Unbreak My Heart
Chapter7
Squad-room, Monday 2000 hours
Gibbs and his team were working their ass off to find Patrick. After what they have heard from the Director this afternoon was unbelievable. They felt sorry for her, especially Tony, who has been blaming her for his relationship with Jeanne. Although he forgot about it a long time ago, but the feeling came back when he heard her story.
Ziva has been Jenny's friend since their worked together in Egypt. But she never knew enough about her life, she was quite about it, kind of like Gibbs.
Gibbs sat at his desk trying to focus on this guy they were after, but no luck so far. He got furious at Jen for not telling him about her problems, not coming to him for help. Finally he sat up, pushing his chair backwards.
"Anyone got anything on this guy?!" He asked his team and they shook their heads. Gibbs was angry. "Find me everything about this guy, and you better have something for me when I get back!" he yelled at them before stepping in the elevator. At the same time Abby walked in the room.
"Wow, what's wrong with Gibbs?" She asked, and then narrowed her eyes at Tony. "Tony what did you do to him this time?" Abby crossed her arms.
"It wasn't Tony Abby" McGee corrected her and Abby just looked confused at him.
Then Ducky walked in, he was about to go home when he heard Gibbs screaming. "Is there something wrong up here?" Ducky looked at Abby for answers.
"I don't know Ducky? They won't tell me anything" Abby frowned.
"It's got nothing to do with us Ducky, it's about the Director. We'll fill you in on the details" Tony answered. Ducky and Abby looked both confused and worried at each other.
Jenny's House
Jenny lay down on her bed looking at a picture, crying. "I'm so sorry" She sniffed then wiped her tears away unsuccessfully, because no matter how many times she wiped them away, they'll continue to streaming down her cheeks like a waterfall.
Gibbs parked his car outside of Jen's house, and then walked through her front door without knocking. He didn't seemed to care if she was asleep or not, he just wanted her to feel safe, he was gonna be there for her no matter what, they were gonna get through this together, that was his promise to her.
He looked everywhere for her. The last room he looked was her bedroom, he opened the door and there she was, lying on her bed with her back facing him. He heard her crying, sniffing. She didn't react on him opening the door; she obviously has other things on her mind right now. Jethro slowly walked to lay down behind her. Jenny felt a man's body on her, and she recognized it, Jethro, who else.
"Why didn't you come to me about it Jen?" He asked her with a whispering voice. Had his head closely next to hers, putting both of his arms around her whole body, wanted her to know that he got her, she could feel safe being with him.
Jenny turned her face to him, looking at him in the eyes; "I couldn't, and don't ask me why because I just couldn't!" She answered him with her voice trembling and louder than his.
All night they were lying on Jenny's bed holding each other tightly, like there were only them on this planet. They never let each other go.
The next morning, Gibbs woke up, his hands searching for Jen, but didn't find him. Then he quickly sat up. "Jen!" He screamed for her. Then the bathroom door opened and Jen walked out cleaning her hands with her towel.
"I made coffee downstairs" She smiled, then walked out of the bedroom and down into the kitchen, Jethro followed her behind. She poured him a cup of coffee then they both sat down on the kitchen table. Gibbs took a sip from his coffee and immediately awakens.
Jenny looked up at him and Jethro met her eyes. "Do I still look beautiful in the mornings to you?" She asked trying to make a joke. He chuckled.
"Always" He smiled at her lightly. Then he got serious. "Jen? There was something you said to me when you told us your story. And I have been thinking about it sense"
"Which part?" She asked, taking a sip from her coffee.
"The part where you said that 'he was the only man that ever loved me'. What did you mean by it Jen?" He looked into the depth of her eyes.
Jenny tired after what happened, was trying not to think about it because she knew that he was not gonna like the answer she'll give him.
"I don't think you'll be ready to hear it Jethro"
"Yes I am!" He replied firmly.
"No because you will not like my answer to your question!" Her voice was going higher. "I just wanna spend this day with you, without thinking about anything. Please? Just give me that much" She begged him with her eyes. He took her hand and squeezed it lightly.
"Okay, but then I need answers…"
"…and I'll be answering them as much as I can" She agreed.
"So what do you wanna do today?"
"First we need to call in sick, but I don't know how we're gonna do that, considering you never get sick. Your team is gonna want some answers" She raised her eyebrows at him.
"Well, I'll make sure they don't" He said.
"Sure, you have the powers to do that, I forgot" She joked making him laugh.
"How about we stay at my place today, just you and me?" He asked her, saw her smiling at him, and to Jethro's answer Jenny leaned over and gave him a passionate kiss on his lips, making him want her more. "I take that as a yes" He smirked.
Jenny laughed. "Just let me get a quick shower and then we can head to your place for the rest of the day…"She saw the desiring look on his face, and knew what he was thinking. "Alone Gibbs!" She narrowed her eyes at him.
"Spoiling my fun, aren't you Jen?" He smirked at her cute little butt when she walked out of the kitchen room. He wanted to follow her so badly, could you blame him, after the kiss she just gave him? He was going crazy, but he knew that every time she called him Gibbs, she was serious.
In the bathroom, Jenny undressed herself and got in the shower. It felt good with some hot water over her exhausted body. Even though she wanted Jethro there with her, she needed som space to think alone, and with him in the shower with her was gonna make it even more difficult to concentrate, because she knew that he would do other things with her. Jenny smirked at the thought of her and Jethro in London when they were having a shower together after making love in their bedroom. She couldn't walk for hours! She laughed at the thought.
Gibbs who was standing outside of the bathroom heard a giggle, wondering what was going on in there. "Are you okay in there Jen?" She was so busted!
"Uuh yea, just fine. I'm almost ready" She lied quickly.
Jethro didn't buy it, he knew when she was lying and this time she was. 'Must have some sort of flashback of our time in the shower or something' He thought and chuckled for himself.
Jenny got out of the bathroom, seeing Jethro sitting on the edge of her bed waiting for her to get ready.
"I thought you were gonna wait downstairs for me?" She asked him, not wanting him to ask her about her laughter in the bathroom.
Jethro just looked at her mischievously. "You were having flashbacks of us in the shower together didn't you?" He smirked at her.
Jenny was trying not to make eye contact with him. "No I was not…okay maybe I was?" She admitted.
"I knew it!" He cheered. "Which one?"
"London!" She answered as she got herself dressed up in front of Gibbs.
Gibbs got more and more aroused when he sees Jenny getting dressed in front of him, when all he wants to do is ravish it all off of her. "You're doing this on purpose" He grinned his teeth.
"I don't know what you talking about" She answered innocently as she button her see through blouse making Gibbs even more frustrated. "There, now I'm ready to leave. Shall we?" She teased him. And a frustrated Jethro got up on his feet and followed Jen out to his car.
As they were about to get in the car, four men approached them making Gibbs alerted. Suddenly they took out their guns and aiming at Gibbs. But Gibbs was way too fast for them, he pushed Jenny on the ground making her heart her knees and elbow, they were hiding behind the company car. As the gun men took fire, Gibbs shot one on the chest and one on his head. Two down, two left.
Jenny groaned with frustration for not bringing her sidearm with her. She tried to move and help Jethro, but he kept pushing her head down. "Stay down Jen!"
The two gun men were approaching them slowly; Gibbs got a visual on one and shot him on the stomach. But there was one more. Then the firing stopped. A gun was tossed towards Gibbs; it was not his gun though. Gibbs looked up, seeing a tall brown haired man holding both of his hands behind his head, making a signal to Gibbs that he surrendered. Gibbs took out his phone and called his team and the local police. Jenny was still on the ground.
"Jen stay here, I'll be right back" He said to her and she nodded, trusting him.
Gibbs approached the man aiming his gun at him. As he got even closer Gibbs punched him in the face making the man groan with pain. Then he squeezed his hands and handcuffed them.
"Tell me your name you bastard!" Gibbs demanded out of him but the man just smirked and looked to the direction of Jenny, making Gibbs suspicious.
"I think you already know what my name is special agent Gibbs" The man smirked once again.
Jenny was about to have it. She was not going to lay down behind this stupid car while the man she loves was out there risking his life for her. She stood up. "Jethro!" She called for him, but no answer. Then she saw him just a few feet away, but he wasn't alone, there was a man kneeling in front of him, who was looking at her, smiling. She couldn't see his face, but it was familiar for sure. When the light hit the spot, she saw him, Patrick, down with his knees and Jethro behind him.
"Patrick…" She stuttered.
Gibbs, hearing that name from her lips, making him hate the guy even more. He was in chock that this man who he just arrested is the guy they were looking for, the guy who made Jenny ran away from for years.
Then two cars pulled up in front of Jenny's house. Tony, Ziva and McGee ran towards them with guns in their hands.
"Boss! Director!" "Are you okay?" Tony asked out of breath from hurrying to get here.
"What happened?" McGee was next to asked the questions.
"Take him out of my sight!" Gibbs said with disguised. "And call Ducky, there's three bodies here!"
Ziva took Patrick away, putting him in the car.
"Who's he boss? A terrorist?" Tony asked, confused of what the hell just happened to their bosses.
"That...was Patrick" When the agents heard his name, they looked at Jenny who was in shock. She hasn't moved yet, not since she found out that Patrick was here, shooting at them.
"Go back to the Navy Yard, put him in interrogation!" Gibbs said furiously. Then he walked to Jen.
"Jen?" He called for her, she didn't move. He shook her lightly making her jump by his touch. "You okay?"
"He's here…" She whispered, crying. Gibbs took her in his arms making her cry even more.
"I've got you Jen and I'm never letting you go, ever again you hear, never!" He assured her and felt her head nodding against his chest.
Navy Yard
After putting Patrick away, Tony Ziva and McGee was ordered not to go anywhere outside the Yard. Abby and Ducky walked to them.
"Who was that creepy guy you guys arrested?" Abby asked.
"Well…remember when we told you about Director Shepard's past?" They both nodded. "Well…that's her past" McGee answered firmly. Both Abby's and Ducky's eyes widened.
"Oh dear!" Ducky sighed. "Where are Jethro and Jennifer now Timothy?"
"Gibbs took the director to his place. He is coming in to interrogate him tomorrow"
"Gibbs is gonna interrogate that guy? All hell is gonna break loose!" Abby groaned. But as far as they know, that guy deserves to meet Gibbs' anger. Gibbs will have him begging for mercy within minutes.
"I can't imagine how the director must feel" Abby said, feeling sorry for her boss.
"Well…I think we all can imagine the worse things when you get shot buy the man you once loved" Tony replied with sad eyes.
Gibbs' House
"I think we should call Ducky to take a look at your knees and elbows Jen" Jethro replied and was helping her over to the couch at the same time.
"It's just scratches Jethro, you're overreacting" Jen assured him as she was sitting down on the couch.
"Fine, but the minute we arrive at the Yard tomorrow, your first assignment is to go see Ducky. Got it?" Gibbs told her strictly.
"Fine…" Jenny gave up the fight, no matter how much she argued with him, he always wins anyway.
Jethro watched her settle down, saw how tired and emotional she was.
"You okay?" He asked her, stroking her hair. She looked up at him.
"Yea, fine, I told you"
"I wasn't talking about your scratches" He pointed out. She looked confused. "I meant how you're doing, emotionally"
She looked away. "It's…just hard, that's all" She was trying to keep her tears away and he could see she was struggling with that.
"Why don't you lay down here while I'll order us some food" She nodded in agreement.
When he came back with the food fifteen minutes later he found her sound to sleep on his couch. He decided not to wake her. She needed the rest, besides she kinda gets grumpy when you wake her up for no reason.
The next morning, Jenny woke up by a heavy breathing on the back of her neck. She turned around and saw a sleeping Jethro hugging her. She started to move around, to wake herself up. And when she tried to get up and move his hand that was around her waist, he grapped her back down on the couch with him.
"Jethro!" She hissed at him.
"Where are you going, it's still early to get up" He mutters half asleep.
"Jethro it's 0600 hours already, we're gonna be late for work if you don't let go of my waist"
"Spoiling my fun again are you Jen" He grumbles at her and let her go. "You want me to help you shower!" He hollers to her as she walked away. In return she tosses a pillow at him making him laugh.
In the car
Jenny and Jethro were sitting quietly in the car on their way to NCIS. Gibbs turned to look at her; he saw her playing with her fingers, nervous obviously.
He took her hand and squeezed it softly. "It's gonna be fine Jen" She smiled at him.
NCIS Building
"Remember what you promised last night?" Jethro asked her and she look confused.
Gibbs sighed. "Ducky, Jen" "He's gonna take a closer look on your knees and elbow" Before she could answer he dragged her in to the elevator with him.
Autopsy
Ducky was examinating Jenny as she sat down on the table glaring at Jethro for disturbing Ducky's time for something so little.
"You should be fine my dear, I'll give you something for that later" He said.
"I told you Jethro, I was fine" She snorts at him, Jethro rolled his eyes. "I'm sorry Ducky for wasting your time" She apologized to the good doctor.
"It's quite alright my dear, I must agree with Jethro. It's better to seek a second opinion, I mean what if you suffered a concussion from what happened and you never knew because you didn't come to me" Jenny narrowed her eyes at both of them.
"You gotta be kidding me"
"You see, someone agrees with me, so that makes me right" Jethro laughs, and Ducky shook his head at the two of them.
Gibbs' phone rang. "Yea Gibbs!" Ducky and Jen noticed the expression on Jethro's face.
"What is it Jethro?" Ducky asks.
"The interrogation is about to start" He answers and looked at Jenny who was looking down.
Outside the interrogation room
"Boss are you sure you wanna do this alone? I mean considering your relationship with Jenny, it would probably be a bit emotional for you" Tony stuttered, not wanting his boss pissed at him for pointing that out.
"DiNozzo, I'm an investigator, I don't get emotional!" Gibbs hisses at him.
Behind the glass
The whole team including Abby and Ducky was standing behind the glass watching Patrick, he seemed very calm and confident, like he knows what's gonna happen. When Gibbs opens the door to start the interrogation Jenny walked in joining the team behind the glass, making Tony worry about her.
Jenny was standing there starring at her ex-fiancé smiling and laughing at Gibbs, she was so disgusted with him. She couldn't believe that that was the man she once was in love with. What was she thinking!
"Agent Gibbs! Took you long enough" Patrick smiled at him playfully.
Gibbs glares up at him, ignoring his sarcastic comment. "You think this is funny?"
"Well I don't know, you'll have to ask our woman that. I heard she shares your bed as well" Patrick muses and moved his face a bit closer to him.
Gibbs slammed both of his hands on the table, making Patrick laugh. "Last time I checked no one shared her bed! And you're not allowed to speak of her again!" "I talk, you answer the questions period!" Gibbs barked at him.
Behind the glass everyone was in chock, they've never seen Gibbs this angry and furious before. Ziva was grabbing Tony's elbow for support and he was happily to take it.
Ducky walks over to Jenny. "Jennifer my dear, you should not be watching this" Ducky says softly.
Jenny looked at him with sad eyes. "If I don't, I'll never get peace. He's gonna pay for what he has done to me and my family and I'm gonna be there watching him suffer. Every minute of it." She answers sharply and continued to watch the interrogation. Ducky was not gonna force her anymore, once Jenny Shepard made up her mind, its stays that way till she gets what she wants. And it was determinate that she enjoying seeing her nightmare suffers.
Back in the interrogation room. Gibbs layed out autopsy photos of the Patrick's latest victim.
"Victor Hemning, a Navy captain you murdered. Why?" Gibbs asked him bitterly.
Once again Patrick leaned closer to Gibbs and whispered; "Because he was in my way"
"You think this is a game?"
"Well it's fun isn't?" Then Patrick turned his head to the glass looking at Jenny, as if he knew that she was in there. "Right Jennifer?" Gibbs watched as he was laughing. He grabbed Patrick's head and turned it to face him.
"Get your dirty eyes off of her!" He snaps.
"I'm not talking until I get to see her" He says and pointing at the direction if Jenny.
"Not gonna happen, you're talking to me" Gibbs snaps.
Behind the room, Jenny took a deep breath, she knows that he was not gonna talk unless he gets what he wants, not even Gibbs was god enough to handle him. She made her way out of the room. Everyone turned their heads and their eyes followed her out. They thought that maybe she had it and was heading to her office, but no they were wrong, she slammed the door to the interrogation room.
"Jennifer!" Patrick cheered. Gibbs walked up to her.
"Jen get out!" he ordered her.
"You don't give me orders special agent Gibbs; I'm still your boss!" She snaps. Gibbs' eyes soften up.
"Jen please, let me handle it" He begged her.
"This is my battle Jethro, I need to end this once and for all" she whispers.
Gibbs angrily slams the door and walked in to the room behind.
"This is wrong for her Jethro, she shouldn't be doing this at all, and everyone can see that this is destroying her inside out" Ducky pointed out.
"What can I do Duck, I can't get to her" Gibbs sighs in protest.
Back in the room. Jenny sat down in front of Patrick.
"How you've been honey?" Gibbs watches as he seduced her with his eyes. It made him wanna go in there and put a bullet between his eyes.
"I'm not yours, you're not mine, let's just leave it at that shall we?" Jenny said firmly, in her director voice.
"Well that's not what it was 20 years ago when you were lying naked in my bed" Jenny gave him a glare of warning.
Gibbs was watching with sickness, he should be in there, not Jen. He shouldn't be watching that man insulting his woman. The others in the room could hear him grinning his teeth.
"We have you for the murder of a Navy Captain along with shooting at a federal agent and an armed federal agency Director. I guess you just lost" Jenny laughed and shakes her head at him, playing with his mind.
"Your mind games don't affect me Jennifer" He shakes his head and looked at her with the eyes of a devil. "I thought I told you to get rid of Gibbs, and by the look on you and his face, I guess you didn't" "And you know full well what happened the last time you didn't obey me, you do remember don't you?" He muses himself. Jenny swallowed hard at his point.
Gibbs and the others looked confused, especially Gibbs. 'What the hell was he talking about? Another thing Jen's been keeping away from me?' Questions were running around everyone's heads and the only one who could answer those is sitting in the room next to them.
"You don't own me anymore, you can't do anything. Last time I checked you're the one whose sitting handcuffed!" Jenny spat.
As her answer he laughed at her comment. "Then why can I feel you tension huh?" He pointed out, and she knew right away what he meant by it. The kiss, the night he broke in to her house. She knew he was talking about that night for sure.
"Oh how I missed kissing you like that night at you house a couple of days ago" he says seductively, and she felt like she couldn't breathe. She was as nauseous as you could be.
Gibbs felt his heart was stabbed several times. He has been in her house! He kissed her against her will! He was dead. Gibbs was determinate of that fact.
Patrick knew Gibbs would be watching, so he looked away from Jenny and straight to where Gibbs was at. "Did you know that agent Gibbs, I was in her bedroom in the middle of the night, tying her up, kissing her passionately in her bed" He laughed. "And on top off that I was doing all the work while she was lying there helplessly" He laughed even higher. Jenny felt her tears streaming down. Then suddenly Patrick stood up, he's hands free from the handcuffs, looking at Jenny who was in shock.
Gibbs was gonna kill that bastard. Gibbs, Tony, Ziva and McGee ran to the interrogation door, when they were gonna open it, it was locked.
"How the hell is this door locked?! Who locked it?!" Gibbs screamed at each one of his agents. "McGee call all units in here, the director is in danger. Now!" He growled. "Someone get me something to unlock the door with!" Gibbs was frustrated. Jen was in danger and he wasn't there with her, to protect her like he promised her he would.
Jenny stepped away from Patrick but he grapped her by her elbow. She struggled, hard.
"Jethro!" She screamed for him and he could hear her. He was trying to break in but it was impossible. The door was of metal.
"Jen!" He screamed back at her.
"Jethro help me! Please!" She continued to scream, crying.
Patrick laughed. "I love it when you scream. But I prefer when you screamed my name not his" His lips was inches from her and she felt disgust by his closeness and his touch. She slapped him and punched him several times, but no matter how many times she hit him, he could always take it.
Outside, Gibbs and a bunch of agents were trying to break in the door. Abby and Ducky watched them helplessly trying. Then McGee came back with a savior.
"Boss I got a key card!" Gibbs snapped it out of his hands. The door opened and he saw Patrick all over Jen, she was struggling. He tossed Patrick across the room, the agents were all over Patrick, handcuffed him once again. Five agents escorting him out.
Gibbs ran to Jen, taking her in his embrace. "Jen!" "It's okay, I'm here now, and I'm not leaving you alone with him again" Ducky came in and took a look at her.
"Jethro she's in shock, she's embarrassed, and she needs the rest" Ducky said.
"I'll take her to my place"
Once Jenny calmed down, they walked out of the interrogation room, seeing that Patrick was kneeling with five agents around him, Jenny felt scared. Patrick stood up, laughing. The agents were holding him tightly. But as scared as she was, Jenny would once again face her fear. She walked over to him, Gibbs tried to grab her arm, but she was out of reach.
She stood there, grinning her teeth at him, looking at him bitterly with her eyes. Then he leaned forward and kissed her. Jenny was taken it by surprise. Gibbs was about to punch that guy in the face when he suddenly stopped. Not only did he see Patrick kissing her, but she was also kissing him. She responded to his kiss. Gibbs was about to run off. He looked away, not wanting to see how intimidate they were.
The two broke away from the kiss, even though Jenny hated him, but he was once the man she loved. She had feelings for him, and that's something that's gonna be hard to let go. The man she thought was the love of her life turns out to be the worst nightmare she'd ever had.
"I hope you rot in hell!" She spat at him in disgust and walked away. Patrick laughed. Gibbs stood at his place.
He took one look at Gibbs. "Jealous much agent Jethro?" He snorts. Gibbs walked up to him and gave him one mean right hook, making his lips split up, then he walked away and the team followed him.
Gibbs' House
On their way to the house Jenny and Jethro haven't said one word to each other. Jenny didn't want to talk about it, it was too emotional. And for Gibbs, he wanted to ask her so many questions and the main question was why she kissed him. He didn't really wanted to know why, but he needed to know why she did it.
Inside the house they were eating takeout food together. None of them had the apatite; both were playing with their food with the fork. Jenny sighs at Gibbs for not saying anything to her.
"Are you just gonna ignore me tonight Jethro?" She glares at him.
"No it was not the plan" He bitterly answers. "My plan was to make you feel safe with me tonight, make you feel needed of me, comforting you after what you've been through, that was my plan!" He raised his voice.
"So why aren't you?"
"Thought I should give that chance to him" He spat at her. Jenny couldn't believe what she just heard from his lips. The man who was supposed to make her safe and comforting her just made her sick. Right now she almost wished she was in the same room as Patrick.
She stood up, slapped him across the face.
"You, you egoistic bastard!" "After all I've been through tonight; all you can say to me is giving him the chance to touch me again!" "You're not any different from him"
Jethro was pissed for that comment. He stood up facing her. "Then answer me this Jen. Why did you kiss him?!" He says in disrelief.
There it came, the answer to his question last night; 'Why she looked at him specifically when she said those words'. It was simple. Never once had he said those three words to her.
"Why Jen? Can you answer me that much?" He asked her again.
Jenny rubbed her forehead. "Because he was the only man that ever loved me" She whispers to him, but he could hear her loud and clear.
Jethro felt his heart sunk. Where the hell did she get that from? He loved her, more than anyone. She was the one that picked him up from Shannon. He loved her then and still loves her till this day and will always love her.
"Was this your answer when I asked you that question the other night?" She nodded.
"I loved you Jen! How could you not know that?"
"How was I supposed to know when you never said anything to me when we were together" She groans in frustration.
"I showed you didn't I? What more do you want me to do?!" His voice was almost scary loud.
"I want you to say it to me Jethro! Having sex is not the same as love, having sex does not mean you love me!" She hisses making him even more furious. "Not once, did you say it to me, never" "And Patrick was the only one who said it and meant it, I felt loved and I felt someone needed me!" She cried, tears running down once again.
"That's why you kissed him?" She nodded in tears. "Wow Jen, I didn't know you could sink so low" With that said he walked away, out of the door. Jenny was left alone in his kitchen, sinking down to the floor crying, her hands covering her mouth. Her life was a big god damn mess! And she wasn't sure how she was gonna get out of it. The man she loved more than anything else just walked out on her, leaving her broken once again.
And there you go the end of chapter 7! Kinda emotional but hope you like it anyway. Thank you for all the reviews, it was great to read them, keep them coming!
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/Julia