GIBBS AND RULE 51...
DISCLAIMER: NCIS charaters do not belong to me.
This takes place a couple days after...Life Before His Eyes.
SUMMARY: Gibbs thinks about...Rule 51: Sometimes You're wrong. Could it effect everyone's lives?
CHAPTER 1: HOW RULE 51 EFFECTS...EVERYONE
GIBBS P.O.V.
A couple of days ago I had been given what some people might call...a gift.
I had seen some people I had once known and learned how life could have been if I had made different choices.
So many decisions had been made and changed the lives of many people.
Since that day, I haven't been able to sleep very well.
So I tried working on my boat, but that didn't last long.
I couldn't stop Ari, that was a part of the past and I couldn't change the past.
The thing I could do was change the future of a few people...
I sat looking at the rules I had written over the years and had found...
Rule 51: Sometimes you're wrong.
There was also...
'Rule 12 never date a co-worker...
Was I wrong about that one?'
Everything I was shown Abby and Tim had been happy together, but rule 12 had stopped them from being together.
After I couldn't stand it any longer, I headed to NCIS. When I got there, Tony was already in the squad room and looked like he had been there a while.
I walked passed his desk with my coffee in hand.
"He...hey, boss." Tony said and seemed surprised to see me so early.
I just sat there at my desk and started to work. It was a few hours later, when McGee walked in, Ziva was just a few minutes behind him and I figured Abby would be down in her lab.
It was time; I picked up the phone and waited for her to answer.
"Hey, Abbs, come up to the squad room I need to talk to you all." I said getting strange looks from McGee, Tony and Ziva.
Another few minutes went by and then I heard the elevator ding. When Abby arrived, she went and leaned against McGee's desk.
Then four sets of eyes turned to me and looked confused. I noticed Abby looked worried and I had an idea what she was thinking...
'He's going to announce his retirement for good this time.'
"Rule 51." I said and they were all confused.
"What's rule 51?" Ziva asked.
"Sometimes you're wrong." I told them and they all looked at me with shocked faces.
"Wh..." Tony asked.
"I was wrong about Rule 12." I admitted, though it was hard to admit that.
"Never date a co-worker." Tony said and I nodded.
"Does that mean..." McGee began.
"That I could date, Tim?" Abby interrupted hopefully and Tim's ears turned red.
Tony looked ready to laugh, but Ziva was close enough to smack him if he did.
"Yes...but it means anyone dating has to keep it out of the NCIS building." I said trying to make myself clear.
Abby had made her way to behind McGee's desk and had her arms around him as she hugged him from behind.
I already knew they had been breaking rule twelve for years.
I had seen them play grab ass, flirt and the jokes that they had told each other was something else I hadn't missed.
The next thing I knew Abby was giving me a hug. I hadn't been paying attention when she had unwrapped herself from McGee and she had almost knocked me over.
"Thanks, Gibbs." Abby whispered and let me go, going back over to stand beside McGee once again.
Since I had put Rule 51,
Over Rule 12, I knew things were going to get interesting from now on.