Chapter 5

It was a boring Wednesday lunchtime, Miss Jenny Shepard sat in the teachers staff room, her pre made sandwich one side of her and an old mug of crappy school coffee the other side of her, a pile of papers that needed to be graded in front of her that only seemed to grow.

It also wasn't helping that she couldn't stop thinking about Gibbs, they'd been on two more dates since they'd met the kids, she and Gibbs had had dinner with the kids at a local Italian place and then they'd all gone to the cinema to see the latest bond film.

Tony was still cold to Gibbs but it was thawing, especially after the bond film, the eight year old had thought it was so cool that Gibbs liked bond just as much as he did. Abby loved Gibbs, she thought he was really cool and loved how much Gibbs seemed to like her mum and she him.

"Hey" Jenny looked up to see her friend Cassy Yates who was a history teacher and her class room was next door to Jenny's.

"Hi" the redhead smiled at her as the women sat down in a chair beside her, "What's up?" Jenny asked.

"You were smiling, what were you thinking about?" Cassy asked, nudging her gently with her shoulder.

"Nothing" Jenny told her before taking a sip of her coffee and pushing the papers aside, obviously they were not getting marked today.

"It wasn't nothing" her friend said sending Jenny a weird grin, one that made Jenny feel a little uneasy. "It's a guy" she told her.

"No" Jenny scoffed before taking another sip of her coffee as she heard a cough at the door, looking up at the door she almost spat out her coffee.

Cassy followed Jenny's line of sight and smiled upon seeing a tall, muscly man with sexy silver hair with two cups of coffee in his hands. "This the guy?" she asked Jenny.

Jenny was now able to breath, "Jethro" she smiled at him as she got up from her chair, ignoring her friend and going over to meet Gibbs. "What are you doing here?" she asked him, both ignoring the looks he got from people.

"I was in the neighbourhood thought I would come see you" he told her "I brought coffee" Gibbs held it out for her to take.

"My hero" Jenny told him before reaching up and giving him a quick kiss on the lips, "You want to come sit for a while?" she asked him.

"Yeah" Gibbs nodded before following her over to an old sofa where they both sad down side by side.

"So what brought you to Georgetown?" She asked him.

"A case, had to interview a suspect" He told her

"Did you get a lead?" Jenny asked as she took a sip of the coffee he had brought her and boy was it so much better than the school crap.

"Dead end" he replied "How are Tony and Abby?" he asked, smiling when he thought about the kids.

"They're good, Tony's still obsessing over the race car bed and Abby's becoming the happiest Goth you ever did meet" she told him.

Gibbs smiled "The only Goth I've ever met, youngest too" he mumbled into his coffee making Jenny laugh, "I was wondering if you want to go out on Friday?" he asked her after a moment.

Jenny smiled "That would be great, Abby and Tony are going to spend the half term with their dad, he's picking them up on Friday and with no work, you'll have met all week" she told him.

"Really" Gibbs raised his eyebrows at her, looking forward to the upcoming week.

"Maybe you can show me that boat your building" Jenny suggested.

"Look forward to it" Gibbs told her just as his phone began to ring, he looked at her apologetically before answering it "Gibbs" he answered, "Uh huh, I'll be there as soon as I can" he continued before putting the phone down.

"You have to go?" Jenny asked him, almost wanting him not to.

"Yeah" Gibbs nodded "I'll call you later?"

"Of course" Jenny smiled before getting up and walking him to the door and giving him a quick kiss to his lips, loving how natural it felt.

"Stay safe" she told him, not sure why all of a sudden that she worried about him getting hurt on the job, watching Magnum with Tony hadn't helped, seeing him getting shot or hurt.

"I will" Gibbs told her before pressing another kiss to her lips and walking out, down the corridor of the school.

….

"What you got Duck?" Gibbs asked later as he walked into autopsy, a spring his step.

"I found skin under the victims finger nails and have sent it to forensics to analyse" Ducky explained from where he stood next to the body that lay on the autopsy slab, "But what I found even more interesting, I found a sort of burn on the arm of the victim" he said lifting the arm and showing the round burn mark on the body's arm.

"Cigarette?" Gibbs asked after taking a closer look.

"I presume show but well know more when we run tests" Ducky said before looking up at Gibbs to see the red tint on his lips, as if from a women's lipstick. "Where were you when I called you?" he asked.

"I was coming back from talking to a suspect" Gibbs lied but obviously didn't show it, he was a private person, he hadn't told anyone about Jenny, let alone her children, it wasn't anyone's business and he himself wasn't sure how he felt about the redhead himself, I mean obviously there was something between him and Jenny, some connection, chemistry, a spark.

"I didn't interrupt anything did I?" Ducky continued to push, he had been friends with Jethro for so many years, he'd seen him through almost all of his wife's after Shannon and the other failed girlfriends, so he knew when Gibbs was seeing someone.

"Nope" Gibbs told him hoping the doctor would ask the question he wanted to before he chocked.

Ducky was getting fed up so cut to the chase "Really because you're wearing lipstick"

Gibbs' eyes went wide and he lifted his hand and pressed it to his lips and found he was true there was Jenny's deep red lipstick, "Oh" He mumbled.

"Who is she?" Ducky asked.

"A women I met" Gibbs tried to be vague but he knew Ducky deserved to know "Her names Jenny, she's a teacher" he told him.

Ducky nodded "How long have you been seeing her"

"A little over a month" Gibbs said knowing Ducky might be a little hurt he hadn't told him sooner.

"Where did you meet her?" he asked.

"Uh" Gibbs wasn't sure how he should answer "In a supermarket" he decided to be honest.

Ducky looked a little shocked "Is she someone special"

"She, she" Gibbs couldn't help but smile "I don't know yet, I'll keep you posted".

TBC…

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