Time Heals all Wounds

Chapter 17th

Marcie was restless trying to rest in the bunk of the cabin. She and Lucy were alone as the team from NCIS was making the rounds by checking the area. She had gotten up with Lucy's head lifting up with a cry.

"I know baby. I will get up to take you outside for a quick walk," she says with Torres having heard her from the entrance of the cabin.

"I am afraid not Miss Warren. I will take her out for a walk. We are here to protect you nevertheless from the Cartel. I don't wish to tell Gibbs that you're not listening to the orders of staying in the cabin for the evening. And besides, it's cold and you need to be adding more logs to the fireplace?" he suggested with placing the leash on Lucy getting out of her bed to head outside.

Marcie was concerned since she hated this idea in the first place by one Leroy Jethro Gibbs. Though placing a smile with her expression. Grabbing two logs from the pile and placing them into the fireplace that was dying out. Soon it was going to be warm again inside with the chill.

It was at this particular time her cellphone was going off having to be sitting on the table. She had known that it was probably Gibbs calling from the hospital. She can always wonder as to why he could never sleep even in a hospital with the constant traffic of nurses and doctors.

"Jethro can't you sleep baby?" she had called him with his nickname.

"Are you serious I can never sleep properly? But the doctors and nurses here are driving me crazy as with Doctor Cyril Taft." he choked over the phone telling someone to stop touching him with the bathing. "Hold on a moment," he said to her with slight anguish. "Don't bother nurse I can do it myself with the washing down below."

"Fine. I will let Doctor Taft know that the patient was being downright stubborn." the young nurse in her late twenties was saying before leaving the room.

"Good for you, Jethro. Just to let you know that I was trying to sleep with nothing to do except the fact your team members are doing a wonderful job of protecting me so far. I can't even go outside to take Lucy for a walk. Nicholas Torres took over the chore." she signed with her disappointment.

"Believe me Marcie they are great people and they know their jobs for when it comes to the protection detail. So please try to be patient with them while you're there at the cabin?" he said with his face lighting up having to be thinking about her a great deal.

"No problem, Jethro. Please take care of your own self as well. Love you." she said for which she was not expecting him to say it back. But she was going to be getting a surprise nevertheless.

"I love you as well. Good night and give a kiss to Lucy for me as well?" he said before hanging up finishing up with the washing of his genitals without having the nurses do it.

"Okay I will Marcie?" he cried out with trying to get comfortable. He went back to washing himself with the washcloth using the small silver washbasin without messing up.

This is when Doctor Taft walked in watching the scene with his friend cleaning himself to be a real joke. "What you need is a woman to be doing this for you and I mean Marcie as your wife?" he joked with taking the cloth from him before putting on the gloves to finish up.

"Look doc I have been having too much on my mind with having to be here in the first place and with the Cartel coming after Marcie for her story about Shannon and Kelly's location," he says. While watching his friend finishing up with grabbing a towel from the bathroom to dry the area and placing powder.

"Look Jethro, you need to relax now with a new day tomorrow. I need you to sleep some or else I will be forced to give you sleeping pills to take." he threatened.

"Fine doc I will listen this time. But I must tell you that I am not liking this at all?" he commented with trying to adjust to the new position in bed.

While Taft had left. He was about to have the shock of his life. Even though Marcie had mentioned that she was doing the story that was squashed by the United States Government.

There was a knock on the door. When he opened his eyes to see the dark-haired woman walking inside.

"Can I help you miss?" Gibbs had to say not having an idea who the woman was to him.

"Yeah, daddy I can. I am here to come and see you after speaking with Marcie Warren in Orlando, Florida doing her story on me and mommy. I am Kelly your daughter after 34 years of silence."

Leroy Jethro Gibbs was in shock hearing and seeing his daughter with tears flowing down his face. "OMG! I really didn't believe Marcie when she had told me that you and mommy were still alive with having to be in the WITNESS PROTECTION PROGRAM."

"True daddy. Mother had found out a few days before going to court that a source had told her that the Cartel leader Pedro Hernandez was going to kill us both. So she called the Witness Protection Program for which we had only an hour packing out things while you were at the basecamp. A helicopter had taken us out of the states heading for a small town in Italy at a large compound for where we stayed for 24 years. While the last ten starting a new life for where I am married to Colonel James Hawkins for the Witness Protection with two boys ages 9 and 8 years old."

"And what about mommy?" taking in a deep breath with his heart in his chest.