A/N: Sorry guys for the very late update. I have numerous excuses but I don't think any of them are really a good enough reason for not updating earlier. But now it is the holidays I will hopefully get more done.
Please ignore any spelling mistakes. Once again I have not had it beta-ed, my bad, but I thought I should get it out there. Please send me your reviews because it does make me work harder! Lol
Chapter Ten
When Gibbs woke up in the morning the hotel room was empty. There was nothing left to remind him of the night they had experienced other than the memories. Leaning over the bed Gibbs grab his cell phone and tried Abby's number but got nothing other than her voice mail.
This carried on for days, him repeatedly calling her cell and getting no answer, even when he returned to Washington he carried on trying but other than her name Gibbs realised he knew nothing about where she lived. Caught up in their knowledge of each other surprisingly it never came up in conversation, something Gibbs how regretted. Searches of her name in New York came up with nothing, it appeared she must have been subletting because all trace of her had gone.
At night all Gibbs could do was sum up the memories he had of their time together, frustration worked out on his boat meant much of the exterior had know been completed. Nothing had consumed his mind this much since the death of his wife and daughter and it confused him that his few times with Abby had been permanently etched on his mind in this way. The ache in his heart wasn't so much of love but more of worry, wanting to know that she was safe, that she was still on the right track, something he couldn't be sure of with her record. Sure he beat himself up with these negative thoughts of her but without knowing for sure.........
For Abby the decision hadn't been simple but she knew that if she had stayed the carefully laid out plans she had put together would be useful. He would consume all her thoughts, become another consideration she would have to factor in, someone else that she could ultimately let down. She had meant every word she had said to Gibbs that night. She wasn't out to hurt him but hearing his thoughts in the night had freaked her out. Enough things had happened to her in her life, enough words had been said to her in the heat of the night for her to trust them. She never wanted to think of Gibbs that way but how could she not. It was not just her future that she had to think about......