November 1st 2011

Madame Director returns to her throne up in her office, on her first day back on the job, she finds out that her favorite agent and lover Special Agent Leroy Jethro Gibbs isn't playing nice with one of the sister agencies. Gibbs and his dysfunctional children along with Ducky and Palmer are unaware that Jenny has taken her job back as Director of NCIS, that afternoon after returning from Bethesda and Norfolk, Abby, Ducky, and Palmer learn of Jenny's reinstatement, Abby affectionately welcomes back mommy up in her office and Ducky chastises Jenny for her boisterous mouth after hearing her screaming at Fornell up in her office when he stepped out of the elevator with Palmer returning from Bethesda.

In Boise, Idaho Gibbs and his team along with Boise PD arrest Carver at a Rodeway Inn motel, that night they return to NCIS Headquarters in Washington with Carver, Gibbs walks into the bullpen with McGee and finds Borin sitting at his desk with her feet propped up. "Nobody sits behind my desk." Gibbs snarls at her.

"How was Boise?" Borin hisses.

"Great!" Gibbs smirks.

"You managed a major pissing war between our two agencies today." Borin snaps at him.

"Like I care?" Gibbs shrugs and is about to walk off towards the Interrogation Room when his desk phone begins to ring. Grabbing his phone. "Yeah Gibbs!" He answers.

Cynthia's Reception Area

"The Director would like to see you." Cynthia instructs him.

"Fornell still in." Gibbs says with surprise.

"Just do as you're told." Cynthia sighs and hangs up.

Gibbs hangs up. "You coming with me?"

"No I'll listen in from down here." Borin smirks.

Gibbs walks off for the stairs. "What do you mean by that?" McGee sheepishly asks.

"You'll see!" Borin grins.

Cynthia's Reception Area

Gibbs walks in giving Cynthia the stare. "Putting in Shepard's hours." Gibbs laughs and approaches the front of her desk.

"I will be from now on." Cynthia cryptically answers.

"What's that suppose to mean?"

"You'll find out soon enough." Cynthia snickers.

Gibbs walks into the office and finds it empty. "Fornell are you inside of the head?" Gibbs calls out.

Balcony In Front Of MTAC

Jenny walks out of MTAC, down in the bullpen McGee's jaw drops, noting the six inch Stiletto heels, the brown skirt, matching vest, with Jenny's signature high collar white blouse with her sleeves neatly folded up to her elbows storming off for her office. "DiNozzo won his bet." McGee laughs.

"First day on the job and Gibbs has to play jurisdiction bull crap with me." Borin frowns.

McGee flips open his phone and dials Tony's cell phone number. "Oh Tony you and Ziva better head on over to the bullpen."

Cynthia's Reception Area

Jenny walks in closing the door behind her. "You better not have your desk phone on speakerphone giving DiNozzo a play by play of our argument." Jenny warns her.

"Don't worry he'll hear you all the way downstairs." Cynthia laughs.

Inside the office, Gibbs impatiently sits at the conference table waiting for Fornell. "Tobias I don't have all day long." Gibbs barks at him. Suddenly the office door behind him slams. "Fornell since when do you slam your office door." Gibbs laughs.

"That's because his name is no longer on that door." Jenny screams at him.

Gibbs bursts out laughing and gets up from the conference table. "Fornell come on out of the bathroom."

"If you're looking for Fornell he's more than likely laughing his ass off at the two of us at a bar right about now." Jenny snaps and takes a seat at the head of the conference table.

"This is a joke?" Gibbs smirks.

"No it's not Jethro, I wasn't expecting this shit the first day back to work." Jenny frowns up at him.

Gibbs glares down at his lover. "How long have you known about this?" Gibbs snarls.

"Two weeks!"

Gibbs finally getting where Jenny was at when he was looking for her two weeks ago. "You weren't shopping."

"SecNav Jarvis had called me up that morning and asked to see me." "I was only in his office for about ten minutes." "I told him that I would think it over."

"When did you decide to take your old job back?"

"That night!" Jenny smiles…"When I was sitting around the bullpen listening in on you and your team as you discussed your case that you were working over dinner." "Then I glanced up on the balcony and Fornell kept popping in and out of MTAC, he look so out of place up in the office." Jenny laughs and shakes her head. "After you and your team had got called out by dispatch, Ducky went down to Autopsy; Abby had stayed with me for a half an hour and went back down to her lab." "I moved over to your chair behind your desk, Fornell had left MTAC with Gwen and Cynthia and approached the railing." "He saw it in my eyes that I wanted my job back."

"Why didn't you tell me?" Gibbs swallows hurt that Jenny would keep this from him.

"What would your answer would have been if I would have told you?"

"Hell no!" Gibbs screams.

"That's what I thought." Jenny screams back at him. "This way I got two weeks of sanity."

"You lied to me."

"I was under orders not to tell you from Jarvis and Fornell."

"Like you were under orders the last time from the previous SecNav and Vance and look where it got us."

Down in the bullpen, Tony and Ziva stand in the middle of the aisle with their jaws dropped. "How did Jenny get involved with this?" Tony curiously asks.

"Go read your e-mails." McGee grins.

Tony and Ziva rush over to their desks, Abby runs in getting tipped off by McGee. "Seems like old times huh." She winks.

"I won!" Tony smirks and pumps his fist up in the air.

"She kept this from us for how long?" Ziva laughs.

"Two weeks!" Abby smiles.

"Now we know why she kept it a secret, Gibbs would have tried to talk her out it." Tony laughs.

Up in Jenny's Office. "I followed Davenport's orders, because it was a better alternative than the both of us going to prison." Jenny hisses in protest.

"I don't believe this." Gibbs growls and flops down on one of the chairs at the conference table.

"Believe it, eventually I would have went back to work Jethro." "Being up in this office is a safer alternative."

"How, since you'll be itching to get out of your office to play field agent?"

"Not this time around." Jenny softly answers and gets up from her chair. "And I'll be putting less hours in."

"There will be a mark on you every time you walk out of this office, I don't like it." Gibbs shouts.

"There will always be a mark on me whether I'm Director or not." "I ran classified Black Op's as a NCIS Agent and CIA Operative." Jenny reminds him with a frown.

"Personally I would rather you stay at home." Gibbs grunts.

"And do what?" Jenny sarcastically asks.

"I'm building a room for you to keep yourself occupied with." Gibbs sighs in exasperation.

"Oh yeah, while you're out of the house for eighteen hours a day at work you expect me to read all day long." "I'm not a stay at home lady of the house." "Whether you liked it or not I was taking my old job back, so you're going to have to live with it Jethro." "Now on to NCIS business."

"Do we have to?" Gibbs grumbles and sucks in his teeth.

"Oh yeah since I got my ass chewed out this morning by my boss, Director Butler wasn't a happy camper and neither was his boss, then I had all three on a conference call in MTAC today." "Not to mention I had Special Agent Borin, your CGIS mirror image at 0800 hours this morning storming into my office and by the way she has the Gibbs door slam down pat." Jenny angrily chastises him. "Fornell never bothered to brief me on what you were doing in Idaho." "The both of you made a total ass out of me."

"There were too many players involve with the investigation." "So I decided-"

Jenny quickly interrupts him. "You were under a direct order from Acting Director Fornell and from CGIS Director Butler to work with Borin on the Solberg Case."

"She didn't play ball with me day one Jen."

"Right I read your report about Borin giving you video footage of Carver leaving the murder scene after Solberg was killed, two wrongs don't make a right." Jenny viciously snaps.

Gibbs tired from his flight back to Washington. "Is that one of your unwritten rules?" Gibbs laughs and gets up from his chair.

"No I don't have my own set of rules I steal yours."

"Jen I'm tired can we continue this pointless argument tomorrow morning?"

"No I'm finishing it now." "You will continue to cooperate with Special Agent Borin, failure to do so and I will have your team removed from the investigation, am I making myself clear Special Agent Gibbs."

Gibbs walks over to the door and opens it. "Crystal Madame Director!" He angrily shouts at her and storms out of the office violently slamming the door behind him.

Jenny presses her head back against her chair. "I need a drink." She sighs and gets up from her chair and walks over to the mini bar pouring herself a glass of brandy.

Down in the bullpen at the sound of Jenny's Office door slamming, Tony and Ziva duck down under their desks so that Gibbs doesn't see them lurking in the Squad Room. "Unbelievable!" He snarls as he storms out of Cynthia's outer office slamming the door behind him.

"Abby you better get out of here." McGee warns her.

"Right!" Abby whispers and rushes off for the elevator.

Borin smirks over at Gibbs as he starts down the stairs. "Bravo, I enjoyed every moment of that." Borin laughs and claps her hands.

"Shut up Borin!" Gibbs barks at her.

"Was that Gunny Gibbs?" Borin grins over at McGee as he stands in the center aisle.

"Most definitely." McGee laughs.

Gibbs stalking into the bullpen head slaps McGee on the back of the head. "Is that so McGee?" He growls at him. "I'm joining DiNozzo and David down at interrogation." Gibbs icily says to McGee and Borin… Glaring over at Borin. "You can observe the NCIS interrogation." Gibbs seethes at her and storms out of the room.

McGee waits for Gibbs to get out of view. "It's safe to come out now." McGee shouts over to Tony and Ziva.

"That was close." Tony sighs.

"The federal government is not paying you to be standing around like a bunch of teenagers gossiping about something that is none of their business." The voice of Madame Director can be heard from the top of the balcony in front of MTAC.

"Welcome back Director." Tony smirks up at her and rushes off towards for the Interrogation Room with Ziva chasing after him from behind.

Borin glances up towards the balcony watching Jenny going inside of MTAC. "So that is the infamous Madame Director, 'Ice Queen of the Beltway'." Borin laughs.

"Oh yeah, but as bad as it was to listen in on that, the one thing I'll say is, god I've missed that the past three years." McGee smiles and walks over to his desk and sits down.

"I'll see if Gibbs has cooled off yet." Borin snickers and starts off towards for the Interrogation Room.

"Doubt it!" McGee grumbles.

Over at the Observation Room, Gibbs is chewing out Tony and Ziva for leaving the room. "The three of you are working this weekend." Gibbs snaps.

"We both had to use the head." Tony innocently answers.

"Bullshit you were over in the Squad Room listening into my argument with Madame Director, McGee tipped you off." Gibbs barks.

Borin walks into the room. "Veins are still popped out on both sides of your neck."

"They'll be like that until he gets on the Director's good side again." Tony grins.

"That will be a long time." Ziva laughs.

Inside the Interrogation Room five minutes later Gibbs and Ziva are trying to break Carver. "I'm not answering any of your questions until my lawyer gets here." She defiantly answers.

"Your lawyer is in Chicago and won't be available until Thursday." Ziva informs her.

"I can wait." Carver smirks up at them.

Inside the Observation Room. "She murdered four people in cold blood and is going to waste our tax payers money by making us wait for her lawyer." Tony angrily says in disbelief.

Borin watching Gibbs and Ziva storming out of the room. "When Betty's lawyer arrives, Gibbs will wipe the floor with her for having him wait for two days to question her." Borin grins and walks out of the room, where she finds Gibbs and Ziva talking. "That didn't go over very well."

"You still have to wait in line to question her." Gibbs smirks.

Tony walks out of the room. "So what's our next move?"

"Go home and get some rest." Gibbs instructs them and starts down the hallway flipping open his cell phone, pressing in the speed dial button in for Fornell's cell phone, Gibbs waits for Fornell to answer. "Our usual bar ten minutes, I have a major bone to pick with you." Gibbs growls.

Borin waiting for Gibbs to disappear around the corner. "So how long will Gibbs and the Director be angry with one another?" Borin curiously asks.

"I've seen Jenny pissed off at him for well over a year." Tony grins.

"It's different this time around Tony, soon as Gibbs and Jenny step out of the office they live together in the same house." "They'll have to learn to keep work and home life separate." Ziva answers with a frown.

Ten minutes later Gibbs and Fornell are sitting at a corner booth. "Thanks a lot!" Gibbs snaps and takes in a healthy gulp of his glass of bourbon.

"You're welcome, to bad I wasn't in the office like I had planned when you found out about your new boss." Fornell grins.

"Yeah it's my old boss from three years ago." Gibbs groans in protest. "All I wanted to do when I came back to Washington was question my witness in Interrogation, not deal with the Ice Queen reaming out my ass, because I won't play nice with the sister agencies, further which you never bothered to tell her why I was in Idaho, we both got submarined."

"You've missed her Jethro." Fornell grins at him. Gibbs looks the other way. "You miss the fights, the bickering, towards the end as you stated to me before Jenny's death, that the two of you were like an old married couple minus the sex."

"Problem is I'm sleeping with my boss now." Gibbs grumbles.

"You had no problem with it a month ago when you were the boss." Fornell reminds him.

"It's different when I'm the boss."

"How so?" Fornell shrugs.

"I like being in control of her, she's just Jen my partner."

"And Madame Director!"

"I want to put her through a wall."

"You want to sleep with her admit it." Fornell snickers.

Gibbs pressing his head back against the booth. "So bad that I would give anything to throw her down on top of the conference table." Gibbs sighs in sexual frustration.

"Difference is, unlike Special Agent Gibbs and with his Junior Agent, Madame Director has better control of her urges and it's the reason why Jarvis reinstated Jenny as Director." Fornell grins and takes in Gibbs' defeated look. "Jethro she's good for NCIS."

"Good for NCIS, but what about us?" Gibbs frowns with worry. "We just got back together and were finally happy." "I've been waiting eleven long damn years to get her back into my bed." "I thought that it would be nice coming home from work and finding Jenny lounging on the couch reading a book or up in her study."

"That's not Jenny's style and you know it Jethro." Fornell sadly answers and gets up from the table. He tosses an invitation down on the table. "I won't be needing this since I'm not Director anymore."

Gibbs glances down at the invitation. "Marine Corps Birthday Ball." Gibbs reads out loud.

"Now's your chance to finally take her." Fornell smiles and walks away.

Gibbs flashes back to the night when Ducky had stood in front of him dressed in his uniform. "I thought that you were going to the ballet that night, but instead you took Jenny to the Marine Corps Birthday Ball." Gibbs frowns in disappointment and closes his eyes at the memory of Jenny appearing up on the balcony dressed in her green gown and matching green shawl, she slowly walked the length of the balcony, down the stairs, over the catwalk, Ducky approached her as Jenny walked down the stairs and looped his arm around hers, they briefly stood in front of the entranceway of Gibbs' section to give Gibbs a sneak peek at Jenny in her gown before they walked off for the elevator. "You took my breath away that night." Gibbs smiles at the memory and opens up his eyes. Holding up the invitation in his hand. "This time around I get to take you."

Half an hour later at home, Gibbs walks into his empty bedroom. "Damn it she better not be staying at the office." He angrily snaps, and then remembers that Jenny had mentioned in her office that she was going to cut her hours back. He walks down the hallway and opens up the door to Kelly's old bedroom and finds Jenny sleeping on the bed. "I'll let this slide to night because I'm tired and we're both pissed off at one another but tomorrow night your ass better be back in my bed." Gibbs inwardly growls and walks off for the bathroom.