Sorry for the late update. I hope you enjoy the chapter.

Gibbs sighed as he walked from the room. He never enjoyed punishing his surrogate children and he had found Jimmy to be no exception. He took another deep breath as he pulled his phone out, it was not that he didn't trust Jenny, or Ziva for that matter, it was just that he knew how she'd been behaving lately and, well. . .he was not particularly hopeful.

"Hello?"

"Hey Jen, how's it going?"

"Uh. . .well, the doctor should be here soon."

"How's Ziva been?"

"Um. . .uh. . .she could have been worse."

"Of course she could," Gibbs sighed, talking to this woman could be infuriating sometimes. "But what has she actually done?"

"Uh, well, the nurse that was supposed to be putting in her IV was absolutely horrible, and it's important that you remember that Jethro, she was horrid! She called Ziva a hooligan and a bitch and said that the only job she could do was sell the big issue and. . ."

"Jenny, Jenny! Calm down! Why did she say that about Ziva?"

"Because she's a mean cow!"

"Yes, I got that," Gibbs sighed. "What did Ziva do?"

"Ziva didn't start it! It was provoked and. . ."

"Jenny! What. Did. She. Do?"

"She may have, uh, bit her?"

"She bit her Jethro, but that woman had it coming to her and. . ."

"What did you do?"

"Uh, what did I what?"

"What did you do or say to Ziva?"

"I told her. . .I told her that. . .that I was proud of her and would have done the same in her position." Jenny squeezed her eyes shut, anticipating Gibbs' wrath. She was not disappointed.

"You did WHAT?"

"I told her I would have done the same, I would have too, it was entirely justified. She was. . ."

"That is not the point Jennifer and you know it! It doesn't matter how awful the woman was, you can't condone Ziva biting someone, let alone encourage it! What were you thinking?"

"I was thinking that I've spent most of the last two days being angry at Ziva, and now at Abby too, and I don't like being angry Jethro."

"And you think I do?"

"You sure act like you do sometimes."

Gibbs scowled, "I don't, I hate it. But when you're responsible for someone, whether a child or a very childish adult, you have to show them right from wrong, even if it does mean being angry at them."

"Well I'm sorry I'm not as good at being a bastard as you are!" Jenny yelled, slamming the end call button on her phone and startling the two people walking along the corridor. Truthfully though, she knew that she was only mad at him because he was right, she'd handled the situation awfully, it was just so exhausting to be so furious all the time.

Ziva shut the door of the hospital room quietly and sat back on her bed. She'd been planning on trying to sneak out but having heard what she had, she couldn't.

All this time that she'd been so busy worrying about what she wanted, she had never even considered how her behaviour might be affecting the people around her. And now that she thought about it, it made her feel sick.

She'd gone out of her way to, at every possibility, defy Gibbs in everything he said, she'd been rude to and yelled at Ducky, sweet lovely Ducky who'd only been trying to help, she'd gotten Abby into massive trouble, she'd initiated a spectacular fist fight in the bull pen and driven Jenny into such a state that she'd screamed at Gibbs and hung up on him. She shuddered at the thought of how mad he must be at Jenny, then shuddered more at the thought of how mad he was at her.

The door opened, interrupting Ziva's epiphany and, to her intense surprise, Jenny found her self being enveloped in a huge hug by Ziva, who was talking so fast Jenny couldn't hear a word she was saying.

"Whoa, whoa, Ziva! You sound like Abby! What's going on?"

"I heard what you were saying to Gibbs, I wasn't eavesdropping or anything, actually I was trying to make a break for it but I didn't because. . .I'm so sorry Jenny!"

Ziva hugged her even tighter and mumbled into her shoulder. "I didn't mean to make you so upset."

Jenny rubbed Ziva's back soothingly. "I know you didn't honey, it's alright."

"No it's not!" Ziva wailed. "I've been so awful to everyone! To Gibbs, to Ducky, to Abby, to you. You should all hate me!"

"We don't hate you Ziva. You've made some bad choices these last few days but that doesn't make you a bad person. We still love you Ziva. Whether you're being the nice, kind woman I know you can be or biting nurses and starting fights, we'll always love you. Always."

Jenny placed a kiss on the top of Ziva's head and smiled slightly to herself. I anyone had told her a year or so ago that one day she would be standing here comforting a woman who had become like a daughter to her, she would have told them they were crazy. She wasn't that person and she'd thought she never would be, thought she wouldn't even like to be. But now that she was that person, she couldn't imagine being anyone else.

Obviously, we're now nearing the end of what has to be the world's longest flashback, but I'm having a massive writer's block trying to write the next chapter or so because, clearly Ziva is in dire need of discipline but I don't want to make Gibbs seem like an abusive bastard. So, if any of you have any suggestions of how harsh you think he should be with her, I will be immensely grateful, and it will make the next chapter come much faster!