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Laura
Jackson's house
Jenny and Jethro woke up at 08:30, got dressed and made their way down to the kitchen where Jackson was cooking breakfast with Kelly sitting at the table.
They both said "good morning"
Jackson said "good morning Jethro, Jenny how did you both sleep"
Kelly said "good morning mom and dad"
Jenny and Jethro both said "fine thank you"
Jackson said "good"
With this Jackson served up breakfast, they ate this in silence,
Jethro said "do you need any help with the shop this morning; the girls are spending the morning together"
Jackson said "yes please"
they all arranged to meet in the diner across from the shop for lunch at 12:00, Jenny and Kelly went to the hair salon to have the hair cut first, both had a trim, with layers put in, Jenny left hers down and curly, while Kelly's was down and straight, after this they spent the rest of the time and picking up a few outfits, by the time they finished it was 12:00 and they met up with Jackson and Jethro outside the diner, they all went in and sat down.
Mary came over and said "hello Jackson, Kelly who are your company"
Jackson said "you remember my son Leroy; this is his wife, Jenny"
Mary said "my Leroy, we haven't seen you since you left for the marines, you've changed a lot, and you have a good one here, I'm Mary nice to meet you,"
Before Jenny could answer Peter came over and said "who has a good one here"
Mary said "you remember Leroy; this is his wife, Jenny"
Peter said "nice to see you again Leroy and lovely to meet you, Jenny"
Jethro said "It's lovely to see you both again"
Jenny said "It's nice to meet you both"
Peter said "I need to get back to the kitchen; it was nice seeing you both"
with this he went back to the kitchen, Mary took their orders and left them to it, while the spent there time making small talk, once they finished Jethro, Kelly and Jenny spent the afternoon seeing where Jethro grew up, come early evening they went back to the house, where they had dinner with Jackson and spent the evening playing board games as a family, Jenny then sang to Kelly again with In my daughters eyes by Martina McBride, then her and Jethro both had an early night.
The next morning they all woke at 08:00, Jenny and Jethro packed and got the car loaded up, they all sat down to eat breakfast, soon it was time to say goodbye, they stood at the door,
Jenny said "it was nice to see you again Jackson see you soon"
Jackson said "and you Jenny glad your home"
Jethro said "bye dad see you when we come to pick Kelly up"
Jackson said "bye son"
Jenny hugged Kelly and whispered in her ear "I love you, sweetie, I promise to be with your dad when we pick you up bye sweetheart"
Kelly said "I Love you too bye Mom"
Jethro hugged Kelly and said "bye Kelly, I love you"
Kelly said "bye dad I love you too"
With this they got in the car and started their journey home, Kelly and Jackson went back into the house,
Kelly said "it was nice seeing mom again"
Jackson said "it was, you'll see her every day when you get home"
Jackson started tidying up, while Kelly tidied her room and listened to music.
The journey home was fairly quiet, they stopped for Lunch on the way, then continued on their way home, once they got home, they unpacked and sorted out, they then curled up on the sofa,
Jenny said "it was lovely spending time with her, it was nice singing to her, it made me realise what I missed out on for a stupid mistake I'm so sorry" she now had tears in her eyes
Jethro pulled her close, wrapped his arms around her and said "yes it was and it was nice to hear you sing to her again, and you have nothing to be sorry for I love you"
Jenny said "I love you too; we need to decide which house we're living in"
Jethro said "I don't care as long as you're happy"
Jenny said "what about your boat"
Jethro said "as long as I'm with you I don't care, what about us living here, it's your family home and it's more of a family house"
Jenny said "yes if you don't mind, but can we redecorate first"
Jethro said "I don't mind and yes we can do the rooms you want to do and stay at mine while it's being done"
they talked about which rooms were being done, which was their room, Kelly's room and the living room, while all the others were having a fresh coat of paint, they packed up the spare rooms and put their stuff, into Kelly's room and got started in the first spare room, they finished that one and ordered Take away, before they did the second room, then getting cleaned up and going to bed.
The next day Jenny had a lot of meetings at work so left early while Jethro got called out to a dead Navy Lieutenant in rock creek park, the team spent the day finishing the case and doing their case reports, by the time they finished it was 18:00, Jethro sent them home and took up the case reports to Jenny,
Jenny gave him a kiss and said "hey, I'm going to have to stay late to catch up on some paperwork, so will be home late"
Jethro said "That's ok; I'm going to go now as I sent the team home, and I'll finish the spare bedrooms and start putting things back"
Jenny said "thank you, I will see you later, I love you"
Jethro said "I love you" and went home,
once he arrived home he checked the two spare bedrooms, they had done yesterday to find them ok, he started to paint the spare room that was left, once he was finished this he cleaned up and started putting the stuff for the other two back, he had just finished when Jenny come home, he met her at the bottom of the stairs and noticed how tired she looked and said "are you ok"
She replied "yes just a long day"
Jethro said "I'll run you a bath, while you relax on the sofa"
Jethro run her a bath, she went into it, half an hour later, he came in with warm towels to find her asleep, he woke her up and helped her get dry and changed before he put her to bed where she fell straight to sleep, he joined her falling asleep a few minutes later.
By the end of the week, the rooms that need a fresh coat of paint was done, their bedroom, Kelly's and the living room was empty ready to be painted, they were staying at Jethro's house and was going to be packing it up in between, and Naomi had the week off,
They painted their room, which was a chocolate brown and cream which Jethro also managed to get someone in to paint the ceiling a very dark blue with stars on it as a surprise for Jenny, Kelly's room was deep purple on two walls with a biscotti colour on the other two, with musical notes and instruments painted on the wall in silver, the living room, was a cream and baby blue.
On Sunday they had got the living room back together and went to start their bedroom Jethro took Jenny's hand and told her to close her eyes,
Jenny laughing "Jethro I helped paint it I know what it's like"
Jethro replied, "Please Jenny you'll see why in a moment." With that, Jenny did as she was told and he opened the door and lead her in and said "open them" she opened them looking around confused, he then said "look up"
Jenny looked up and upon seeing the ceiling gasped in surprise and with tears in her eyes said: "how, when and why did you do this?"
Jethro smiled and wiped the few tears that fell and replied "with Naomi's help, once we went home yesterday I got them in to do it, and because when you're struggling, I want you to come up here and look up and hopefully this will remind you of your worth"
Jenny smiled and kissed him before saying "I can't believe you would do this I love you, Jethro"
Jethro replied "I would do anything for you, I love you Jennifer" and kissed her again then they went and started moving their stuff back in and moved Jethro's stuff in and unpacked, they were finishing Kelly's room and putting it back together after work this week, once it was dry,
Monday morning, they were both at work for 8:00, Jenny had a few meetings up the hill, and Jethro's team got called out to a dead navy lieutenant, Emma Smith, she had been shot three times, by 11:00 they were on their way back to the Navy yard, DiNozzo took the evidence down to Abby before they all meet in the bullpen,
Jethro said " McGee check her bank accounts, DiNozzo her navy records, Ziva see if you can find anything else out, I'm going for coffee,"
While out for coffee, he picked up a bunch of orchids and a card, back at NCIS, he got out on the catwalk and walked over to Jenny's office,
Jethro said "Cynthia is she back yet",
Cynthia said "no, not yet",
Jethro said "I'm going to put these in her office, don't tell her about them please",
Cynthia smiled at seeing someone treat her boss this way and said "sure go right ahead"
Jethro said "thank you" walked into her office and placed them on her desk with the card near the front and then went back to the lift to come out on the bullpen level.
Jethro came into the bullpen and said "what have we got"
McGee said "everything seems in check with her bank accounts nothing suspicious"
DiNozzo said "I spoke to her c/o they had been back a week, no problems said she was an excellent member of his team"
Ziva said "I found in her emails, she was having problems with a jealous ex wouldn't leave her alone, even when she said she was with someone his name is Adam Jones lives at 387 west street Virginia"
Jethro said "go pick him up for questioning, I'm going down to Abby"
Down in the lab, Abby had just matched the bullets to the weapon the found it was registered to Adam Jones,
Jethro came in and said "what have you got Abbs"
Abby said "the bullets match the weapon you found it's registered to an Adam Jones and it's only his fingerprints that are on it"
Jethro said "good work Abbs",
He then placed a caf-pow in front of her and kissed her cheek and went back to the bullpen, just in time to see a sad looking Jenny go into her office, he hoped the flowers would cheer her up,
Jenny walked into her office and when she spotted the flowers said "Cynthia do you know who the flowers are from",
Cynthia came into Jenny's office and said "no ma'am no one's brought any flowers up",
Jenny said "ok thank you" and sat her desk where she spotted the card which said
'To my beautiful wife
here are your favourite flowers
just to say I love you
love your husband x'
He was sat at his desk waiting for DiNozzo and Ziva to come back when his phone rang,
He answered with "Gibbs"
Jenny said, "Thank you for the flowers, Jethro, I love you too, how did you get them passed Cynthia?"
He replied "I didn't I just asked her not to tell you"
Jenny just laughed and said "thank you I love you too bye"
Gibbs said "bye I love you"
McGee looked up but just assumed it was Gibbs wife he was speaking to, when Ziva and DiNozzo got back with Adam, he interrogated him and managed to get it out of him why, he decided if he couldn't have her, no one could, after this they all finished their paperwork, they all went home, Jethro and Jenny started to get Kelly's room ready.
The next day they had a case of harassment and blackmail of a Senators son who was a sailor and his family that involved a suspect DiNozzo and Ziva were bringing in called Grace Collins, Jenny was stood with the team when they brought her in,
Jenny said "Grace"
Jethro said "you know her"
Jenny said "unfortunately she is my mother but left me alone when I was eight years old"
Grace said "Jennifer you know I didn't do this you've got to help me"
Jenny just laughed and said "how do I you abandoned me when I was eight years old in the house alone, It was lucky Dad was only an hour away"
DiNozzo and Ziva integrated her while; Jethro walked Jenny up to her office, once safely in her office she hugged him
Jethro said, "Are you, ok baby?"
Jenny said " yeh it was just a shock seeing her and she was trying to act as if nothing had happened, go back to work I love you"
Jethro kissed her and said "I love you to" and left the office and both went back to work.
Everything then seemed to have settled down for the rest of the week, meaning they had got Kelly's room finished and arranged to pick her up, the following Saturday, everything was fine till the Wednesday when they had a case involving cocaine smuggling.