Author's Note: For everyone this is for the Holiday season. Happy Holiday's everyone. This chapter is my present for you all the longest chapter yet!
I decided to dived this chapter into two because I think Shannon deserves two chapters and a long chat with Gibbs
Chapter 10: Part 1: Shannon Fielding Gibbs
Gibbs looks around he was at the train station in Stillwater.
"Where are you going stranger?" a familiar woman's voice says
Gibbs spins around sharply and comes face to face with his wife Shannon Fielding-Gibbs
"Jethro what have you done? Are you ready to give up on life so easterly?" Shannon asks
"Shannon?" Gibbs whisperers
Shannon nods smiling.
Gibbs goes up to her and wipe her red hair from her face. Looking into those eyes which he thought he lost the chance of seeing all those years ago.
"Shannon?" Gibbs says her name again
"My Jethro", Shannon says
Gibbs kisses her and Shannon him passionately there first kiss in over a decade since Shannon's dead.
"You know your still my one and only?" Gibbs says pulling back
"What about your other 3 wives? Diane, Rebecca, and Stephanie? And you knew love for Jenny Shepard?" Shannon asks
"They all weren't you", Gibbs says
"Let's sit and talk about it shall we. About all your relationships both romantically and non", Shannon says leading him to the bench they first met at, "Come on you know I don't bite"
Gibbs smiles, "I have missed you Shannon"
"I have missed you being able to see me, share a kiss with me. But I can't say that I am not happy you have a life again. My dear Jethro. Life is too short for being taken for granted. Or living in the past. You have so many people watching out for you Jethro. You have built a family around yourself both dead and alive. Without even knowing it", Shannon says
"I don't see it that way", Gibbs says stubbornly
"Well lets start with Mike Franks. He has been the friend you needed when Kelly and I died. He gave you a job at NCIS. Then your boss. You took over from him when he retired and still kept in connect. He cared enough about you to come all the way from Mexico to be with you after that explosion when you were re-living Kelly and mines death. He stayed with you. He even bought you to his house in Mexico to recover. I won't say retire. Because we both know you weren't going to last long as a retired agent. You NEEDED to be in the field catching and putting away criminals like those who killed Kelly and I. When Mike always came to help what did you feel?" Shannon asks
"I guess relief. And the feeling knowing he always had my back", Gibbs says
"What did you feel when he died?" Shannon asks
"A feeling like losing a father. I will admit it. His death hit my close like yours, Kelly's, Jenny's and Kate's", Gibbs says
"About Kate what did you feel she was like to you? Before she died? Was she just another colleague or was she something more?" Shannon asks, "Didn't you say you felt Kate was like the daughter you lost again. Another pulled into your dysfunctional family"
"No one can replace Kelly", Gibbs states
"What about Abby Sciuto? A woman who has gone to great lengths to show you, you are loved and to protect you. Do you deny that you don't feel like she is your surrogate daughter?" Shannon asks
"I admit she is like that. But she is not blood", Gibbs says
"Didn't Abby multiple times say that you all where family. Tighter then Blood. You don't have to be blood to be a family Jethro", Shannon says
"Maybe sometimes people can be tighter then blood", Gibbs admits
"You saved her life over and over again. And she saved yours", Shannon says
"What? How?" Gibbs asks
"This is what it would have looked like if you haven't met Abby when you did", Shannon says and soon they were sitting in a bar
With a version of Gibbs drinking himself into obliteration. When FBI comes busting into the room.
"Mr Leroy Jethro Gibbs you are under arrest for the murder of Pedro Hernandez", the FBI says cuffing him
The scene changes and they were in a court room and Abby was testifying against Gibbs. Abby didn't look like the Abby he knew. She was dressed to code and seemed to have enjoyed her job less.
"What happened to her? She is not the Abby I know", Gibbs says
"It this reality you two never meet. You never took Abby as your surrogate daughter, you two never became close. She never met you. She found out who kill Hernandez and told her boss. Which lead to your arrest", Shannon says
"Leroy Jethro Gibbs you have been found guilty of murder", the judge says, "I sentence you to 50 years prison"
"In this reality you went to jail and died there and everyone knew you as a cold blooded killer not a hero you are today in your real reality", Shannon says as they are back at the train station
"How am I not there now?" Gibbs asks
"Watch this it will show your Director Vance really does care about you as a friend", Shannon says
They see Abby give Vance the report and telling him she wanted nothing to do with sending Gibbs to prison and left it in his hands. They show Vance go through the cold case achieves. He looked around and put the file the Abby gave him in a box of unsolved hard cold cases. Before walking out like nothing had happened.
"Leon protected me?" Gibbs asks in disbelief as they are back at the Train Station
"Yes. To this day no one has found that file", Shannon says, "Now what about your friend Tobias Fornell? He is part of your made up family isn't he?" Shannon asks
"I wouldn't say that", Gibbs says
"Well he has done you enough favours in the past for you. You may tick each other off now and again but Tobias considers you his brother and is grateful you warned him about Diane. Even if he did end up marrying her. He did consider not marrying her. But you know what he chose. Let's see what is happening at present with him", Shannon says and they are in the hospital waiting room
"I want the bastards that did this Director Vance. I will give you some of my own men and myself once I know Gibbs is going to survive", Tobias growls
"I want the bastards too Agent Fornell. And NCIS will be willing to let your team help on the case. Help from the FBI would be grateful and from friends of Gibbs well we know we will catch the bastards", Vance says, "But this might turn into murder yet. With Gibbs and Agent DiNozzo fighting for their lives"
"Well I will give the bastard a thing to remember a bullet wound to his knee cap should be painful enough and it won't kill him so he can serve the maximum time for Gibbs and DiNozzo", Tobias growls
"Now we are going to one reality in which you died", Shannon says as they now stand in the interrogation room with Leon Vance and Tobias Fornell on one side and a guy on the other that had a gunshot wound to his knee and shoulder.
"Why did you do it? Why did you kill Agent Gibbs?" Leon asks
"I don't know what your talking about. Your guys shot me twice for no good reason", the guy growls
"Agent Fornell and Agent McGee were protecting themselves. I am sure our forensic scientist Miss Sciuto will find that Agent Fornell and Agent McGee shot you in self defence. After all isn't this your gun that you had on you when they shot you?" Leon asks putting a gun on the table in an evidence bag
"I will admit to nothing", the man declares
Fornell had, had enough lifts the man out of his chair and slams the gasping man into the wall.
"It was my friend and brother you killed. You ARE going away for life. I will make sure all the evidence is rock solid. So just admit it already. Maybe it will save your life from some very pissed off people", Fornell growls, "You know guards in jail are very fond of Agent Gibbs in Washington. You will be going straight to prison in Washington. Let's see how long you last in there?"
"Did Fornell call me his brother?" Gibbs asks
"Times bring changes in all of us", Shannon says simply
"I want a deal. Not a prison in Washington somewhere else where nobody knows Gibbs", the man says
"Fine. So is that a confession?" Leon asks mildly
"Fine I shot him and killed him and Agent DiNozzo. Now give me a prison cell with guards that don't know Gibbs", the man says as Fornell lets him go and starts to head out, "Where is my deal?"
"What deal?" Fornell asks leaving
Gibbs and Shannon go back to the Train Station.
"So now you know Fornell is part of your family. Now we better now on to the next what about Ziva?" Shannon asks
To be continued
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