His face betrayed how tired he was, his eyes struggling to focus even with the hated glasses. He didn't look up at the sound of the lift, in fact no one did. When she walked over to his desk and put his coffee down, he looked up and she smiled at him. Then she handed the other coffees to McGee, Tony and Ziva, all of whom looked as dead as Gibbs did.
"Umm, thanks Abs." McGee seemed unable to focus entirely upon her, so she forced him to take a gulp of coffee before going back over to Gibbs desk, leaving McGee spluttering.
"Its ok, you all look as if you need it."
She thought for a moment then said, "By the way Charlotte phoned, again, and asked if you'd finished using Harry's saw. Apparently he's slept around for the last time."
"Oh, right." Tony flinched and took a long sip of coffee; McGee was coughing too much to hear so missed the comment and Ziva just stopped herself from laughing. Instead she slopped coffee down herself. She blushed and dived into her drawer to retrieve another top. She rushed off to the ladies, Tony's laughing following her. Abby took advantage of the empty seat and sat down.
She looked at Gibbs who looked back, and then signed something. She smiled; he'd asked her if she was feeling better. She signed back that she was and asked if he had thought about bed in the last thirty-two hours.
"You know that I have."
"So why not come home?"
"Because-"
"And don't give me any crap about work. If its work related I don't want to know." And added more in sign language; 'You know I wanted to talk to you!'
"Well then I have no excuse, for which I am sorry." He looked at her face, into her eyes, and sighed. "You're angry, aren't you?"
"Too right I am!!!"
"DiNozzo! Is there any particular reason you are listening to our conversation?" Tony looked up and saw the permission to leave written across Gibbs' face, so quickly got up and rushed off somewhere.
"Why'd you do that? You know why I'm here so early."
They carried on sitting in silence, punctuated by the odd cough from McGee. Neither Ziva nor Tony reappeared.
Abby got up and walked round the desk to Gibbs and sat on the edge of his desk. He took one of her legs and looked at the bruise on it.
"Some weirdo woman pushed her trolley into me, she said sorry, but the fact she said it to the freezer didn't help. And then her husband came up and took her glasses off of her and replaced them with different ones. Turns out she was basically blind without her 'normal' ones on, so it didn't help when she wore her reading glasses. Either way she still insisted on apologising to the freezer for apologising to it instead of me." Gibbs smirked.
He glanced up at her, and she looked as asleep as he felt. He pushed her foot off of his knee, got up and took her hand, pulling it gently. She slid off the desk and the pair sat on the floor together. Hand in hand, Abby with her head resting on Gibbs' shoulder, they fell to sleep together.
AN: Hey people!! Thank you to the two who took a guess at Abby's secret. Unfortunately all three guesses were wrong, but hey ho, life goes on! So there you go and I have embedded another clue. More on Ziva next time.