Title: Comfortable
Author: Shaneequa
Rating: T
Disclaimer: It's still in my wishlist… and forever will be.
Summary: Our love was, comfortable and, so broken in. She's perfect, so flawless or so they say. I want you back.
Song: Comfortable by John Mayer
Warning: Hollis Mann. (I think I just love to hate her?)
Author's Note: For Tori, who wanted me to post this so that she could read part two. Hope the rest of you enjoy it. It's five short parts. Reviews, greatly appreciated (:
07/04/09: It's been brought to my attention that there isn't any 'Rocky Road' in Europe. Called my friend in Paris and she had no idea what it was so I changed it to Vanilla Pecan and double checked availability from the .fr site of Haagen-Daz.
Part I
Gibbs pushed the cart around the aisles of the grocery store while Hollis grabbed things here and there dumping it in the shopping cart. He wasn't really paying attention at what she was buying; they were grocery shopping for her house after all. He didn't need any of that, he could live his life happily with takeout.
Hollis was a health nut.
Walking around the frozen foods section, he stopped short in front of the Haagen-Daz Vanilla Pecan tubs, and suddenly, he had a flashback. A memory filling in the blank spaces that he still had from the second explosion.
He closed his eyes for a moment hoping that this memory would be a good one, of Shannon and Kelly… or maybe even… Jenny.
I just remembered that time at the market
snuck up behind me and jumped on my shopping cart
And rode down aisle five
He was walking around in the frozen food section. Ice cream was the next one on Jenny's list of things to buy for their 'house.' A little studio apartment in the middle of the City of Love where they would have to make do until their assignment was over. It was small, but it had everything that they needed, a bathroom, a kitchen and a bed to sleep in at night.
That night though, sleeping was the last thing on their agenda. They have been partners for three years to the day, lovers for two years and a half. Jenny wasn't usually one to celebrate anniversaries and neither was he, but this one was important. This was the longest relationship with a woman that he had since Shannon's death, the longest relationship and the most passionate one.
Tonight, Jenny was going to cook for him, but she was out playing her character at its finest trying to lure the targets with Decker.
Gibbs scanned the refrigerators full of food trying to see which one he should buy. Vanilla Pecan was her favorite and he wasn't surprised to see it on the list of things that they needed for tonight. Just as soon as he spotted it, opening the clear glass door, he felt a pair of soft hands cover his eyes and turning everything dark.
"Guess who," she whispered in his ear brushing her lips against it almost making him moan. It was his Jenny, who else could it be? Certainly not the only other person that made him feel that way, she was buried six feet under with their daughter.
Before Gibbs had time to respond, Jenny had jumped into the empty cart a smile on her face. He looked down at her stunned that she would pull something like that. But he really shouldn't be surprised.
"What are you waiting for?" Jenny asked looking back at him. She braced herself before telling him to push the cart, her laughter filling the air.
you looked behind you and smile back at me
crashed into a rack full of magazines
they asked us if we could leave.
He was pushing her around on the cart, earning curious glances from the store patrons. They didn't care though, Jenny was having fun and Jethro was having fun simply because Jethro was having fun.
She turned around smiling at him, it wasn't just a smile. It was the smile. The one that showed the innocence and naïveté of the young probie that she didn't show anyone else. She was still trying to prove herself to him and the other chauvinists they worked with, and she was doing a good job at it. He was proud of her for that, but he liked nothing more but to see this reserved smile. When her façade went down and the real her was replaced.
He was so captivated by her smile that he didn't notice the rack of tabloids that they were heading straight towards. She crashed onto the rack and for a moment t they were still and silent. Then she started laughing, and he started laughing because she did.
"Are you okay?" Gibbs asked her.
"Yep," She replied with a grin. "Help me up, Jethro."
"Gibbs? Jethro?" Hollis called out to him trying to get him back to the land of the living.
Gibbs looked at her shaking the memory and the feelings that it brought off of him.
"What?"
"Where were you, Jethro?" Hollis asked softly. She understood that she didn't know everything about him, she might not like that, but she understood.
Gibbs stayed silent pushing the cart again and letting them fall into an uncomfortable silence.
"Paris," he whispered into the air.
He was in Paris, with Jenny.
Comments/Criticism? No flames please.
