Acceptance

Kelly stood in the doorway of the bedroom that her father and mother once shared decades ago. She found her father sitting in the chair he had sat in when he created rule 51. Kelly saw her dad holding the box that she knew contained pictures of her from her childhood, pictures of Shannon, pictures of her and Shannon together, then there was his rules; every one of them written down. What had drawn Kelly to the doorway of her parents’ old bedroom was that she heard her father talking to someone. Now Kelly was thinking that he was talking to Jenny since it was only the three of them in the house. But when she got to the doorway of the bedroom and noticed that Jenny wasn’t in the room with her father, she knew who he was talking to.
“Wish you were here, Shannon. Wish you could see how our girl turned out.”
A tear slid down Kelly’s face as she continued to listen.
“We miss you; sometimes it’s not the same without you.”
Tears were flowing freely now for both of them. It was rare to see Jethro shed a tear.
“But the one thing that makes it better is that I see so much of you in Kels. She is just like you in so many ways.”
Kelly had heard all she needed to, that and the fact if she stood there in the doorway listening any longer then Jethro would definitely be able tell she was there. So Kelly left for the kitchen. When she got there she found Jenny pouring coffee for Jethro and herself. Jenny had noticed that there was something wrong with Kelly.
“What’s wrong, Kelly?”
“Its nothing really, just listened to my dad talking to my mom.”
“Oh.” Jenny said with a bit of concern in her voice.
“Jen, I just want you to know that I am fine with you being with my dad. I know you aren’t trying to replace my mom. Just please don’t break his heart.”
“I won’t.”
A few minutes later the Gibbs household was empty. Jen and Jethro left to join the rest of us at the office as Kelly went to her job. By the time Jen and Jethro got to the office things were on the chaotic side. Shane and one of her agents Delilah Werth had come over to cause some issues. As usual Shane had been on her rant them being at the short end of the stick when it came to cases.
Once Jen was out of sight in her office and Jethro had gone down to see Ducky, things got interesting. With all of Shane and Delilah’s venting about how we got the major cases was only because of Jen and Jethro’s relationship had pushed me to my breaking point. I was tired of hearing them bitch and bad mouth my sister. They were even bad mouthing Jethro.
What shocked me the most was that Tony, Ziva, Kate and McGee weren’t defending Jethro while he was with Ducky. Little did I know that the reason why my teammates weren’t defending Jethro, let alone why Ziva wasn’t defending Jen just as I was due to the fact that Jethro had told them to ignore Shane and Delilah since they would attempt to bait us with the fact that Jen was playing favorites, which in their opinion benefitted our team.
Everyone knew at NCIS how things worked with Jethro’s team. The entire building knew that we were all loyal to Jethro and that we would do just about anything he asked. They also knew that Ziva and I served two masters; they knew that we weren’t just loyal to Jethro like the others were, but that we were also fiercely loyal to Jen as well.
“That’s enough; you both need to get the hell out of here.” I said.
“Oh look, Shane; Agent Shepard is defending her sister and Agent Gibbs.” Delilah said.
“Back off bitch.”
“We’ll back off, when you and the rest of the team see what Director Shepard is doing and realize that we were better off when Assistant Director Vance was running the agency.” Shane said.
Without thinking or anything I punched Shane square in the jaw. Within a matter of minutes Shane and I were in a full on fight. Delilah had jumped in shortly afterwards. Just as they had eighteen years ago, Tony and McGee stood behind McGee’s desk as they recorded the fight on McGee’s camera phones. Ziva and Kate wanted to break the fight up, but they decided it would be best to stay out of it.
Before I knew it Jethro was pulling me away from Shane and Delilah.
“DiNozzo, McGee; escort Agent Parker and Agent Werth back to their office while Jaylyn and I go see the Director.”
“On it boss.”
When Jen looked up from her computer, she was kind of surprised to see Jethro and me standing before her.
“What happened now?” Jen asked.
“Your sister got into a fight with Agent Parker and Agent Werth.”
“What the hell got into you, Jay?” Jen asked.
“I was obviously pissed, Jen. Shane and Delilah were at it again. Saying that the only reason why they weren’t getting any of the major cases was because the two of you are involved. They wouldn’t stop badmouthing you guys. I wasn’t going to stand for it.”
“You could have showed a bit of decorum.” Jethro said.
“Ha; you are lecturing me on showing decorum, Jethro. That’s a good one.”
Jethro as usual gave me his stare.
“That doesn’t work on me, Jethro. And before either of you say anything else, I wasn’t gonna stand idly by like the others while Shane and Delilah were verbally bashing the two of you.”
As three of us continued to discuss what had happened in the squad room, Tony and McGee had returned to squad room.
“Damn the Shepard women have some fight in them.” Tony said.
McGee rolled his eyes as he sent a text message to Abby to see how she and the twins were doing.
“Drop it Tony.” Kate said.
While everything was being sorted out at the office with the seven of us, the newest NCIS mom was bonding with her infant daughter and son. Abby was still getting use to having Addie and Jake around. She had gotten so use to having them inside of her, so it was hard for her to have them outside of her womb. When Abby noticed the text message from McGee she had told her son and daughter that their dad was checking up on them. About two minutes after Abby texted McGee back McGee had sent Abby the video he and Tony had taken of the fight. In response Abby sent McGee pictures of Addie and Jake, which McGee showed the entire team once he saved them to his Iphone. It was obvious that McGee was proud father; just as Jethro, Tony, Nick and Drew were.