Second chapter to this story!!! In this story, it takes place after Gibbs comes back for Ziva, but then leaves again, he doesn't stay like he does in the show. I've just got a good idea for this, so that's what's going to happen. ENJOY!!!

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Abby looked sadly at the handcuffs that had just a short while ago cuffed her wrist to Gibbs' wrist.

"Never mind, false alarm." Abby said as she hung up the phone and hugged Gibbs tightly. "Gibbs! I was so sure you'd be on a plane halfway to Mexico by now!" While she hugged him, she deftly cuffed his left wrist to her right wrist and when she backed away, she held up their cuffed wrists and said, "Sorry, you're a flight risk."

"Abby!" Gibbs exclaimed, but she dragged him over to her computer, saying,

"We're gonna figure out this case, Gibbs, we always do." Gibbs just looked at her, and she smiled at him before twisting his cuffed arm back so she could hug him, while he just tried to get her to uncuff him.

She smiled gently, remembering how he had begged and pleaded to get out of the handcuffs, but she hadn't complied, knowing that he was going to leave. Finally, he had looked around and spotted where she hid the key. He grabbed them and uncuffed himself, and walked out, leaving Abby standing there with a broken look on her face.

"Don't leave me, Gibbs." She whispered, before walking over to her office and uncuffing herself as well. She sat down in her corner with Bert, and waited for one of the team to come and tell her that Gibbs was gone. She knew it was coming, but she didn't know when. And that made it all the more heart-breaking.

Finally, she heard the elevator door open, and heard someone walk in. "Abbs?" Gibbs' voice called, and Abby dared not believe it.

"In here." She called back, and when she looked up, Gibbs was standing there, looking down at her. He opened his mouth to say something, but instead just set his coffee down and sat next to her.

"We got the guy, Abbs. It was Mickey that was at the bank robbery and killed those men." He said quietly, and Abby looked sharply at him, before letting her head fall back into Bert's stomach, making him fart.

"Just goes to show you, you can't trust anyone." She said quietly, and Gibbs put a hand on her arm, saying,

"I trust you, Abby."

"I know. We're the exception. I trust you too." She said, and stood up quickly.

"Don't you have a plane to catch or something?"

"Yes, I do." Gibbs said, still sitting. She held her hand out to him, saying,

"You want a ride?" He looked up at her strangely, but then took her hand, pulling himself up.

"Sure. I'd like that." He said with a small smile, and she put Bert down on her desk as they walked out.

Abby let a few tears leak from her eyes, as she remembered how they had been totally silent until Gibbs had gotten into the driver's seat of her car, leaving no room for argument from her. She had flipped the station over and over, until Gibbs but a hand on hers, saying quietly,

"Abbs, slow down. Find a station, or turn it off. You're driving me insane." She smiled softly and turned it off, leaning back in her seat. The drive to the airport was short, and when they got there, Gibbs turned and said to Abby, "You don't have to come in with me, you know."

"I know. But I'm going to anyways." She said with a smile, and he nodded, getting out with her. She started talking about how she was getting a new machine the next day, and she told him about what it was going to do, but then Gibbs grabbed her arm and put his finger to her lips, saying quietly,

"Abbs, I'm saying this as nicely as I possible can. Be quiet." She smiled and nodded, and he let go of her. They walked in together, in companionable silence, and finally got to Gibbs' boarding gate. They were already boarding, so Abby began prattling on about how she was going to miss him, and Gibbs finally got fed up. He grabbed her by the arms and pressed his lips to her fiercely for a long moment.

"Gibbs." She breathed, when he let go of her.

"That was the only way I could think of to get you to stop talking! I'm leaving, Abbs, nothing you can say could change that. Okay?" He said, and she nodded, her head still spinning from his kiss.

"Okay." She said, tears filling up her eyes.

"Semper Fi. Te amo, Abbs." He said, signing, "My girl," on her cheek as he walked past her, striding into the plane. Abby watched him go with tears in her eyes, and when she saw his plane disappear into the sky, she walked to her car and drove home, her mind still spinning.

That had been last night, and now Abby sat at her desk in her lab, staring at the computer screen. All night the words 'te amo' that Gibbs had said to her haunted her. She knew what they meant, but she just couldn't remember what they meant, exactly.

Finally, she admitted defeat and looked them up, and found that they meant "I love you" in Spanish. Abby stared at her computer screen in shock, Gibbs had never uttered those words aloud to her. He had signed them, but never actually said them.

Abby mentally smacked herself, telling herself to get her mind off Gibbs and back onto her work, though she didn't have any at the moment. With a sigh she walked to the elevator and decided to pay Ducky and Jimmy a visit. She bounded into the morgue, and saw Ducky sitting at his desk, and Jimmy was drawing on a dry-erase board.

"I'm bored." Abby announced, jumping up on one of the autopsy tables and sitting there.

"I see that." Ducky said, looking up from his magazine. Abby just smiled sadly and Ducky added, "Is everything okay, Abby? I couldn't hear any music blaring from you lab, I was wondering where you were."

"Oh, I'm fine." Abby said, but added, "Just missing Gibbs."

"Yes, well, we all are. Isn't that right, Mr. Palmer?" Ducky said with a sigh, and Jimmy looked up, confused, saying,

"What? Oh, I'm sorry, I wasn't listening."

"That's quite all right, Mr. Palmer. Never mind." Ducky said, and Abby's cell rang. She flipped it open saying,

"Hello?"

"Abby. I wasn't sure if you'd answer." A voice said, and the blood drained out of Abby's face. She raced out of the morgue, saying,

"I almost always answer my phone, you know that." She raced into her lab and shoved McGee out of the way while she quietly tapped at the keyboard to trace the call.

"I do. But still, I just, I don't know what I was thinking. So, are you at work, Abby?"

"Yes, I am. Why?"

"I was wondering if you wanted to, you know, do lunch or something like that."

"Are you kidding me? Did you just seriously ask me that?" Abby exclaimed in disgust just as the location came up. McGee was looking at Abby strangely, but she didn't offer any explanation.

"Well, I know you love me still, Abby. You can't lie…"

"Yeah, yeah, I know. You've said it a million times, I can't lie to my heart." Abby snapped, writing the location down. She wrote something else on it and shoved it into McGee's hands. He looked down at it and understood in an instant. He dashed away, going upstairs where he said,

"Tony, Ziva, get your guns, we've gotta go!" Tony and Ziva stood up, looking confused, and McGee said added as he grabbed his gun, "Mikel Mawher broke out of prison, he's talking to Abby now. She traced the call, so we've gotta get there before he leaves!" This time there was no hesitation in Tony and Ziva's movements as they both cursed aloud and dashed to the elevator.

Meanwhile, down in the lab, Abby kept talking to Mikel. "Mikel, why are you even trying to get back together with me?"

"You're bodyguard's gone." Mike sneered, and Abby was shocked.

"How in the hell do you know Gibbs is gone?" She said, and Mikel said,

"I have my sources, Abby. But since he's not in our way, we can finally be happy together."

"Get this through your thick skull, Mikel, I hate you! You're stalking me! Leave me the hell alone!" She said heatedly, and she heard the door wherever Mikel was burst open, and heard Tony's voice say,

"NCIS, put your hands behind your head!"

"Damn you, Abby! I'm going to kill you!" Mikel exclaimed, and then the line went dead. Abby knew his threat was sincere, and her hands started to shake.

"Abby? Are you down here?" Jenny's voice said. Abby turned her head to see Jenny standing there, and she said,

"Um, Director?"

"Yes, Abby?"

"Permission to hug?" She asked quietly, and Jenny smiled.

"You don't have to ask, Abby." Abby hugged her, and Jenny said, "Tony called me, Mikel got away from them. He wanted me to come down here until they could get there." Abby froze and backed away, saying,

"He got away from them?"

"I don't know how, but believe me, I will find out. You'll be fine, Abby." Jenny said reassuringly, and Abby nodded. She walked over and grabbed Bert, hugging him tightly.

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I know this isn't the best ending, but I couldn't think of anything else to write at the moment! I promise I will eventually, and thanks for reading! I hope you liked it, and adios for now!!! (PS, did I spell Mikel's first and last name right? I wasn't sure, please let me know! THANKS!)