He didn’t even have any idea who as at Portsmouth with the girls. Leroy Jethro Gibbs was starting to go crazy and that was never a good thing. Jenny and Jethro had learned that Jackson had gone back home to Stillwater just after they had landed in France. Franks, Leyla and Amira took a red-eye flight back to Baja just before the incidents happened. The girls were staying at home with the team taking turns staying with them. The question that kept coming to Jethro’s mind was who from the team was with them when whichever daughter was injured.
Part of Jethro felt the same way he had felt back in 1991 when he got the news of Shannon and Kelly’s murders. Completely and utterly helpless. This was a feeling that Jethro didn’t like at all. It wasn’t long before Jethro was at Portsmouth. Ziva and Jaylyn were waiting for Jethro at the elevator.
“How’s Jen?” Jaylyn asked clearly she was just as worried about her big sis as Jethro was worried about his wife.
“Which daughter of mine was admitted? What was she admitted for? Who’s with her? How is she? Who’s with my other girls?” Jethro said.
“Gibbs.”
“Agent David, Agent Shepard; tell me what I need to know before I lose what little sanity I have left.” Jethro said as they made their way to the hospital room where everyone had congregated at.
“Leroy Jethro Gibbs, you are going to tell what the hell is going on with my sister or I’ll keelhaul your ass so far back you’ll be feeling it for the rest of your life!!!!!!”
“Jen was shot twice by a French cop as we drove to Paris from Marseilles. He got her once in the side and once in the leg. I assume he used a silencer since neither Jen or I heard a gun go off. Ducky is taking care of her with Palmer’s help in Autopsy. Now answer my questions.”
“Emiliana was the one who was admitted. I brought her in when she landed the wrong way on her ankle when she was trying to land a front layout with a triple twist, piked double Arabian with a full twist, triple twist during her floor routine at her gymnastics competition today.” Ziva said.
“Abby is with Lila, Aria and Maddy in the waiting room. Lena is fine; the way she landed on her ankle caused her to break her leg from the ankle to the knee. She keeps asking for you and Jen even if one of us in there with her. It seems like she is more worried about Jen than she is about herself, Jethro.”
“Go take a break you two. I’ll take it from here.”
“I’m not leaving my niece.”
“Drop the stubbornness and let me have a moment with my daughter.”
Jethro walked into Emiliana’s room.
“How’s Mom?”
“She’s fine. Ducky and Palmer are taking care of her.”
“Where is she?”
“I’m right here.” Jenny said as she stood in the doorway of Emiliana’s hospital room.
“Should you be here?”
“Nothing is going to keep from my daughter’s side, Jethro. Not even a few stitches and a broken leg.”
“Looks like the both of you will be in casts and on crutches for awhile.”
“Yeah, looks like you will be waiting on me hand and foot.”
“Wouldn’t be the first time and it won’t be the last.”
“Don’t act like you don’t enjoy it Jethro.”
At this point; Madison, Delilah and Arabella were standing in the doorway of their sister’s room. Emiliana had propped herself up a bit as she and her sisters listened to their parents’ banter on and on.
“Get a room you two.” the girls said together.
“Who’s the attending?” Jen asked Jethro as she made her way over to Emiliana’s bed.
“Your ex. Apparently he’s switched fields from neurology to this field.”
Jenny gave Jethro her version of his stare. At that point; Arabella and her sisters took the cue to leave.
“I’ll go get us some coffee.” Jethro said taking the hint from his wife.
“Tell J to take the girls home and tell the rest of your team to go home as well.”
“Your sister is going to refuse to go and so will the girls.”
“Well then that’s your problem, Jethro. I am staying here with our daughter and I am not moving until they release her.”
Jethro knew that he wasn’t going to win this one. When it came to motherhood; whether it was their girls or their NCIS brood of misfits, Jethro knew that Jenny would be hard to persuade to do anything else.
Once Jethro left his wife and daughter to take on the task of retrieving coffee as well as the task Jenny set before him, Jenny ditched her crutches and sat down next to Emiliana on the bed. Emiliana rested her head on her mother’s shoulder and fell asleep as Jenny stroke Emiliana’s head.
“We’re two peas in a pod, Lena as usual.” Jenny whispered.
Just as Jenny was about to fall asleep, her and Emiliana had a visitor.
“Jenny; didn’t expect to see you here.” Todd Gelfand said.
“I wouldn’t be anywhere else but here, Todd.” Jenny responded.
Gelfand could clearly see the somewhat striking resemblance between Emiliana and Jenny.
“So how do you know this young patient of mine?”
“She’s my daughter, one of them at least. I believe you met the other three when they brought her in with their aunt and my agents.”
“If you don’t mind me asking, who’s the lucky guy to have you as his wife and have four lovely daughters?”
“My husband was one of your patients as well from ten years ago.” Jenny said in attempts of being subtle.
At this point Jethro was back from his coffee place and was listening at the door to the conversation Jenny and Dr. Capt. Gelfand were having.
“Agent Gibbs is your husband?” Todd questioned.
“Yes, Jethro is my husband. He has been for seventeen years.”
“But we.”
“You and I were nothing more than a way to distract the media as well as all the DC power players from suspecting Jethro and I were married.”
“And what was Gibbs’ then flame then?”
“Hollis was a pawn in our plan to silence DiNozzo ongoing suspicions of Jethro and I.”
“So you’re wife # 3 then?”
“I’m #4 actually. Jethro was married three times before he and I got married.”
Jethro could tell that this conversation was basically over and ducked into another room before the Doctor Captain left the room.
“Anyway when your daughter wakes up, please have the nurses notify me. I have to run a quick check up on your daughter before we release her.”
“Will do.”
“It was good seeing you again Jenny, despite the circumstances.” Todd said as he walked out of the room.
Jenny nodded.
Once Jenny and Emiliana had the room to themselves again, Jenny laid her head upon her daughters and drifted off to sleep. The flight back from France coupled with being worked on by Ducky had worn Jenny out. Not even the aroma of the coffee Jethro had brought her would wake Jenny up from her slumber.
Jethro walked into the room and paused just after the threshold. The sight of seeing his wife and daughter sleeping was something that left him absolutely speechless, especially when Emiliana was Jenny’s double.
After a minute or so; Jethro walked into his daughter’s room completely, set the coffees down on the countertop across the room from where his wife and daughter lay. Just as he was about to settle into the armchair that was a few feet away from the bed a nurse came into the room with a fold out bed.
“For you and your wife, sir.”
“Thank-you.”
The nurse left and Jethro went to bed. He knew at one point during the night Jenny would join him.
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