Unbreak My Heart
Chapter 5
A/N
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With the help from Amanda Johnson, the team successfully found Dearing's hiding place. They tracked him down to the house were his son Evan was born.
"Boss? Are you sure you wanna do this?" Tony and the team was very concern about him going in there alone, with no back-up, facing the most wanted terrorist in NCIS so far.
"DiNozzo…if you ask me that question one more time, I'm gonna make sure you won't even live through this day" Gibbs warned him.
Tony nodded in understanding. "We'll be right outside if you need us boss" he assured him once again.
Gibbs gave his team a nod. He took one look at the scene behind him; he saw the U.S Military, Navy, FBI, CIA and the Army CID, ready to back him up whenever he needed it. He knew that Dearing was gonna go down either way if Gibbs didn't make it out of there. The only person he wanted to be there wasn't there. He wanted to see her one last time before he go in there. He needed to feel her, but she wasn't around. Jethro closed his eyed for a moment and took a deep breath, and then he remembered a memory of Jenny and him walking along the seine in Paris. It was one of the happiest times of his life since his family's death. He opened his eyes again and turned around, slowly walked towards the house where Dearing was waiting for him to make an entrance.
Dearing's House
Gibbs slowly made his way to the house. He opened the door, took a quick look around and headed inside when he heard a noise. He followed it into the kitchen. There he found Harper Dearing standing by the sink, making coffee, and waiting for him.
"You've finally arrived Agent Gibbs, I wondered whenever you were gonna show up in here or standing outside with your friends" Dearing said playfully, his eyes focusing on making coffee.
"Well I'm here now" was the only thing Gibbs could say.
"Before we could take this any further, I was thinking we could just…talk" Dearing replied without looking at Gibbs.
"What do you wanna talk about" Gibbs asked coolly.
"I heard we have another thing in common besides our dead children. Black coffee" Dearing poured him a cup and handed it to Gibbs. But he didn't return the gesture. Then he took a look at the gun lying beside the coffee maker. When Gibbs didn't take the cup Dearing placed it on the counter. Then he stepped closer to Gibbs.
"Did it feel good when you took your revenge on your family agent Gibbs?" Gibbs didn't answer his question; instead he just starred at his enemy.
"That good huh" Dearing assumed and let out a laugh at the same time. "Well then you can understand why killing The Navy will give me some piece"
"You kill innocent people! There's no understanding in that anywhere!"
"Well it's true, but it felt good doing it. I've lost everyone I ever loved because of the Navy" "And as for you. You have no one left. Everyone you love is taken away from you" Dearing said trying to get to Gibbs' emotional side. "Well…not quite everyone, am I right agent Gibbs?"
Now Jethro Gibbs was more confuse than ever. He was curious of what he meant. He looked at him with a questioning look. And of course Dearing picked that up right away.
"Oh you thought I didn't know about her didn't you? Your boss?" "She's definitely a keeper, a very beautiful woman. I can understand why you fell for her agent Gibbs. But I'm sorry to say this but you're gonna have to give her up for someone else" he said warning Gibbs a little.
Gibbs was standing there quietly. What the hell was he talking about? How did he know about Jen? And why did he say that he have to give her up for someone else? What was his reason for bringing it up? So many questions wandered around Gibbs' head. He squeezed his fists harshly and grinned his teeth.
"Don't worry, you'll meet this other guy soon enough. Though I don't know who he is, so don't bother asking me. He just called me one day and told me about you and her" Dearing told him.
Gibbs was confused. Was there someone after Jenny? Was she in danger?
"And as for you and I…I think we both know that this ends right here" Dearing picked up the gun next to him and started to play around with it. Then he lifted it up and pointed the Beretta at Gibbs' chest.
"I don't care if you take my life; I don't have anything to live for but a job. You're looking at man with nothing. Killing me will only make me happier. My wife and daughter are waiting for me. But the moment you pull that trigger at me, you'll be as good as dead. My agents will never let you walk out of here alive" Gibbs replied dryly.
He laughed. "This won't hurt much Agent Gibbs, it'll only take…" before Dearing could finish that sentence, Gibbs pulled out a knife and threw it at his chest.
"…a second. Yea it does" Gibbs picked up the Beretta. "Rule no.9 Never go anywhere without a knife" he headed towards the front door.
Outside, the agents saw the door opening slowly and everyone were on their marks. They were all surprised that Gibbs was coming out of there alive. Tony and the rest of the team sighted with relief.
Although everything turned out to be alright, Tony noticed the worried in Gibbs' eyes. He thought that Gibbs would be happy with Dearing gone. But no. There was something else to it.
"Boss? You okay?" Tony questioned Gibbs and soon Ziva and McGee followed his lead. Gibbs didn't answer.
"Let's wrap this case up and go home!" Gibbs announced, avoiding Tony's question. He didn't want to say anything before he was certain of this suspicious he had. There was something about what Harper Dearing said that Gibbs couldn't get it out of his mind.
Jenny's Townhouse
Jenny was in her nightgown, sitting on the edge of her bed, rolling her thumbs praying to God that Jethro would make it out of there safe and sound. She was sitting there for 30 minutes already, but it felt like a minute to her.
Outside of Jenny's house, Gibbs sat in his car right across the street, looking up her bedroom window. The lights were still on. He thought of her and the next thing he knew he was out of his car, standing in front of her door ringing the doorbell. He snapped out of it when he heard the bell ring. Jenny opened the door, she was standing in front of him and he didn't know what to do or say. This was a first…a Leroy Jethro Gibbs speechless.
Jenny stood there looking at him. Waiting for him to say something. She was more than happy to see him alive, standing outside her house. She made a sound, letting him know that she was about to cry any second now. Jethro stepped closer and closer to her. He touched her face gently, swapping away her tears and then put both of his hands on her waist. He swayed her a little before hugging her tightly. Jenny cried in his arms, she didn't hold anything back.
Five minutes later
Jenny sat on her couch in the living room in front of the fire place, stroking Jethro's hair as he rested his head on her lap. There was no one but them, alone.
"Jen?" He said softly with a whisper.
"Mmm…" she mumbled back at him.
"You weren't there with me – Why?"
"I Couldn't. I knew you would do anything to bring him down, even if it means scarifying your own life and yours only. I wasn't gonna be there and watch you do it" She whispered to him, still had her hands in his hair.
Gibbs sat up, looked at her then took her hand and kissed it. Then moved his mouth to her left cheek, made it down slowly to her lips. Jenny responded to his kiss. The kiss was slow and gentle. Then Gibbs changed his tactics. His mouth moved faster and faster. Hot and passionate kisses were exchanged between them. Jen wrapped her arms around his neck. His hands wandered down to her stomach, untying her rope, and then his hands went under her night gown. When she felt his cold hands on her body, she pulled away, finding oxygen.
"I Can't, I Can't" She kept repeating. She looked at him. "I want this Jethro, but…"
"But it's too soon for us to start anything" He finished the sentence for her. And she nodded.
"We still have a lot of problems that needs to be solved. And I'm not talking about the little ones. We have huge issues. It will take a lot of effort, a lot of teamwork and a lot of time" She said to him.
"How long?"
"I don't know, maybe weeks, months…or even years"
He massages the back of her head and whispered: "When you're ready, I'll be ready. Will do this together" She smiled and laid her head on his shoulder, he stroke her long and curly hair as she tugged herself to sleep.
August 22, 2012. Saturday 08.30
Next morning Jenny woke up in bed, alone, she didn't know how she got there. The last thing she remembered was resting on Jethro's shoulders. Speaking of Jethro; where is he? It wouldn't be weird if he left her and went home last night.
Then she smelled something delicious. She put on her robe and followed the smell, downstairs in the kitchen. She expected Noemi cooking in there for her as usual. But it wasn't her. She saw Jethro Gibbs standing in her kitchen cooking breakfast. The table was all set for two. He turned around and saw her. Gave her a smile, knew that she was surprised to see him in a kitchen. Can you really blame her? He usually orders take outs whenever he's with her.
"Morning" He greeted with a big smile.
"Hey" She greeted him back. "Thought I smelled pancakes down here" She let out a small laugh. She looked around for her housekeeper and wonder where she could be. "Where's Noemi?"
"Oh, I gave her the day off, so I could spend some time with you" He said with a happy face.
"You did huh? I thought you left last night" She smirked.
"No, you seemed like you needed someone with you last night"
"Jethro" She narrowed her eyes at him. "I was fine"
"It didn't seem like it Jen" He argued. "Besides I wanted to say" He added. And that made her smile go wide.
"Well either way...Thank you for looking after me last night" She smiled at him again.
She walked to stand behind him, watching him to his work. He put his one arm around her waist to bring her closer to him. She turned her face to him and smirked at what he just did.
"What're making?" She asked him with excitement. "I didn't know you could cook Jethro. Thought you only lived for takeout's?" Jenny looks at what's in the pan.
He laughed. "Well, I've always could cook Jen, just didn't show it. Don't wanna get me any more attention from women than I already have" He smirked at his own comment. And she did the same.
"Chauvinist" They both laughed.
"Now go sit down, it'll be ready in a few seconds" He ordered her.
And she did as she was told. Two minutes later he joined her at the table, sitting across from her and handed her a plate with; eggs, pancakes, bacons and sausages along with a cup of coffee.
She digged in, and it was delicious. She looked up at him. "Thank You Jethro"
He sat there and starred at her for several seconds before she had it.
"What?" She asked and tried to eat her food at the same time.
"Nothing…It's just that, I forgot how beautiful you look in the mornings" He said and she blushed at his comment. It has been to long since he told her something like that, and it felt warm and good.
"Yea yea just it your eat food Jethro" She reached her hand to punch him on his arm.
After finishing breakfast, Jenny offered to do the dishes and Jethro excuse himself to use her shower.
Inside Jenny's bedroom
Coming out of the shower, Gibbs dried himself off. He sat on the right side of her bedroom, looked around it and his eyes stopped at the nightstand. He was curious of what she kept in there. He expected to see books lying there, but ooh how he was wrong. He picked up a picture. The picture was upside down. But before he could turn it over he heard Jenny behind him.
"Jethro what are you doing?" She asked seriously, looking at what he had in his hand. When she realizes what it was, she gripped it and took it from him.
"What's on that picture Jen?"
"It's nothing" Avoiding his gaze. "I think you should go now. The colonel probably wondering where you are right now".
"I don't think so. She's probably on her way back to her beach now" He answered.
Jenny looked chocked, realizing what just happened. She may look sad for him but inside she was gloating like a High School cheerleader. "I'm sorry Jethro" She said with sympathy.
He laughed. "No you're not, but I appreciate the thought though" She never could lie to him very well. He saw Jenny took the picture and put it in the pocket of her robe.
"You okay Jen?" But before she could answer his question, her home phone rang.
"Excuse me" Jen said and answered the phone. Jethro headed out her bedroom but stopped at the doorway. "Shepard" He heard her announce her name.
On the phone
"Honey I'm home" A man said with a deep dark voice. And Jenny immediately recognizes who it was. "I hope you're home today, because I was thinking of coming over there" He said scaring her. And it worked. She was frightened, tears began to run down. It was a good thing she had her back from Jethro. She didn't want him to get suspicious and ask too many questions.
"What do you want" She demanded from him, struggling to keep her voice together. She thought Gibbs didn't hear anything but he heard her voice trembling.
"What I want is for Agent Gibbs to get away from you. And don't even try to do anything else, you do remember the last time you didn't obeyed me right Jennifer?" he threatened her. Jenny slide her hand in her rope pocket and touched the picture, closing her eyes for a second and remembered what happened the last time. She didn't know what to do. She doesn't want Jethro to go away, she was too afraid, but on the other hand if she didn't do as she was told she would regret her choice forever. She rather have him hate her than have him taken away from her.
She lowered the phone from her ear still kept her back from Gibbs. "Jethro…I need you to go" When he didn't respond to that she yelled. "Now Gibbs!" She ordered him.
He stepped a little closer to her. "Jen, you alright?" He tried to reach for her but she brushed him off too quickly. And he understood what she wants. What the hell is with this woman? One minute she was all sweet and the next she'd gone ice cold. His anger clouded his feelings for her and he rushed out of her house.
"He's out, good. Now you keep him away from you from now on" He ordered her.
Jenny fell down on her knees, crying, had her free hand covering her eyes and let out a crying sound. "Patrick please…Why are you doing this?"
"I want you to be mine! That's what I want from you. You really think I would let you be happy with HIM!?" "Well you thought wrong. You are mine, no one else's! We're gonna finish what we started" with that said he hung up. She threw the phone hard on the floor that it broke. She let out a scream, lying on the floor crying her way to sleep.
Next Morning
Noemi walked in the house as usual. No señor Gibbs was there to tell to take a day off again. It was 0700 hours. She expected her senora to be sleeping on Sundays. But normally she would wake up now and go for a run. But this time she was not. Noemi waited a while before she knocked on Jenny's bedroom door. "Señora Jenny? Are you still sleeping señora?" No Answer, so she called again and again and still no answer. Noemi slowly opened the door and turn on the light, the bed was empty, strange? She walked by the bathroom and still no Jenny there. When she turned around, she saw Jenny Shepard lying on the floor next to her bed, with a broken phone and her face all red.
"Señora Jenny!" Noemi rushed over to her. When Noemi was about to dial 911 Jenny opened her eyes.
"Señora! You're awake!" "What happened señora?" Noemi eagerly asked her.
Jenny realized what happened and didn't want to give away anything, so she lied to her. "I'm just fine Noemi. I just think I fell off the bed that's all" She faked a smile. But Noemi didn't seem to believe it, but her housekeeper didn't want to push her so she let it be for now. It was not gonna be a second time, not on her watch!
"Si señora. But you are bien now si?"
"Yes I'm fine now, thank you" Jenny said and sat up on the bed.
"I'll go work now señora" Jenny nodded. Damn it! Things were going so well with Jethro yesterday. Why me? Jenny put her hands over her face and rubbed it. Decided to take a nap, just forgetting everything for a while. She needed the rest.
2000 hours. Jenny woke up, looking at the clock. She got up and sat on the bed. She couldn't believe that she slept the whole day through. She was both physically and emotionally exhausted. It was dark outside, Noemi must have gotten home by now. She couldn't see anything so she turns on the lamp on her night stand. She realized rather quickly that she had two shadows; it was hers and someone else's, someone behind her. She took out her SIG from the drawer, slowly before turning around. But before she could even make a move on her SIG, a manly hand grapped it and threw it on the other side of the bedroom. When the light got brighter she saw who it was…Patrick…her worse and only nightmare has finally made its entrance.
"Hi Honey, long time no see" He said smirking at her, made her afraid once again. Jenny felt her body weakened, she dropped her hand and fell down on the bed.
"Missed me" That was definitely not a question. He grapped her shoulders and Jenny shivered on his disgusting touch. She tried to brush him off, but he was too strong for her. There was no one there to help her now, no Jethro, no one, she was alone with him once again.
"Did you like the photos I send to you? Don't worry, I have lots of copies even if you destroyed the ones I sent you" He tied her up, hands behind her back and a tower covering her mouth to shut her up. Patrick sat down beside her, when she felt him touching her, she backed away. He gripped her so she couldn't go anywhere from him, hugging her tightly. He strokes her cheek gently with his fingers. He almost forgot how good Jennifer Shepard felt. He starred at her, Jenny was avoiding eye contact. Then suddenly he grapped her face with both of his hands and pushed his mouth against hers, hard. Jenny was disguised by his kiss. She struggled to get away from him, but then again, she couldn't, he was always a little bit stronger than her. As Jenny was struggling to get away from his kiss, she was working on untying her hands. When she felt he was going deeper and deeper on the kiss she finally untied herself and punched him hard across the face making him suffer, crying in pain. Jenny ran as fast as she could out of the house. Patrick got up on his feet and quickly ran after her. He saw her too far away from him.
"I'll find you again Jenny!" "It doesn't matter where you're hiding, I always find you!" he screamed after her. Jenny just kept running till he didn't see her anymore. Unknown to Patrick, Jenny was hiding behind a big tree. She was hiding over there until a car picked him up and drove away. She felt relieved. She breathed in heavily. She had nowhere to go, no one to turn to. She couldn't even be safe in her own house! Jenny knows that she needed to tell Jethro and the team if she wanted protection, they were the best options. She even felt a little more afraid to tell Jethro than to get captured by Patrick. She stopped thinking for a while and slowly began to walk towards her house. She went inside on the back of the house for safety. She checked the house to see if he bugged it or something, it was safe. But she didn't felt safe at all. It was late on a Sunday night. She decided to change her clothes and drive away from the house a couple of nights, she drove to the Navy Yard. Perhaps she could be safe there for a while.
Navy Yard
Monday Morning, 0700 hours
Tony watched Cynthia as she was holding four cups of coffee in her hands when she walked past him.
"Wow Cynthia! What's up with the coffee? Are you planning on going to a party later or something?" Tony was standing in front of her, blocking the way to the stairs.
"They're for the Director. Apparently she was here since Sunday night and haven't slept since" She frowned.
"Late night ops in MTAC?" Tony asked her.
"No, That's the thing, there was no meetings, no ops, no case files to be signed. And the scary thing is; she was scared when I found her in her office sitting on her couch. And when I touched her, she was all shaken like something bad happened to her, and I mean really bad"
"Wow, did you asked Ducky to take a look at her"
"Yea, but she refuse and said she was fine. I have to get these to her now" She started to walk away from him, but stopped and turned around. "She's not fine Agent DiNozzo, something or someone is scaring her big time" Cynthia said to Tony and got up the stairs and in the office, leaving a concern Tony behind.
Twenty minutes later Ziva, McGee and Gibbs joined him in the squad-room. Ziva noticed Tony was staring at his computer, very quiet, not like the usual DiNozzo.
"Tony, are you alright over there?" Ziva asked him as she sat down on her desk, McGee looked up.
"Yea Tony, you've been really quiet, something happened?" Tim asked him. Gibbs just started to do some paperwork, figured there was nothing serious about it.
"It's not about me. It's the Director" And that got Gibbs' attention, he looked up and his eyes focused on his senior field agent.
"What about her DiNozzo?" Gibbs asked. Tony looked up and faces everyone as they were all staring at him with concern eyes.
"I saw Cynthia this morning, she carried a bunch of coffee cups, and they were for the Director. She said the Director has been here since Sunday night and haven't slept since. Cynthia said that she was really scared, like scared scared" "That's not exactly like her, I mean she's never scared. She castrates men for living for crying out loud" Tony said with a loud voice.
"Yea well you're right about that?" McGee added. "Should we be concern about this?"
"I don't know, what do you think boss?" When Tony turned to asked him that, Gibbs was nowhere to be found.
Inside Jenny's office
Gibbs saw Cynthia tugging her boss in on the couch. Cynthia noticed Gibbs.
"Cynthia, clear everything to today, she needs some rest" Gibbs said to her.
"I already did agent Gibbs" Cynthia replied back, and he signed her to leave the two of them alone. As soon as Cynthia closed the door behind her, Gibbs went over to the couch and sat next to Jenny, watching her sleep, stroking away hair that was covering her face. She always looks so peaceful when she's asleep.
Two hours later
Jethro watched as Jenny began to wake up. He has been in her office for two hours now. They didn't have any case yet so it didn't matter how long he was in her office at the time. Jenny stretched out her arms and legs to wake herself up, realizing that she was in her office. She remembered how she got there and why she got there. She noticed Jethro sitting closely to her and touching her face with gentle hands. She felt safe for the first time since Patrick's visit. They looked at each other and he took her in his arms and she cried.
"It's okay Jenny" He said, trying to calm her down. When they broke apart, Gibbs decided to get some answers from her. She scared her assistant and his whole team including Gibbs himself quite a bit. Even though they didn't parted with good words a few nights ago, he still cared for her and meant everything he said when they had the talk in her living room. He was gonna be there for her. They were gonna get through any obstacles together, no matter how hard or long it was gonna get.
"Even though you kicked me out of your house, I still meant what I said when we were cuddling on your couch" He said smirking at her, trying to make a joke out of the situation, figured that she needed som cheering up. And it did, she laughed at him.
"You and only you is the only person I know that can make a joke out of something like this Jethro" She smiled at him. Then he got serious.
"Are you ready to tell me about it Jen, I think you've postpone this long enough now" Jenny looked down, avoiding his gaze.
"Actually, no I'm not ready to talk to you about this just yet Jethro" She saw the disappointment in his eyes. "But I promise you something, I will tell you…when the time comes"
Gibbs wasn't happy with her answer and she could see that, but he was gonna take it this time. They don't need another argument, they just needed to spent some time together and everything will be alright.
Downstairs in the Squad-room
"The boss has been there a few hours now right?" Tony pointed out.
"What makes you think the boss is in her office?" McGee questions him.
"McGee…surely you can see how Gibbs got very serious when Tony mentioned that something was wrong with the director? As soon as he mentioned the Director, Gibbs must have rushed up there to go see her, fast enough that we did not see him" Ziva said looking at McGee.
"Ziva's right. Paris, I mean they were partners once and maybe even more than that" Tony added.
The conversation broke off when McGee's phone rang. "Guys! Bodies in Norfolk"
"I'll go get Gibbs, Ziva you get Ducky and Palmer and McGee you gas up the truck!" Tony ordered them.
Tony headed upstairs to the office; he opened the door and saw his two bosses cuddling up with one another. Tony blushed, felt slightly embarrassed that he interrupted them. Jethro and Jenny broke apart when DiNozzo made a sound.
"Eeem…Boss? We've got a case over at Norfolk" Tony said looking away from what he walked in to. Gibbs of course was pissed at Tony for disturbing his time with his woman.
"Well what are you waiting for DiNozzo, go with the others!" Gibbs practically screamed at him.
"Actually boss, we were waiting for…" Tony stopped at that when he saw the famous Gibbs glare looking right through his soul. "I'm moving now boss, see ya there" Tony said and ran off. Jenny let out a laugh at what she has witnessed.
"Damn him!" Gibbs cursed out. Jenny touched his face.
"Jethro be good with him, if anything we should feel sorry for him" Jenny warned him.
"Why the hell should we!"
"Because…He caught us in a very uncomfortable position, that's why" Jenny pointed out.
"But he was interrupting our time together Jen" Gibbs made his baby face at her.
"Well…you don't have to worry about that, you'll get what you need tonight, that's a promise" "Now go. I believe you have a case to work on Agent Gibbs" She ordered him, got in her Director mood.
"Yes ma'am" Gibbs saluted and walked out of the door. Jenny was happy with him by her side. She totally forgot what happened to her the other night. She yawned, tired.
"Maybe I should go back to sleep for at least a couple of hours again, looks like I need it. Jethro should be back by the time I wake up" She lay down on her couch and drifted off to sleep.
NCIS Truck
On their way to the crime scene, Tony, Ziva and McGee sat in the truck driving to Norfolk.
"Tony what happened up in the Director's office? We heard a lot of noise" McGee was curious.
"Well I don't think we should go wondering if something happened with our two bosses while they were partners anymore" Ziva and McGee looked very confused.
"I kinda walked in on them hugging and cuddling with each other" Tony cleared it out for them. And they laughed. "It's not funny guys!"
"Yes it is Tony. Now it all makes sense why he gave you the stare when we met him down the garage" They continued to laugh.
"Oh great, I'm gonna get a lot of unexpected punishment today from the boss-man" Tony frowned and rubbed the back of his head. Expecting some good old head slaps from Gibbs today which he doesn't look forward to
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