So here is my next chapter, I hope everyone enjoys it. :)
Chapter 11
Jenny sat in hers and Gibbs bed that night, waiting for her husband to come out of their en suite bathroom. Although Jenny loved her job dearly she couldn't help but think something was missing. She was so wrapped up in her thoughts she didn't notice Gibbs come out of the bathroom and slip into the bed next to her.
"The kids asleep?" He asked.
"The girls are in bed, and Christopher and Emily are asleep in his room. Not sure about your dad though." Jenny said still not really paying her husband any attention, something Gibbs picked up on immediately. He sat himself up on his elbows and spoke to his wife softly.
"You're not still mad at me for this afternoon are you?"
At first Jenny didn't answer. Then she let out a long sigh and turned to face her husband.
"Do you ever feel like something is missing in your life?" Gibbs mind flashed to an image of Kelly and Shannon.
"I mean apart from them." Jenny said able to read her husband like a book.
"Jen why would anything be missing? I've got you and the kids and dad and the team, I couldn't be anymore happy if I tried." Jenny sighed again. Gibbs pulled himself up so he was sitting in the bed and wrapped an arm around his wife pulling her into him. Jenny automatically leaned down and rested her head on his shoulder.
For a while neither of them said anything or moved a muscle, then Jenny spoke.
"How did you feel when I became director?"
Jenny had taken up the director's job 5 years ago, when Tom Morrow had moved jobs, and when the girls were 10 and Christopher was 18. Before that Jenny had worked with other teams all over the country and often was away for periods of time, meaning she had missed out on parts of her children's lives. Although she was never gone for more than 6 months and was constantly calling the family, it wasn't the same. Although the family knew Jenny had taken a job in Washington, she hadn't told them she would be working for NCIS. She remembered the look of pure shock on Gibbs face when Tom had introduced her as his replacement. Once Tom had left Jenny excused the technicians and she remembered the very long conversation she had had with her husband. Although he was happy she won't be away for long periods of time, he still wasn't happy that his wife was now his boss.
Gibbs chuckled. "I wasn't exactly happy, but if it means that I could spend more time with you, both at home and at work, then I was all for it, and still am. I think the kids still love the fact you are my boss." Jenny remembered the laughing and taunts Gibbs had received from all 3 of their children when they found out about Jenny's new job. Jenny just sighed and rolled out of Gibbs's arms and turned away from her husband. Gibbs sighed and slipped out of the bed and walked around to face Jenny.
"What is it Jen?"
For a long time Jenny said nothing, then she replied.
"I had always had my 5 point plan, work my way to the top and get revenge for my father."
"Which you did."
"I know, but it didn't make me feel any better about his death. I though when I caught the frog it would be all over. But I felt nothing." Jenny said. Gibbs pushed her slightly and slipped back into the bed and hugged her.
"You got the guy Jen. He's dead and you were the one to get the justice." Gibbs placed a kiss on her forehead. Jenny shuffled.
"Jethro, how would you feel if I resigned as director?" Gibbs stiffened instantly.
"What would you do?" Jenny took a deep breath.
"The Sec-Nav has been asking me for a while now if I think it would be a good idea to enlarge your team."
"Enlarge it?!" Gibbs growled. Jenny turned to face her husband.
"Jethro your team works too hard. The Sec-Nav wants to try and make it easier on you all." Gibbs scoffed, Jenny punched him lightly.
"How?"
"By employing another 3 agents."
"I have enough trouble keeping control of the three I've got!" Gibbs interrupted. Jenny placed her hand over his mouth to stop his rant.
"And another team leader. Then that way you can work as a large team, or split into two teams depending on the case."
Gibbs had to admit it sounded like a good idea. By adding more agents and another leader, it would take some of the pressure of his team, and maybe they wouldn't have to spend almost every waking minute working.
"So have you had any applicants?" Jenny shuffled. Gibbs caught onto it immediately.
"You want one of my agents?" Jenny laughed.
"No Jethro, I was thinking of me." Gibbs was about to laugh when he noticed Jen was serious.
"Are you sure?"
"Jethro I am sick of staring at the four walls of my office all day. I'm sick of late night and early morning meetings with teams all over the world. I'm sick of missing out on so much of the kid's lives. But most of all, I want to get back out in the field, I hate paperwork!" Gibbs laughed. "What do you think?" Gibbs took all of a minute to form an answer.
"If it's what you want Jen, they I would love to work with you again." Jenny smiled.
"Good because I plan to put in my resignation and application in Monday." She said kissing him and turning over and getting ready to sleep. Gibbs laughed again, and snuggled up with Jenny. The pair was soon fast asleep.
The next morning Jenny was awoken to a delicious smell.
"Mmm" she moaned, "do I smell chocolate chip pancakes?"
"And coffee." Erin added a little too perky for first thing in the morning.
"Happy birthday mum." Sophie said holding out Jenny's breakfast tray, and Christopher passed her her cup of coffee. Gibbs and Jackson stood behind the girls and Emily stood with them.
"Happy birthday Jenny." She said. Jenny and Gibbs loved Emily like a third daughter, and both were secretly hoping their son would soon ask her to marry him. Each held a present as Jenny sat up in bed, the twins climbing on the bed with her. It was a tradition in the Gibbs household, that on the day of anyone's birth, they would do whatever they wanted all day, starting with breakfast in bed. Gibbs sat next to Jenny giving her a kiss, Jackson perched himself on the bed with his granddaughters, and Christopher sat on the stool of Jenny's dressing table, with Emily sitting on his knee.
"Thank you everyone." Jenny said taking a sip of coffee, and letting out a sigh of content.
Sophie and Erin passed Jenny their presents first, and Jenny couldn't help but laugh when she opened Sophie present to find the left shoe of a pair that she had pointed out, and Erin had given her right shoe. Christopher had given his mum a bottle of her favourite perfume, and Emily a box of her favourite chocolates. Jackson presented his daughter in law, with a beautiful hand carved wooden jewellery box, easily showing where Gibbs got his enthusiasm for wood working from.
"Jackson it's beautiful." Jenny said giving her father in law a hug. Jackson just smiled. He loved Jenny like a daughter, and was very glad that his son had married someone who could not only be his equal, but love him as much as he loved her.
From her husband, along with the necklace he had given her eh night before, he presented Jenny with a charm bracelet for which everyone had given her a charm. A pair of heels from Sophie, a set of handcuffs from Erin, a tube of lipstick from Jackson, a coffee mug from Emily and Christopher, and a red heart from Gibbs. Jenny felt her eyes brimming with tears as she usher everyone from the room so she could shower and change.
Gibbs had told the team to get to theirs for 4, so at 3 he and the kids set about getting all the food to the appropriate places. Emily was a trainee baker at a local shop, so she had made Jenny a birthday cake covered in edible flowers which Jenny had point blankly refused to eat as it looked so beautiful. Christopher fired up the BBQ as the doorbell rang. Sophie answered it to find Ducky standing on the doorstep. She greeted her honorary grandfather and ushered him out into the garden. As soon as Ducky had gotten himself seated the doorbell went again, and Erin answered it to reveal Abby and McGee, along with McGee's dog Jethro. Not long after Jimmy and Cynthia arrived, with Tony and Ziva following them.
"I told you we'd be celebrating your birthday with family." Gibbs laughed, as he saw his wife's shocked expression. After introducing the team to both Jackson and Emily, they spent an enjoyable afternoon just chatting and laughing together, telling stories of tales gone by. Jackson told the team a few embarrassing stories of Gibbs when he was growing up, and he in turn told them all some embarrassing stories of the team. For Jenny's present they had all clubbed together to get her a weekend pass at her favourite spa, to which Abby, Ziva, Emily, Cynthia, Sophie and Erin could join her.
"You all shouldn't have, this is too much." Jenny said when Abby presented her with their gift. But she was soon silenced out by Abby's we'll rehearsed speech about them all being a family, and families loving each other, to which Tony tacked on a quote from the film 'Lilo and Stitch' which earned him a head slap from Gibbs.
At the end of the day Jenny couldn't think of a single birthday she had enjoyed more, than this one.
And so another chapter finished. I hope everyone is enjoying my story and hopefully you haven't got fed up of my writing yet. As always please read and review, I would love to get to 60 reviews by the end of this story.
Beth xx
