All I ever wanted to be was a good agent, a good wife, and a good mother. But now... all of that was going to be gone. Jethro will never ask me. He will never be able to. Because as a man he has needs that I just can't supply. And there's one other thing as well... I'm going to die.
Kate walked into the dark room where Lily and Melinda were curled up, asleep in their cribs. She smiled as Lily moved around squirming in her sleep. Kate wanted to be a mother one day. Seeing the babies innocence only made her more impatient.
"Stop" a woman said from behind her. She held a gun to Kate. "Who are you?" she asked.
"Special agent Kate Todd. NCIS." Kate answered
The woman put her gun down. "Carly Smartin" she said. "I'm FBI." she said flashing her ID and badge. "Agent Fornell sent me to watch these two. Gibbs called him. He said Jenny only has a few hours left and you should get down there immediately."
"Oh my god. What do you mean a couple hours?"
"Sorry agent Todd that's all Fornell told me. I'm not as highly classified as you are. But you don't have to worry about these two. We have an agent outside and I'm inside. You can go."
"Okay thank-you" Kate said nodding to the agent swiftly walking out the door as Carly held Lily who was now crying, rocking her in her arms.
As soon as Kate walked outside she saw the other agent. He was an older man old enough to be her father with sparkling green eyes. He showed sympathy towards her as she quickly got in the car.
She called Gibbs twice but he didn't pick up. When she arrived to the hospital she ran inside seeing Tony, tears in his eyes. She also saw Ziva, Abby, Ducky and Gibbs. Abby had been crying you could tell because her eyes were puffy and red. Ziva and Gibbs looked sad but were both trying to hide it. Ducky just looked over whelmed as he tried to use his medical knowledge to reassure everyone both women were going to be okay. Kate sat down speechless seeing everyone so miserable. She couldn't help but to feel miserable herself as she watched the rest of the team.
"The girls?" Gibbs asked.
"FBI" Kate answered and Gibbs nodded putting his head in his hands. None of them had ever seen his so... broken. Well except maybe Ducky.
At that moment Abby started crying again and leaned against Gibbs needing the comfort of a father. He tried to help her but he couldn't do much. Ziva snuggled up close to Tony hoping it would help him feel better if Jeanne didn't make it through.
"Family of Ms. Benoit?" the doctor asked.
Tony stood up eagerly pulling Ziva up with him to keep her from falling. He pulled them aside and discussed something with them the rest of the team couldn't hear. All they got to see was the doctor walk away and Tony completely break down.
"Jeanne has brain damage caused to the lack of oxygen when her heart gave out. It's so bad... they can't wake her. She's been in and out of... well life. They can't keep bringing her back so they're going to call it off." Ziva explained when Tony had gone to the bathroom to freshen up. That had been the love of his life besides maybe Ziva. But it didn't matter what they had went through he obviously still cared for her.
Ziva had to go check on Tony in the bathroom. He could hardly stand he was shaking so much. Ziva nearly couldn't bear to see him like this but she did it. She did it all for him.
Within four hours Jenny was awake again. She was able to talk and seemed fine. However, it wasn't official she was going to be okay. However it was looking good. Gibbs saw her first being the one who knew her best. Then Tony, Abby, Kate, and Ziva went in there, Ducky joining them only moments after speaking with another doctor.
They all cried at least a little on their own but at the end of it, it couldn't have gotten much better.
At last everyone but Gibbs and Ziva went home. "Ziver." he said.
"Yes Gibbs?"
"Go to DiNozzo's tonight. Make sure he's okay."
"And you?"
"She's gonna be fine."
"That wasn't my question."
He nodded almost feeling proud of the way she paid such close attention to detail, not daring to miss a single thing. But for now he wasn't worried about himself. Tony had lost something. He had not.
Accepting whatever answer was given, Ziva got up putting her gun in her pocket and tightening her hair band. "Sleep well Gibbs." she said walking off.
When she arrived to Tony's house she took notice the door was unlocked and his jacket was on the floor. She opened up the door without knocking to find him on the sofa a beer bottle in his hands. As far as she knew he wasn't drunk since there were no other bottles around. She swiftly made her way over to him and when she sat down she sighed knowing this was not going to be easy. He offered her a drink of his beer and she accepted wanting only to take the bottle from his hands.
"She's dead" he said more to himself then to Ziva. She suddenly had a craving for the drink tasting it.
"She was... miserable Tony." Ziva answered probably not the best response for somebody grieving and yet the truth.
"It was my fault. It was my fault she tried to kill Jenny. It's my fault she... god she killed herself Zi" he said choking on the tears in his throat.
"Maybe it's best we sleep this off." she said taking another drink from the bottle.
"We?" he asked partially naughty and partly innocent.
"Gibbs told me to check on you. I don't plan on leaving. I will sleep on the couch."
He stood up and went to his bedroom grabbing her one of his t-shirts. She accepted the offer.
"Tony..." she said right before he went off to bed. "It's not your fault"
"You sure?" he asked softly closing the door behind him.
"Positive" she whispered.
How much longer could he be at the hospital? He had talked to her, she was now asleep. He had asked her if she wanted anything and she said for him to go home. So finally 3 hours after Ziva had left Gibbs got up and headed towards the door.
When he got to Jenny's house Naomi greeted him at the door in complete panic. "Senior Gibbs! The girls! I can't find the girls!" she cried.
"Did you see anybody. FBI?"
"No, nobody was here except a man claiming he was Miss. Shepard's father outside. I said nothing to him... I swear!"
"Hey calm down and call the police." he said.
Great now he was losing everything. Everything that mattered.
A/N: Ok I know what you are all thinking. Where the hell is chapter 25? Well here it is. I reread the chapter I posted and decided it was very complicated for everyone to understand. In fact I took it down the day I put it up. I apologize to keep you all waiting. I am however afraid this story is going to come to an end soon perhaps 20 more chapters about Jenny becoming a woman again. So really these will be the last few dramatic chapters. Thank you for waiting this long for this chapter! Please please please review!So please review if you like the story. Also please tell me your ideas for what comes next. This part is already written but perhaps Tony's recovery from losing Jeanne or Jenny beginning to recover from her rape and completely heal. Think you know who kidnapped the girls!? When I post the next chapter I'll shout out to everyone who got it right. It's kind of tough though but I think if you really FOCUS AND THINK BACK maybe you can figure it out. And what did you guys think about Ziva's ending. I'm going to have a poll about it so please check it out and let me know! 143!
-Sasha
