TITLE: Her best kept secret
AUTHOR: nicis_anatomy
CHARACTERS: Jenny Shepard
GENRE: Gen
RATING: G
WORD COUNT: 200
SUMMARY: Sometimes it's hard to be a woman … - written for the Summer Activity at lj's navy_ncis
DISCLAIMER: I don't own these characters, nor am I making any money from them. If I would Season 5 would have ended different.
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Being the Director of a Federal Agency was hard.
Being a Female Director of a Federal Agency was even harder.
Being your former partner's boss was tough.
Sometimes it was even hard just to be a woman; a woman with needs, with dreams and hopes.
But the hardest part after a long day full of paperwork, discussions and endless meetings was coming home to an empty house with no one there to talk to.
Noise and bustle could make you sick, but silence could drive you crazy.
Even when she had a bad headache the first thing she would do after a long day was turning on the stereo to sing along with the music. Sometimes she would even dance, but most of the time she would just sit in her study, her head leaning against the back of her favorite armchair. Eyes closed, she would allow herself to dream away, live in the past, let the illusion take over - if only for a moment.
She knew it was somehow against the act she was playing everyday, but she usually didn't care.
It was her best kept secret she'd never tell, and after all she still was only a woman.