You could be Happy
Disclaimer: I dont own NCIS or any of it's characters.
Gibbs began to put more force than necessary into each stroke he made. Saw dust was going everywhere and he was pretty sure that later he would have to correct the mistakes he was making with this much pressure but he wasn't worried. He needed to forget and this was his salvage. He closed his eyes and for the thousandth time watched the scene that was haunting him play out again.
Kate looked up at him, her face stained with tears.
"Why are you doing this?"
Gibbs just shook his head and turned his back on her.
"Kate please just leave." He felt her hands on his shoulders, pulling him around to face her.
"You could be happy Jethro, we could be so happy together. Why are you pushing me out?" When he didn't answer Kate let go of him and headed for the door. Pulling on her coat she turned to face him.
"If your doing this because you are scared that if you open up your heart again its going to get hurt then you are a fool. Being lonely may be safest but it is certainly no way to live." With that Gibbs watched as Kate walked out of his home and his life.
She was right. Life had taught him to lock his heart up and forget about feelings by consuming himself in other things, totally giving up on the possibility that one day someone might actually come alone and properly steal his heart for the very first time. He knew that Kate had done that and he had just pushed her out. He wanted to call her, tell her he was sorry but he couldn't. She was gone. Flew out of Washington 2hours ago.
Anger, regret and hatred over took him as he picked up his drink and threw it against the wall.
"What a complete waste of money!" Gibbs looked up and saw Kate sitting at the top of the stairs. Standing slowly she made her way down into the basement until she was a few steps away from Gibbs.
"Kate." Gibbs just looked at her. "Your flight left hours ago."
She shrugged.
"I forgot something."
Gibbs nodded, disappointment showing on his face although he tried to hide it.
"And you see this something was rather…….important and I didn't think I could leave without it." Again Gibbs nodded.
"I haven't touched any of your stuff. Whatever you are looking for will be where you left it."
"Oh I know exactly where it is." Kate said as she closed the distance between them. Gibbs was frozen in shock but he quickly recovered, one arm snaking around her waist pulling her closer and the other running through her hair. Breaking apart Gibbs looked down at Kate.
"What was that for?" He rasped out.
"I told you, I forgot something important and I didn't think I could leave without it."
Gibbs chuckled then sighed, resting his head on Kate's.
"Katie, don't go." Kate looked up a bit surprised.
Ok, so there is a reason I have stopped here. I have two headings for this story and I couldn't for the life of me pick which was I wanted to use so I'm going to use both which I why I stopped before Kate's reply. So there will be 2more chapters to this story. Ending one and ending two.
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