Alright here is the final chapter. Chapter 4. This story has had a nice little run for a story I wrote the first chapter of on a whim after the episode. By the way you have been warned that this chapter is Jibbs centric. There are plenty of mentions of Tiva but the Paris in the episode deserved a Jibbs focused chapter.

Disclaimer: If it was do you think Jenny would be gone?

Spoiler: Twilight, Judgment Day, Season four, Season three…Everything is fair game

Gibbs waited until his two agents were out of his basement and he heard upstairs door close behind them. Then he began to sand his boat again. It was slow methodical word and left his brain a little too much time to contemplate what had just happened.

He felt a little like two of his children had grown up to where they did not need him anymore. He had thought of the team as children for several years. Kate, like Kelly, had been killed. Abby and McGee were growing everyday and now Tony and Ziva were all grown up.

Tony had changed over the past few years. He had changed a lot. The years he spent with Kate he had been juvenile and disregarding of personal space. Then Kate had died and he had become just a little bit more serious. During the first year Ziva was there he was still light and joking about many things. The second year, he was involved with the frog's daughter, and that had made him more caring and considerate in the end, but he had not been there to see the hurt look in Ziva's eyes every time he was with Jeanne. Within that year was also Paula's death, which affected Tony in the same way Kate's had. The following year was not bad. Not until the end. Not until Jenny's death.

Gibbs shook his head. He was not going to think about that right now. Then after that there was the summer apart and that had been hard on all of them. The following year had been better. The team continued to grow closer to each other. The beginning of the end for those happy months was the trip to LA not because of what happened their but because of what happened on the home front with Ziva and Rivkin. Then there had been the summer. The summer had changed Tony more than anything Gibbs had seen. Tony was willing to risk his life and his job to save Ziva. He was willing to give everything for her. In the past year Tony and the team had had their ups and downs but through it all Tony was strong and very protective of Ziva.

Ziva. She had changed too. She had come five years ago as an assassin. The years had changed her and softened her. Well not softened her quiet as much as they had shown her that it is okay to be human. During the year Tony was with Jeanne she tried to hide the hurt and did a pretty good job of it but Gibbs had seen in her eye just how much Tony had hurt her. Then Ziva had been hurt in the whole serial killer fiasco. That followed by Jenny's death.

Gibbs shook his head again. He would get there just not quiet yet. The summer apart had gotten Ziva blown up. Then getting them back together had showed just how much NCIS had changed her because when she left she finally admitted to herself that it had so she let others see it. That year had for her also been good until the very end. Rivkin and Tony had hit her deep and so she left to sort it out and found herself in more trouble than she could get out of on her own. She had thought she would die there, but she did not because of Tony. That year back had been good and she had her ups and downs with the rest of them but she had come out on top.

What Tony had said was true. They had loved each other for a long time. There love had grown with them and Gibbs was sure that it and they could survive the years. He had held out for a long time because they needed to find their own way in the world. Now he knew that they had proved it to themselves as well as him. The other reason was beautiful, redheaded, and gone forever. Jenny.

Jenny was the reason that he had never wanted there to be romance between agents. Jenny had said she loved him. Jenny had left him. Jenny had come to work beside him. Jenny had tried to make amends. Jenny had died before he could get rid of his pride at tell her that he still loved her. Jenny was one of two women for whom his love had never ended and never would.

He loved her. It had undermined the Paris mission, and in the end it had cost Jenny her life. Ducky told him that she was dieing but that did not make a difference in Gibbs eyes. All he could see was that his actions had gotten her killed. He did not want his agents to get hurt like he had been or die as Jenny had.

Gibbs remembered with as sharply as it was yesterday the moment he found out that Jenny was lost to him forever.

FLASHBACK—May 20th 2008

Gibbs listened as Jenny's phone rang. Finally on the next to last ring someone picked up, but no one answered. Now he was a little worried. "Jenny, Jenny, Are you there?" he asked needing her to answer.

"Boss," Tony's voice answered. It sounded hallow.

"DiNozzo, Why do you have the directors phone?" Gibbs asked now really worried.

"I…she…" Tony s voice faltered, "She's gone Gibbs."

Gibbs felt his chest constrict. "Meaning you don't know where she is," he hoped.

"No," Tony said sadly, "Meaning that she is dead."

"Alright DiNozzo," Gibbs said keeping his voice calm for his agent's sake, "Stay where you are. I'm flying out there."

"Okay Boss," Tony said before hanging up.

Gibbs heard the line go dead, but he did not move. He would not believe that Jenny was gone forever. She could not be dead. He still needed her.

END FLASHBACK

Gibbs sighed. He had not been there to protect Shannon and he had not been there to protect Jenny. He had failed both of them, but somehow he knew that Tony would not fail Ziva. Actually, this past summer Tony had proved that he would go to any lengths to protect Ziva.

He had loved Jenny when they were together. He had loved Jenny for the six years they were apart. He had loved her when the worked together. He still loved her. He always would.

And that was, in the end, the reason that he gave Tony and Ziva his blessing. He knew first had that even if you pretended that you stopped loving someone that you could never really do it if you had really done it.

So in the end the reason for him giving for permission and the reason for him making rule twelve was one in the same. It was because technically Paris had ended but in reality it never would. True love is forever…

So how did you like it? I liked the ending. Please Review (it is my birthday think of it as giving me a really cool present). Thank you to all of those who read this story.

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Paris Never Ended!