Title: None of My Business
Rating
: PG-13
Spoilers
: Season seven
Summary
: Gibbs catches Abby at a bad moment... A multi-chapter fanfic in pictures, based on the lab scenes from the episode Jurisdiction.

Author's Note: This is the text-only version - for the images, go to hinkykinky dot livejournal dot com slash 51124 dot html (recommended, since without the facial expressions to go with the dialogue, this isn't great!).


Abby: "I just can't take this any more... argh!"

Gibbs: "Abby! What's with all this?"

Abby: "Nothing. I mean... Oh, what the hell. I'm pissed off, Gibbs."

Gibbs: "I noticed. What did I do?"

Abby: "I don't know, I just... First a lawyer, now a CGIS agent?"

Gibbs: "You're pissed off because I'm talking to women?"

Abby: "No! Well, yeah. More the way you're talking to them. And, I mean, I know I don't have the right to tell you how you should talk to women. It's totally none of my business. But Hart's a lawyer, and you hate lawyers. And now you're doing the understated sexual tension thing with this CGIS chick, and on this case, she's a coworker."

Gibbs: "Abbs, why is this bothering you?"

Abby: "You're breaking your own rules! Twelve and thirteen in less than a month - I just don't get it! I mean, since when did you start solving cases with the little head? And I try to focus on my job, but I just... feel betrayed."

Gibbs: "Abbs..."

Abby: "Go away, Gibbs. I'm not asking for reassurances. I know the score."

Gibbs: "Rule twelve-"

Abby: "Is there for a reason. I know. It's so you can do sweet things like give me Caf-Pow! and listen to me ramble without me getting the wrong idea."

Gibbs: "That really what you think?"

Abby: "We've been working together since '99, Gibbs. It's pretty obvious that I don't register on your 'dating material' radar. I've told myself all this time that I'm just not enough of a sophisticated redhead for you. But then there was Colonel Mann, so I thought maybe you just didn't like dark hair. But then there was Ms. Snippety Lawyer, and that's when I realised... it's not you, it's me."

Gibbs: "Don't do this to yourself, Abbs."

Abby: "Oh, I already have. But, you know, thanks for the concern."

Gibbs: "You're wrong about all this."

Abby: "Uh-huh. I'm not telling you this cause I want you to lie to me. You just caught me at a bad moment, is all."

Gibbs: "Rule twelve was never about you, Abby. You're more than just a coworker."

Abby: "What are you saying?"

Gibbs: "Think about it. And after this case wraps up, we'll talk."