Part three

Abby woke that morning to a pounding headache. It took her a few seconds to realise were she was. Images of last night flickered through her head like the pages of a scrap book. Abby wasn't quite sure what was real and what was a dream. Her gut told her that she had said something to Gibbs that she shouldn't have said, but she couldn't quite remember what it was.

She covered her head with the blanket before the smell of coffee and bacon drifted over to her.

"Morning" Gibbs shouted from the kitchen.
"Not so loud" Abby whispered. She got up, wrapped the blanket round her shoulders and made her way to the dinning room.
"Something smells good"
"Best hangover cure there is" Gibbs said placing a bacon and egg sandwich and a fresh cup of coffee before Abby.
"Thank you"

They sat and ate in silence for a while. Gibbs had spent most of the night thinking about Abby and what she had said. He had come up with a plan, but he wanted to see what Abby would say first.

"Did I…um…do or say anything…um…embarrassing last night?" Abby asked biting her bottom lip.

Gibbs noticed she only did this when she was nervous about something.

"Depends what you call embarrassing?"
"Ok god" she said burying her head in her hands "what did I do?"
"You mean apart from cover me in ice cold water"
"Oh Gibbs I'm sorry"
"Don't apologies Abbs"
"I know it's a sign of weakness"
"Not to those you love" he said looking at her.

There was a flash of something across her face. Did she remember what she had said, or was she remembering a dream?

"I'll have to remember that bit" she said smiling, trying to shake of the fact Gibbs knew more about last night than he was letting on. "Do you mind if I have a shower?"
"Go ahead"

While Abby headed upstairs Gibbs tidied away the breakfast things before he to went upstairs. He laid out an old baggy t-shirt on his bed for Abby, it was the she liked to wear when she stayed over. She didn't stay over often, usually when they had a bad case, or when work needed doing on her apartment, or when her car wouldn't work or when it was her birthday. Gibbs smiled to himself; she actually stayed over quite a lot.

As he turned to leave the room he came face to face with a wet towel covered Abby.

"Clean clothes on the bed. Then I'll take you home"
"Thank you Gibbs"

Abby dried off and put the t-shirt on before she looked at the clock. She ran downstairs as fast as she could.
"Gibbs we are so late for work, you have to take me home like now" She said running around gathering her boots and handbag.

Gibbs chuckled the clock in his room had stopped working a while ago, he just hadn't got round to repairing it

"All ready phoned in Abbs, we don't have to be in till 10am"
"But its almost noon Gibbs, hurry up"
He gathered his keys, phone, gun and badge. "Come on then"

Abby rushed to the car while Gibbs strolled, he was having too much fun to tell her the truth.

"Come on Gibbs I can't go to work like this, I need to change"
"I know" he smiled.

It wasn't until they were half way to Abbys that she realised what the time actually was. She hit Gibbs on the shoulder "when were you going to tell me?"

Gibbs smiled "knew you'd figure it out sooner or later"
"That is just mean"

Abby tried to sulk all the way to her apartment but she couldn't stay at mad at Gibbs for long.

Gibbs dropped Abby of at her apartment before he headed to the Navy yard.
Abby ran inside her apartment as fast as possible she didn't really want the whole building seeing her getting out of Gibbs car wearing just a t-shirt.
Abby watched out her window as Gibbs drove down the street. She collapsed on her sofa and let out a big sigh.

"I am never going to drink again" she told herself. Not after last night.
"Oh God!" she said sitting bold up right "I told him"

Abby stood up and started passing around her room "ok Abby what are you going to do? He would have said something wouldn't he? But this is Gibbs were talking about, he wont say anything. He'll think it was because I was drunk, and I was, but I did mean it. So, do I want Gibbs to know I meant it?"

She looked at the time again she had 90 minuets to get her self ready and to the navy yard. Abby took a couple of deep breaths to calm herself down she would wait until she was at work to decide what she was going to do.

Gibbs left Abbys apartment and headed for the NCIS with a smile on his face. He was more certain than ever about the decision he had made last night. Gibbs had everything planned, as long as Abby did what he thought she would do then everything would go smoothly.

He did make a quick stop at a coffee shop to grab his coffee and a Caf-Pow for Abby. Part one of his plan, make her smile, was in action. The Caf-Pow would be waiting in her lab for when she arrived.