Chapter 2
During a short lunch break, Mc Gee and Kelly met at the cafeteria which was near the post office and as she waited for her turn to buy her little lunch snack, she turned around to face Mc Gee and asked: "So how's been your day so far Tim?" As the rest of her dad's team she also had become very close friends with Mc Gee, but unlike with Tony she could also talk about serious things with the MIT Computer Specialist and that made that friendship very valuable for her. Mc Gee smiled back at her as he spotted her in the line at the vending desk at the cafeteria and finally replied: "Busy, the new case has us all very tied up with a lot of work. I better get back to work quickly, because I've got a lot research to do today and your dad of course wants it done as quickly as possible."
Finally it was her turn in Line, she bought her standard snack: a ham sandwich because she always hadn't so much hunger at Lunch Time. After she had left the vending desk, she waited for Mc Gee at the end of the room, the two then finally left the cafeteria kept on talking for a while their ways finally parted near the elevator at the end of the hall at the basement of the NCIS Headquarters.
As Kelly head back to her office, she short stopped in the middle of the corridor and wrote a short message to Maddie with her mobile phone: *Abby's definitely on board tonight, Ziva is coming along also if she hasn't got any other plans for the evening.* After she sent the message, she continued to walk back to the office and thought that she understood the worries of her dad on side very much, because he clearly didn't want to lose her after their reunion after her dad had thought that he had lost the two person he loved the most: his first wife Shannon and his one and only daughter. On the other side she really felt that he was still treating her like a little child and Kelly hoped that this would soon change but wouldn't she maybe think the same when she would be in her dad's shoes? As she sat back at her desk, her boss Stephanie came by and the two talked a little bit, Stephanie was really a nice boss that one was one of the people that had helped her out a lot when she had started working at NCIS some years ago. When she first came back to civilization she really didn't know, if she would ever be able to live a normal life again after all this pain she had been through all these years and it had been really hard to for her to finally live the life of an average teenager.
Gibbs sat at his desk in the bullpen, looking at the newest picture of his daughter that he just had recently placed on his desk. It surely had been something unusual for his co-workers to see some personal stuff on the desk of their boss, because they had got used to the fact that Gibbs made a big secret out of his family not very much people knew that his first wife had been killed by a drug dealer. For quite a while he had really thought that he didn't deserve to be happy, a long time after the death of his wife he had fallen in such a deep emotional hole thinking that it had been his fault that his wife died. Maybe if wouldn't had been deployed to Iraq , Shannon maybe would be still here, taking care of her daughter but she was taken away from him by Pedro Hernandez and even his death couldn't satisfy him completely. Hollis had been the first woman after quite some time he started a real relationship again, he was happy to have her by his side and she and Kelly of course got along really great. His thoughts were interrupted for a moment, as the phone on desk rang and as he saw the caller ID on the display he smiled and picked it up: "Hey what are you up to right now?" He heard Hollis Voice from the other end of the line, she was really happy with Gibbs, the two had a special connection since they first met each other and his daughter was also lovely.
"Hey darling I'm going through some boring case files, I miss you Hollis." Gibbs replied as he looked at the photo of her that directly stood right next to the one of his daughter.
"I miss you too, we should really eat something together outside in a restaurant because I don't feel like staying at home tonight." Hollis replied, lying on the couch in Gibbs living room looking at a picture of the three of them that had been on their first ever little family trip.
Gibbs smiled shortly and agreed: "We should do that, I hope we get this case finished as soon as possible and hopefully you aren't bored that much alone at home."
They finally ended the call, he really thought that he couldn't ever love a woman again like he loved his first one Shannon but he was really proven wrong as he got to know Hollis a lot better.
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