Title: Marry Christmas

Author: NickyK

Summary: Jenny and Gibbs reveal their relationship to his team. Not a good summary. Sorry

Disclaimer: I own nothing

Secret Santa person: Crazy-prune


Jenny stood in front of the bathroom mirror putting the finishing touches on her make-up when strong arms encircled her waist, pulling her back against an equally strong chest. She sighed in contentment.

"Good morning," Gibbs whispered in her ear as he placed soft kisses on her neck.

Her hands rested on the arms encircling her and she smiled contently. "Good morning to you too," she murmured, angling her head to give him better access.

"So what's the plan today?" he asked between kisses.

"I'm….uh," her breath hitched as one of those kisses landed at a sensitive spot under her ear and she moaned.

Gibbs raised his head, a self-satisfied smirk crossing his lips. "What was that?"

Jenny glared at him through the mirror and he chuckled, the sound reverberating through her. She closed her eyes and breathed deeply as her body responded to the sound and to the hard body pressed firmly against hers. When she opened them, she knew from the look in his eyes that she wasn't the only one affected. Reluctantly she pulled out of his arms, knowing that if she didn't any plans she had for today would be greatly delayed. She faced him, putting her hands on his bare chest. A weak barrier and they both knew it, especially when her fingers started to caress the skin beneath her hands.

"Jen…" he growled.

"Right," she said sheepishly snatching her hands away. She cleared her throat, ignoring the amused look in his eyes. "I'm meeting Abby and Ziva to finish up my Christmas shopping for the party tonight, remember?"

He nodded, lifting his hand to brush her hair out of her face. "Yeah, I remember. Melvin going with you?"

She looked away.

"No, but I'll have Ziva."

"Not good enough," he said sternly. "I thought we'd settled this Jen. Ziva is going to be distracted by shopping, not looking out for you. I want Melvin with you."

"No," she said simply, then rushed on before he could speak. "Jethro," she said gently, taking his hand in her own. "I'll be fine with Ziva, you know that. Let's not argue about it. Please? Especially not tonight."

He gave her a long hard look before saying, "you'll be careful?"

She nodded. "I promise."

He leaned in to give her a chaste kiss on the lips and Jenny knew she'd won this round.

"You ready for tonight?" he asked as they headed back into the bedroom.

"Yes, although I think Abby already suspects."

Gibbs snorted. "I'm sure she does. Hell, Jen, I think the whole agency probably suspects you can't keep your hands off me by now."

"Hey," she said, punching him playfully in the arm. "I wasn't the only one groping like a teenager in heat in my office that night."

"Yeah, well, that's what you get for being so damn tempting."

She gave him an appraising look. "You're one to talk." she smirked. "So tonight then will be more like a confirmation than an actual surprise," she said getting back to their previous conversation.

"Pretty much," he responded, studying her as she slipped on her boots. "You okay with that?"

"Definitely," she said, standing and sliding her arms around his neck. "Because if Agent Quinn makes one more pass at you, I might have to show her just how good I still am with a dangerous weapon."

Gibbs eyes widened in surprise. "Agent Quinn? Really?"

Jenny chuckled and shook her head. Only Jethro Gibbs wouldn't know when a beautiful woman was hitting on him.

"You're oblivious, Jethro, but yes, really, Agent Quinn. Now, I've got to go or I'm going to be late meeting Ziva and Abby," she said grabbing her coat. "You'll pick me up at six right?"

"Yep." He followed her to the door. She was almost out when he grabbed her arm and pulled her back inside. He backed her up against the wall and took both of her hands and placed them above her head - all before she could utter a word. Leaning forward, he kissed her, deep and thoroughly, his mouth possessing hers until the need for air forced them apart.

"You don't need to worry about Agent Quinn, Jen."

Jenny wondered if she looked as dazed as she felt by the unexpected but not unwanted show of affection. "Duly noted," she told him.

The trio had been shopping for hours and as expected Jenny had been fending off probing questions from Abby for just as long. She was surprised that Ziva seemed to be fishing for information as well. Like she'd been doing for months now, she dodged their questions with vague responses. She really didn't mind the questions though - at least not this time - because she was still dubiously happy over the kiss that Jethro had planted on her before she'd left his house. It was still amazing to her that they'd managed to rekindled what they'd had in Paris and how easily they'd fallen back into the routine of being lovers -even if no one else knew. It scared her sometimes how good it felt to be with him again and how well it was going. For the first several months of their relationship, she'd been anxiously waiting for the other shoe to drop. So far, she was still waiting. After a couple of hours of more shopping and stopping at a coffee shop for a much needed fix of caffeine, the shopping was all done.

Ziva and Abby walked her to her car before heading for their own. It seemed odd that they were so concerned and she wondered suspiciously if Gibbs had said something to them.

Jenny glanced at her watch once again. The group was to arrive at her place in a little over an hour and she still needed to shower and change. She was excited about tonight. Even if everyone already suspected that she and Jethro were an item, it would be nice not to have to sneak around and try to hide her feelings anymore.

Not that she was doing a good job of that anyway, she thought.

Jenny pulled up to her house. Grabbing her things she hurried to the door . Hauling the bags up the steps she entered her bedroom and prepared to start wrapping her gifts.

An hour later, Jenny had gifts wrapped and under the tree. She replaced her blue jeans with a pair of black slacks and exchange the sweatshirt with a comfortable sweater. She was just coming down the steps when the door opened and Jethro entered.

"Hey beautiful."

She smiled. "Hey handsome."

She stepped into his arms and was treated to a long, deep kiss.

"Ummm…." she murmured when they broke apart. "Miss me much?"

"You know I did," he said and leaned in for another taste.

Jenny enjoyed the feel of his lips against her for a moment, drinking in the taste of him, enjoying the feel of his body pressed against hers. Reluctantly, she pulled back and out of his arms.

"We don't have time for this. We've have to set the food and drinks out before the others arrive."

Gibbs followed her into the kitchen and together they set out the appetizers and eggnog, along with juice and soda. Since everyone had to drive afterwards, no alcohol was included on the beverage table. Lights twinkled on the Christmas tree while a fire roared quietly in the fireplace. Soft Christmas music played in the background. Jenny stood back and surveyed the room with a critical eye. It was the first Christmas gathering together with his team and Ducky and Abby. These people were important to Gibbs and she wanted things to be perfect.

"It looks good, Jen."

"Really?" she questioned still surveying the room. "Do you think I overdid it with the food?"

"Nope, I think everything is fine."

"What about the…?"

"Jen," he said tugging on her hand and turning her to face him. "It looks great. Don't worry."

"I'm not worried, I just want things to go well tonight."

"Hey," he said softly, pulling her into his arms, "what are you so worried about?"

She shrugged, feeling uncertain. "I don't know. I just want them to approve."

His blue eyes gazed steadily into her own. "Of what? Us or the party?"

"Maybe both," she said quietly.

Gibbs chuckled. "Honey, they'll approve of us believe me. As for the party, we've done things together before. Its not like the whole agency is coming. Its just the team."

"I know. I'm being silly."

Before he could comment the door rang. Gibbs gave her an encouraging squeeze before releasing her. They both walked to the door and Gibbs put his arms around Jenny shoulders and opened it to reveal Tony, McGee and Ziva and Abby on the other side.

McGee's eyes widened as they took in the sight of their boss with his arms around his boss, standing very close to each other. Tony smirked at Ziva who rolled her eyes and Abby squealed in delight but didn't say a word. They entered with good-natured greetings, each barring gifts to be put under the Christmas tree. Ducky and Palmer arrived shortly thereafter and they too seemed to share knowing glances but said nothing about the intimate nature in which Gibbs was holding on the Jenny's waist.

Everyone began to relax and eat and partake of the drinks. The conversation flowed as lame jokes were told and Jenny sat back to enjoy it all.

Gibbs came up behind her, sliding his arms around her waist and pulling her against him.

"See? Told you it would be okay."

"Yes," she acknowledged, "you did."

As long as Gibbs' team didn't have a problem with the change in their relationship, she wasn't really worried about everyone else.

"Hey, is it time to open presents yet." Abby asked looking eagerly up at them.

Jenny told her head towards Gibbs and he nodded. "I guess so."

The moved to the tree and Abby was immediately appointed at the person to hand out the presents. They did so, one at a time, so everyone could see what everyone got. There was a lot of laughter at some of the sillier gifts and some ooohs and ahhhs from those with more sentiment behind them.

Abby handed a rectangular box to Jenny. "Its from Gibbs," the Goth told her excitedly.

Jenny tore opened the paper, staring at the object in front of her with a mixture of confusion and amusements.

The group was quiet as they too started at the gift.

"Uh, a box of Kleenex, Boss. Did you run out of money?"

"No, DiNozzo, I did not run out of money," Gibbs snapped. "It'll be explained," he said vaguely. "Go on, Abby."

Jenny sat aside the box of Kleenex as Abby handed her another gift. Soon everyone forgot about the box of Kleenex.

"Well, that's it," said Abby as she handed out the last gift.

Gibbs leaned forward, frowning. "No, there should be one more."

It was Abby's turn to frown as she searched beneath the tree once more. "No, Gibbs, that was it. There's nothing else here."

Gibbs stood. "That can't be it. Jenny didn't get her gift from me. It's got to be somewhere on that tree."

Ziva and McGee joined the search and even Jenny looked puzzled.

"Are you sure you remembered to buy it, Boss?" asked Tony.

Gibbs glared at him. "Of course, I brought it DiNozzo. Jenny are you sure you don't see it? It's kinda small so maybe you should look closer."

Jenny kneeled on the floor. "Jethro, there's nothing else down here. Maybe you put it somewhere else. "

"No, I put it there. Search again, maybe a little higher. Maybe it got entangled on some of the tree branches."

"Jethro, sweetheart there's nothing here," she said again, just as Abby gasped.

"Director, look."

She followed Abby's wide-eyed gaze, not seeing anything at first, but then something shiny caught her eye. Jenny leaned forward and blinked, not sure if what she was seeing was really there. But it was, twinkling right along with the colorful lights decorating the tree.

This time Jenny gasp as her hand flew to her mouth. Her eyes watered as she stared at the sparkling round object tied to the Christmas tree branch. She looked back at Gibbs, a question in her glistening green eyes. He smiled tenderly and nodded at her to grab it. With trembling fingers Jenny reached out and untied her last Christmas gift from the tree, staring at it in awe.

"Oh my, I do believe she's gone into shock," Ducky murmured.

Gibbs bent down and took Jenny's hands in his own and lifted them both. He took the ring out of her shaking hands. Beautiful blue eyes stared intently into her own and Jenny felts her tears flow as he spoke.

"I love you, Jen. Will you do me the honor of becoming my wife?"

Jenny had to swallow twice before she could get her voice to work. "You said you never wanted to marry again." she whispered tearfully.

"I never thought I would want to start a family with anyone again either. Couldn't picture bringing another child in this world, couldn't picture spending the rest of my life with anyone besides Shannon. Until you. When I lost you, I knew I'd lost my chance of ever being truly happy. When you came back into my life I felt like I had hope again. I'm happy, Jen, truly happy, and I owe that too you. I don't ever want to lose that again. I don't ever want to lose you," he told her fiercely. "What do ya say, Jen? Will you marry me?"

"Oh God, yes. Yes, I'll marry you, Jethro," she said covering his lips with her own as the team behind them cheered.

They broke apart and Gibbs wiped the tears from Jenny's eyes. "Merry Christmas, Jen."

She glanced at the clock and saw that it was indeed Christmas day. "Merry Christmas, Jethro," she replied tenderly.

Abby wiped tears from her eyes. "That's so beautiful."

She walked up to the pair and wrapped her arms around the pair. Tony and Palmer followed suit and soon the entire group was smoldering the pair in one gigantic group hug.