Chapter 21
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AN: I am on break from Uni for two weeks so I should be able to update all my stories quicker.
Tony, Ziva and McGee are in the truck driving to Quantico. Tony is driving because both he and McGee refused to let Ziva drive after their previous experience with the youngest Gibbs's driving.
"So your parents having screaming matches in front of half of NCIS is common." Tony says to Ziva surprised.
"Unfortunately and It would always end in the same way with them storming off in opposite directors, in fact when Mum worked as a member of Dad's team the other agents used to bet about how long it would be before they got into another fight If I remember correctly the longest they went was 4 weeks 3 days." Ziva explains thinking back.
"Wow, I thought my parents were bad." McGee comments causing Ziva to glare at him. "Sorry." He says quickly when he notices the look.
"Look I'm the first to admit that my parents have an odd relationship but in my whole life I have never seen two people who love each other as much as they do." Ziva informs Tony and McGee.
"There divorced." Tony reminds her.
"That does not mean they don't love each other." Ziva tells Tony.
"Then why are the divorced?" Tony asks her confused.
"That is a question I have chosen not to ask." Ziva tells him.
Tony decides not to question Ziva and more and the three spend the rest of the trip in a comfortable silence.
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While Tony, Ziva and McGee are making the trip to Quantico Kelly and Abby are in her lab, but like there sister and her co-workers they are also discussing the topic of their parents fight.
"So that was a surprise." Kelly comments.
"It really was but its great that all of us except G and Kens are back in the same place." Abby tells her sister.
"It is great, and Kens just started at FLETC she will be at OSP soon and that's where G is now." Kelly reminds her little sister.
"Kens won't be at OSP for about two years, you know G he could have moved on by then." Abby tells her big sister knowing that G doesn't stay in the same place for two long.
"I don't think he is going to leave this time he loves it there, he really likes the partner he is working with he said he trusts him you know how big of a deal that is for G to admit that." Kelly reveals to her little sister.
"Yeah you're right that is huge maybe this job will stick." Abby comments.
Abby and Kelly both sit in silence for a few minutes before Abby speaks decided to ask her sister some questions she wants the answers off.
"What's going on between you and Jimmy?" Abby asks her big sister.
"We're friends." Kelly answers not surprised by her sisters' question.
"Is that all because according to Ziva he knew all about her what she looked like before Ducky introduced her." Abby tells her sister.
"We're friends I talk to him about you guys sometimes." Kelly explains to her sister.
"Whatever you say." Abby comments not really believing that they are just friends.
"Do you remember the first summer after mum left?" Kelly asks her sister curious wanting to change the subject.
"Of course I was 10, it was the worst and the best summer ever at the same time." Abby says remembering what happened.
"Yeah you're right it was horrible that Mum wasn't there and that we weren't talking to Grandpa Jack because he and dad had a huge fight, but we did have some fun times, like the week that Kens and Uncle Don were in town." Kelly says to her sister.
"The go-cart." Abby realises.
Kelly smiles "That was so much fun the 6th of us worked together to build that thing team GB, G was 19 and decided to use his leave not to have fun with his friends but to help his sisters and surrogate cousin/sister to build a go cart to try and beat the other kids in the neighbourhood."
"Dad and Uncle Don watching us and helping when we got in trouble with something, it took us days to build it." Abby comments.
"I don't even remember if we won." Kelly comments thinking back.
"You were the one who drove it in the race how can you not remember?" Abby asks surprised.
"Because the actual race wasn't what I remember form that time I remember getting into a fight with Ziva over which one of us would drive." Kelly explains to her sister.
"And Uncle Don putting all our names in a hat to decide who would drive." Abby comments.
"After the race Dad and Uncle Don cooking a barque burning most the sausages while we played in the sprinkler because it was soo hot." Kelly says smiling.
"Then the game of chase started and we would run through the house still wet from the sprinkler and only stoping when Kate slipped on the kitchen first and went face first into the floor." Abby says happily reminiscing.
"She had such a nasty bruise on her face because of that." Kelly reminding her sister.
"I know I still have the pictures." Abby comments.
Kelly laughs "I can't believe you Ziva and Kens did that to her."
"Yes you can." Abby tells her.
Kelly is quite for a few seconds then laughs "Your right I can."
"Then once we all ate and it started to get cold we all came into the living room the six of us crammed onto that tiny couch." Abby says.
"I still have no clue how we did that." Kelly says thinking back.
"Me either" Abby admits "Dad and Uncle Don sat on the floor and told us so many stories about their days in boot together, how they became friends." Abby remembers.
"We must have fallen asleep at some point because next thing I remember its morning were all still on that couch but we have a blanket over us." Kelly remembers smiling as she things back.
"That must have been about 30 seconds before Uncle Don decided to wake us up by throwing a bucket of water on us." Abby says.
"It was, Dad was so pissed at him that couch took forever to dry." Kelly comments smiling.
"I miss Uncle Don sometimes." Abby informs her sister.
"I know so do I." Kelly says reaching over and grabbing her little sister hand "I can't even imagine how Kensi feels, I don't know what I would do if something were to happen to Mum or Dad." Kelly informs her little sister.
"You don't have to worry about that Kelly, I can't talk for your father but I have no intention of letting something happen to me." Kelly and Abby hear their mothers voice say from the door way.
"Mum." Kelly says surprised.
"How long have you been standing there?" Abby asks surprised.
"Not too long, I came down to see how you were doing after everything." Jenny says walking over to her daughters.
"Good, it's a shock to see you here but it's nice I've missed you." Kelly tells her mother.
"I know I've missed you two, all of you." Jenny informs her daughters pulling a chair over to sit with her daughters.
"Are you ok that was a bad fight that you and Dad were having?" Abby asks her Mother concerned.
"I'm fine Abs, you know your father and I have fights like that in the past and that more than likely we will have fights like that in the future." Jenny tells her second youngest daughter.
"But he bought up you leaving that must have been hard." Kelly says to her mother.
Jenny sighs "It was but I deserve it walking out of that door and leaving you kids and your father not saying goodbye to you was the biggest mistake I ever made." Jenny tells her daughter.
"It was hard watching you walk out of that door." Abby comments sounding sad and angry.
"I thought you kids were upstairs in your rooms or at least in one room together." Jenny says surprised.
"We weren't we were all hiding on the stairs watching the whole thing." Kelly informs her mother.
Jenny is shocked "I'm sorry, I never knew you kids saw what happened, and I'm more sorry than I could possible tell you for leaving, I was sitting on the plan to Paris on my way to joining the Europe field office when I realised how big of a mistake I was making I wanted to get off that plan and come back to you." Jenny tells her daughters.
"Then why didn't you? Dad would have welcomed you back things would have been tense between you for a while but he would have happily welcomed you back." Abby tells her mother confused about why she didn't just come right back.
"Do you remember how once I left I only talked to you girls once ever few days well apart from Ziva who refused to talk to me for months." Jenny asks her daughters.
"Yeah I remember and when we did talk you sounded distance." Kelly who was older than Abby and therefore can remember it better says.
"I was in a bad place I felt so guilty you Kate and your Dad all almost died at the same time and you and Kate were hurt because of the job that your father and I decided to do, and that was tearing me up inside every time I saw you girls for a little while after you were hurt I felt guilty you were hurt because of me and I was afraid that it would happen again and I could barely handle that or let it happen again that's why I left and why I didn't come right back." Jenny explains to her daughters.
"When you left you said to Dad that you loved us and him that you would always love us but you couldn't do this anymore, is that what you meant?" Abby asks her mother.
"Yes I loved you kids more than anything but I couldn't handle knowing that two of my little girls were hurt and almost died because of our job and that It could happen again and instead of talking to Jethro about how I was feeling I decided to leave take the easy option I was week." Jenny tells her daughters.
"No you weren't." Kelly tells her mother.
"Yes Kelly I was." Jenny tells her second oldest daughter.
"No you didn't leave because you didn't love us or because you didn't want to be a mother to us you left because something horrible had just happened to Kate and I and you blamed yourself but it wasn't your fault it was only the fault of the guy who came after us because you and Dad put his bother in prison. I've listened to everything you just said Mum you left because you didn't want to risk something else happening to any of us because of your job, you weren't week you were strong you walked away because you thought it was what would protect us." Kelly realises.
"Kel is right Mum I was so angry at you at the time but that is because I didn't know why you left I was 9 and I all I knew is that my Mum just left the house with a big suitcase, I missed you so much and I was so angry at you for leaving. But I understand now you left because you didn't want any of us to be hurt again because of your Job, you've got to stop blaming yourself and feeling guilty." Abby tells her mother.
"I've been feeling guilty for 15 years that's not going to change any time soon." Jenny tells her daughters.
Kelly and Abby look at each other before standing up and giving their mother a hug.
"We love you so much Mum." Kelly tells her mother.
'I love you girls two so much." Jenny tells her daughters.
"Welcome home." Abby whispers to her mother as she hugs her.
The three stand there for a few minutes hugging when Jenny notices the time.
"I've got to get going I have a meeting I need to get to." Jenny tells her daughters.
"Then go it would look bad if the director is late for a meeting on her first day." Kelly tells her mother with a smile.
"Your right, tell your sisters I want to have dinner with you all sometime this week when we can arrange it." Jenny tells her daughters.
"Done." Abby tells her mother.
"Bye." Jenny tells her daughters leaving the lab.
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When Tony, Ziva and McGee arrive at Quanico Gibbs is unsurprisingly already there.
"Took you long enough." Gibbs tells his team.
"We would have been here a long time ago if they let me drive." Ziva tells her father.
"Not going to happen I prefer that my food stays in my stomach." Tony tells Ziva.
"That can be simply fixed don't eat before I drive." Ziva tells Tony.
"Enough." Gibbs tells both of them getting them both to shut up "Ziver go interview the witness, DiNozzo bag and tag McGee photos." Gibbs tells his team before heading over to Ducky who just arrived.
"What have we got Duck?" Gibbs asks the ME.
"Dear God Jethro I only just met the diseases." Ducky says getting the liver probe out of his bag "Your impatience wouldn't be connected to the argument you had with our lovely new director would it?" Ducky asks his friend.
"How do you know about that?" Gibbs grows.
"You were fighting in font of half of NCIS Jethro it doesn't take much for it to spread around the rest of NCIS especially when it's the new director and head of the major case response team fighting." Ducky reminds Gibbs.
"People need to mind their own business, time of death Duck?" Gibbs asks.
"Two to three hours ago." Ducky tells Gibbs.
"Thanks Duck." Gibbs says walking over to see how Ziva is doing with the witness statements.
"What you got Ziva?" Gibbs asks his daughter.
"A gun shot was heard approximately two and a half hours ago with a little bit of searching they found the Gunny's body, no one was around it looks like he went for a run of the track." Ziva tells her father.
"Good job Ziva." Gibbs says as he and Ziva walk over to Tony and McGee.
"Ran his prints he's married and lives off base with his wife." McGee tells Gibbs.
"Good, Ziva, DiNozzo take the car and go interview the wife I'll take the truck back with McGee." Gibbs tells his agents handing the keys to Ziva who smiles.
"Come on boss Ziva's driving is horrible." Tony says frowning.
"Deal with it DiNozzo." Gibbs tells his senor field agent walking over to talk to Ducky.
"How long is he usually in a bad mood after he fights with your mother for?" Tony asks Ziva as they walk to the car.
"Depends it can be anywhere from a couple of hours to days or even weeks." Ziva informs Tony.
"Great." Tony says sarcastically.
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Ziva and Tony head to the Gunny's house while McGee and Gibbs finishes up at the crime scene before heading back to NCIS, when they do McGee and Gibbs head straight back up to the squad room.
"McGee I want to know everything about Gunny Hatswell by the time I get back." Gibbs tells the young agent before heading for coffee.
"On it boss." McGee tells him.
Tony and Ziva go and interview the Gunny's wife and collects his laptop for Abby to go through.
"Where's dad?" Ziva asks when her and Tony get back.
"Coffee, but he's been gone for a while." McGee tells them.
"He's most likely seeing if Ducky or Abby have something." Ziva realises.
"Right there Ziva, what did the wife have to say?" Gibbs asks his agents entering the squad room.
"Not much, the gunny was liked by everyone and they had been married for 6 months they were happy." Tony tells Gibbs.
Gibbs nods and instructs everyone to find out everything they can about the Gunny they spend the next few hours doing that and at about 11pm Gibbs instructs everyone to go home that they will start fresh in the morning. When Gibbs and Ziva get home neither of them head to bed instead they both head down to the basement and the boat.
"So what's this one's name?" Ziva asks her father.
"I don't know I haven't really thought about It, what do you think?" Gibbs asks his daughter.
"I don't know not that it will matter." Ziva says to her father.
"What do you mean?" Gibbs asks.
"In my whole life we have never finished a boat that we have built." Ziva reminds her father.
"This time could be different." Gibbs tells his daughter.
"Guess so." Ziva comments.
The two continue to work on the boat in silence when suddenly they hear the front door open and someone walking towards the basement and then a figure coming down the stairs.
"We need to talk Jethro." Ziva and Jethro hear Jenny say.
"And that is my cue to head to bed." Ziva says putting down her sandpaper.
"Ziva I thought you would be bed by now." Jenny says surprised to see her daughter there.
"It's fine, night Dad." Ziva says giving her father a hug and a kiss on the cheek "Night Mum." She says giving her mother the same before rushing up the basement stairs away from her parents.
Once Jenny hears her daughter's bedroom door close she takes off her jacket and pours herself some bourbon and walks over to Jethro.
"Why didn't you tell me you were coming Jen?" Gibbs asks his ex-wife.
"I couldn't." Jenny tells him.
"That's a lie and you know it you have broken rules before you could have broken this one so why didn't you?" Jethro asks his ex-wife angrily.
"Because I thought you deserved to be told by me in person as soon as possible, I only found out I was named the new director three days ago and I thought about calling you and telling you then I decided against it I wanted to see your face when I told you, you are the one person who knows how much getting this job means to me I wanted to tell you in person." Jenny explains.
"I am happy for you Jen I know how much you wanted this how hard you have worked its just when Murrow told me that you were the director and I didn't know anything about it, it hurt in the last few days so much had happened to people I care about without me knowing Kate got promoted Ziva joined my team you being named director without telling me was just one surprise to many." Gibbs explains.
"How is Ziva doing?" Jenny asks her ex-husband.
"She has a hell of a lot of potential she could become an amazing field agent she gets along with DiNozzo and McGee well even though she is traumatising them with her driving." Gibbs explains.
"You only have yourself to blame for that one you're the one who taught her to drive." Jenny reminds her ex-husband.
Gibbs laughs "You're right, all in all with time she is going to be great." Jethro tells his ex-wife.
"That's great." Jenny says with a smile. "If I knew how angry it would have made you that I didn't I would have called, I just wanted to surprise you for once see your reaction for myself."
"It's fine Jen, I overreacted." Jethro tells Jenny.
Jenny smiles at him and the two stand together leaning against the boat neither talking just drinking there bourbon.
"I better get going see you tomorrow." Jenny says walking over to put her cup on the counter and grabbing her jacket and beginning to walk up the stairs only stoping when she hears Jethro's voice.
"Congratulations Madam Director." Gibbs tells her.
Jenny smiles down at him in response before leaving the basement.
Once he hears the front door close Jethro walk over to where Jenny put her glass down and puts his own down next to it before heading to the stairs of his basement only stoping at the end of his boat.
"Family." Gibbs says to his boat remembering all the times that his family his kids and the woman he loves have been down here helping him with it, before walking up the stairs and turning of his light before heading up to his bedroom only stoping at his daughters where he quietly opens the door and walks over and places a kiss on her head as he pulls up her covers and then quietly leaves the room.
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