Playing House

Jethro had gone out for coffee that afternoon leaving Jenny, Ziva and Jaylyn to themselves in the squad room. He had this nagging feeling in his gut that said that it may not have necessarily been the wisest move to make when he chose to leave his wife, sister-in-law and their best friend alone together since he knew full well what happens when the three of them got together. The minute Jethro stepped into the elevator and the doors closed the women had their own campfire over lunch.

Jenny figured with Jethro out of the office temporarily that now would be as good as ever to share some stories from her days of doing ops with Jethro over in Europe. There had been so many intimate moments between the two of them from their night in the attic in Marseilles to their time in the Serbian farmhouse. Most of the stories were a bit on the racy side. Jenny knew that Jaylyn knew most of the stories from those days already, but it was also a rare occasion that she got any time away from Jethro.

"So where did you and Gibbs get married the first time around, Director?" Ziva asked.

"Ziva, please call me Jenny; I'm not up in my office and we've been friends for years now."

"Stop giving her a hard time, Jen and just tell her where the wedding was." Jaylyn said.

Jenny gave her sister her version of Jethro's stare.

"We got married in Paris a few feet away from the Eiffel Tower three months into the Marseilles op."

"But that was only a few weeks into your op, why rush into marriage so soon?"

"Rush into what so soon?" Abby asked as she came into the squad room.

"I'll give you guys a hint; they're seventeen and one of them looks like her." Jaylyn said.

"J!" Jenny reprimanded.

"Get over it. They aren't going to judge, Jen. It's not like your telling dad that you conceived his granddaughters while fooling around with your boss, it's just Ziva and Abby."

"Dad is dead remember. Besides being three months pregnant at my wedding wasn't exactly one of my finer moments."

"So what night did you guys conceive the girls?" Abby asked prying in attempt to find out when she had to have birthday presents for the Gibbs girls.

"That was subtle, Abs."

"They were conceived our second night in Positano."

The conversation continued on and Jenny told them that she had the girls in Marseilles six months later.

"Nice, those girls get an Italian conception and a Parisian birthday." Abby said.

After that Jethro came back, set the coffee he got for Jenny on the desk she was sitting at and handed Abby her Caf-Pow. Abby returned to her lab as Jaylyn and Ziva went to the lounge.

"So what were you ladies talking about while I was gone?"

"Us and the girls."

"That explains Abby's Italian conception, Parisian birthday comment."

"Clearly you overheard us. What are you going to do about it, Jethro?" Jenny asked as she sauntered over to Jethro's desk to sit on his lap knowing full well that he would let her get away with murder on her birthday.

"I was thinking of doing this, Mrs. Gibbs." Jethro answered as he kissed her.

The kiss quickly turned into a make out session right there in the squad room for the entire agency to gawk over.

Jenny's iPhone then rang interrupting her and Jethro.

"Yes Cynthia." Jenny managed to get out after Jethro took her breath away with their prior activity.

Cynthia told Jenny what she needed to.

"Alright, call security back and tell them to escort her up in twenty minutes. There's something I have to finish here before she comes up, and Agents Shepard and David have yet to return from the lounge." Jenny said as she ended the call with Cynthia.

"Who is waiting downstairs with security?" Jethro questioned.

"You'll see soon enough. Now I believe we were right about here." Jenny replied as she went in for another kiss to keep Jethro from further asking questions.

Twenty minutes later Jenny and Jethro were still at it. Security had to clear his throat just to make his and the visitor's presence known to Jenny and Jethro. Jenny of course instantly turned five shades of pink after she realized what was going on.

"Director Gibbs, I'm Dr. Rachel Cranston. I'm here for the psych evals, SECNAV requested." Rachel introduced herself.

"Actually it's Director Shepard – Gibbs." Jethro corrected the Doctor once Jenny went to shake the Doctor's hand.

"Don't mind him." Jenny said as elbowed Jethro in the stomach.

"I didn't mean to interrupt what you two were doing."

"It's not a problem, we were finished anyway. Agent Gibbs has to go pick up two of his agents at Dulles."

"I take it that you two are married then."

"Yes we are, seventeen years."

Jethro gave Jenny a look that said all he wanted to say but didn't verbalize with the Doctor being present at the moment. As Jethro left again, Jenny and Rachel went up to Jenny's office for a private conversation while Ziva and Jaylyn returned to the squad room.

"Great, Jethro doesn't look pleased." Jaylyn said.

"Guess it has something to with the woman with the Director."

"That's what it is, mandatory psych evals. Jen had to say yes or risk SECNAV not letting her and Jethro have time off for the renewal and their honeymoon."

"Speaking of which did she ever choose who was escorting her down the aisle?"

"No, she's still undecided."

"Who walked her down the first time?"

"A mutual friend of theirs."

"Who J?"

"Director Morrow."

"Why Director Morrow?"

"Jackson was unable to leave the store to fly over to France with us and Ducky was tied up with a body that was shipped to him via CGIS."

"So that's why she is wanting to have the renewal over there, she wants Jack and Ducky to be there."

"Exactly, if only she'd choose then this renewal would be somewhat set to go in the few weeks that are left."

"Somewhat set?" Ziva questioned.

"They are telling the girls tonight after they get home from work and the birthday dinner Jack told Jenny to make Jethro take her too."

"Now I know where Gibbs gets his sneakiness from."

Meanwhile upstairs the conversation between Jenny and Dr. Cranston progressed.

"Director, SECNAV is concerned that your MCRT team isn't fit to be operating out in the field at this time due to all the cancelled psych evals."

"Things have come up that have prevented them from taking them over the years." Jenny said as she thought back to the various events that prohibited the evaluations to be taken care of.

The birth of her and Jethro's daughters amongst the minor detail of Jethro losing Kate a decade after the girls were born after losing a friend when Pacci was murdered and Cassidy and all the other agents that have been lost along with Mike slowly succumbing to his lung cancer was something that hit home for Jenny, Jethro and the team. It was something that no outsider, even a licensed psychologist like Dr. Cranston could even begin to understand.

"I understand that you are protective of them, but it isn't good to keep things bottled up inside; Director." Rachel said in attempt to try and get Jenny to change her mind.

"We're creatures of habit, Doctor; myself, my husband and his team. It comes with the job." Jenny responded knowing full that the good doctor would understand since Jenny had realized the particular connection between the Doctor sitting before her and her agency.

"That is understandable. Who do I start with?"

"Whomever you'd like." Jenny said as she got up from her desk to walk with Rachel back down to the squad room knowing that Jethro, Tony and McGee would be back from Dulles by now.

Before they left Jenny's office, Jenny took a moment to have a private word with Rachel.

"Kate would be pleased that you are reaching out, Doctor. She was one the agents NCIS has ever had. Wish that I had the opportunity to work with her, my husband spoke highly of her and still does to this day."

"Thank-you, Ma'am." Rachel said as the left Jenny's office and returned to squad room.