JD turns 4

The two weeks between the twins’ birthday and JD’s had past. Now things were a bit chaotic at the Balboa house. Nick worried about me overexerting myself. It slowly got to the point where I was getting annoyed with my husband. Nick wanted me to call my sister and Jethro to see if they could help us set up for JD’s party.
“Honey; do you remember what I told you when we first started seeing each other?” I asked.
“The china doll thing?”
Yes the china doll thing. You’re treating me like a breakable china doll again.” I said.
“Okay I’m backing off; just do me a favor, call your sister and Gibbs.”
After Nick’s request, I felt my phone go off in my pocket. I had gotten a text message from Jenny.
“SECNAV knows.”
“What’s wrong?” Nick asked as he saw my jaw drop.
“SECNAV knows about Jenny and Jethro.” I answered.
“This isn’t good.”
“No fooling. Davenport is going to fire one of them.” I said.
“Well there’s nothing we can do about it. All we can do is let your sister and Gibbs deal with it since it is their battle.”
“Yes Nick, there is something we can do and I am going to do it.” I said as walked out of the house.
Through my own connections I had found out that Davenport was in the conference room within the building that his office was in. Once I got to SECNAV’s office I made a beeline for the conference room completely ignoring what his secretary had said to me. I flung the conference room door open, walked over to table that was sitting in the conference to see Davenport sitting at the far end of the table. Without any hesitation I climbed onto the table in my black stiletto heeled boots, my favorite boyfriend fit ripped jeans along with the cream colored menswear vest I had worn a few times before with a tank top underneath it and confidently walked all the way down to Davenport.
“What the hell are you doing, Agent Shepard?” Davenport asked.
I said nothing to SECNAV until I was just about eye level with him.
“I’m here to tell you that there is no way in hell you are getting rid of Jenny and Jethro.”
“Yes I am.”
“No you’re not; cause the last time you replaced my sister everything went to hell. And if you attempt to get rid of her again or even get rid Jethro, I promise you that I won’t be the only one hunting you down.” I said.
SECNAV didn’t say anything.
“One more thing, don’t forget both my sister and I have the connections to get you replaced.” I said as I got off the table and left.
Once I got home I had noticed that I had another text message from my sister.
“SECNAV is backing off. What did you do?”
I knew I had to answer Jenny; I also knew that if I had told her what really when on between SECNAV and me, that she would completely lose it.
“I was just protecting my family.” I said when I texted Jenny back.
“Instead of having JD’s party here at the house, why don’t we have it at the jungle romp place JD loves going to? Nick asked in suggestion.
“It’s an idea.”
Before long everyone was at the jungle romp. Kids were running around everywhere. At one point I had sat down for bit. Ziva had come over and joined me.
“I don’t know about you but I couldn’t have predicted that I would be married with a four year old and twins on the way by the time by the age of twenty-eight.” I said to Ziva.
“I know, I’ve thought the same thing before. But I am happy with where I am. I love Tony with my whole heart and the girls are my world.”
“If you don’t mind me asking, but what is it like being a mother of twins? Will I be able to handle being a mother of infant twins and a four year old?” I asked Ziva.
It was obvious that I was a bit unsure if I was going to be able to be a mother to three kids under the age of ten.
“Jay; within all the time that I have known you, I have seen you accomplish quite a bit. You’re a fighter; Jay, just like your sister and me. You can handle anything that comes your way; you can more than handle being mom of three.” Ziva answered.
Throughout the course of the party I was able to talk to Jenny. Jenny had told me that Secnav had called her to discuss her and Jethro’s relationship. Secnav had said that he was fine with it, but if Jenny and Jethro had interfered with their jobs in anyway then there would be some changes within NCIS. As JD opened her presents with me and Nick watching along with her entire extended NCIS family; I had started thinking about the two little ones growing inside of me with each passing day.
I wondered what the twins were going to look like. I wondered if they were going to have my red hair like JD and I or if they would have their father’s brown hair. As I placed my hands on my stomach like all mothers do at some point during their pregnancy, I wondered if they would have brown eyes like the three of us did or if they would get the dormant gene for green eyes from me. On some level I thought that it would cute for mine and Nick’s twins to be mini versions of their Aunt Jenny. Waiting the nine months to see was going to be absolute torture.
By 11:30pm things had been over for five and a half hours. I had put JD to bed at 8:30 as Nick brought in all of JD’s gifts. Before midnight rolled around everyone on Team Gibbs was in their respective beds fast asleep. It wasn’t too long after both Jenny and myself had been in own beds with our respective significant others next to us that we both woke up from a nightmare that had haunted us for our entire adult lives. Jenny had the exact same nightmare she had that one time she woke up in her office one morning with the desk drawer that her gun sat in remained opened until she had closed it.
Jen’s nightmare was from the day Dad supposedly died where she was upstairs when she heard the gunshot ring out causing her to run down the stairs to find him dead in the study. My nightmare was just as bad. That day I hadn’t found our dad the way Jenny had. Instead I had arrived at the study with Jenny standing at the doorway with our dad’s lifeless body behind his desk. Even on a subconscious level that day was still considered to be the worst day of our lives. As Jenny rushed down the stairs in her dream she woke up just as she had before. A few minutes later I had woken up too.
Both Jethro and Nick could sense that Jenny and I had woken up in pure fear.
“What’s wrong?” Nick asked groggily.
“I had that dream again.”
“The one about your dad’s death?” Nick asked.
“Yeah, that one.” I answered.
“Everything is fine, your dad isn’t dead and you are safe. Go back to sleep, you and the twins need the rest and all this stress isn’t good for you or for them.” Nick said as he massaged my back to calm me down.
Meanwhile at Jenny and Jethro’s, Jenny was trying to calm down herself.
“You had that dream again didn’t you?” Jethro asked.
Jenny just looked at Jethro and he knew that she had the nightmare of our father’s death.“Don’t worry, I’ll always protect you.” Jethro said as he tried to calm her down.