So I finally found time to update this story! As promised, I haven't abandoned it!!
Abby awoke early in the morning, being used to get up early. She was lying half atop of Gibbs and he was snoring softly. If her parents hadn't died she now would have been the happiest person in the world, waking up in Gibbs arms. She was feeling really relaxed and ready to face the day as best as she could. Slowly she started to untangle herself and made her way to the kitchen, preparing coffee for Gibbs and herself. Her thoughts were spinning around what she had to do the next few weeks. She had to go down to arrange all the things for the funeral, deciding whether to keep or sell the house and so on. She leaned her had against the board and sighed loudly, when suddenly a hand was touching her shoulder and she was startled.
"Abbs, you should take the day off!" Gibbs was turning her around softly. His hair was sticking out in different directions and he looked even more handsome than usually.
"Gibbs, how often have I told you not to sneak up on me, you nearly gave me heart attack!!" she was yelling but accepting his embrace, inhaling his scent. "Although that would make everything easier." She murmured more to herself than to Gibbs, but she knew he had heard it because he was intensifying his embrace.
"Abbs...never, never say that again! I couldn't live without you, you know that!" his voice was low and full of emotions. And Abby was starting to cry again. It was too much for her, she loved him too, but she couldn't confess this to him, he was still about going to get married with Hollis. When she stopped crying she turned around and filled two cups with hot, steaming coffee.
"I'm going to work today Gibbs, if I'm staying here, I'm going insane and if I have people, friends around me, I'm not as lonely as I felt yesterday! I don't know how I can thank you Gibbs, I don't know what I would have done if you hadn't come. It's just my parents were so important to me, they gave me so much, I just ...why did this have to happen? Why did they have to drive that road? Why was the other driver drunk? Why? Tell me why?!" Abby was shouting again, she was so angry about this drunken person; she hated him so much she couldn't even express.
Gibbs was listening to her; he knew she had to come to terms with this on her own. But he could really understand all of her feelings. He had asked himself the same things, it was even worse, he had no reason to continue living, but somehow he made his way out of it and thank god he didn't kill himself back then.
Gibbs drove them to NCIS, buying a huge Caf-pow! and four coffees on the way and then they made their way to the bullpen. Abby was taking a seat in Gibbs's chair and slurping her still cold Caf-pow! Gibbs had passed the coffees to the other three agents, who were murmuring their thanks and returning back to their work, and indeed DiNozzo did the same thing without saying a word!! Gibbs grew suspicious, something was definitely not right; he could feel it in his gut. At that moment Vance was calling him up to the MTAC and he was up the stairs in no time. When he was out of sight DiNozzo was the first to ask.
"Is it true, that Gibbs was about to get married yesterday?" Abby just looked at him but didn't answer that. DiNozzo kept staring but finally said:
"So it's true. And this woman, how could he want to marry her? She isn't even a redhead!"
Abby was getting distressed, she didn't want to discuss Gibbs's love life in front of everyone else and it was, unfortunately, none of her business. So she stood up when suddenly Hollis was coming across the bullpen. She stopped two centimetres in front of Abby, already steaming and started to shout.
"You did this on purpose!! You just called him so that he wouldn't get married. What do you want? Do you love him? If I were you, I wouldn't believe that Gibbs could fall in love with such a bitch, like you!"
Tony, Tim and Ziva were out of their chairs, standing behind Abby, showing Hollis which side they were on.
Abby was at first shocked but then answered coolly:
"I don't need to do anything. He'll always be there for me! Are you that unsure of your love to him that you now have to insult me? Does it really make you feel better? And in regard to the feelings for my silver-haired-fox that's none of your business."
When she had finished she took a slurp of her Caf-pow! The others were just staring at her, as well as the rest of the persons working on that floor.
"So you really did this on purpose, faking something tragic happened to you just to get his attention? Did your parents tell you not to interrupt others, when they're doing something important?" Hollis was now very furious
That was it what was making Abby nearly break down again, but she'd never do it in front of all their colleagues and friends. It was exact in that moment when Ducky came along.
"My dear Ladies, this is no manner to talk to each other. It reminds me of my time back in London, in 1973, when I met this woman, she was lovely, oh yes, indeed, but..."
Abby just pulled Ducky to the elevator and was happy that the door opened as soon as she had pressed the button. Once inside the elevator she started to cry and Ducky was letting her cry into his shoulder.
"My poor Abigail, she didn't intent to be that rude! Don't take her serious, she probably doesn't understand this special connection between you and Gibbs." Ducky tried to console her somehow.
"Oh Ducky...that's so nice of you...but it's not that...my parents...yesterday...died in a ...car accident." And then she cried some more "That's why I called Gibbs. I just needed someone to be there...to hold me...to make me feel alive!"
Ducky always suspected that there was more than meets the eye to this special pair, but he never suspected that Abby was really in love with Gibbs, he had to find out if Gibbs was as well in love with Abby. But first he had to find a way to cheer her up, at least a little bit. He could understand how hard it is for her to lose her parents. I was already very hard for him to let his mothers go to a nursing home, but still she was there. And Abby had lost her hold into life, she needed an anchor and he didn't know if her friends would be enough to get her through the next time. She always was behaving like the strong, grown-up girl, but inside, she was a very fragile person.
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