New York City, New York
Times Square
1230 Hours
After spending most of the morning shopping with Gibbs in tow. "This better be our final store." Gibbs snarls at his wife.
"It is!" Jenny playfully teases him just as they approach the entrance to the Toys R Us, store. "Didn't you want to buy Amira a stuffed animal for her bed?"
"Yeah a big one?"
"Then I've brought you to the right place." Jenny smiles and walks inside of the store with Gibbs following her from behind.
Gibbs' jaw drops at the sight of the large Ferris Wheel in the front of the store. "Wholly sh-"
Jenny covers Gibbs' mouth up with her hand, when she notices several nuns standing by. "Jethro!"
Gibbs noting that the nuns are glaring at him for using inappropriate language in a children's toy store. "I feel like I'm at Sunday school all over again." Gibbs groans.
"Nuns!" Jenny giggles.
"No my strict sixty-five year old Sunday school teacher, Mrs. Kramer." Gibbs grumbles…"I still get flashbacks in my head, whenever Josh and I would play practical jokes during her lessons."
"Still a little boy after all of these years." Jenny laughs.
Gibbs looks around the store. "Kelly would have wanted me to buy her the whole store." Gibbs says in awe.
"I did the same thing when my dad was stationed over in Belgium, we took a trip to Paris the first weekend my dad had off from S.H.A.P.E." "I was all set to go to boarding school in Switzerland, and my dad knew I wasn't happy about being away from him."
"So he bribed ya by taking you to the toy store."
"This was after my mother died." "I didn't want to leave my dad, he was all I had." Jenny frowns.
"So what did he buy you?"
"The most beautiful doll." Jenny answers…Then suddenly she remembers that the doll her father bought her was lost forever in the fire that was intentionally set by Gibbs and Mike at her former Georgetown home.
Gibbs taking in Jenny's facial expression. "The doll was lost in the fire wasn't it?"
"Yes!" Jenny swallows.
"I'm sorry!"
"Don't be, it's burned and long gone." Jenny chokes up with emotion.
"Not all of your memories of you dad should be bitter Jenny."
"Jethro the problem with my dad is what he put me through." "For thirteen years I thought that he was dead, and then I find out he's alive and he wants me live the same lie that he's living." "The three years in exile under his controlling thumb will forever be the memories of my father."
Gibbs rubs the back of Jenny's shoulders. "You're free of his control."
"Thanks to you." Jenny softly answers and turns and faces him.
"Because of you, you decided to take your life back."
"I took it back and got the best of both worlds." Jenny smiles.
"What's that?" Gibbs shrugs.
"You and my family back." Jenny answers and leans up and tenderly kisses him on the mouth.
Twenty minutes later, Gibbs and Jenny walk out of the store, Gibbs is carrying a huge lion in his arms. "Since Amira is into the 'Lion King' now." Gibbs smiles.
"I guess she'll call it Simba." Jenny smiles.
Gibbs spots a cab approaching the curb. "We better head back to the boat if we want to be in Martha's Vineyard by tomorrow afternoon."
"I'm looking forward to my end of the bet." Jenny seductively teases him and walks over towards the cab.
"Which you still haven't told me what it's about?" Gibbs growls and follows his wife.
The cabbie pops the trunk and gets out of the car, taking Jenny's bags from her. "Thank you!" She smiles and gets inside of the car.
Gibbs puts the stuffed lion inside of the trunk and gets inside of the car. "I really hate this." He whines.
"Patients my little boy." She purrs.
"You know full well I don't have any." Gibbs snarls.
"You had plenty of them last night out in the galley."
Before Gibbs can answer her, the cabbie gets back inside of the car. "Where to Mack?"
"North Cove Marina." Gibbs answers.
While Gibbs and Jenny are heading back to 'The Shepard' the team is back at NCIS Headquarters in Washington, gathering the last of their personal effects in the Squad Room. "I don't understand why we can't just relocate to another part of the building." Ziva mumbles in annoyance.
"This is just to piss us off." Tony groans.
"At least Abby doesn't have to pack up all of her stuff, their just putting in new windows and painting her lab." McGee sighs.
"At least we'll finally be in the 21st century." Tony grins in antiquation.
"With the exception of Gibbs." Ziva giggles…."He'll have his old desk, bookshelves, computer and plasma screen."
"He may have the same type of plasma screen, but his computer will be up to date like the rest of us." McGee corrects her.
"Gibbs hates living in the modern era." Tony laughs.
"He got off on the four of us suffering when we had that power outage a few years ago." McGee groans.
"Another twelve hours without power and Abby would need to be put away for caffeine withdrawal." Tony laughs.
Abby walks into the Squad Room overhearing Tony. "Not funny!" She protests.
"I thought it was." Tony smirks.
"At least I don't whine like a baby when I have to do paperwork like you and Timmy did."
"I kept getting paper cuts." McGee grimaces.
"Yes, we know you have sensitive cuticles." Ziva teases him.
"I need my fingers to type, what's wrong with a man getting a manicure." McGee snaps back.
"Gibbs uses his hands to build things and I don't see him getting manicures." Abby sweetly reminds McGee.
"He could use one, did you ever feel how rough Gibbs' hands are." McGee answers.
"Never will happen." Ziva smiles.
"And why's that?" McGee answers, narrowing his eyes over at Ziva.
"Because, he's a man's man, and women get off at a man having rough hands like that." Ziva drools.
"Do tell?" Tony grins.
"Why, your hands are just as soft as McGee's?" Ziva smirks.
"Not!" Tony protests.
"Too Tony, now get over it." Abby giggles.
"How did this begin from a pick on Abby, to pick on McGee, then on to me?" Tony groans.
"Because you walked into as usual." McGee laughs.
With that the entire team gets an incoming photo sent to them by Jenny. "I thought that Jenny was on her honeymoon." Tony asks and pushes the accept button on his phone.
Suddenly a photo of the Statue of Liberty appears on their phones at the same time. "She is, just sharing a beautiful moment that she wants to share with the rest of us." Ziva smiles.
"A stop over at the Big Apple, before heading over to Martha's Vineyard." Tony smiles.
"I bet Jenny went shopping." Ziva laughs.
"Gibbs must of went ape shit." Tony laughs…and then notices Ziva raising a curious eyebrow over at him. "Insane Ziva!" "I still can't get over after all of these years on how you can't understand how American's speak." Tony teases her.
"Keep in mind that American's speak differently in each region Tony."
"But you've been living here in DC for the past seven years David; you should be by now know how we speak."
"What ever?" Ziva sighs and stalks off towards the ladies room.
Tony sits behind his desk and puts his feet up. "And now we've went from, pick on Tony, to pick on Ziva, life is good." Tony grins and puts his hands behind his neck with a Cheshire smile on his face.
Later that night with 'The Shepard' anchored in the middle of the Block Island Sound in between Long Island and Block Island, Gibbs and Jenny are lying on deck, Jenny with her chin pressed up against her husband's chest staring deeply into the depths of his cobalt blue eyes. "I had fun in New York today." She says above a whisper.
"Yeah, shopping!" Gibbs snorts.
"I have to replace the clothes that I lost."
"What's wrong with going to Target?"
"Please Jethro!"
"But why a zillion stores instead of one."
"I believe it was five stores, not a zillion, as usual you over exaggerate." Jenny sighs in annoyance.
"I can't wait to check into our hotel suite tomorrow afternoon." Gibbs grins.
"We're not staying in bed our entire time in Martha's Vineyard."
"Spoiling my fun." Gibbs laughs.
"Call having me naked twenty-four hours a day fun."
Gibbs ventures his hands under the back of Jenny's Cami top. "My rough calloused hands rubbing your neck, back, and shoulders, you need a complete rub down."
"You did that a few weeks ago in Baltimore."
"I didn't have the right rubbing oil with me and I didn't get you to fall asleep." "Remember the first time I rubbed your neck and shoulders during that stake out in Leesburg."
"Jethro!" Jenny scoffs at the memory of the feel of his rough hands on her neck and shoulders for the first time.
"First time a man's man gave you a proper neck massage."
"How the hell would you know that?"
"How many guys have you dated that have hands like me?" Gibbs smirks…When Jenny doesn't answer him. "I noticed you didn't argue the point with me."
"It's not worth arguing about."
Gibbs pulls Jenny's Cami top over her head, his hands move over to the front of her chest. "I remember your reaction last September when I felt you up in bed after our first kiss."
"I wanted you so bad that night." Jenny trembles at the memory.
"And my only outlet was to take care of business by getting a cold shower when I got home."
"Poor baby!" Jenny laughs.
"So are you going to be keeping me in suspense on what I have to pay up on from the bet that I lost last night?"
"Yep!"
Gibbs running his fingers on Jenny's harden peaks. "I'll keep this up all night long."
"Remember I cannot be broken Jethro."
"I got a can of peaches and Reddi Whip down in the galley." Gibbs smirks.
"Like the powdered sugar last night, peaches n cream is a one and done, come up with something else." She seductively says and gets up from the deck. "Want to take a dip."
"Moonlight dip!"
"Best time!" She smiles.
Five minutes later, Gibbs and Jenny are out in the ocean playfully skinny dipping, ending day two of their voyage to Martha's Vineyard.
