Another couple of weeks go by with the team in hiding before Fornell decides that they're at a stalemate. Abby's killers are nowhere to be found. The team gets to go back to work; Jenny even gets her job as director back but Gibbs is not convinced. Thus leading him to want his girls under the same roof as him, he wouldn't sleep otherwise, not that he actually got a lot of sleep anyways.

His thought process leading to his current heated argument with Jenny on the stairwell.

"Come on, Jen, Abby already agreed."

"I don't understand Jethro. Abby staying with you I get, why do you need me their?" Gibbs looks at her intensely not saying a word.

"Fine, but I'm doing this for Abby." She walks away towards her office leaving Gibbs smirking to himself.


It's been awhile since Abby was in her lab, but stepping in to it for the first time in month feels like coming home. She loves the sounds of her machines working and the smell of Caf Pows. She can't help but feel relief, but there's a part of her who wonders if this is really over. If she's learned one thing from Gibb's over the years it was to always trust her gut, she doesn't let these thoughts linger for long. She's safe and happy and with the people she loves. Nothing else matters.

"Abbs." Gibbs whispers in her ear. He's soft voice startling her from her deep thoughts. "Let's go."


Jenny would be lying if she said she'd never thought about living with Gibbs, and recently that thought process extended to Abby. She wonders what would have happen in Jethro known she was pregnant. Would he have stayed? Would they have kept her?

"She's here!" Abby says as excitedly as a kid on Christmas morning, more than thrilled about her new living arrangement.

Opening the already unlocked door for her mother, Abby barely lets her step in the house before her arms are wrapped around the older women. "This is going to be so much fun!"

Looking over Jenny catches Gibbs and she knows one thing no matter what direction life could of gone, Gibbs would move heaven and earth to keep his daughter safe.

Its midnight when Jenny finds the two of them on the couch watching a rerun of forensic files, she's pretty sure Gibbs doesn't understand a thing, she's also sure he'd do anything to see her smile.

"Why wasn't I invited to the party?" Gibbs shrugs in sync with Abby's shush.

Abby moves over leaving a spot for Jenny on the other side of her. She spends commercial breaks explaining the science to the two agents.

When Jenny and Abby finally fall asleep, he heads towards the basement but not to build boats. Pulling out the files he took for Tobias. He may have let the case go but Gibbs wasn't about to.


A/N: I planned on updating this sooner but life decided it hated me. I learned from my doctor that for the rest of my life i'll need physical and occupational therapy if I don't want to go back to not being able to function. Which sucks because it hurts a lot. My mom is having a fibroid removed, and she's the one who takes care of me because dad is in the army and is going to TDY during her surgery meaning my grandmother is coming but she thinks i'm faking the whole being chronically ill thing. Just wanted to let you guys know, because I might not be able to update but I haven't forgotten about this story or any of my stories.