A/N: I have been wanting to do a Jibbs story for ages! I have another Jibbs story on my computer which I may post if there is enough interest in this. I also have a Jibbs story in my head which is screaming to be written down! (As well as another NCIS story.)

Enjoy!

There was one thing that had annoyed Jenny Shepard ever since she became director of NCIS: America Sign Language.

Jenny had been the director for three weeks but her and Jethro were still not speaking. It was awkward. They just edged around each other. Only talking when it was to do with work.

Herself and Gibbs were in Abby's lab, Abby couldn't help but feel the tension that remained between them. She could tell that everything was not as it seemed between the two former partners. What that something was was anyone's guess.

One thing Abby knew was that Gibbs urgently needed to talk to the red-head. They needed to salvage whatever remained of there relationship.

She had been urging Gibbs to talk with Director Jennifer Sheppard ever since her arrival but was being more persistent then ever recently as she begun to get over the death of her close friend. Abby wanted to talk to Gibbs but she couldn't not now, so instead she used their language, American Sign Language.

'Have you talked to her?' Abby signed. She saw Gibbs looking at her hands and was relived to find that he was paying attention.

Gibbs and Abby both looked at Jenny unaware that she was taking in everything that the two friends were doing. Eventually Gibbs signed back to Abby 'No, not yet. There just hasn't been a right time.'

Abby followed Gibbs' every hand motion and answered with a rhetorical question, 'Is there ever a right time?'

Jenny wasn't dumb, she knew they were talking, well more like signing, about her. Just by the fact that they were both looking at her, their eyes boring into her soul. She just wished she knew what they were saying.

She hated that fact that she didn't know what the one Leroy Jethro Gibbs was talking about! It frustrated her, they were talking about her, what were they saying? She didn't know! She was paranoid, not sure if Gibbs hated her. What made her even more paranoid was that they had their own secret language! Only he and Abby understood what they were saying.

One question which upset her, which made her feel close to tears was; does Jethro hate me? She knew he had that right to hate her. She knew she shouldn't have left him in Paris with nothing but a 'Dear John' but it pained her to know how much she had put him through, how much she had hurt him. She didn't want him to hate her but she couldn't blame him if he did.

She was getting so paranoid about what the two people in front of her were exchanging that she couldn't bare to watch. She had to get out of the lab. So she walked out, trying to go undetected but with Leroy Jethro Gibbs one of the people she wanted to slip away from, that was going to be impossible. She was never invisible to him. She was a clear as daylight on a hot July afternoon.

Once she was back in her office Jenny made a decision; she was going to learn American Sign Language.

A/N: Ooooh! What is Jenny going to find out once she learns American Sign Language!... If I was in NCIS I would just secretly know sign language, you could learn anything that way!

More Jibbs to come! If you have read any of my other stories you will know that more reviews mean longer and faster updates (and if you haven't read any, give them a try.). I have a bit of the second chapter written up but I haven't finish it yet. I will update when I get 10ish reviews (unless I get bored)... even more would be nice!)

Lauren :D x

P.S. Sorry it is short but I quite like where it ended.