home in a better mood tomorrow."

"I didn't realize I was in a bad mood," she said, looking over at him. "Just because I don't get why you are dating someone so quick after filing for divorce from Diane, doesn't mean I'm in a bad mood."

"You sound so much like your mom when you said that," he said, trying not to gape at her. "She used to always say she wasn't in a bad mood when she was mad at me, then give me some little excuse after saying she wasn't mad."

"Yeah, well I'm sure mom wouldn't understand this either," she said, rubbing her shoulder lightly. She had been cleared to move around slowly without her sling. Her doctor was optimistic that everything was healing nicely-so she had given Kelly some good news at her last appointment-if she continued on her road to a good recovery, she'd be allowed to return to all normal activity before the New Year.

"Kelly, just because I'm going out with someone does not mean that I'm going to marry them."

"You married Diane awfully quick," she said, rolling her eyes. "That's not saying much for your track record with women."

"Yeah, and look how badly it ended because I didn't get to really know her."

"Fine, whatever. Just take me to Abby's," she said, scared that she wouldn't be able to get her dad and Jenny together. With Maddie being in the hospital, there wasn't anyone to help her conspire to put them in the same room together. She knew she could talk to Abby, but there wasn't a lot of time that they could put into making it happen. At least with Maddie, they were around each other constantly-Maddie understood WHY Kelly was pushing so hard for her dad and Jenny to be together. She wasn't sure if Abby really understood. Before she knew it, Gibbs was pulling up in front of Abby's building. Getting out of the truck, Kelly started toward the building-when she heard Gibbs calling after her.

"Wait a second, Kel."

"What?" she asked, looking back at him.

"I'm going to walk you inside," he answered, thinking in his mind how he was hoping that his shooting hadn't changed things between the two of them-and that she wasn't becoming a moody teenager.

****NCIS****

Kelly and Abby sat around that night watching movies and plotting how to get Gibbs and Jenny together-well Kelly was plotting. Abby was trying to get her to see reason. "Sweetie, don't you think that if your dad and Jenny wanted to be together, they would be by now?"

"Abby, Dad's just really stubborn. I saw his reaction when I said that Jenny had a date tonight and couldn't watch me," she said, looking at her seriously. "He had like this look I can't describe on his face."

"Sounds like he's jealous," she said, mulling it over and thinking that Kelly may really be onto something.

"If he's so happy dating Stephanie, why would he be jealous that Jenny has a date?" she asked, looking at her questioningly. She had no real understanding of why guys did this, so it was nice to get some perspective from an 'older sister' type.

"That's just how guys are sometimes, kid," she answered honestly. "They have no real rhyme or reason for the things that they do."

"I've seen the way they look at each other though, Abby. They both like each other."

"What look is this?"

"Jenny looks all starry-eyed at my dad, and he looks at her differently than he did Diane or Ginger," she said. "He probably only looked at my mom that way. I don't remember though."

"So why don't you tell your dad to ask Jenny out on a date?"

"You really think he's going to listen to me?" she asked, standing up from the couch. "I'm going to go get my pajamas on, I'll be right back."

"Okay," she replied, wishing she had better advice to offer Kelly-although she had no idea what she was going through. She had been a lot older when her own parents died-not just a little girl and having to grow up through adolescence without her mom. Of course it didn't take too much convincing from Kelly to make her want to help give her 'silver haired fox' a shove in the right direction-into Jenny's arms. She was shaken from her thoughts when she heard Kelly let out an ear-piercing scream.

"Ahhh! Help!" she cried, as Abby ran into the bedroom and saw Kelly clutching her shoulder and screaming in pain.

"Kelly, what happened?" she asked in a panicked voice.

"I was putting my shirt on-" she said, the pain making it difficult to talk. "It snapped really loud."

"Okay, let me call your dad. You may need to get in and see your doctor," she said, going over and grabbing her 'bat phone.' After dialing his cell number, she didn't get an answer-it went straight to voicemail. Managing to get their home number out of Kelly, she called it but it just rang and rang. Doing this for almost twenty minutes and not ever getting an answer, she was unsure of what to do. Finally she decided to call Jenny and see if she had any suggestions.

"Hello," Jenny's soft alto voice answered, making Abby cringe internally when she heard the waiter asking if they wanted another bottle of wine.

"Jenny, it's Abby," she started, before rushing everything out. "Listen, I've got Kelly over here and she went to put her pajama top on, and she let out this blood curling scream. Well, not really blood curling but it was bone chilling, that's it-"

"Abbs, take a deep breath and slow down," Jenny said, her heart hammering in her chest when she heard Kelly still screaming and crying in pain. "Why didn't you call Jethro?"

"I tried, for twenty minutes I have tried to reach the man who has a rule to never be unreachable," she stated emphatically. "Jenny, I don't know what's wrong with her shoulder, but she said it snapped."

Sending an apologetic look to her date, Jenny grabbed her purse and headed toward the coat check. "I'll be there as soon as I can. I'm at least twenty minutes from your place. Keep trying to call Jethro if you can. Does she have any of her pain medicine with her? Try and get her to at least drink a glass of milk if she doesn't feel like eating. It can not be taken on an empty stomach, otherwise she will get violently sick."

"Okay, I'll ask her," she said, before hanging up the phone. "Kel, did you bring any medicine with you?"

"No, I haven't had to take it since a few days after the shooting," she answered, her sobs lessening a bit. "Daddy usually just gave me Ibuprofen if it started aching any."

"Okay," she said, still in a panic mode. "I've got Ibuprofen. I'll go get you a couple. Do you want me to make you chocolate milk to take it with?"

"Sure," she replied, as she followed her out to the kitchen.

****NCIS****

Once Jenny had picked up Kelly from Abby's, she drove her home and was a little surprised to see Gibbs' truck in the driveway. Seeing another car parked in front of the house had her wondering slightly.

"Gibbs," Stephanie moaned, as he was thrusting in and out of her, her nails scratching down his back lightly.

Not saying anything, he just continued thrusting-trying to get rid of the image of Jenny on a date with another man. He knew he was using Stephanie to get past his feelings for Jenny since she clearly didn't have feelings for him. Leaning in and kissing around her breasts, his mind flashed back to the night before the concert when he and Jenny were on his couch. The feeling of her hot skin under his hands and lips still drove him crazy. He looked up and saw Jenny's face instead of Stephanie's-causing him to growl a bit which made Stephanie think he was enjoying their lovemaking.

Walking into the house, Jenny let the door slam lightly. Looking around, she noticed a pair of Manolo Blahnik black boots.

"Daddy!" Kelly cried, the pain in her shoulder numbed a bit from the Ibuprofen Abby had given her but it was still sore.

"Shit," Jenny heard him cuss lightly, as he came rushing out of the bedroom. Running downstairs, he didn't think about the fact he hadn't grabbed his shirt from the floor or the fact that his hair looked like someone had tangled their fingers through it. "Kelly, what's wrong?" he asked, seeing the look of hurt flashing through Jenny's eyes as he got to the bottom of the stairs.

Looking at Gibbs and Stephanie, who had walked out of the bedroom trying to fix her blouse that she had hastily threw on, in total hurt and anger-Kelly lashed out, more mad than Gibbs had ever seen her get. "I can't believe you!" she yelled. The tears in her eyes weren't from her shoulder but from the hurt that filled her with the realization of WHY her father hadn't answered the phone. "You always say it's important to be reachable! How come when I needed you, you couldn't answer your phone?"

"Kelly, calm down. Tell me what's wrong with you," he said, kneeling down in front of her. "I thought you were at Abby's?"

Pulling away from him and going upstairs, she went into the bathroom to get her medicine. Jenny was still holding her bag downstairs.

"Jethro, it's kind of hypocritical don't you think? You tell us we need to follow your rules, yet you're allowed to break them?" Jenny asked, looking at him-the hurt resounding on her features. "Kelly went to put her pajamas on tonight and her shoulder snapped. It doesn't look like any bones are sticking out, so you may just want to take her to the doctor tomorrow."

Reaching in his jeans' pocket, he grabbed his phone and cursed himself mentally when he realized it was on silent. Seeing he had a lot of missed calls from Abby's house, as well as Jenny's cell phone, made him feel like a complete ass. Before he could say anything, Kelly came back downstairs with her medicine. "Jenny, can I stay with you tonight? I really don't want to stay here with him."

"I don't care, Kelly, but you really need to ask your dad," she said, not wanting to just take her.

"I'll be out in the car," she said, not giving Gibbs a chance to say yes or no.

"Let her stay the night with me tonight; I'll try and talk to her. I'll get her to see that maybe it was an accident on your part, having your phone turned down and not answering the house phone."

"All right," he sighed, almost wishing the whole night hadn't happened.

Unbeknownst to the two federal agents, Stephanie stood rooted on the steps and could see the feelings clearly written on their faces. She wasn't sure who Jenny was or wasn't to Gibbs. She knew that she wasn't Kelly's mother; Ducky had told her that Shannon had died years before and that Gibbs was raising Kelly on his own. She sure hadn't wanted her first meeting with the girl to be when she came into the house screaming in pain and seeing them stumbling out of the bedroom half dressed and disheveled. Going over to the door, she slid her feet into the boots and turned her attention back to Gibbs. "I had a nice time tonight; I just don't think we should see each other anymore," she said softly, knowing that he wouldn't and probably hadn't been with her mentally after seeing the longing look he had been giving Jenny.

"I'm sorry, Stephanie," he said, looking at her sincerely.

"I know."

Once Stephanie had left, Gibbs turned to look at Jenny. "I'll call Dr. Montgomery in the morning and see if she can somehow squeeze Kelly in."

"All right, make sure you have your phone turned up in case Kelly needs you during the night," she said, unable to help the smart ass remark she made to him. It infuriated her to no end that he chewed her out for not having her phone ringer on a couple months ago-but he was the infallible Leroy Jethro Gibbs, so apparently his rules didn't apply to him.

"Jenny," he growled, his look matching his tone.

"I'll call you in the morning, if nothing else happens tonight," she said, turning on her heel and walking back to her car. "You ready to go, sweetie?"

"Yeah," she mumbled, leaning her head against the window. "Does my dad really think I'm that stupid I wouldn't know what he was doing?"

"He doesn't think you're stupid. I think he just forgets sometimes that you're a teenager now-you're bound to know a lot more than he thinks you know."

"Yeah, well I'm sure I should be getting ready for wedding number three here soon," she said, picking at the sling she was wearing. Jenny had helped her get it back on before they had left Abby's, knowing her shoulder needed to be stabilized.

"I wouldn't go getting wedding gifts yet," she chuckled, glancing over at her. "Kel, he's not going to marry her just because they went on a date."

"I just want to eat something and go to sleep," she said, changing the subject quickly.

"That's fine. I'll fix you a sandwich when we get to the house."

"Has Noemi made her chicken salad lately?"

Nodding her head lightly, she glanced over at her. "She made it yesterday afternoon actually."

"Good, that's what I want," she replied, the first hint of a smile on her face since Jenny had picked her up. "I'm sorry I ruined your date tonight."

"Don't worry about it, sweetie. He was actually quite boring to me."

"Oh," she giggled, as Jenny pulled up in front of her house. "Then I'm not sorry."

Shaking her head at her lightly, she turned off the car. "Let's get inside."

Once she'd gotten Kelly fed and settled in the guest room for the night, Jenny went to her room and changed into pajamas. She went downstairs and fixed herself a cup of tea, hoping that it would relax her enough to be able to sleep. Her mind was racing with thoughts of her boring date with Mitchell Sullivan. All he wanted to talk about was law stuff-which she was convinced was putting her to sleep with her eyes open. She couldn't have been more thankful for the call from Abby-until she heard Kelly crying and was told what happened. Her mind was not letting her get over Gibbs, or his hands touching and igniting her body. She even thought she saw a look of remorse cross his face when she and Kelly caught him just after he and Stephanie finished. She couldn't seem to understand WHY she was letting him get to her so much. She'd had several flings throughout college and the start of her career; yet none of them ever made her feel the things that Gibbs caused within her. Maybe she could talk to Director Morrow and find out if she could take a vacation after the first of the year. Getting some space and time away to clear her mind may get her thinking clearly again for the first time since she'd laid eyes on the silver haired fox.

Gibbs was lying in the basement, staring up at the boat over top of him. He couldn't believe that the evening had turned into such a disaster. He had done the one thing he swore he'd never do-that was being inaccessible to Kelly. The crushed, heartbroken look on her face when he and Stephanie came down the stairs was enough to break him. He knew he had a lot of work to do to make this up to his daughter. He would start tomorrow making it up to Kelly-he just hoped she would talk to him.

He wasn't sure, but he thought he had seen a look of pain cross Jenny's face. Surely she couldn't have been jealous about him being with Stephanie? He swore he saw a look of regret flash on her face the other night after Kelly had knocked over the glass in her room. He knew he had been wrong in using Stephanie the way he had, but he needed to get his mind off the fiery redhead who worked on his team. Unfortunately his quest to get his mind off her led to him hurting three women in his life. One being said redhead, only he couldn't seem to figure out why. At least Stephanie seemed to be somewhat understanding; well as understanding as a woman can get after she sees the man she just had sex with looking at another woman like he's in love with her. Shaking his head clear, he got up and went to grab a sander, needing to work out his frustration.

****NCIS****

The next morning, Kelly woke up before Jenny or so she thought. Walking down the stairs, she was holding onto her arm, hoping to keep the pain from coming back. Going into the kitchen, she saw Noemi there fixing breakfast.

"Morning Noemi," she said, sitting down at the island.

"Morning Senorita," she replied, setting a plate with an omelet and bacon down in front of her. "Senora said you must eat before I give you your medicine. She is talking with your father in her study."

"Actually, we're right here," Jenny said, as she and Gibbs walked into the kitchen. "Kelly, your dad has made you an appointment with Dr. Montgomery so she can look at your shoulder. Do you think you can hold off taking a pain pill till after you see her?"

"I guess so," she mumbled, pushing the omelet around on her plate.

"Noemi, let's give the two of them some time alone," Jenny said, motioning for her housekeeper to follow her.

"Si, Senora."

"Hey Kel," Gibbs said, sitting down beside her at the island.

"Hi," she mumbled, not meeting his gaze.

"Look, about what happened last night-I never meant to turn down my phone."

"Yeah, well you did," she said, looking up at him then. "What's your excuse for not answering the house phone? Abby and Jenny called that one too."

"I didn't know it was off the charger; the battery died on it."

"Okay, I'll give you that one-that was my fault."

"Kelly, you know you're the most important person in my life. I would never do anything to intentionally hurt or ignore you."

"It felt like you were tired of dealing with me, that you'd rather be too involved with your date than worrying about me or my shoulder."

"Baby, that's not true," he said, feeling a piece of his heart break at her words. "Nothing is more important to me than you. It was a stupid mistake on my part to turn the volume down on my phone. One that I will never make again."

"All right," she sighed, as she hated fighting with him. She hadn't slept well the night before-mainly because she was upset about their fight. "Just don't do it again."

"I won't," he vowed, pulling her close to him carefully and kissing the top of her head. "Love you, Kel."

"Love you too, Daddy," she replied, laying her head on his chest. "Can we go home after the doctor? I'm tired."

"Yeah sweetie, we'll go home."

"Good, ask Jenny if she'll come with us to the doctor. I need to go get dressed."

"Do you want me to get her to help you?"

"No, I'm just changing into my jeans. I'm used to doing that one-handed."

"All right," he said, as he dreaded the conversation with Jenny. Being in that close proximity to her was driving him insane. He couldn't understand why HE, of all people, was tempted to break his own rules all of a sudden. He just couldn't get it out of his mind what it would feel like to have Jenny moaning his name, writhing underneath him as they made love well into the night.