Title: Feeling Guilty
Rating: PG
Spoiler: Season 6 South by Southwest
Author's Note : This story is just in the beginning but I wanted to get this one up too.
After coming back from Arizona that night, Gibbs decided to stop by Abby's apartment. Thinking how Abby spoke about Patterson troubled him. He wanted to speak to her about it. Gibbs felt he had let Abby down. When she mentioned him forgetting her birthday and that Patterson didn't forget made him feel awful. Maybe that's why he couldn't keep a marriage.
Abby's birthday dinners were and are important to her and to him. Sometimes he gets to involved with a case that everything else is put of his mind. So, he understood why she mentioned it that way she did in the lab earlier in the week. He had hurt her feelings and she didn't deserve it.
He also felt jealous. Jealous that she was speaking to Patterson. He felt replaced but understood why. He had become preoccupied with Ducky's stabbing and the war criminal accusations, with a case from his Marine past and a woman whom he had possible loved, with Agent Lee's treason and death and finally seeing his father for the first time since his wife Shannon and daughter Kelly's funeral. His head was spinning from these past few months and he shut people out , including Abby.
As he drove down to her apartment , he was thinking of a way to make it up to her. Or at least have her forgive him.
He parked his car in the visitor parking and walked up to her apartment. He knocked on the door. At first he thought she might have gone out. Then he heard Abby walking up to the door.
"Hey Abbs, it's me."
"Gibbs, your back." Abby opens the door. "What are you doing here. I thought you would be home resting and recovering from the 3 hour difference. Did you need me to come into work? Nothing bad ..."
He hugs her to silence her. She hugs him back.
"I just need to talk to you."
Abby leads him into her apartment and closes the door.
More to come