A/N: First of all I wanna thank everyone who took the time to review the first chapter! :) There were some alerts that made me really happy as well :)
So, here's chapter 2. It's a little shorter than the first one but I hope you don't mind ;) Enjoy!
Eventually Ali heard someone at the door. That was probably Gibbs and he had a key. So Ali stayed curled up on the couch. Gibbs entered the room a couple seconds later and looked at Ali shocked.
"Ali.", he whispered and sat down next to her. It broke his heart to see her like this. "Shh. It's alright.", he promised. Ali stopped crying eventually and looked up at Gibbs. She sat up straighter.
"What's going on? What's wrong with you?", Gibbs questioned. Ali faced him. "I can't stop blaming myself. I.. Gibbs, what if they break up?", Ali asked with a really weak voice.
"We will not let that happen, Ali. I don't know what's going on but I promise we'll find out and fix this.", Gibbs assured her. She nodded and was a lot calmer now.
"I talked to Abby. She noticed that they are avoiding each other, too. But she also told me that Ziva is acting all strange and that she's been very quiet lately, which is very unlike Ziva. She didn't even want to talk to Abby about it today when they had breakfast. Plus according to Abby Tony is walking around with a very serious – maybe even hurt – expression on his face. Well he asked me if he could talk to me today. We are gonna grab dinner later.", Ali summarized.
"Then it is something about Ziva. Something is wrong with her.", Gibbs assumed. "Ya think?", Ali shot back. "If Tony wants to talk to you..Yes!", Gibbs explained.
"Something's wrong with Ziva? No! That can not be happening.", Ali said almost crying again. "Ali, maybe it's just a small problem.", Gibbs tried to calm her down. Ali thought about it.
What he said made sense. Ziva used to have struggles with a lot of small things. She didn't trust people easily and she was afraid of relationships. But she'd finally learned to trust, to love and to be believe – thanks to Tony.
All those issues were caused by The Somalia-Thing, as Ali used to call it. What if something happened that made the memories come back? Or even worse: What if the nightmares had come back? A
li faced Gibbs: "I think I might know what's going on." Gibbs stared at her. "Really?", he questioned. Ali nodded. "But I can't tell you before I now for sure. Sorry.", she explained.
He smiled. "No worries, Ali. That's fine. But let me know how things work out.", he replied. "I will.", Ali promised. Then Gibbs stood up and walked over to the door. "Gotta go back to work.", he said grinning.
"Tell Tony and Ziva that they don't have tomorrow off. No matter what!", he added. Ali laughed: "I will!" When Gibbs walked out Ali cried after him: "Gibbs? Thanks for coming over."
He turned and smiled. "Any time, Ali.", he said, then walked away. Ali looked at the clock. It was almost 1pm. Gosh, had that really taken her this long?
Actually she was supposed to meet Andrew at 3pm but she didn't want to spend that much time alone. She decided to send Andrew a text. "Andrew, can I come over – like right now? xoxo Ali."
The response came immediately. "Sure. Can't wait to see ya. xxx" Ali smiled. She went to her room and picked out her denim skirt and emerald green top.
From her make-up table she picked up the long stylish feather necklace and clipped her feather extensions in her hair. Thank God, she'd done her make-up earlier.
She grabbed her bag and slipped on her cowboy boots. Then she walked over to the door and slid on the ring Andrew had given to her. It was a silver one with a huge black flower that had some golden highlights.
It fit almost every outfit. Ali put her cell phone into her big-bag and grabbed the car keys. Then she went out of the apartment and took the car to Andrew's place.
A/N: Thanks for reading and please let me know what you thought in the reviews (I also accept anonymous reviews :D)!
Next chapter will be up as soon as possible :)