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Chapter 10: Stairs-phobia and Handcuffs

Jenny smiled at the perfectness of her office…the perfectness of her life now. Director…everything she wanted….it was great! People had called on her, calling her "Director Shepard" and making her feel very important. She sighed happily and stepped out of her office, and left a note with her new assistant, Cynthia, that she was out for coffee. She walked out onto the catwalk, and gazed down…..

OMG. She looked closer. It was…..it was Jethro. Leroy Jethro Gibbs. The….the…..man. OMG.

Jenny was shell-shocked. She had completely forgotten about Gibbs…of course he was going to work here!

"Mum!" Jenny was wrenched out of her thoughts. Lil was there, looking at her in a very confused manner.

In actual fact, this Lil was the real Lil.

"Lil, I'm going out for coffee. Want to come?" Jenny smiled as best as she could.

"Sure!" Lil smiled back, still with her confused expression. Jenny started to go down the stairs.

"Mum, let's use the elevator," Lil suddenly announced. Jen whipped around and faced her daughter, peering at her curiously. Lil fidgeted.

"Oh, come on Lil, a little exercise is good for you. Come on," Jenny tugged at her daughter. Lil seemed…nervous?

"Lil? What's going on? You have been acting really nervous and edgy today," Jenny tucked a few stray hairs of Lil's behind her ear.

"Yeah, Mum, I feel nauseous. I've…I've developed a phobia….stairs-phobia. Can we please use the elevator?" Lil pleaded.

"Stairs-phobia?" What the hell?

"Yeah…it…it just comes up you know," Lil nodded, as she scratched her head.

"Okay Lil, if you want," Jenny relented, confused. Why was Lil nauseous? Stairs-phobia? Was there a disease...phobia like that? What was wrong with the stairs?


Viv noticed Jenny coming down the stairs. Crap, oh crap.

"Dad?" she suddenly announced in a scared tone. Jethro immediately looked up.

"What's wrong, Viv?" Jethro asked in the "concerned Father's talk."

"We…we need to talk. Privately," Viv hinted, glaring at Hollis who had her back to them and was smiling her honey-dripping, 'heart-melting' smiles at Special Agent Bexley. Bexley was fidgeting uncomfortably and going very red...Viv doubted that Hollis could even remember who Leroy Jethro Gibbs.

"Oh…okay," Jethro led Viv to a remote area of the office, "Tell me, what's wrong." Jethro sat Viv on his knee. Viv pretended that she was upset

"It's….it's…Dad; can I borrow a pair of handcuffs?" Viv asked, smiling sweetly, "You see, I want to…." Gibbs was exasperated. He thought his daughter wanted to have some sort of heart-to-heart talk with him that he was really looking forward too. You know, teenage girls pouring out their heart and souls to such understanding fathers who felt for them and did the bashing up of the perpetrator for her. Instead she wanted….handcuffs?

"Handcuffs? What the hell for!" Gibbs shouted angrily. Viv recoiled slightly.

"Uh…just in case you know…someone kidnaps me," Viv made up the lame excuse.

"Kidnaps you? Viv? You can't be serious?" Jethro stood up abruptly.

"Please Dad? A pair of handcuffs for your only daughter?" Viv wheedled. Well…the only daughter part wasn't entirely true but anyway…

"Fine then, my little minx. Just don't do anything bad," Jethro replied gruffly, and walked off. Viv snickered silently…oh those handcuffs were going to come into very good use. Just wait and see…

Viv had nothing to do for the moment so she decided to go down and see Abby. Abby always had something to do…she needed a new tat anyway…not that Daddy dearest needed to know that…


Lil and Jenny came back from the coffee shop, Lil clutching a hot latte. After depositing her mother safely in her office, she decided to go downstairs and visit Abby (as Viv of course). She stepped into the elevator, and it began to move downwards. Suddenly, it dinged open…but it was at the wrong level. Standing there was a particular Leroy Jethro Gibbs.

"Dad!" she exclaimed.

"Viv? I thought I just left you over there?" Gibbs was even more befuddled. Today was a very befuddling day.

"Oh…yeah, I know, I just…you know," Lil mumbled.

"Well, I got you those handcuffs," Gibbs produced a pair of handcuffs.

"Handcuffs?" Lil asked, but at the strange look Gibbs gave her, she immediately said, "Oh, yeah, the handcuffs. Thanks Dad, I love you." She hugged her Dad. What are these handcuffs for? she wondered, but Viv always knows what to do...

The doors dinged open again at autopsy, where Jethro stepped out and gave a wave to Lil. The doors closed, and the elevator started to move once more….


Dun, Dun, dun! If you remember, Viv had also gone down to see Abby....will their secret be revealed? Sorry no snippet from the next chap....or it would sort of ruin it...

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