One Sure Thing
A Kate/Gibbs [Kibbs] fanfiction
K. Harman
Author's Note: This was intended to be the first in a series of short stories, that would be posted together, but due to the woeful amount of Kate/Gibbs literature out there, I thought I would release the first to feed those suffering like myself.
Disclaimer: The usual. I don't own any parts of Navy NCIS, especially not the delightful characters from whose viewpoints I write. All I own are my deluded fantasies about Gibbs and Kate finally getting together, after all the UST (Unresolved Sexual Tension, for those who don't know).
Part 1: Leroy Jethro Gibbs
Gibbs sat down in front of his computer desk and began to type the report madly. He knew it was just a vent, but then some cases – they really got to you. Bit at your very soul, they could.
The team had just completed such a case. A 16 year old girl, decked out in her prom dress, murdered on a Marine base by her first ever sweetheart. Now her last and only, Gibbs thought wryly. But it hadn't been the girl's plight that had caught him – it was her face. She seemed ageless, younger than her years and yet with maturity beyond them. What had spooked him most, though, was how the victim reminded him of one Kate Todd. How could he describe Kate? She had been a Special Agent, with the Secret Service. She was now an investigative Agent for NCIS. She was his subordinate, a part of his team. She was many, many things, but not what he most wanted her to be. For her to be his was simply a dream, an illusion, a wishful thinking of a man almost past his prime. He shook his head. She couldn't possibly be attracted to him. Gibbs had seen the type of guy she had gone out with during the first case they had ever worked together – on Air Force One. Her boyfriends were young, fit, carefree guys. Not him in other words, he sighed.
But there was something about Kate that never ceased to attract him so. It was all different things, a list that changed by the second, using various combinations, and adding new qualities now and then. He could see glimpses of the force that drew him in her beauty, her determination to the point of plain stubbornness, her commitment, her confidence and bravery. So many things. He wasn't even sure if he knew the complete list. But there was one thing that was sure and concrete. He knew he had fallen in love with her.