Title: Sweet Dreams
Rating: PG-13 (mostly safety, some language)
Disclaimer: Hold on, let me check…… nope! Still don't own 'em!
A/N: I'm SO SORRY to everyone who read this chapter when it was originally uploaded... somehow the whole chapter didn't make it!! (And by the way, about halfway down Kate says "Sh-it", and i have to type it that way so that the censorship thingy wont replace it with ##'s)
Chapter 3: Chaos
Gerald took the elevator up to Abby's lab. He had been kicked out of Autopsy when a pale-faced Gibbs came storming in, demanding to talk to Ducky. He figured that if anyone other than Ducky knew what was eating Gibbs, it would be Abby. But as he drew nearer to the door he realized someone had beaten him to her. He tiptoed toward to window to try and see what was going on. He saw Kate sitting at Abby's desk with her face in her hands. What happened next only fueled his curiosity- Kate mumbled something inaudible from where he was standing, and Abby exploded.
"Are you KIDDING?! What if it is you? Cause if it's y--," she paused and turned to the brunette, wide-eyed. "Oh my god…" she whispered. "Oh my god… you WANT it to be you!"
Kate let one of her hands drop to the desk as she looked up at the Goth, incredulously.
"Good observation! Has anyone ever told you that you should be a scientist?" She quipped sarcastically. Abby clapped a hand to her mouth.
"Oh my god! You want it to be you—YOU'RE IN LOVE WITH GIBBS!"
Kate stood up, throwing her hands in the air.
"Well thank you SO much for announcing it to the whole damn building! Now if you'll excuse me…" She yelled, and ran out of the lab- right into Gerald.
"Well Jethro, I don't know what to tell you… except that you got yourself into this mess, so you need to get yourself out!"
Gibbs glared up at ducky, who was grinning like the cat who ate the bird.
"You find this funny, don't you."
"It is somewhat amusing…yes…" the medical examiner muttered, pretending to think hard.
"Dammit Ducky- what do I do?!" Gibbs slammed his palms down on the cold metal table in front of him. Ducky let out a snort of laughter. "Forget it," Gibbs mumbled, and he strode out of the morgue. He only knew of one other person he could talk to, and when he arrived at the hall outside of her lab, he was surprised to find chaos unfolding before him.
He heard it before he saw it- two raised female voices, shouting indiscernibly at each other. He quickly identified them as Abby and Kate, and he thought he heard Kate yell something about 'the whole damn building'. He turned the last corner before her lab, and saw Kate collide with Gerald. The brunette froze. A look of horror crossed her face as she put 2 and 2 together. There was a stunned silence, during which the other half of the argument appeared in the doorway, simultaneously making eye contact with the silver-haired man. The color drained from her face. A second later, Kate found her voice.
"Sh-it, Gerald- how much did you hear?" she yelled at the assistant M.E.
"Um, Kate," Abby piped in, voice quavering slightly. "If I were you, I'd be more worried about what he heard." She raised a shaking finger and pointed over Gerald's shoulder at Gibbs. A deadly silence fell over the hallway as furious green eyes met confused blue ones. Realization dawned on Kate, and she sank against the wall behind her, eyes filling with tears.
"No…" she whispered. Gibbs took a step forward.
"Kate, I-"
"No! This isn't happening!" she cried, becoming hysterical. "Stop! Leave me alone!" The brunette suddenly burst into sobs and ran for the stairs, not wanting to risk waiting for the elevator. When the door to the stairwell shut behind her, the remaining 3 stood staring at each other, enveloped in an uncomfortable silence. A silence which Abby quickly broke.
"Wowwww…" she said in a low voice, drawing the word out.
"Can somebody please explain to me what just happened?" Gibbs asked, looking from Gerald to Abby and back to Gerald again, who put his hands up in a 'surrender' gesture.
"Don't ask me," he mumbled. Gibbs looked pointedly at Abby.
"Uh-uh, no way. What was said in my lab is not for me to repeat! If you want an explanation, you'll have to ask her!" She pointed at the door Kate had run through only seconds before.
"Like hell I will!" Gibbs exclaimed. A stare-down ensued, ending when Gibbs lowered his gaze to the floor and sighed.
"You win."
A/N: Im so sorry that the whole chapter didn't upload last time, I didn't realize what had happened until today when I finally got off my ass to write chapter 4, and went to the site to remind myself where I had left off. Anyway, now that this is cleared up, I'm gonna go finish typing up chapter 4… It's already been written, I just have to type it. I sincerely hope you won't be disappointed in it!