Chap 6
Kate parked her car in her garage and picked up her duffel and headed towards her door. At nearly 11:30pm her neighbours were out for a smoke on their porch.
"How was your day Katie?" The elderly couple asked as the man took a drag of his pipe and blew out.
"I don't want to talk about it Mr. Jameson." She sniffed and fished her keys out of her purse and shoved it in the hole. She hadn't notice Jill walk across the lawn until the old woman threw her arms around Kate. The minute she was wrapped in the woman's tender arms she broke down crying into her shoulder. The woman walked Kate under the cover of the door to avoid getting wet by the violent rain. "Shhh… it'll be okay Katie, it's over tell old' Jill what happened, what it the 'Bastard' again?" She said; Kate chuckled slightly when the woman used their nickname for her boss in vain. Kate nodded and wrapped her arms around the woman. Jill ran her hands through Kate's drenched hair and twisted the key to open the door. She walked Kate in her house and turned on the porch light and the hallway light. "Now you get those wet clothes off and I'll draw you a bath." Jill kissed Kate's wet head and headed to her bathroom. Kate smiled, in a way Mr. and Mrs. Jameson were her parents, they always supported her, always were on her side when it came to Gibbs problems. She shrugged off her coat and hung it over a dinning room chair to dry. She turned on her coffee machine and left the machine brew its sweet nectar of life; which was coincidently imported from Hawaii. She turned around when Jill came into the room.
"Do you some coffee Mrs. Jameson?" She asked opening a cupboard to take out her 'Secret Service' mug. Jill was wearing a floral type dress, the collar flipped underneath her long curly grey hair. Her skin was an array of wrinkles delicately sprinkled in her face, arms and hands. She smelt like a mixture of ginger and cookies.
"No dear I'm afraid I can't tonight, besides you have a bath waiting, and I have a grumpy husband to feed." She laughed; it drew a little smile from Kate. Kate gave the old woman a kiss on the cheek and walked her neighbour to the door. Jill waved from across the lawn and entered her house. Every night they would wait for her to come home and make sure she was safe.
Gibbs finally found the highway he was looking for and turned on it. He tried Kate's cell phone again to find out that she had blocked the number. He turned his windshield wipers on maximum at the sudden down pour. He tapped his index against the wheel impatiently as he waited for the late traffic to move.
Author's Note: Sorry for the length again…need to regroup and cut them before the song forgive me? ((pleads on my knees)) Hope you like it D Brit –xox-