Chapter 7

By the time they got back to the hotel room they could barely keep their hands off of each other. "Jethro, I'm trying to unlock the door" Jenny mumbled to him as he pressed kisses to her neck and his hands squeezed her hips gently, all distracting her from putting a simple key in a lock.

No man had ever made her feel like this, not even Andrew, sure there was a spark but with Jethro it seemed there was an even deeper connection, something that made her lose all and any train of thought, that would make her hands shake with desire, that made her skin burn from his softest touches.

"Unlock it then" Gibbs whispered, his mouth neck to her ear making his breath hot on her neck, Jenny bit her lip and closed her eyes for a moment, being surrounded by his natural smell of sawdust, bourbon and old spice aftershave.

Moments later there was a satisfied click of the lock and the couple tumbled into the hotel room, Gibbs pulled Jenny closer to him, kissing her fully on the lips, her hands went right to his hair, her fingers gripping at his hair pulling the short silver locks into spikes.

"Mmmm Jethro" Jenny tried to push him away so she could think for a minute, she'd said she wouldn't do this, that they shouldn't do this, he was married, he was married she wouldn't cause him to do the same that Diane had done, she wouldn't let him stoop to her level. She looked over his shoulder for a moment and something caught her eye.

"Jen?" he questioned when they broke apart, both breathing deep trying to catch their breath, he followed Jenny's gaze, and that's when he saw it a suit case, one he'd seen many times, one that he knew who it belonged to.

"Oh Leroy it's nice to see you've come back" the couple turned, Jenny still in the confines of Gibbs' arms. Diane stood in the doorway to the bedroom, her arms crossed over her chest and a disapproving yet almost smug facial expression.

Gibbs let go of Jenny's waist and the redhead automatically moved away from him, knowing that she was now in a room with his wife. "How the hell did you find me Diane?" Gibbs asked, thinking that never in a million years would she find him in a foreign country.

"A friend at the FBI owed me a little favour, so I got him to trace your phone" Diane said as her big smug smile get even bigger.

"Let me guess Fornell?" Gibbs almost chuckled, he knew Fornell always liked Diane and would probably have done anything for her with just a flutter of her eyelashes, well now he could have her he didn't care.

Diane shrugged her shoulders "What does it matter Leroy?" Diane asked taking a step forward towards him "You're in the city of love with another women" she told him giving Jenny a dirty look that made her feel really uncomfortable.

Gibbs gave Jenny an apologetic look "Leave Jen out of it, she's got nothing to do with anything" he told Diane who only scoffed as she stepped closer to Jenny.

"I take it this is the slut that answered your phone this morning?" Diane asked Gibbs, he was shocked, he hadn't heard about any of this, he gave Jenny a questioning glance and she looked down at the floor and nodded. "Oh she didn't tell you?" Diane almost laughed "I wonder how much you guys really know about each other" she said once again, only making the doubts in Jenny's head get worse, part of her almost wished she'd just stayed at home.

"Why are you here Diane?" Gibbs asked moving to stand in front of Jenny, to get Diane to focus on him not Jenny.

"I've brought a present for you" Diane said giving him an evil smile before she turned around to her suit case and unzipped the pocket at the front and pulled out a pile of white papers, she then turned around and held them out to Gibbs.

He snatched them from her hand and read the word 'Divorce papers' along the top and he felt like a weight had been lifted from his shoulders and gut, he wasn't guilty anymore. "Got a pen?" he asked her.

"You can think it over Leroy, you don't have to sign them now, you can sign them when you get back home" Diane told him, surprised at how fast he wanted to end their marriage without any trying to save it.

Gibbs just grabbed the pen his soon to be ex-wife offered him and signed the papers, "We're done" he told her handing her the papers.

Diane nodded "I'm sorry Leroy, I know what I did was wrong and if I …." She began, she did love him, her and the mail man was just a moment of weakness that she wished she could take back, her ex-husband just shook his head and walked over to the drinks cabinet.

Jenny still stood still not sure what she should do, this was the most awkward situation she had ever been in, Diane was on her way out of the door but stopped and looked the other redhead up and down, "I'm sorry" Jenny said, not really sure what she was apologising for, the fact she had to watch her marriage fall apart or for almost sleeping with her husband.

"I think the first sign that your doing something wrong is that you feel bad about it" Diane told her before grabbing her suit case and leaving the hotel room.

Gibbs hit the cabinet with his fist when he remembered that they'd drank it all their first night in Paris. He turned and looked at Jenny, how the night had changed so quickly, one minute they were kissing, all over each other, giving into what they wanted.

But now Jenny stood there, her skin paler, almost making her look sick, her eyes looked as if her mind was off in another place. "Jen" Gibbs walked over to her and reach out for her but Jenny shrugged him off.

"I'm going to go for a walk, I'll be back later" Jenny told him but she couldn't look at him, "Don't wait up" she called over her shoulder before heading for the door, Gibbs reached for her but he couldn't make her stay.

Gibbs took a deep breath and closed his eyes, his life was falling apart and there was nothing he could do about it. he ran a tired hand down his face and then went to the bedroom and fell on to the double bed, moving over to Jenny's side of the bed and buried his nose in the pillow she'd been using, he took a deep breath taking comfort in her smell as he fell asleep.

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He slept all through the night only to wake up late the next morning, blinking open his eyes he wondered where Jenny was as he hadn't remembered her coming back from her walk.

Slipping out of the bed he called her name "Jen" he checked the bathroom, she wasn't there, "Jenny" he walked out into the living space, expecting her to be asleep on the sofa.

She wasn't there, his heart began to beat a hell of a lot faster, what if something had happened to her, what if she was hurt, what if… he was about to pull out his phone and call someone who could help but then he saw a note on the coffee table, his name written on top in her curly calligraphy.

He picked it up and opened it, out slipped a plane ticket back to Washington D.C. and he then read the letter it came from.

Jethro

These days in Paris have been ones that I'll never forget and will forever been in my heart, but the events of last night have shown me that we can't be together, at least not right now, maybe in a couple of months we can see each other again.

Until then I think we need to get our heads around our lives and what we are doing. I know that this is probably stupid and something I'll regret but I can't help thinking that it is wrong.

I won't let you stoop to Diane's level, but you have to know that I don't regret what happened last night because kissing you meant more than doing anything with any other man.

You're a good man Jethro.

Jenny x

Gibbs folded up the letter and closed his eyes for a moment, he was going to leave Paris today, it had nothing for him now, he was going to go home, to his basement, go back to doing what he did best, catching bad guys and putting them behind bars. And expected to see Jenny again and that almost broke his heart.

He hadn't had feelings like he had about Jenny since Shannon, she'd been someone he could see himself easily falling in love with, or maybe he already had, she put him in a foreign state of mind.

TBC….

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