A/N: This is the last chapter of this small series so please review and tell me what I did right and wrong. Thanks!

Disclaimer: NCIS and all characters are copywritten to Donald Bellisario and Balisarius Productions and CBS

Abby pushed open the door into Tim's abandoned apartment. Although it had been less than 2 weeks since the accident, to her it felt like a lifetime. She walked solemnly past the kitchen area and into the closest thing to a workroom and living room Tim had.

"Jethro, here boy." Abby called out and was delighted to be met with numerous tapping sounds as Jethro's paws made contact with the hard floor. Even though Tim had been dead, they couldn't get Jethro to leave the apartment without Abby and she was locked away mourning over the team's loss.

She set her parasol on the workbench and kneeled to the noticeably saddened dog. While he may be just an animal, he had understood things such as when Tony and Gibbs came to collect him and mentioned the words "Accident" "Tim" and "Dead". He perked up when he saw the woman who rescued him and he happily licked her face and in response received a warm hug around the neck.

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"Jethro I need you to find me Tim's typewriter and manuscripts. Can you do that for me boy?" Abby asked in a forced upbeat tone. The dog barked once in reply and headed off towards the bedroom Tim formerly occupied. When they entered Abby saw the cherished typewriter, a old polished pipe, and the document she had come to retrieve.

She still didn't know if she had imagined or actually heard Tim talking to her but when she saw the manuscript she nearly broke down crying again. Tim had spoke to her. There was a message to her in his work.

Jethro barked at the table and then jumped on Tim's bed which showed obvious signs of having been used by him. Multiple imprints showed where the dog would lay his head at night when alone.

"Good boy Jethro. Good boy." She said as she sat in Tim's writing chair and picked up the well taken care of pipe and looked at it. She was apprehensive to see what Tim had wrote to her and wasn't sure if she wanted to know. Since it was a sequel to Deep Six, she had fears it contained an acidic note about how McGee and McGregor and Abby and Amy were perfect for their respective counterpart but because of what she said would never be together.

But the other half of her wanted to read it and hoped it contained a declaration of his love, written out and forever in ink. Never to be destroyed or erased from the public knowledge. That last thought made up her mind and she replaced the manuscript with Tim's writing pipe and started reading. An hour later she was rereading what she'd already read multiple times.

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In the lower margin of the page usually reserved for dedications, "This book is dedicated to the inspiration for Amy Sutton for being there when life was hardest, when Tommy and Lisa would not let up on the harassing and for being the ink to my pen. I'll love her till death cast me away from this world and then in the afterlife. ~Thom E. Gemcity 2010"

Abby finally was broken from her repetitive trance by Jethro putting his head on her lap and whining. She looked at him with watery eyes and stood up. When she had left the apartment for the final time only 5 things were missing, the typewriter, the pipe, the manuscript, a lovable German Shepherd, and a receipt that helped Tim settle an "urge".

Note: The receipt is a mention to Tim's first appearance where Tim related to Tony that he took care of the "urge" to get a tattoo by getting a "Mom" tattoo on his butt. I made Abby take it as a momento of something he had done for her.