Gibbs sat inside one of the most uncomfortable chairs in Kate's room, he just had to stay awake. He wasn't ready for the nightmares yet, not ready to face the pain that was growing inside him. He felt and knew that Becca had died on account of him, after all Mike had to have heard him say he was Tony's father. He shoke his head, that jaw clenching tightly as he tried to hide the building emotion.. No, if he started the blame game he would never be able to stop. He sighed and pushed himself back in the seat. Tony had been bandaged up and wheeled back to his room, of course after Gibbs had gotten the third degree by the doctor.
'I gave you permission to take him on one condition Agent Gibbs, and that was keeping him out of harm's way. And look what you have done, an already injured patient was reinjured. You are lucky the wound wasn't deep enough to cause any harm. And as for your graze, don't come in here for treatment...too many bridges have been burned Agent Gibbs.'
Gibbs sighed once more, Tony was asleep. They hadn't talked yet, though he knew that was coming. He had simply been reeling from Becca's death, from all of this. It was finally starting to catch up the older man and that was never a good thing. 'Don't show emotion, stay indifferent, they don't truly mean anything to you.' That was a lie, but he had to keep repeating it every single time the tears started to well up or when he felt he was going to scream out in anger.
Those icy hues remained downcast, his shoulders slumped forward as he sat there. She had awoken briefly while they were gone, but no one could be there with her. And Gibbs wasn't going to let that happen again, so he opted to stay in this room so if she did wake up she could be calmed and comforted. He sighed his hands moving to cover his face, the gause that was wrapped around his head showed some sign of blood but it was drying.
Kate's eyes blinked open, though closed when the bright light hit them. They still burned, but they didn't hurt as much as her mind did. She pushed her lids open and gazed blankly at the room. She paniced, her hands gripped the bed as she tried to talk once more. 'GUUUU,' she screamed out as best she could through her dried and cracked throat. It was enough though to make Gibbs launch himself from his chair and take a place beside the bed.
His hands fell to her shoulders as he shoke her gently. "Caitlyn, stop it. Calm down, your alright. Your in the hospital, don't worry we got him. Just calm down."
Kate's eyes turned to those reassuring icy hues, but she couldn't calm down. Something was terribly wrong, she gripped at his arms and tried to pull herself up but his hands held her down with steadfast strength. "AAAAA." She tried once more to get her message out, but again she couldn't her hands gripped harder. She had to tell them, Abby she was in trouble. She was down, there were shots. It all started coming back to her and she pulled Gibbs onto her shaking his arms trying to get him to understand.
"Kate, we know. It's alright you can calm down now, everything is taken care of. We got them Kate, Palmer and Abby both. Palmer's in custody and Abby, is safe." He was lying about Abby of course, but he had to calm his agent. She could deal with Abby's death later but now, now she had to relax.
Kate's eyes searched Gibbs', she didn't know if she trusted his comment. It sounded sincere, but she knew him. If he felt he had to protect his agents he would do anything, including lie about the safety of another agent. Her hands tightened around his upper arm, as she searched for the truth. She felt the darkness returning, but she had to know had to. "Truuuu."
"Yes Kate, it's true. Now just relax and calm down, you need to rest. You've been through alot of trama lately." He was lying, and she knew it but she let the darkness return. Let it take hold of her and she slipped off into it. Gibbs sighed once more releasing her shoulders as he sank back into the chair. His hands fell to his lap, that defeated look upon his grisled face. "I lied to her..." He shoke his head, he had to. And he just kept telling himself that it was his duty to protect her to save her from the pain as much as he could. But she knew and that was killing him, that look of hurt held firm in her dark eyes as the darkness swept over her once again.
His head fell to his lap, he was just so...conflicted. Half of him wanted to tell her everything, the other half, the marine half wanted to keep it hidden. Then again that was the half that kept his emotions in. He snorted lightly, and stood up his body heading towards the door. He walked the short distance to the nurse's station.
"Excuse me Miss, could you call Dr. Donald Mallard at NCIS Headquarters and ask him to stay with Special Agent Todd?"
"Of course Agent Gibbs. He asked us to call him when you needed a break."
"Oh he did did he?"
"Yes sir, said to tell you that as well." She smiled before grabbing the phone, Gibbs smirked and walked towards Dinozzo's room.
