Disclaimer: I don't own NCIS and I make no profit from this in any way. This is just an early one shot I wrote a while ago
"I'm sorry."
"I know."
Tim McGee had never felt so terrible in all his life. His lover, his life was walking away because he had been so stupid. He had used her and treated her like hell and in return she had retaliated back. She had slept with another man like he had slept with another woman. It was like they couldn't stop hurting each other. It was like hurting each other was a game they played for fun. The game had to end. There had to be a better way but neither of them had the heart to find it anymore. Hurt, paranoia, hatred, pain. It was never-ending. Now she was leaving him. Leaving him alone with his hurt and his flat and his dog. The 'big shot writer', he had been the man she hoped he could be but now he was nothing. Just another cheater and she was just another cheater too. It had been the wrong time and she had no excuse to commit that crime. But he had no excuse to hurt her first. He was just some NCIS agent, just a man, and like a man he hurt her. And now she was gone. Gone like everyone he had lost. It was like he just couldn't stop hurting people. His father, his mother, his sister, Penny. That was what he was good at. And one day he would be better but now he just wanted to drown his pain in his emptiness. It was his fault. He had ruined their chance at happiness.