Chapter 17

"Jenny you came" Kelly yelled as she ran across the playground to the redhead.

It was the day when the children brought their mothers in to school for the afternoon to talk about what they did, whether it was staying at home or working.

To be totally honest, Kelly was very surprised that Jenny had come, she didn't know for certain but something happened that meant that Jenny and her dad weren't talking, although Abby had assured her that it wouldn't last long.

"Of course I did" Jenny told her giving the little girl a small hug "I promised I'd come didn't I" she said her warm green eyes meeting Kelly's innocent blue.

Jenny heard a bell off in the distance "Come on we have to get to class" Kelly squealed with excitement as she dragged Jenny towards the school building across the playground.

Soon Jenny was amongst kids all running into a class room, with all the mothers chatting and talking amongst themselves as they piled in.

"Can the mothers please take seats next to their children" the teacher asked them, Jenny was happy to find that the teacher looked very nice as did the whole school, no wonder that Kelly loved school so much.

Kelly then pulled Jenny over to her desk, Kelly sat down behind it and Jenny took the seat behind her.

Forty minutes later and most of the mothers had already said there part, most of them had been only part time workers or stay at home mothers. Jenny had also gotten a lot of strange looks from the other mothers all knowing that Kelly's mother had died and that she didn't have a step mother but here sat a redhead almost taking the roll of her mother.

"Kelly it's seems your last" the friendly teacher told the little girl.

"Ok" Kelly nodded before turning to Jenny and grinned at her "This is my daddy's friend Jenny" Kelly told her, that made Jenny blush a little bit but also feel a little bit guilty, was she really still with Jethro, I mean she hadn't even spoken to him in three weeks.

Jenny sighed before talking "I'm the Director of NCIS" she told them "Which means I get to over sea cases and operations involving the navy" she explained.

"She gets to boss my daddy around" Kelly told her class mates proudly.

Twenty minutes later and Jenny and Kelly walked out into the playground to go home. "Daddy" Kelly saw Gibbs and ran to him while Jenny slowly made her way to them. "Jenny came" she told him excitedly.

"Just like I told you she would" Gibbs told Kelly pressing a kiss to his daughters head the little girl nodded before seeing Maddie and running over to her.

Now that they were alone Jenny stepped a little closer to the man she'd been trying to get out of her mind since she'd left his house. "Jethro.

"Jen" they both began at the same time, Jenny nodded for Gibbs to talk.

Gibbs opened his mouth and closed it a couple of times before words finally left his mouth "Thank you for coming, it means a lot" his eyes not quite meeting hers.

Jenny nodded "I made Kelly a promise I wasn't going to break it" she told him "I'm sor…" she began but Gibbs cut her off.

"I think we need to talk" he told her.

"I think your right" Jenny agree, there was only so much time that they could ignored the fact that they needed to talk.

"Where and when?" he asked her.

"I need to go back to work" she told him.

"How about the roof top?" Gibbs suggested.

"Eight?" she asked him.

"See you there" Gibbs smiled at her before leaning forward and kissing her lightly on the cheek before walking away leaving an almost stunned Jenny behind.

Hours later….

Jenny sat in her office, pretty sure she was the only one left in the building, she'd sent Cynthia and her drivers home hours ago.

So she sat in her dimly lit office, a tumbler of bourbon in her hand, the sonly sound was the chinking of the ice in her glass.

She wondered what Jethro was going to tell her, if he was going to officially breakup with her, not that she wanted that because she didn't, a man like Leroy Jethro Gibbs was hard to find especially for them to like you back was rare.

The buzzing of her phone brought her back to reality, she looked down at her desk and realised she had a text, she smiled when she found it was from Gibbs, she begin to wonder how long it had taken Kelly or Jack to show him what to do.

Picking up her phone she read the message and found that it was him saying he was already on the roof top waiting for her.

Jenny put her drink on her desk before getting up out of her seat and going to the door.

Soon she made it up stairs and to the roof top entrance; she took a nervous breath before pushing the bar to the fire escape and letting the door swing open.

She looked around but didn't see Gibbs so went to the edge of the roof top and looked down at the harbour below, the memory of the last time she was up here, who she was with, at the back of her mind, making her smile.

Moments later Jenny felt arms wrap around her waist and a head rest on her shoulder, at the same time the scent of sawdust and coffee overwhelmed her. She leant back into him, loving being held by him, something that she had missed.

"I love you" Gibbs whispered in her ear.

He felt Jenny stiffen in his arms so let her go, Jenny couldn't believe what she'd just heard, I mean men had said it to her before but never with so much emotion, with so much meaning and they had never been Leroy Jethro Gibbs.

"What" Jenny said turning, her hands going to his chest, looking slightly shocked but a shimmer of love was behind her eyes.

He smiled at her "I love you" he told her "For being you, not for your colour hair, although I do love it" he told her as he touched her hair lightly with his hand "Not for the things that you do that remind me of Shannon, I love you for just being you" he told her.

Jenny grinned at him before pulling him close, wrapping her arms around his neck "I love you too" she told him before pulling him down for a kiss.

TBC…

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