Title: Contrast
Author: KouenTaisa [on ] Chedders
Rating: K+
Fandom: NCIS
Pairing: Abby/Gibbs
Status: Complete
Category: Drabble, Character Study
Spoilers: None
Summary: Two parts. One whole.
A/N: Hiatus Week 9. I think I wrote myself into exhaustion, goodness.
He was dark and she was light.
He was angry and she was maddeningly happy.
He was infinitely cold and she was extremely hot, in more ways than one.
He was impatient and she could wait hours, or even days, on results.
He liked solitude and silence and she bathed herself in sound and companionship.
He was Gibbs. She was Abby.
Together, they created the two very different pieces of one whole.
She would smile, and so would he.
He would give an order, and she would follow.
She would kiss his skin and it would heat up.
He would work in his basement, the radio playing her music as she sat on the work bench.
She would lay beside him bed, enjoying the simple sounds of their mingled breathing.
He would draw out their bedroom activities until she was just as impatient as he was.
She would bring him extra coffee when his temper was at his worst, smiling and joking until he did the same.
The years were hard on them, but their relationship was easy. She brought him everything he had lost, and he gave her the edge she needed when everything else failed.
It was almost like ying and yang, she had once tried explaining to him.
When he asked which piece he was, she had only grinned and told him that it didn't matter, because the two contrasting pieces fit together to make a whole. One couldn't exist without the other, because they were both so vital. Once you put them together, they melded into each other until it was hard to tell where one began and the other ended.
Sounds familiar, he had quipped, smiling at the bright look in her eyes as she nodded enthusiastically.
Totally, had been her reply before she turned back to her computer. He had left without a word, a smile on his face for the rest of his day.
As long as he had Abby, he figured being whole wouldn't be so bad.