NCIS:
PRANKS AND ACCIDENTS...
DISCLAIMER:
NCIS and characters do not belong to me.
SUMMARY:
Abby has a practical joke for Tim, he gets back at her and then as she comes into the sqaudroom. Tim recieves a phone call and has to leave.
CHAPTER 14: SARAH REMEMBERS...
TIM'S APARTMENT...
TIM'S P.O.V.
I woke up to my alarm going off and the start of a new day, but I couldn't move.
"Abby, we have to get up." I told her, but she just moved closer to me and laid her head on my shoulder.
"I don't want to, Timmy." She said, then kissed me and began to run her hand down my side.
"Abby, come on. Please stop, we have to..." I began, but my cell phone rang.
Abby continued what she was doing until I grabbed her hand to make her stop. Then looked at the screen...it was Sarah.
"Hey, Sarah, Is everything all right? That's great...lunch? I'll see what I can do...of course I will." After talking to her for a few minutes, I hung up. "What did she need?" Abby asked.
"She was telling me that since she's been on campus her memories are becoming more solid. Abby, she's starting to remember!" I said and kissed.
'Big mistake.'
Abby began to run her hands over me again.
"So does this mean no lunch date in my lab to tell Tony about later?" Abby asked with a devilish smile.
"Abby, Gibbs told us to keep it out of the office. Now, can we please get up?" I asked.
"I guess." Abby said with a sigh sitting up.
Then getting behind her, I began to kiss the side of her neck.
"Timothy McGee! That's not fair! You were the one that said we had to get up!" Abby said, but I felt her lean back against me.
"I know." I said as I stopped and got up.
"Why did you do that?" Abby asked.
"Because of what you told Tony last night." I said.
"Tim, we could really do that. Stay down in my lab and really make him wonder." Abby told me and I smiled.
"Come on, we need to get going." I told her and pulled her to her feet.
THE SQUAD ROOM...
HALF AN HOUR LATER...
"And she said, 'it's not a bad idea and they would have to try it tomorrow." Tony said.
"Is that what you wanted to tell me?" Ziva asked.
"Yea...hey, Probie. How are things with you and Abby?" Tony asked.
"They're fine, Tony. The whole time Sarah was in a coma, Abby stayed with me...day and night." I told him trying to keep a straight face.
"Wh..." Tony began.
"Get to work, DiNozzo." Gibbs said walking in coffee in hand.
'I'll have to tell Abby about this later.'
"Hey, boss, can I go work in Abby's lab today?" I asked.
"Yeah, I don't think that's the only thing that he wants to do." I heard Tony mutter as he started to play on his computer.
It had been a slow week since I got back and I still needed to help Abby with the evidence we brought in yesterday.
"Go ahead, but actually get some work done or I'll have to pull you back up here." Gibbs told me.
It didn't take long to take the elevator to Abby's floor and I grabbed a Caf-Pow on my way to Abby's lab.
I smiled as I heard her music and when I walked into her lab, she was already working on the evidence.
ABBY'S LAB...
I tried to sneak up behind, but she turned just as I got to her.
"Hey, Tim; did you want to do what Tony suggested?" Abby asked.
"Abby, we can't. Gibbs said if we don't get the work done, he's going to pull me back upstairs. I got, Tony." I told her and her eyes lit up.
"How?" Abby asked.
"I just told him that while Sarah was in the coma you stayed with me day and night." I told her.
"He already knew that." Abby said.
"You didn't tell him you were staying nights though, did you?" I asked.
"No, all anyone knew is I was staying with you during the day. So you told Tony and making him wonder if we were doing anything." Abby asked and I just nodded.
"Yeah, now let's get to work." I told her and began to go through the evidence.
For the next few hours, we worked and at lunch went to meet Sarah at a cafe not far from NCIS.
A CAFE NOT FAR FROM NCIS...
We waited, but she didn't show and I started to get a feeling something was wrong.
"Tim?" I heard Abby ask.
"She should have been here by now." I said and I was starting to get a little worried.
"It's okay Tim. She probably got stuck in traffic." Abby told me.
Just then, my cell phone rang and I was relieved when I looked at the caller ID.
"Sarah, where are you? I thought you were meeting, Abby and I for lunch..." We hung up after talking another few minutes.
"Is she okay?" Abby asked.
"She just lost track of time and said she had to get to her next class. She said she would meet us for dinner tonight." I replied, but didn't really believe what Sarah had told me.
"So you don't want to sleep in my coffin tonight?" Abby inquired suggestively.
"I don't know yet, we'll see. Come on; let's get back to work. We need to try and finish the evidence, before Gibbs comes down and drags me back up to the squad room." I told her, Abby laughed and I stopped to look at her.
"I was just remembering your first reaction when you found out you had slept in a coffin with me." Abby told me with a smile.
"I couldn't understand why someone would want to sleep in a coffin." I said.
"Remember Tim, sleep wasn't the only thing we did." Abby whispered with a coy smile as we left the cafe.
"Abby, could we not talk about that in public?" I asked.
ABBY'S P.O.V.
THAT EVENING...
TIM'S APARTMENT...
After lunch, Tim went back up to the squad room, but the rest of the day seemed to fly by as we worked hard.
Tim was making Sarah's favorite pizza and we had ordered ours.
"Tony made sure Gibbs wasn't around and asked me if we had done anything in your lab, since I spent all morning down there with you." Tim told me and I smiled at him.
"What did you tell him?" I asked.
"It was none o..." Tim began, but there was a knock at the door and he went to answer it.
Sarah was standing there sobbing.
"I killed them, Tim. It's my fault they're dead." Were the first words out of Sarah's mouth and neither of us could figure out what she was talking about.
"Sarah, what are you talking about?" Tim said as he brought her in the apartment and closed the door.
"I looked it up in the newspaper and went by where the car crash happened. I-I killed them, Tim." Sarah repeated.
"Why did you go by the site of the accident? What makes you think you killed them?" Tim asked, but she didn't seem to hear him.
I wanted to leave, but couldn't move.
"We were on our way to NCIS to su-surprise you. I-I was arguing about the night be-before. When they found m-me co-coming ou-out of a ba-bar. Th-then..." Sarah couldn't seem to finish.
Tim pulled her over to the couch, sat her down and put his arms around her. I knew by the look that Tim gave me; we were both wondering the same thing.
'Did she remember just that night or her whole life?'
"Listen to me, Sarah McGee! You didn't kill anyone; it was an accident. There was nothing you could have done; you couldn't have known it would happen." Tim told her.
"I could have stopped it! I dreamt about it a few nights before it happened. Dad took his eyes off the road to say something about my fake I.D., they had found out about. If he hadn't had taken his eyes off the road to say something to me or if I would have remembered my..." Sarah started to say.
I watched as Tim continued to hug Sarah and try to convince her that the accident was not her fault. I then realized, I could move again and feeling like an intruder, I decided to leave.
"Tim..." He looked at me as if he just remembered I was there.
"...I'm going to go ahead and go." I told him as Sarah continued to cling to him.
"I'll see you later." Tim told me.
TIM'S P.O.V.
I watched as Abby gathered her things and left.
It seemed no matter what I said or how much I tried to convince Sarah it wasn't her fault. She just cried harder and I felt helpless.
After a while, I looked at her and though she didn't let me go, she was asleep. I just held on to her.
I didn't know what else to do and I kept wondering, if it was just that night she remembered or if she remembered everything.
"Why did you look at the newspaper and go to where the accident happened? That was not a way to help you remember. I told you your memory would come back in time. You should have just waited; none of this was your fault." I told her even though she was asleep and I wasn't sure if she heard me.
After a while, she let go of me a little and then after laying her down, I went to sit at my typewriter.
I knew I probably wouldn't get any work done on my book, but I just sat there thinking about everything that Sarah had just told me.
'If they hadn't been on their way to surprise me at work, would this have happened?'
I don't know how long I sat there, but when I looked at the time, it was after 2300.
I decided to take a shower and get to bed. I knew I wouldn't get much sleep and tomorrow would be a long day, but I had to try.
THE NEXT MORNING...
I had not gotten much sleep last night and finally when 0600 came around; I got up and started to get ready for work.
When I walked into the living room, Sarah was still asleep. I wondered if I should call in, it was at that point Sarah woke up and looked at me.
"Tim? What time is it?" Sarah asked.
"Just a little after six. How do you feel?" I asked.
"I don't know...I killed our parents." Sarah said again repeating the words she said just last night.
Now she seemed numb at the idea.
"Sarah, I told you last night and I'm going to tell you again. It was an accident and there is now way you could have stopped it." I said as Sarah got up and headed to the bathroom.
"I have to get ready for school. Could you drop me off at campus?" Sarah asked and I just looked at her amazed.
After everything she had gone through last night...now, she wanted to go to school!
"Sarah, I don..." I began.
"I have to go to school, Tim." Sarah said turning to look at me before she went in the bathroom.
"Let me cal..." I started to say.
"If you're going to say call work and say you need the day off...go ahead, but you will be spending the day by yourself. I'm going to school." Sarah told me.
"Sarah, do you remember what happened last night?" I asked when she came out the bathroom a few minutes later.
"I know what happened last night and before you ask; no I didn't have anything to drink before I showed up here." Sarah said and I looked at her even more amazed.
"What do you remember?" I asked.
"My life...everything. From growing up and then the night of..." She couldn't finish, but I knew what she was going to say.
"Why did you go to the where the accident happened? I told you your memory would come back and going there was not a good way to help you..." I started to say.
"Because I was tired of walking in, a strangers shoes and wanted to remember. We better get going. I have to go back to my dorm and get ready for the day." Sarah told me.
"All right, but I want you to promise me something." I told her.
"What?" Sarah asked.
"If things get to tough either call me and I will come get you or just come to NCIS." I told her.
"I don't need to be treated like a child, Tim." Sarah said and rolled her eyes.
"Sarah, I'm not trying to treat you like a child. You've been through something hard and I want you to know that you can come to me anytime." I told her.
"Like the night I came to you with blood on my hands saying I killed some and you wanted to hand me over to the police?" Sarah asked and that stung.
"Sarah, this is diff..." I began.
"I know. All right, I promise." Sarah told me.
"If you can't find me there because I'm out in the field...you can always go visit Abby until I get back." I told her.
"I know, mom." Sarah said and I had to smile.
"I love you, Sarah." I said pulling her into a hug.
"I love you to, big brother." Sarah told me.
A few minutes later, we were on our way out the door. I knew after dropping Sarah off at the campus and looking at the time...
I was already running late for work.