Chapter 24

Over the next few weeks a lot of small changes were made at NCIS. Not notable to everybody, but Gibbs team was starting to wonder why Gibbs spend a lot of time in the Directors office and MTAC, and not complaining about it. Something had to be up, but nobody had the guts to ask Gibbs or the Director when they saw them. Slowly tings started to be back to normal. Gibbs was back at his desk giving DiNozzo head slaps and yelling when he had enough of the banter between the team. It had been a quiet week and they was all started to be board. Even Abby was board. She spent some time with the team, but when they were not looking for her, she managed to slip into Director Shepards office. Jen loved being able to talk to Abby. They had become great friends even the age difference, and Abby was the only one who knew about the baby Jen was carrying. Talking to Jen made it easy for Abby to ask all the questions she had about being pregnant, the changes in the body and about the fear………….not just the fear of becoming a mother…………………but fear for everything that might go wrong…………….and everything else. It was pure therapy for Abby, and Jen didn't mind. Talking was good for her too. Jen was still not feeling too good and had a hard time getting threw a hole day without taking a long break with the possibility of some shut eye. Gibbs made shore she got at least 30 min rest. But lately it wasn't enough. Jen was never gone admit it to Jethro, but she new this couldn't go on much longer. Cynthia had caught her napping on the couch more than once and had made Jen well aware of her concern for her health. Jen had blown her off by telling her she had worked late home and just needed some rest and not under any circumstances tell Special Agent Gibbs about her naps.

Jenny wasn't looking forward to the weekend. She had to be at the White House for a dinner on Saturday, and Gibbs had an undercover mission going on that he and the team needed to check up on. So he would not escort her to this function, and somehow Jen didn't feel right about it. She had a bad feeling telling her something wasn't right……………….something was gone happened………..something bad. But she blew the thought away blaming it on her hormones.

Thursday late evening.

Abby and Matt were sitting eating a nice romantic dinner together. It had been a long time since they done this . Matt was still figuring out what to do about his job and his options. He had made up his 

mind, but before he made it official, he had a really important question for Abby. And it all depended on the answer she gave him

"Matt, is something wrong?" Abby asked concerned. Matt had barely touched his food, and sat fiddling with his napkin looking totally lost.

"No Abby. I'm fine. Just thinking about something important, and not knowing how to proceed ."

"Are you breaking up with me?"…..Abby started………………getting up from the table trying to hold back the sob and tears that was threatening to come to the surface.

"You made this wonderful dinner just so I wouldn't know what you were up to……………….I should have known this was too good to be true……………..I really love you Matt and I thought we had a future together………………….guess I was wrong." And with that Abby bolted from the table heading blindly for the bedroom or any place she could be alone.

Matt sat stunned left at the table. He hadn't seen this coming, but he knew he screwed up big time. Not shore what to do he gently stood up……………..blew out all the candles and listened for where he might find Abby. He needed to set things right. He loved Abby with all his heart.

Sorry for making this chapter short. But I needed to update the story, and are in progress of writing the next chapter now.

Enjoy and have fun………..