A/N: I own the storyline only, the characters belong to DPB and CBS, and the song belongs to Lasgo. I changed/removed some of the lyrics I didn't like. This has a lot of Hollis-bashing, (I really don't like her), and some bad language. YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED! This is really not my best work, just putting it out there for the heck of it. It's pretty sappy and OOC. Please review anyway? And, no flames please. Hope you like it! (lyrics are in italics)
I have a picture.
Abby looked down at the photograph in her hands, tears streaming down her face.
Pinned to my wall.
The picture was of her and Gibbs, laughing together at something stupid DiNozzo had said.
An image of you and me and we're laughing with love at it all.
It had been taken by Ziva, a few weeks before this whole mess.
But look at our lives now, we're tattered and torn.
The tears fell faster, staining the picture, but Abby didn't care.
You say I'm a dreamer, we're two of a kind.
Hollis. Hollis that stupid bitch! This was all her fault.
Both of us searching for some perfect world we know we'll never find.
Well, in all fairness it wasn't entirely Hollis's fault. Abby shouldn't have fallen for Gibbs in the first place, and after she inevitably had, she should have told him. But she didn't. He had no idea, but Hollis had guessed pretty quickly.
So perhaps I should leave here, yeah go far away.
She had confronted Abby, telling her to leave Gibbs alone. "You should go, Abby. He doesn't love you, you're like his daughter. If you want him to be happy, just leave."
But you know that there's no other place that I'd rather be than with you here today.
She couldn't leave. It would break her heart. How selfish was that? "If you want him to be happy….."
You ask if I love you, well what can I say? You know that I do and this is just one of the games that we play.
"Abby? Hey Abs? You here?"
Shit.
Gibbs.
In her apartment.
"I called your phone when you didn't show up for work this morning. You OK, Abs?"
He came up behind her.
"Abby?"
So I'll sing you a new song.
She wouldn't look at him, but she had to know. "Should I go, Gibbs? Let you be happy?"
Please don't cry anymore.
"What? Abby, I am happy. Tony told me what Hollis said to you. We broke up this morning. I couldn't let her hurt you like that, but it seems like I hurt you too."
She turned, confusion and panic in her eyes.
"No, Gibbs, it was my fault. I-I should have told you…."
She let him hug her, leaning against him.
Hold me now.
"If I had known a week ago how you felt, it would have been you I asked on that date, not Hollis. But it's not your fault Abby. I shouldn't have expected you to take that first step, risk everything. I'm sorry."
Warm my heart.
"Never apologize, Gibbs," she whispered.
Stay….
With….
Me….
A/N: Thanks for reading my sad songfic. I will post an epilogue to Mindreading soon, I promise!
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"Of all the gin joints in all the towns in all the world, she walks into mine."