Gibbs: Abby, nothing is going to change.


Gibbs caught her itching a second time as he brought her the final Caf Pow of the night.

She took it happily. "Ah, a constant I hope never changes."

"I thought we were past this."

"We are…or at least I thought we are…were…" She tilted her head. "Sorry bad grammar."

"Abs…"

"No, I know… usually one of your hugs makes everything better. Especially your longer ones, but I was just thinking, which I know I shouldn't have been doing…but there's this rumor going around that Tony came out of the women's showers one night, and Barrett wasn't close behind…" She examined him. "You know don't you? Of course you know… you didn't yell at him did you? I mean you can if you want…but I was actually thinking about doing it…yelling at him, I mean…but you have this uncanny ability to yell without saying anything…and since I'm normally non confrontational, I can leave it to you…"

"Didn't yell at him Abs."

"Did you yell at her? Oh please tell me you did? Were you by a camera? Cuz I totally wanna see it."

He watched her continue to itch and placed his hand over hers to stop the motion. "Nothing is going to change."

"How can you say that?" She put down her Caf Pow and began to pace. "Tony broke a rule…a big rule…" She continued. "And there's really no sense in promising that things wont change, because things always change eventually, whether you plan for them or not… I mean, Director Sheppard coming on the scene was a change, right? And Kate…leaving. That was a change. And Jenny…leaving….you going off to Mexico…Ziva staying in Israel…Tony shipping out….McGee transferring to cyber crimes…" She took in a breath. "No particular order there…I'm a little scattered…"

He placed two hands on her shoulders to stop the pacing. "I'm still here."

"For now…" She pouted. "I'm telling you Gibbs I have a bad feeling about her."

"Me too Abs."

"And…"

"And I'm taking care of it." He placed a kiss on her cheek to assure her and stood there for a few more seconds before turning to leave.

It wasn't long after he left when she realized the urge to itch was gone.