Title: Not so easy - 1

Author: AbbyGibbs

Disclaimers: Well, I do not own them and that is pretty unfair – they again belong to DPB! Why does he always have to own the best shows and the best characters? Could someone explain that to me? His characters are always suffering too much. So I have decided to borrow them for a little while, the length of a story, but I promise to give them back though I really wish I could keep them for myself. Dawn Wilkerson is mine

Classification: hurt/comfort/romance

Pairing: Gibbs/Abby

Rating: T that can change into M at some point (as always to be on the safe side, isn't it?)

Spoilers: none.

Summary: what if not being pregnant wasn't so difficult to forget? Sometime you think you have dismissed the issue and an unexpected event makes you realized you didn't burry your thoughts about it as deep as you thought

Author's note: Huge hugs to Chirugal, who allowed me to write this as a follow-up to her story "Three Minutes" a fic I love by the way, but some pieces annoyed me so I talked to her about it and asked if I could write a little something and she said YES! So you'll better go read "Three Minutes" first.

Amy, I hope this will apply to your standards.

Thanks to Mark Harmon, Pauley Perrette, Michael Weatherly, Cote de Pablo, Sean Murray, David McCallum and all the other for giving life to the wonderful characters of NCIS.

Thanks, Laci as always.

Chapter two of "Sweet Nothing in my ears" is will be up in a couple of days, and no worries, my other stories will be updated too. Thanks so much for the reviews you gave to first chapter of "Sweet Nothing in my ears" you're awesome!

Here we go. I hope you'll enjoy your reading.

Thanks to all my fellow readers, you guys are the best.

Feedbacks: well, I'd love them, of course – who wouldn't? But please, only if you respect my work because it takes a lot of time and energy to get a story together. I love writing; I wouldn't allow anyone to discourage me from doing so, never. I don't have any problems at all with readers who choose not to go for this, but I decidedly do with those who write disrespectful mails just because they didn't get the ending they would have wanted. If you want to tell me what I might have done better within the story I made up, you're always very welcome to let me know. But if your only concern is to rant about it, then please, do it in private, okay? Thank you.

But those who like it drop a review, please!

ONE

Sitting on her kitchen floor, cell phone in hand, Abby stares at something in front of her. I should have told him then, I shouldn't have played the relieved one. How could I imagine for one second that this wouldn't affect me? She sighed as the thoughts ran through her mind.

A single tear, rolled down, her right cheek.

Looking down at her cell phone, Abby pressed a digit and the number dialed automatically.

"DiNozzo, I'm listening."

"Tony, it's me, Abby,"

"Abby? Is everything, okay?" Tony asked concerned at the sound of her voice, it was so small and sad, he'd barely recognized it.

"Yeah, I'm fine, Tony, but could you tell Gibbs, I won't be coming in today, please?"

Tony frowned at what Abby asked him to do. Something wasn't right. Abby called him from time to time to help her solve a dilemma or tell him something, she was like the sister he never had, but this, he knew, was different.

When Abby had a serious problem like she seemed to have right now, she'd have turned to Gibbs and now even more that they were a couple. So if she had called him instead of their boss it could only mean two things:

One: Gibbs wasn't there or two: her problem involved Gibbs and seeing that Gibbs was sitting at his desk... Mama mia! This meant trouble, Tony sighed.

"I'm coming over."

"I'm fine, Tony, really, you don't have to..."

"I'm coming over, Abbs, no discussion. I'll be there in thirty minutes, I'll tell, Gibbs, and then you can tell me what's bothering you." He told her before ending the conversation to be sure Abby couldn't protest.

Now Tony's concern was how he would tell Gibbs that he needed a couple of hours off for personal matters, and that Abby wouldn't be coming in today, without him being fired and his boss rushing to Abby? That would, no doubt in his mind, be the most difficult part of the entire situation.

DiNozzo was convince that a good listening ear and a huge hug would do the trick. He smiled at that, but the smile on his lips rapidly disappeared when he replayed their conversation in his head, and his heart filled up with sadness, it wasn't really the conversation they'd had, but the tone of her voice that suddenly made him feel uneasy. Maybe his friend's problem was more serious that he thought it was.

Tony was parking in front of Abby's place, thirty minutes later like he had told her. How he had managed to convince Gibbs to let him go, that was still a mystery to him, but the most important was that he would now be able to talk his friend.

On the way to Abby, Tony could help but wonder never since he had known that his boss and best friend were a couple, had she skip work. Not even when he knew that they have had words with each other.

No, it must be something bigger - definitely bigger - DiNozzo doubted that it had something to do with Gibbs not wanting to marry her, because he knew Abby wasn't fond of the all thing either, if you really love one another, a paper or even a church wouldn't change anything about it - even though Abby went to church.

As he exited his car, he saw that the building door was open, something that could happen, though not very often. Passing through the open doors he took the stairs to the second floor where Abby's apartment was located.

Tony knocked softly on her door and waited until she opened it a few seconds later. The agent's eyes widened slightly at the sight before him, Abby wasn't looking well at all, he could see she'd been crying and seeing her puffy red rimmed eyes, he could tell, she'd been crying for quite some time.

Abby barely looked at him, she almost immediately turned around and went back to the couch she'd been sitting on, before she got up, to open the door for her visitor. Tony watched her carefully while following her inside, and after he'd closed the door behind him, he came to take a seat next to her, saying nothing.

He waited silently. He waited until she's ready to talk, which she managed to do after, five long minutes. Tony was starting to get worried in the very uncomfortable silence that was hanging heavily all over the apartment.

"I thought I could, but..." Abby started, but her voice trailed off as she broke down in tears.

DiNozzo instantly put an arm around her shoulders and pulled her to him, placing a kiss on the top of head like Gibbs would have done, if it had been him.

"Ssssh, Abbs, Ssssh." He soothed her, rubbing her back softy with his other hand.

"I can't, I...just... I can't..." She kept repeating through her sobs.

"What are you talking about, Abbs, what can't you do?" Tony asked in a very soft and carrying voice.

The NCIS forensic scientist sobbed for a little while longer, before she seemed to calm down, enough, to be able, to give an answer to Tony's question.

"I can't act as if nothing happened, three months ago." She finally said in a complete - not broken by sobs - full sentence.

Tony pulled back a little to look down at her, his expression puzzled.

"What happened, three months ago, Abby?"

"Gibbs and I... we thought, I thought..." She trailed off and, sighed heavily.

Abby Sciuto took a few deep breaths before she continued "I thought, I might be pregnant." She finally let out.

Tony was too surprised, to answer anything at first. Of all the possibilities, he had thought of, that might have caused Abby's problem, not a single one, involved a possible pregnancy. There was no doubt in his mind that Abby would be a great mother, because when there were children involved in cases, she worked even harder to help them solve it, and if they had to bring them in for protection or anything else, once the children met the forensic expert, they all loved her.

No, the real question was if Gibbs would want any other children after so many years? DiNozzo wasn't so sure about that one. Of all the pains their boss had suffered from, the pain of losing his daughter was still very much present today. The proof of this was, the way he reacted when someone hurt a child or did even something worse to them.

Maybe the thought of being a father again frightened him and the memory of it was something too painful for him or maybe it wasn't the idea of being a father that scared him the most, maybe it was everything that came with being a father: the fear that something might happened to the child or that he might lose it again, that might be one of the possible explanations. But those were only possibilities, ideas he had. Tony didn't really know anything after all.

Had his friends, planned, talked about it. Having a family wasn't something that happened just like that. Well it could happen, but even then you have to think about the implication. Once you know there is going to be one more person that's going to depend on you for everything, you can't just snap your finger and go the other way around.

Had it been a accident?

Even then, Tony couldn't see the problem because it would be a part of Gibbs and Abby and that would definitely be something. They loved each other so much, even though they tried to hide it, for someone who really knew them it was easy to see...

Under his rough carapace, Gibbs had a big heart. The man loves kids, and they seem to love him in return.

After a moment, Anthony DiNozzo got over the primary shock, of the news, and asked her softly to tell him what had exactly happened.

To be continued...

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