Dark Void
Chapter 128th
Once Gibbs was able to relax having too much with Doctor Confalone. Though he did feel better with getting out his frustration to her. He turned up the TV finding a movie he likes with John Wayne in Midway even though a long one on cable.
He settles in thinking that he was going to get any rest at all. Just when he closed his eyes when there was a knock on his door having to be annoyed.
"Come," he said with sitting up and once again turning down the sound. As it had turned out it was Kelly coming from visiting her mother. "OMG! Kelly. Aren't you here late?" he said with a smile building on his face.
"Yeah, I was visiting mother getting her geared for her surgery in a few days with the Cell Regeneration program. How are you doing this evening?" she had to ask as his daughter. She comes over to give him a hug and a quick kiss on his cheek.
"Just finished up a session with Doctor Grace Confalone to keep her busy for almost one hour and twenty minutes," he says to have her surprised.
"Really! I didn't think you were interested in opening up your soul to a therapist?" she commented.
"She was the only woman a therapist able to have me open up to her with all of the pain I had suffered over the years. And this all started after being shot by a kid name Luke Harris to shoot out my knee and chest with Doctor Cyril Taft in order to save my life," he said with being all choked up with his words.
"I am sorry to have gotten you all upset daddy. I had to do the same thing a few years after being in the compound for the Witness Protection Program. I told mother two years after leaving you that I needed to let out my frustrations due to her decision to leave." she said with anguish in her demeanor.
"How well I know the feeling Kelly having to been thinking about you all of the time every time I was around a child during a case."
"Tell me daddy what happened to the kid Luke Harris having shot you?" she needed to know the answer.
"For years he stayed in a Witness Protection Program for years teaching his way out to a position in Michigan now 24 years old tough as nails. We stay in contact every once in a while," he commented.
"When you decided to come to see me. Did mommy know that you were coming to see me?" he took in a deep breath into his lungs needing to relax.
"She knows daddy. And I don't plan on going back until in the morning. I am just too tired to be fighting with her further. My husband James is waiting for me at the hotel."
"Anyway I wish her all of the best with the surgery and believe me it wasn't an easy thing to go through?" he cried out.
"What was the hardest part for you during that last time?" she had to ask with being too personal for when it comes to her father.
He blushes slightly. "For two months I was worried on whether or not I wasn't able to perform in bed with my wife after what Hernandez had done to me in Paraguay. I don't wish to repeat it again and the loss of my wife and family. It was bad enough it was degrading for when the damn Cartel had kidnapped me to bring me to the compound."
"I am so sorry daddy that you had to endure so much over the years. But you're good now?" she said to him with touching his broad shoulders.
"Yeah, I am. But now I have this injury to have to worry about." Gibbs responded with emotion.
"Daddy, you have Loreile and your NCIS family to help you to recover. They have been with you a long time and you just never realized it until certain friends of yours had to say this to you."
"I know for the most part. Even though for years I was fighting them in order for them to do their jobs and close the cases. But for now on once I finally decide to work at the Academy I won't have to worry about getting involved with the crime."
"Good for you, and no doubt your wife will love it as well?" she smiled with needing to be going after such a long day and evening.
"She will after all of the fights we had during the past four years. Kelly thank you for coming and talking with me?" he needed to say with his daughter kissing him on his cheek before leaving.
"Good night daddy," she exclaimed with waving goodbye before leaving the room and her suite at the hotel.
After she left, he was able to finally settle down relaxing with his right leg beginning to bother him now. He pressed the call button asking for a nurse to come in and check his right leg with the throbbing. Even though it might be time for his medication.
It didn't take all that long with one of the overnight shift nurses walked in asking what was his problem.
"My right leg is throbbing. Can you check and see where there is an issue with the wound?" he suggested with the nurse calling in a doctor since it wasn't her position to change the bandages.
"The doctor will be right in to change and take a look at the bandages. But in the meantime I will check your vitals," she said to him with taking a look up at the screen up above.
She was writing them down onto his medical chart. When Doctor Sanchez came in with the equipment in order to remove the bandages.
"Okay, Mr. Gibbs try and take it easy once I remove the bandages and take a look," he said with using the small scissors to remove the last of the bandages and pressure one to stay in place. However, it was a little bit infected and the doctor needed to order antibiotics to stop the infection further.
"I will order them right away doctor with the antibiotics," she said with leaving to head for the nurses' station to call the pharmacy open 24/7.
"So there is an infection after all?" Gibbs asked with the question.
"Yes. The antibiotics will be helping you, in the long run, to help fight the infection and fever you might get in the process. I will need you to try and take it easy along with the extra pill killers as well." Doctor Sanchez had to say.