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Chapter 16:

Caitie woke as the sun peeked through the windows. Dad was awake too, texting someone.

"Dad?"

He abruptly slapped his phone shut and turned to her, "yeah Caitie?"

"Do I have to go to school today?"

"Did something happen yesterday?" Dad asked.

"No, I just don't like school." Caitie yawned.

"Do you have anything important due today?"

"No."

Gibbs looked at his daughter for a long moment. Finally he spoke, "I'll let you stay home today but tomorrow its right back to school."

"Okay."

"Caitie, I've gotta make a couple of phone calls for work, why don't you take my wallet and go get breakfast from the cafeteria?" Dad suggested.

Caitie nodded and got up and after grabbing her father's wallet she left the room. Pulling his cell phone out again he finished the text he had been sending to DiNozzo. "What's Jenny's new address?

The text was answered a few minutes later with the address and Gibbs committed it to memory before deleting the text so Caitie wouldn't see it.

It took another few hours but Gibbs was finally released from the hospital. Thankfully his wound wasn't too bad, he'd just have to have his arm in a sling for a few weeks. After taking Caitie home he dropped her off and told her "No TV or computer games."

Caitie nodded and the truck door slam drowned out her response, she was nodding, so Gibbs assumed she'd be all right in the house alone.

Then, pulling out into the street again he started to make the drive to Jenny's apartment.

Jenny glanced up as another car pulled up into her apartment complex. Her heart skipped a beat as she realized it was Jethro's truck. Gibbs got out, an arm in a sling and started looking for the apartment numbers, clearly looking for her apartment. Jenny got up and opened her front door; Gibbs turned at the noise and then, upon seeing her, walked towards her apartment.

"Jethro…" Jenny started to greet him.

"Can I come in?" Jethro didn't let Jenny finish her greeting.

"Yeah," Jenny moved aside and he walked into her apartment. "Please, make yourself comfortable." She told him.

Jethro moved to the living room and gestured to the couch, "can I sit?"

"Yes of course Jethro, I didn't expect you to come visit so soon."

"I've a couple of questions I need answered." Jenny could hear the quiet anger.

"All right, what questions do you have?" Jenny perched on a chair.

"Why?"

"Why what? You're going to have to be a little more specific then that."

"Why didn't you tell anyone about Caitie? Why didn't you tell me about Caitie? Why didn't you take Caitie when you went undercover?"

"I didn't tell anyone about Caitie because you know we didn't get out of Serbia and France with our covers intact. If I had told anyone about Caitie, then it would have put you and Caitie in danger."

Jethro leaned back in the couch and looked solemnly over to her.

"What are you thinking Jethro?"

"I missed the first 13 years of my daughter's life. I missed the first 13 years of firsts Jenny, first word, first steps, and first day of school. First loose tooth, first time riding a two wheeler, first time playing with mommy's make up, first smile."

"I did too, if it makes you feel any better." Jenny commented with a wry smile.

"It doesn't." He paused and spoke again. "Why'd you leave Caitie when you went undercover?"

"I would have taken her with me Jethro, but I had no choice. I made sure she was well taken care of. It was either fake my death and go to Libya or lose my job, my income, my health insurance Caitie was on my health insurance."

"She could have been added onto my health insurance Jenny."

"And now this goes back to me not telling anyone about Caitie because of safety issues."

"Damn it Jen, you know it's not about safety." Jethro said, "You didn't like that you'd have to deal with me for 18 more years if I knew about Caitie."

"That's not true Jethro!" Jenny said, "I did what I thought was best for Caitie."

Gibbs shook his head, they were going nowhere with this.

"You can't honestly be that mad about my not telling you about this Jethro." Jenny said. "You know the job."

"I get the job. I'm not angry for me, hell Jen, I'm not even mad that you didn't tell me about her, I want an answer for why you didn't tell me, but I'm not angry about that. I'm angry you faked your death and didn't tell anyone, I'm angry for Caitie." Jenny's eyebrows went up at the abrupt change in subject. "Jenny," Gibbs' voice got quiet, but they could both hear the quiet anger in his voice. "You left my baby."

Although she knew no one was in the house to see her performance, Caitie sighed dramatically as she plopped down on the couch. "This is so boring!" she called out to the empty house. If Dad was intending to punish her for not going to school by not allowing her to watch TV or play computer games then it was definitely working.

Hearing the door open she jerked to the side, and tried to see who it was without getting off of the couch, moving would take too much energy. Thinking Dad had sent Tony over to check on her and make sure she wasn't breaking any rules, she called "Hey Tony, if it's you, can we go get ice cream? Dad's not letting me watch TV or play on my laptop."

"My name's not Tony." A man even older then Gibbs stepped into Caitie's line of sight.

"Well then what is it?" Caitie asked, dragging herself up to a sitting position.

"Jackson Gibbs, who are you and what are you doing in my son's house?"

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