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Hey! So appologies for the short chap this time. Needed to update but I have no motivation atm. There will be two-ish more chaps then it's goodbye!

Hope it's ok….

"He's here Jen, Eddies here, and I think he's been drinking."

"Cath, where are the kids alright, are you alright?"

"The kids are with Marrow. Yeah, he's….he's inside Jenny."

"Catherine, get to my bedroom, by my bed there is a lock draw with my personal gun in it. GET IT! We'll be there asap." With that the line went dead. Jethro spared a glance for his wife and aw her worried. He'd over heard the conversation, and had managed to hail them a cab eventually. As they got in Jenny leant forward, told the driver her address and added: "Federal agents, it's a hostage situation so put a rush on it." The driver did as instructed. Meanwhile Jenny and Jethro rung their teams who would be getting their stuff and on their way. Neither knew how this would play out, situations were always worse when drink was involved.

As they pulled up outside, both forgot about their luggage and the taxi fare. They jumped up and pulled out their Sig's from the holster – always prepared.

As they walked up the driveway the front door was open. No longer were they man and wife but partners all over again. They worked in sink, Jethro leading, whilst Jenny followed, always having his six no mater what. When they got to the sun room they hugged the wall. There in the middle of the room was Eddie, holding a gun at Catherine. She was kneeling on the floor, attempting to not let her walls down. Knowing there was only two ways he would get out of this, Jenny signalled to Jethro she was off in and he told her he had her six. With a small smile she went in. Seeing her best friend on the floor he finger itched to pull the trigger.

"eddie, put down the gun." He turned towards her, the gun pointing at Cath the whole time.

"Oh, here she is, the woman who feels the need to put her nose in everyone else's business."

"Eddie, whatever you are feeling now it is the drink speaking. If you do as I say then we can say you were acting under the influence of alcohol, yeah, reduce the sentence."

"You actually think she'll press charges? Ha, she doesn't have the guts."

"You give her less credit that she gives herself Ed. NCIS is involved now; you took her hostage in an agent's house. IT doesn't matter what Catherine wants." Jenny's tone was calm. "So how about we sort this out. There are two ways we can end this. Either you leave here in hand cuffs or a body bag. IT's up to you."

"She, she caused all this! If she had just stayed with me!" he said slapping the blonde's cheek. Out of the corner of her eye she saw agents getting ready on either side of the room.

"Eddie, this is not going to work, you are making matters worse." Her gun was still aimed on him. Yet as she looked deep in his eyes she saw out of the corner of her eye the finger on the trigger about to squeeze. Knowing shooting him would not protect her friend she jumped, resting the man to the ground. Yet as she did so the room fell silent as a gunshot went off and a body went limp…

-a mistake-

"Jennifer Sheppard, bullet to the right side, lodged …" the words barely seemed to register in his brain. She'd lost consciousness even before the ambulance had arrived, she'd lost too much blood and she had nearly died twice in the ambulance. The sound when the heart monitor had done that single drone of noise was one that would haunt him forever. Now she was been carted off because some drunken fool had decided to try and kill his ex, then Jen being Jen had been the heroine and saved her.

Now, after over an hour in surgery Gibbs sat outside in the waiting room with Catherine beside her. Eddie had been left to rot in an interrogation room at NCIS. "I'm sorry Jethro, this is my entire fault."

"No, it's you're ex-husbands."

"Jethro, if it weren't for me then he wouldn't have been there today, Jenny wouldn't be in hospital and you two would be doing whatever it is you do!"

"It's our job. No matter how much I love her, no matter how much I hate him, it's our job. Her instincts kicked in. IT would have happened on any day during any case. The fact it happened with you just shows how much you obviously mean to her."

"I'll always feel guilty."

"I know." And he did, he had known agents lost because they protected their bosses. He never saw their bosses the same again.

Soon the teams, Abby and Ducky were sat waiting for the news on the woman they all respected. The girls were sleeping over at marrows house. He had offered knowing it would be the way he was of best help.

That evening they all fell asleep as Jenny was wheeled into ICU. The nurses put blankets over them as the night rose in DC and they all dreamt of a world where everything was perfect.

Please review! I got so many at the beginning so it's either gotten rubbish or peoples cba no more!

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