Compliment
By Any Unborn Child
It has been said many a time that opposites attract, either as a recurring theme in romantic comedies that seem to pop up over and over again, Harlequin love stories in which the two characters first hate each other, love each other, hate each other again, and then love each other, or as a waking dream that one may someday hope to come true when there seem to be no other options.
For Leroy Jethro Gibbs and for Abigail "Abby" Sciuto, there was no such animosity in the beginning. For a long time they were two different people working in the same agency, in the same team, working with the same Motley Crue alongside each other. Gibbs would come to see Abby on a regular basis, most of the time to see what sort of clues and puzzles she had cracked and deduced to the benefit of the current case.
At first it looked like a metaphoric father-daughter relationship, and not much else. As time went by, the inside jokes and quirks that they shared turned into huge hugs of thanks and goodwill and lingering gazes of wishes and unheard thoughts.
Gibbs was tough in the most extreme sense of the word. With once hard-eyed glance he could render someone speechless, and gain a confession from the stone-hearted of criminals.
Abby was sweet and sensitive – if she could sense that anyone was in pain, their hurt became her hurt. She carried the wounds of those who were not able to, or did not want to, carry their own sorrows and fears.
If it has been said that opposites attracted, what would be said of two people who complimented each other perfectly?