NCIS:
TIMOTHY MCGEE, IF I HAVE TO TELL YOU AGAIN...
DISCLAIMER:
NCIS and characters do not belong to me.
SUMMARY:
McGee keeps stealing glances across the lab at Abby and doesn't think she knows. Abby feels McGee glancing over at her and yells at him.
CHAPTER 9: TELLING ABBY THE NEWS...
TWO DAYS LATER...
Ziva, Tony and Gibbs had found places to sit around the room, while Tim sat by her side holding her hand.
Everyone was asleep when Abby opened her eyes and looked around.
Tony and Ziva in chairs side by side, her head on his shoulder. Gibbs sat in a chair on her right, while Tim sat on her left with his hand in hers.
Looking harder at Tim, she noticed something was wrong. He looked like he hadn't slept in a week, but there was also something else that she couldn't place.
"Abby?" Gibbs she heard Gibbs say, that's when everyone woke up and made their way over to the bed.
"H-how do you feel?" Tim asked.
"Better, what's wrong?" Abby asked and everyone turned their attention to Tim.
"Why would you ask if something is wrong?" Tim asked and she knew he was stalling.
"I can see it in your eyes. What happened?" Abby asked.
"We'll come back in a little bit." Ziva said and pushed Tony toward the door, Gibbs followed closing the door behind him.
"Now will you tell me?" Abby asked.
"The doctors said you were drugged..." Tim began and then she saw he was fighting back tears, she didn't want to hear the rest.
"What..." Abby began.
"You...we...lost our baby." Tim finished at last and she jerked her hand away from his.
"Go..." Was all Abby said.
"Abby..." Tim said pleading with her.
"Just go! I don't want to talk to you!" Abby said in a danger voice.
"Abby..." Tim said again.
"This is your fault!" Abby yelled at him.
"My fault, How is this my fault?" Tim asked in surprise.
"I left that night, because of you! They were waiting and kidnapped me when I got home!" Abby yelled tears streaming down her face.
"I went to get something!" Tim said as he started to reach over to wipe the tears, but she slapped his hand away.
"What was so important that night?" Abby asked him.
"It doesn't matter now." Tim told her sadness in his voice.
"It matters, because it was important enough that you couldn't tell me!" Abby yelled at him as the door opened and a nurse walked in.
"If you two don't stop yelling I'm going to have to ask you to leave." The nurse told Tim, before the door closed Ziva, Tony and Gibbs made their way back into the room.
"What was it that you had to get? If you don't want to tell me...then just go!" Abby told him, but he just sat there.
"Abby, you need to calm down." Gibbs warned from beside her.
"Get out!" She told Tim again, with a broken heart Tim got up and walked out of the room.
He had almost made it all the way out of the hospital, when he bumped into someone.
"Sorry." He mumbled.
"Timothy, is something wrong?" As a voice he knew stopped him and then he looked up to see Ducky.
"Ducky, What are you doing here?" Tim asked.
"I was just on my way to see, Abigail. I find I'm surprised you're not in the room with her." Ducky replied.
"I was just going to head home for a while." Tim told the sadness still in his voice Ducky.
After another couple of minutes of talking with Tim, Ducky went to visit Abby.
OUTSIDE...
Tim made his way outside; still no one knew where he had gone the night that Abby disappeared.
Where he found a bench to sit on, when he looked up a few minutes later...
"Hey, Probie," Was all Tony said and sat down.
"I told her about the baby." Tim told him.
"Is that why she was yelling at you?" Tony asked and Tim nodded.
ABBY'S ROOM...
By the time Ducky arrived to see Abby, she was asleep.
"Jethro, is Abigail okay?" Ducky asked.
"I don't know, Duck. The nurse just had to sedate her." Gibbs said.
"Well she has been through a terrible ordeal. I saw Timothy on my way here; he did not look too well." Ducky said and looked confused.
"Abby lost the baby and she's blaming, McGee." Gibbs explained.
"Ash, I think that would explain everything. I thought that Anthony would be in here as well." Ducky said.
"I think he went to find, McGee." Ziva said sitting down in the chair that Tim had been sitting in, just a little while before.
Ducky and Gibbs left the room, leaving only Ziva sitting beside Abby.
OUTSIDE...
"I think I've lost, Abby for good." Tim told Tony.
Tim could feel the tears in his eyes, but tried to hide them.
"What did you go to get her the night she got kidnapped?" Tony asked and with a sigh Tim reached in his pocket.
"This..." He replied and opened the small box.
"A ring, you were going to propose to her?" Tony asked.
"Yes, but she left the room and closed herself in the bathroom. Then later when she came out, she left my apartment and I never had a chance to ask her. Now I guess I've lost her forever." Tim told Tony.
For a while Tony and Tim just sat there in silence.
They looked up when they saw a shadow on the ground and there stood Ziva.
"I thought you were sitting with, Abby." Said Tony.
"Gibbs is sitting with her. After you..."Ziva pointed to Tim."...left the nurse had to come in and sedate her." Ziva said.
"Is...Is she doing any better?" Tim asked.
"Well since you had to tell her right after she woke up and they had to sedate her...you figure it out." Ziva said and her voice sounded cold as ice.
"This is all my fault. If I just would have gotten to ask her that night...none of this would have happened." Tim said and it was then Ziva noticed something in his hand.
"What's that?" Ziva asked curious.
"This? Something I bought Abby the night she disappeared." Tim said and Ziva reached down taking it out of his hand.
"Is this..." Ziva began.
"I was going to ask her that night. Now she will probably never want to talk to me again." Tim said and looked down at the ground.
"Why don't we go back inside?" Ziva suggested giving the ring and box back to Tim.
"You go ahead. I'm going home." Tim said and got up.
"I'll give you a ride home." Tony said getting up.
"No, I can drive myself." Tim told him, but Tony had taken his keys.
Ziva watched them go and then headed back to Abby's room.
