So sorry that it's been so long since I posted. I've just been so busy with school, exams and getting coursework finished, but I am finishing soon so I will have more free time to write, anyway enjoy my chapter. Sorry again :(

Chapter 3

Gibbs stood holding Jenny tight in his arms as if he was refusing to let go. Jenny snuggled closer to Gibbs, forgetting the world around them and refusing to leave his arms. Gibbs kissed the top of her head, his signal to Jenny that everything was going to be ok. She signed deeply.

"Thinking 'bout somethin' Jen?"
"Guess?"

"Paris?" Gibbs said with a smile appearing on his lips.

"No, Serbia." Gibbs laughed; Jenny chuckled and snuggled closer into Gibbs's chest.

"Jen, I let you go once," Jenny turned her head to look into the bright bold blue eyes of the love of her life,

"Jethro…" Gibbs put his finger over her mouth to stop Jenny from taking the blame for ending their relationship.

"Jen, although you were the one to walk away, I should have followed you, I should have stopped you. I'm not going to make that same mistake again. I've missed you Jen."

"I've missed you too Jethro." Gibbs lowered his face towards Jenny, just as there was a knock on the door.

"Damm it" Gibbs let go of Jenny and turned his back to her.

'Just as things were getting good', Jenny thought. "Come in!"

Tony pushed open the door and caught Gibbs glaring at him from the opposite side of the room.

"Sorry boss, but Director the mystery man is demanding to see you. Says to tell you that he's sorry and he's not going away this time."

"Thank you Tony." Tony nodded and closed the door behind him. Jenny turned to look at Gibbs; he walked back towards her and looked her square in the face.

"Jen, are you seriously going to see him?"

"Jethro, I need to know why he has come back, why now, why he left me in the first place. I don't believe my father took a bribe from La Grenouille, so why did he run?"

"Jen…"

"Jethro, I need to do this." Gibbs's hand automatically ruffled through his hair, his eyes never leaving Jenny's bright green eyes.

"I don't want him to hurt you again." Jenny smiled and walked towards Gibbs. He took her in for another hug, allowing more contact between the two of them that there had been in years.

"I'm a big girl Jethro, I can look after myself, and I was trained by the best. I'm going to talk to my father Jethro, but I promise when I get back, we can finish what we started before Tony interrupted us." Jenny gave Gibbs a light kiss to the cheek, before walking out of her office, her heels clicking on the floor as she walked. Gibbs smiled to himself, he had his Jenny back, and there was no way he was going to loose her again.

Ziva was standing in the interrogation room with the man who had sent Jenny running for the safety of her office. The man sat quietly, his hat on the table, his coat hanging over the back of his chair. Ziva had no idea who the man was or his connection to her friend, yet she knew from the reaction that Jenny had displayed, she knew that it must be bad. Ziva stared at the man, he knew she was staring.

"I guess you don't know who I am?"
"Why? Should I?" The man glanced away from the woman.

"How do you know Jennifer?"

"She is my boss…" Ziva was interrupted before she could continue.

"I know she is more to you than your boss. I know her." Ziva stared at the man.

"How?"

The door was pushed open before he could reply, and Jenny walked into the room. She stared at the man who had been dead to her since she was a teenager.

"Because he is my father Ziva. Meet Jasper Shepard."

"Coronel."

"No. You lost the right to be called Coronel when you died!" Jenny threw the notepad she had been carrying onto the table, creating a loud bang which engulfed the room. Ziva looked from the man, to Jenny then back again, wondering how she could have missed the connection between the eyes of her boss, and her father.

"Thank you Ziva, you can leave now."

"You sure?"
"Yes thank you." The tone of her voice told Ziva that this was Jenny's polite way of saying to leave now. Ziva nodded her head towards her friend, and slipped out of the interrogation room and into the viewing room, where she found Gibbs.

"You know who he is?"
"Yep, she told me."

"Why is he here? Jenny always told me she was an orphan."

"That's what she's trying to find out."

Gibbs and Ziva turned their heads to look at Jenny and her father sitting across the table from each other. Neither of them moved, nobody said a word. Jenny sat staring at the man she had once called 'daddy'. He in turn caught her gaze. He sighed.

"Jennifer"

"Director Shepard" She spoke coldly. "Only my family can call me Jennifer, and I have none of that left." Jasper Shepard looked into his daughter's eyes and saw the cold hatred reflecting towards him. He could see the pain and anguish he had caused her, and that made his heart drop.

"Jennifer, I never wanted to hurt you."
"Well it's too late for that isn't it?" Her words sliced into Jasper causing him pain. He had always known that what he had done would affect his daughter, but he had hoped that he would get the chance to explain. He gazed back at Jenny, her eyes were filling with tears, but she wiped them away before they rolled down her face. She wouldn't give him the pleasure of seeing her cry over him. Jasper felt his eyes filling with tears; he had never wanted to make his daughter cry.
"Jennifer, I didn't want to hurt you, you must believe that."

"How?" Jenny couldn't stop the tears from falling anymore; they began to slide down her face and create a puddle on the table. "How can I believe anything you say to me, after you have been lying for so many years? How can I believe you?"

Gibbs stood watching the woman he loved fall to pieces over a man she had grieved for, for most of her life. It broke his heart to see her crying, he always knew Jenny was a strong person, but even the strongest person can crack. As much as he knew that he shouldn't, he left the viewing room, and walked into the interrogation room in a few long strides. He slammed open the door making Jasper Shepard flinch. Gibbs didn't even look at him; he walked to Jenny, pulled her out of her seat and held her in his arms. She stood sobbing into Gibbs not caring who saw or heard her cries. She gained enough breath back to be able to cry out to Gibbs,

"What about rule 22?"

"You can't bother me in the interrogation, it says nothing about you." Jenny smiled; Gibbs always knew how to make the world seem a brighter place.

Jasper Shepard stood looking at his daughter and the man holding her tight. He saw the look in the eyes of man, and realized in an instant that the man holding his daughter was in love with her. He rose from his seat. Gibbs noticed him moving, and turned Jenny away from him, pulling her closer.

"You have no right to keep me away from my daughter." Jasper spoke to Gibbs, Gibbs stared at him.

By this point Tony and McGee had joined Ziva in the viewing room. Abby came rushing in with Ducky right behind her.

"What happened? I heard mummy had run to her office crying when some guy…" Abby trailed off when she looked into the room and saw Gibbs holding a sobbing Jenny close. She noticed his gaze and followed it to the other man standing in the room. "Who is he, and what did he do to Jenny?" Tim grabbed Abby before she could leave and hurt the man who was responsible for hurting the Director. It was Ziva who spoke.

"He's her father."

In the interrogation room Gibbs still held Jenny close. He motioned to his team in the viewing room, Ziva and Ducky sped out and joined Gibbs, the others followed. Gibbs gestured to Ducky; he nodded and slipped Jenny from Gibbs's arms.

"Come on my dear, I believe I have a cup of Earl Grey in Autopsy with your name on it." Ducky and Ziva took hold of Jenny and together they left room.

"Jennifer!" Jasper called out to his daughter, Tony blocked his exit.

"Boss, do you…" Gibbs looked at Tony. "Right Boss" Tony and Tim slipped out of the room, and headed back to their desks. Abby stayed where she was.

"Gibbs, I thought the Director said her parents were dead?"

"That's what she thought Abs." Abby turned from Gibbs to look at the Director's father.

"How could you?"

"Abs…"

"No Gibbs," She walked towards the man and stood with her face right next to his, "How could you do that? How could you make her think she was an orphan?"
"Abby…"

"Being alone with nobody in the world it the worst feeling you can ever have. How would you feel if she had faked her death? How would you feel if your wife and daughter were dead, and you were left alone in the world with nobody to care about you?"

"Abby!" Abby stopped her rant and gazed back at Gibbs. She suddenly remembered what she said about a 'wife and daughter dying', and the reflection in Gibbs eyes.

"Gibbs I'm so sorry, I didn't think…" Gibbs hugged her.

"Rule 6 Abs." She smiled her bright and bubbly smile. She felt Gibbs's arms fall from her back and she let him go, he nodded and she left for Autopsy.

Gibbs closed the door behind Abby as she left. Jasper kept standing as Gibbs sat down.

"You have no right to keep me from my daughter."

"I'm not."

"What?"

"I'm not keeping you, go if you want. But I don't think Jen will wanna see you."

"You don' know my daughter."
"I know more about Jen you do. You left her when she was 18; Jen's changed a lot since then." Jasper laughed.

"She's my daughter, she's nothing to you." Gibbs banged his fists on the table causing Jasper to flinch again. He saw the anger in Gibbs's eyes.

"She means more to me than anything else. I know what it's like to lose someone close to you, I won't lose her."

"Who you lose then, a team member?"

"Yes, Kate. And my mother, and my wife and my 8 year old daughter!" Gibbs glared at the man, this shut him up.

"Jenny means the world to me; I would do anything to keep her safe. I lost her once because I had such a big ego and was too stubborn to go after her. I'm not going to let her go again, she means too much to me."

Just as Gibbs finished telling Jasper how much he cared about Jenny, the door opened and Jenny stood in the doorway, Ducky and Abby behind her.

"I'm sorry Jethro; she wouldn't come down to Autopsy." Ducky tried to explain. Jenny just stood looking at Gibbs. It was then that he realized that she must have heard everything he said about her. Abby signed to him quickly, which confirmed his suspicious. Jenny had heard everything he had said about her, how much he loved her and how much she meant to him.

"Did you mean it?" Jenny voice pleaded with Gibbs.

"Every word Jen." Gibbs smiled at her; she smiled back and rushed towards him, completely ignoring Jasper. He reached out to her, and pulled her close, into another hug which seemed to be all he had been doing all day. However this time Jenny's head didn't snuggle into his chest, in looked up towards his face. She was smiling. Gibbs smiled and leant his head towards hers. Her eyes closed and their lips met.

Sorry that it has been so long since I last updated, I promise things will get posted quicker; it's just school and everything else getting in the way. Anyway, hope you enjoy this chapter and I would love for you to review it. Thank you, and happy reading,

Beth ^_^