Viva Mexico
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Summary: Post-Hiatus. Gibbs moves to Mexico after resigning from duty. The team is ambushed and soon news are out that an old enemy is back. Will Gibbs come back to save them or does it need a little more to convince him that the team needs him?
6- Revenge
Linda quickly returned her mind to here and now and started to pick up more cookies. "Maybe you should talk to him about that call. I mean, it was about him, so why keep it secret?" She said and emptied the last bits of the jar into her trashcan. "Listen, I got an appointment at 5 pm, so I guess I have to throw you out. I´ll see you soon, okay?" She said and hoped that he would buy it.
After looking at her for a moment, he nodded. "All right, see you around, Lin." He said and walked back to his house. He saw his friend sitting on the porch. "Hello, Jethro." He greeted him and the other man looked up.
"I wondered if you got some coffee for me. I ran out of stock somehow." Gibbs said and got up. "Visiting someone?" He then asked and peered down the road to the light blue house at the corner.
"Just Linda. She moved here about a while ago -her husband freaked out and tried to kill her. She´s nice. Maybe you´ll come along and meet her. I´m sure you´d like her. She´s half-italian, teaching PE at the school around the block." Franks said and went into the kitchen to make some coffee. He pulled out two cups and filled them with the hot liquid. "I got a call from Jenny this morning." He said and looked at his friend.
Gibbs merely raised an eyebrow and took a sip from his cup. "What did she want? Did she ask you to convince me to come back or something?" He said and grinned. He had expected something like this -after all Jenny was a friend of Mike as well.
"Something like that, yes. She told me about the man who shot your agent last year...what was her name again?" He asked and saw dark shadows in Gibbs´ eyes all of the sudden.
"Kate...Caitlin Todd." Gibbs replied and felt a sting in his heart when he suddenly saw her picture in front of his inner eye again. He had never told anyone how he had felt about her death -and probably never would.
"Oh, right. Anyway, Jen said that the man who shot her has turned up again lately." He said and heard the sound of a cup hitting the tiled floor. Some coffee spilled over the ground, but Gibbs didn´t seem to notice. "Jethro?" Mike carefully asked and wondered what had shocked him so much.
After a few moments, Gibbs seemed to snap out of his thoughts again. "He´s dead -he was shot in the head in my basement, Mike. It´s impossible. I bet it´s just her trying to get me back to DC." He said then, but something in his voice told Franks that he wasn´t completely convinced.
"Yeah, might as well be. Want some more coffee? Just don´t break another cup, okay?" He said and got a new one out of the cupboard. "She said she´s sure though. Someone, I think the name was Ziva, told her that it was exactly that man who shot her two days ago." He added and poured coffee, but when he turned around, the kitchen was empty.
Washington
Jenny Shepard put her cup of tea onto the table when the phone rang. She picked it up. "Shepard." She answered it and was a bit surprised about who was on the other end of the line. She couldn´t help smiling.
"What is this all about, Jen?" Gibbs demanded immediately, sounding anything but in control. "Why are you calling Franks, trying to get me back with a story like that?" He asked and from the way his voice vibrated she knew that he was in a very bad mood.
"It is not just some story, Jethro, but I accept your decision to stay at your new home. I just wanted to let you know about it." She said as calm as possible, but her heart was actually beating like mad. "Ziva is certain that she saw Ari -and I believe her. She said that he´s out for revenge."
There was a long silence. "How could he possibly be alive? Ziva shot him in the head. He was dead." He said and sighed. "I´m not coming back, Jen. I told you that."
"I know, Jethro. I promise I won´t try to contact you again, I just thought you should know." She said and waited for anything from his side. "Very well, take care. Goodbye." She hung up and felt her hands shaking. She knew that there was only one way left to get him to help, but she really dreaded taking this step. On the other hand, it really seemed like the only way.