"Damn it Jethro, that's the fifth one" Jenny says as she approaches Gibbs at his desk. He doesn't acknowledge her presence and continues to look at his computer screen. "Jethro" she says louder. Feeling the eyes of the rest of the team now on him, he looks at her and simply replies "what?" Jenny pauses for a moment trying to gather her anger "you've gone through five of some of the most qualified Forensic Scientists in two months." His eyes meeting hers in haste "I haven't gone through anybody yet, Jen." She makes movement closer to him meeting his stare and holding it before she says "she's not coming back Jethro, and you can't keep scaring people away hoping that she will." Listening to her he feels the rage begin to brew. He stands and closes the remaining distance between them and slams his hand on his desk "I know she's not coming back and I know why she's not coming back, and I don't need you or anybody else here to tell me that." He makes his way around his desk and heads for the elevator before turning back to everyone raising his finger and saying "I'm only going to say this once, to all of you, leave it alone!"
"Well, Director, welcome to our world." says Tony. She replies "all of you, my office, ten minutes!"
It's been two months since Abby has resigned. She hadn't seen anybody from NCIS since they left her after the Michael & Josh thing, but she'd kept in contact with everybody; except for Gibbs. She'd taken a job in the lab of the New Orleans branch of the FBI, and to anybody who didn't know her they would say she was doing great. The team knew otherwise. They missed her as much as she missed them.
Tony, Ziva, and McGee all sat around the conference table in Jenn's office waiting for her to gather her thoughts. "Let me just start by saying that I know about your elevator scheme, and although I know you meant well, if you pull something like that again you're all fired! Now back to the task at hand. I need you to brief me on the current situation with Gibbs so we can figure out how to handle this because quite frankly I'm out of patience and Forensic Scientists." They all sat motionless waiting for each other to start talking, when Ziva spoke up saying "they love each other but they are both so horse headed to figure it out." They all chuckle and Tony corrects her "the phrase is pig headed Ziva." Jenny gets back on point "are we all in agreement with Ziva then?" Tony & McGee glanced at each other before confirming to Jenny with a nod of the head. Tony speaks up "something happened between the two of them at Gibbs's house. I heard her yelling at him, and nothing has been the same since." After a few more minutes Jenny feels she is armed with as much information that they can offer her and she says "your dismissed, I need to talk to Ducky", and with that they all exited her office.
Gibbs took a walk to cool down for a bit and ended up in the morgue with Ducky about an hour later. "Jethro, come to slam my desk now have you?" Somewhat surprised he says "you heard about that already?"
"Yes, and I must say that you need to get control of yourself."
"I'm fine Duck"
"On the contrary, Jethro, you are anything but fine, and I suspect that you'll need to find a way to deal with this mess you've made before you alienate this entire building."
"Oh, come on Duck, I got a little mad, that's it"
"You've been mad for two months now, and it's high time that you stopped, for all of our sakes."
He watched as Ducky made his way across the morgue and back to his desk letting a few moments pass. "There's nothing I can do, she's happy now Duck. The new job, house, and friends. She's made a new life for herself out there, and I'm happy for her."
"Isn't one of your rules to never assume anything?" Ducky asks
"Yes, but so is never take anything for granted and I blew that one too" he replied as he left Ducky and headed to his car.
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