And so we have come to the end of the story. I wanted to thank everyone for sticking with me, throughout my random postings, no matter how hard you try to stick to a writing schedule, it never seems to work out the way you want it to. Something always seems to pop up and get in the way.

Epilogue

*May 1987 - 28 Years Earlier*

Leroy Jethro Gibbs strolled into work one Monday morning. The sun was shining, the birds were singing, and Gibbs had a coffee in hand. It had the beginnings of a perfect day.

"Morning Gibbs." Came the call of his two team mates Stan Burley and Will Decker. Although Gibbs wouldn't admit it out loud, he was rather fond of his team mates. He may seem cold and calculated to them on many occasions, but in reality he would be lost without them, and they knew it.

"Morning Probie" came the call of his team leader, and one of his closest friends, Mike Franks. Mike had been there for Gibbs after the loss of his first wife Shannon, and their 8 year old daughter Kelly, and subsequently the man had been by his side through his next two marriages, and subsequent 2 divorces. Along with Gibbs's lifelong friend and NCIS's resident ME Donald *Ducky* Mallard.

"Where's our coffee then?" Burley moaned. He was known as the joker of the pack. While Decker had a more serious approach to life, Stan's philosophy was simply 'you only get one life, enjoy it!' And he certainly lived up to his motto.

"At the coffee shop." Gibbs retorted as he sat down at his desk. He heard Will laugh quietly, and knew that Mike would have a small and almost unnoticeable smile on his face.

The team had finished their case by lunch, and so Will and Stan decided to leave the building to get some food. They promised Mike and Gibbs they would bring something back for the two them, but Gibbs wasn't paying attention. He had recently expressed an interest to Mike about the possibility of doing some undercover work for the agency. Mike hadn't made any promises, but he had mentioned it to the Director Tom Morrow, who said he would look into any possibilities.

"Hey Probie." Mike said. Gibbs looked up from his paperwork.

"Yeah?"

"Why you wanna do undercover work anyway?" Gibbs sighed, and ran a hand through his short styled marine cut hairstyle.

"I wanna try something new." He admitted. It wasn't that NCIS was boring him, it was just he was itching to get out of sitting behind a desk all day, and the idea of little paperwork wasn't exactly a downside. When he was in the marines, Gibbs loved the idea of travelling to different places, and meeting different kinds of people. When he and Shannon had got married, the idea of running around all over the world seemed to dwindle, and when Kelly was born, Gibbs wanted nothing more than to finish his tour, and come home to two most important people in his world.

Mike simply grunted and turned his head back to his paperwork. Gibbs chuckled, if there was anyone who hated paperwork more than Gibbs did, it was Mike Franks. The man lived and breathed for the day that the paperwork system at NCIS was abolished, completely.

"Gibbs." Came a call from above them. He turned his head to see Tom Morrow standing on the balcony above the Bull-Pen. He made a motion with his finger for Gibbs to meet him in his office, and about 3 minutes later, that was where Gibbs stood. Tom passed him a file.

"Your new assignment." He said when Gibbs looked confused. "You said you wanted undercover work, here you go. An opportunity has come up in Paris, France. Yourself, Dr Mallard and another agent will be leaving for Paris end of next week. Don't worry about anything you have going on here, I'll deal with that." Gibbs was speechless. He hadn't expected his request to be filled that quickly.

"This other agent?" He started to ask, but Tom stopped him.

"She's already met Dr Mallard, I'm sure he can fill you in." He smirked.

And so a week later Gibbs was back sitting in Tom's office, awaiting his new partner. Gibbs had asked Ducky was he thought of her, Ducky simply told him that he thought she was a head-strong and confident woman, who at the same time was eager to learn and expand on her knowledge. Gibbs was in two minds about meeting his new partner. On the one hand, she seemed very new and inexperienced, almost as if she would play by the book, and the book only. But on the other hand, Ducky's description made her seem as if she'd done this before, and could handle herself in a male dominated career.

He glanced at the clock. It read 11:56. Tom had told him she would be arriving at NCIS at 12 noon. Gibbs swore the clock was going slower than it normally did. Tom simply smiled when he saw Gibbs looking at the clock for about the 300th time that morning. He was just about to come out with a comment about clock-watching, when there came a sharp and professional knock at the door.

"Come in." Tom called out and the door opened.

Gibbs held his breath as a tall, leggy, and confident young woman walked into the room. Her face was covered in simple and minimalistic make-up, which highlighted the natural contours and beauty of her face. She was wearing smart dark grey suit trousers and light pink blouse, covered by the jacket that matched her trousers. She had an NCIS ID badge clipped to the lapel of jacket, and a small black bag over her shoulder. Her natural crimson red hair was pulled into a tight professional looking ponytail, and in each of her ears was a small single gold earring.

Gibbs let out the breath he hadn't realised he had been holding in. She was drop dead gorgeous. She turned to look at him, and then noticed her piercing green eyes.

"Jethro, I'd like you to meet your new partner. This is Jennifer Shepard, Jennifer this is Jethro Gibbs. I hope you two will be ok working together." Gibbs stood up and held out a hand to the red-headed beauty.

"I think we'll get along just fine, don't you Agent Gibbs." She said with a smile, taking his hand. Gibbs noticed her smile.

"I think so too. It's a pleasure to meet you, Jenny."

And voila! I want to thank everyone who has stood by this story and followed it to the end. You guys are really great and it's nice to know that people are still reading my work. I can't believe it has taken me nearly 3 years to finish this story. To stick with me for this long, you guy are really awesome. A big thank you to all those who have followed this story, who have reviewed this story, who have favorited this story over the last 3 years. I hope I have done Jenny and Gibbs's relationship proud and I hope you guys, the NCIS fandom, have enjoyed my writing.

Thank you again, and I do have some more NCIS based stories in the works. I currently am nearly finished rough drafting a secret NCIS story which I have been planning and writing for nearly a year now, and after that I do have an NCIS/Harry Potter Crossover story planned (it will be my very first crossover, so bear with me on that one). So hopefully my secret story will be up soon. I want to get a bit more done on 'Finding Magic' before I start the NCIS/Harry Potter Crossover, so that might be a while, but I promise it will come.

So as I always close my chapters, please read and review, it would lovely to get my reviews for this story up to 60 (currently fanfiction tells me I'm at 53). And as ever if you have any questions or just wanna chat about NCIS or any of my other stories, or chat in general, please feel free to message me, I will always try to reply to every message.

Thanks again guys, you really are the best audience I could ask for.

Beth xx