Title: What Have I Done?
Author: KellethMetheus
Spoilers: Yankee White Ep 101
Category: Gen
Summary: Kate wonders if her decision was the right one.
Disclaimer: Not mine and I'll put them back when the Muse runs out, maybe.
Warnings: none
Beta: Thanks to Colliee88 and Annie for taking a look at this one.
Challenge: Season 1 missing scene challenge.
Author's note: Sorry guys I've just started watching the show over again and I have my writer's glasses on this time.
I stand there and watch the convertible drive away with Gibbs inside and I wonder what I've done. The last few days have been insane. First a man drops dead at my feet, then I end up in the middle of a murder investigation turned terrorist plot.
The man I might have loved, given a chance, is dead, and I'm unemployed. It begins to rain and I turn slowly, heading back to where my car is parked. I know by the time I get there, I'll be soaked.
Was Gibbs serious about his offer of a job? He doesn't seem like the type of man to joke. But what type of man he is, I really don't know. Gibbs seems to be complex yet at the same time, what you see is what you get.
I can't help thinking there's more to him that he keeps hidden deep within himself. I reach my car and slip inside, just sitting there for a moment listening to the rain fall on the roof contemplating my fate.
Needing to do something, I start the car and begin to drive around, going over my options. Finally, I pull into a twenty-four hour diner and sit down.
Four hours and a piece or two of pie later, I'm still sitting here weighing my options, wondering what I should do. Finally, I decide that if Gibbs' offer was legitimate, I'll take it.
As I'm walking back out into the rain, I make a call to get Gibbs' address. A few minutes later I pull up outside his house and I'm about to get out and go up to his door when I catch sight of the time blinking menacingly at me from the dashboard, 0130. Not the time for house calls.
About to start the car and drive away, I spot a light on in the basement. There's a shadow moving around in the light. Getting out of the car, I go knock on the door. There is no answer so I try the knob and find the door open. Entering the house I call, "Hello? Gibbs?"
There is no answer, but I hear voices in the distance. I follow the sound to the basement and Gibbs sitting by a workbench. I can see the skeleton of a boat beside him. Standing at the top of the stairs, I call his name again.
He doesn't even look up or sound surprised. "Agent Todd, what have you decided?"
"About what?" I ask coming down the stairs, trying to pretend it's not strange to show up at someone's house soaking wet at one thirty in the morning.
"My offer. It was bona fide. You're a good agent with a good head on your shoulders, you can take orders, and you don't take any crap. I like that in my agents. So what do you say, Kate?"
I stand there face to face with Gibbs and realize that this is what I want, to be an NCIS agent. Sure, I could keep my mouth shut and stayed where I was, continue to be overlooked and demeaned, but I also know that if I go to work for Gibbs that won't happen.
I hold out my hand. "I accept."
Gibbs shakes my hand quickly, before dropping it. "Now get home and get some sleep. I expect you at the Navy Yard by 0700. We'll start the paperwork."
In a daze, I turn to walk away not believing that I have found another job so quickly. Moving slowly up the stairs, I almost reach the top when I hear him call my name. Stopping, I turn to look at him.
He raises his jam jar to me a salute. "Welcome to the team, Kate."
Well here was number two and more will probably follow. Any requests or a good place to find them? I love writing from prompts.