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A/N: i want to thank my friend Tiff for getting up my butt and making me finish this
One and a half years later
"Jen wake up. Jen wake up."
"What?" she asked she turned in his arms and stroked his face.
"We need to get up."
"Oh right, uh oh. Here we go," Jen leaped out of Jethro's embrace and jolted to the bathroom. She upchucked what was her dinner then late night snack. She felt Jethro come up behind her and pull her now shoulder length strawberry blond hair back as she puked her guts out. They had found out that Jen was pregnant after she went to go get her usual checkup and so she was now almost four months along. Last night was the first time she and Jethro had noticed a slight baby bump that was their child. Jenny hoped that this was one of the last days she had to experience morning sickness. She didn't know why they called it morning sickness. It happened morning, noon, and night. Jen leaned back into Jethro after she was done. She closed her eyes trying get her vision back to normal since she saw double after she lifted her head up. She felt Jethro reached for something and heard the water from the sink turned on then off.
"Here you go, Jen," he pressed a cold washcloth to her forehead and started patting it against her forehead then moved down her cheeks since they looked extremely flushed. He flushed the toilet with his free hand then placed it on her stomach.
"Thank you, Jethro. This is one of the many reasons I love you," Jen said laughing softly. She put her hand over his on her stomach and looked down, "you really have to stop with making mommy throw up," she said to her stomach getting a chuckle out of Jethro.
"I'll start getting dressed and you can finished in here, okay. And I'll go wake Jessi up," Jethro said standing back up then helping Jen up. She gave him a weak smile and then he placed a loving kiss to her forehead then exiting the bathroom.
Sophia was downstairs fixing her aunt's tea since Jen couldn't have coffee and already had the coffee maker going since she was just as abnormally addicted to the stuff thanks to both heredity and her aunt since she could pick up a coffee mug correctly. It was decaf at first but as Sophia got older, since before she actually moved in with her aunt but she stayed there a lot, her aunt let her switch to regular coffee, and for Gibbs. Sometimes Sophia or Gibbs let Jessi have a couple sips but mostly Sophia with her aunt and Gibbs' permission since Sophia put coffee creamer and sugar substitute packages in her coffee. She heard the familiar trot coming from the stairs. Then a semi-loud similar trot came from the stairs moments later.
"Morning Gibbs, morning Jessi. Coffee is being made and I just made Aunt Jen's tea."
"Morning Sophia!!!" Jessi said perkingly. Jessi, Gibbs, and Jen were morning people, Sophia not so much. She just gave a smile as Jessi sat down at the kitchen table. Gibbs poured himself a cup of coffee then Sophia turned around and got her own. Five minutes later Jen came down the stairs.
"Morning Aunt Jen," Sophia said trying not to sound half-asleep.
"Morning Sophia," Jen said picking up her mug of green tea.
"Morning mom!!!" Jessi said. Jen walked around the island and went over to the kitchen table and kissed the top of her daughter's head then sat down at the table as well.
Sophia finished the last of her coffee and then ate the last bit of her cinnamon and spice flavored oatmeal, "I have to get to school. Hey Jessi remember we're gonna go to the library and I'm going to help you with you science project since Aunt Jen and Gibbs are working till what was it 9 o' clock. So yeah I'll bring you home and pick you up from school I think Aunt Jen wrote the note so the school doesn't go crazy when I come to pick you up and they don't know who I am. Bye," Sophia said and walked out the door and got onto the bus.
"Mom please tell me you wrote the note," Jessi said.
"Yes sweetheart I did don't worry."
"Okay," Jessi got up and walked over, opened up the freezer, pulled out the box of frozen waffles, and then popped two of them in the toaster.
Later that morning Jessi had already been dropped off at school and Jen and Gibbs were in the elevator.
"So Jethro this morning I have a meeting with SecNav so don't piss off any other agencies or anyone for that matter. Well just never mind just don't okay?" Jen looked over to him and he apparently looked down towards the ground but in her direction.
"Jethro are you even listening to me? I pretty much said be a good boy because I have a meeting with SecNav and I don't want to be interrupted because you pissed someone off. Okay? Jethro hello?"
"I heard you, Jen."
"What are you staring at?" she inquired.
"Nothing just…" he walked behind her and circled his arms around her waist then rubbing her abdomen.
"Him or her," she said laughing. "Do you think it'll be a boy or girl?"
"It won't matter to me."
"I want it to be a boy. Ya know since we already have a girl and then it'll be one boy, one girl," she stated.
"Do you want more kids after this little guy?"
"Depends…"
"Depends on what?" just then the elevator doors dinged open and Gibbs released his hold on Jen and led her out of the elevator.
She whispered into his ear, "Depends on if we do have a boy, if he acts like you."
She was just about to walk away but he caught her arm, "Jen what's that mean?"
"I don't want two boats being built in my basement at the same time, I still can't believe you convinced me to let you put the boat in my basement. How you did I'll never know," he laughed then whispered into her ear.
"I think you know and look where it got you," he placed a hand on her stomach.
"You never cease to amaze me, Jethro, I'll see you later."
"Okay," he kissed her cheek and she walked away. He walked into the bullpen and watched her go up the stairs making sure she was okay. Ever since they found out Jen was pregnant he had been keeping a watchful eye on her especially when she went up those stairs.
"What was that about boss?" DiNozzo asked.
"That was about none of your business DiNozzo. Finish up those case reports all of you."
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The day had been going good so far. It was now 2:00pm. And around 12:30pm. Jethro had brought her lunch. What made Jen very happy was that she could keep it down. Jen had to yet again go into MTAC to oversee an undercover op. She paced back and forth waiting for the feed to come up on screen.
Later she was almost done in MTAC then she started feel slightly dizzy so she got up once the feed was cut and apparently got up to fast. She dropped her file felt herself loose her balance and fall. She placed her right hand to her stomach hoping that at least her baby would be okay.
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"So Jessi I use this acronym in school to help me remember the planets. My Very Educated Monster Just Stampeded Upon Nine Pop-tarts. Get it? My for Mercury, Very for Venus, Educated for Earth, Monster for Mars, Just for Jupiter, Stampeded for Saturn, Upon for Uranus, Nine for Neptune, Pop-tarts for Pluto."
"Yeah I get it. Umm Sophia. What happened between my mom and my dad?"
"Well…" Sophia was thankfully cut off by her phone vibrating. She saw the caller ID was Gibbs.
"Hey Gibbs what?"
"Sophia it's Jen she fainted in MTAC and she's been taken to the hospital she's okay for the most part but she did get a bump to the head."
"Okay I'll drive Jessi there," she hung up with Gibbs and turned to Jessi, "Jessi that was your dad. Your mom's in the hospital she just fainted and got a bump to the head but we need to get over there," Jessi nodded. Sophia drove as fast as she could. There were some beeping of horns from behind her thanks to some driving tips she picked up from Ziva.
They arrived at the hospital and saw Gibbs in the lobby.
"Come on. She's just sleeping now. Like I said she's fine for the most part."
"Dad what about the baby?"
Gibbs leaned down to meet Jessi's eyes, "The baby's going to be okay sweet heart come on."
They walked down and into the elevator. The trio stepped off and Gibbs led them to Jen's hospital room. Jen was awake and looking out the window from her hospital bed with a hand over her stomach.
"Mom!!!!" Jessi ran over to her mother and hugged her.
"Hey sweetheart," Jen hugged her back. Gibbs and Sophia walked over to Jen's hospital bed and Jen released Jessi from the hug.
"How ya feeling, Aunt Jen?" Sophia asked.
"Good," she replied. Just then the doctor came in.
"Hello Ms. Shepard how are you feeling?"
"Very good thank you."
"Well who are these two young ladies?"
"The older one is my niece Sophia and the younger one is my daughter Jessi."
"Nice to meet both of you."
"Well, Ms. Shepard we've scheduled a sonogram to make sure the baby is healthy and ok?"
"Alright," Jen said.
Two hours later Jen was with Gibbs, and they let Sophia and Jessi come too so they were all in a hospital room waiting for the obstetrician to come in. Then a women came in and smiled.
"Jenny why don't you hop up on the table, lay down, and pull up your shirt," Jenny did as what the woman told her to do. The doctor squeezed some gel onto Jen's stomach and then after a minute or two the doctor got out a nozzle and moved it on top of Jenny's stomach.
"Here we are. I think we can see if the baby's a boy or a girl do you want to know? Oh and who are those two young ladies over there?"
Jen looked over to Gibbs who nodded and Jen replied, "Yes we want to know and the older one is my niece Sophia and the younger one is Jethro and I's daughter Jessi."
"Hello girls. Umm okay well…" the doctor moved the nozzle around some more then stopped, "okay well it looks like you're having a boy. And he looks perfectly healthy and…" the doctor flipped a switch and then a steady heart beat was heard, "there's the baby's heart beat. The heart beat doesn't sound off so he's just fine," the doctor smiled, "you and the baby seem to be very healthy Jenny."
"DiNozzo is so gonna have to pay up," Jessi and Sophia said in unison.
Later on that evening Jenny was in her study while Gibbs was making some late night coffee for him and tea for Jen. Sophia had already gone to bed and Jessi was like her parents staying up and reading a book in her room. Gibbs returned into the study and walked over to Jen's desk and sat her mug full of tea down then he took a sip of his coffee.
Jen looked up from her work, "Thank you, Jethro," which at the moment meant a million different reasons.
"You're welcome," she put her mug down and got up from her chair. She walked over to the fireplace which was where Gibbs was now standing looking at all the pictures from over the years. Some of Jessi. Some of Jen and him. Some of Sophia. Some of Jen and Sophia. And one taken recently of all four of them at a picnic Abby had put together though Jen couldn't keep some of her food down due to morning sickness but it was really fun besides that. She took the coffee mug from his hands and kissed him deeply.
"What was that for?" he asked.
She wrapped her arms around his neck and said, "That was for giving us a second chance. Now our daughter is in our lives, we're going to have another baby. A boy, and for just loving me. I love you Jethro. More than you'll even know."
"I think I have a pretty good idea, Jen and I love you too. Though if Sophia hadn't come to my house that night and told me how that whole La Grenouille thing had done to you none of this would've happened and so I think you should thank Sophia for this."
"Neverless," she turned around and he wrapped his arms around her caressing her stomach and she leaned into him. She now had the perfect life and once her son was born it was going to be even greater because she was and always will be in her safe place, in Jethro's arms.
A/N: That ends it this is like a month or so before How Far We've Come Starts. Please review. I really would love to hear your thoughts. PLEASE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!