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Chapter 14
Things were still tense between the Gibbs girls but they managed to act civil towards one another. That night was never brought up again and they simply acted like it never happened. Jethro and Jenny were still moving forward with their divorce but based upon Lizzy's and Annie's outbursts they were moving forward with it very quietly. Gibbs was planning to permanently moving to Mexico and the only way to do that would be to sell his house. Chloe and Rachel were helping him pack up his things and they kept reminiscing about the past. Gibbs went through a box and found a strawberry shortcake lunchbox. When he opened it, he found some pictures of Kelly and Shannon. "Daddy, what are you looking at?" Chloe asked.
"Take a look." Gibbs showed the two of them the pictures.
"Are these pictures of Kelly and Shannon?"
"Yeah."
"They're beautiful."
"Yeah, they were."
"Daddy, do you think I can have one of these pictures. I just want one of Kelly cause she is family and I want to put one in my album." Chloe said.
"Yeah, here you go."
"Thanks."
"How's your mom?"
"She's fine. Keeping busy with work and all." Rachel said.
"Yeah. I hope she's not working herself into the ground like she likes to do."
"What Rachel forgot to mention was that mom is dating now."
"What?" Gibbs said.
"Yeah."
"Good for her."
"What, you're not even going to fight for her?" Chloe asked shocked.
"Chloe, your mom is a big girl and she needs to take care of herself every once in a while."
"Whatever."
"What about Lizzy and Annie?"
"Annie is busy with school and breaking a few hearts while in school and Lizzy is busy with work."
"Is there a man in her life?" Gibbs asked curious.
"You could say that." Rachel said casting Chloe a warning look to keep her mouth shut.
"Is he good to her?"
"Yeah, dad."
"Do they love each other?"
"Yeah, daddy. They really do."
Across town, Tony and Lizzy were sitting in Tony's kitchen eating pizza when Tony asked her about her father. "Have you talked to him yet?"
"No and I'm not going."
"Why not?"
"Tony, no matter what he lied to me, to everyone and acted like it was nothing. Not only that he left without offering an explanation. How can I forgive him?"
"I don't know, Liz, but you have to."
"Why is this so important to you?"
"Liz, he's your dad. You need to fix things."
"Tony, when and if I decide to fix things with my father it will be decided upon by me and not by you so just leave it alone."
"I can't, Liz. All of us have forgiven him except you, Annie, and apparently Ducky."
"There's a reason for that!"
"Get over yourself, Liz. He didn't just hurt you by leaving, he hurt all of us!"
"Get over myself! You need to get over yourself! Your the one that is keeping secrets from me all of a sudden. You come in at all hours of the night and I know that it's not work related because I talked to Ziva and she told me that there weren't any undercover ops going on. So what are you hiding from me. Although I shouldn't be surprised, you were trained by the best to keep secrets!"
"Liz, you better watch out cause you are pushing it and I don't want to say something that I will regret!"
"Go ahead and say it then, say whatever you want!"
"Your acting like a spoiled bitch! We've all been tiptoeing around you so we wouldn't hurt your feelings or upset you! Oh and FYI I can do whatever I damn well feel like in my spare time and I don't appreciate you using Ziva or any member of my team for that matter to check up on me!"
"You know what, I don't need to stay here and listen to this. I'm out of here. Call me when the Tony I fell in love with comes back." She got up and walked out the door and slammed the door behind her.