"Jethro?" Ducky asked cautiously.
He sat silently as tears streamed down his face. He was so weak and so exposed. He shook his head.
"Jethro?" He approached him.
Gibbs shot up, his face red and eyes watering uncontrollably. He glared at Tony. If looks could kill, Tony would be dead a thousand times over.
"I don't want this! This isn't what I want!" He growled and shot a horrified look at Abby.
"I…" She breathed but he had already slammed the elevator button.
Tony rushed into the elevator with him bravely. Gibbs eyes were venomous, "If you think you're going to apologize, DiNozzo. I ought to hit you so hard that by the time you wake up you'll need a hair cut!"
The doors shut, "Boss, you love Abby,"
"I don't know why they call it heartbreak! It feels like every single bone in my body is broken! " He said with finality.
"Where are you going?"
"I would tell you that except you'd probably have me tied to a chair encouraging someone to rape me," he spat at Tony as he got into his car and sped off.
Tony DiNozzo walked into the office back to his colleagues in defeat. He walked in slowly and Abby rushed to him.
"Where is he?"
"He…he really loves you Abby. All this time and nobody ever knew. He was always there for us and he always knew about our lives. We never knew anything about him," Tony said softly as he kept sat down in the chair at his desk.
"Where is he?" She asked again, growing impatient.
"I don't know, Abby," Tony whispered.
"I know where he is. Well, where he is going, at least," Ducky said quietly.
"Where?" Abby spun on her heel.
"A beach house," he said.
"What am I supposed to do Ducky?" She cried.
"Win his heart, love," he said soothingly.
"Are you going to get him, Ducky?" She asked softly.
"No, my dear, do you think it's my face he wants showing up at his door?" He shook his head.
"What am I supposed to do?! What am I supposed to say to him?"
"I can't answer that, Abby," he whispered and hugged her.
"Nothing I can say can just fix it. There's nothing I can say that will make him stop hurting. I just want him to come back to NCIS. That's where I want to start. Maybe I can't convince him right away that I love him, but maybe I can convince him to come back. That'd be a start right?" She rambled when nervous.
"Yes, that would be a start…" Ducky said as he scribbled down the address of the beach house.
"I'll be driving all night…" Abby said as she rushed out of the building.