A/N: Chapter three is done! Booyah.
Hugging Tim, all the hope, that had left returned, and the little bullet hole in her chest healed miraculously.
"I'm sorry I hit you, and I'm sorry I doubted you" Abby mumbled into his shoulder, which was now damp from tears.
"I'm sorry I forgot to tell you I had a sister" he chuckled nervously hugging her back tightly, afraid she was still mad.
"Ermm, am I missing something?" Sarah asked, stood there awkwardly looking like a third wheel.
"Just a major misunderstanding. Apparently I had forgot to tell her I had a sister." He laughed this time, full on. "If you think about it, it is quite funny, althought I'm not sure why you were looking through my iPod, or how you got it?"
"Erm, Tony kind of came down, saying stuff about how McRomeo found a Juliet." She replied.
"He's been through my stuff again, I swear I am going to put a lock on my draw."
The conversation was kept light as they headed into the coffee shop. They speant over an hour just talking, getting to know each other, and making plans for next week-end. It was over an hour later when McGee realised they had forgot to tell Gibbs that they were heading out so they had to cut the meeting short. He drove Abby to her apartment, where she got ready properly, in a black skirt, skull top, a bit of black make-up and her trademark pigtails, which took all about twenty minutes to do.
"I'm really sorry you know," Abby said as they were speading toward the navy yard in his car. "I never should have doubted you, its just you were hugging her, and she was so pretty, and I didn't know what to think."
"Abbs, it's okay, it's over, like I said to Sarah - it was all just one major misunderstanding."
"It's not okay though, I should of had more faith in you. You have been nothing but honest, and yet I still didn't trust you. I should of just talked to you about it instead of going all mad."
"Abbs, it's fine, we got through it, you trusted me when I said it wasn't what it looked like, you trusted me enough to follow me. Yeah maybe you shouldn't of jumped to conclusions, but everyone has that little bit of doubt sometimes. I love you and that's all that matters."
"I love you too Timmy," She murmered just loud enough for him to hear. It was the first time she had said it, properly. During the fight early it didn't really count, but hearing it now was all McGee could hope for. The rest of the drive they sat in a comfortable silence, smiling the whole way.
The smiles didn't last long though, getting into the bull pen they were cornered by a VERY angry Gibbs, and two unsympathetic friends.
McGee gulped. Abby grinned. McGee took a step back. Abby hugged Gibbs.
"Where have you been, for two hours?" His voice was stern and demanding, making Tim flash back to probie days.
"Erm...yeah...you see...erm we, Abbs?" McGee could not think of what to say.
"I was upset Gibbs. So Timmy - being ever so sweet took me to Sarah, who cheered me up." How she explained this without giving away a single little hint of what had gone on, amazed Tim.
"Why were you upset" asked Gibbs, not quite buying it.
"Because Gibbs," she drawled out his name, whining a little "Tony is and idiot, McGee is forgetful, and Sarah isn't what I thought. Now I have to go run some balistics." Skipping out of there, once again McGee gulped.
"Hey, what have I done McForgetful?" Tony questioned, he did not want to get dragged into this, what ever this was.
"I don't know"
"Yes you do"
"Nope, I know nothing, any updates on the case?" He asked Ziva, she was the only safe option here.
Apparently Jack was on the run from an abusive wife, Jodie. The last straw had been when Cameron had ended up in hospital. They had run and changed there names, Jodie was now a prime suspect so McGee went and put out a bolo for her and her car before tracking her cell. Hoping all had been forgotten.
McGee managed to track her cell to a motorway, and at the speed she was going, Tim knew that Jodie was in a car heading out of the city. Gearing up, the team headed out.
They managed to catch her when she stopped for gas but Jodie had put up a struggle. She confessed to the whole thing during interrogation though with the words "if I couldn't have my son, no one could. He had it coming." It made the team sick to see why she had done it, not that any reason could condone her actions, but the fact that she killed them because they were happy and safe. It seemed so horrible. McGee had finished his report and was heading towards the elevator, unfortunatly for him at the same time as Gibbs. They stepped in the elevator together, Tim pretending to be busy with his new iPhone to make things less awkward. It was a futile atempt, it was hard not to notice when the elevator stopped and the lights went out. Tim really hated when Gibbs did this.
"So are you going to really tell me what happened this afternoon?" Gibbs questioned, even if to McGee it sounded more like an 'answer me or die'.
*McGee's POV*
"Erm, it was like Abby said, she was upset, I took her to Sarah who then cheered her up" Stick to the story, I am not exactly lying, just with holding details.
"And who is Sarah?"
Crap.
"My little sister."
Great, because that doesn't sound bad at all. Why can't life be simple.
"I didn't even know you had a little sister."
"Erm, forgot to mention it" Its the truth! So why on earth does it sound like a little made up excuse. I am so dead.
"Okay, but that still doesn't explain why your sister was the only one who could comfort Abby when she was upset. Nor does it explain why Abby was upset in the first place, and what the hell DiNozzo has to do with this. I want answers McGee."
He's furious, I know it, but if I tell him the truth I will die for braking rule twelve. Yet if I lie, I will die for lying. He always knows when I lie. Luckily my phone rung. Or not so lucky actually, it was Abbs, who is probably waiting for me.
"Hey Tim, wh"
"Abbs, I'm in a meeting right now" What ever she said could proove disasterous.
"Gibbs"
"Yeah."
She hung up. Looking at Gibbs, I wondered wat he was thinking.
"I still want answers Tim."
The fact he called me Tim just made it ten times harder, he never called me Tim unless it was serious.
"Lets go to Abby's lab and she will explain." We have to tell him, things have got too out of control. This was never meant to happen, but I guess I could transfer to cyber crimes, it's not too bad down there, and I will still be close to the team. I noticed him flip the switch and press the down button. I still had my phone in my hand to decided to text Abby, -Hey, were coming down, need to tell Gibbs. Unless you have another solution-
-Nopes, guess we would of had to tell him in the end anyways- She text back almost instantly.
*Normal POV*
The ride down to Abbys was awkward to say in the least, but finally thay arrived, greeted by a less than happy Abby. They walked into the back of the Lab to where her desk was, three chairs already set up around in a circle. No one knew how to start, so they just sat there in silence for what seemed like forever (but was only actually about thirty seconds). Finally Gibbs spoke "So would you like to tell me what the hell is going on?"
"Right" "Yeah" "You see" "It's just" they spoke at the same time, both wanting this to just be over already.
"One at a time, Abby you speak." Gibbs said, he was less likely to get angry at her.
"Okay, but first promise not to fire and/or kill Timmy. Promise?"
"Okay Abbs, I promise" He sent her a reasuring smile which only calmed her nerves. Tim was still regretting being born.
"It started two months ago, I got stood up by some douche bag for the third time, I was really upset and called Timmy asking if I could go 'round, then when I turned up he just looked so cute in his b.."
"Short story Abbs, I do want some sleep tonight"
"Well we kind of, maybebrokeruletwelveandstart eddating" the last bit just sounded like a mumble of words, she spoke that fast but Gibbs got the main idea of it.
"Go on." Neither Abby or Tim could figure out how he felt about this but she kept talking anyway. She told him how brilliant things were going, how Tony came down with the iPod, how she thought Tim was cheating. She told him everything from start to finish, Gibbs wasn't best pleased, but it's what she said last that hit him.
"I actually love Tim, Gibbs, that's why I was so upset."
Abby never let anyone get that close, not in that way. She had relationships, she liked a few people, but never love. When she did think things would end up with someone saying the 'L' word she would run away as fast as her platform boots would let her. For Abby to admit she was in love, he knew that there was nothing he could do.
"Treat her right Tim, or I will not hesitate to come after you, don't hurt her, ever." He spoke with a seriousness they had never heard, his eyes focused on Tim, making him gulp. Gibbs smiled "Congratulations to the both of you though. It took a while for you too figure it out, but keep it out of the work place."
He then left, not even looking back. If he had, he would of seen the two people he thought of his own, smiling like christmas had come early and they had got everything they could ever ask for.
Because they had, they had each other, and right now, nothing could of been better than that.
A/N I did say this would only be three chapters but I am thinking of doing an epilogue? I'm not to sure, but if I do it will be updated on the week-end, but if not, that is the end. Would you want an epilogue? BYE FOR NOW!