McGee sat back at his desk, sticking the CD in his backpack, and moving the mouse so the computer wasn't in sleep mode. He was surprised to see he had a new message, so he clicked open on his intranet mailbox.
AbbyS: McGee, you there yet?
AbbyS: Don't test my paitence, McGee...
McGee looked at it and smiled bemusedly. He quickly began typing.
TimM: Im here Abs
TimM: Only been gone like 3 min.
His inbox quitely pinged.
AbbyS: about time lol
AbbyS: so any new cases yet today?
TimM: No, Abs, not yet. Is the Mass Spectrometer getting bored?
AbbyS: no but I am... so did you really like Matriarchs of Doom?
TimM: Yah they were pretty cool.
TonyD: Hey you guys whats up?
AbbyS: How did you get in here?
TimM: You messaged me in open chat Abs.
TonyD: Abs?
AbbyS: Yah he calls me Abs.
TonyD: lol
TimM: what do you want Tony?
TonyD: to bug you lol
TonyD: so what's this "Matriarchs of Doom" you were discussing?
AbbyS: it's my friends new band..
ZivaD: What is?
AbbyS: Hey Ziva! We were talking about this new band my friends have.
TimM: Yah it's actually really good...
ZivaD: Do you have a CD of them Abby?
AbbyS: Yah, you should come down here and listen to them.
ZivaD: On my way.
TonyD: Im coming too!
AbbyS: Nu-uh girl time lol.
TimM: looks like you're stuck with me and the boss...
TonyD: Nah, I'll go get lunch
AbbyS: I could use another CafPOW! would you stop and get me one?
TonyD: Sure
ZivaD: Actually I think I will go with Tony I want Falafell...
AbbyS: Ok see u 2 in a bit.
McGee watched the two of them leave, and smiled. He checked the user box to make sure he and Abby were the only two in the room, then made it private.
TimM: yay private chat... for now..
AbbyS: woot.
TimM: So what was up with earlier? Did you need chocolate that bad?
AbbyS: Yes and Tony didn't have any more in his desk... I finished it two days ago... He doesn't know though... =)
TimM: You know, I also have chocolate in my desk... you can raid it too.
AbbyS: All of your chocolate had nougat...
TimM: But there was a plain hershey bar...
AbbyS: No, Tony stole it.
TimM: So thats where it went.
AbbyS: Yah...
Tony and Ziva got into his car, heading to the nearest Falafell house. Ziva, who was used to Tony's driving, shook her head. "Do you think McGee and Abby are dating?" she asked him.
"McGeek and Abby?" Tony asked, passing a car. "McGeek wants to, but Abby said no. They used to date for awhile, back when Kate.." Tony paused at mentioning Kate. It had been a year and a half, but the wounds were still fresh.
Ziva said nothing but nodded. "To me, it looks like the two of them are still in love," she said suddenly. "Maybe with a push in the right direction.."
"No, better to just stay out of it," Tony said. "Trust me. I don't want to see either of them hurt like when they ended it last time."
Gibbs sat at his desk, watching McGee type on his computer, trying to type up a report but not having much success at it. He thought of what had occured the night before, when he had awakened to crying and found Abby sitting up in bed. It was thundering and lightining, a pretty bad storm, and Abby was the one crying.
He had knocked on the door and walked across the room, wordlessly sitting on the edge of the bed and held her as she finished her tears. He had not asked why she was crying, but just let her cry. In every way possible, except biologically, she was a daughter to him, just as much as Kelly had been. Abby had cried herself to sleep in his arms, and he carefully pulled the blanket over her, when she whispered something. He didn't know what, but as he turned to leave, he had heard her distinctly say McGee's name.
He wasn't stupid, he knew they were in the intraoffice chatroom talking. He alone knew exactly how hard Abby had fallen when she and McGee had split apart the first time, and didn't want it to happen again. He didn't know what to do, though. Should he explain to McGee, tell her to be careful? He didn't know.