A/N: Thank you all so much for the reviews, I am so glad to see you all are liking it. This chapters going to be a doozy for sure if it goes the way I think it will, so without further a due, chapter seven, review and let me know what you think^.^
I COULDN'T BELIEVE TONIGHT'S EPISODE! Jenny was mentioned AND a flashback with her! I MISS HER!
It had been almost two hours since Jenny had fallen asleep on Jethro's lap. He tried to get up after the first fifteen minutes, but Jenny started to panic in her sleep turning her head into his lap more and clutching at his jeans.
Ducky had told him immediately to stop moving. Jenny's vitals were extremely high and she needed to calm down. Gibbs looked at him for a minute, before asking Ziva to Lift Jenny's head so he could get into a position where blood could get to his legs.
She started to moan in her sleep and cling to him tighter, but he was able to get in a position so his legs were hanging off the table and her head rested comfortably in his lap. After a few minutes she calmed down again, but she was far from having a restful slumber.
Every time she screamed, or panicked in her sleep it sent a blow to Gibbs at how he could have stopped this. He knew Jenny didn't want him blaming himself, but he couldn't help but feel responsible.
He spent the two hours watching her and thinking about how grateful he was to have her back in his life, alive again. He had to touch her every few minutes to make sure he wasn't dreaming.
Ducky had left awhile ago with Ziva, mostly to give Jenny some privacy to sleep, but they were hoping it would make Gibbs think about his relationship with the two women in his life now.
He hadn't really thought about Heart much, at all honestly, since he left the Abby's lab. It still didn't register that he was going to bring Jenny home with him where Heart was going to be waiting for him.
He was thinking about the conversation he had with Kort a few months back, and how he should have picked up something in what he was saying. He was just picturing what he was going to do to Kort next time he saw him when Jenny screamed and bolted into a sitting position clutching her legs.
Gibbs immediately gathered her into his arms ands started to rock and sooth her. Her tears and sobs subsided and eventually she realized it was just a memory, nothing was going to happen to her.
"Hey sleepy, you okay?" Gibbs asked pulling back to look into her eyes. She looked at him sadly but nodded nonetheless. He hugged her close for a few more minutes before asking if she wanted to go home and sleep in a real bed.
"Please." Was all she said. Gibbs released her and jumped of the table holding a hand out for her to help her down. She had three broken ribs so jumping down wouldn't be so easy.
She sat there for a few moments before taking his hand and slowly getting down, though it didn't stop some of the pain that escaped when she landed.
"You alright?" He asked immediately, and after a second the pain subsided enough to where she nodded and stood straight.
"I'm fine." She said before walking towards the doors and towards the elevator.
Gibbs smiled before following. She sure is strong he thought when he got in next to her, and it looked as if nothing was wrong, that is, if you couldn't read her like he could anyways.
"I just have to grab some stuff from my desk quick, you can say hi to the team, or wait, which ever you want." He said pressing the floor number he wanted.
"I'll wait outside the elevator for you." She said and he heard her voice falter slightly.
Gibbs quickly got to his desk, grabbed what he needed, and started to leave.
"Gibbs…?" Ziva asked.
"She's shaken up, I'm going to take her home so she can get a good nights sleep, and go from there. You guys go home for the night, but be back here tomorrow morning. We're going to find Kort!" He said trying to control his anger before He met up with Jenny again.
"You ready Jen?" He asked coming to stand in front of her, she simply nodded before pressing the call button.
The elevator landed on the car park level, and Jenny quickly stepped behind Gibbs worried he was going to be there waiting for her.
"It's okay Jen, I wont let anything else happen to you." Gibbs said reaching around her to hold her behind him in a protective manner as he slowly stepped out of the elevator, checking the surroundings to make sure he wasn't there.
"Agent Gibbs? Can I help you?" One of the security guards at the elevator asked seeing Gibbs acting so strangely.
He looked behind Gibbs to see their dead director, shocked he stared for a minute, before being brought back to reality by Gibbs asking a question.
"You see a bald guy around here at all today?" Gibbs asked not seeing him, but wanting to know if he had been there at all today.
"Not that I can say sir, but I've only been on shift for just over two in a half hours. I will say I haven't seen a bald man come or go in that time however." H e replied to Gibbs as he slowly stepped more out of the elevator still holding the former director behind him.
"Good to hear, keep a look out will you and inform Agent DiNozzo, David, or McGee immediately if you see anyone you don't recognize slinking around." He ordered before continuing towards his car.
"It's good to see you Director Shepard!" He said and got a quick glance from her before smiling and turning back to face Gibbs' back.
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"Uh…care to share Ziva?" DiNozzo asked confused as to what Kort had to do with everything, but getting a sickening feeling that he was up to something again.
"Jenny had a sister, identical to her.."
"Wow, two smoking redheads…you said had…?" Tony stopped joking, the look on Ziva's face showed her this wasn't a laughing matter at all.
"Yes, she was who we found dead two years ago. Kort set the whole thing up, he captured Jenny and has been torturing her for two years…"
"THAT BASTARD!" Tony shouted whishing he killed Kort when he saw him months ago.
"TONY!" Ziva yelled to get his attention. "Jenny's in bad shape, she had a panic attack when Ducky was trying to check her out. He really hurt her, and the faster we find him, the faster she will be able to be able to let herself relax…"
"So let's start now." McGee said just as angry as the other two. "I don't care what Gibbs said, I'm staying until I find some sort of lead." McGee stood his ground.
"I was hoping you were going to say that Tim." Ziva said sitting behind her own computer and starting to type away furiously.
"I'm in, I want to catch this bastard!" Tony said hitting his desk to let out some anger.
Two hours later, none of them had found any sort of lead as to where Kort was, and they knew if they wanted to be able to function tomorrow they needed to get some rest.
"Meet back here at zero five?" Ziva asked and both McGee and Tony agreed without a moment's hesitation.
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"Jen, we're here." Gibbs said shutting off the car and looking over to find her asleep. "Jenny…?" Gibbs asked slightly shaking her shoulder to try and rouse her.
"Five more minutes…" Jenny said slipping back to sleep. Gibbs just smiled and got out of his door. He quickly scanned the area looking for any signs someone was there that shouldn't be. When he found none, he walked around to her side and opened the door.
"Come Jen." He said as he tried once more to wake her, but when that failed he heaved her into his arms bridal style and shut the door with his hip.
She immediately turned her head in towards his chest and clutched his shirt at the sound, but stayed asleep.
He made his way to the door, and after a slight struggle got it open. He shut it behind him and carried Jenny towards his bedroom. He used his foot to pull the covers back enough to wear he was able to ease her between the sheets and blankets.
He pulled the blankets around her and smiled as she curled into them. He watched her for a minute before brushing her hair away from her face and heading out of the room. He shut the light off and left the door open a slight crack before continuing on his way towards the kitchen.
He had just finished pouring himself a class of bourbon when he heard a car door shut outside. He was edge immediately and grabbed his gun before making his way to the door.
He opened it and froze for a second before slightly panicking. Allison was making her way towards his door carrying two duffle bags.
"You going to give me a hand or you just gonna stand there?" She asked coming to stand in front of him. "Why are you carrying your gun…?" She asked looking around thinking she was going to see someone standing there.
"Um, here, I'll grab these, anything else you have?" Gibbs asked hoping to draw her into the basement so he could talk without the fear of waking Jenny up.
"Nope, just these tonight, I'll bring them to your room…"
"No…I'll take them, why don't you head downstairs, I have to tell you something." Gibbs said not letting his grip up on her bags. She just stared at him curiously before giving in and heading towards the basement.
Gibbs made sure she was walking down the stairs before he set the bags down in the hallway, not wanting to risk waking Jenny up by going in the room again.
He slowly made his way into the basement, shutting the door behind him as a precaution.
"I missed you today." Heart said coming up and giving him a deep kiss, which he returned.
He broke off as he remembered the phone call she had lied about.
"Hey, you lied about the phone call. Why?" He asked glaring at her.
"Fine, I answered it because it kept ringing, I just told Abby you were busy and I would have you call her when you were free…"
"The why not tell me when I got back to the table?" He asked.
"You had just gotten back when it rang again, I though for sure it was her, I didn't see a reason." Heart answered shrugging.
"Abby told you it was a matter of life and death…"
"No matter what you think, a life and death matter to Abby could be anything!" Heart defended, and Gibbs had to hand it to her there, Abby had called multiple times since they started dating saying there was an emergency or life or death matter over things she very well could have handled on her own.
"Why didn't you tell me she called when I asked?"
"She already talked to you, I didn't know why she would be so upset, all I said was she could probably handle it on her own, and you would call her when you were free. She pulled that card so many times before, I thought she was just trying to shorten our time together like in the past. She clearly does not like me, I thought she was just playing the card again." She said making sense, and Gibbs agreed that given what happened in the past, Heart hadn't really done anything wrong. She had just gotten fed up with Abby always calling him away from her.
"Listen, can we just forget about earlier? I spent three hours packing today, and there's only one thing I want to do right now." She said very suggestively as she backed him up towards the frame of the new boat he had started.
"Oh? And that would be?" He asked starting to forget Jenny was upstairs sleeping in his bed.
"Oh, I believe you know exactly what it is Agent Gibbs." She whispered seductively in his ear before kissing his neck and running her hands under his shirt.
All he was thinking about was Heart kissing him until he heard a scream coming from his bedroom. He froze at the same time as Heart.
A/N: So? I know, not much of a fight…I was going to originally have the next part in this chapter, but it wasn't working with it, I felt this was the best place to end it. Leave me a review letting me know what you thought. Thanks again^.^
~Quibilah