Jenny Shepard - such an interesting and fiery character! I find her entrance to NCIS to be full of drama and sparks! This "story" will be a collection of one-shots dealing with Jenny's appointment as director, all with tie-ins to fire. Each chapter will be short, likely around 300 words. I am just working on developing and sharing my views on the relationships between Jenny, Gibbs, and Ziva in particular. This will give background to my upcoming Ziva-joins-the-family story. I hope that you will all enjoy!

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There were only two people that Jenny Shepard would have said really knew her. They were the only two that she had ever let know her.

First was Leroy Jethro Gibbs, her former boss, partner and lover. He had known her better than she knew herself. Although their relationship had long been cut off by her own choice, she still imagined that he would be able to read her - that thought was frightening.

Second was Ziva David, a Mossad officer who had worked with Jenny on a mission in Europe and somehow awoken the maternal part of Jenny's being. The girl, seventeen years old when she first entered Jenny's life, had taught Jenny countless lessons on unconventional "parenting". The emotionally-inept young Israeli woman had taken the vacant place of "daughter" in the redhead's heart. Honestly, the fear that she had for Ziva's safety - physically, emotionally, morally, and spiritually - was what had driven her to move ahead on the career ladder at this time. The boundless love she had for the girl was both fulfilling and frightening. For Ziva's sake, she would once again take on Leroy Jethro Gibbs.

The two relationships were completely different, but both Gibbs and Ziva would have described Jenny with the same word - fiery.

Never was that adjective more accurate than when she first took over as director of NCIS.

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