The Man With Blue Eyes
Author: A'serene
Category: Drama, Family
Rating: PG/P12
Spoiler: Everything is fair game, including Judgment Day and all recent episodes of CSI Miami.
Contents: Gibbs and the team receive a visitor from the sunshine state with shocking news. Meanwhile in sunny Miami, Lt. Horatio Cane is faced with a vision from his past and will soon learn about a woman he thought he knew. Cane/Julia
Disclaimer: I do not own NCIS or CSI Miami, if I did things would be different
Leroy Jethro Gibbs had always been an early riser. He was usually the first one to work, only beaten out by Ziva David, the assassin of his team. Lately it seemed as if he never left, or if he did make it home to sand the boat he was back at NCIS before the sun rose. Naturally the team said nothing but a there were lingering glances of sadness, and Abby hugged him just an inch tighter every time she saw him. On weekends if Gibbs wasn't in his basement he'd be at his desk doing paperwork. The first time it had occurred, it had left Tony DiNozzo speechless. The previous Director of NCIS would have been shocked to have the paperwork turned in on time, Director Leon Vance took it for grant it.
The team had discussed it multiple times but there was nothing they could see as being a possible cure. They'd called for back up in the form of Mike Franks but one shouting match later told them Franks wasn't a welcomed visitor. Ducky had tried to get through time, trying to get the younger man to move on from his grief but he too fell at a dead end. They knew the cause, the death of a loved, and not just any loved but possibly the second and last woman to have ever held the heart of Leroy Jethro Gibbs. Jenny Shepard though was dead and the team wasn't sure they could resurrect the dead.
So when the beautiful blonde strutted her way into NCIS headquarters off the elevator and walked over towards Tony, it took him a minute to place together all the pieces.
"I'm look for Jethro Gibbs," she said rather determinedly and for a moment Tony cursed his Boss.
"Uh Gibbs..." Tony struggled but the woman was a distraction.
"Agent Gibbs is in the lab, McGee call him!" Ziva snapped in the direction of her other team member who was looking rather identical to Tony. McGee snapped out of his daze and picked up the phone.
"So what is a lovely lady like yourself doing looking for Gibbs?" Tony inquired having recovered.
"You must be Tony," she guessed.
"Very special Agent Anthony DiNozzo at your service and you are?"
"Uninterested in staying longer than I have too. I have sunny Miami to get back too."
"And you came here for Gibbs?" Tony really was struggling with this.
"DiNozzo shut up and do your work, tell your date to go home."
"She's not..."
"She's here to see you Gibbs," Ziva filled in. Gibbs glanced over at the blonde woman. There was something familiar about her but it didn't click.
"You are?" Gibbs demanded.
"My name is Julia Winston."
"Have we met?"
"No, not in person. I wanted to see the man who buried my sister."
"And your sister was?" Gibbs inquired having no interest in the woman.
"Lila." With that Gibbs world stopped. "Then again you probably just called her Jenny, she always did like her middle name better." With that the team froze and looked up at the blonde woman. Tony felt his jaw drop. It totally figures she'd have a sister.
"I'm...sorry for you loss," Gibbs managed to struggle past his teeth. "She never talked about you."
"No, nor I her."
"If you've come for her stuff..."
"I understand there was nothing left, the fire consumed everything," Julia said.
"Yes," Ziva answered watching as Gibbs swallowed a few more times. She was suspicious but had to be the real deal if she knew Jenny's first name, there were few alive who did. "We could escort you to the cemetery..."
"That won't be necessary," Julia assured reaching down as a phone rang. She smirked at the number.
"Where the hell are you?"
"In D.C."
"The father of your child is here and trying to take me into custody."
"Oh Hayley what did you do now?"
"Nothing. Now get your ass back here and then I'm going to ground you if you're doing what I think you're doing."
"I'm putting my demons to rest, and finding out a thing or two about regret. I'll be back soon. Tell Horatio to take Kyle for the night and we'll talk when I get back." She clicked the phone shut and placed it back in her expensive handbag.
"Family business?" Gibbs asked.
"My son and his father," Julia answered. "We're having some family issues lately."
"Jenny..." even her name was painful. "She was sick."
"Yes, they called it ‘Broken Heart' Syndrome, us Shepard women just don't seem to have very good luck with men."
"Your sister served her country," Gibbs said.
"I know. With all the lovely words spoken then, I just thought I should let you all know." Julia turned and made her way to the elevator, Gibbs on her heels, the team not to far behind. She stepped in and hit the button for the floor.
"Let us know what?" Gibbs inquired.
"She was right, you do have the most startling blue eyes, must be another thing about us Shepard women, we do love our men to have blue eyes."
"Is there something about Jenny we should know about?"
"Oh...probably...you buried the wrong woman." Gibbs went to stop the doors but they had already closed. It took him half a second to recover and he darted towards the stairs, Tony and Ziva hard on his heels, McGee calling Abby.