The Beginnings of a new life
Chapter 31th
Once Gibbs had gotten out of the shower. He was feeling better in general once the hot spray had gone over his body to relieve the muscles in his firm body. He wasn't able to sleep just now as he looked at himself into the mirror. He needed to shave looking like a real caveman.
His own wife hated the idea of his beard that wild like for when he was first in Paraguay with Timothy McGee and earlier with pictures with Abby taking for when Gibbs had first come back from his first retirement down in Mexico with Mike Franks. And since that time Mike Franks was killed by the serial killer.
As he had finished up with the shaving of his face and looking like normal again and with throwing cold water onto his face to finish up.
It was awfully quiet placing on his marine pajamas and top to head on downstairs for a beer in the frig. Loreile had mention that she had stocked up the frig and the freezer filled with meats and including steaks. He was in a mood to cook himself one in the fireplace with needing to get the fireplace started with the logs placed on the side.
It didn't take all that long before the fire was starting and getting the chill out of the living room. It was at this particular moment when there was a knock on the door with it was locked. Moving over to the door and finding his young friend Phineas with a gift in a bag for him as a welcome home.
"Phineas please come on inside already." He said with noticing the bag and smell coming from inside.
"I can't stay Jethro Gibbs I have baseball practice with the team at the school. George is driving me over. But in the meantime my adopted mother made pumpkin pie for you a favorite of yours. It's inside this bag and please enjoy."
"Thank you Phineas I think that I will have a piece now before going to sleep. It was a long three weeks in Paraguay working. I will let Loreile know especially now that Shane has been born and you will get a chance with your new friend."
"I am very happy. Now I must go and have a good rest and enjoy the pumpkin pie Leroy Gibbs." He handed it to Gibbs while he walked out with George waiting in the car to take him to the field.
Gibbs moved over to the table in the kitchen very quiet. He pulled out his daughter's plate repaired by Abby and broke by an detective now since gone with the death of her mother. Placing the delicate plate on the table with Gibbs pulling out a knife from the cutlery draw. He was hungry with the smell that remained him so much of his mother Barbara before she died from breath cancer and killing herself and L.J. Moore's help.
Taking that first bite he was in heaven while moving to the living room to sit on his couch that was missing him. Even though he was able to smell the aroma of his wife Loreile sleeping on the couch while he was gone the three weeks. It was extremely hard having left to find nothing at all. He was wondering what the DOD was thinking on the subject.
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Senator Jerry Hill one of the oldest members on the DOD was in his chambers reading the long report on the OFF THE BOOKS operation in Paraguay.
Placing his hand over his head after taking off his bifocals. Another member Lawyer Donald McKinney had read the report and wasn't pleased at all walking inside the chambers. He said "I just don't believe all of the money that was wasted on this trip. It's a shame that Hernandez and his associates weren't found to get rid of this monster."
"Jesus Donald, the monster is hiding with getting ready to set up a new pipeline with bringing in new weapons and drugs. There is nothing else we can do accept continue to keep looking. I am just happy that everyone came back in one piece in the jungle?" He said to his colleague.
"I agree." Jerry replied after reading the one name that hit his eye. "Tell me something about this one woman named Maria and her involvement in all this?"
"Are you serious? She is the one woman that was used by Hernandez to have Gibbs taken care of in many ways. She is currently in protection on the way to a new location to start a new life. I do know there was something between them during the three weeks he was there with Maria and the other slave women as well removed from the compound with the latest mission. I will need to discuss this further with SECNAV and Director Vance. Maybe he might know something else that he's not telling us." Donald said strongly with his words and with shaking his head and rubbing his eyes.
"I highly doubt it." He left the chamber to have a meeting with someone at the Pentagon.
Meanwhile Senator Hill called Vance on the phone to see if he had any other information.
Director Leon Vance was sitting in his office reading files from other divisions of NCIS. He had a headache having taken two aspirins to help with the blindly pain. Closing one of the files there was a calling coming in on line two. His secretary Melanie was out on an errand outside of the Naval Yards along with a long lunch break.
He pressed the red button to answer it. "This is Director Vance of NCIS how can I help you?" He said in a tone that wasn't all too pleased.
"Senator Hill Leon. The reason I am calling is to find out on whether there was any further Intel on this Maria having been rescued in Paraguay?" He had to asked since she knew too much for when it came to Hernandez.
"From what I understand Senator Hill is that this Maria Garcia is on her way to a new life with the rest of the slaves. Why are you so interested in this woman?"
"Because she is the direct tie to Jose Juan Hernandez. And remember that Gibbs was given truth serum while he was there for the three weeks being torture and who knows what was said by him and to this woman?"
"Meaning that she might of been snitch for Hernandez? Then why treat her horribly as with Gibbs at the same time?" Vance said with shaking of his head not believing this at all.
"Correct! And so does other DOD members Director Vance. Something has to be done to find out further on the subject matter Leon. I don't have anything else to say on the matter. Good day Director." He hung with the call leaving a very confused Vance with more questions on his mind.
