Chapter 10

Dr Leroy Jethro Gibbs walked out of the OR with a smile on his face, now was his favourite bit, telling the family that their loved one was going to be ok, seeing the relief on their faces.

He was also happy because for one in his life things were beginning to pick up, he had a job he loved even though it took up most of his life, he loved the rush of the surgery's the smiles on his patients faces when he told them that everything was going to be ok. Helping people on a daily basis.

And very importantly for once he had a women in his life that he had no secrets with and that accepted him for who he was and accepted the hours he worked. He loved Jenny, he'd told her that. She was smart, funny, very beautiful and they fitted together so well in every way, he felt like they had been together years not months. Jenny was someone he could see himself building a life with, settling down with. Gibbs was on cloud nine and he felt like nothing could bring him down.

Gibbs walked into the waiting room and soon spotted the nervous looking family of the man he had just operated on. As she approached them the wife stood up "How did it go?" she asked nervously.

"It went really well, Mr Carter should recover fine" Gibbs smiled.

"Oh thank you so much that's fantastic news" The women hugged Gibbs while the children nodded in agreement. "When can we see him?" she asked with hope in her eyes.

"He's being taken to recovery, so soon, I'll send a nurse to come get you" Gibbs assured before walking away.

Just as he walked into the corridor to go and leave for the day his beeper went off.

He ran to the emergency bay where the ambulance brought people as fast as he could, when he got there, there were a large group of nurses and doctors crowding around a hospital bed, Fornell being one of them

"What have we got?" Gibbs asked him as he tried to push past the others to get a look at the patient.

"Jethro…" Fornell turned to Gibbs with a horrified look on his face.

Gibbs heart began to beat a mile a minute, he moved the nurse out of the way so he could look at the patient. The minute he saw her crimson hair, he knew who it was and his heart sunk.

Jenny lay on the hospital bed, an oxygen mask stuck to her face, her eyes closed and her skin pale but what Gibbs noticed and scared him the most was the blood, she covered in it, no one knew where it was coming from.

"She's been shot three times in the chest" one of the paramedics informed the doctors.

"Get an OR ready now" Gibbs yelled the nurses without even thinking, he had to save her, he had too.

Fornell turned to Gibbs and put his hands on his friend shoulders "You're sitting this out Jethro, this is way too personal for you, I'll do it" he explained.

"No" Gibbs shook his head being as pig headed and as stubborn as ever.

"You listen to me" Tobias yelled to his friend "We're wasting time arguing about this, now you go to the waiting room and wait until I come and get you" he ordered before turning to the gurney and began to push Jenny to the OR.

"Tobias" Gibbs called after him making Fornell stop and look over his shoulder at Gibbs "I can't lose her"

Fornell saw the love and worry in his friends eyes "I'll do my best" was the only reply he could give before taking Jenny to the OR.

Gibbs took and deep breath before turning on his heels and headed for the waiting room, once he got there he found that Jenny's team were already waiting.

"Gibbs" Abby got out of her chair and pulled the doctor into a hug "Have you heard anything?" she asked, tears at the brims of her eyes.

"No" Gibbs shook his head "I got the best doctor working on her" Gibbs assured Abby before going with her to sit with the others.

"What happened?" Gibbs asked once he sat on the chair opposite Tony who sat next to Ziva with her hand on his knee.

"We went to get the suspect and he decided not to come quietly, he began to shoot and she didn't hide for cover quick enough" Tony explained his eyes trained to the floor the whole time.

"You get him?" Gibbs asked.

"Right between the eyes" Ziva mumbled.

"That is an autopsy I won't mind doing" Ducky grumbled. Jenny had always been like a daughter to him and it pained him so much that she had gotten hurt like this, it did hurt them all.

"It was my fault" Tim mumbled from the other side of Abby "I should have had her back but I didn't" he said almost with a watery pout, the feeling of guilt was rising within him.

"It wasn't you fault Tim, were all a team, we all should have had her back" Tony assured the slightly younger man, earning him a squeeze on the knee from Ziva of reassurance.

"She'll be fine" Ducky assured them all from his place next to Ziva "Jennifer is strong" they all nodded in agreement, leaving them all in silence.

Gibbs looked around at the people in the waiting room, it was weird, he wasn't usually the one waiting to hear news about someone they loved, to have every ticking second feel like a minute every minute feel like an hour. He was never on this side of the glass and it scared him. Usually he's the one saving the lives not praying for a live to be saved.

What felt like hours later, the double doors finally swung open to reveal Dr Tobias Fornell, he made his was as quickly over to Jethro and the group of people he was with.

"How is she?" Gibbs asked anxiously.

Tobias took a breath before speaking "We removed the three bullets from her chest, one narrowly missed her rib cage, another almost hit the left lung and the other just tissue, we removed all of them and she's now stable"

All of the team and Ducky took a sigh of relief, she was going to be ok. "See didn't I say she would pull through" Ducky assured his friends who all then nodded to him.

Fornell then turned to Gibbs once more "And the baby's ok as well"

TBC…

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