Disclaimer: See chapter one...
Author's Note: Short chappie...
"Sign here please." said the nurse with frizzy blond hair. She shoved a few forms in Kate's direction. "Insurance information on the back side and family history on the front." she added, tapping her pen on the clip-board.
"Okay." Kate replied as she took the clipboard and went to sit down. She turned the paper over and scribbled her insurance information on the backside of the page. "Family history." she read aloud. "Mother's maiden name." she filled in the appropriate information and continued on down the page. The questions were pretty general, like if there was a history of diabetes in her family, or hypertension, that sort of thing. When Kate got down to the "marital status" part of the form, she began to panic. She knew she had to be honest. She checked the box that read "seperated" and quickly moved on to the next question, which was just as hard, "number of children" it read. "Great." she murmured. Kate wrote the number one in the box. She had originally contemplated on leaving that question blank, even though she did in fact have one child. The rest of the form wasn't as daunting and she filled it out, and quickly signed her name.
"Take a seat, the doctor is running a little behind schedule." the nurse said, as she took the form. She didn't look up.
"Okay." Kate said. She walked over to the magazine rack and thumbed through the magazines on the shelf. "Tom and Katie broke up." she read to herself. She set the tabloid down and wandered over to the rack of pamphlets. Choosing one, she looked at the cover, it had a happy mom and happy dad oogling over a happy baby. "If only everything in life were this easy." she thought to herself.
"Ms. Todd?" the doctor stepped into the waiting area and called Kate's name. Kate set down the pamphlet and followed the kind, very young, doctor back to the exam room.
"I'm Dr. Regan Collins." the doctor said as she motioned for Kate to sit down on the bed. "It says here that you had a positive result on your pregnancy test. Congratulations." Dr. Collins said. She glanced down at Kate's file that had been faxed over from Dr. Powell's office.
"Yeah well..." Kate stammered, "I don't think I can have this baby." she bluntly told the doctor.
"Okay, well, um..." the doctor looked a little flustered at Kate's sudden admission. "Was this pregnancy an unplanned one?"
"Very much so."
"Hmm. Okay, you have some options then. One being the most obvious, and that is abortion. Two, you can carry the baby to term and seek out adoption." Dr. Collins said. She handed Kate some material on abortion and on adoption.
Kate scanned the material on abortion first. She closed her eyes at the graphic images shown in the pamphlet. "What am I doing?" she thought to herself.
It had taken him a total of three days to find out where she was staying. He would have found her sooner, but Abby was backed up in the lab, McGee had been out with a head cold and he didn't know what the hell a "Google" was.
"So Katie, this is where you're living?" he asked himself as he climbed the concrete steps to the second floor. He found her room easily, the manager, though not voluntarily, had given Gibbs the number. He refused to give the "psycho with the gun" a key to anyones room. But Gibbs had all he needed. He thanked the boy and left. Deftly he pulled his lock-picking kit out of his coat pocket. Two seconds later, he had the lock picked. A second after that, he was inside Kate's empty room. He sat down on Kate's bed and decided to wait for her to return. One thing was for sure, Jethro Gibbs wasn't going to leave without her.
He missed her terribly, the house, once so full of life and energy, was quiet and empty. Immediatly after he read her letter, he realized just how much he loved her, how much he needed her and how much she really needed him. She had been right about alot of things, their fights took up most of their time now, when it used to be love making and quiet nights doing nothing at all. Now there was nothing but dark emptiness that needed something to fill it's void. That something, for him, was Kate.
As he sat and waited for her return, he let his eyes wander around the room. His gaze came to a rather thick book that rested on the nightstand. He picked it up and held it at arms length. "You and Baby." he read aloud. His brow furrowed, and hurt began to well up inside him. Kate, his Kate, was pregnant. Questions raced through his mind at a frightening pace. Was the baby his? Is that why Kate left him? All these questions seeme to jeer at him. Suddenly he heard what sounded like a key turning in the lock. He'd get his answer, once she got over the shock of seeing him in her place.
"What are you doing here?" she demaned the second after seeing him sitting on her bed.
"I should be asking you the same thing." he answered.
"You shouldn't be here." she said, her voice edging on anger. She brushed past him to set her things down, but he caught her by the arm and forced her to look at him.
"Kate." he said as he stared down into her beautiful dark eyes.
"What?" she grumbled, "You know I meant what I said in that letter. I can't do this right now."
"But it's not just you anymore Katie." he said, his blue eyes bore seering holes in her being. She hated that look, but she knew what it meant, it was the look he gave her nearly every day when they worked together. He knew about the pregnancy. Her hazel eyes flashed questions. He released her arm and walked over to the night stand. "Were you going to tell me?" he asked.
"I'm not sure." Kate fumbled.
"Where were you before?" he suddenly demanded. Kate didn't answer him, she just kept her head down. She couldn't look at him, not now. After a long moment, she let out a ragged breath.
"I was at a clinic." she said, shooting him a look of defiance.
He didn't say anything, he just waited for her to finish. He had a gut feeling that she didn't do anything to harm the baby she was carrying, he just had to hear her say it.
"I didn't have an abortion if that's what you're asking." she stated.
"Kate.." he started, she attempted to cut him off again, but he raised his hand to silence her, "Let me finish." he said, "Do you want to do this?"
"What?"
"This? How long are you going to go on living here? Were you planning on raising our baby in a place like this?"
"I-I uh. I don't..What are you talking about? I'm not going to live here forever."
"I want you to come home Katie." he said.
"What did you say?"
"I want you, Caitlin Todd-Gibbs, to come home with me. I've missed you Katie." he stepped closer to her and wiped her tears with his thumbs. She closed her eyes, leaning into his touch. It had only been three days, but she had missed him about as much as he missed her. "I love you." he whispered in her ear. He kissed her before she got a chance to reply. She melted in his arms, and soon they found themselves on the bed.
"I love you too." she whispered when he lay next to her.
He smiled at her, the corners of his blue eyes crinkling. He kissed her again.
That night, they lay in each other's arms, not wakening until the sun was streaming into the small window.