Gibbs stood in his basement with a gun in one hand and a bottle of bourbon in the other talking to his wife's ghost. But not his first or second wife but his fifth and final wife Ziva who had died just days before giving birth to their baby boy Benjamin Cole Gibbs. Their baby boy was the only thing keeping him from pulling the trigger.
As the years went slowly by, she still preyed upon his mind.
When Ben was 10 years old Gibbs had never gotten over Ziva and he never would.
He kept her picture on his wall, went half-crazy now and thenHe still loved her through it all, hoping she'd come back again.
Throught his house their were pictures of the team and pictures of Ben but only in his room were their pictures of Ziva. He hoped he would find love again but he never did.
Kept some letters by his bed dated nineteen sixty-twoHe had underlined in red every single "I love you"Hidden away in the basement in a metal box full of memories. Not just memories of Shannon and Kelly bit memories of everyone he had lost and Ziva had lost, Kate, Jenny, Tali, Ari, Ziva's mother,and even Eli. But on top was a envelope full of the notes they left for each other when they were dating and just married.
I went to see him just today, oh but I didn't see no tearsAll dressed up to go away, first time I'd seen him smile in yearsWhen Ben was 19 years old he found his father's body in the basement. Alcohol poisoning had killed him. Three days later the team and a few new members gathered in the cemetery beside Ziva's headstone. Dressed in his military uniform they closed the casket on their beloved retired Special Agent, Gunnery Sargent, mentor, and most of all father. He stopped loving her todayThey placed a wreath upon his doorAnd soon they'll carry him awayHe stopped loving her todayYou know, she came to see him one last time.Aww, 'n' we all wondered if she wouldAnd it kept runnin' through my mind-"this time he's over her for good."He stopped loving her todayThey placed a wreath upon his doorAnd soon they'll carry him awayHe stopped loving her today.Invisible to everyone stood Ziva hugged close to her loving husband but he never stopped loving her in real life and I stopped loving her to everyone else but he never would.