Time Management!
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Abby could swear the room was tilting to the left and to the right. But she knew that she was actually sitting still in favorite lab stool. The way she was feeling right now had made her lose track of time. Her music was blaring at levels that should be illegal, her lab was in a mild state of chaos. There were Caf-pow cups along each counter, chocolate candy wrappers and caffeine gum wrappers were trailing all along the trash can. In her state of caffeine overload, she realized that she could never play basketball. Tony made it look so easy. She found it hard to even read the clock on the wall. "Ohhh…shit…. I think it looks like…oh I guess….07 something…..Ohhhh! Think Abby…Overpower this feeling.. if Gibbs finds this place looking like this he and his superpowers will have figured it out." Abby tried to will herself to get moving, but between her heart pounding at an accelerated rate, and her inability to focus, she had failed to notice the entry one pissed off Special Agent.
"Figured out what Abs?" Gibbs asked innocently. He was willing to see just how far Abby would go to get herself out of the mess.
"UMMM! Damn…I lost my train of thought." Abby knew she was busted. But her mouth did not heed the warning from her ass and her brain and she decided to try to pass off a good old fashion lie. "Ohhh. Gibbs, you see…. I had walked in here at 0600 and noticed that I had not closed down my Polymerase Chain Reaction machine, so that made the specific sets of oliglionucleotides that I needed to destabilize, meaning that now have to reset my machine." Abby was so wired from the caffeine, she hardly breathed as she spoke the technical jargon. Abby knew that any technical information makes Gibbs uncomfortable and she hoped that this was working. " I mean, that was such a newbie mistake, so to make thing short, I have nothing for you so you can scoot and I will call as soon as I do."
As Abby tried to stand up, the room started to spin even more. Her knuckles grasped the counter edge trying to maintain balance, and not set off any alarms from Gibbs of just how off balance she was. But Gibbs trained eye had not only noticed the state of disarray of her lab, and the total over consumption of caffeine as he entered, he also noticed the dilation of her pupils and the shakiness in her hands. "Abby?" Gibbs started to ask her just how much caffeine she had ingested, but as he started to walk across the lab, Abby let go of the counter and started crumbling to the floor.
Gibbs saw her start to fall and ran and caught her and gently slid her to the ground. "Abby,, Abs? Come on wake up sweetie." Gibbs tried to gain some sense of control over his rushing emotions. Flipping open his phone he called Ducky." Duck, I need you ASAP in Abby's lab. She is unconscious, shallow breathing and a fast and irregular pulse. " Next he called Tony." Tony grab Mcgee and Ziva and get to Abby's lab pronto. She collapsed." Knowing those two words would sent his agents into a sense of urgency, he could literally count the seconds before he heard the door to the stairwell slam close.
"Oh, my God. Boss….is she?" Tony asked with a sense of fear in his voice.
"She is not dead, just unconscious. Look around to see just how much caffeine she might have ingested?"
"Oh, Dear, Jethro.." Ducky said as he approached Abby laying on the floor. "What happened?"
"I don't exactly know Duck. All I know is that last night I told Abby she had to be out of here by 2230. She had already been here for 15hrs straight. Fornell came in around 2200 with a piece of evidence. Abby stayed all night and processed the evidence, even though she knew what she was supposed to have done. It could have waited until this am. DAMN! When she wakes up….." Gibbs had stood up to walk towards the trash can.
"OWWWW! My head." Abby was starting to come to and she opened her eyes. Looking straight in to the eyes of one upset English doctor.
"Ducky?" Gibbs asked as her heard Abby speak.
"Bring me some water Jethro.. Abigail, how are you feeling?" Ducky asked.
"A little better now." Abby said as she took the glass from Gibbs hand, refusing to look up at him and to see just how upset he may be. "I still feel a little shaky on the inside, and my heart is still beating fast, but at least I am not dizzy anymore." Abby said with a gentle laugh as she tried to sit up.
"Do you think this is funny Abby?" Gibbs asked as he now knelt down beside her and pulled her chin to look directly into his eyes.
Abby, now looking deep into the very upset set of blue eyes, now felt remorseful and scared. What she saw in those depths made her tear up. "No..No. never Gibbs, I just. I just…"
Tony and the rest of the team had been standing patiently by waiting for something, but when he heard the giggle it set him off. " You just what ABIGAIL! You just scared the crap out of us here and you want to laugh? If I could..could..ARGHHH! You risk you health and well being to easily. I could smack you now!" Tony started to storm across the lab, but Ziva's quick arm held him back.
"Tony, calm down.. I think we can leave that to Dad over there. From the looks he has been giving Abby, he could start going off any time now. McGee. Come on we are no longer needed here." Ziva said as she gave one last look to Abby, just making sure she was okay, as they proceeded to exit the lab and go back to the bullpen.
"Guys. I am sorry." Abby said as tears formed in her eyes. She just tucked her head to her chest and listened as Ducky gave his impression.
"Well, good thing Jethro, I think Abby had a caffeine overload, which sent her heart into a tachcardy rhythm. I mean.. it was beating so fast adequate oxygen could not get supplied so she passed out until her heart got back into the correct rhythm. She just needs to drink plenty of water to help flush out the rest of the caffeine, she needs to lay off the caffeine for a few days to give her system a break and most importantly, she needs to rest."
"What!" Abby now sat up fully awake, listening to Ducky majorly screw up her way of life. "No Way in hell am I giving up.."
As soon as Abby had started her rant, Gibbs looked over her shoulder and saw Ducky give the nod that she was well enough to take a little dad talk.
Gibbs reached down and roughly grabbed Abby up by the arm and landed two very hard SWAT!SWAT! to Abby's backside.
"OWWW!OWWW! Gibbs what the…"
"You just passed out in your own lab, you lied to me, you directly disobeyed and order and now you want to argue with the good doctor here. I don't think so Abs." Gibbs said in his paternal voice. Now was not the time for comfort, now was the time to let lil' miss Abby know just how upset he was.
Ducky intervened before things got to rough. "Gibbs she either needs to go to a hospital where she can.."
"Hell no, no hosp..OWWW! Abby reacted as Gibbs landed another swat on her ass.
"As I was saying before I was so rudely interrupted, where she can be monitored, or she needs to go where she can be watched and make sure she follows ALL the rules. "
"Well that is an easy one Duck." Gibbs answered as he still had a firm grasp on Abby's upper arm. " She will go home with me, the director will put her on medical leave until she is fit to return to her lab."
"What? Come on.. please Gibbs.." Abby pleaded. "I need my lab."
"No, whatch'ya need is a good father-daughter discussion over my knee. And don't think you won't get one." Gibbs turned her now to face him, his face only inches away as he spoke softly yet with an undeniable force. "You will tell Ducky thanks for rushing to help you, you will then be escorted to your house by me…."
"Giiiibbbbsss!" Abby pleaded. "I drove myself here and I can't leave my baby hearse here. I am well enough to drive, I don't need my hand held. "
"Actually Abigail." Gibbs said using her full name just to stress just how upset he was. " I will be holding a tight grip on your hand. You chose to lie and disobey me like a teenager, then I will treat you like one. First, you are grounded from driving for 2 weeks."
"2 WEEKS!" Abby started to get upset at this intrusion, but seeing the fire in Gibb's eyes, she knew she had better temper her responses.
"Yep, and that is just the tip of the iceburg." Gibbs growled.
"Well, I hate to interrupt this family discussion, Jethro, but I need to return to Autopsy. I will swing by your place this evening to check on Abigail." Ducky exited the lab and headed back to work.
"Abby, you have 5 minutes to shut down all your machines, get you bag, give you keys to McGee and meet me at my desk. Is THAT clear enough for you or do I need to stay here and help you?"
Abby jerked her arm away and huffed. "No! Crystal clear, sir!" Abby said as Gibbs turned towards the door. Thinking Gibbs had left Abby muttered, "No, what I really need is a stick to shove up one Leroy. OWWW! OWWW! OWWWW!"
Gibbs had not left and had heard her little tirade. He decided to nip this in the bud, so he strode over to her and landed three more hard licks to her already tingling backside. "That just earned you more trouble, lil' one, want to go for more while I am here." Gibbs asked with one raised brow, tempting her to continue on.
"No, no, I will be there in 5 minutes. " Abby said as she started flipping off machines. She turned to make sure Gibbs was leaving the lab and it was then as the doors opened she heard.
"You only have 4 now! Better get a move on, or I will be here with my belt next." Gibbs said as the doors closed.
'What have I gotten myself into? ' Abby asked herself.
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