December 2008
Jenny has been getting better over the past month and she is slowly getting her strength back. The kids and Gibbs are happy to almost have the old Jenny back. But all know that she could get very ill again. But they live every day as it comes and hope that she will be alright. One evening Gibbs and Jenny are sitting in the livingroom and Jenny says. "I would like the team to officialy meet our children and I want our children to see where we work Jethro." "Are you sure?" "Yeah. We hid both things long enough."
The next day the family and Ana go to the NCIS. Gibbs and Jenny show their children where they work and then they walk down to the bullpin and introduce the children and Ana to the team, including Ducky, Mr. Palmer and Abby. After the children and the team have met each other Jenny starts talking. "Guys I have to tell you something." The team sees the worried look on the children´s faces. Jenny sits down with Chloé on her lap and Ana sits down next to her with Claire on her lap. Gibbs is standing behind them and has a hand on Jenny´s shoulder. Aaron and Simon are standing next to him. Aaron has his arm around Rose and Simon has his hand on Leroy´s shoulder. "I was diagnosed with Leukemis in Mai 2006. I got a bone morrow transplant a month ago." "We are so sorry" says the team. Gibbs squeezes her shoulder a little. Chloé and Grace start to cry a little and Grace starts talking. "Are you going away mommy?" "Grace I am staying right here. I am not going anywhere. OK" she nods and cries into Ana´s shoulder a little. Leroy and Rose have tears too and Aaron and Simon pull them into a hug.
Grace looks up at Rose with a questioning look and Rose sees it and says. "Grace I am crying because I am happy that mom does not have to go away." She gets up from Ana´s lap and walks over to Aaron and Rose. Aaron picks her up and she leans over to give Rose a hug and says. "So mommy is not going away?" "Grace she is not going away. Mom would not leave dad with the six of us alone." "Thank you Rose." "You are welcome Grace." She hugs Aaron to and Rose walks over to Jenny who got up by now and Jenny says to her. "Thank you Rose." "Mom it is OK. She is so happy that you do not have to spend hours in the hospital daily anymore. She is so happy to have you back. They do not need to know of the possible bad outcome there might be." "You are right Rose. What would I do without you, Aaron and Simon?" "Mom, remember that we promised to take care of Leroy, Grace and Chloé when you were diagnosed and we intend to keep that promise." She pulls her into a hug and says. "Thank you so much for everything." The family stays in the office and they talk with the team and Kate notices that Rose is somewhere else in her thought and leads her away to a quiet area. "Rose are you alright?" "I have to be I guess." "That is not true. You are aloud to show your fear." After kate said that and has put an arm around her shoulders Rose starts crying. "I am sorry Kate." "It is Ok Rose." She pulls Rose into a hug. Rose releases herself out of the hug and starts talking. "Promise me to say a word to anyone Kate. Please." "I will not say a word." "When mom was diagnosed in Mai 2006 our whole world chrashed. Mom needed therapy. She was at the hospital permanently at first and later she went there for therapy. Dad spent a lot of time with her there and he also had to hid his family from you. So Aaron who was 19, and Simon who was 17 and I who was 15 promised to take care of the tree little ones and especially of Chloé who, as you know, has the Down-Syndrom. We did not have time to show our fear or our feelings we had other things to do. I had no one to talk and no one asked me how I was feeling. I know that they were concerned about mom. But I could have just needed a friend." "Rose you have on now OK." "Thank you Kate. If you want to talk to me again in confidence. Here is my card and it has all my numbers on it." "Thank you Kate. I think we should go back." Kate nods and Rose whipes away the tears. Then they walk back to the others. An hour later the Gibbs family leaves to go home and Kate and Rose hug and Kate says. "You know where to find me." Rose nods and says "thank you Kate." She and her family then return home.