NCIS - A few days later.
Life had been fairly quiet around NCIS headquarters. No new cases had come in. McGee was working on a program to improve the speed of their database searches with Abby's help. He had almost forgotten about the mysterious letter. Abby had reported that she was unable to obtain any fingerprints off the items from Gibbs' basement. He'd told the team what had happened since Abby insisted he do so but in the absence of evidence pointing to a suspect they had been forced to let the matter drop.
Conversation about the Post article had died down too. NCIS had only received one mention and much amusement had been had by the agents reading about the mistakes of the CIA and their old friends at the FBI. Tony wasn't laughing anymore after teasing Agent Sacks at the bar one night. Sacks had reminded him that at least the FBI had their own jet and people to gas their cars.
Tony and Ziva had been catching up on paperwork and reviewing cold cases though Tony had somehow found the time to set a new high score on his shoot Bin Laden computer game. Surprisingly it is Ziva who is getting the most frustrated with the forced inaction. She had no problem calmly defusing a bomb or fearlessly taking on an armed assailant but present her with a grieving widow or a traumatised victim and, she ruefully thought to herself, she was not at her best. Still she had learned a lot from Gibbs and even though she would never admit it from Tony too. Ziva picked up the next file.
The Director's Office.
Gibbs walks into Jenny's office where she has some photos spread over the conference table.
"What's all this Jen?" "Take a look Jethro."
Gibbs examines them one by one. They are a series of shots stamped with the same date and the time around 2:00 am. The photos show his car (clearly identifiable by the licence plate), him escorting a woman to the door of an apartment building, kissing her and receiving a hug in return. From a shot taken as she turns to wave goodbye it is obvious the woman is Abby. "There was a letter too." Jen hands it to Gibbs.
The Post let you off lightly Madam Director. Do you think they'd be interested in these? Exactly what is the nature of the relationship between senior NCIS Special Agent Gibbs and his oh so much junior and ever so much younger colleague....? How can that not be a coerced relationship? Sex sells Director. More to come.
Gibbs grins.
"This is not funny Jethro! Someone with a grudge is out to hurt you and doesn't mind who else gets damaged in the process. As Director my first"
"Stop Jen. The newspapers won't publish without some type of proof and as Abby and I are not sexually involved they won't find any. When they call here for a comment you can shut them down. That's why we have Agent Lee and all those lawyer types right?"
"Right as usual Jethro. Mind you some facts might help. Do you remember the date on these?"
Gibbs thinks a moment. "I know. It was when that journal thingy came out. The Journal of Forensic Sciences or something like that. Abby had her paper on the Optical Digital Enhancement of Reflective Surfaces with Scattered Refractive Properties published in it. We all went out to celebrate and Abby had too much to drink so I made sure she got safely home. She doesn't need to know about this Jenny. She'd be devastated to learn someone was attempting to use her actions to discredit me."
"No, there's nothing to be gained by telling her. I'll get it shut down. I just thought you were entitled to know."
"Thanks, Jen."
"You're quite welcome Jethro." Gibbs leaves and Jenny gathers up the photos. She can't help but smile when she comes to the one of Gibbs kissing Abby on the cheek.