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Chapter 35

While Jenny was away in Paris, the MCRT had to deal with a mob bosses' flunkies breaking into the building and trying to steal the only evidence against him. The story was story was so ridiculous that Tony had to tell Lizzy about it when he got back to his apartment. Lizzy started laughing her ass off when she heard the whole story. "That is crazy!" Lizzy said while laughing with tears streaming down her face from laughing so much.

"Yeah, it was." Tony said laughing with her and putting her arm around her shoulders. Tony waited for her to calm down from her laughing fit before asking her, "What did your mom say?"

Lizzy knew he was talking about his assignment that involved Jeanne Benoit. She sighed and replied, "She said that it was need to know and that I didn't need to know. But I'm going to confront her once she comes back from Paris."

"Good, cause keeping this secret is killing me. I don't want any secrets between us and I can't tell you what you need to know only Jenny can."

"Tony, I grew up with parents that are federal agents. They constantly hid things from me due to the high level securities of their jobs. I understand that there are some things due to your job that you can't tell me and that is fine. Just don't shut me out anymore. I can comfort you in other ways without you telling me every aspect of your job and compromising you in any way."

"Comfort me, huh? And what would that entail?"

"Oh this and that like cuddling and kissing and other physical pursuits." She said with a smirk.

Tony grinned and picked her up and took her to the bedroom. "Well I think I need some comfort right now." Lizzy just giggled.

During the week that Jenny was away, Chloe and Annie had been staying with their father. They had been having some fun with each other and it felt like old times but the girls missed their mother and father being together. As the week went and Jenny returned, the girls returned to their normal routine and moved back into their mother's home. However, the two of them could see that something was wrong with their mother. She looked like she was in a constant state of deep thought and if you interrupted her, she would jump like something was about to attack her. "Daddy, I'm telling you something is wrong. I've never seen mom like this." Chloe said to Gibbs who was working on hacking into the CIA with McGee.

"What do you want me to do, Chlo? I'm at work right now, there's nothing I can do. I'll talk to her tomorrow and I'll find out what's going on."

"But, dad, this could be important. Something is wrong. I can feel it in my gut. Something happened while she was in Paris. Please, dad. Go talk to her when she comes into the office tomorrow."

"Alright, Chloe. I will just calm down, baby, and go to sleep. I'll see you tomorrow."

"Fine." Chloe said with a sigh and hung up.

When Gibbs put his phone in his pocket, he realized what had Jenny so freaked out. Well, not what exactly but he knew that it had something to do with her ditching protection detail for twenty one hours while she was in Paris. And then with the CIA demanding mandatory polygraph tests it was too convenient to be a coincidence. He didn't want to scare his girls, but they were right, something did happen while Jenny was in Paris and he was going to find out what. Although he had a pretty good idea of what it was concerning.

While McGee and Gibbs were working on the hacking into the CIA, Jenny was going over everything she could on La Grenouille in her office and thinking about her father. She even had Abby running DNA prints off of her father's favorite scotch bottle. She had finally given Tony the o.k. to walk away from the assignment he was working on with Jeanne Benoit. She knew Jethro was right and she couldn't keep using her power to manipulate her agents to settle her own agendas. Not to mention, she was hurting Lizzy every time she sent Tony to pursue another woman.

When Tony got the text that he could quit his job at the hospital, he literally jumped for joy. He ran out to his car and drove to the hospital to put in his notice. On his way up to the trauma ward, he ran into a man and a woman. The woman looked very jittery like she was going through withdrawal.

Tony got upstairs and saw the same man and woman harassing Carly about seeing Devon, a patient that was just brought in after being run over by a cab. Jeanne came over and allowed the two of them ten minutes with Devon. "Tony, do you want to get some coffee?"

"Jeanne, I don't know if that's such a good idea."

"Tony, please."

"Fine."

It was very awkward while the two of them were having coffee but Jeanne kept trying to engage him in conversation. "Tony, what's wrong. You've hardly said a word all night."

"Jeanne, look, I here for one reason and one reason only. I'm putting in my resignation."

"But what about us?"

"There is no us, Jeanne. I love my girlfriend and I won't jeopardize that for anything."

"So you slept with me and now you're dropping me like a five dollar whore?"

"I wish you didn't feel that way. I love Lizzy and she's the one I want, not you. There's no contest between the two of you. I'm sorry."

"So am I." She said before getting up and walking upstairs again. Tony followed her and put in his resignation. As he walked into the elevator, Jeanne stepped in after him and hit the floor for the morgue.

"Hey, what's wrong?"

"Our grieving couple just made an unexpected visit into the morgue."

The two of them ran into the morgue and were held at gunpoint by the drug dealer, Nick. Nick hit Tony over the head with the gun and he went down. Jeanne only agreed to help them if she helped Tony first. After checking to see how Tony was doing, Jeanne started cutting Devon's body open to remove the cocaine bags. When she finished, Jeanne opens the bag and dumps the contents over the body. Nick was furious and tried to attack Jeanne, but Tony shot him.

Jeanne and Tony got out of the morgue pretty much unscathed but it was still frightening to see Bernie snorting cocaine out of her brother's intestines. As they were walking out of the hospital, a limo stopped right in front of them and Jeanne smiled slyly on Tony. The door opened to reveal none other than Rene Benoit or more commonly known as La Grenouille. The only thought going through Tony's mind at that moment was "Shit!"