A/N: I am sooo happy with how this story is turning out. I'm also happy to see you all are liking it so much. I won't leave you waiting any longer to see what happens. Please review^.^
Gibbs flipped the switch for what he guessed was at least the third time that day and just looked at her.
He thought he would never see her again, but here she was, standing before him. He let the joy of seeing her alive, standing in front of him linger before he looked at her face, which nearly broke him. She looked so…broken herself.
"Jen…" He faded off not knowing what to say. However, that one word caused her flimsy mask to crack and he saw her shut her eyes tightly and sink to the floor, taking up the position she had mere minutes before.
He sank to the floor in front of her and waited for a minute.
"I didn't think I would ever see you again…" He trailed off once again as he heard her try to cover a sob, she continued to keep her eyes shut, but hugged her knees closer to her body.
"Jen…please, look at me." Gibbs said bringing his hand to the side of her face where her eyes shut impossibly tighter and she flinched away from his touch.
"Please…don't…" Jenny whimpered starting to get lost in her memories, they were threatening to overtake her since she spoke in MTAC, then she relived them again with Ziva, and she knew Gibbs was going to ask about them…but she started to loose herself to them.
Gibbs drew his hand back realizing now how messed up she was. Abby was wrong, she wasn't starting to fall apart at the seems, she already had, and she was trying to get herself back together.
Slowly he tried again to get her to look at him. He got onto his knees and leaned forwards, placing both hands on her shoulders gently trying to pull her out of her thoughts.
"NOOOO! PLEASE!" Jenny shouted jamming herself further into the corner of the elevator, pulling her legs closer to her and hiding her face in them.
"Jen, it's me, come on, come back Jenny." He said as he heard her sobbing now without restraint.
"Please!" She said one last time before Gibbs pulled his hands back and sat back down, waiting for her to come back to reality.
"What happened to you…?" He asked quietly, knowing the question wouldn't reach her ears over her sobs.
He wanted nothing more then to hold her and calm her, but he seemed to be making everything worse.
Almost five minutes later Jenny started to move slowly out of her tight cocoon she had wrapped herself into. She couldn't believe she had just lost it in front of him. Now he was definitely going to push her to find out what happened. At that thought her breathing became in short panicked gasps.
Gibbs, hearing this, quickly looked over, and went to shake her out of it, but remembering the last reaction he choose to just keep calling her name till she calmed slightly.
"Jen, you're fine, you're okay, nothings going to hurt you." He just kept saying until eventually her breathing slowed and she gained control of herself again.
"I'm sorry…" She said quietly.
Gibbs just looked at her.
"For what? You've done nothing wrong Jenny!" He said finally looking into her eyes. He saw just how open they were.
He slowly started to move towards her side, her never taking her eyes off him. He continued to watch her as he moved closer to her. "It's okay Jenny…" He repeated as he slowly reached his arm out to try to hold her.
She continued to watch with alert and guarded eyes as he reached his arm around her shoulders. She couldn't help the panic that rose in her when she felt contact, but tried to listen to his voice telling her she was alright, eventually she was able to relax into his arm, and lean into him. She let a few more tears to fall, before she finally felt strong enough to pull away.
"Can we not…I just want to go home…" She stopped when she saw him blanch slightly. "What…?" She asked curious and a bit frightened.
"Jenny, when you…died…I, and I mean this in the nicest way possible…but I sort of burned your house down…" There we go, some life back in her eyes…even if it was fury.
"You did what?" She asked, where was she going to go?
"Look, I went over there because something didn't feel right, I thought I missed something, which, I definitely did because here you are. But, Svetlana came, and we wanted your reputation to not be mucked up, in short, we burned your house with Svetlana inside, and said it was you…" He answered backing up slightly from her.
"Just where am I going to stay?" She asked not believing it, he was so close to finding out I wasn't really dead!
Gibbs answered without thinking. "With me." Allison moving in with him today wasn't even on his mind.
"Your house…?" She asked not sure she could handle it.
"Yes, ready to go?" He asked standing up and holding a hand out to her.
She looked at it for a minute before accepting it and standing with him. She tried to fix her appearance as best she could as the elevator brought them to the his teams floor.
The doors opened and they were about to step out when the saw Abby and Ziva standing there. Ziva watched Gibbs looking to see if he had hurt her, while Abby walked over to Jenny and gave her a huge hug. That was when all three of them heard it.
Jenny let out a muffled gasp of pain as Abby hugged her. She jumped back from Jenny as Jenny doubled over in pain taking deep gasps of air to try to subdue the pain.
The three of them, more Gibbs and Abby, stood in shook and fear at the scene before them.
Ziva quickly Grabbed Jenny's right arm, and hoisted it over her shoulders, before walking back into the elevator, pressing the button to bring them to Ducky's floor. Ziva knew Jenny probably wanted nothing more than to leave, but if she was in this much pain, Ducky needed to look her over.
Gibbs started as soon as the elevator closed and he noted the floor they were going to before he ran to the other elevator and pressed the same number. Abby just stood there feeling like she did something terribly wrong.
A/N: So? Jibbsy enough for you? I know it is VERY short, but I thought the next part would be too much for one chapter, but I do have it done, and will post it later tonight.
~Quibilah
