"Gibbs" he gruffly answered the phone.
"Hey boss, it's McGee."
"This had better be good McGee, I'm kind of in the middle of something here" he wasn't really, he was just trying to get a reaction out of his youngest agent.
"Uh…boss…I…"
"Just say it McGee"
"Well, I just wanted to let you know that Abby is staying at my place this weekend"
"McGee why are you telling me this"
"I just wanted you to know that she's there, keeping an eye on the place for me, and given that Michael Mowers was released last week I didn't want to take any chances."
"What…you mean to tell me that that psycho was released. Why didn't anybody tell me about this?"
"She didn't want you to worry"
"Damn it McGee, why didn't you tell me? Never mind, I'll check on her"
It wasn't minutes after he hung up the phone that he was in his car and on his way to McGee's apartment to first make sure she was ok, and second to give her a piece of his mind for not telling him about Michael.
He could here the music through the door when he began knocking. After several unanswered attempts, he grabbed the knob and turned it. Shaking his head at the unlocked door he walked into McGee's apartment and just stood their closing the door behind him. He was trying to make sense of what he was seeing. Abby was bent over picking up what looked to be rose pedals off of the floor, he saw the half melted candles everywhere, what looked to be broken glasses, an overturned chair, and what he caught out of the corner of his eye was what looked like a ring box.
Abby turned around "Gibbs" she shouts as he startled her "what the hell are you doing here"
"Checking in on you, and why the hell was that door unlocked"
"I must've forgotten to lock it behind me"
"You seem to be forgetting a lot of things these days"
"What…what are you talking about" she says defensively
"You apparently forgot to tell me about a certain stalker that was just released"
"Oh, I didn't really forget, I just didn't tell you"
"And why is that" as he closes the distance between them
"Because I didn't want to worry you, and I really believe that he has put it behind him and moved on"
"Damn it Abbs, don't be so naive. He's not going to put it behind him, and what the hell happened here anyway?"
"It's a long story and I … don't really want to get into it. As you can see, I am fine, so you can go"
"I'm not going anywhere until you tell me what happened here"
"Well then if you staying grab a garbage bag and help"
He did as she asked. Not because she told him to, but because of the opportunity it presented him with. He figured if he was pretending to help clean up he would be able to snoop around and try to figure out what actually happened although he thought he had a pretty good idea. The first place he was going was directly to that ring box on the table. He opened the box to a beautiful diamond and his heart fell. Before he could gather his thoughts he blurted out "You told him no didn't you?" She turned to look at him confusingly. "He asked you to marry him and you said no didn't you?" Knowing there was no avoiding the topic, she gave in. "Yes genius, you figured it out. Bravo!!" She said. Good girl he thought to himself.
"Why the hell are you staying in his apartment then and why are you cleaning up his mess…" he figured he better stop talking before he said what his brain was thinking. He wanted to tell her what a big mistake it would've been for her to marry him, and that he's happy that she turned him down. Happy for her, not so happy for McGee, he knew McGee loved her, he saw it is his eyes, but he knew McGee wasn't the one for her. He just needed her to figure that out for herself. For starters she says "I was planning on staying with him while they fixed the plumbing in my apartment until two days ago when I…I…I knew it wasn't going to work." Seeing the emotion begin to form in her eyes he interrupts her and says "I'll tell you what, let's quickly finish this up, we'll get take out, go back to my place and get reacquainted with my friend Jack Daniels." She hesitated and before she could reply he breaks in with "I'm not letting you stay here on your own until I here back from Tony and Ziva about Michael." "Where are Tony and Ziva she asks?" "Let's just say they are going to get reacquainted with Mr. Mower this evening and leave it at that he replies.