Prompt: Hello Again
Description: It comes around every year and Gibbs makes sure she remembers.
Rating: K
A.N. – Shorter than the last one… but okay in my books. Hopefully in yours too?
Disclaimer: I don't own N.C.I.S.
Already?
Striding out of Abby's lab after giving her the customary 'Good Work Abbs Kiss' Gibbs was almost in the elevator when a thought struck him, making him turn and head back.
"Hello again," Abby said, sounding slightly confused. "Did you forget something?"
"Just wondering where you wanna go to dinner tonight," he answered with a lazy grin as her brows furrowed further in bewilderment.
"Dinner?"
"Yep."
"Did I forget something?" She asked after a moment, thinking that if she'd had a dinner-date planned with Gibbs she wouldn't have forgotten.
"Abbs," he began patiently. "Do you remember what day tomorrow is?"
"Thursday the… oh. Oh!" Abby looked at him with wide eyes and saw his smirk. She smacked him playfully on the shoulder as he chuckled at her momentary lapse of memory.
"You forget your own birthday, Abbs?"
"Yes, no… sort of?" she finally amended. "I just didn't expect it to sneak up this fast. I mean, already?"
"So?" he asked after a pause in the conversation.
"So what?"
"So, what do you want for dinner?"
"Oh, right," she blushed at her forgetfulness again. "Italian sound good this year?"
"Sure thing, Abbs. Pick you up at seven."
"It's a date."
A.N. – This is slightly based off of the time I forgot my own birthday and wondered why people were giving me presents. This one-shot was particularly difficult; it finally came kicking and screaming. Thankfully it's finished now. *sighs and cracks knuckles in accomplishment*