A short chapter just to keep the story moving. I've more to come. Thanks for all the support with the reviews.
"You are looking very happy this morning! I'm so glad to see you are okay!" Abby greeted enthusiastically throwing her arms around Gibbs's neck. Gibbs paused pulling his one hand out to avoid spilling his coffee and wrapping the other around Abby.
"Good morning to you as well Abby."
"I am very glad to see you this morning as well Gibbs, I was afraid that Abby was going to obtain another cow this morning if you did not come in on time." Ziva greeted.
"Have.." Tony corrected. "The word is have."
"Well, I am still glad that Gibbs came back to work today as I was not going to be able to handle Abby's frantic behaviour again today if he didn't." Ziva rolled her eyes.
"Well everyone can rest easy, I'm back today to work. Will someone give me a report or will I have to find it myself." Gibbs suggested and seeing that Gibbs was back to work Abby skipped off back to her lab. Tim came around the desk and started to talk.
"Abby what is it?" Tim asked as the three agents arrived in Abby's lab later on that day.
"I think Gibbs is hiding something from us." Abby announced and turned back to her computer.
"Whatever makes you think that?" Ziva asked confused.
"Well, for one thing he never takes a personal day, and he has been an absolute recluse up to today and now he appears to be himself again." Abby started to count off her concerns.
"We've all noticed that Gibbs has been distracted lately." Tony countered.
"Gibbs is a very private man. Perhaps he needed to take yesterday off to resolve his problems. Abby it is none of our business." Ziva reminded.
"Oh I think that is not so true my Stoic friend. Gibbs just doesn't snap out of his deep thinking behaviour like he did today. Plus I have evidence that he was just not hanging out at home yesterday." Abby hit a key on the screen and up popped some test results.
"What is this?" Tim asked as he came closer.
"A paint chip that I found on my lab floor a few hours ago. Gibbs was here looking for some results to the case. He apparently tracked a few of these paint chips off his shoe. Now I ask you why would Gibbs be painting something the colour of 'Enchanted'?" Abby asked. "Nothing in his house has this colour too it."
"Maybe he was helping out a friend?" Tony offered.
"A female friend perhaps?" Abby asked.
"Does this really matter Abby? If Gibbs has a personal relationship happening it is none of our business."
"It does matter Ziva don't you see? Normally by now if Gibbs had a woman in his life he wouldn't be quiet." Abby shook her head. "Plus the color Enchanted is more for little girls than older woman that Gibbs is attracted too. I have other proof too."
"What proof is that." Tony asked and Abby looked down at the floor.
"I can't tell you, but trust me it's important in discovering the truth behind Gibb's unusual behaviour." Abby tried to elude too the tests that she had done a few weeks ago, but Gibbs had asked her not to say anything about them and she didn't want to be disloyal to her friend.
"Well Abby, we're going to let you continue down this path of thought on your own. We've got a dead Marine to figure out what happened too. If you find anything related to that case can you let us know?" Tony smiled and turned to go.
"You're not going to help me figure out who this mystery person is in Gibbs life?"
"Nope, I think you'll have better luck if you try to figure this one out on your own." Tim agreed.
"Ziva? Not even you?" Abby asked looking somewhat stricken by the lake of interest.
"I have noticed that Gibbs is happier today. I would prefer to work with that Gibbs, how he got that way can remain a mystery to me for now. My advice to you my friend is to be careful and not interfere." Ziva nodded and turned to go.
"I don't need your help, I'll figure this out on my own." Abby called out as they left her lab and headed back to the elevator, Abby turned back to her computer. "Silly Agents." Abby mumbled and looked over at Burt. "I'm going to get to the bottom of this if it's the last thing I do."