CHAPTER 3.
Kate hurried down to the lab before Gibbs got out of his unexplained spontaneous good mood. They rarely saw this side of him and didn't want to push it.
"Hey Abs. How are you feeling?" Kate asked her best-friend who appeared to be back to her old self behaviorally. Since she told her she was pregnant she seemed really down.
"Actually a lot better now that I've told Gibbs." Abby said trying to rid her face of the enormous smile that was plastered on it.
"That's gotta be a relief. But I don't get it. Shouldn't he be pissed? He's actually in a dangerously good mood." Kate explained confused at his behavior even though if any member could get away with something as major as that it would be Abby.
"I thought he would be pissed too, but he is actually really excited. It caught him off guard like it did me but he secretly always wanted a child just not with his ex-wives." Abby explained then realized what she had said. She wasn't planning on being that blunt when she was telling Kate. "Oops." Abby said and started laughing again when she saw the look on Kate's face.
"What? Abs, you and Gibbs?" Kate asked shocked.
"Yep. Busted huh?" Abby answered.
"Yeah, wow. I cant believe all of this. How long?" Kate asked and her tone would be intimidating if she didn't have a big smile haunting her face.
"Um, five…months." Abby replied.
"Wow, you guys are amazing at hiding it. Wait…before McGee left?" Kate asked. This was getting better by the minute. The NCIS soap opera.
"Yeah, now I'm glad he did leave cos even though we weren't together anymore it would still hurt him." Abby said and finally realized that she would still have to tell him eventually. She just wasn't ready yet.
"Well I'm sure getting pregnant wasn't an intentional act." Kate reasoned.
"Definitely not. But we're okay with it now. Honestly I wasn't happy with it until about half an hour ago. Was surely not what I had planned when I started at NCIS. And being a young mother but least I have support."
"Yeah, well if you need to talk you know to come to me right?" Kate seriously asked.
"Of course. I love you, Man. You were one of the first people I told about all of this. You even beat out Gibbs."
"I'm flattered." Kate said then hugged Abby.
"I thought my dad was going to flip. I went to see him yesterday after my mom told him and prepared myself for the disappointed father looks."
"What happened?" Kate asked seriously.
"Well he's deaf so I knew I wouldn't be yelled at. I went there and he just told me that they would support me even if the father didn't. They love Gibbs though, ever since he learned sign language to communicate with them." Abby explained not able to wipe the smile off her face thinking about how great Gibbs was and how much he adored her.
"That's great, Abs." Kate told her and then started laughing.
"What's funny?"
"Tony is gonna go crazy. I wanna be there when you tell him." Kate added trying to stop herself from laughing.
"Gibbs is probably doing it as we speak. Wanna go see his reaction?" Abby asked.
"Definitely." Kate immediately asked as she grabbed Abby's hand and lead her to the elevator.