NCIS:
FIGHTS, LEAVING & TRAGEDIES...
Disclaimer:
NCIS and NCIS: LOS ANGELES characters do not belong to me.
NCIS: Los Angeles makes a few brief appearances in this story.
SUMMARY:
Abby and Tim have a fight...Abby leaves NCIS and the team behind, now two years later something happens and tragedy strikes bringing her back to Washington.
Will she be able to face Tim and work things out?
CHAPTER 10: TWO WEEKS & SOME NEWS...
TIM'S APARTMENT...
THE LIVING ROOM...
TIM'S P.O.V.
It has been two weeks; there has been no change for Tony, Ziva, or Gibbs. They are still hanging on so at least that is a good sign.
Everyday Abby and I go to visit them.
Jack is usually found beside Gibbs during the day and night went back to his son's house.
However, Jack would also look in on Tony and Ziva.
Everything that has been happening is beginning to take its toll. With each passing day, it is not hard to see that Abby is growing more worried they will not wake up.
After Abby stayed with me on the first night, she was in DC...
She had gone to the hotel where she had a reservation tried to stay but it was 01:45 AM when she showed up at my door again crying…
Every night since she found out and the first night she stayed she has woken up to different nightmares. Sometimes it takes fifteen minutes before she realizes I am there and it was just another nightmare. She remembers some of the nightmares, but others she doesn't.
This time, she took the bed and I slept on the couch.
Therefore, nothing would happen between us that we might regret later.
I am not only hurting over the loss of Director Vance, Ducky and many others from NCIS and everything that has happened. It also hurts to see Abby in so much pain, because of the fact I still love her and though I want to tell her.
It is not the right time and I am scared...
Two weeks ago, she told me she loved me and I wasn't sure if I had heard right, when I asked her what she had said. She was remembering the past and I shouldn't have surprised by that response.
I wanted to believe that she was in love with me, but I knew that she wasn't.
She had told me that, kissed me, and tried to start something between us, because of the fact of people we lost. While the lives of the others hung in a balance of not letting go, but not here either.
Finally, I got up off the couch and made my way my room, after knocking...
TIM'S BEDROOM...
I found Abby was sitting on the edge of the bed. Her head was down and her hair covered her face.
"Abby?" I asked and she looked at me.
When she did, there was so much in her eyes...
Grief, sadness...the look of being lost, scared and even a hint of anger.
"Tim, how could this happen to them? Why did Ducky, Director Vance and so many others have to die?" Abby asked me.
"I don't know, but we'll find out. Then we'll find who ever that did this and..." I began.
"I'll kill them and leave no forensic evidence. This is so hard losing so many people who worked there and being so confused. It's like a nightmare we can't wake up from. Have you heard from, Sarah?" Abby asked.
"Yeah, she is still staying with Penny. I talked to her. She not doing too well, she is taking it as hard as we are. Penny said that Sarah was going to stay there for a while with her; Right now Sarah can't go back to the apartment that she had been sharing with, Trevor for the past year and a half." I told Abby.
ABBY'S P.O.V.
"I didn't know...this is so hard and if I would have come back sooner. I could have..." I began.
"If you would have come back sooner, Abby, You would have been the one in the lab and..." Tim started just his cell phone rang.
He answered and I watched as he smiled, he then asked if what he was being told was real, now I was curious. I knew it had something to do with Tony, Ziva, or Gibbs.
After a few minutes, he hung and looked at me, with the smile on his face.
"What happened?" I asked and for the first time since hearing about the tragedy, I knew it was something good.
"That was Jack and when he looked in on, Ziva..." Tim began.
"Ziva's awake?" I asked and Tim nodded feeling a smile on my own face. "Ziva's awake." Tim confirmed and I jumped off the bed throwing my arms around him.
"Abs...Abby, can't breathe." Tim told me with a laugh and I pulled away looking into his face.
"Sorry, let's go see her." I said starting for the door. "Abby." Tim said and I turned to look at him. "What?" I asked.
"Are you really going to walk into the hospital wearing just a shirt and..." Tim didn't finish as he looked away from me and turned a little red.
That's when I remembered last night I had gone to bed in just a shirt and underwear.
"I guess I was so excited about going to see, Ziva I forgot." I said as I put my suitcase on the bed and pulled out some clothes.
TIM'S P.O.V.
I quickly grabbed some clothes and headed for the bathroom.
After getting dressed and ready in the bathroom, I met Abby who now fully clothed and waiting to get into the bathroom. She started to walk in as I walked out, I grabbed her arm, and she looked at me.
"Did you mean for me to see you in nothing, but you shirt and..." I couldn't say anymore.
"No, I didn't, Tim. I was getting ready to get up and get ready, before you found me. Once I got to the edge of the bed though, I started to think of everything and everyone that has happened...I couldn't move. I'm sorry, I didn't think last night when I got ready for bed." Abby told me and I let her go.
THE HOSPITAL...
AN HOUR LATER...
ABBY'S P.O.V.
Once Tim stopped the car, I got out and ran for the hospital. It was less than a minute later, I was outside Ziva's room, but I was afraid to go in. Then I felt Tim beside me and voices coming from inside the room.
"Abby?" Tim asked and I looked at him.
"What if she asks about Tony and Gibbs? If we tell her, something could happen and we'll lose her." I told him.
It seemed forever before my feet began to move, I walked in the door ahead of Tim.
I looked at Jack and then Ziva.
Ziva looked terrified and was speaking in Hebrew, she looked first at me and then at Tim…
From the look on her face, she did not recognize either of us.