Gibbs and Jenny were driving through the out skirts of D.C. Silence had fallen in their atmosphere as Gibbs gazed at the road ahead and Jenny rested her head on the window and watched the world moving around them.
After a particular hard case at work the previous day, Gibbs and Jenny decided to take a weekend away.
...You and me with no one else around...
Jenny was beginning to be frustrated at the crime in D.C, she wanted a fresh start. Sometimes she dreamed about returning to Paris, but would that really solve her problems? Her nightmare still replayed in her head like a broken record than would never skip to the next beat. It had really gotten under her skin.
...A brand new start...
...Is all we need, it's all we need to mend these hearts...
...Back to the beginning...
" Jethro." She said breaking the silence.
" Hmm."
" I was thinking about something, Jace is gonna be here in almost two months, haven't you ever wanted to get away from all of this for awhile?"
" Jen, what are you saying?"
" Ever since that nightmare, I've just been thinking. It's nothing."
...Be still...
...Let it go...
" Jen, she'll be fine. Nothing's going to happen to her."
" Jethro, you don't know that for sure."
...Before we lost hope...
...When we still touched and love wasn't so hard...
"It just that, well in Paris, I just felt like...it don't know Jethro it's probably my hormones" she lied.
"Jen, talk t me" he said.
"Well, it's just that I felt free in Paris, like we could have been anyone we wanted to be, no obligations that held us back"
"Are you saying the baby will hold us back?"
"What! NO! I was talking about NCIS! Crime is holding us here"
...Be still...
...I already know...
" Jen, crime isn't holding us here. Nothing's holding us here."
" What if I told you, we're moving to Paris, away from D.C., Abby, Tony, Ziva, and McGee, what would you say?" She said looking at him with raised eyebrows.
" Jen, it's not that."
" It is too that! Admit it Jethro, you're staying in D.C. because of the team and Ducky."
" Why are you staying here? Why don't you just leave like you did in Paris?" He said practically yelling at her. He said the last thing without thinking.
" Maybe I should just leave like in Paris! God Jethro! We have a baby on the way and all we do is fight!"
...Foolish one with the smile...
...You don't have to be brave...
...Every time we fall down...
...But we're falling from grace...
...I'll gladly climb your walls if you'll meet me halfway...
"You're right!" he stated. "I'm sorry" he whispered.
"I just want us to be a normal family, and normal families don't have to worry about their husbands, do you know how scared I get when you leave for work these days and and me at the office?"
"I know Jenny, I know"
She smiled at him and nodded, understanding him. "Do you think everything is going so fast? I mean first we went into the relationship, then we were expecting and now we're getting married and...."
"Jen we can just take it..."
...Slow, slow it down...
...Why do we run, we're missing so much babe...
...Just lay in my arms for a while...
" Lets, step back and take a breath every once in a while."
" Jen, we can't do that."
" Yes we can. We'll wait until a little bit after Jace is born. Maybe when she's a year will get married."
" What makes you think you won't get pregnant again before that?"
" What are you saying Jethro?"
"I want the whole big house, white fence with you Jenny I want to come home from work to find the house destroyed because of our children" he laughed.
"Jethro, I want that too, but.."
"But what Jen?"
"Well we aren't getting any younger" she squinted.
He began to laugh, she looked at him slightly confused. "What's funny"
"Getting old that's what you are worried about?" he laughed.
"Well...yeah"
"Jenny, We still have at least forty more years to live, we can have the whole picture that I just done" he smiled and held her hand.
...Everytime we fall down...
...We are falling from grace...
" Jethro, do you think we'll last?" She asked.
" Jen, we've been through this. Yes."
" Jethro, that's not what I mean. Do you think after everything happens we'll last?" He sighed.
" Jen, honey, we'll last." He said taking her swollen hand and squeezing it.
...Here's my hand and my heart...
...It's yours to take...
"Jenny as long as we are together...I could not care if the world fell apart right now"
"I sure hope you are right Jethro, because if you are wrong and decide to run, I will hunt you down and kick your ass"
He began to laugh. "I'm serious" she said and hid the smiled on her face.
"I will never leave you Jenny Sheppard, and you better believe it"
"Is that a threat or a promise" she joked.
"Oh you" he laughed and pocked her ribs, and received a squeal from her.
"You know I wouldn't mind if we stayed like this forever" she smiled at him.
...Be still...
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AN: The song is Be still by Kelly Clarkson. Good song. This is so far one of my favorite chapter's because of the song and the way we wrote it. So we're off to go work on another chapter. Stay tuned!