Breaking Down Part 9
Bethesda Naval Hospital
She is trapped in a glass box watching everything go by. Words and actions flota round her in a meaningless haze, except for one thing. His apology stands out like fire on a hillside. Suddenly she hears her father laugh and his bullet shatters her glass bubble. Everything around her turns to a weapon and flies toward her suddenly she is suffocating…
Gibbs watches as her eyes fly open and she begins to convulse violently. The machines around her begin to beep maniacally and doctors rush into the room, pushing him away from her bed.
She can't breathe and all these people hold her down, she is drowning in a see of faces she does not know. Freedom is all she wants, but the pain, oh, the pain Let me out. Then his hand clasps hers and his face registers in her vision, connected to him, her solid rock in a terrifying storm.
He'd seen she needed help and now he held her hands and she calms. Slowly the doctors begin to recede, like the tide going out and only a few are left to examine her.
"I'm sorry Gibbs."