A/N: Thank you so much for the reviews, they really make me want to finish this as quickly as I can. I wanted to get this out last night, as I'm sure anyone who has this on alert got about 3 alerts...yeah, it just kept putting chapter 5 up again, here we go, let's see if it works*crosses fingers*, please review and let me know what you think
Ziva and Jenny walked through the autopsy doors just as Ducky was leaving. He was so engrossed in his work that he almost ran straight into them, and most likely would have if Ziva hadn't stopped him.
"Ducky, quick!" Ziva said continuing to walk Jenny over to one of the tables. Ducky just stared at the women Ziva was half carrying.
"How is this possible…" He said quietly, but Ziva heard it.
"It's a long story Ducky, it was her sister we found at the diner, she was being tortured by Kort, she came here an hour in a half ago. Ducky, there's something wrong, quick!" Ziva said hoisting Jenny, who was still gasping in pain, onto the table.
Ducky got over his shock and rushed over, he saw she was clutching her stomach so he asked Ziva to lift her shirt off for him while he held her upright.
That was when fear over took the pain.
"NOOOOO!" Jenny shouted trying to get away, but it only caused the pain to increase as well as the panic when they wouldn't let up.
This was the scene Gibbs had just walked into, and he was terrified at what had happened to her in the past two years.
He ran over and knelt on the table so to be at eye level with her.
"Jenny, Jenny, come on, you're okay, you're fine, no one's going to hurt you, come on Jenny; look at me!" Gibbs said grabbing onto her face with one hand while the other brushed her hair out of her face.
"PLEASE STOP!" Jenny shouted still trying to get away, this couldn't happen!"
"Jennifer, I need to look at your stomach, please calm down.
"STOP!" Gibbs ordered Ducky and Ziva, who both stopped and looked at him. "Step back for a second." He said, and after a minute they both complied with the order.
"Jen, Jenny, look, open your eyes, you're okay, no one's going to hurt you, but we have to see what's wrong okay…you need to take off your shirt, no one is going to do anything okay, it's Ducky, Ziva, and me, we wont let anything happen." He waited a minute before looking towards Ziva to help him out somewhat.
"She was being held by Kort, it was her sister we found." Ziva informed not going into too much detail, but she saw the fury light in Gibbs' eyes. "Calm down Gibbs, she doesn't need this now!" Ziva said knowing if she opened her eyes to Gibbs looking like that, it would only scare her more. Gibbs knew she was right and calmed himself down as much as he could.
"Okay, Jenny, I'm going to lift your shirt off okay? That's it, nothing more." He waited a minute before he saw her nod minutely. He slowly grabbed the hem of her shirt and slowly took it off, staring at her face the whole time.
She closed her eyes tighter, but didn't shout out this time.
He heard Ducky's gasp and looked towards him quickly to see him staring at her stomach.
He slowly turned back to her, not wanting to see what would make his friend look like that, but needing to know.
There, he saw her torso, completely covered in yellow/green bruises, scars, and just starting to heal wounds, but what worried him the most was the way her ribs looked on the right side, and how dark the bruise was.
"Duck…?" Gibbs asked worried.
"She has at least one broken rib, my guess would be several by the way the bruise looks, lye her down for a minute." He said grabbing e-ray equipment.
Gibbs started to lower her and felt her fighting again. "Shhh, nothing, I promise, we need to take an ex-ray." He tried to slowly ease her down again, which she resisted at first, but complied, although he noted she was still extremely stiff and still had her eyes clamped shut.
He set her head in his lap and tried to sooth her by brushing her hair out of her face. It was then that he really noticed just home much she had changed over the last two years.
Her hair was the longest he had ever seen it. Although, most of it was pulled back, her bangs, which had been just at her eyes when he had seen her, was now roughly a foot longer, hanging just below her shoulders.
He wasn't sure how he didn't pick up on the fact she had been tortured, or at least beaten, there were bruises covering her face, along her neck, and when he looked to her wrists, he could see hand mark bruises covering them, going all the way up her arms.
He must have been too consumed by the fact that she was alive, to take notice of the blemishes on her. He just hit himself even harder inside, knowing that if he continued with his line of thought that there was something wrong with her death, he could have found out she was alive, find her, and save her from this.
"Stop!" He heard and at first thought Ziva had said something, but when she shook her head and indicated it was Jenny, he looked down at her face and met her gaze.
"Stop it." She repeated, she could see he was blaming himself for what was wrong with her, and it just caused her more pain.
"Stop what?" He asked running his hand through her hair again, and her eyes briefly closed before she opened them and answered.
"Blaming yourself, just stop it, you didn't do any of this to me; none of you did, so stop." She pushed, finally released from her inner demons. "It wasn't your fault." She said willing him to believe her.
"Jenny, I, I should have found you, I should have known…"
"STOP!" She said louder. "Please, stop, how could you have know? You found someone dead that looked just like me, had the same DNA, characteristics, everything! There was no way you could have known, because there was no way any of you knew I had a sister!" She willed him to listen to her, she was exhausted and was about to give into it, but she needed to know he wasn't going to blame himself for what happened. "Please…" She faded off as exhaustion overtook her.
A/N: I know, another short one, but that is why I originally wanted to posted both of them the same day. Next chapter's going to have a fight take place, if it goes how I'm thinking at least. Leave me a review and let me know what you think so far, thanks again for reading^.^
~Quibilah