Chapter 11

As the weeks past the new family of three fell into a comfortable routine. Gibbs would normally be called out early for a case or have a stack of paperwork to do so would get up early for work, meaning that Jenny had the task of getting Zoe up and to school, then Gibbs would pick her up after school and take Zoe back to NCIS where she would do any homework or reading at Gibbs' desk or Jenny's office, depending on if she had meetings, then Zoe would go home with whoever got to leave first, most of the time that being Gibbs.

They were all happy, swapping between Jenny and Gibbs' houses trying to find the one that was most comfortable for them so they could finally move in together, Zoe loved her new life. She had a daddy that loved her to know end and that she knew would never hurt her meanwhile she had a Momma, having already had a mummy that had passed away, who loved her and protected her as well as the extra bonus of Gibbs' team who were slowly becoming her family too.

Jenny and Gibbs' relationship was also going along nicely, although they didn't have much time to focus on just the two of them, they still cherished what they had, still held each other at night and kissed each other before leaving in the morning, they still hadn't exactly right out told anyone about their relationship but team Gibbs just presumed it went with adopting Zoe.

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It was a usual Friday morning, Gibbs was out on a case with his team, so Jenny didn't get to see him when she walked through the bullpen to her office.

People had noticed the difference in both Jenny and Gibbs in the last couple of weeks, Jenny was less bossy, smiled and laughed a lot more, less of the ice queen director that she had slowly been becoming meanwhile Gibbs had seemed less grouchy, left at a more reasonable time.

The redhead gave the MCRT area of the bullpen a quick glance before making her way up to the balcony in front of MTAC, "Good morning director" Cynthia met her halfway.

"Good morning Cynthia" Jenny gave her ever so faithful assistant a smile as they walked to her office. "We haven't got any ops today in MTAC do we?" Jenny asked making sure, she wanted a light day so she could go home and be with Gibbs and Zoe.

"Uh no, you have a pretty light day, but SEC-NAV informed me he needed to speak to you for a moment so will be arriving in half an hour to talk to you in your office" Cynthia said as they reached Jenny's office.

Jenny sighed, she really didn't have the energy to talk to her boss right now, but she had no other choice. "Okay, can you inform special agent Gibbs that I would like to see him for an update in his case" she asked.

"Of course Director" Cynthia smiled before going over to her desk, she noted that recently her boss had been having Gibbs de-brief her about his cases more and more, she'd always known something was going on between them and now it was more or less confirmed in her mind.

Jenny walked into her office and shut the door behind her, looking over at her desk she saw there was a cup of coffee sitting on her desk with a bright yellow sticky note stuck to it.

She made her way over to her desk, sitting in her chair and picking up the Styrofoam cup that was now cold and peeled off the sticky note and read the familiar scrawl.

Tonight 1900 J x

The redhead couldn't help but grin as she leant back into her chair, tonight at 1900, what was Jethro planning, resisting the urge to pick up her phone and call him, she picked up the cold coffee and put it in the bin, it was the thought that counted.

"Director Sec-Nav is here to see you" Cynthia's voice came through the intercom.

"Thank you, Cynthia, let him in" Jenny replied as she folded up the sticky note and hid it under some other paper work.

Moments later her office door opened and Sec-Nav walked in with a stern look on his face, Jenny gulped before standing up "Good morning Sir" she said giving him a small smile.

"Director" he nodded "I don't have much time so I'm just going to get down to business" he told her and she nodded "It has come to my attention that you and one of your agents have been having an affair for the past month or so, now I know you Jennifer so I'm right in thinking this is just a rumour?"

"Yes" Jenny nodded "That's a rumour" she confirmed.

"So there isn't anything going on between you and one of your agents?" he asked her, sensing there was something she wasn't saying.

"Well actually…" Jenny began noting how the man in front of hers facial expression screwed up to a scowl "We should have told you sooner but Special agent Gibbs and I are together" she informed him.

"Well then you'll have to break it off, think of the integrity of the agency Jennifer, your affair will bring NCIS's already fragile reputation to ruins" Sec-Nav explained his voice getting a little angry.

"We are not having an affair" Jenny told him sternly.

"Well whatever it is it has to end" Sec-nav told her.

"No" Jenny shook her head "Jethro and I have a daughter now and we love each other, I'm not ending our relationship for you or anyone" she told him.

"You have a daughter!" Sec-Nav yelled at her in shock.

"Yes we adopted her a couple of weeks ago, she's six and her name is Zoe" The redhead explained.

Sec-Nav nodded, he himself had children, of course a little older than six but still, if he could have kids why shouldn't she "Well I think I can work with this with the press, but I expect you both to keep it out of the office" he told her before moving to walk out of the door when he opened the door he found Gibbs on the other side, they shared a glare before the older man walked off and Gibbs walked into Jenny's office.

"What did he want?" he asked looking over his shoulder and not at Jenny.

"He found out about us" Jenny told him as if it was nothing.

Gibbs shut the door and locked it behind him "What did he say?" he asked her.

"He told me that we had to break up" she said walking over to where he stood.

"Screw him" Gibbs told her as he wrapped his arms around her and held her close.

"I told him no" she said with a smile "I also explained to him about Zoe and he said that he could deal with the press if we keep it out of the office"

Gibbs smiled at her "What he doesn't know won't hurt him" before he reached down and kissed her lightly on the lips and gently squeezed her waist.

Jenny smiled when they parted, she'd missed him so much, she still almost found it hard to believe that they were actually finally together, she had a funny feeling that this would be it, this would be them forever and she was quite alright with that.

"Did Zoe go to school okay?" Gibbs asked her after a moment.

"She was fine, she loves school you know that" Jenny told him "You're picking her up later?" she asked him.

"Yeah" Gibbs nodded "The case is pretty open and close" he added "I'd better go" he told her before kissing her quickly on the lips and turned to walk away.

Jenny reached out quickly and grabbed his hand, spinning her back to face him "What's happening at seven?" she asked him.

Gibbs smiled, so she'd got his message "I was thinking dinner….just you and me, then whatever you want" he told her before kissing her again, someone times he just couldn't get enough of her, he gave her another smile before walking out of her office.

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"You look pretty Momma" Zoe told Jenny from where she sat on Gibbs' double bed in the bedroom at his house.

"Thank you sweetie" Jenny smiled at her, she was dressed in a knee length black dress with long sleeves that were made of a floral silk pattern, she had matching black stilettos, a simple diamond heart pendent and diamond stud earrings, her hair curling naturally down her back.

Zoe watched as Jenny sat down on the edge of the bed with her makeup bag, the little girl watched as she applied eyes shadow, eye liner, a little foundation and finally bright red lip stick, "You want some?" Jenny asked her offering her some lipstick.

"Yeah" Zoe nodded, wanting to be as pretty as her Momma.

"Okay, put your lips in a pout" Jenny told the six year old showing her how she meant and she did, she then put a really thin layer on so it just gave her lips a slightly red tint but to her she could really feel it.

"How do I look?" Zoe asked Jenny with a smile.

"You look beautiful" Jenny said reaching across and kissing the little girl on the forehead.

"But she always looks beautiful" Gibbs spoke from his place in the doorway to his bedroom making Jenny and Zoe turn to look at him.

Jenny took in Gibbs' black trousers, grey shirt with the top of his white polo shirt showing underneath, looking as much of the silver fox as ever and he was all hers.

There came a bang at the door and then a nock "That'll be Tony" Gibbs told them "Zoe why don't you answer it?" he asked her.

"Okay" Zoe nodded before skipping down the stairs to answer the door, leaving Jenny and Gibbs alone.

"You ready to go?" he asked her, watching as she got up from the bed and made her way over to him.

"Yeah" She nodded as she made her way over to him and they then walked down the stairs to find Zoe and Tony.

"And then we can watch the little mermaid two" they heard the little girl explain loudly to Tony, all of her DVD's she wanted to watch in her hands.

"It sounds like we are going to have to make a lot of popcorn" Tony told her with a smile, he liked films, he loved films but he wasn't sure he was in for a night of Disney Disney and more Disney, but if that was what the little girls liked who was he to deny her.

"You know where the microwave is, just don't burn it this time" Gibbs told him, remembering the last time that Tony stayed over a couple of years ago and he made popcorn for a movie night and burnt it and it smelled for weeks. "We have a reservation so we better get going"

"Okay" Jenny nodded "Love you Zo, be good for Tony" she gave her 'daughter' a hug and pressed a kiss to her forehead.

"Will you guys be back to read me a story before bed?" Zoe asked them, her eyes big and green.

"Uh, I don't know" Jenny told her "But I'm sure If we can't Tony will read to you"

"Okay" Zoe nodded, once she'd said goodbye to Gibbs the couple left for a night out, leaving Tony and Zoe to watch their films.

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Hours later, Jenny and Gibbs were walking through a park close to the restaurant they had dined at, their hands were holding each other's and their fingers were entwined, Jenny's head rested on his shoulder lightly.

"You know if Zoe was our child…"Jenny began but Gibbs cut her off.

"What do you mean?" Gibbs asked her "Zoe is our child" he added.

Jenny smiled "I mean if she was blood ours" she told him "She'd have been conceived in Paris" she added looking at him.

"Really" He grinned, Paris being one of the best times of his life, the thought of what they could have had, had she not left did hurt a little but he knew what they had now and he loved it.

They continued to walk, he noticed Jenny was quiet, he nudged her lightly "Hey" he said with a small smile "What's up?"

"Just thinking of what we could have had if I hadn't walked away all those years ago" she said, her green eyes bright and watery "I….I threw away everything, I…" she was stopped but Gibbs' putting a finger to her lips.

"No" Gibbs shook his head "We've been through this" he told her "I love you, we have to stop thinking about the past, think about what we could have now" he smiled.

"And what could we have now?" she asked him.

"We could have anything you want, we could get married, have more kids, anything" he told her, brushing a lock of her hair out of her face.

Jenny gave him a small smile "That sounds nice" she mumbled before taking his hand once again.

Gibbs gladly took her hand with his and then they continued to walk "The real question is, what do you want to do now?" he asked her making her laugh.

"mmm, we could go watch a movie?" she suggested but Gibbs shook his head, never really having been one for films, "Ooh dancing" She said, her eyes lighting up, she loved to dance and what she could remember he was very good at dancing. "But you don't dance in public" she remembered.

Gibbs grabbed her hand and wrapped an arm around her waist, "What are you doing?" Jenny asked him.

"Dancing" Gibbs told her as he began to move around the path with her in his arms.

Jenny laughed "You don't dance in public" she told him as she began to dance with him.

"Look around Jen" he told her and she did "We're the only ones here" he whispered before kissing her.

They continued to dance for a minute until they were interrupted by Gibbs' phone ringing, breaking the spell "Gibbs, ugh huh, what did you do, alright, we'll be there soon" Jenny listened to his conversation and worry built with in her.

"What's happened?" she asked him.

"Uh, I don't know, Tony just said Zoe's shut herself away and won't let him in" he explained, they turned on their heels and they headed back to the car.

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Twenty minutes later they arrived back at Gibbs' home, they pulled open the front door.

"Where is she" "What happened" Both Gibbs and Jenny spoke to Tony at the same time asking different questions.

The Italian stood stunned for a moment "I uh don't know" he told them "I fell asleep when we were watching TV when I woke up she was gone and I heard her crying and I found her in the cupboard but she won't let me in".

It was then Jenny realised what must have happened, Zoe must have been reminded of killing her father, him watching TV, Tony not moving being asleep, like he was dead.

"Where is she?" She asked him and Tony nodded to a cupboard in the hall that was open a jar, she gave Gibbs a look and he nodded to her.

Going over to the cupboard the redhead opened the door and found Zoe in the corner shaking, just like when she'd first set eyes on her "Hey Zo" she reached out to her, "You okay?" she asked.

Zoe shook her head "I killed Tony" Jenny's heart broke, hearing her voice was so little, so scared, soon she began to sob.

"No sweetie you didn't, he just fell asleep" Jenny assured her, picking the little girl up and holding her close as she could, she picked the little girl up and then carried her up the stairs and to the nearest bedroom.

"I'm sorry boss" Tony apologised to his boss, the man he always looked up to, saw as more of a father than his real father.

"It's okay, I should have known, she's been through a lot and it was bound to catch up with her, go home, enjoy your weekend" he patted Tony on the back before watching the younger man leave and then locked the door and made sure everything was secure.

He then walked up stairs to find Jenny and Zoe, he looked in the little girls room but didn't find them there, then he checked the other spare room that was being used as more of a storage room and as he expected it wasn't there.

Gibbs finally found them, curled up in his bed, Jenny's arm protectively wrapped around Zoe and the little girls hand gripped the redheads curls, both still dressed in their clothes from the day, he smiled before lying down on the empty side of the bed, snuggled up to Zoe and Jenny, wrapped an arm across the little girl until he reached Jenny, protecting his girls.

TBC….

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