A few days later Jenny had decided that she was going to have lunch with her mother-in-law and she knew that Jethro wouldn’t approve nor would he want Jenny to have any sort of contact with his mother. But Jenny always did what she wanted. Jethro was just gonna have to learn to deal. With her parents being both dead and the fact that she already had a good relationship with Jack; Jenny wanted to have a good relationship with Ann. So with Jaylyn and Ziva both in tow; the trio met Ann outside of Red Robin.
“Jenny, it’s good to see you again.” Ann said.
“Hi Ann, it’s good to see you too.”
“Who did you bring with you?”
“This is my sister; Jaylyn and our friend Ziva. They are agents on Jethro’s team at the agency.”
“NCIS?”
“Yes, NCIS; I’m his boss.”
“He must like that.”
“Sometimes he does.” Jenny said.
“Other times he hates it.” Jaylyn said finishing Jenny’s sentence as the hostess seated the quartet.
“How far along are you?” Ann asked Jaylyn.
“9 months. I’m due any day now, just waiting for my daughters to decide when they want to come out.”
“I bet you and your husband can’t wait. I know I couldn’t wait for Jethro.”
Jenny and Ziva looked at each other knowing that they both couldn’t wait for their respective children to make their debuts when they were each pregnant.
“My boyfriend and I can’t wait. My daughters’ bio dad and their brothers died. I was pregnant with quints but I partially miscarried.
Seeing that the subject matter was a touchy subject, Ann switched gears.
“Do you have any children, Ziva?” Ann inquired as their waiter brought their drinks and took their food orders.
“I have a daughter and a son by my…”
“One of the other agents on Jethro’s team is the father of Ziva’s children.” Jenny said coming to Ziva’s aide.
“How old are they?”
“My daughter just turned twelve and my son will be seven in a month.”
Lunch progressed. Back at the house Jethro had gone upstairs and knocked on Emiliana’s bedroom door.
“Hey Em; have you seen your mom? I can’t find her anywhere.”
“She said that she, Aunt J and Ziva were meeting Grandma at Red Robin’s for lunch.”
“She did what?” Jethro questioned as he stormed away.
“This isn’t going to be good.” Emiliana said to herself.
Jethro called Jenny’s cell phone. She of course ignored the call. He then tried Ziva’s phone and didn’t get through. Then in one last attempt, Jethro tried Jaylyn who answered.
“Put her on.”
“Put who on, Jethro? Jen isn’t with me. I thought she was with you.” Jaylyn said in attempts at buying her sister some time.
“Jaylyn; stop lying and put my wife on the damn phone now.” Jethro said starting to get pissed.
“I tried.” Jaylyn said as she handed her phone over to her sister.
Without talking to Jethro at all after she got Jaylyn’s phone; Jenny ended the call and handed the phone back to Jaylyn.
Jaylyn and Ziva smiled at Jenny’s defiance while Ann was completely stunned.
“I can’t believe you did.”
“You shouldn’t he does that to everyone. Besides he can’t tell me who I can and cannot have lunch with. He’s not my father; Ann, he’s my husband and he has to deal.”
“He’s just as stubborn as his father.”
“Jethro is worse Ann, believe me.” Jaylyn said.
Lunch progressed and eventually the quartet parted ways. As Jenny, Jaylyn and Ziva walked to the car a thought came to Jaylyn.
“I think Dr. Freud would have a field day with the fact that Jethro has a thing for redheads and his mom is a redhead.”
“Yeah Gibbs, definitely took a page out of Jack’s play book.” Ziva said.
“So did McGee.” Jaylyn said referring to McGee’s mishap with Amanda Barrow from eight years ago.
The trio got into the car, shortly after that Jenny was heading home after she dropped Ziva and Jaylyn off at their respective homes. Of course when Ziva was dropped off Jenny had been mauled with hugs from Madalyn and Asher. Tony and Ziva had to pry their kids off of Jenny so that Jenny could leave.
Once she arrived at the house Jenny could tell that she was about to walk into the lion’s den. On some level she didn’t care how pissed off Jethro was with her, she could handle him being pissed at her. Kelly was reading her apartment when Jenny got home and the girls were still packing their things for Drexel.
The minute that Jenny walked into the house; world war three broke out. Kelly and the girls heard Jenny and Jethro arguing from their respective rooms. Noemi steered clear as much as she could.
Midway through Jenny and Jethro’s fight Delilah, Arabella, Emiliana and Madison had decided to take refuge in Kelly’s apartment since it was the furthest away from the war zone. Emiliana had Jaylyn on the phone as she walked into Kelly’s apartment with her sisters.
“They’re fighting again.” Emiliana said to her aunt.
“They should know that all this arguing isn’t good for them or for me.”
The fighting continued on for a while until the quintet heard Jenny’s study door slam shut followed by the basement door being slammed shut.
It was clear that things were going to be a bit on the icy side for the next few days at the Gibbs household.
This was one of those times where Jenny and Jethro would both being going to bed angry with each other. Jenny would take their bedroom thus making Jethro sleep on the settee in the living room. He’d also was forced to take a cold shower before he settled down for the night since there was no way in hell that he was going to get anything from Jenny after the fight they just had.
Before the quintet had gone to bed they had secretly gotten a hold of Jack and Ann via phone calls so that they could mend the discord between their parents.
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