Previously on NCIS…
"What's going on?" he asked her.
"Ok" Jenny nodded "But promise you won't get angry"
"Promise" Gibbs assured her, slightly worried at what she was going to tell him.
Jenny took a breath before telling him "I quit my job"
"You what?" Gibbs yelled/asked her.
"And you're angry" Jenny huffed turning away from him.
"Why would you give up your job?" Gibbs asked her "What happened?" he asked her, coming up behind her and resting his hands gently on her shoulders.
"Nothing" Jenny shook her head, not turning to face him so he couldn't see her right eye twitch, she took a breath before speaking again "I've been thinking about my job as director lately and what it took to get there, all the things that I didn't do, couldn't do with that job and decided after all the long nights of paperwork and days of stupid meetings where the other politicians only see me as a women that they can hit on that I didn't want that, not anymore" she explained before finally turning around to face her fiancé.
"That it?" Gibbs asked eyeing her for a moment, looking into her eyes trying to work out what it was his gut told him she wasn't telling him, but it seems her walls had come up around her and he was gunna need to bulldoze them down so she would let him in.
"Yup" Jenny nodded to him before walking out of the kitchen and into the living room, aware that he was hot on her tail.
"Really?" he asked after a moment, all of a sudden he saw cracks starting to form.
"Really" she nodded and gave him a weak smile, trying with all her might to not let her right eye twitch.
Gibbs decided to ignore this knowing he would get it out of her later so decided to pull her in for a hug, Jenny smiled as she rested her head against his chest, taking comfort in the sound of his heartbeat. "What did SEC-NAV say?" he asked, all of a sudden Jenny tensed in his arms.
She looked up at him before stepping out of his embrace "Well he ugh…um…said" she fumbled with her words, he looked at her and knew what had happened.
Jenny took a moment to close her eyes before talking, "I explained that you and I were engaged, then I began to tell him about Kelly and how I loved her just as much as I loved you, he was silent mostly while I explained then he told him that I was highly unprofessional, that he'd never have expected me to sleep with one of my employees let alone want to marry them" she explained "He told me that if he was to accept this then it would damage not only my reputation but also the integrity of NCIS let alone his own reputation" she continued, watching as anger rose in his features, his eyes turning a deeper blue than normal.
"He said that it would be especially unprofessional with Kelly in the picture as apparently it would look like to the press that I was her mother, even though I told him I wasn't" she assured Gibbs "In the end he told me I had to either break it off with you and continue my job as director or leave NCIS" she explained.
"You quit your job for me and Kel?" he asked her and Jenny nodded slowly "You shouldn't have done that Jen" Gibbs ran a hand down his face.
The redhead couldn't help but be a little shocked at his reaction "Why?, is there something you're not telling me?" she asked him "Do you not want to marry me?, spend the rest of your life with me?" she asked him "Oh God, is there someone else?" she asked him, backing away from him slowly.
"Jen" Gibbs grab Jenny and pulled her to him "Of course I want to marry and spend the rest of my life with you and no your it for me" he assured her, "Your gunna end up resenting me and Kel, Jen I don't want that, so I'm going to go to SEC-NAV and give him a piece of my mind" he told her before moving past her and grabbing his house keys.
Jenny reached out and grabbed his arm pulling him back to her "I'm not going to resent you or Kelly" she assured him.
"You say that now, but in a month or two's time when you're here, doing nothing, then you'll start resenting me" Gibbs told her.
"Hey, who says I'm gunna be here" Jenny asked with a shrug of her shoulders.
"Now are you the one that doesn't want to get married?" he asked her jokingly "Seriously what do you mean?" he asked her.
"I've got another job" she informed him.
"So soon?" he asked.
Jenny smiled at him "Well once word got out I guess people just jumped at the chance to offer me a job" she shrugged her shoulders at him.
"So what are yah gunna do?" Gibbs asked her, hoping it wasn't something dangerous.
"I'm gunna work for the FBI" Jenny informed him.
"You what?" Gibbs' voice rose.
"Don't yell, Kelly's upstairs on the phone" Jenny reminded him.
"How can you go to the FBI, how can you…" he shook his head "I mean yeah their directors a jar head but to replace him with you" he added.
"Once Tom isn't a jar head, two who said I'm going to be the director" Jenny told him.
"Then what are you going to do?" he asked her.
"Eventually they will offer me the director position but first they think and I agree it would be a good idea for me to get to know the agency and the people that's why I'm getting my own team as well as being the assistant director when they need me to be" she told him.
"No" Gibbs shook his head, Jenny looked at him for a moment and saw that he was angry and worried.
"You can't tell me what to do" she told him, herself becoming angry, both their voices were raised both forgetting about the little girl upstairs.
"The hell I can, I'm your fiancé" He reminded her, pointing to himself "I care about you, I'm not going to let you be in the field"
"What" Jenny yelled not believing the words coming out of his mouth, I mean yes they were in this together for the rest of their lives but that didn't mean he got to dictate what she did, especially when it came to work.
"Dammit Jenny, you could get shot" he told her and she just gave him a look that said 'no shit Sherlock' "I don't want to worry every day when I leave the house that I'm never going to see you again, I don't want to think that every phone call I get will be someone asshole FBI agent telling me your dead, I don't want to think that you could be bleeding somewhere, dying on the floor and I'm not there to save you" he told her, by the end of his rant out of breath.
Jenny shook her head and wanted to laugh "Well then you'll get to know what it feels like to be me, God Jethro I know exactly what your trying to say but you have to trust me when I say I'm a big girl and can look after myself" she told him.
Gibbs closed his eyes and nodded "So you're really doing this?" he asked wrapping an arm around her waist and pulling her to him.
"I start Monday" Jenny told him, her hands wrapping around his neck.
"I'm not going to stop worrying about you" Gibbs told her, brushing a lock of her hair behind her ear.
"And I'm not going to stop worrying about you" Jenny assured him.
"Hey, maybe a shared case with the FBI won't be so bad in the future" he told her with a grin.
Jenny nodded "At least when I ask you about your day I won't already know"
"I love you Jen" he said, holding her just a little tighter.
"I love you too" she said with a smile before reaching up and pulling Gibbs into a kiss.
"Ewww" Kelly's voice broke the special moment.
Both Jenny and Gibbs turned, still in each other's arms and laughed at Kelly who stood on the stairs, looking through the bars into the lounge where they stood. Kelly just sent them back a cheeky grin that both adults wished would never leave the little girls face.
TBC…
I just want to thank my sister RUMad for helping me so much with this chapter.
I'm not sure how much is left, maybe the wedding and an epilogue, or just leave it here, or do more, it's really up to you guys so please review and tell me what you want.
