Abby continued to look at the screen stunned silent, Gibbs gently rubbed her cheek, "Talk to me Abbs, how can we help?"
Abby pulled away from Gibbs and sat down. Gibbs and Tony didn't know what to do they didn't know how to handle a quiet Abby.
Gibbs bent down and kissed her on the head and ordered her to go home and rest and think about what she wants to do. Abby gathered her coffin backpack and quietly left not saying a word to the two men.
Tony watched Abby leave and then looked at Gibbs, "We have to do something Gibbs, if we head back to Washington Abby may never connect with Faith."
Gibbs thought hard, "Go home Tony and on the way in tomorrow pick up Faith and put her in room 3, I want to have a talk with our Faith."
The next morning Faith was impatiently picking at the table waiting for explanation to why she was dragged into NCIS. Gibb's met Tony in the other side of the interrogation room. The two men sat and looked at Faith for a few minutes then Gibbs dialed Abby and asked her to join them in the observation room.
Gibb's left Tony and went to begin with Faith.
Gibb's smiled at the woman at the table, "Good morning Faith, I am Agent Gibbs thank you for joining me today. I just needed to ask you some questions about your sister and the rest of your family."
On the other side of the glass Abby was joining Tony asking what they needed. Tony just smiled a nervous smile, "Before I tell you I want you to know this was all Gibbs's idea okay?"
Abby raised and eye brow and looked into the other room, "OH MY GOD, you didn't? Is that Faith? Oh my goodness Tony, I hadn't decided what to do yet?"
Tony put an arm around her shoulders, "I know Abby, please don't be angry at us we just wanted you to find answers and you wont be able to find them as easy when we are back in DC. You don't have to meet her but just listen to what she has to say."
Abby crossed her arms in front of her and after a terse, "I am not speaking to you anymore, well I just did but after this sentence no more." She starred into the next room and listened.
Faith answered Gibbs earlier question, "My parents died when I was14 and my sister is dead now it is just me."
Gibbs thought, "Are you sure Faith because your DNA came up to a match of an NCIS employee. Faiths eyes got as big as saucers. "Have you ever given a child up for adoption?"
Faith's face fell into her hands. Without raising her head she said, "Yes I gave up a boy and a girl up for adoption 34 years ago. Who came up the match the boy or the girl?"
Gibbs answered, "The girl, her name is Abby Scuito and she is my forensic scientist, she helped me identify the remains of Esther and she is the one who caught that you two were a genetic match."
Faith sat with her head in her hands crying. She finally looked up at Gibbs with a tear-stained face and asked, "Did she have a good life, where her adoptive parents nice?"
Gibbs gave Faith a half smile and reached out to grab her hands, "Yes, she has had a good life and her parents where amazing to her. They were really good people but both of them are dead now and she would really like to know her birth mom."
Faith dried her eyes and sternly said, "NO!"
Gibbs pulled back in surprise, "NO? Why not? You are here she is here and she knows you are her mom. Why don't you want her to meet you?"
Faith looked at Gibbs with a stare that would rival his own, "You said she had a good life and a good family and she is a good person I assume for you to do this for her. You wouldn't have hauled me in here to interrogate me if she didn't mean the world to you. Trust me Agent Gibbs she doesn't need to know how her and her brother came about. A child should know that they came out of two people loving each other and that isn't the case with Abigail and her brother. Can we just leave it at that?"
Gibbs stood up and pushed his chair back trying to reign in the anger he was feeling. He was trying to do something to help Abby and this infernal woman was not helping, "No I cannot just leave it at that, what they hell is so bad that she cant know."
Faith looked at him with all of her 46 years of pent up anger directed squarely at him, "YOU REALLY WANT to know you arrogant bastard? I was TWELVE years old, TWELVE freaking years old Gibbs, and my best friends Father raped me. My father was a Marine and on deployment at the time for 18 months and so my mom never told him. She helped me through the pregnancy and delivery and signed off on the adoption and nothing was ever said about it. I never even got to see the babies. When my Dad came back and found out what had happened he went over to my friends house and confronted her father, I am not sure what happened but neither man survived the meeting and my mother, God love her she started drinking and ended up wrapping herself around a tree the next year and left me to raise Esther on my own. I was 14 with a 4-year-old sister to care for. The only thing that I could do to support us was sell myself and that is what I did for 10 years. I got Esther into school and got myself a GED and an associate's degree that lets me work in the lab in the local hospital. What do you think Abby would say to that hum?"
Before a stunned Gibbs could respond the door opened to reveal Abby with tear and mascara stained eyes say, "Abby would say that she is proud to know that her birth mom is one of the strongest people she has ever met."
Faith turned to see Abby and her hands covered her mouth, "Oh God Abby, I am so sorry you heard that. I never wanted you to know."
Abby tentatively walked over to Esther and gave her one of Abby's bear hugs. Both women sat in each other's arms and cried.
