Just a little something I wrote one afternoon when I was thinking the worse one night.
Very AU, Gibbs and one of his ex-wives… Defiantly pre series.
Reviews are nice, but I'm not going to beg.
Remember, I don't own this… I'm just taking it for a test drive.
I love you & a Divorce
She lights a candle and gets under the blankets. She runs her fingers through her hair as she takes it down from a ponytail. It's still wet from a shower she took hours ago, trying to make the hot water wash away the memories. It hadn't worked. How could this happen? She was supposed to be sage. She's a Marine wife after all. He promised to call her twice a day, every day, while he was away at school. Then he told her he'd call every night. She thought he was just busy studying and training. She kept thinking that when he sounded stressed and the calls got shorter. Then today, buried under the bills and junk mail, she got "the papers." Turns out while he was away he had found someone new. She called his CO to beg him to help, but he said he couldn't get involved. She knew that tomorrow she'd have to start packing. After all, she couldn't continue to live on base if she was no longer a wife. She'd have to start the good-byes, the explanations, and the hunts. The hunts for a new place to live, new friends, new men, and a… job. Since they had gotten married, she'd been out of the job field. He promised to always take care of her. God, she felt so stupid. After all, he'd been married before and it hadn't worked out. She didn't know why she had thought she could change him. He's a Marine; they don't change easily, if at all. She sighs and tries to decide if she should turn out the lights. She knows it doesn't matter, knows sleep isn't coming tonight. She wanted to talk to him, but didn't know how. She'd asked the CO to have him call, but she doubted he ever received the message. She started crying. She was so upset and so angry at the same time. The phone started ringing and she looked at the clock. 9pm, no one could say he wasn't punctual. She knew who was on the phone, but she couldn't bear to talk to him. The machine picks up, plays the message they recorded together. They sound so happy, and she feels like she is going to gag. She listens, against her own will, to the message he starts to leave. She realizes that he is crying and listens harder. He says he made a mistake, that he loves her and never wants to lose her. She grabs for the phone praying that he's still there when she turns it on. As he starts to say good bye, she picks up, and crying harder than ever before, says, "I love you too!"