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Chapter 4
"I was clearly waiting for that space Ziva" Tony protested as they got off of the elevator.
"You were not" Ziva rolled her eyes, was he really starting an argument over the fact that she parked in the parking space that he usually parked in.
"I was indicating to pull into the space" Tony looked at Ziva with almost disbelief "But then you just appear in the space, what speed where you going anyway?" he asked as they walked round the corner into the MCRT area of the bullpen.
Ziva shrugged her shoulders "You should have been faster" she grinned at him.
"David DiNozzo quit squabbling"
Both agents turned to look at Gibbs' desk and smiled upon seeing the little redhead sitting in Gibbs's chair, she grinned at them, her blue eyes shining, she then got out of her dads chair and ran up to Tony and Ziva.
Tony picked Kelly up and hugged her "How have you been Kel?" he asked her with a smile. It had been a while since she had come to visit her NCIS family as Jack had been looking after her after school and at the weekend.
"I've been great" she gave him a toothy grin "Daddy and I watched Enchanted last night"
"Ah a twist on a classic" Tony smiled at her before putting the little redhead back on the floor.
Kelly then turned to Ziva, "Shalom" she smiled at her.
"Shalom Adom" she smiled at the little girl, she had taken to calling her red in Hebrew which Kelly liked as it was like their little special thing.
Tim then walked into the bullpen "Kelly" he smiled at the little girl.
"Hey Tim" she grinned at him and watched as he walked over to his desk, Kelly had a special bond with every member of her father's team, Tony had been the one to show her all the classic films, Ziva was the one who was teacher her Hebrew, Tim read with her, Ducky told her stories and taught her about medicine and Abby, well she was someone who Kelly could hug, someone she could go all silly with, she was just Abby.
"Where's your dad?" Tony asked looking around and not seeing the older Gibbs anywhere.
"He went to the bathroom" she smiled at Tony "He told me I could head slap you if you were annoying Ziva" she grinned at him.
"Come on Gibblette you wouldn't" Tony tried to give her the best puppy dog face he could muster.
"Ok I won't" Kelly shook her head and gave him an innocent smile.
Tony then felt a sharp smack to the back of his head "Thanks boss" he mumbled as Gibbs moved passed the younger man to smiled at Kelly.
"Were they good Kel?" he asked his little redhead.
"Uhuh" Jenny smiled as Gibbs hugged her and pressed a kiss to the top of her head.
His phone then began to ring, he walked over to his desk and picked up the phone "Gibbs, uhuh, yeah, be there in twenty" he then put the phone down before turning to Kelly, "Kel lets go see Abby, I'll meet the rest of you at the truck" he ordered to his team before walking with Kelly away.
"Kelly" Abby squealed the minute the little redhead appeared in her lab and pulled her into a tight hug "Gibbs you really should learn to do her pigtails right" she humorously scolded the man she saw as a father, when she noticed Kelly's half crooked pigtails.
"Come on Kelly, I'll re do them as long as you promise to look after Bert" The Goth motioned to her stuffed hippo.
"Of course" Kelly nodded before skipping over to pick up the grey hippo.
Gibbs watched her for a moment to make sure she was ok before walking out and heading to the truck and to the crime scene.
An hour and a half later Tony walked into Abby's lab to find both Abby and Kelly both laying on the floor with their pigtails laying on the floor behind them as they listened to music. He put the box of evidence Abby needed to process on the table before walking over to them.
"Abs we have evidence you have to process" He told the Goth making her jump to her feet, she did love her work, Kelly soon followed suit.
But Kelly stopped in her tracks when she saw the blood soaked clothes of the victim sitting in the box, Tony and Abby both heard her sharp intake of breath "Come on Kelly, I'll buy you something from the break room" Tony ushered the little redhead out of the lab and to the elevator.
Ten minutes later Kelly sat at a round table, her legs not quite touching the floor so instead she happily swung them, Tony came over and sat opposite her and put a carton of apple juice and a choc-chip muffin. "Thank" she smiled at him before putting the straw in her juice and taking a sip.
"Hey there you are" Gibbs smiled at Kelly when he walked into the break room, Tony had gone to get her and hadn't come back so he had become little worried when he hadn't come back after leaving Abby's lab.
"Yuh, Tony bought me apple juice and a muffin" she smiled at her father.
"Yeah, that's nice of him but I could really use him upstairs" Gibbs turned to growl at Tony.
"I thought someone needed to look after Kelly…" Tony trailed off.
"Yeah but your my senior field agent" Gibbs reminded him.
"Well, then I'm just gunna go" Tony got up and gave Kelly a sheepish smile before running out of the room.
"Can I go see Jenny?" Kelly asked looking at her father with her baby blue eyes "Remember she said that I can only come if I go visit her, I don't want her getting lonely" she continued.
"If she'd not busy" Gibbs assured his little girl as they began to make their way to Jenny's office.
"She in?" Gibbs asked as they approached Cynthia's desk.
"Yes, I'll announce you" She smiled at Kelly then to Gibbs.
Gibbs was about to move forward to just walk in but Kelly pulled him back, he turned and looked at her "Its rude to just walk in, you have to knock" she reminded him.
"Kelly…" Gibbs trailed off, it just wasn't his way.
"Fine then I'll do it" Kelly huffed with her hands on her hips and then went over to the big metal door and knocked on it lightly.
"Come in" She heard Jenny say from the other side of the door.
Kelly then pushed open the door with Gibbs not far behind "Kelly what are you…." Jenny trailed off when she saw Gibbs walk in.
"What can I do for you agent Gibbs, is everything ok?" she asked standing up from behind her desk, he was stunned for a moment, he just realised how beautiful his boss was, her red locks half up half down in natural curls, her bang stopping just above her eyebrows, she wore a black pencil skirt and dark blue blouse, her long legs ending in signature black stilettos. "Jethro, is everything ok?" Jenny asked noting the lost look in his eyes.
"Yeah uh" he shook his head "Can you look after Kelly, we have a case and no one…." He trailed off.
"Sure" Jenny nodded smiling at Kelly "I only have paper work planned for the rest of the day" Jenny concluded.
"Thanks" he smiled at her before turning to Kelly "Be good for Jenny" he pressed a kiss to her head and handed her her my little pony back pack before walking out.
Jenny sat back in her chair and watched as Kelly sat herself on the leather sofa that almost rang the length of the wall and pulled what looked like a portable DVD player out of her backpack and put her pink earphones in and began to watch it.
The older redhead smiled at her before turning back to her pile of paper work that needed doing.
Two hours later Kelly's film must have finished because she put the portable DVD player down and took out the ear phones "Jenny" she spoke the redheads name.
"Yeah" Jenny looked up over the rim of her glasses over at Kelly.
"Why do you have to be alone in your office, why don't you have a desk downstairs with everyone else?" she asked.
Jenny smiled at her "I'm the boss, I need a place where I can have private meetings and phone calls" she explained.
"Ok" Kelly nodded "Do you have a family?" she asked.
"No" Jenny shook her head "Just me"
"You should" Kelly nodded "I think you would be a great mother"
"You do" Jenny had never really thought about it, she always just presumed she would find Mr right and have children but it was just too late now.
"Yeah, you're really nice, pretty and you saved me from the scary guy" Kelly explained with a smile.
"Well thank you Kelly" Jenny smiled at her "Are you hungry?" Jenny asked knowing that the little girl probably hadn't eaten anything in a while.
"A little" Kelly was being honest.
"Want a sweet?" Jenny asked opening a draw showing her that it was full of chocolate bars and other sweets.
"Yeah" Kelly jumped up and began to choose the one she wanted and then so did Jenny, the older redhead then watched as Kelly went back to the sofa and bought out a book and began to read it.
Another two hours or so later Gibbs walked in to the office, Jenny's head shot up and she looked at him, putting her fingers to her lips to tell him to be quiet.
Gibbs looked at her confused before she motioned to the sofa where he saw that Kelly was asleep on the leather sofa, she was covered in a blanket and was using her back pack as a pillow.
Jenny then got up from her chair and walked from behind her desk and led Gibbs out into the hallway where Cynthia had already left for the evening "Did you close the case?" she asked him.
"Yeah, open and shut" Gibbs nodded giving her a smile "Thank you for looking after Kelly, it know she can be a…." He began but Jenny cut him off.
"No" Jenny shook her head "Kelly's a lovely girl, you should be very proud, she's so smart, very pretty" she nodded.
"Yeah, got lucky I guess" Gibbs smiled "I'd better get her home" Gibbs nodded before walking back into Jenny's office where he carefully picked up Kelly.
"I'll help you to your car" Jenny suggested picking up the pink backpack before following him to the elevator to then to the car park.
She then watched as Gibbs carefully put Kelly into the back seat and pressed a kiss to her head, he then shut the door and turned to Jenny.
"Night" he smiled at her "See you tomorrow.
"Night Jethro" she smiled at him as she handed him Kelly's pink bag.
TBC…
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