Broken heart
Chapter 5
Doctor Grace Confalone had been waiting for almost ten minutes when there was a knock on the door of her office for her patient Special Agent Gibbs. The last time she had spoken to him was almost a year and a half. For which a great deal can happen during that period.
When she had gotten the phone call from Director Leon Vance about the recent events involving the shooting of Senior Field Agent McGee, the death of Breena Palmer dying from the virus, then add the fact that Doctor Jack Sloane had left NCIS for overseas, and now the death of Emily Fornell is enough to drive any agent over the edge. Especially when it comes to Leroy Jethro Gibbs.
Maybe it was finally that time for Gibbs to retired and move on with his own life before it's too late.
She heard the knock on the door as the face of Special Agent Gibbs place his face inside asking whether it's alright to come in.
Today of all day she was wearing black pants with a white blouse as she tells him to come and grab a water. While noticing the black-haired woman sitting picking up a magazine. "Whose the lovely lady Gibbs?" she commented with closing the door.
"My watchdog Doctor Grace for which Director Vance placed to keep an eye out on me for the next two weeks while on a forced vacation. One thing for sure she's beautiful in order to watch my every move," he states with opening the bottle of water to drink down half of it.
"Tell me something Gibbs do you regret having a woman as your watchdog or rather see her in a sexual eye of yours?" she had him on the edge of his seat.
"What is that supposed to mean Doc?" he said with some sarcasm in his tone of demeanor.
"Why are you always blind to your own needs these past years? Ever since Shannon and Kelly had been dead for 34 years. You're not been able to find that second soulmate to have you live happy for the rest of your life."
"I don't know if I can at this time Doctor. Due to the fact I feel like I am going to be falling down the rabbit hole with everything that has happened to me. And right now I am not even able to face my team. I haven't been able to tell them that I couldn't say to Jack that I wasn't able to tell her how I felt. And now it's too late. Though the woman I have been with since yesterday has made me feel like a man again."
These facts had the doctor sitting up that he was beginning to open up further...
"Really! Why? Please explain it to me, Gibbs. Unless it's too personal to talk about?" she was mostly concern with asking the questions.
Twisting in his seat. "It's always been hard to talk about my sex life Doc. But yesterday late last night was amazing in its own right in every way. It had felt like we had a connection for the most part. We knew what was needed to make us happy in every way. I have never felt this way with any woman except for Shannon." taking a generous amount of air into his lungs.
"So you think that Lt. Baskins is your second soulmate?"
"Yes." he was quiet for the moment before she continued on with the questions.
"Special Agent Gibbs tell me how you're feeling in general during this past year?" she quipped with her words.
"Tire, angry and wishing that I was in need of a long vacation away from the job," he said.
"Why the anger?" she asked.
"Because of my actions lately for when it comes to shooting McGee during an operation, Breena dying, Sloane leaving and now my poor dear Emily overdosing."
he cried out with the response of needing to drink water.
"How is Fornell?" straight forward with asking the question.
"He's thinking of going back to work at the F.B.I. since they asked him twice already during the past two years. He has nothing else but works now. Accept for the fact that he was thinking of moving to Costa Rica." he commented.
"Did he asked you how you thought of the idea Jethro?"
"He did ask me at the bullpen of NCIS with the team there. I told him whatever makes him happy. Even though my chest was crying out once Bishop had to mention with her big mouth about losing Sloane and now Fornell. However with everything going on. Director Leon Vance told me that I was being forced to take two weeks off to try and to recover from everything."
"And can you?" she had to ask with the importance of the question.
"I highly doubt it Doc!" he cried out with staying quiet for a few moments.
"Please try to explain to me as to why not Gibbs?" she had been writing a number of notes on the yellow pad of hers that will indicate that he's not ready to go back to work at this point once he comes back from vacation.
"I just can't right now. I am leaving for my cabin after I am done talking to you. It's going to give me the chance to relax at the cabin. Lt. Baskins tells me that she loves hunting, fishing, swimming, and a number of other things for when it comes to the cabin." he said to catch something in his tone of voice.
"And what are you expecting Jethro for when it comes to Loreile with his particular vacation?"
"Now that's a very good question doctor?" he will respond with the time almost up with the conversation.