Just a short chapter. Hope to have the next one up later today though.

Fornell stormed out of the viewing room and after Agent Cooper, the man in question heard the rapid footsteps and slowed his pace so Fornell could catch up. He barely even glanced up when Fornell snapped,

'Was it necessary to be quite so brutal?'

'I treated Agent Gibbs the way I would treat any other suspect in that position'

'You treated him like he was guilty! You saw his face, he didn't know she was pregnant!'

'He has had years of experience in interrogation, you don't think he knows how to lie?'

'That's not my point, do you honestly think he's guilty?'

'I think we have to consider the very real possibility that the man panicked and in the heat of an argument lashed out. Anyway if it wasn't him then this DNA will clear him', Cooper shrugged, 'Either way the truth will come out. Now if you'll excuse me Agent Fornell I need to get this to the lab'

'Which one?'

'NCIS's, I would rather we used the FBI's but Acting Director Vane is insistent'

'Ms Scutio is one of the best'

'She's also very close to Gibbs so I've asked that one of our lab tech's supervise her running this test, I would hate for her to make a mistake out of misplaced loyalty'

Fornell shook his head as Cooper headed towards the elevators, and people thought he was a bastard.

Ziva watched as Abby paced her lab floor, the young Goth had finally stopped ranting but was now looking pretty mutinous, every so often her mouth would open as if she wanted to say something and then she would rapidly shake her head, mutter something under her breath and continue to pace. Ziva wasn't sure what to say, she had never actually seen Abby speechless before, leaning forward Ziva asked, 'Abby are you ok?'

Abby whirled around and advanced on her, and for once Ziva was actually slightly intimidated as Abby's voice went up a couple octaves, 'Am I ok?, Am I ok!', she shook her head and laughed, 'Oh I'm fine, I'm just fine. Well apart from the fact that Jenny's in a coma and Gibbs has been arrested for her attempted murder! In what world would Gibbs hurt Jenny? He just wouldn't!'

'I know that Abby and they'll clear him, this is just a mistake'

Abby's reply was cut off by Tony and McGee entering the room, she pounced on them, 'What's going on? How's Gibbs?'

Tony and McGee shared a look, neither one wanted to be the one who actually told Abby everything that had came out in interrogation. McGee subconsciously took a step back, causing Tony to glare at him, muttering under his breath, 'Thanks McScaredy-Cat', He turned back to face Abby and sighed, 'Agent Cooper's on his way down with a DNA sample for you to run against a sample he took from Gibbs'

Relief flickered across Abby's face, 'Well that will clear him then', a small smile began to bloom across her face when she noticed the frown on Ziva's face, something clawed at her, a feeling that she wasn't being told everything. She took another look at Tony who was meeting the Israeli's gaze head on at first before it eventually broke him and he looked down at his feet. Abby then looked at McGee who wasn't meeting anyone's eyes, content with shuffling nervously. Fed up Abby demanded,

'What is it? You're both hiding something'

Ziva nodded, 'Yes now cough it out'

Unable to help himself Tony corrected her, 'It's spit Ziva, spit it out'

'I do not care! Just tell us what is going on!'

Tony once again sent a glare in the direction of a silent McGee, 'Gibbs and the Director were having an affair', he took in the shock on his female counterpart's faces and decided to continue, get it over and done with in one go, 'She's pregnant and Gibbs is the father, last night she phoned Gibbs and asked him to meet her. Gibbs says he didn't turn up and had no idea about the baby but he doesn't have an alibi'

Abby just looked at him, for once silent as she tried to process what she just been told. Ziva on the other hand recovered pretty quickly, 'Well I suppose that explains the Director's recent collapse'

McGee's head snapped up, 'What collapse?', he looked around his team mates noting that no one looked shock at this piece of information, feeling put out he exclaimed, 'Wait you all knew! How come no one ever tells me anything?'

'Probie you're kind of straying off topic here, Ziva and I decided to keep it quiet because we knew she wouldn't appreciate everyone knowing!'

'Gibbs wouldn't push her', the small voice interrupted what was about to turn into an argument between Tony and McGee, Abby continued, her voice quiet for once as she tried to keep it from breaking, 'And he definitely wouldn't hurt the woman who was having his baby, the DNA sample will prove that, I know it will'

'I do hope your right Ms Scutio, although as the saying goes, Tempt not a desperate man, it may be the case that Agent Gibbs was pushed to his limit, after all this would no doubt see the end of his fourth marriage', Agent Cooper stood in the doorway, his eyes flickering over the member's of Gibbs's team in turn as he spoke, 'Although I do admire your unwavering loyalty to your boss, I sincerely hope it won't affect your judgment in this case'

Abby reached out and grabbed the DNA sample, choosing not to rise to the bait she told him, 'I can have the result in a couple of hours'

'Good', Agent Cooper nodded in the direction of a small nervous man standing behind him, 'I hope you don't mind but we have decided that since there is a small conflict of interest in this case that it is for the best if one of our lab technicians supervises the test'

Abby's eyes narrowed into slits but her voice remained calm and unwavering as she replied, 'No it's fine, it won't affect the fact that Gibbs is innocent and this test will prove it'

Cooper didn't reply, he just turned and left the lab, if he was honest he didn't care what the tests showed, he just wanted a result.

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