Hi everyone!! This is my second story, of course Gabby! Hope you like it!
And I'm sorry for the mistakes, english isn't my first language.
It was the day Gibbs and Colonel Mann were about to get married. He especially had asked a day off without informing his team. He wanted to do it secretly, if it should fail again, they shouldn't know about it. Colonel Mann was so happy she'd finally convinced him to marry her and invited all members of her family because Gibbs didn't have any family anymore.
Everything went well on this day, no interrupting case, no interrupting call, nothing. Colonel Mann, was so happy that she thanked God for this miracle. But when they were about to sign the marriage papers Gibbs phone started to ring. Colonel Mann shot him a warning glance but Gibbs had already answered it.
„Gibbs" he shouted kind of annoyed into the phone
Silence. He just could hear unsteady breathing. After a few seconds he could hear a voice.
„Gibbs?" it was Abbs voice, she seemed totally distressed, nearly whispering, fearing to speak out loud.
„Abbs! Are you alright?" suddenly his concern overwhelming him, a thousand of horrible scenarios went through his mind. „Has something happened to you? Where are you?"
All of them were staring at Gibbs, but he was totally oblivious. Trying to figure out what was wrong with his Abby. She was never that scared or sad. And when Abby didn't answer immediately he was even more concerned, his face in a deep frown. Then she started to sob and he was now truely distressed, she never cried that easily.
„Where are you? And this is not a question Abbs, it's a command, now tell me!" he wanted to go to her, to be there for her, to console her, but how could he know where she was?
„At home." was all she could answer him and then this time his line went dead.
Gibbs closed his phone and was already half way out of the door when Colonel Mann started to speak.
„If you leave now without signing this paper, it's finished, I'll never talk to you again Jethrow!" she spoke with a warning voice. „She 's always the most important person to you, why don't you marry her?" she was starting to scream and cry. She wanted him so badly, but she always had the feeling he never was totally truly hers.
Gibbs nearly didn't hear her words anymore. He was concerned so about Abbs, what could have happened? Could she have had another stalker? Was she hurt? He couldn't get a clear thought. He drove even quicker than he normally did. When he reached her flat, he nearly jumped the three floors up, using his spare key to get in.
He didn't find her in her living room and that definitely wasn't helping his fear. Now, crossing the room quickly, entering her bedroom he found her weeping on her bed. He slowly sat down next to her and took her into his arms, he knew she didn't want to speak now and it was okay for him, he understood her even without words, it was this special connection that made it work. Her mascara was smeared all over her face, her green eyes red as well as her nose. He was stroking her arms and kissing her head, trying to calm this sobbing bundle.
"What happened, Abbs?" he asked truly concerned, he hated to see his girl crying.
"I'm alone, all alone now." she shouted, sounding angry, so much hate in her voice that he'd never heard before.
"You still have me, Abbs, you're not alone. Please tell me, what happened."
"My...my parents...have been in an car accident! The driver...was...he was drunk...and now....now they're dead. I don't have anyone else beside them." and she started to shed new tears, she couldn't control her feelings anymore. It was all too much. She knew that Gibbs had been about to get married, or now already was, he had told her that he'd do it today, he wanted her to know. She felt like this day she had lost everything.
"Shhh, Abbs, everything will be alright. I'm never leaving you." he promised her
"No! Don't promise that, you can't keep it, you can die every day you walk out of your office. Don't promise me something you'll never be able to keep, just don't." she was getting angrier and he didn't knew what he could do about it. So he just hold her and let her cry and after a while she fell asleep, being exhausted from all this crying and he just hold her, lost in his own thoughts. Gibbs carefully lowered himself and she was still lying now in his arms, her head on his chest.
He knew exactly how she felt. It was nearly as bad as losing his wife and his daughter. She had been very very close to her parents, having had a special relation because they both were deaf, so they had a more intimate relation to their daughter than normal people did. He was wondering if Abby would be still the same happy person after a while, but he couldn't believe it, he had changed so much after his loss, but he didn't want Abby to change, he loved her the person she was. His unique Abby. Then his words struck him. He was about to marry Colonel Mann, but he loved Abby? He heard Hollis voice in his head "She 's always the most important person to you" How could he not have recognized that? For him Abby never was like a daughter, everyone thought this about them, but he had some feelings for her, he just didn't recognize it. He always had been attracted to redheads, but he never actually had cared about their characters. She could make him smile, every day in every situation. She was there for him when he had problems; she simply knew when something was wrong. They had this kind of strange and strong connection, knowing when something was wrong with the other. How could he have been so stupid? So blind? She had saved him today from doing the second worst mistake of his life, getting wife number 4, who was the most wrong person in the world.
"Gibbs?" a sleepy voice was talking to him "I feel so...so empty." he looked into her eyes and saw a sadness he never wanted to see in her eyes.
"I know. I know!" he began again stroking her smooth black hair "And the worst part is, this feeling is never going away completely." he whispered into her ear, his own eyes clouding with the same kind of sadness, an emotion he barely showed to anyone, besides when he was really drunk.
She started to sob again "Oh Gibbs, I'm so...I'm so sorry, about this, you know, me calling you on this special day, totally ruining everything, you know, but I didn't want it. But whom should I have called, I mean, there is no one else I could have called, I wanted to call..."
"Abbs!" Gibbs interrupted her "Don't worry, everything is fine. I'm not mad at you! I promised to be always there for you, it doesn't matter when."
Abby didn't know if she should believe him. Because it was his wedding day and this should be a special day, spending time with his new wife, his love. She would have been very angry when she had been the bride, her husband running away to another woman, just to console her. She wanted to know if they were married now, but she didn't know how she could ask this question, she didn't want to sound too curious, to interested in his love life. She knew it was impossible they would ever have a relation.
"No I'm not." Gibbs answered her, knowing exactly what she was thinking about.
"How do you know what I was about to ask you?" she asked him
"I just know." he answered her, smiling a little as she smiled a little too.
Please review and tell me what think how it'll continue! Will Hollis seek revenge? Will Gibbs admit his love?