Chap 5

Gibbs swore when she didn't answer her phone and swore even louder when he received her text message. He got up from his desk and marched to the elevator and basically punched the 'down' button. In the elevator he began to have second thoughts on their fight. He had no right bringing up her personal life and she sure as hell didn't for his either. He exited the elevator in the 'underground parking' and walked over to his black Honda Civic and started the engine and exited HQ parking lot.

Kate stopped at a red light. Now that she was in the safety of her car she could let it all hang out. Tears slowly began falling down her cheeks. She stubbornly whipped them away but they still fell. She turned on her radio to distract her but even the song reminded her of her miserable life.

"When the day is long and the night, the night is yours alone,
When you're sure you've had enough of this life, well hang on.
Don't let yourself go, everybody cries and everybody hurts sometimes."

Somehow she found a reason to laugh lightly at the choice of words. She whipped her tears away again but they wouldn't stop. So she just let them fall she, she cracked a window a little to let breeze flow through the car and sometimes letting the rain do the same. She turned on her headlights to see better in the dark, the light turned green and she drove on turning onto Highway 61.

"Sometimes everything is wrong. Now it's time to sing along.
When your day is night alone, (hold on, hold on)
If you feel like letting go, (hold on)
When you think you've had too much of this life, well hang on."

Gibbs stopped at the red light and he busied himself by punching in Kate's address in his GPS. He listened to the lyrics of the song and sighed. Somehow he knew Kate was listening to the same song, and god only knows how she's dealing with it.

"What the hell!" He yelled at his GPS when it wouldn't download the address, now he had to remember the house from the time he went for her birthday…3 years ago!

"Everybody hurts. Take comfort in your friends.
Everybody hurts. Don't throw your hand. Oh, no. Don't throw your hand.
If you feel like you're alone, no, no, no, you are not alone"

Kate blew out air when she heard that lyric. "Like hell I will!" She yelled at it. She tapped her fist on the steering wheel when she stopped at yet another red light. Her tears were now coming in racking sobs her body was revolting automatically. She desperately wanted a drink, a hot bath, a tub of cookie dough ice cream and a warm bed. She turned left off of Exit 14 and onto a suburban street not far from her own. She sniffed and whipped at her tears. She couldn't believe Gibbs had this effect on her, she knew she wasn't perfect, and that her life hadn't been sugar coated but still she was tough she would pull through without a fight.

"If you're on your own in this life, the days and nights are long,
When you think you've had too much of this life to hang on."

Gibbs racked his mind for a clue to where he was suppose to get off at, he shook his head and pulled over at a gas station to re-fill his tank and to call Ducky. He got out but cracked a window so he could hear the song. At the moment it was the only thing he and Kate were sharing and he wouldn't break it. He pulled the gas nozzle out of the holder and inserted it in the gas compartment. As he waited he dialled and waited 3 rings for the Doctor to pick up.

"It's a tad late for pleasantries Jethro don't you think?" Ducky Mallard responded, by the sound of things he probably got a whiff of the situation at hand. "And knowing your infamous temper you probably added fuel to the blaze."

"Just tell me where she lives Duck." Gibbs said as he took out the nozzle and replaced it in the holder. He paid the pimply boy for the gas and got back in his car and drove out of the 'Gas station'

Ducky sighed, he would be doing Gibbs a favour but telling him the address but ruining Kate's trust in him. At the moment he didn't want to be on her shit list. "I don't have it with my Jethro sorry." He hung up and proceeded with the autopsy.

"Well, everybody hurts sometimes,
Everybody cries. And everybody hurts sometimes.
And everybody hurts sometimes. So, hold on, hold on.
Hold on, hold on. Hold on, hold on. Hold on, hold on.
Everybody hurts. You are not alone."

Author's Note: Loved making this chapter though it was kind of difficult…I merely threw in random street names lmao…Tell me what you think. Brit –xox-