It was Team Gibbs last night in Sydney and Matilda had something planned for them. She had sent them all out and asked them to come back in a few hours.
Gibbs walked through the front door, through the house to the backyard and stopped short, causing Abby and Ziva to run into him. The standing in front of him was Jennifer Sheppard.
"Jen?" asked Gibbs.
"Hello Jethro"
"How?" he questioned. "Your dead" he continued as he edged closer to her. She looked the same. Her hair had grown, it was blonde (AN: the colour her hair was in Judgement Day) but still had a red tinge to it. She was a lot skinner but she still looked the same.
"Witness Protection" she simply answered. "I faked my own death"
Gibbs held Jenny's arms, leaned in and kissed her. The kiss was returned with much enthuasim. It was like they were the only two people in the room.
"I'm sorry I couldn't tell you Uncle Jethro" Matilda told him. "When Jenny first came to Australia, she found dad and I and told us everything...I wanted to tell you but Jenny said I couldn't" she further explained.
"Its OK Tilda. I understand"
Gibbs was pushed out of the way by a flurry of black as Abby enveloped Jenny into a rather bone crunching hug.
They all sat in the backyard entertaining area eating a BBQ dinner. "Jennifer my dear" began Ducky. "What happened, how did you...?"
"Survive Ducky" Jenny finished.
"Yes" he said with a smile.
"I knew they would come for me. At the diner, when Mike went to get water, they came. I fired my weapon and got..." she began to explain.
"Two, you killed two" Tony told her.
"I walked out of that Diner and got into a car"
"If Fornell knew about this" stated an angry Gibbs.
"No Fornell has no idea" Jenny reassured him. "It was the Witness Protection detail, who placed me into Witness Protection"
"But the body Tony and I found..." asked a confused Ziva.
"Wasn't mine. Just someone who looked like me"
"If we stayed with you" Tony said.
"No Tony. They still would have found me"
"You never did an autopsy Duck?" asked Gibbs.
"No. It was too hard when I did it for Caitlyn, so the CIA did it"
"Does Vance know" Gibbs asked Jenny.
"Oh he knows...he organised the hit"
"Are you coming back to DC" asked Gibbs.
"Yes. I want my job back as Director of NCIS and I want to bring Vance down.
SYDNEY AIRPORT:
The team including Jenny where at the departure gates ready to return home.
"Thanks for everything Uncle Jethro" Matilda told him as she gave him a hug.
"Anytime. So what are you going to do now?"
"I want to become an NCIS agent like dad" she told Gibbs as he smiled at her.
"I'm NOT sitting next to you on the way home" McGee told Tony.
"Hey!"
"No way Tony, I had to sit through Die Hard listening to you and only you quote for quote"
"Very well" said Ducky who was listening to the boys bicker "Mr. Palmer and I will sit next to Anthony"
McGee smirked.
"What McSpielberg?" asked Tony a little annoyed.
"Well with Ducky's stories, I doubt you will be watching any movies" replied McGee.
Gibbs stretched out his hand "Good to meet you Kurt. Take care of her"
"Yeah I will" replied Kurt. "Good to meet you too"
Gibbs put his arm around Jenny's waist and pulled her into him "Let's go home"
AN: thanks for the reviews, glad you liked it. Um I have absolutely no idea what the CIA does, so if they don't do witness protection. Sorry.