The day after Jenny and Gibbs proposed to each other, they headed home. No one from NCIS knew yet, although they all had a pretty good idea on how things were going to end up. While their parents were on their way back home, Annie and JJ opted to put together a small congratulatory party for their parents. JJ opted to decorate the house while Annie baked a cake and prepared a special lunch for the four of them. It was quite obvious that the Gibbs twins were happy that their parents finally got their act together so to speak when it came to their relationship.
"Welcome home!" JJ and Annie said in unison as their parents walked in the front door of the house.
Jenny and Gibbs were surprised as they took in everything that their children had done.
"Thank you." Jenny said as Gibbs set their baggage down.
"I was told that we had to celebrate your engagement." JJ said.
Annie slugged her twin in the arm following his admission. Both Jenny and Gibbs held back a laugh. Over the years, they had picked up on the twins' personalities. There was a bit of Jenny and Gibbs in the twins, obviously; but there were times when certain aspects of each parent were more prominent in the twins. Like now when Annie had slugged JJ in the arm, that was all Jenny's temper while a reserved JJ was an utter emulation of Gibbs. After that, the twins brought their parents into the kitchen table.
"JJ decorated the house and helped make lunch while I baked a cake." Annie said.
"That was very nice of both of you."
With that, the family of four sat down to eat. Over the course of the meal, the family talked about the trip up to the cabin and the proposal. The twins found it quite entertaining that their parents had the same plan when it came to proposing to each other. It was obvious to Jenny after a while, that Annie really wanted to see the ring that Gibbs had given to Jenny.
"It's absolutely stunning, Mom." Annie said while she looked at the engagement ring.
Gibbs watched as a smile illuminated Jenny's face and eyes before she responded to their daughter.
"Your father has good taste."
It only took a matter of seconds for Gibbs to tell what Jenny was thinking as she responded to their daughter and he gave a look to Jenny that told her not to go there.
"Well he has had some practice in the proposal department…" JJ commented out of nowhere.
A stunned look came to Gibbs when it came to his son's remark while Jenny and Annie stifled laughs.
"When are you telling everyone else? Abby is going to be thrilled when she finds out."
"We'll tell everyone else when we go into the office again. And we thought that we'd face time Abby to tell her, but of course we have to take into consideration the time difference." Jenny answered.
The following day, Jenny and Gibbs were riding the elevator back up to squad room. Their hands were intertwined, they had long ago gave up caring what others thought about them being together after they had come to NCIS for a visit. Even though they were both retired agents and other agents had taken over the roles that Jenny and Gibbs once held at NCIS, they would still hold their former roles in the minds of some of the agents that had been at NCIS for a long time.
As Jenny and Gibbs were making their way to the squad room, Jack had a feeling that there was going to be announcement made that morning so she made her way down to the squad room from her office. Jack noticed the engagement ring on Jenny's hand after Jack had come into the squad room. What surprised Jack the most was that Jenny and Gibbs weren't saying anything about their engagement when they had gotten to the squad room that morning, that things were just continuing on as normal. At one point when Gibbs wasn't looking, Jack got Jenny's attention and gave her a look that posed the question of why aren't you saying anything yet?
"We will soon, when the moment presents itself." Jenny whispered.
Of all the people to hear Jenny's response to Jack, besides Jack; Tony zeroed in on what was said.
"What will you share when the moment presents itself?" Tony questioned.
Jenny read the look on Gibbs' face as their work son tried to get answers, it was a look that said that now wasn't the time to make their announcement. Gibbs knew full well that Jenny wasn't going to listen. They both knew each other quite well.
"Jethro and I have announcement to share with all of you but for now it will have to wait until after work." Jenny said.
Gibbs breathed a sigh of relief to a degree that Jenny didn't spill the beans so to speak, but he knew that there was a good chance that Jenny was planning a party or a massive outing for everyone just so they could announce the engagement.
"Why don't we all go out for drinks after work?" Tony suggested.
"Abby should be here too." Gibbs said quickly before Jenny could agree to Tony's plan.
Jenny picked up on what Gibbs was up to.
"Yes Abby, should be here too…she is family after all."
While the team went back to work, Jack held back for a few moments before she returned to her office. Jenny looked around to make sure that everyone on the team was occupied with the tasks before them. It was then that Jenny raised her left hand up a bit for Jack to see.
"It's beautiful, congrats." Jack mouthed.
As Jack took the steps two at a time to get back to her office, Jenny walked over to where Gibbs was sitting. Once she was beside Gibbs, Jenny leaned in close enough so that only Gibbs could hear her.
"Don't you think that Ducky should be here too, he was like a father to both of us."
"Everyone over there already knows, even Ducky."
"And how is Shannon and Diane taking this?"
"They're fine."
With that, Jenny returned to what she was working on before Jack had come downstairs.
