Note: this is post-1619 where Jack leaves Faith's house after she has handed faith the photo and the phone number.
I know this isn't very long but I feeling like I get the point out I wanted to. Enjoy end please leave a comment on your thoughts.
Jack left Faith standing on the street in front of her house after Jack gave Faith the photo and her phone number. Jack drove around in her car for hours. She kept subconsciously looking at her phone, hoping it would ring and it would be Faith. After a few hours. It started turning dark. Jack didn't want to go home. she didn't know where to go or what to do but somehow she found herself in her car, parked outside of Gibbs's house. she stayed in the car for a while. She didn't know if she wanted to go in or if she wanted to speak with anyone or even what to say. Jack had walked away from a crime scene. She had argued with Gibbs. She usually never does that. He had used the information she had given him about her daughter and he had thrown it in her face. she was angry with him but for some reason, it was still his house she ended up parked outside. After she has seen him for the 3rd time looking out the window from the living room, she decided to get out of the car and go inside.
She enters the living room. he is sitting on the couch with a book and there are 2 beer bottles on the coffee table. She drops down next to him without saying a word. She is just sitting there in comfortable silence as he continues reading his book. He places the book down on the table when he has finished the chapter he was reading. Gibbs hands Jack one of the beer bottles and takes a sip of the other one.
"How did it go?" Gibbs finally asks and leans back against the backrest. He doesn't look at her. he looks op into the ceiling. Jack leans back against the couch. she is almost laying down.
"it didn't." Jack finally says. it is the first words she has said since she left Faith.
"what happened?" Gibbs asks. Jack looks over at Gibbs.
"she hates me," Jack says and starts feeling the tears falling down her face again.
"she doesn't hate you."
"she asked me why I didn't stay in California? She thinks I gave her up for adoption to make my own life great." The tears are falling down Jack's face now.
"Jack." Gibbs wraps his arms around her and holds her close to him so her head is resting on his chest. He places a kiss on the top of her head. For a moment they are just sitting there in silence. The only sound is from Jack crying.
"I gave her my phone number and a photo from the day she was born. I wrote to her that she could call me no matter what."
"that is great."
"I don't think she will call. She is too angry with me."
"Jack," Gibbs says waiting for Jack to look up at him and meet his eyes. eventually, she does and he continues talking. "what you gave Faith up for adoption the day she was born. She didn't have a choice. You made the choice for her. throughout her entire life, she hasn't had a choice whether she wanted to get to know you are not."
"I know I am a terrible mother, Gibbs," Jack says angry and stands up. She wipes the tears off her face.
"that is not what I am saying." Gibbs says calmly and it makes Jack a bit calmer. "what I am saying is…" he waits for Jack to sit down on the couch again. once she does he takes her hands in his.
"when you and she were in the same room for the first time since the day she was born… that was the first time in her life that she has had a chance to make a choice for her self on weather she want to know you are not."
"what are you saying?" Jack asks and wipes another tear away.
"you gave her your number. Now it is her choice to make whether the two of you are going to know each other or not. You can't force her and make the choice for her."
"what if she doesn't call me?" Jack asks worriedly. Gibbs reassuringly squeezes her hand.
"you have to wait for her to make the decision, Jack."
Jack leans back against the couch and look up at the ceiling and exhale resignedly.
"I hate when you are right, Gibbs."
It makes Gibbs smile.
"I know." He simply says and leans back next to her.