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Chapter 10 – Early Morning Awakening

Pushing through the haziness of sleep Gibbs murmured Abby's name softly when he didn't feel her soft body next to his. He tried to reach out for her, confusion seeping in when he realized his hands were above his head, and he couldn't move his arms.

Seconds later his eyes shot open when he felt a warm mouth engulf the tip of his already hard cock. Instinctively his hips eased up slowly off the bed when he looked down the line of his body to see Abby teasing him between her lips. How she'd managed to remove his boxers, as well as tying his wrists to the posts on either side of the bed without him waking was a mystery, but at this particular moment he really didn't care.

The morning light was just beginning to filter in through the curtains, bathing Abby in a faint yellow glow, but the only thing Gibbs was concerned about seeing was the sight of her full lips slowly dragging up his length.

"Abbs..."he groaned, feeling her chuckle with him in her mouth which sent a flurry of vibrations through him.

"Morning sleepyhead," Abby smiled, letting him briefly fall from between her lips before she slid them back down along him.

Gibbs grunted something that barely sounded like good morning, lifting his hips up and down under her ministrations and trying to tug free of the restraints.

"What are you doin'?" he breathed out between harsh gasps.

Abby suckled on the head, her tongue sliding down the underside of his erection before she moved it up and across the slit, trying to taste him. Her fingers stroked along his shaft, massaging him as she continued to lick around the ridges of the enlarged tip before taking him into her mouth again.

With one last firm suck, Abby released him and sat back to look down on him, grinning at Gibbs in his highly aroused state. "If you're not sure what I'm doing I must be doing it wrong."

Gibbs finally got a look at what she was wearing, his heavy eyes taking in the matching red lace bra and panties, desire burning a trail through him to center in his groin at the vision of the vibrant color against her pale skin. When he saw she was also wearing the choker he'd given her, his heart felt like it would burst through his chest.

"You're definitely not doing anything wrong." His breaths came in short deep bursts, feeling like he would suffocate if he didn't have her soon.

"Thought it was about time you got to see the rest of your Christmas present," she told him looking down at the sheer pieces of fabric that covered her. "Sorry it's late."

"More than worth the wait." Gibbs' eyes softened as he forgot the demands of his body for a moment, wanting her to be certain of how much she meant to him. "So beautiful...you're more than I deserve Abbs, but you're all I need. Don't care if I lose anything and everything I have so long as I've got you."

"Gibbs..." She bit her bottom lip, overwhelmed by his words. "You deserve me, and you have me...you're all I need as well."

He had begun to surprise her in many different ways over the last couple of days, but this unguarded side of Gibbs, him telling her exactly how he felt was one that Abby didn't ever think she'd get enough of. For a man who said so little, he said it with such emotion and meaning that she felt like she really had become everything to him, and she never wanted to give up that feeling.

"Gonna let me touch you?" Gibbs asked bringing Abby back to the present, rolling his wrists against the material keeping him trapped to the bed.

"Soon maybe, thought we'd see how strong you are first," Abby smirked, referring to their discussion yesterday.

She moved up his body, sitting on his abdomen but trying to keep some of her weight off him. One of her hands rested on his chest while the other slowly traveled over her stomach, dipping into the lacy fabric of her panties. She gasped when a finger dipped into her moist folds, her eyes locking with Gibbs' as she started to touch herself.

"I'm already drenched Gibbs, that's what you do to me...what your body, your taste does to me."

Gibbs could smell her arousal infusing the air, her heady scent making him groan as he watched her hand go further inside her underwear. He wanted so badly to feel her under his mouth and hands but if he wasn't careful the sight of her pleasuring herself was going to make him come before he even got chance to be inside her.

"Take them off," he growled, "wanna see you."

"You're not really in a position to be making demands there Gibbs," she purred, starting to rub herself against his skin.

The friction of her wet panties against her heated flesh as she circled her aching clit with her finger was almost enough to send her over the edge but she held on to the small thread of control she had left. Abby wanted him to touch her, but she also wanted to drive him crazy with his need for her so that when they did finally become joined it would be explosive. She wanted to see him completely lose control and take her with abandon.

Wanting to torment him a little longer she stopped what she was doing and removed her hand to unclasp her bra. The supple mounds fell free as Abby dropped the piece of clothing on the bed beside them.

"You don't like your present?"

Gibbs' blazing blue eyes met hers, lust firing through him when he looked up from her rosy tipped breasts to meet her gaze. "Best present you've ever given me."

As turned on as they both were Abby understood the other meaning behind his words. Them being together both physically and emotionally was the greatest gift they had to give each other, and no material object could ever compete with that.

Hopping off him to stand on the floor beside the bed Abby looked along the length of his body, her eyes focusing on the fully engorged cock, strained and leaking. Lowering her panties she heard Gibbs' groan of approval as it rumbled through him.

"Wanna touch and taste too."

Abby climbed back on top of him, both of them now completely naked, except for the choker around her neck. "Not yet."

Gibbs let out a frustrated moan, swallowing when her hands and mouth start to wander over his chest. He tugged at his bindings, finally looking up to see it appeared to be a couple of pairs of Abby's panties tied together that were keeping him restrained.

He closed his eyes when she lightly bit one of his nipples, her mouth and hands everywhere as she touched and kissed over his stomach, chest and shoulders, moving gradually higher.

Gibbs wanted nothing more than for her to take him into her mouth or for her to start touching herself again, anything that would help finish him off. All she had to do was slide her body a bit lower and he'd be able to push up and inside her and feel her warmth enveloping him.

He had to have her. His ability to wait...to be strong, had crumbled.

"Abby...please..."

That instantly got her attention and she stopped her kisses over his neck to look at him.

"Did you just beg, Gibbs?" she asked surprised, her satisfaction at bringing him to that point evident in her mischievous grin.

His eyes pleaded with her. "Need to touch you...be inside you."

It wasn't really an answer but Abby took it as an acknowledgement, and with it still being so early in their relationship she could understand his need to be able to touch after having to be restrained in their actions for so long.

So she relented.

The second Gibbs was free he sat up, his hands moving to Abby's waist as he lifted her off him and turned her around so she was on her knees facing the end of the bed. He was so riled up he wanted to be able to get as deep inside her as he could, and he wanted space to move.

Taking hold of the hand Abby had used to tease herself with he put two of her fingers in his mouth, tasting her at the same time his other hand moved between her legs to feel the same wetness coating his long digits.

After stroking her a few times, he moved closer so his knees were inside hers, his hardness nudging against her ass and urging her to lean down on her hands. Abby spread her legs further apart and Gibbs eased forward, positioning himself so he could slip his hardness between her folds and nudge back and forth over her clit.

Abby gripped onto the railing at the end of the bed so hard her knuckles went white, whimpering each time his cock rubbed over her throbbing bundle of nerves. Gibbs held onto her waist, his big hands trying to hold her steady as Abby tried to push back against him.

"I need you Gibbs...need to let go so bad..."

Gibbs wanted that too, he was so tightly wound he hoped he could at least hold on long enough to make sure Abby had at least one orgasm before he exploded inside her. He could tell she was close too, her body shaking slightly with each brush of his erection against her clit, the soft mewling sounds she was making in the back of her throat getting louder.

Moving his hands to her hips Gibbs leaned backwards, removing himself from Abby's wet heat for barely a moment before he thrust into her in one smooth stroke, finally giving them both what they wanted as he buried himself to the hilt.

Abby came the instant he slid inside her, so aroused from her own caresses combined with having Gibbs in her mouth and the feel of him pushing so deep, that she could no longer hang on.

Her inner muscles grasped at him, Abby clenching her teeth together to keep from screaming out. Her body fluttered around him, Gibbs continuing to pulse inside her as he tenderly grazed his fingers over her back and sides.

She gasped for breath, her entire body heaving from the intensity of her climax. "Gibbs...my god, I may never let you out of the house once we get home..."

"Fine by me," Gibbs chuckled, kissing her back and pushing her hair aside so he could press his lips to her neck.

Leaning over her more, his fingers smoothed down her arms until he linked them through Abby's, his chest lying flat against her back. His lower body jerked against her, unable to refrain from trying to get some relief and friction for his aching groin.

Abby's breath caught and she clenched his fingers, whispering. "Don't stop."

Gibbs sighed, relieved that she understood how desperate he was. Slowly he started to thrust into her, Abby lowering her chest and pushing her ass further up in the process, giving Gibbs a better angle to stroke into her.

He unraveled his fingers from hers, lifting his body so it was more upright as his hands found her breasts and covered them with his palms. Cupping the weight of them, Gibbs rolled the hardened nipples, his body now able to put more force behind the way he plunged into her.

Abby panted as their flesh slid together, moving in rhythm with him and pushing back while Gibbs pounded into her, his speed beginning to pick up. She was sensitive from her first release but it heightened every touch and movement, her still recovering body further igniting at the prospect of another orgasm with him buried inside her.

Gibbs gave a twist and tug to both of her nipples before letting go of her breasts to hold onto her hips. He thrust into her with long deep strokes, the bed moving so much from the force that the floor underneath them started to squeak.

"God, Abbs...wanna go harder but we're gonna wake everyone up."

"Don't care...need more."

When Gibbs withdrew from her, Abby let out a frustrated whimper, instantly feeling the loss of him. He quickly climbed off the bed and stood beside it, helping her roll over and scoot closer to him.

Gibbs looked down on her naked body; flushed, sprawled out and desperate for something he knew only he could give her. Abby parted her legs and Gibbs ran his hands up the inside of her thighs before pulling her to the edge of the bed.

He wrapped her legs around his hips, putting his hands under her ass and lifting her up slightly so he could sheath himself back inside her. Both of them groaned, so near to their orgasms that it was only going to take a couple of quick thrust to finish them off.

Abby's fingers clenched at the bed sheet, her arms out wide as Gibbs wasted no time in thrusting into her hard and fast. The bed rocked underneath them, though the new position stopped the squeaking floor and for that Gibbs was grateful, because he wasn't going to stop again.

"So close..." Abby moaned, her eyes moving away from his, their heated exchange broken as she took in the sight of his powerful body driving into her.

Gibbs held onto her hips tightly, Abby's back arching, her fingers dragging the sheet into the middle of the bed as she shattered around him. Her whole body convulsed as she fell over the edge, her muscles rippling and constricting around Gibbs as his release surged through him at the same moment.

His fingers dug into her as he shuddered through his orgasm, his teeth gritting together to try and contain the groan that threatened to roar from his throat. Abby continued to flutter around him, her body still trembling when Gibbs' hips instinctively but gently jerked against her through the aftershocks.

He managed to remain standing, staying inside Abby so he could take a moment to look down on her flushed body, spread out and unmoving as she took in deep breaths. His legs barely held up his own weight and Gibbs leaned his lower body forward into the side of the bed, his thumbs tenderly smoothing over the soft skin just inside Abby's hips.

"You tied me up..." he chuckled, noticing the remnants of Abby's panties at the head of the bed.

Abby giggled and straightened up on her elbows. "I know!" she answered with surprise. "I thought you were gonna wake up a couple of times, but you seemed content to just have my body next to you."

Gibbs grinned and withdrew from her so he could lean down to press his lips to hers, the kiss slow and delicate.

"Wonder why that is," he murmured next to her lips. "Think maybe you're not the only one who sleeps better when we're in the same bed."

Collapsing next to her on the crumpled sheet, Gibbs snuggled up into her side, kissing his way up her neck, his hand rubbing circles over her stomach.

"Haven't slept this well in years Abbs...proper sleep, not tossing and turning and being overrun with the thoughts going through my head. Having you beside me all night every night, as well as sleeping in a bed and not a small lumpy couch, makes a difference."

"It helps that I haven't had any nightmares the last few nights to wake either of us up, and I've also been doing my best to tire you out with more physical activities."

"You have," Gibbs chuckled before becoming serious, "but it's more than that, you make me feel at peace...I can let everything else go if I have you with me."

Abby turned in his arms and laid her hand on his cheek. "It's how I feel too. If you're there when I fall asleep and there when I wake up then I know I'll be safe...you've always protected me Gibbs, but now you take care of my heart too."

Gibbs reached over her to gather the rest of the bed covers and pulled them over their cooling bodies, lying sideways across the bed. His arms slid around her waist as they lay facing each other, his lips brushing across her forehead.

"I trust you to take care of my heart, Abbs."

Abby bit her bottom lip when his head settled back down beside hers, fighting back the tears that threatened. It meant a lot to her that Gibbs had that level of trust in her because she knew he wasn't the type of man to give away such a vulnerable and sensitive side of himself. Even though he'd been married four times, Abby had an inkling the last three times he'd kept that part of him still hidden away, buried underneath all his pain.

While his exes may have seen the few words Gibbs did share with them as not enough, Abby understood how much effort it took for him to get those words out. The fact that he was actually talking to her and opening up gave even more meaning to what he was sharing with her.

She moved closer to him, the front of their bodies pressing together, their legs entwined as they held each other.

"I hope you understand how much that means to me Gibbs and that I'll always look after and cherish what's in here." She placed a hand over his heart, feeling the rapid beating underneath "That won't ever change."

"Good," Gibbs smiled, "cos it belongs to you now."

Abby didn't doubt part of him would always be reserved for Shannon and Kelly, and she was okay with sharing him with them. Abby saw their memory as something for Gibbs to treasure because they were some of the best times of his life, she didn't want to take that away from him nor did she want him to feel like he had to hide his girls.

The man whose soulful blue eyes stared back at her now and who had literally rocked her world just moments ago had grown into the person he was thanks in part to those who had once been the love of his life. She knew he'd never stop loving them but how could she be anything but grateful to them. Abby accepted them as part of Gibbs and one day she hoped he would share them with her.

Her heart, however, felt like it had always belonged to Gibbs. Like him, Abby no longer had to search for a substitute when she had everything she needed right in front of her.

"Guess our hearts really are blending into one then," she mused, covering the pendant on her neck with her hand.

"Guess so," Gibbs sighed contently, rubbing his hands up and down her back and closing his eyes.

Abby let her fingers trace over the features of his face. "Go back to sleep," she whispered. "I'll go make us some coffee in a little while."

"First you wake me up for sex, then you're gonna bring me coffee in bed...think I'll have to keep you," he mumbled sleepily.

Abby snorted at his words, her heart skipping a beat at the sleepiness in his voice and the realization that he really was starting to let his walls down around her. It was a reversal of their usual routine where she'd fall asleep and he'd watch over, but as she heard his breathing deepen, his face remaining unguarded, Abby knew this was something she'd never tire of, nor would she ever give it up.

TBC...