Chapter 9 is up!!! ENJOY!!!

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"Abby go out the front and run like hell to Franks' house, and ask him which way to town if you go through the woods, all right?" Gibbs said desperately, and Abby exclaimed,

"I'm not leaving you" More bullets rang out, and Gibbs said in her ear,

"Go! I'll be there as soon as I can, as soon as I get rid of this bastard, okay?"

"No!" Abby said desperately, gripped his shirt tightly. To press her point, she pressed her lips to his for a heated moment and then whispered, "Don't make me leave, Gibbs."

"You have to. I need to keep you safe." Gibbs said over the roar of more bullets, and he framed her face with his hands. She opened her mouth to argue, but Gibbs put a finger to her lips, saying, "I couldn't stand it if you got hurt, Abbs."

When she still seemed hesitant, he brushed his lips with hers and said, "Please." She nodded reluctantly, and Gibbs shielded her as she crawled to the front door, and Gibbs began shooting back at the kid, hoping to draw attention to himself and away from Abby as she dashed to Franks' house.

It worked, because Abby got to Franks' house without the kid shooting at her. This time, Gibbs got a good look at the kid's face and was shocked to see a hardened, older version of Mikel Mawher.

"I won't stop until I find you, Abby! If you don't belong to me, you don't belong to anyone!" Mikel shouted, and with that, he dashed away, and Gibbs roared,

"I will find you, Mikel, and kill you!" With that, he kept his gun out, but dashed out towards Franks' place. He and Abby needed to get out of Mexico as soon as possible. At least, she did, but he wasn't letting her go by herself. Not while Mikel Mawher still roamed this earth, dead set on killing Abby.

But as soon as he could kill Mikel, he wasn't sure what he would do. But he would worry about that then. Right now, Abby was probably stumbling her way to town, in the same woods that Mikel Mawher was in. And that wasn't safe at all.

Gibbs dashed into Franks house, and before Gibbs could say anything, Franks said, "She dashed off into the woods, Probie. Go get her and kill that bastard Mawher for me, will you?"

"Damn straight I will. I'm leaving our stuff here, but we have got to get out of Mexico."

"I know that, Probie. They didn't call me Senior Field agent for nothing, you know?" Franks said, and shoved Gibbs out the door, saying, "I'll call ahead for your tickets. Thank me later, Probie, get your ass moving!"

Gibbs, not needing any more encouragement, dashed through the woods, not daring to cal out Abby's name in case Mike was looking for her too. If he called out Abby's name, he would be basically signing her death warrant. So, Gibbs kept looking for her, falling back on his tracking skills from the marines.

Eventually he spotted a figure up in a tree, and he said quietly, "Abbs."

Abby, who was the figure sitting up in the tree, jumped down and threw her arms around his neck, saying, "Gibbs! I thought Mikel had shot you, or worse, and I was freaking out! I can't believe he came to Mexico, but he can't have followed me here, I mean, I've been here for almost a month, so he must've realized I wasn't in D.C. so he took a chance on where I was and unfortunately it was the right chance and…"

"Abbs." Gibbs said, easing back from her hug and keeping his hands on her shoulders.

"Yeah?"

"I've thought of that already."

"You have?" At Gibbs' nod, her mouth twisted in a pout and he twitched a smile as he said,

"Come on, we've got a plane to catch." He grabbed her hand as she looked in disbelief at him and she said,

"You're going with me? You mean it? You're really going with me?"

"I'm not letting you alone on a plane with Mikel somewhere." Gibbs growled, and Abby walked alongside him, beaming and saying,

"I know I had to leave Mexico, but I had thought up an entire days worth of arguments to get you to come with me! And now, you're just coming without any argument. Wow! It's like a miracle!"

"I could still change my mind," Gibbs warned, but they both knew it was an empty threat, and they knew it very well.

Abby actually fell silent for the first time in a while as they walked to town and Gibbs actually found it unnatural and unnerving.

When they got to the airport, Abby found that they already had tickets. "How'd we get tickets?" Abby asked suspiciously, thinking that he had planned them leaving a few days early.

"Mike called them in." Gibbs said, putting his arm over Abby's shoulders possessively as a young Mexican eyed Abby's figure up and down. One glare from Gibbs was enough to send the young man packing.

Abby didn't notice as they got on the plane, and when Abby sat down in the window seat, she looked up at Gibbs as he stowed his carry-on and said, "Gibbs…"

He sat down and, for no apparent reason, leaned in and kissed her. As he drew back, he said softly, "You know, if we're gonna continue 'us', then you're gonna have to start calling me Jethro."

"That's a hard habit to break, Jethro." Abby warned playfully, and Gibbs rolled his eyes as he said,

"I'm sure you can do it, Abbs."

She smiled as she leaned back and fell silent again. Gibbs found the silence to be very un-Abby like, and he kept looking at her as she looked out the window. He could tell that something was bothering her, and he also had a feeling that it had something to do with him.

Unexpectedly, Abby leaned towards him and laid her head on his shoulder. He rested his cheek on her head as she was still silent. Now she was worrying him. Even when she was sad she still talked. Whatever she wasn't telling him must be really bad.

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