UNBREAK MY HEART

Chapter 4

A/N Here you go guys, chapter 4. I'm not quite happy with this one, my muse just abandoned me, and no inspiration came to me as I was writing this chapter. But I hope you guys will love it anyway. And Thank you for all the great reviews, keep them coming!

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Jenny Shepard stopped crying and loosened up her grip against Jethro's waist. She wiped away her tears with both of her hands and holding a gun at the same time. Jethro still had his arms around her waist. He watched her as she tried to gain herself.

"Are you okay…Jen?" He asked her, still with his arms around her.

Jenny sniffed. "Uuh…Yes…I'm fine now, thank you"

"You mind telling me what this is about?"

"What are you doing here Jethro?"

"I asked you first…"

"I asked you second…" They both had eye contact and starred at each other for what felt like hours. Jethro broke the connection and moved his hands away from her waist to his forehead and rubbed it gently.

"Jen…Don't change the subject. I wanna know what's going on here. A minute ago you cried in my arms, and it looks to me like you were scared, and I mean really scared. The next thing you know, you're back to this…this icey cold director mood again" Jethro said, kinda raised his voice a little.

"Watch your tongue Agent Gibbs!" She snapped right in his face with her eyes still red from crying. He saw her hand gripped the gun harder than before. She was pissed now, no doubt about that. There's nothing worse than an angry Jenny Shepard holding a gun. That he knew, very well.

"Okay…I'm sorry, I just needed answers. But if you're not ready to tell me about it, then I won't push you. I will leave it for now." Gibbs said holding both his hands up again, tried to get her to calm down.

Flashback 1998, Gibbs' house

"Jen! Jen! Calm down!" Gibbs shouted at the woman who was holding a gun in her hand, pointing at him. Gibbs was standing in his bedroom half naked. "I didn't mean to do it I swear Jen!" He shouted again, holding up both of his hands to surrender.

"I don't give a damn if you're sorry or not! You broke it and you'll gonna pay for it pal!" she threatens him.

"Aw come on Jen. We were having a good time, don't ruin it honey" Gibbs said with his dogs eyes popped out. Now Jen was furious.

"Is that all you care about, sex?" She looked at him angrily. She started to laugh. "Ha, for that comment, you won't be having any for a long long time 'Boss'"

"Come on Jen I can't stand cold showers, you know that. I have needs! Besides you can always buy a new one"

"Those can't be replaced Gibbs! This is the last time you'll break something when we're having hot sex, IF we're having again!" She continued to threaten him, still holding a gun aiming at him. "Do you know how many you ripped of like that? Freaking forty pairs!"

"Okay I get it, you're upset. I promise it won't happen again sweetheart. Now let's continue on what we we're doing on the bed remember? When you were on top of me screaming my name?" He said smirking. OMG how can even think of that right now! That bastard! That's it!

Jenny Shepard, the probie was now as furious as you can be, she walked towards him slowly, pointing the gun at him and was about to trigger it when Gibbs realize what she was going to do. He ran for his life out the bedroom and Jenny followed tight behind him. And then you heard it…BANG! She shot at him. But apparently she missed her target.

Gibbs breathed heavily in the air, panicking. He touched his body to find any bullets on him. Then he looked her, so scared for his life.

"You…pulled the trigger at me" He said very confused. That meant she was serious.

"Yeaaa! And unfortunately I missed. You better run for your life Jethro" Jenny said amusing herself. Gibbs saw Jenny holding up her gun again. He screamed and made the run for his life and once again Jenny followed him. Right now he thought Jenny was worse than Diane, and that's saying something.

PRESENT DAY

Jenny didn't know what he was doing. Jethro Gibbs looked kinda…scared. She looked confused at him. This was so unlike him. Usually he gets angry by now if he doesn't get what he wants. Then she got her answer to her own question. She nodded to herself. The great Leroy Jethro Gibbs just exposed his biggest fear to her. She gave him a small smile. And he looked confused at her.

"What?" He asked her, wanted to know why she suddenly smiled and had these mood swings.

She let out a laugh. "After all these years, you're still scared of me holding a gun Jethro?" She asked, still laughing at him.

Oh no! He thought. She knows, this is not good at all. Now she's gonna use it against him somehow. Damn it! He needed to say something quick, but he couldn't find a word for what to say. He started to panic, and all she did was laughing at him. So embarrassing. She definitely had made him softer.

"Well…it's kinda hard to forget that I almost died the last time you got mad and were holding a gun at the same time. I learned my lesson after that. And that's not to get on your bad side when you're angry and holding a gun or any fire arm for that matter. That combination around me usually leads to trouble for me…Big trouble" He said, defending himself. But Jen only laughed at him even more now that she got the truth out of him. One thing led to another, and they were standing outside the doorstep laughing together. Jenny and Jethro haven't felt this happy, let alone laugh for so long. And frankly, they both liked this feeling. They started to stop laughing and looked at each other with a little smile on their faces. Next thing you know they were moving closer and closer together. Guess all the happiness they both shared with each other seconds ago, brought back some good memories and feelings they once had, or still do. They were now inches from one another. Jenny waited for him to make the move. And he did. Jethro started to lean forward for a kiss. When his lips almost brushed hers, his phone rang. The timing couldn't be any worst. Jenny moved away from him when she heard the phone.

"Eeehmm…You probably should take that Jethro" She said slightly embarrassed. They almost kissed each other and the phone freaking rang. Jethro did as he was told. He answered the phone.

"Gibbs!" He almost shouted. She could tell that he was pissed at the person who interrupted their moment. "I'll be there in a bit" suddenly his face turned seriously, and he turned to look at Jen.

"Ziva and Tony caught the civilian who was gonna trigger the bomb on the ship in Italy. They're on MTAC right now" He said to her and Jen immediately got serious herself.

"I'll change and call my detail to pick me up, see you there in a bit" she said and turned to go get herself ready, but Gibbs grapped her hand before she could make a move. He brought her closer to himself. Jenny blushed, and he could tell that she was.

"Don't be ridiculous Jen. There's no sense to wake up your detail to drive you to the office. Ride with me, I'll wait for you" He said with a smile. They stood there for a while.

"Jethro…If we're gonna get going, you might have to let go of my arm" She smiled at him and he smiled back at her. But the truth was, she didn't want him to let her go. All she wanted to do was look in those gorgeous eyes of his and get lost in them, just like when she did in Paris.

"Of course, sorry Jen" He said to her, blushing himself. Then he saw Jen disappeared up the stairs and into her bedroom to get properly dressed, she couldn't possibly go to the Navy yard with her night gown and robe, although he wished she did. He smirked at the thought.

Before he knew it she was standing in front of him fully dressed. "Jethro? What were you smiling about?" she asked him, a bit worried. Maybe he's gone crazy or something.

"Uumm…Nothing" He coughed, didn't want to make eye contact with her. And definitely didn't want her to know what he was thinking of her at the moment. "Are you ready to go?" This night was not what he expected at all. At first he was gonna confront her about the Hollis Mann thing, but that plan backfired.

"Yea let's go" She said as he led the way to the car. They got in the car and drove away to the Navy Yard to interrogate the suspect.

NCIS Headquarter

Jenny and Jethro rode the elevator up to the squad-room. They both were quite, it was an awkward silence. Jenny didn't know whether she should still be angry with him or not. What happened outside her doorstep kinda changed the way she felt about being angry with him. And the thing is, she didn't know if he felt the same way she did. It felt like the ride lasted forever. When the elevator door finally opened, they both stepped out at the same time. They made their way to MTAC. Once they were inside, everyone was waiting for them, McGee. And Tony, Ziva and Stan Burley were on the screen. Sitting on the chair was the suspect they caught.

"Boss, Director Shepard" DiNozzo greeted. "He's name is Eric Moore, a civilian. Working as an engineer"

"Who sent you to trigger the bomb on the ship?" Gibbs asked him with a rough voice. Jenny was standing behind watching him work. She always found it kinda hot when he's interrogating. She smiled at the thought.

"No one sent me, I worked alone" He lied, but Gibbs saw it right through him.

"You expect me to believe that, dirtbag?!" When he didn't answer him back Gibbs got impatient. "Have fun in Gitmo…they'll eat you alive" Gibbs threatened him. And he got a little shaken. DiNozzo started to move him, but the suspect got defended, scared.

"Okay, okay…I did for money, lots of them too" He finally said.

"WHO SENT YOU?!" Gibbs shouted, and the suspect jumped at the sound of his voice echoing.

"Okay…He's name is Dearing, Harper Dearing" With that Gibbs turned to McGee.

"McGee find out everything you know about Dearing" McGee nodded and headed to the squad-room. With that they broke contact with the others. Gibbs then turned to face Jen.

"I'll notify other agencies and SecNav about Dearing." Jenny said and disappeared out of MTAC. Gibbs stood there alone, wanted to talk to her about them, but that had to wait, right now their first priority was to find Harper Dearing.

In the squad-room, Gibbs was staring at a picture of Dearing on the screen. Reading his file, concentrating on him, and only him. But he couldn't really figure out what he was thinking. He couldn't figure out the pattern on this case. Then he felt someone patted on his shoulders.

"Jethro? I talked to Dr. Mallard and he said there wasn't any unusual about our victims. Nothing that helps the case really." Holly Mann said. Then she looked at him for a while. And he knew what she was thinking.

"Not now. We'll talk when this case is over whit" He said looking back on the screen, not wanted to face her.

"Dr. Mallard wasn't the only one I talked to" Gibbs turned around and narrowed his eyes at her. "The autopsy didn't give us anything, but Dr. Mallard was also profiling him." Gibbs looked away again. What was so weird about Ducky profiling someone, he does that all the time. Nothing unusual about that. If anything, that's only good.

"He had help from another doctor…name Samantha Ryan" Hollis continued, and that definitely got Gibbs' attention. Great, another crazy ex-girlfriend who's helping with this case.

"You should be getting their reports any minute now." She stepped a little closer to him. "I didn't know you liked women with the same hair color as you Jethro" She said, giving him a hard time. Before Gibbs could defend himself he saw Ducky walking towards him, behind him came Ryan. She made eye contact with him. Hollis saw that and got a bit jealous, so she tried to snap him out of it.

"Jethro the Doctors are here" Hollis said, knowing that he already knows, but she only wanted to break their eye contact. Jethro was taken.

Ducky came straight to him and handed him the file of Dearing. "Jethro, I have finally finished profiling our terrorist, well with the help of the lovely Dr. Ryan from PsyOps Division of course. I could tell it was a long night with a complicated man, he is very much smart at what he do" Gibbs sat at his desk.

"Well Duck…We've been working here too. McGee's still looking for information about him" Ducky turned to see McGee working like crazy.

"Nice to see you again agent Gibbs" Ryan said smiling at him as Gibbs looked up at her, but he just sucked his teeth and looked back at Dearing's file. Ryan smirked; Gibbs never changed she thought to herself.

Hollis Mann saw how Ryan was attracted to her man, which made her very uncomfortable.

"You three follow me" Gibbs pointed at the two doctors and the colonel, leaving McGee behind. McGee looked up for the first time and watches them walk up the stairs.

Jenny's office

There was a knocking on the door.

"Come in!" Cynthia walked in.

"Director? These came for you about five minutes ago" Cynthia gave her the envelope and walked out the door again.

Jenny Shepard stopped what she was doing and took her attention to the brown envelope lying in front of her. She picked it up, opened it and took out some photographs.

"Photographs? Why would anyone send these…?" Jenny stopped when she saw who was on those photos. "Oh my god!" She replied, holding one hand over her mouth and the other on the photographs. Jenny saw several photos of herself, wearing a wedding gown standing at the alter with a man she once thought was her life. But it turns out he was her worst nightmare, a nightmare which still haunts her to this day. She pushed the chair away and stood up in seconds. She took out the shredder and shredded one photo at a time. For almost two decades she has been running from this man. And now he has found her on a place she thought she could be safe. She destroyed all the photos. She couldn't risk anyone knowing anything about her dark past. Then a knocking came from the door again. Jenny quickly maintains herself and put the shredder away. Tried to make her position as a director. In came Gibbs, Ducky, Ryan and Mann. Now Jenny was definitely confused. What the hell was Ryan doing here? Mann she knew about, she was the one who put her there. She was of course surprised Jethro didn't argue with her about it.

"What is going on Agent Gibbs?" Jenny asked with her Director voice.

"Do NCIS really need this much help from other organizations" Here it comes Jenny thought for herself and rolled her eyes. "Ducky works best on his own".

"Actually, if I may say it Jethro? Although I work alone at my best, but there was no harm in getting an extra brain on this case. We need as much help as we can get"

Jenny of course agreed with Gibbs. Ryan had no Business here. But she decided to play with him a little.

"Ducky's right Gibbs. Two brains are better than one. And this case has gone too far, I want it done with, like yesterday!" Jenny said, narrowed her eyes at him. She could see Mann and Gibbs furious eyes looking at her. And on the other hand, Ryan were happy like a baby with a candy, anyone could've seen that. Jenny nodded at them to be dismissed. Everyone left the office and she could now relax her shoulders.

Outside the office Ryan and Ducky excuse themselves to go to work.

"I'll better back to the Army CID. I'll see you at your house tonight?

"Not likely..." Gibbs said coldly. "There's a lot to do here too"

"No there's more than that! For two whole months I've been trying to get us to work, but you don't even get a damn!" She pushed her finger on his chest.

"I want this Jethro, but I'm not sure you do. I felt this since the day we agreed to start seeing each other again. And I also know who you want. It's not me and not that Ryan for sure, but she's over there, inside that office. You both are stubborn for not seeing it, everyone else does" Hollis said and pointing at the door behind him.

Gibbs looked at her. "I'm sorry Hol, I didn't mean for this to happen" He said touching her face, and she relaxed her head on his hand.

"Me too. Just get your heart what it wants." She said, wiped her tears away. "I better help the others on my team finding this guy huh…" she tried to light up the mood. She leaned over to give him one last kiss and for once he responded.

"See you in the morning Jethro" She smiled and walked down the stairs. But what they both didn't know was that Jenny Shepard poked her head out and saw the whole thing, the kiss and the caressed thing he gave her. But she never knew what they were talking about. But a picture is worth a thousand words.

Squad Room, 08.30

After finally had finding out who was responsible for the attacks against the US Navy ships, all NCIS agents along with the help from other agencies, Marine Corps and The United States Navy Seal, was on high alert to find this most wanted terrorist named; Harper Dearing.

"DiNozzo, what do we know about Dearing? The three agents gathered around Gibbs' desk.

"Boss. Harper Dearing was the CEO of Dorado Hills Lavestments. It's basically a multinational venture capital group that specializes in technology companies. I spoke whit his boss and apparently Dearing went MIA almost a year ago" Tony informed him, and Gibbs sighted.

"Families?" Gibbs then asked them. And it was McGee's turn to talk.

"He had a son, Evan Dearing. But he died under the Navy's Custody. And right after his son's death Dearing went insane, that's when his wife divorced him. Later he became the leader of a terrorist cell taking advantage of the weakness in the wiring of certain Navy ships to firebomb them. There's a reason why he's targeting the Navy ships boss" McGee pointed out. Expecting his boss to see the pattern, and he saw it.

"Yea…He blamed The Navy for his son's death" Gibbs said, starred at a picture of Dearing.

"The FBI had contact with Dearing for a while. One of their agents went undercover, but of course Dearing saw through it. And planted a bomb for them. 4 agents didn't make it through. Agent Fornell is on his way right now to speak with you." Ziva said, letting Gibbs know. Suddenly McGee's computer made a sound, and he ran to take a look at it.

"Boss, Harper Dearing got a sister. Her name is Amanda Tate. Got her address right here boss" McGee said excited.

"OK. Let's roll people. You three get her for questioning" Gibbs barked.

Tony, Ziva and McGee were driving the car to Amanda Tate's home. Tony took a look at Ziva, she looked scared. Never had he seen her like this before. He didn't recognize the crazy ninja chic like he sees in her every day.

"Tony...Do you think we will catch him? She said looking out the window on her side. "How many of us will die before he gets his revenge?" Tears were streaming down her cheeks. She turned to look at Tony.

"Hey…Listen to me; everything will be okay, we've been through worse than this. We'll get through this. We'll gonna catch this guy and make him pay for what he's done to our family" Tony said touching her face with one hand and the other on the wheel. He then looked back at McGee through the mirror and McGee nodded in understanding. Believing that Tony was right and he trusted him.

Tony pulled the car outside Amanda Tate's house. "Amanda Tate, NCIS open the door!" Tony called out. But no answer. And before he could open his mouth again a door opened up slowly.

"Amanda Tate?" Ziva asked the woman

"Actually it's Amanda Johnson now" The woman stated, correcting Ziva. "I know why you're here. It's about my brother".

"We need you to come with us ma'am" And the woman nodded in agreement.

Gibbs was sitting on his desk thinking about Harper Dearing, how to bring him down. Angry and furious of what he did, he slammed his fist on his desk making the Goth standing behind him jump up high.

"Gibbs?" Abby called for him with her voice shaken with fear. "Are you okay?"

"Abs…Yea I'm fine, just thinking that's all" without even looking at her, Abby made her way to face his eyes.

"You were thinking about Him weren't you?" "We're gonna catch him right? You're gonna catch him before he hurts anyone else in our family right?" Abby begged him.

"Yea…I promise to keep everyone safe and sound Abs." Gibbs said standing up and took her in his arms, hugging her tightly. At the same time, Gibbs looked up on the balcony and saw Jenny looking down at them. She met with his eyes, tried to look away and hide her fear from him. She walked in to MTAC. His eyes watch her every move. He wanted to comfort her so much and she knew that as well. They both saw it in each other's eyes.

That's it, the end of chapter 4. Next chapter is the ending of Dearing, a lot of JIBBS and of course the psycho Patrick is back again.

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/Julia