Chapter 3

Gibbs woke to a loud bang coming from the downstairs. He cracked open an eye as he woke up, like a slap in the face realisation hit him, Kelly was the only other person in the house, she was the only whom the bang could have come from.

He got out of bed, not even bothering to put a t-shirt on, he ran down the stairs wearing only his blue and white striped pyjama bottoms.

As a result of being bare foot on the laminate flooring he almost slipped over flat on his face as he ran into the kitchen.

There he found Kelly standing on a chair in front of the kitchen side with bowl full of god knows what and a big wooden spoon "Kel, what are you doing?" Gibbs asked while the pounding of his heart receded, if he ever lost her he didn't know what he would do.

"Trying to make pancakes like Grandpa" Kelly turned to face Gibbs, he couldn't help but smile at the amount of flour on her face and in her red curls.

"You should have woken me up" Gibbs lifted Kelly off of the chair she was standing on and rubbed her cheek to get rid of the flour smudge.

"But grandpa does it all the time" Kelly told her father, she always was difficult in the morning.

"He's an adult, you could her yourself Kel, at least let me help you" he smiled when Kelly nodded at him, he then pressed a kiss to her nose before setter her back on the chair.

An hour later Kelly's tummy was full of pancake and she was ready to spend the day with her Daddy. "Come on Kelly you need to get dressed" and with that she ran off up to her room, he smiled as he took their plates and put them in a sink to wash when he had a minute.

"Daddy" Kelly walked into his bedroom room ten minutes later "I need knew socks" she held up a pair in her hands both with giant holes in the big toe.

"Yeah, you do" Gibbs nodded "We'll go shopping, you need more clothes" Gibbs assured her ruffling her hair before slipping on his red hoodie.

"Can you do my hair in pigtails?" she asked her princess hairbrush and two hair ties in hand.

"Sure sweetie" he carefully brushed her hair and divided it into pigtails to the best of his abilities, once he was done he pressed a kiss to her forehead.

An hour and a half later they pulled up in the car park of the mall "Can we get milkshakes?" she asked.

"After we get you some clothes" Gibbs promised as he helped his daughter out of the banged up red truck.

"A strawberry one?" she asked as she grabbed his hand and walked with him into the mall.

"Whatever flavour you want" Gibbs smiled down at her.

Five minutes later they walked into Kelly's favourite shop, "What kind of sock's do you want Kel?" he asked showing her ankle socks or normal ones.

"Those ones" she pointed to the normal ones and smiled at him before turning around and seeing a t-shirt that caught her eye.

She weaved through the people and clothing racks, she looked over her shoulder to see if her daddy was following her and he wasn't, she then bumped into someone, she turned to say sorry but her mouth almost hit the floor, the man was tall, taller than her dad or her granddad, he wore a dark black, suit with a white shirt showing under his blazer, large sunglasses and some sort of hearing aid in his ear.

"Uh uuh" she stuttered "Sorry mister" she said, her voice and body shaking with worry, she then stepped back slowly taking one small step at a time before taking off running.

Kelly looked over her shoulder once more to see if the ugly, tall guy was following her instead she bumped into another person. She needed to really start looking where she was going.

Finally she found a friendly face, not exactly the one she'd been expecting but still "Ms Jenny" Kelly squealed upon seeing her dads boss.

"Kelly" Jenny smiled at her warmly "Are you ok, you looked like you were running from someone" Jenny asked her in concern.

"I was hiding from him" Kelly pointed to the man that was coming straight towards them, she ran behind Jenny and hid, Jenny gave her a small smile before approaching the man with a knowing smile.

"Is everything ok director?" the man or Melvin her security detail asked her in a low voice.

"Everything is fine Melvin, go back to your job" Jenny told him and he nodded before moving away.

Kelly came from behind Jenny to stand in front of the older redhead "You got him to go away" she grinned at Jenny like she had just witnessed a magic trick. "You're like the magical fairy godmother in the books daddy reads me before I got to bed" she exclaimed with a grin and Jenny couldn't help but smile back.

"Kelly Anne Gibbs why on earth do you run away like that" Gibbs angry voice came as he walked over to Kelly.

"Sorry Daddy, I promise I won't ever do it again" she looked at him with her big baby blue eyes that were slowly tearing up, she never liked it when her daddy was angry with her.

"It's ok Kel" he pulled the little girl in for a hug and pressed a kiss to the top of her head, "Now say sorry too…." Gibbs trailed off realising who the women Kelly had bumped into was "Director Shepard"

"Jenny" Jenny butted in with a smile, "Were not at work, we're at a neutral place" she explained and Gibbs nodded.

"She saved me Daddy" Kelly exclaimed with a big toothy grin.

"She did?" Gibbs asked looking at Kelly in concern.

"Yeah, I bumped into this guy, then Ms Jenny and then she spoke to him and he went away" Kelly explained her hands flying everywhere when she spoke.

Gibbs shot Jenny a worried glance and she just shook her head telling him not to worry, "That still doesn't explain why you ran off" Gibbs told her.

"I saw a t-shirt I liked then I got lost" she grinned at him sweetly.

"Well come on, lets go find it" Gibbs motioned for Kelly to move.

Kelly skipped off in search for the t-shirt but Jenny grabbed Gibbs's arm as he walked passed "Jethro" she began

"Yeah" Gibbs nodded at the redhead that was his boss, a woman who was oddly starting to grow on him.

"I know what it was like to grow up without a mother, my dad raised me by myself" she began knowing how weird and inappropriate it would sound "But if Kelly ever wants to talk to someone or you need a women to go shopping with her or something, I'm always willing to help" she nodded to him and he nodded in return "I mean if you can't get a hold of Ziva or Abby" she added, now thinking about it knowing that he would probably go to his team before going to her.

"Thanks, I might take you up on that" Gibbs smiled at her.

"Daddy I found it" they heard Kelly yell a couple of clothing racks away.

"Coming Kel" he yelled back not taking his eyes off Jenny "See you Monday Director"

"See you Monday" she nodded before watching Gibbs walk away to join Kelly.

TBC…

Ok so kind of rubbish, but please review and suggestions please