A/N: My favorite chapter! As much as I love this song, it makes me sad.
Gibbs checked the cell phone again. Still nothing. He was at a lost of what to do. He wanted to climb up to the road, but with his broken leg he wasn't sure he could make it. Plus, that meant leaving Abby behind and he needed to stay with her. The cell didn't have any service. He wasn't able to call anyone for help. No one lived down this stretch of road. Even if they did, chances are they wouldn't see the car down here. He felt so helpless. He did something he hadn't done in a long time. He closed his eyes and prayed.
He heard a noise coming from inside the trees somewhere. He turned his head in the direction and groaned. The deer's head also shot up and looked in the direction the noise had been coming from. She stood from her spot on the ground, looking as if she was hesitating. She took a few steps forward, passed the two of them on the ground. She looked back once before heading into the darkness.
"Weird," Abby said weakly. Gibbs kept staring, trying to listen for anymore noises, but heard none. "You still with me?"
"Yeah." Gibbs felt so tired, so drained. He wanted nothing more than to close his eyes and wake up in bed with a hangover. Just as he was about to drift off, Abby's voice brought him back.
"Sing to me."
"Sing to you?"
"Sing to me. I need to know you're…awake." She was thinking 'alive', but thought that bad Karma to say.
"You don't want to hear me sing."
"If I'm gonna die-".
"Don't say that."
Abby sighed. She had had tears silently falling down her cheeks for a while now. "I've already lost so much…I don't know how I'm still conscious." Truth was, Gibbs didn't either, but he thanked God that she was. "Please, sing to me."
Gibbs closed his eyes, a tear escaping down his cheek. "Any request?" he whispered. He really didn't want to sing, but how could he deny her of this?
"I Can Only Imagine." She turned her head as best she could to look at him. He opened his eyes to meet hers. "Do you know it?" Another tear slid down his cheek as he nodded yes. He softly touched her face before turning her head back away. He didn't want her to see how scared he was feeling. Taking another look back into the woods, he sang her song.
"I can only imagine, when that day comes
When I find myself standing in the Son.
I can only imagine, when all I do,
Is forever, forever worship You.
I can only imagine. I can only imagine.
"Surrounded by Your glory, what will my heart feel?
Will I dance for you Jesus? Or in awe of You, be still?
Will I stand in Your presence, or to my knees will I fall?
Will I sing 'Hallelujah!'? Will I be able to speak at all?
I can only imagine. I can only imagine."
Gibbs wiped at the tears on his cheeks. Abby would pick a song like that. He saw her bring her hands, or fingers, together again and again. More, he thought. He wasn't sure if he could. He saw her rub her hand in a small circle on her chest. Please.
"Surrounded by Your Glory," he cried, "what will my heart feel?" He sobbed, not being able to do it.
Abby started softly singing, "Will I dance for you, Jesus? Or in awe of You, be still?"
Gibbs joined her, "Will I stand in your presence, or to my knees will I fall? Will I sing 'Hallelujah!'? Will I be able to speak at all?" Both stopped singing.
"I can only imagine," Abby said.
"I can only imagine."
They heard the snapping of branches coming from the trees again. Gibbs didn't guess it to be something big. He instinctively held his arm to Abby's chest tighter. He searched the tree line for any signs of anything. There was a shadow just out of reach. He could tell it was making its way closer to them. He felt a sigh of relief come from Abby, who he hadn't realized had been holding her breath, when they saw the same deer emerge from the darkness. She walked further into the clearing and stopped to look back. Following her gaze, they saw a little fawn follow her out into the light.
"Look at that," Abby said.
The mother, or they assumed she was, stood near where she had been lying before. The fawn followed her over and sniffed at the spot on the ground. The mother gently nudged it and the fawn sat down. The mother walked around the car, looking on the ground. She sniffed the area as if looking for something. She stepped outside of the light, towards the road. It looked as if she had picked something up from off the ground but he couldn't see what it was. She disappeared heading up to the road, leaving her baby behind. The fawn whimpered a little as its mother disappeared. It looked over to Abby and Gibbs and then lay down.