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THIS IS THE FIFTH STORY IN A SERIES YOU WILL BE MISSING SOME INFORMATION IF YOU DONT READ THE FIRST FOUR! ENTITLED; UNTITLED, INIATAION, SISTER, SISTER & BROTHERLY LOVE
Reckless
Kyle starts getting phone calls threatening his life as well as Amber's if they don't get their money or their drugs. Instead of telling Gibbs, Kyle goes to try and return the money. Can Gibbs stop him before he gets hurt or worse killed?
It was Saturday Gibbs had taken Amber to her school where they were working on a play that the school would be performing at the end of the year Amber had gotten one of the lead roles and was so excited. When Gibbs got home Kyle was still asleep on the couch. He had been out late the night before. Gibbs shook his head when he stumbled into the house drunk almost waking up Amber. He is only 18 and he is out drinking, he thought to himself. If he didn't wake up soon he had every intention of waking him up. He was not going to let him sleep all day. He put on a pot of coffee before going to get some Advil in the bathroom figuring that Kyle would have a bad hangover. He went back towards the kitchen.
"Kyle get up" he said loudly as he passed the living room.
"There is Advil in the kitchen." He continued before pouring himself a cup of coffee. When he didn't hear Kyle move he took a sip of his coffee and put the cup down heading to the living room and standing next to him.
"Kyle get up now. You are not sleeping all day I don't care if you have a hangover. You should have thought about that before you got drunk" he said. Kyle groaned. "Come on its Saturday why do I need to get up." He wined
"Kyle I don't care if it Saturday its eleven thirty and I will not let you sleep your day away." He said. "There is Advil in the kitchen take that and you will feel better in a couple hours." He added heading back to the kitchen and picking up his cup and his paper and sitting down at the kitchen.
He heard Kyle's phone ring and heard him answer it he heard him go to the bathroom with the phone and shook his head. Using the bathroom while on the phone? Seriously kids these days. He thought to himself. After about twenty minutes Kyle came into the kitchen looking more awake. He got a glass of water and took a couple Advil.
"So what makes you think that you can drink?" he asked him not looking up from his paper.
Kyle sighed slightly he knew he was in trouble by the way the question was asked. "I don't have a reason sir" he said as he poured himself a cup of coffee.
"Kyle you better have a better answer then that if you don't want to end up spending the next month in the house." He said as he put his paper down looking over at him.
He moved towards the table sitting across from Gibbs and looking down at his cup
"I was out with friends and we went by this club and one of them knew the bouncer and let us in so we decided to drink." He said honestly.
"How did you get home? I didn't hear anyone drive up." Asked Gibbs.
"My friend just dropped me off at the end of the driveway I didn't want to wake anyone up with all the noise coming from the car. He didn't drink anything he had decided to be the one who would drive home." He said implying that he had made sure Gibbs knew that he was driven home by someone who was sober.
"As glad as I am that you were smart enough to make sure you got home safe. You are not legal age to be drinking or even to be in a club. If you ever come home drunk again before you're of age to drink you will be spending the following six months with no social life. Am I clear young man?" he asked
"Yes sir" he said not looking up.
"Don't make any plans for the rest of the weekend, because you're not going anywhere" said Gibbs as he picked up his paper and continued to read it. It was rare that he didn't have to work a Saturday but it was a nice change.
Kyle glared at Gibbs he figured he couldn't see him.
"You're getting pretty good at that glare" said Gibbs
Kyle was taken aback by that. "How di..." he started to say
"How did I know?" he asked putting the paper down. "Because something's never change." He answered "Kyle you may not be happy about this but I am not going to let you get yourself in trouble again. You are eighteen, deal with the fact that you are not of legal age you drink" he said as he stood up and put his cup in the sink.
He headed towards the basement to work on the boat. Working on his boat always gave him time to think. He picked up the piece of sanding paper he had three hours before he had to go pick up Amber. He heard Kyle upstairs walking around and then he must have sat down because the noise had stopped.
Kyle was pissed off Gibbs had no right to ground him. He was eighteen old enough to make his own decisions about what he did. His phone rang again he answered it.
"Hi Kyle, How are you? I have heard you are out of jail which means we want our money or we will make sure you can't rip anyone else off." Said the caller.
Kyle froze oh on they had found him. "Don't worry I have it I can bring it to you." He said
"Two hours leave it in a paper bag in the garbage can across the street from George's gym. I'm sure you remember the place" He hung up the phone.
Kyle panicked how was he going to get out of the house. There was no way Gibbs wouldn't hear the door open and would notice he was gone. He sighed he went and grabbed his wallet and climbed out Amber's bedroom window. He couldn't believe he was doing that at eighteen. He ran to the corner where he knew he could catch a bus that would take him right in front of his bank and George's gym was a twenty minute walk from there. It took him a full hour to get to the bank once he was there he took out the money he owed to this guy. He felt so guilty going against Gibbs but he didn't want them coming to the house. He knew once he paid back what he owed to everyone that things would go back to normal as far as he could tell he was not even going to see anyone today. Just leave the money in the garbage can and he would leave. Once he had the money he had about 40 minutes to get there and he needed a paper bag. He went to the local corner store and bought one and put the money in it and started walking he had thirty minutes till he would never have one less person to worry about. Once he got there he looked around he knew he was being watched more than likely from the roof top of the gym he remembered being up there he use to be the one watching people deliver money from there. He looked around and didn't see anyone looking so he put the money in the garbage can below the bag and left like nothing was going on once he was out of the view of the gym he ran back to the bus stop and hopped on the bus and headed back to the house he knew he had one hour before Gibbs would be leaving the house to go get Amber when he reached his bus stop he raced back home having only minutes till Gibbs would notice that he wasn't there he climbed in through the window making as little noise as possible before running silently back to the couch as he heard Gibbs coming up the stairs he collapsed on the couch trying to catch his breath.
Gibbs was working on the boat when he noticed the time he dropped the sanding paper and headed upstairs to go pick up Amber he saw Kyle on the couch watching T.V. and smiled. "I'm going to pick up Amber. You want to come along for the ride?" he asked him.
Kyle had just caught his breath in time to respond. "No thanks" he said he couldn't sit in a car with Gibbs after what he had just done. Just then his phone rang. He answered it.
"Glad to see you came through. You are no longer need to worry about us but we felt it was our duty to tell everyone else that you owe money to that you are out of jail and have come into money I'm sure you will be getting many phone calls in the next few days" said the guy laughing and hanging up.
"I'm sorry you have the wrong number." Said Kyle once the caller hung up he hung up and smiled at Gibbs.
Gibbs looked at him strange but didn't question it just left to go pick up Amber. Kyle sighed with relief and anxiousness how was he going to keep making these drop offs this weekend he knew it wouldn't be long before he had another call. Thankfully he had gotten all the money he needed so he wouldn't have to go back to the bank. He had them all in paper bags stuffed in an old book bag that he never used. Just then his phone rang again.
"Four hours rock creek park, be there with our money under the bench in the lovers court or you can count on not seeing the end of the weekend" said the caller before Kyle could say anything the guy hung up.
"Shit" he said there was no way he was going to be able to do what he just did again without telling Gibbs or without Gibbs noticing he was gone. If he told Gibbs there was no way he would let him do it and he would be in trouble for doing it already before.
Less than an hour later Gibbs was back with Amber who was very hyper and jumping around. "Kyle guess what?" said Amber "I get to sing in the play" she said before Kyle even had a chance to open his mouth.
Kyle smiled. "That's great Amber" he said hugging her. Gibbs chucked at her hyper attitude she was alot happier since Kyle was there.
Gibbs looked at his watch. "Amber Kyle how would you like to get pizza for dinner in a few hours."
Amber started jumping around again. "Pizza, pizza, pizza" she said. Both Gibbs and Kyle started laughing
"I'm taking that as a yes from Amber" said Gibbs who looked up at Kyle who nodded.
"And if it's ok with you I can go pick it up." He said smiling he could use that as an excuse to get out of the house around the time he needed to drop off the money.
Gibbs nodded. "Thanks that would be great" said Gibbs
He and Amber sat down on the couch with him and they watched a movie. Once it was done Kyle looked at his own watch. He had an hour and a half before he had to have the money there. Gibbs looked at his own watch. "Amber why don't you go play for abit in your room" he said smiling at her. Kyle froze oh god Gibbs knew he was in trouble now. He should just confess everything before he could say anything to him. No he would let him talk first. Once Amber was gone Gibbs looked at Kyle.
"Kyle you look tense and you did through the whole movie is everything alright?" he asked him. Kyle took a breath. Gibbs didn't know he would have busted him if I had known. "No I'm fine just still have abit of a headache" he said which was true he did."I think I'll take a couple more Advil' he said standing up and going to the kitchen letting out the breath he was holding in. He got water from the fridge and taking a couple more Advil before going to the bathroom. He headed back to the living room once he had fully composed himself and noticed Gibbs wasn't in the room he looked around and grabbed a paper bag from his back pack and folded it shoving in his pocket and sitting down he didn't know if he would have another chance before he went to get the pizza to get the money so he figured he would be better off to get the money now. Thirty minutes later Gibbs came back into the room.
"Pizza is ordered you sure you want to go get it maybe I should if you aren't feeling well." He said.
"No I'm fine now I can go get it." He said smiling.
"Ok well it will be ready in twenty minutes so you can head out" he said handing him the keys to the car.
Kyle nodded and got up taking the keys and smiling and heading out to the car. Taking a breath of relief he had gotten out of the house. He got into the car and drove. He would go make the money drop first and then go get the pizza that way he could always say they took longer than he planned. Just then he noticed Gibbs running out of the house. Shit he knows on god. He unrolled the window slowly.
"Yes?" he said Gibbs handed him some money. "Not going to be able to do much without it" said Gibbs smiling. Kyle laughed softly he had no idea how significant that was at that very moment.
"Thanks" he said smiling and putting up and window and turning the car on buckling his seatbelt and waiting till Gibbs back off before he backed out of the driveway. He made his way to rock creek park. He looked at his watch they would be there in half an hour. He looked around and then taped the paper bag to the bench before he looked around again and headed back to the car. Breathing a sigh of relief two down and only four more to go. He thought to himself. He went to get the Pizza and then headed back to the house.