Jenny's POV

I stood there in shock looking towards the people in front of me. I felt Kate and the dogs brush past me going back to the living room. I picked up my bag by the door ignoring the question that had just been asked. I gave a weak smile to Ziva before turning to face them again.

"I'm sorry I have to go I'm already late.." I said nodding to Ziva as I brushed past everyone. I felt a hand grab my wrist but before he could do anything I shook it off and continued to my car where I drove off heading to work.

Gibbs' POV

I had tried to stop her but she shook my hand off her wrist. I nodded to the team who climbed back into the car. I told Ziva we would talk later she just nodded as she disappeared inside. I drive after Jen no one in the car said a word as we followed three to four car lengths behind her we watched as she pulled into her work before climbing out and disappearing inside.

We had waited a while before going inside when we did we looked around seeing that the building was similar to ours except much larger. There was this woman who had curly blond hair that fell to her shoulders, slowly we approached. She looked up towards us as she created us with a smile.

"Hello I'm Detective Angie Flynn. Could I help you with anything?" said the blond behind one of the desk as she noticed us. DiNozzo pushed past me with a smile as he looked towards her

"Well hello Detective Angie, I'm Special Agent Anthony DiNozzo, we our looking for our friend Jennifer Shepard. Have you heard of her she came in here this morning." She looked towards him confused and I could't help but laugh as I watched him. The blond just shook her head before she said anything I stepped forwards.

"He means we are looking for a Dr. Betty Rogers, we were wondering if you could show us where she works." With that she nodded

"Oh yes of course she's down in autopsy right this way." When we walked into autopsy we could hear talking the voice was Jen's but as we looked around there was no one but a dead body in the room. Ducky who stood beside me smiled proudly Jen had become just like him. It shouldn't have surprised me Ducky was like a father to her and she learned a lot from him. I pushed the thought aside when I heard her speak up not once turning from the body.

"Angie I told you i'll get to it as soon as I finish the autopsy.." Jen said not turning to face the younger agent who stood in front of us.

"Betty I have some visitors here to see you their names are..." She stopped looking towards us, before we had a chance to tell her I spoke up.

"Jen..." With that she spun around looking towards us.

"Angie could you leave us alone for a little bit please." The younger lady nodded as she left. Jen went and locked the door behind her before turning back towards us. "What were you thinking?!" She nearly shouted at me. She than looked towards McGee, Abby, Tony and Ducky. Silently she walked over giving Ducky a big hug before turning to Abby who nearly jumped into her arms. Jen held onto Abby just as tightly Abby was holding onto her.

Starring at her shocked for a few minutes as she hugged Tony and McGee as well just as I go to say something she shook her head and came towards me she hesitated on whether she wanted to hug me or not, I made the decision for her. Pulling her to me as I quickly wrapped my arms around her holding her close laying my head atop hers as I held her against me trying to see if this was real. "Jen? You remember the first day you were director and I told you I missed you." She nodded "Well I really did miss you but not as much as I missed you these last eight years." I felt her tighten her grin on me but I continued to talk. "Why? Why did you never call, write, anything? Why have you been pretending to be dead after all these years?"

She didn't move but I could tell she was scared she was shaking in my grip, Her voice was small and weak something i've never heard from her before. "Remember that night when Carson was over and I asked you to stay?" Now it was my turn to nod. "Well I told you I had to do what was best for me and I still do, well that's what I did.. Except I wasn't just thinking about myself...Carson had called you to come over so he could talk, well I hadn't known he took my cellphone because I had been in the bathroom. The last few days I had been sick to my stomach and well something had felt off. Right before you rang the doorbell I found out I was pregnant, it was that one night the team had gotten us both drunk and we hadn't known what happened the night before I figured it had been from that. That's why I asked you to stay so I could tell you but when you said no it crushed me but I understood because of what I did in Paris... No one would taken me seriously if I was a single mother running an agency. Vance had blacked mailed me into stepping down but instead he planned my whole death, he hated me always had. If he would have let me resign I would have been still in his life because you would have found out I was pregnant and you would want something to do with the child because it was yours. He didn't want that so he staged my death and threatened me that if I ever came back he would kill me for real that time..."

I looked towards her and could tell she was crying carefully I wiped the tears as she continued. "My father.. turns out he was still alive I had found him and for the first four years of Kate's life she had a grandfather and I had a father once again. He died of cancer the year Kate turned four. Those last two years Ziva was working for you she was also helping me. He telling you she was going back home was a way for her to help me. I had been living off her paychecks and I told her I couldn't do that no more that it was her money. I got a job and now she stays home with Kate and the dogs. I've been working the last two years to help support us all... Here we are now.." She said looking up at me. I glanced over to the team who all had tears in their eyes as they looked towards Jen.

"I wanna help you..." Was the first thing I said to her which made her look up at me surprised. "But on one condition." This surprised her as she watched me than nodded. "Both you and Ziva come back to NCIS, Ziva once again as an agent and you once again as director."

"What about Vance?" She asked looking towards me surprised.

"He's dead Jen.. We need a new director I do believe that spot belongs to you.." I said as I watched the smile on her face grow as she nodded.

"Kate can come to work with you everyday someone will watch her." Abby piped in from where she stood. A smile came across Jen's face as she heard Abby she carefully pulled away from me as she looked towards her. I made sure to stay right beside her, I had wrapped my arm around her afraid that if I didn't stay near she would disappear again. "So Jenny what's Kate's full name and tell us the reason behind it" Abby said with a smile as she watched Jen.

"Caitlin Maddison Gibbs Shepard. Caitlin after special agent Kate Todd, Maddison because it was sisters last name. Gibbs because she's Gibbs child and of course Shepard because she's my child as well. I wanted to include Gibbs name in there so I put it before mine because if it was after the school could easily trace back the name to Jethro.." She said as she looked between all of us.

"But Jennifer you knew Gibbs last name could be traced back to him what about yours?" Ducky asked looking towards her with curiosity.

"I told you when I was eight my mother and sister were killed. My older sister Heather, she was killed along with my mother. I have another older sister Heather was the middle child. My oldest sister her name's Lisa. My grandparents had managed to gain custody of her but I was stuck with my father, plus I was a daddy's girl they didn't want me... Heather and Lisa were the mommy's girls. Heather had red hair like my father but everything else about her was my mother, Lisa she was all my mother, she had her blond hair, her blue eyes everything about her was my mother. Me I was my father except female, I had his red hair his green eyes everything the only thing I got from my mother was her attitude for always doing what you believe in and not giving up. Otherwise everything else I got from my father. Anyway using the name Shepard they could trace it back to my sister, other than Ziva she was the only other one who knew Kate existed or at least until she started school. " She said looking towards all of us.

We all nodded as we watched her walk over to a desk in the corner there she put on her glasses as she walked over to one of the closets where she went and put her scrubs on. "Jennifer?" She looked towards Ducky who had asked the question.

"Come help me Ducky than we can get going.." She said as she shooed Abby, Tony, McGee and me to the corner of the room. We all stood there silently as we watched Ducky and Jen work on the body in front of them. Once they were finished they cleaned up. Jen had packed her things and came by my side. I wrapped my arm around her pulling her close as we all walked to the elevator. As we walked out we saw the blond haired Detective from before look towards us. Jen smiled at her as we walked past she stared shocked, as we continued walking we could see everyone in the building starring at us, we didn't think much of it or at least not at the moment...

Jenny had drove back to the house with Ducky and me in her car while Tony drove Abby and McGee back to the house. The ride was silently Jen and Ducky would sometimes exchange looks but she hadn't said anything to me nor did she even look at me. Pulling into the driveway we got out and waited for the other three before we headed inside.

As soon as the door opened we heard a scream and out of no where came two barking dogs and a happy little eight year old came running down the hall. Before Jen even had the chance to set her things down me and my team stood there watching as the little girl jumped up wrapping her arms around her mother making Jen stumble backwards as she sat in the floor talking with the little girl I watched as the two dogs tried kicking their faces. My whole team and I were laughing as we watched the scene unfold.

As I sat there watching I saw something that I had never seen before or at least not from the certain red head who now sat in front of us. She had changed just a few minutes before I saw the old Jennifer Shepard but right now it was different the way she acted with the little girl was one of the happiest I've ever seen her. I watched as she picked Kate up nearly being tripped by the two dogs as they took off towards the backyard. Ziva came and joined us informing us that this was their daily routine. We all went and stood by the back door looking towards Jen and Kate as they laid out in the grass looking up at the sky laughing as they laid there. A smile spread across our faces as we listened to the one thing Jen said.

"Momma who are they?"Kate asked looking towards Jen. Without turning to look at Kate we watched the smile spread across her face.

"Our family..."