Ghost from His Past

by syalie

On his way home, Gibbs catch a glimpse of someone that supposed to be death years ago, someone close to his heart, someone he tried so hard to forget. Force Gibbs to face with his past that he been avoid for years. Is that person is real or just fragment of his imagination? how will this effect his life

2. Chapter 1

Author: Syalie

Beta Reader: smithknk1

Thank you to my wonderful Beta Reader for his wonderful job, couldn't have done it without you

Disclaimer: All publicly recognizable characters, settings, etc. are the property of their respective owners. And no profit is earned through this creation.

Chapter 1: Ghost hunt

Gibbs forgot about his hunger as he drove back to his home and went directly to his storage room. He took something out of the bottom of his memory box, something he had never dared to open since he received it 38 years ago.

He ripped out the envelope and pull out a death certificate with the name of Diana Williams, his first wife, the one that he never had a chance to make her his legal wife, the one who was gone along with their unborn child and part of Gibbs heart.

Gibbs held Diana's death certificate in his hands, and thought back to the moment earlier. It couldn't have been Diana, but he refused to believe that it was just a coincidence that someone else could look so much like her, her green eyes, blonde hair, and her dimpled smile.

He still remembered the same sweet smile she gave him 38 years ago when he saw her off at the airport. It never crossed his mind that it would be the last time he would ever see that smile.

They never found her body among the dozens of other passengers. Did she survive the crash? But if she did survive, why she hadn't she contacted him?

His sleep was uneasy that night with all the sweet, sad and devastating memories that he had buried deep because they hurt so bad coming back to him.

***NCIS***NCIS***NCIS***

Gibbs was a private stationed in Iraq when he met Diana. She was a very smart and nice girl. In Gibbs eyes, she had the sweetest smile in the world. Every time she smiled, the cutest dimples Gibbs ever saw would appear on her cheeks and Gibbs couldn't believe his luck when she agreed to be his girlfriend.

Diana's parents were expert consultants for an oil company in Iraq and she was their only child. They were on a date when she got a phone call saying that her parents company had an accident and they were among the list of employee caught in the blast at the oil field.

Diana was devastated by the news. The death of her parents left her alone in the world. She didn't have any other relatives to rely on, and for a 19 years old girl, that was too much of a shock to take on. Gibbs stayed by her side through it all and decided that he couldn't leave her alone to handle the details. After making the arrangement for her parents' cremation, they decided to get married in a presence of the Marine Corps priest with Gibbs' fellow privates as their witnesses. They would file in the papers when they got home to US six months later after Gibbs deployment in Iraq was completed.

Unfortunately, fate would have another plan for them. When it was time to go home, Diana was four weeks pregnant and having bad morning sickness. The decision was made for her to fly on a commercial flight that would be more comfortable, while Gibbs flew on military transport. When Gibbs landed on US soil, instead of a loving wife, he was greeted with the bad news that his wife's plane was shot in the middle of the sea and there were no survivors found so far.

He tried so hard to find any news about the location of where the plane went down and volunteered to be in the search party, working non-stop 24/7. The plane was scattered over a large radius. After three months, he accepted the fact that Diana likely didn't survive and buried himself in his work, training as a sniper to go back to the front lines. The marriage itself was never recorded in his military record as Gibbs had never filed the paperwork. It was too painful for him to face the fact that Diana was gone and it left a big scar in Gibbs heart.

When Shannon and Kelly were killed, part of Gibbs cursed himself. He should have learned from the past. He should have been there for his family. He was so angry, toward the killer but mostly towards himself.

***NCIS***NCIS***NCIS***

Those memories woke him at dawn with wet eyes and for the first time in a long time, he allowed himself to mourn his dead wives and children.

Knowing that he wouldn't be able to go back to sleep, he brewed himself a pot of strong coffee. He needed a clear head to analyze the situation. He needed to make sure if that woman he saw last night was Diana or just someone that looked a lot like her.

He would snoop around the restaurant's neighborhood, in case she lived around there. Usually he would ask Tim's help for something like this, but the only pictures he had of her were worn out thirty eight years old pictures, Tim is very good at keeping secrets, and damn good at his job of finding information, but he didn't feel right to ask for his help for this one. It was too personal for him and he felt like he had to do this himself. Tim deserves his undisturbed weekend after the long weeks spent on the last case, and Gibbs was not even sure if the woman he saw last night really looks that much like Diana or was it just his mind playing tricks on him. He decided to do this his own way, the old fashioned way. It's a stakeout time tomorrow, and he felt grateful that he had cleared his team from any callouts this weekend. It's time for ghost hunt.