A/N: Sorry for the delay, life sometimes gets in the way!

Here is chapter 7: Abby's Help, enjoy...


As Gibbs and Abby's embrace ended Gibbs turned around put his right arm around her and said softly "Abby I need to sit, I feel like I'm going to collapse."

Abby quickly put hear arms around him as Gibbs leaned into her they then slowly walked back to the table carefully. Once they reached the table Abby helped him up on to it and she stood in front of him noticing the total exhaustion on his face. Abby tried to get him to lie down on the table; however, Gibbs was afraid to.

"Abby, please I can't do that they might drug me and cuff me to this damn table again!" Gibbs adamantly stated.

"I won't let them do that to you Gibbs, I promise and you know I keep my promises to you. I will be with you when you wake and we'll be back in your room, so lie down and rest as I get them to bring the gurney in to take you back to your room, Okay?" Abby said

Gibbs lied down and let himself drift off to sleep holding Abby's hand tightly in fear that it would all be gone when he woke if he would ever wake again.

Once Gibbs was asleep Abby carefully let go of his hand so not to wake him then walked over to the observation window and spoke "Dr. Cogwell can we move him back to his room at this time. He's no threat, he doesn't need to be drugged or tied to his bed, and this room is not comfortable for him and would make anyone anxious and grumpy. He trusts me so he won't get violent or out of control as long as I keep, we keep our promises to him and don't try and trick him at this time."

Dr. Cogwell agreed with Abby on everything she had sure proved it with the way she calmed Gibbs and his trust in her was evident. The door unlocked one of the young Technicians walked in with the gurney followed by two Guards. The men helped carefully move the sleeping Gibbs onto the gurney, he stirred a bit but Abby whispered to him that it was alright and to sleep and he never fully woke. Slowly they moved him back to his room. As soon as the group was out of the room the phone on the wall rang and Dr. Cogwell answered it, once he hung up he quickly left the room after being summoned to Dr. Riley's office.

Once back in Gibbs room and back into the much more comfortable bed and environment that Abby had made over the endless hours over the months she spent there. Abby sat on the edge of the bed holding Gibbs left hand in hers and softly telling him "That this hand is you all you, it may have been produced in a lab but it is you, I was there and helped them make you whole again. I felt I needed to be there to watch over everything that had to do with you, I wanted to make sure nothing wrong would happen or hurt you."

She looked down at his face knowing he is hearing her just like the whole time when he was in the coma. Abby's eyes glisten with unshed tears with her bottom lip clenched between her teeth. She thinks trying to figure out what will happen now, in the back of her mind she knows that not all of this was done for the good of the man in front of her. There must be more to this, someone must have plans beyond just having this Marine being alive and a little better than a normal human, there has to be more!

A little while later Gibbs eyes slowly open, however, begins to panic when he realizes he has no idea where he is and he sits straight up in a fight or flight reaction. Abby jumps up and quickly moves over to Gibbs and grabs his hand in an effort to try and calm him back down.

"Gibbs… Gibbs, it's okay your in your room with me Abby, you remember me Abby?" Abby says in a calming but lightning fast pace.

Gibbs takes a deep breath and calms down with the reassurance of Abby's touch and voice. They look at each other and smile, Abby chuckles a bit.

Gibbs then says with a bit of an embarrassed laugh "I'm sorry… I…I…I just didn't know where I was, I guess I panicked a little which is not like me."

"It's alright, I understand, I mean, hell the last thing you probably remember is being blown up and at the time thinking that you would never wake up again and then all of this and me." "You wake up in this strange place surrounded by strange people." "It has to be really confusing?" "Are you still having a lot of pain?" "Is there anything you need or I can get you?" Abby speedily babbles.

She stops at the sideways smile Gibbs gives her in reaction to how fast she rattled off so many observations and questions to him.

"Sorry Gibbs I just get so into my head at times I start to talk at warp speed. My brother use to make fun of me when we were kids and called me Energizer Abby." The whole time Abby was talking her hands were talking too unconsciously.

As Abby kept on talking Gibbs eyes soon focused on here rapidly moving hands and within an instant he realized he understood the words her hands were almost the same as those coming from her mouth. He raised his hands and asked in Sign Language (aka ASL); "How do I know this? Abby I need to be honest but I am having a problem remembering much of anything from before the explosion. The only constant I know is you!"

Abby's eyes moved up to look into Gibbs eyes which now had sadness about them and his hands dropped to his lap. Now that he had time to think to get over the initial shock of his situation he realized he had vague memories of anything from before the flashes, explosions and pain of the attack back in Afghanistan the day he should have died.